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New Israeli measures that will tighten its control over the occupied West Bank ‘must be withdrawn’: UNRWA

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has posted footage of its compound in occupied East Jerusalem on X.

In the post, it says Israeli authorities have seized and demolished the compound in “an unprecedented violation of international law”.



Former high-ranking Israeli security officials slam Netanyahu for failures of October 7

Five former heads of the domestic security agency Shin Bet, and 31 former heads of departments within it, have attacked the Israeli PM for what they say are efforts to discredit the agency by him and members of his coalition.

A statement said that Netanyahu engaged in “unprecedented attacks on former service chief Ronen Bar and on directors, combatants and employees who served in the organisation on October 7”.

“This is despicable conduct on the part of the person primarily responsible for the policy that led Israel to one of the gravest failures in its history.”

Netanyahu released a statement last week shifting a portion of the blame for the security failures that led to the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks onto the agency.


Israeli court denies 5-year-old Palestinian boy life-saving treatment due to Gaza listing: Report

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting that the Jerusalem District Court has rejected a petition seeking to allow a five-year-old Palestinian boy suffering from aggressive cancer to receive life-saving medical treatment in Israel.

It said the petition sought to facilitate the transfer of the boy, who lives in Ramallah, to Tel Hashomer Hospital near Tel Aviv for treatment.

The ruling was made even though the boy has lived in Ramallah for several years to receive medical treatment, and was based on the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu government’s refusal to allow the evacuation of seriously ill patients from Gaza, where the boy’s address is listed.

“I have lost my last hope,” the boy’s mother, whose father died of cancer three years ago, told Haaretz.