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SvennoJ on 16 June 2024
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Josep Borrell: Please let us support genocide in peace

Houthis ‘threaten freedom of navigation in the Red Sea’

The EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell warns Houthi militia attacks commercial vessels off Yemen are becoming more serious.

“The Houthis keep threatening freedom of navigation in the #RedSea”, EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a post on X, referring to the Yemeni group’s ongoing attacks on Israel-linked ships in the region.

EUNAVFOR ASPIDES, the EU military operation in the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Gulf, “will keep striving to make international waters safe for all”, he added.

The Houthis say their attacks on ships are in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.



Stop fighting symptons (and escalating them), fix the cause.

‘Strange’ quiet in northern Gaza

While attacks continue in southern Gaza, residents in the north say there’s been an unusual day of quiet. “Since this morning, we’ve felt a sudden calm with no gunfire or bombings… It’s strange,” said Haitham al-Ghura, 30, from Gaza City.

AFP news agency correspondents reported there were no reports of strikes or shelling since dawn. The brief respite in fighting allowed worshippers a rare moment of calm on the Eid al-Adha holiday.

The sound of prayers travelled down some of Gaza City’s destroyed and abandoned streets. For many, a halt in fighting can never bring back what has been lost.“We’ve lost many people, there’s a lot of destruction,” said Umm Muhammad al-Katri from Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.


Death toll rises to 9 in Israeli attack on Bureij, including 5 children

Nine Palestinians, including at least five children, were killed in an Israeli strike that targeted a house in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Video footage showed the recovery of the dead and evacuation of the wounded from the debris.


Displaced Palestinians walk past destroyed buildings in Bureij refugee camp


Israeli settlers torch village and attack Palestinian vehicles in the occupied West Bank

Illegal Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian land in the village of Burqa and attacked residents’ vehicles east of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.

Security sources also said settlers attacked Palestinian automobiles travelling along the bypass road leading to the northern entrance of al-Bireh city and threw stones, the news agency Wafa reported.