Israeli legislator vows to have hospitalised Palestinian suspect killed
A far-right Israeli legislator has posted a video to X showing him entering a hospital room and promising to have a wounded Palestinian suspect killed for carrying out a deadly vehicle ramming attack in the occupied West Bank.
Zvi Succot wrote on X that he was visiting Jerusalem’s Shaarei Zedek hospital when he discovered that the Palestinian man suspected of carrying out the attack that killed an Israeli soldier was being treated there.
In the video, Succot could be heard saying: “We’ll make sure they kill you. The State of Israel will kill you. We will pass a law to kill you.”
Earlier we reported the Israeli army said one soldier was killed and another injured when a “Palestinian truck” rammed into an Israeli military checkpoint near the illegal Israeli settlement of Givat Assaf.
Israeli forces shot a 58-year-old Palestinian man who was driving the truck, and the military later said it had taken him to hospital.
NGOs call on UN to take ‘urgent action’ to protect detainees in Israel, Palestine
The interagency statement, signed by 31 organisations – including Save the Children, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam – calls for UN member states to take steps to “protect people deprived of their liberty” in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory.
“This includes demanding that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is granted immediate and unfettered access to all detainees and hostages, to the full extent required by international humanitarian law,” said the statement, which also called for Hamas to release the remaining captives in Gaza.
The organisations also demanded that Palestinian children arbitrarily arrested and detained by the Israeli military be released “immediately and unconditionally”. The statement cited examples of Palestinian minors in Israeli custody being subject to abuse, including “sexual assaults and violent beatings”.
“No child should ever come into contact with a military court, or any court that lacks comprehensive fair trial rights and basic safeguards. No child should ever be abducted,” the groups said.
The Israeli military has detained about 10,000 people – including at least 650 children – in the West Bank alone since October 7.
Israeli lawmaker demands siege on West Bank cities
Almog Cohen, an MP with the far-right Otzma Yehudit party, has said Israel must collectively punish Palestinians in areas of the occupied West Bank where there are “terrorists”.
“A siege must be imposed on the villages or cities from which terrorists emerge,” said Cohen, in comments carried by Israeli public radio.
As we’ve been reporting, Israeli forces have been waging a two-week offensive in the northern West Bank, killing more than 50 people.
Israel has been accused of using collective punishment against Palestinians for decades. Weeks after the Israeli offensive in Gaza, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke against the “collective punishment” of the Palestinian people.
Stop letting aid into northern Gaza, says former Israeli official
The former head of Israel’s National Security Council has advocated blocking all aid to northern Gaza to defeat Hamas.
“When you completely prevent the entry of supplies, you make thousands of Hamas operatives surrender or starve to death,” said retired Major-General Giora Eiland, according to Israeli public radio.
Aid supply to Gaza has suffered due to increasing Israeli curbs and attacks on humanitarian workers.
Back in May, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel must take action to ensure basic food supplies reach Gaza, where it warned famine and starvation were spreading.
How many more genocidal statements does the ICC need before issuing arrest warrants...
