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SvennoJ on 24 February 2024
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Pro-Palestine supporters take to the streets in Milan


People march during a protest in support of Palestinians and to demand an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza strip, on February 24, 2024, in Milan

The UN humanitarian agency OCHA warned that “the elevated risk of famine in Gaza is projected to increase” without enough food and water, as well as health services


Demonstrators hold placards depicting Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu shaking hands with Prime Minister of Italy Giorgia Meloni during the protest



ICJ member states should cut ties with Israel: Watchdog

International Court of Justice member states should cut political and military ties with Israel for violating the ruling on the Gaza genocide, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says.

In a statement, the Geneva-based organisation says that over the course of the four weeks since the ICJ decision, it has continued to document Israeli violations during its war on the Gaza Strip, begun October 7. “From the evidence examined in the period since the court ruling, Euro-Med Monitor demonstrated that the Israeli army is still carrying out genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip,” it says.

“Euro-Med Monitor emphasised that Israel persists in violating international law by targeting Palestinians, primarily in the Gaza Strip, with genocide, grave violations, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.”

Protests against Netanyahu across Israel


Israeli police officers are cracking down on demonstrators during a protest in Tel Aviv against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Some protesters are calling for a deal to return the captives in held Gaza, while others are chanting against the government across Israel, including in Caesarea, where protesters are gathered outside Netanyahu’s private home.


‘We must admit that this is Jewish terrorism’: Israeli group on settler violence

Mistaclim, a group of Israeli anti-occupation activists, has listed several incidents wherein settlers attacked Palestinians or their property in the occupied West Bank. In the last few days, the group said, in Shaeb al-Botum, settlers hurled stones, tried to run over a flock of sheep, and took the father of the family and his son to the settlement. Other attacks, according to Mistaclim, include:

  • In Burqah, they set fire to a house and injured two
  • In Kafr Kadum, they defaced houses and shops by spraypainting the Star of David
  • In Burin, they set fire to a car
  • In Sinjil, they burned down a house
  • In Asira al-Qibliya, they invaded the village

Israeli war cabinet to convene on potential captive deal

We do know that negotiators had come back from Paris with what they’re calling an outline and a framework to proceed with a deal to bring back the captives. The fact that negotiators wanted the war cabinet to convene to vote on the outline that they have received from mediators means there is something tangible here, and the negotiators came back from this meeting with something to offer now.

Israel’s war cabinet will convene, discuss, and then vote on this framework. After that, the wider cabinet will meet to discuss the deal in its entirety. According to media reports in Israel, we’re talking about a deal that would see a six-week pause in the fighting in exchange for around 40 Israeli captives, in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails.

All of this comes following immense US pressure on the Israelis to send their negotiators back to the table to meet with mediators in order to secure some sort of deal to recover the captives.

Netanyahu to convene cabinet next week to approve Rafah operation

“Only a combination of military pressure and firm negotiations will lead to the release of our hostages, the elimination of Hamas and the achievement of all the war’s objectives,” the Israeli prime minister says on X.

On the negotiations, underway in Paris between the US, Qatar, Egypt, Hamas and Israel, he said, “We are working to obtain another outline for the release of our hostages, as well as the completion of the elimination of the Hamas battalions in Rafah. That is why I sent a delegation to Paris and tonight we will discuss the next steps in the negotiations”