So far they restricted aid more, further increased the amount of raids and resumed fighting in the North. The changes are telling politicians to not state their intentions out loud and denying war crimes instead of boasting about them :/
Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital is "barely functional" and is sheltering about 50,000 people
Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza is “still standing,” but “barely functional,” the head of medical activities in Gaza for Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors without Borders, Aurélie Godard said Wednesday. Godard visited Al-Shifa — the largest health facility in Gaza — on January 22 for the first time since MSF evacuated its staff from the hospital in November. Since November, Al Shifa has gradually “transformed into a camp for displaced people,” accommodating around 50,000 people seeking safety, according to MSF.
It said the lack of fuel for generators has made it “impossible to properly treat people in desperate need of medical care.” Godard visited the hospital with a UN convoy to deliver 19,000 liters (5,000 gallons) of fuel. “This fuel is essential because it is used to run the generators that supply the hospital with electricity,” she said. Around 3,000 liters (793 gallons) of fuel per day are required for Al Shifa to be functional, meaning the convoy's 19,000 liters (5,000 gallons) of fuel will supply the hospital for "barely a week," according to Godard.
Aid group says Israeli forces still on Khan Younis hospital grounds, preventing occupants from leaving
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PCRS) said that Israeli forces are still stationed in the south- eastern part of the Al-Amal Hospital complex in Khan Younis, a day after saying that Israeli units had entered the compound. The PRCS also said that Israeli “snipers are on the roofs of the houses surrounding the hospital.” In an update Wednesday afternoon local time, the PRCS said that from time to time, the sounds of explosions could be heard in the immediate area.
Where things stand: The aid group said Israeli forces were prohibiting everyone inside the association’s headquarters nearby and the hospital from going out to the street. One of seven people killed Wednesday, according to PRCS, was a Red Crescent employee who was targeted at the southern door of the hospital. Crews had been unable to retrieve his body. The PRCS said the hospital's stock of fuel and medical equipment was dangerously low.
CNN has asked the IDF for an update on its operations in the vicinity of Al Amal and whether it is prohibiting people from leaving the PRCS headquarters.
What Israel is saying: IDF said Wednesday that “during the operation in Khan Younis, the forces searched a house connected to terror activity and located explosives planted with the intention of harming the ground forces. In another incident, the soldiers identified an armed terrorist near IDF soldiers, and successfully directed the Israeli Air Force to eliminate the terrorist.”
More than 180,000 people were forced to move amid heavy fighting in Khan Younis. Here's how it changed an area
As the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis is engulfed in intense fighting, 184,000 people have registered for humanitarian assistance after being forced to leave the area in recent days, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). “UNRWA along with the people of Khan Younis have fled to the outskirts down closer to the coast,” Tom White, director of UNRWA affairs, said in a video posted on X (formerly Twitter).
Satellite images taken by Planet Labs over the last 10 days show that a large cluster of tents set up by displaced people to the west of Khan Younis have now disappeared. Take a look at this area around the Aqsa Khan University west of Khan Younis. This is where many people had fled after heavy fighting erupted in Khan Younis as Israeli forces extended their ground operations in southern Gaza.
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What is it with this eternal 'may have' violated. It's a direct violation, nothing ambiguous about it.
Legal expert warns IDF may have violated international law during West Bank hospital raid
Experts have warned that the IDF may have violated international law by the means it used to infiltrate the hospital during a raid on Tuesday.
During the raid, Israeli special forces, dressed as civilians and medical staff infiltrated the Ibn Sina hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin and killed three Palestinian men, both Israeli and Palestinian officials said. Israel said one of the men was a Hamas fighter, while the other two brothers who were killed were linked to Islamic Jihad.
In disguising themselves as civilians and medical staff, both of whom have protected status, Israeli troops may have resorted to perfidy, or deception. “The Israeli forces involved in the operation were dressed in civilian clothing and at least some were dressed as medical personnel, who enjoy protection under the law of armed conflict,” Aurel Sari, a law professor at the University of Exeter in the UK, told CNN. As part of a single attack it "violates the prohibition of resort to perfidy," he added.
International humanitarian law also prohibits the killing of the wounded and sick who, like medical staff and civilians, enjoy protected status. “Provided they abstained from any acts of hostilities, killing them was a violation of the law of armed conflict,” Sari added.
Asked whether planning an attack against Israel constituted an act of hostility, Sari said if the three men were members of organized armed groups, they were “liable to status-based targeting.” But Israel’s disguising of its soldiers and killing of a reportedly wounded person means the attack could nonetheless have violated international law.
It's terrorism plain and simple.
Assasination is a war crime during war times as well and Israel isn't even 'formally' at war with the West Bank PA. They're occupying the West Bank and performing illegal raids.
https://lieber.westpoint.edu/assassination-law-of-war/
The ICRC’s Commentary to Article 37 emphasizes that Article 23(b) of the Hague Regulations “has survived in its entirety” and that replacement of the reference to treachery with perfidy occurred because the term “trahison” in the French text was “too restricted in its meaning.” Therefore, the drafters preferred the term “perfidie” as more reflective of their intent. Rule 65 of the ICRC’s Customary International Humanitarian Law study characterizes the perfidy prohibition as customary in character, and therefore binding on all States irrespective of Additional Protocol I Party status. In doing so, it is on firm ground.
Finally, the Statute of the International Criminal Court includes “[k]illing or wounding treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile nation or army” in international armed conflict, as well as “[k]illing or wounding treacherously a combatant adversary” in non-international armed conflict, a war crime [Articles 8(2)(b)(xi) and 8(2)(e)(ix), respectively]. Thus, the Statute’s drafters reverted to the language of the 1907 Hague IV Regulations and concluded that the prohibition applied in all armed conflicts.
Yet it's already getting 'justified' in American media. They just took out some terrorists, it's better than bombing the hospital.
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