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SvennoJ on 19 February 2024
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Odd, no CNN updates today, silence for 14+ hours. No page for the 19th while the ICJ hearings are underway.


The struggle goes on

WHO says 14 patients evacuated from Nasser Hospital amid dire conditions

The World Health Organization has said that it helped facilitate the evacuation of 14 patients from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which has been under siege and has come under fire from Israeli forces over the last several weeks. “After two days of being denied entry into the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza, yesterday WHO and partners were allowed to go inside to assess the patients,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a social media post today.

“As a result, lifesaving medical referral of 14 critical patients was facilitated. Two patients needed continuous manual ventilation throughout their journey.” Ghebreyesus also noted that 180 patients and 15 doctors and nurses remain inside Nasser. “The hospital is still experiencing an acute shortage of food, basic medical supplies, and oxygen. There is no tap water and no electricity, except a backup generator maintaining some lifesaving machines,” he added.

Cruel and systematic violations of Palestinian rights in Israeli prisons: Report

A report by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHRI) reveals that Palestinian prisoners have been beaten, abused, sexually humiliated and medically neglected since October 7. The findings outline a pattern of daily violence in which Israeli guards indiscriminately assault Palestinians with batons, including incidents of sexually explicit insults and urination on detainees.

The PHRI also stated that Palestinian prisoners were on occasion held in confinement for days or placed in overcrowded cells and deprived of water and electricity for up to 23 hours daily. The report documented forced disappearances of hundreds of Palestinians from Gaza, including many who were not engaged in combat.





‘Take Ben-Gvir’s statements on Al-Aqsa Ramadan prayers seriously’: PA

The PA’s Foreign Ministry says the international community should not turn a blind eye to the Israeli national security minister’s push to impose restrictions on Muslims’ access to Al-Aqsa during the Muslim holy month.

“This will provoke an unprecedented escalation in the conflict and will be a direct threat to the security and stability of the entire region,” the ministry said. “This is racist incitement against Palestinians, forbidding them from praying in their mosque during the holiest of months,” it said.

We reported earlier that according to Israeli media, Netanyahu had accepted a proposal by Ben-Gvir to impose restrictions on entry to the mosque during Ramadan.



Occupation ‘in every aspect of Palestinian daily life’: Jerusalem resident

Palestinian bookshop owner and East Jerusalem resident Ahmad Muna says growing up in the occupied territory has “never been easy”.

“For the last 33 years of my life, I have encountered and experienced living under Israeli occupation pretty much on a daily basis. As a young man, you constantly have to deal with continuous checkpoints – flying [moving] checkpoints in the streets, going from school to work and back, and when you go out to see your friends,” he told Al Jazeera.

“You will constantly see land in your neighbourhood being confiscated by the Israeli state and settlements going up pretty much in every neighbourhood today. … It feels like the occupation is in every aspect of Palestinian daily life.” Muna said over time, the occupation had only gone from “bad to worse”.

“I really don’t know how we can explain to young kids how to envision a future here because the future does not look very bright,” he added.


Israeli forces on a street in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem after Israeli authorities barred Palestinians from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque on November 17, 2023




Israeli raids hit deep inside southern Lebanon

Israeli forces have attacked the town of Ghaziyeh near Sidon about 55km (34 miles) from Lebanon’s southern border, several Lebanese media outlets report. Lebanon’s National News Agency said the Israeli military carried out several air strikes on the town. Journalists shared videos of huge plumes of smoke erupting from the attack.

The raids – deep inside southern Lebanon – could prove to be a major escalation in the conflict.

Israeli raids on Lebanon hit civilian factories: Report

While the Israeli military has said it targeted Hezbollah weapons depots in Ghaziyeh, near Sidon, Lebanon’s National News Agency reports that the raids hit a tire factory and a power generator plant as well as the vicinity of a tile factory.

Lebanese TV channel Al Jadeed interviewed a man who said he owns the power generator plant as fire raged in at the site in the background. “We make power generators. Our company is called Infinite Power. We’ve been open for a year,” he said. “You can go and see, there is nothing but power generators and offices.”

Israeli military comments on recent attacks in Lebanon

A spokesperson says Israeli forces have struck a weapons depot in Ghaziyeh near Sidon in southern Lebanon. “We located an unmanned aerial vehicle from Hezbollah near Tiberias, which apparently crossed today and crashed near Tiberias. In response to this activity, we attacked weapons depots near Sidon,” Daniel Hagari said at a news briefing.

The Israeli attack is one of the farthest north in Lebanon since hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah broke out with the start of the war on Gaza.