Main events on October 24th
- At least two Palestinians have been killed in Israeli army shelling east of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, a source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital tells Al Jazeera.
- After a meeting in Egypt, Palestinian political factions, including Hamas, have agreed to hand the administration of Gaza over to a transitional committee of technocrats, according to a statement published by Hamas.
- UN agencies and humanitarian groups have called on Israel to immediately reopen all the crossings into Gaza as Palestinians face dire conditions amid continued Israeli restrictions on humanitarian aid.
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Hamas and the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) can have no role in Gaza, as he tells reporters during a visit to Israel that Trump’s 20-point plan is progressing well.
- Israeli military and settler violence has continued across the occupied West Bank, with an 18-year-old Palestinian teenager dying of wounds sustained during an army raid in Nablus.
ICJP applies for UK court summons over British-Israeli national’s involvement in Lebanon, West Bank
The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP), an independent organisation of lawyers, politicians and academics, have applied for a court summons to “privately prosecute” a dual-national British-Israeli citizen who is alleged to have joined the Israeli armed forces.
In a statement from the ICJP, the suspect is alleged to have served in a unit on the Lebanese border and in the occupied West Bank.
The ICJP claimed that Section 4 of the UK’s Foreign Enlistment Act is an offence for a “British subject to accept any engagement in ‘the military or naval service’ of a foreign state which is at war with a friendly state”.
ICJP’s head of legal, Mutahir Ahmed, said that this was a “significant step in holding suspected war criminals accountable within domestic jurisdictions for offences that they have committed outside of their home countries”.
“War criminals must be held accountable for their role in the genocide, from the most senior generals to the most junior foot soldier,” Ahmed added.
