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SvennoJ on 15 February 2024
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UNRWA shares video of destruction in Gaza City

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees has shared footage showing the destruction in Gaza City caused by Israel’s war against Hamas. UNRWA said in a social media post featuring the video that more than 70 percent of civilian infrastructure has been destroyed or severely damaged in the city.

“Nowhere is safe,” the UN agency said on X.




Israeli forces fire at vehicles during raid of Qalqilya

Israeli forces have stormed the city of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank and fired at vehicles, the Wafa news agency reports. Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues also report that Israeli forces have prevented an ambulance from reaching an injured person in the city.

Raids have been reported elsewhere in the occupied West Bank in the following locations:

  • The town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya
  • The city of Bethlehem
  • The Haret al-Sheikh neighbourhood in Hebron’s city centre
  • The town of Silat ad-Dhahr, southwest of Jenin

Israeli occupation forces intercept an ambulance in the city of Qalqilya in the West Bank.

Dozens of men arrested in Silat ad-Dhahr in West Bank

The Israeli military has carried out an “arrest campaign” in the town of Silat ad-Dhahr, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports. Israeli forces raided more than 15 homes and “arrested dozens of young men” in the town, reports Wafa. Elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces have arrested a man from the town of Anabta, east of Tulkarem, while a man has also been arrested in the city of Qalqilya.

Raids have also been reported in the following locations:

  • The Jalazoun camp, north of Ramallah
  • The town of Aqaba, north of Tubas
  • The town of Silat ad-Dhahr, south of Jenin camp



Israeli forces storm besieged Nasser Hospital in Gaza

Israeli forces stormed the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Thursday, forcing everyone inside to evacuate and flee for their lives. Israel has said it was searching for captives and fighters, while Hamas and medical groups have denied that armed groups utilise the facility for military functions.




Amnesty director says international law in ‘death throes’

Agnes Callamard, secretary general of the human rights watchdog Amnesty International, has penned an article in the magazine Foreign Affairs stating that Israel’s war in Gaza represents the “culmination of years of erosion of the international rule of law and global human rights system”.

In the article, Callamard condemned the “horrific crimes” committed by Palestinian armed groups on October 7, but said that Israel’s response has been characterised by “a pattern of war crimes and violations of international law”. “Today’s diplomatic complicity in the catastrophic human rights and humanitarian crisis in Gaza is the culmination of years of erosion of the international rule of law and global human rights system,” the article reads.

“Such disintegration began in earnest after 9/11, when the United States embarked on its ‘war on terror,’ a campaign that normalized the idea that everything is permissible in the pursuit of ‘terrorists.’ To prosecute its war in Gaza, Israel borrows ethos, strategy, and tactics from that framework, doing so with the support of the United States.”

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/gaza-and-end-rules-based-order

Netanyahu: Israel ‘rejects international dictates’ on peace deal

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that a peace deal between Israel and Hamas will only be reached “through direct negotiations between the parties”. “Israel outright rejects international dictates regarding a permanent settlement with the Palestinians,” he wrote on X.

He added that Israel will “continue to oppose the unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state”. “Such recognition in the wake of the October 7 massacre would give a huge reward to unprecedented terrorism and prevent any future peace settlement,” he wrote.