Israel's war on besieged Gaza, now in its 217th day, has killed at least 34,943 people — 70 percent of them babies, children and women — and wounded over 78,572.
Israel's war on besieged Gaza, now in its 217th day, has killed at least 34,943 people — 70 percent of them babies, children and women — and wounded over 78,572."Fulfilling the UN's historic obligation towards the Palestinian people is long overdue, but it is never too late," says UAE Representative at UN.
The report is expected to be sharply critical of Israel, even though it didn’t conclude that Israel violated the terms of US-Israel weapons agreements, according to one US official.The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to grant the Palestinians some additional rights in the global body, after their drive for full membership was blocked by the United States.
He urged the international community to recognise Palestine's rightful place in the global arena and to support their bid for full membership.At least eight Palestinians were killed and others injured in a house north of a refugee camp in central Gaza amid an Israeli airstrike. The police action at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology near Boston in the northeast resulted in around 10 arrests, according to university president Sally Kornbluth, who said she had"no choice" but to dismantle the"high-risk flashpoint."
Norway called for accountability after Israeli extremists attacked the headquarters of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in the occupied East Jerusalem.He said that UNRWA is the “lifeline for millions of Palestine refugees,” adding: “The incidents must be investigated, those responsible must be held accountable.”Rafah is"on a knife's edge," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said amid ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza's southernmost city.
"And, of course, what happens in Gaza has profound repercussions in the occupied West Bank, where we see a deeply disturbing spike in settler violence, excessive use of force by the Israeli Defence Force , demolitions and evictions," he said.At least two people were killed and several others injured in an Israeli airstrike on the town of Tayr Harfa in southern Lebanon, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported.
In a statement, the Palestinian groups said: “We call on our people in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the occupied territories to launch a fierce uprising in support of Gaza and to save Rafah from the humanitarian catastrophe and genocide war.”A group of UN experts expressed"utter dismay" over statements made by US and Israeli officials “threatening to retaliate” against the International Criminal Court , saying such threats promote a"culture of impunity.
They urged states to respect the court’s independence as a judicial institution and protect the independence and impartiality of those who work within the court.The Gaza government warned that al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah city in central Gaza would run out of fuel within 48 hours, threatening to halt health services and spark a humanitarian crisis following Israel's sixth day of closing border crossings into the besieged enclave.
It cautioned that"this crisis may result in deaths of patients and children, especially patients and wounded individuals admitted to intensive care units and nurseries." reported that three anti-tank missiles were fired at Misgav Am in the Upper Galilee near the southern Lebanese border.The EU slammed the attack on the headquarters of UNRWA in occupied East Jerusalem by a group of Israeli extremists.
"Humanitarian operations cannot run without fuel. Unless the supply of fuel resumes immediately, humanitarian, communication, and banking activities will halt within days," Georgios Petropoulos, the head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs sub-office in Gaza, told a UN briefing in Geneva.
It also said its fighters “executed a military operation near Al-Dawa Mosque, located east of Rafah.” According to Melman, Mossad prepared a document for the new edition of the Israel Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center’s bulletin detailing the agency's activities during the war in Gaza. In the past few hours, the intensity of the mutual shelling between the group and Israel has increased. The latter claimed to have attacked more than 20 targets in a Lebanese area within minutes, while Israeli media reported that the party launched dozens of rockets and drones on the western Galilee."We ambushed a Zionist force after detonating pre-prepared minefield inside Saad Sayel barracks & we also attacked a building housing several Israeli soldiers near Al-Dawa Mosque.
“As Israeli Forces bombardment intensifies in Rafah, forced displacement continues,” UNRWA stated on X. On Monday, Israeli forces issued evacuation orders for Palestinians in eastern Rafah, a move widely seen as a prelude to Israel's long-feared attack on the city, home to some 1.5 million displaced Palestinians.
The statement highlighted"testimonies documenting the abuse and torture that the prisoner, Commander Ibrahim Hamed, and his fellow prisoners are subjected to, in addition to the isolation and oppression affecting prisoner movement leaders, which led to the killing of a number of prisoners."Students of Brazil's University of Sao Paulo established a solidarity camp for Gaza.
The readout of a phone call between Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said both diplomats agreed on"the importance of urging the parties to show flexibility and make all the necessary efforts to achieve a ceasefire agreement and put an end to the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza".Two key border crossings into Gaza are still closed, with no aid entering the enclave, local authorities said.
"The negotiating delegation left Cairo heading to Doha. In practice, the occupation rejected the proposal submitted by the mediators and raised objections to it on several central issues," the group said in a statement, adding it stood by the proposal.Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told his Egyptian counterpart that the United States opposes exodus of Palestinians from Gaza, after Israel seized the fence crossing at Rafah.
Despite Biden's warning, hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will invade Rafah, vowing"If we have to stand alone, we will stand alone. If we need to, we will fight with our fingernails. But we have much more than fingernails." He described how"a crowd accompanied by armed men were witnessed outside the compound chanting 'Burn down the United Nations'."
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