US report on Israeli weapons cannot rule out violations
A US State Department report on US weapons sales to Israel has found Israel may be violating international law.
The report includes a long list of incidents, including Israel targeting humanitarian convoys and attacks on people trying to get humanitarian aid, says Al Jazeera’s Patty Culhane, reporting from Washington, DC.
But the report argues that “the law does not have to be invoked because Israel is investigating”, Culhane adds.
US report on Israeli violations not in ‘good faith’: MSF
A State Department report on how Israel is using weapons supplied by the US provides “excuses” to “deflect responsibility” says Avril Benoit, the executive director of the US branch of MSF, also known as Doctors without Borders.
Benoit said that the analysis from the Biden administration was not a “good faith effort to uphold US law”. The US Leahy Law prohibits military assistance to forces engaged in gross violations of human rights.
“The horrific reality we witness on the ground in Gaza is that Israeli military operations continue to maim and kill civilians and block the provision of lifesaving humanitarian aid,” said Benoit.
UN agencies in southern Gaza running out of food aid
Georgios Petropoulous, the head of the UN humanitarian agency (OCHA) in Gaza, said the World Food Programme and the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) will run out of food to distribute by Sunday.
“That means people will only be left with what has been distributed in their shelters, in their homes,” he told Al Jazeera.
As of Saturday, “we have 12 bakeries supported by humanitarian partners here in Gaza. Eight have ceased to operate due to lack of fuel and stock. Four that are still operating have reduced capacity and will be out of that stock by Monday”, he said.
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