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US senator says Israeli claims on UNRWA ‘flat out lies’
Democratic US Senator Chris Van Holler says “there is no doubt” that Israeli claims that the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees is a Hamas proxy “are just flat-out lies”.
“If you look at the person who’s in charge of operations on the ground in Gaza for UNRWA, it’s about a 20-year US army veteran, you can be sure he’s not in cahoots with Hamas,” he told US channel CBS News.
“Netanyahu has wanted to get rid of UNRWA since at least 2017, that’s been his goal not just in Gaza, but also in other places,” he continued. “Netanyahu’s wanted to get rid of UNRWA because he has seen them as a means to continue the hopes of the Palestinian people for a homeland of their own, and he has been opposed to a two-state solution.”
The senator this week wrote to US President Joe Biden to argue that Israel is violating US legislation that prohibits the sale and transfer of military weapons to any nation that restricts delivery of US aid.
14th Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli custody since October 7
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society has said that Muhammad Abu Sneina, a Palestinian prisoner from Jerusalem, had died in Israel’s Hadassah Hospital. He is the fourteenth Palestinian prisoner to die in Israeli custody since October 7, according to the organisation.
Hezbollah targets Israel’s Metula with two anti-tank missiles
Lebanon’s Hezbollah armed group has claimed responsibility for the attack on an Israeli military outpost in the town of Metula “with appropriate weapons”. The group said it hit the target “directly” at 12:50pm local time (10:50 GMT) without elaborating on the results.
Earlier, Israeli Army Radio reported that two anti-tank missiles were fired at Metula. No casualties or damage are known, the report said.
Hezbollah claims more attacks on Israeli army
The Lebanese armed group says it carried out two more attacks on Israeli forces. In the first, Hezbollah says it attacked the al-Samaq site in the hills near the Lebanese village of Kfar Shuba, which Israel occupies.
In the second attack, Israeli army vehicles were hit with artillery shells “as they entered the al-Malikiyah site”.
