By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
SvennoJ on 26 February 2024
Edit Thread

Palestinian diplomat says blocking of humanitarian aid a ‘war crime’

Nada Tarbush, a diplomat at the Palestine Mission to the UN, has urged world governments to intervene and ensure the “urgent delivery of food, clean water and medicine via airdrops in Gaza”. “Blocking the delivery of humanitarian aid is a war crime. Using starvation as a means of warfare is a war crime. Collective punishment is a war crime,” she said in a post on X.

‘We must never become numb to ongoing Israeli genocide’: US Muslim group

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has decried recent Israeli abuses, including reports of the death of a Palestinian baby in northern Gaza because of hunger due to the Israel-imposed siege on the territory. “The daily war crimes committed by the forces of the far-right Israeli government are so common that Western media have largely stopped reporting on them,” CAIR spokesperson Ibrahim Hooper said in a statement.

“We must never become numb to the ongoing Israeli genocide, forced starvation and ethnic cleansing that the Palestinian people are experiencing and which the Biden administration is enabling.”


Palestinians rescue survivors after an Israeli strike on the Shaheen family home in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on Saturday


At least 10 killed as Israel shells people waiting for aid: Report

The Israeli military shelled and fired on crowds of Palestinians waiting for food aid trucks to arrive in Gaza City, killing 10 people, the Wafa news agency reports. At least 15 people were injured in the attack, which occurred on the coastal road in northern Gaza City on Sunday evening, and they have been transferred to the nearby al-Shifa Hospital.

Elsewhere in Gaza City on Sunday, the Israeli military killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens after bombing a three-storey home in the Zeitoun neighbourhood. Ambulances were unable to reach the injured, Wafa reports. Also on Sunday, Wafa reports that three people were killed, including a woman and a child, when the Israeli military bombed a home in Rafah in southern Gaza.

West Bank update: Israeli military installs surveillance cameras at Al-Aqsa Mosque

Israeli forces have erected a tower and placed surveillance cameras on it at the western wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, the Wafa news agency reports. The report comes as the Israeli government is expected to place restrictions on worshippers trying to pray at Islam’s third-holiest site during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which starts on March 10.

Elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military has arrested two men at the Awarta checkpoint near the city of Nablus. Earlier in the night, another man was arrested in Nablus after the Israeli military stormed the city and fired bullets, stun grenades and tear gas at Palestinian resistance groups.

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

  • The city of Nablus
  • The town of Arabbuna in the Jenin refugee camp
  • The city of el-Bireh
  • The villages of Burqa and Shuqba, in the Ramallah and el-Bireh governorate
  • Fire has been exchanged between Palestinian armed groups and the Israeli military at the Netsaniyaz checkpoint in Tulkarem

Children play in ruins of Rafah mosque

A child standing inside a damaged building stares at the wreckage of al-Farouq Mosque in Rafah on Sunday

Children play in one of the fallen domes of the Al-Farouq Mosque in Rafah

Israel has destroyed more than 500 mosques and churches since October 7, Gaza’s Government Media Office said on Sunday

Israeli journalist says he has received death threats over ‘anti-Semitic’ award speech

Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham says that he has received death threats for giving an “anti-Semitic” speech at the Berlin International Film Festival.

His film No Other Land – about young Palestinian activist Basel Adra, who is fighting against being displaced by Israeli settlers in the Masafer Yatta community in the occupied West Bank – won the Documentary Award at the festival.

Israel’s Channel 11 aired a section of Abraham’s acceptance speech – in which he criticised the “situation of apartheid” between him and Adra – and labelled it anti-Semitic, prompting a backlash against the journalist.

“In two days, we will go back to a land where we are not equal. I’m living under civilian law, and Basel is under military law,” he said in his speech. “We live 30 minutes from one another, but I have voting rights, and Basel does not have voting rights. I’m free to move wherever I want in this land, Basel is like millions of Palestinians locked in the occupied West Bank.”

Palestinian artist in London documents the Gaza war through her art

In London, renowned Palestinian Artist Malak Mattar is about to exhibit what she calls the most important artwork of her career.

The 25-year-old painter from Gaza, who came to the United Kingdom last October, has just finished a large canvas depicting real events of the war in Gaza and combining them into one single large painting called Last Breath. She says it is her way of documenting history.






As Israel continues lying through their teeth

COGAT claims ‘no limit’ on humanitarian aid allowed into Gaza

Israel’s coordination office for its activities in Palestine (COGAT) has released footage allegedly showing a humanitarian aid convoy in northern Gaza.

“There is no limit to the amount of humanitarian aid that can be sent to the civilian population of Gaza and northern Gaza,” it wrote in a post on X.

Earlier tonight, we reported that the Israeli military shelled and fired on crowds of Palestinians waiting for food aid trucks to arrive in Gaza City in northern Gaza, killing 10 people and injuring 15 more, according to the Wafa news agency.