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Hezbollah strikes Israeli targets near border
The Lebanese armed group says it targeted and wounded an Israeli army sniper, and also hit spy equipment at the Birkat Risha site, according to statements on its official Telegram channel. Images posted by the group showed the strikes took place near the Lebanese-Israel border.
Hezbollah has been trading fire with the Israeli military across Lebanon’s southern border since October 8, a day after the war in Gaza began. The cross-border attacks have killed at least 200 people in Lebanon, including more than 170 Hezbollah fighters, as well as 10 Israeli soldiers and five civilians.
The prospect of 1.5 million refugees (getting outside of Gaza) woke up the G7. Can't have war refugees coming over. Probably why Israel and Egypt keep vehemently denying plans for moving the Gaza population into the Sinai desert.
G7 concerned by risk of forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza
G7 foreign ministers have expressed concern at the risk of forced displacement of Palestinian civilians out of Gaza and the possible consequences of an Israeli military operation in Rafah.
“They called for urgent action to address the catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Gaza, particularly the plight of 1.5 million civilians sheltering in Rafah and they expressed deep concern for the potentially devastating consequences on the civilian population of Israel’s further full scale military operation in that area,” says a statement released by Italy, which is currently chairing the group.
“They underscored the need for a permanent, sustainable end to the conflict, as Israelis and Palestinians have an equal right to live in safety, dignity, and peace.” The statement by the foreign ministers of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States added that “all parties must refrain from unilateral actions that undermine the prospect for a two-state solution”.
That's what Putin did wrong. He needed to build a wall around Ukraine first, then the West would have let him have it, like Crimea and Donbas as those refugees weren't bordering Western Europe... Having to receive and shelter refugees is all the West cares about.
Settler scum targeting children as well
Two Palestinian children beaten in Israeli settler attack near Hebron
Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that two children were injured in the village of al-Mufaqara, in Masafer Yatta near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. The news agency’s correspondent said that heavily armed settlers attacked farmers and herders there.
At least 700,000 Israelis live in illegal, fortified, Jewish-only settlements across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, the majority of which were built either entirely or partially on private Palestinian land. Since October 7, attacks by these settlers on Palestinians have increased exponentially in the occupied West Bank.
Shocker... Still zero evidence for any of the IDF's claims.
Israel hasn’t given evidence Hamas diverted UN aid: US envoy
David Satterfield, the Biden administration’s special Middle East envoy for humanitarian issues, says Israel has not presented specific evidence that Hamas is diverting UN aid in Gaza. The envoy, in a rare public criticism of Israel, added that Israel’s recent targeted killings of Gaza police commanders safeguarding truck convoys have made it “virtually impossible” to distribute the goods safely.
He said the lawlessness, as well as regular Israeli protests, at crossing points by those opposed to aid going into Gaza have disrupted delivery and distribution. “We are working with the Israeli government, the Israeli military in seeing what solutions can be found here because everyone wants to see the assistance continue,” Satterfield told the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
David Satterfield says Israel has not presented specific evidence that Hamas is diverting UN aid in Gaza
Time has run out, will the West report this?
Girl, 8, dies of starvation and dehydration: Watchdog
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says it has documented the case of a young girl named Hanin Jum’aa in northern Gaza, who died from starvation. Her father, Saleh, said Hanin, who was calcium deficient, complained she was hungry the night before she died.
In the pre-dawn hours, he said, she seemed unwell, “like she was on the verge of death”, so he used a donkey cart – no cars were available – to take her to a hospital “where the doctor told me she died of starvation and dehydration”.
Heartbreaking doesn't cover this. My grandmother lost her first born from malnutrition while imprisoned in a Japanese WW2 camp. She never got over it and it caused a rift in the family that last on well after my grandmother's death. She had 4 more children, my mother, an aunt and 2 uncles but never recovered from the loss which caused a rift between the siblings. My mother and her sister never talked and eventually died without reconciliation. These kind of wounds don't heal.
