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SvennoJ on 13 February 2024
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Israeli regulator considers penalising TV channel over remarks against Netanyahu

Israel’s Second Authority for Radio and Television, which regulates commercial broadcasts in the country, has opened an inquiry into Channel 13, after a commentator slammed Netanyahu on the network for rejecting the Hamas deal to free the captives and secure an end to the fighting in Gaza, Haaretz reports.

“I’ve been saying for a month that Netanyahu has no real incentive to free the hostages,” panelist Gil Tamari said on Monday, according to the Israeli newspaper. “He wants them dead, as holy martyrs, for his own reasons.” The inquiry “could result in a financial penalty – on the grounds that Tamari’s statement potentially harmed public sentiment,” Haaretz reported.

 

Human Rights Watch says international law being ‘demolished’ in Gaza

Omar Shakir, Israel-Palestine director for Human Rights Watch, says international law is being “demolished” in Gaza as Israeli violations go unpunished by Western allies. “Years of [the] international community failing to hold perpetrators — mainly Israel — accountable for unlawful acts has led us to this flagrant disregard for the most basic principles of int’l law that grew out of ashes of WWII,” Shakir said on X.

‘We will all die, all of us,’ MSF doctor says

The medical humanitarian organisation MSF has posted on social media a harrowing series of texts by one of its staff members in Rafah. “I have written the names of my children and my family on their wrists and their legs, so that they can be identified if we are bombed,” the female doctor said. “We will all die, all of us. Hopefully soon enough to stop the suffering that we are living through every single second.”

Israeli forces urging evacuation of Nasser Hospital: Physician

Khaled Nasser, who works at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, says Israeli forces are using drone speakers to tell people to evacuate the hospital. He said the Israeli military also sent Palestinians who had been previously detained by Israel to the Nasser Hospital to convey the message.

The physician said there are approximately 8,000 people at the hospital: medics and their families, patients, wounded people and internally displaced Palestinians. He added that the evacuation order was difficult to follow, especially since many injured people were unable to move and would be difficult to transport outside the hospital. “So the decision by the hospital’s administration is to carry on with offering services until the last breath – until we reach a point where the medical teams can no longer help patients,” Nasser told Al Jazeera.

Gaza Health Ministry calls for international intervention

“We call on international organisations to work immediately to protect the Nasser Medical Complex and prevent the health and humanitarian catastrophe that medics, injured people and patients are facing,” ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra said in a brief statement.

 

Palestinians leave Rafah fearing Israeli assault

Nahla Jarwan fled her home in the central Gaza Strip to seek refuge in Rafah like more than one million other Palestinians escaping Israel’s military offensive. Now, as Israeli shells crash into Rafah, Jarwan said she is going back to an area she fled, even though nowhere is safe.

“I fled Maghazi, came to Rafah, and here I am, returning to Maghazi,” Jarwan told Reuters, referring to the refugee camp from which she fled earlier in the conflict. “Last night in Rafah was very tough. Hopefully, Maghazi will be safe, God willing.”

Momen Shbair said he would return to Khan Younis after what he also described as a tough night in Rafah. “We’re lost. We don’t know where to go. I pray that the whole world pressures Israel to end the war,” he said, driving a donkey cart along a sand road by the sea. “We’re tired [of going] from one place to another.”


A man ties up a rope securing items onto a vehicle as members of a Palestinian family flee from Rafah, Gaza, on February 13.

‘With every displacement, resilience decreases’: WFP

The World Food Programme has warned that a new mass displacement of people from Rafah will cause “resilience” to decrease, endangering the estimated 1.4 million Palestinians sheltering in the southern Gaza city. "Families on the move, again. This time, leaving Rafah, where 1.4 million came for safety. With every displacement, resilience decreases,” Matthew Hollingworth wrote on X.

He added that Israeli plans to expand military operations to Rafah were “concerning”. “It risks cutting the lifeline of assistance into Gaza & causing great suffering,” he said.

Biden urges Congress to pass bill with aid to Israel, ban on UNRWA funding

The White House has issued a statement calling on the US House of Representatives to pass a bill approved by the Senate earlier today, which allocates more than $95bn for military assistance for US allies Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel.

The bill also bans US funding for UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, which rights advocates have described as indispensable for addressing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. “It is time for the House to take action and send this bipartisan legislation to my desk immediately so that I can sign it into law,” Biden said.

Border conflict with Israel will stop only when ‘aggression’ on Gaza ends: Nasrallah

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has made a televised address. Here are some of his main points:

  • Hostilities along the Lebanon-Israel border will stop when Israeli “aggression” on Gaza stops, he said.
  • He threatened further displacement of residents in northern Israel.
  • He warned that if Israel’s military widened the war, Hezbollah would do the same.
  • The Western delegations that have visited Lebanon have one purpose – to get security guarantees for Israel so that “100,000 settlers” can return to their homes, he said.
  • He added that the delegations are not acting as mediators but instead, present Israel’s proposals and expect Hezbollah to accept them.
  • He said Hezbollah is asked to give guarantees, and in return, the delegations won’t give us guarantees that Israel will withdraw from our occupied territories along the border.
  • Lebanon is in a strong position he said, adding that Israel is not in a position to impose conditions.

Israeli military says it attacked Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon

The Israeli military says in a social media post that its fighter jets have attacked several buildings that belong to Hezbollah. It added that it hit an observation post and other Hezbollah military infrastructure and fired artillery at several locations in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah and Israel have been engaged in cross-border attacks since the beginning of the war on Gaza.


Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli air raid on the southern Lebanese village of Khiam near the border with Israel on February 9, 2024