Israel-Hamas war, Gaza genocide

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Main points on November 15th

• At least 37 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, medical sources have told Al Jazeera, while 120 more have been injured.
• Israel’s assault on Lebanon continues, including an air raid in the southern town of Ain Qana which has killed a family of five, with three children among the dead.
• Sending aid to Gaza is more difficult than ever with the north almost totally cut off as “chaos, suffering, despair, death, destruction, displacement” engulf the Palestinian territory, OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke has said.
• European Union foreign ministers will discuss suspending political dialogue with Israel and putting restrictions on trade, after the bloc’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, proposed the measures because of Israel’s violations of international law in Gaza and Lebanon.
• The Ministry of Jerusalem Affairs has warned Israeli authorities are rapidly demolishing the Palestinian al-Bustan neighbourhood in Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem.
  
  

Here’s why the Gaza war is ‘consistent with genocide’, according to UN body

The UN released a report on Thursday assessing the first nine months of Israel’s war on Gaza. In that report, it has accused Israel of genocide by “using starvation as a method of war and inflicting collective punishment on the Palestinian population”.

The committee said Israel’s siege, blocking of aid, targeted attacks and killing of civilians, despite UN and ICJ orders, was “intentionally causing death, starvation and serious injury”.