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Cyprus says Gaza aid shipments ‘on track’
A spokesperson for the presidency of Cyprus has confirmed that four aid ships are on their way to Gaza, stressing that the deliveries are “on track”. The shipments, provided by the US and France, will be unloaded at a US-built floating pier off the coast of Gaza City.
That pier, criticised by humanitarian groups as an ineffective way to bring in aid, has not received any shipments since Saturday, according to a UN official cited by Reuters.
The slowdown comes as land deliveries also remain at a trickle, with most crossings shuttered or inaccessible since Israel seized the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing on May 7.
Israeli forces demolish house in Jenin raid
Israeli bulldozers have demolished the home of a Palestinian family in Jenin without any warning, giving them no time to remove their belongings, reports the Wafa news agency. The home belongs to Hani Baraket, who said her husband has been in Israeli custody for six months and whose son was killed by an Israeli attack on the camp in March.
Israeli forces regularly demolish homes and other Palestinian structures throughout the occupied West Bank, a policy that has been criticised by rights groups as a form of “collective punishment”.
This year, Israeli forces have demolished 454 Palestinian structures in the West Bank, displacing 843 people, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
ICC prosecutor correct by seeking arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders: Rights lawyer
Michael Mansfield, a UK-based human rights lawyer, says that while some are angry that Israel’s leaders could face arrest warrants for war crimes, legally the move is perfectly legitimate.
“It’s not problematic at all. In fact, the converse would be problematic,” Mansfield told Al Jazeera.
“Israeli officials are accused of ‘extermination’ – it couldn’t become much bigger than that – causing starvation as a weapon of war, the denial of humanitarian relief supplies, and deliberately targeting civilians. That is precisely what is continuing today.”
Over the decades, the rule of international law has been ignored and the situation in Gaza would never have reached this stage because there would’ve been an international intervention “if the conditions set out under the UN Charter had been followed”, said Mansfield.
