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SvennoJ on 21 February 2024
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Israeli forces strike residential building in Rafah

Israeli forces have carried out a series of strikes in Rafah, including one that struck a residential building, injuring one person. A Palestinian was also killed and three injured in a strike on a vehicle earlier today, according to an Al Jazeera reporter.

“This is absolutely terrifying in a densely populated area. Right now, Rafah has been a centre for Israeli attacks,” Al Jazeera correspondent Tareq Abu Azzoum reported from Rafah in southern Gaza.

Human rights lawyer killed by Israeli shelling in Rafah

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights says that one of its lawyers, Nour Naser Abu al-Nour, was killed last night along with seven of her family members, including her two-year-old daughter, in an Israeli attack on her home in Rafah, in the far south of the Gaza Strip.

Abo al-Nour spent her career and the duration of the still-ongoing war documenting human rights violations and fighting injustice, the organisation says.

Red Crescent still retrieving corpses from hospital vicinity

The PRCS says its teams retrieved a decomposed body from the vicinity of al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis. In pictures it posted on X, the shrouded body of an unknown male can be seen as staff pray before burial as is customary in Muslim tradition.

Israeli attacks kill 12 in Gaza, including journalist: Wafa

At least 12 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli army bombardment of the Nuseirat refugee camp and the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, reports Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing medical sources. In Zeitoun, medical sources told Wafa that journalist Ihab Nasrallah and his wife were killed after being targeted by Israeli forces. Their three children were also badly burned.

In Nuseirat, in central Gaza, air strikes on the home of the al-Daalis family killed 10 people and wounded dozens of others, who were taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in neighbouring Deir el-Balah, Wafa said. Fighting has been raging in recent days in the central Gaza Strip, an area the Israeli army once said had been cleared of major Hamas military infrastructure.

Earlier today, the Israeli army told all residents of the Zeitoun and Turkmen neighbourhoods of Gaza City to urgently move to al-Mawasi in the south of the Gaza Strip, calling the town a “humanitarian zone”.

Doctors Without Borders condemns Israeli attack on ‘clearly marked’ shelter in al-Mawasi

The group Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) has confirmed an Israeli attack on an MSF shelter in al-Mawasi yesterday that killed two of the group’s staff family members and injured six. Al Jazeera earlier reported that Israeli forces had attacked the shelter.

According to the statement, an Israeli tank fired on a home sheltering 64 MSF employees and family members, killing the wife and daughter-in-law of an MSF worker. MSF says Israeli forces had been “clearly informed of the precise location of this MSF shelter in al-Mawasi”, and that the building was additionally identified with a large MSF flag.

The group says that bullets were also fired at the “clearly marked” MSF shelter and that nearby shelling prevented an ambulance from reaching the facility to assist the wounded for more than two hours. “These killings underscore the grim reality that nowhere in Gaza is safe, that promises of safe areas are empty and deconfliction mechanisms unreliable,” said MSF general director Meinie Nicolai. “The amount of force being used in densely populated urban environments is staggering, and targeting a building knowing it is full of humanitarian workers and their families is unconscionable.”

Ten captives were killed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza: Report

A report on the independent Israeli website Hamkom says that 10 captives have been killed by Israeli air raids in Gaza – some even as the Israeli military had intelligence that they were in buildings that were targeted. The Israeli army reported they “died in Hamas captivity”.

Israel tightening restrictions against Palestinians in Jerusalem: Activist

Advocate and researcher Fakhri Abu Diab says that since October 7, Israel has been pursuing an “iron fist” policy against Palestinian Jerusalemites and subjecting them to collective punishment. “The occupation has militarised Jerusalem, cutting off its connections. Demolitions have increased, and so have arrests and interrogations. Almost every family has had a member called in for questioning over old and new cases – all of this is to scare Jerusalemites,” Abu Diab told Al Jazeera.

He added that local Israeli authorities are intensifying their tax collection efforts, raiding businesses and enforcing municipal codes in a draconian way – fining people over minor offences. “The goal from this is to insult and oppress the people of Jerusalem,” Abu Diab said. He said since October 7, Israeli authorities have not granted building permits for Palestinians in East Jerusalem while demolishing 217 structures.

Israeli forces set up checkpoint for Palestinians at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem

Al Jazeera correspondent Hamdah Salhut has reported that Israeli authorities have set up a checkpoint for Palestinians at Damascus Gate in occupied East Jerusalem, a central entry point for Palestinians trying to reach the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

“Israeli forces set up a checkpoint at Damascus Gate for Palestinians, while Israelis bypassed the security check,” Salhut said in a social media post. “Palestinians at the gate told me this is “the reality of life under occupation.”

‘Everyone knows that soldiers are taking things’: Israeli NGO

An Israeli veterans’ organisation says soldiers in Gaza are publishing videos of items they’ve looted from Gaza. But there’s nothing new about looting by Israeli soldiers, says the organisation. “We’ve collected many testimonies over the years from different areas in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which occurred in varying circumstances. But these past few months have been different.”

The organisation says that “Looting has never been normalised in the way it has over the last four months. It’s never been done with such glee, knowing that the Israeli public and the world are watching – and all with such little interest from the military’s top brass, not to mention our politicians.”

In Gaza, ‘total collapse of civil order’: UN special rapporteur

Francesca Albanese says, “That’s the situation that Israel has created in Gaza”, in reference to the World Food Programme pausing food deliveries to northern Gaza. The UN agency has said the decision was not taken lightly as staff faced huge, hungry crowds, gunfire and looting.

“Imagine as a parent having to fight to get food for your child who is dying of hunger … Shame on all of us for allowing this betrayal of humanity,” Albanese said.


St. Philip’s Church in Gaza City, which has been turned into a treatment center, February 13, 2024