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Biden says two-state solution not impossible with Netanyahu in office
US President Biden has said that a two-state solution could still move forward with Netanyahu in office, one day after the Israeli leader flatly stated that he would not allow the creation of a Palestinian state.
Asked if a two-state solution was impossible with Netanyahu in office, Biden said “no, it’s not.” Biden said that there were “many” forms a two-state solution could take, and that Netanyahu was not necessarily opposed to all of them. He also mentioned that some UN member states don’t have militaries.
Last month, Netanyahu also stated that he was “proud” that he had prevented the creation of a Palestinian state.
US official: No evidence Israel ‘deliberately’ commits war crimes
When asked by a reporter about Mexico and Chile requesting an investigation from the International Criminal Court on the commission of crimes against humanity by Israel in its war on Gaza, John Kirby has said he did not have a comment. “We’re still gathering more information about what this would entail. But I want to say again, that we don’t have any indications that there’s deliberate efforts to commit war crimes by the [Israeli military],” he said.
Al Jazeera has spoken to Palestinians who say they witnessed the execution of more than a dozen men in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli military. William Schabas, an international law professor from the UK, told us that if proven credible, this footage could be considered as evidence of war crimes at the ICC. “Summary executions even of fighters, even of combatants is a war crime,” he said.
Accidentally dropping 2,000 pound bombs on civilian targets, displacing and starving an entire population, executing people point blank.
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Palestinian American fatally shot in occupied West Bank, Palestinian news agency says
A 17-year-old Palestinian American was fatally shot Friday in the town of Al-Mazra'a Al-Sharqiya in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing local sources. Tawfiq Hafiz Ajjaq was shot in the head and was taken to Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, where he was in critical condition but later died, WAFA said, citing medical sources at the hospital.
The Israel Defense Forces and Israeli police told CNN it received a report that an off-duty police officer and an Israeli civilian fired toward a “Palestinian individual suspected of hurling rocks in the area of Al-Mazra'a ash-Sharqiya.”
An IDF soldier was also present in the area, the IDF said in a statement to CNN. “The claim that the soldier fired at the Palestinian is under review,” the statement said. Israel’s police have opened an investigation into the incident, the IDF and Israeli police told CNN.
Tawfiq had been living abroad for almost a year and a half before returning to the West Bank, according to WAFA. Al-Mazra'a Al-Sharqiya is a town where many Palestinian-Americans live. The US is "seriously concerned" about reports of the shooting, though information is "scant at this time," John Kirby, US National Security Council spokesperson, said in a Friday briefing.
CNN has reached out to the US Embassy in Jerusalem and the US Office of Palestinian Affairs in Jerusalem for comment.
State Department confirms US citizen death in West Bank and asks Israel for more details
The State Department officially confirmed the death of a US citizen in the West Bank on Friday and has asked the Israeli government for more information, a spokesperson told CNN. "We extend our deepest condolences to the family," the spokesperson said.
The spokesperson did not provide the individual's name due to privacy considerations. "Out of respect to the family during this difficult time, we have no further comment," the spokesperson said.
‘Two mothers killed every hour’ in Gaza: UN Women’s agency
Women and children are the main victims of Israel’s war on Gaza with some 16,000 killed so far and an estimated two mothers killed every hour in the Palestinian territory, a UN agency said.
Added to the fact that 70 percent of all those killed in Gaza are women and girls, 10,000 children have lost their fathers since Israel’s war on the territory began on October 7, and one million women and girls are among those displaced.
Women and girls have been deprived of safety, healthcare, shelter, and now “they face imminent starvation and famine”, UN Women, the agency which promoted gender equality, said on Friday.
“The generational trauma inflicted on Palestinian people over these 100 days and counting, will haunt us all for generations to come,” UN Women executive director Sima Bahous said in a statement. “However much we mourn the situation of the women and girls of Gaza today, we will mourn further tomorrow without unrestricted humanitarian assistance and an end to the destruction and killing,” Bahous said.
We have seen unparalleled destruction rained on the people of #Gaza. For them, there is no place of safety or respite.
Some 1 million women & children are displaced, two mothers are killed every hour.
These are people, not numbers, we are failing them.https://t.co/p2WLhiXVmD
— Sima Bahous (@unwomenchief) January 19, 2024
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