Heavy security presence near Al-Aqsa Mosque
The Islamic Waqf Department in Jerusalem has announced that 35,000 worshippers gathered at Al-Aqsa Mosque on the first night of Ramadan. Israeli forces earlier stopped young Palestinian men from entering the mosque compound, including Adel, who told Al Jazeera “I came to pray”.
“They always refuse to let us pray as if it’s their mosque. We are peaceful, we are not carrying anything,” he said. “This is the mosque that the prophet journeyed from,” he added.
Despite ICJ measures, Israel continues ‘indiscriminate’ bombings
Guy Shalev, the executive director of Physicians for Human Rights Israel, says despite the International Court of Justice’s provisional measures being announced in January, they still see Israel carrying out “indiscriminate bombings” on the besieged enclave.
“We’re preparing a petition to the high court to force the Israeli government and the Israeli military to change its policy towards the civilians in Gaza and to allow humanitarian aid. It is important to say that it’s not just a human thing to do for Israel; it’s an obligation according to international humanitarian law,” Shalev told Al Jazeera.
He added that his organisation deals with regulations from the Israeli government.“For example, we are trying to get humanitarian aid to Gaza since October 7 basically and we have been prevented by all kinds of regulations. Our banks threatened to freeze our accounts if we continue to try and transfer funds in order to buy medications into Gaza,” he said.
The ICJ has not responded yet to Africa's latest urgent request, on March 6th, for additional measures after the flour massacre
https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192 https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240306-pre-01-00-en.pdf
Israeli forces raid Jenin refugee camp
Israeli occupation forces have stormed the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reports. Undercover Israeli forces, backed by military reinforcements, besieged a house as confrontations broke out between Palestinian youth and Israeli soldiers.
Israeli forces bombed the besieged house with an Energa missile, and prevented ambulances from approaching the vicinity, Wafa added.
Two Palestinians injured in Israeli raid on Jenin camp
The Palestine Red Crescent Society has reported two casualties during the storming of Jenin’s refugee camp. One man was injured after Israeli soldiers fired bullets, while another was physically assaulted by them. Several homes have been besieged by Israeli forces in the camp.
Israel’s ‘pastoral’ settlement on the rise since October 7: Official
“These are projects that were planned previously and, in light of the war on Gaza, they took advantage of their implementation and joined the reserve army and began to implement what they wanted,” said Fouad al-Amour, coordinator of the protection committees in the South Hebron Hills in the occupied West Bank.
This includes controlling large swathes of land and pastures in what he describes as an illegal “pastoral settlement”. “Settlers set up more than 10 tents on the mountains of South Hebron Hills and Masafer Yatta specifically, where the area of each tent is 50 metres, but they control more than that, in the range of 0.05-0.20 square kilometres,” he tells Al Jazeera.
“Settlers are driving a displacement process, by attacking residents, closing roads, obstructing the movement of citizens, and confiscating vehicles. In Masafer Yatta, life has come to a standstill.”
