Israeli forces detain foreign activists near Masafer Yatta: Palestinian media
The Palestinian news agency Wafa has reported that Israeli forces have detained several foreign activists in the Palestinian town of Masafer Yatta, whose population Israel has long sought to expel. It is near Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
Quoting a correspondent, Wafa reported that Israeli soldiers accompanied by a group of Jewish settlers arrested several activists trying to document attacks on Palestinians in the village, which is the subject of frequent attacks by Israeli settlers.
Israeli forces routinely detain and imprison Palestinians protesting against the theft of their land in the West Bank while settlers who carry out attacks operate largely without consequences and sometimes with the assistance of soldiers.
‘Last lifelines for survival being cut off’ in Gaza: Guterres
The UN secretary-general has warned of dire consequences if fuel is not allowed into the Strip. “Without an urgent influx of fuel, incubators will shut down, ambulances will be unable to reach the injured and sick, and water cannot be purified,” Guterres wrote on X.
He reiterated that the UN is prepared – and able – to deliver humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza, but must be allowed to carry out its work “safely and at scale”.
As we’ve been reporting, Israel has blocked most humanitarian assistance from entering Gaza while promoting an alternative aid scheme that bypasses the UN.
Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in recent weeks while trying to get food at US- and Israeli-backed aid distribution points run by the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Doctor in Gaza says ‘no doubt’ attacks on aid seekers are deliberate
Tarek Loubani, an emergency physician working in southern Gaza, has said that Palestinians seeking aid in Gaza are being consistently and intentionally attacked by Israeli forces, and that Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s (GHF) denials that its security contractors have shot Palestinians seeking aid are “obscene”.
“As medical people, very often we’re in a situation where you wonder what the intent was. But in this specific case, it’s obvious. Patients can sometimes be sitting there, doing nothing, waiting for the site to open, and then they get shot in the head. I’ve seen that numerous times,” he told Al Jazeera.
“Patients often get lined up and brought into these very compressed spaces, and then they get fired on, with spreadshot fire where someone pulls a trigger on a machine gun. They have artillery fire on them. It is deliberate. There is no doubt. I did not need to see the [Associated Press] video to know that it is deliberate. Patients tell me, the injury patterns tell me, the ways in which people are killed, the massive numbers in which they are killed, tell me.”
Loubani stated that there is “no doubt” of GHF involvement in the massacres, stating that denials by the group have been “delusionally obscene”.
