Palestinian man beaten with iron rod in Israeli settler attack in occupied West Bank

A Palestinian man has been injured in an attack by Israeli settlers in the northern Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency is reporting.

The attack took place in al-Farisiya in the Jordan Valley on Tuesday night, when a group of settlers attacked a Palestinian family, striking one of the sons with an iron rod and leaving him with bruising, Wafa reported.

Israeli settlers have repeatedly attacked Palestinians in al-Farisiya, including in an attack in August last year.

According to the Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, the Palestinian residents of al-Farisiya are shepherds and farmers who have lived in tents and shacks since their historical village was completely demolished by Israel in 2010.

Israeli settlers shoot Palestinian man dead in occupied West Bank town of Duma: Report

Thamin Khalil Reda Dawabsheh, 35, has succumbed to his wounds after being shot by Israeli settlers this morning in the town of Duma, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry cited by the Wafa news agency.

Suleiman Dawabsheh, the head of the Duma village council, confirmed that settlers attacked Palestinians and opened fire at them in the southern part of the village, amid land-levelling operations that have been taking place in the area for days, the report said.

According to the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, 10 people have been killed by settlers since the beginning of this year, bringing the death toll from settler gunfire to 30 since October 7, 2023.

Israeli army expels Bedouin community in occupied West Bank

Israeli forces ordered the Bedouin residents of Ein Ayoub to leave after declaring their village a “closed military zone”. Residents had faced weeks of settler attacks, arson, and drone flights over their homes, before soldiers gave them just minutes to leave.

Hunger-related deaths in Gaza set to soar, health official warns

Mohammed Zaqout, Gaza’s director of general hospitals, says at least 106 children are among 235 people who have died from hunger as the Israeli-induced famine continues.

Speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic, Zaqout urged the international community to intervene to allow the entry of much-needed aid into the besieged enclave before death as a result of malnutrition spreads into most communities in Gaza.

“These cases will soon be in the thousands, if nothing changes,” Zaqout said.

“Children are among the weakest and most vulnerable to malnutrition,” he said. “We have no treatments to save them, not even intravenous feeding, which is used in emergency cases like those we are seeing now.”


Health official warns 55,000 pregnant women in Gaza suffering from malnutrition

The director of al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza has told Al Jazeera Arabic that 55,000 pregnant women in the enclave are now suffering from malnutrition, as he warned of several spiralling health crises in the Strip.

He said the hospital is unable to provide services due to the total collapse of the health system, and that three children with paralysis are at risk of dying. With no safe drinking water in Gaza City, cases of gastroenteritis are also rising, and there is nothing available for heart patients in the enclave, he added.

Israel ‘will eventually have to reckon’ with abuses against Palestinians

Ben Saul, the United Nations special rapporteur on the protection of human rights while countering terrorism, says the decision by rights groups to file a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the killing of Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza is a logical step towards pursuing accountability.

“During this conflict, deliberate killing of journalists or causing disproportionate casualties when launching military attacks are both war crimes under international law and should properly be investigated,” Saul told Al Jazeera.

He said the ICC was already investigating extensive war crimes and crimes against humanity by Israel “and it makes sense to bring this new evidence to the court’s investigation as well”.

“It’s important that actors like NGOs and the UN are documenting and investigating these abuses so that if the day comes when a prosecution is possible, the evidence is preserved and used to secure a conviction,” Saul added.

He said the justice might come “in a foreign criminal court that exercises their war crimes jurisdiction; it could be at the ICC or it could even be in Israel one day or Palestine because of course Prime Minister Netanyahu won’t last forever”.

“There may well be political change in Israel at some point and eventually Israelis themselves are going to have to reckon with the legacy of their past,” he said.

Foreign medics demand action over ‘systematic targeting’ of Gaza health workers

More than 100 international doctors and nurses who have volunteered in Gaza since October 2023 have signed an open letter warning of what they call the “systematic targeting” of Palestinian healthcare workers, urging urgent global action to protect them and rebuild the enclave’s shattered healthcare system.

The letter, organised by a group of medical professionals including UK emergency physician James Smith, says over 1,500 Palestinian health workers have been killed as of May, with many others abducted, detained, or tortured. It describes hospitals and clinics under relentless attack, staff performing surgeries without anesthesia, and treating infections without antibiotics amid severe shortages caused by Israel’s blockade.

Signatories are calling for an immediate halt to attacks on medical facilities and ambulances, the release of detained healthcare workers, an end to the blockade, full humanitarian access, and a permanent ceasefire.

”This is not a tragedy of circumstance – it is a deliberate assault on those who save lives,” the letter reads.

“The world must act not only to stop the killing, but to stand in solidarity with those who continue to care for others even as they are being targeted themselves.”

Deaths from starvation rise to 235, including 106 children, Gaza media office says

Gaza’s Government Media Office says the number of people who have died from starvation in the enclave has risen to 235, including 106 children, as the humanitarian crisis reaches what it called “catastrophic levels”.

In a statement, it said hospitals and health centres are facing an unprecedented emergency under the Israeli blockade, which has severely restricted the entry of food and medicine for the enclave’s 2.4 million residents, more than half of them children.

According to the Health Ministry’s figures, the dead include 19 women, 75 elderly people, and 35 men over 18. It warned that 40,000 infants under one year old are suffering from malnutrition, 250,000 children under five face life-threatening food shortages, and 1.2 million children under 18 are living in severe food insecurity.

The statement accused Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war in violation of international humanitarian law and urged the UN, rights groups, and humanitarian agencies to act immediately to lift the blockade, open crossings, and ensure unrestricted aid flows to Gaza.

Israeli attacks kill 100 people across Gaza since dawn

At least 100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip since dawn, including at least 37 aid seekers, medical sources have told Al Jazeera. Among today’s death toll, 61 were killed in Gaza City.

Main events on August 13th

• At least 100 people were killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip since dawn on Wednesday.
• UN experts say Israel’s targeted destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system and its killing and starvation of health workers in the Strip amounts to “medicide” – an attempt to wipe out medical care.
• Gaza’s Government Media Office says the number of people who have died from starvation in the enclave has risen to 235, including 106 children, as the humanitarian crisis reaches what it called “catastrophic levels”.
• Al Jazeera has seen a copy of a UN report set to be published on Thursday that accuses Israeli forces of using sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners.
• The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says critical aid, including food, medicines, shelter materials, and hygiene supplies, is being blocked by Israeli authorities from entering Gaza.
• An Israeli drone strike targeted a car on the Haris–Hadatha road in southern Lebanon, killing one person, according to Lebanon’s health ministry.

"Coward Journalists: You WILL Be Exposed”

NYT Justifies MURDERING Palestinian Journalist

UEFA issues Gaza plea days after criticism from Mo Salah; refuses to name Israel

The football governing body for Europe, the UEFA, has released a banner with the message “Stop Killing Children. Stop Killing Civilians” days after Liverpool and Egypt star Mo Salah criticised it over its meek tribute for a slain Palestinian footballer, Suleiman al-Obeid, known as the “Palestinian Pele”. Rifat Jawaid says that even today’s gesture by the UEFA was weak and lacked courage for humanity.

Ex-adviser to the King on his Palestine Action protest arrest

A knight of the realm and long-time adviser to the King when Prince of Wales, Sir Jonathon Porritt, speaks to Newsnight about his arrest for supporting Palestine Action. Interview by Victoria Derbyshire.

Israel Plots To “Resettle” Population of Gaza To South Sudan

Fetterman is owned by the lobby, too. No wonder he was promoted in the media so much.

https://www.trackaipac.com/states/pennsylvania

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-hosts-fetterman-in-jerusalem-gifts-us-senator-silver-pager-inspired-by-hezbollah-op/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO8x_asE9PU

Promoting wars for a foreign nation.

@numberwang Yeah it's unbelievable how Netanyahu (and Fetterman) can openly brag about a terrorist attack that qualifies as war crimes as well.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/2-probable-war-crimes-committed-in-lebanon-pager-attack-legal-expert/3333837

https://lieber.westpoint.edu/well-it-depends-explosive-pagers-attack-revisited/

Yeah it depends on who does it... 


State terrorism is applauded. However assassinations are illegal whether it's war or peace time.

https://theconversation.com/assassination-is-always-unlawful-regardless-of-who-is-killed-and-on-whose-orders-236004

And Israel continues daily with drone assassinations in Lebanon, claiming to target Hezbollah members. 


The terrorist label has lost all its meaning, it's nothing but a label to get away with murder. (or mass arrests) The real terrorists are those in office. 

Journalist Exposes CNN's Flawed Israel "Evidence" Live On Air

Aljazeera boss schools BBC presenter on journalism after Gaza journalists targeted

The video of a top Aljazeera executive posing uncomfortable questions to a BBC presenter on the British public broadcaster’s questionable coverage from Gaza has gone viral. The broadcast of this video has assumed significance in the aftermath of the assassination of Aljazeera journalists in Gaza. Rifat Jawaid looks at a series of editorial lapses by the his former employer and asks if the corporation and its presenters would take steps to correct their mistakes.

Dozens of groups blast Israel’s ‘weaponisation of aid’ as Gaza starves

More than 100 aid groups have accused Israel of obstructing life-saving aid from entering Gaza, resulting in vast quantities of relief supplies remaining stranded in warehouses across Jordan and Egypt as more Palestinians starve.

Aid trucks have massed on Gaza’s borders amid Israel’s blockade of the famine-stricken territory, and new rules are being used by Israel to deny the entry of food, medicine, water and temporary shelters, the groups said in a joint statement released on Thursday.

“Despite claims by Israeli authorities that there is no limit on humanitarian aid entering Gaza, most major international NGOs [nongovernmental organisations] have been unable to deliver a single truck of life-saving supplies since 2 March,” the groups said.

“Instead of clearing the growing backlog of goods, Israeli authorities have rejected requests from dozens of NGOs to bring in life-saving goods, citing that these organisations are ‘not authorised to deliver aid’,” the groups, which include Doctors Without Borders (known by their French acronym, MSF) and Oxfam, said.

The Man With 'No Experience' Leading Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's Security

The US-backed aid sites in Gaza were “built as death traps,” says Anthony Aguilar, who worked as a contractor for the “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.” So, who are the people in charge of security for these dystopian ‘aid’ sites?

Aguilar, a former Green Beret sat down with correspondent Prem Thakker to give Zeteo an inside look into the GHF. A key US security leader had an “eyebrow-raising” background — Aguilar questioned his qualifications, and revealed he was part of a biker group that seeks to fight ‘Islamic extremism.’

Smotrich says West Bank settlement ‘buries’ Palestinian state

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has announced his intention to approve the construction of thousands of housing units in a highly controversial and long-delayed illegal settlement project in the occupied West Bank.

Smotrich said he will approve tenders to build more than 3,000 homes in the E1 area settlement, connecting Jerusalem and the existing illegal Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, located several kilometres to the east.

Expansion of the settlement, which divides the occupied West Bank into northern and southern regions, “buries the idea of a Palestinian state”, he said.

New Israeli settlement plan would cut off West Bank from East Jerusalem

Israeli plans to greenlight the construction of more than 3,000 homes in the E1 area settlement of the occupied West Bank are in line with its goal of blocking the establishment of a Palestinian state, says Al Jazeera correspondent Hamdah Salhut.

Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has announced his intention to approve the construction of thousands of housing units in the E1 area, which connects Jerusalem with the existing illegal Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, located several kilometres to the east.

“The main problem here, with this E1 plan, is that it would completely cut off the occupied West Bank from occupied East Jerusalem, essentially… destroying all territorial continuity that would [be needed for] a future Palestinian state,” said Salhut.

“What this government has said is that they want to do everything in their power to block the establishment of a Palestinian state.”

Smotrich himself has said the expansion of the E1 settlement “buries the idea of a Palestinian state”.

Smotrich claims Trump, Netanyahu support controversial E1 development in occupied West Bank

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says he has support from US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his controversial plan to build thousands of homes on land that would bisect the territory of a future Palestinian state.

“[Netanyahu] backs me up in everything concerning Judea and Samaria, and is letting me create the revolution,” Smotrich said, using a biblical term for the West Bank. He spoke at an event in Maale Adumim, an illegal Israeli settlement, which would be connected to Jerusalem through the development, The Times of Israel newspaper reported.

Smotrich also said Trump and Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, backed the plan to revive the long-frozen E1 settlement project, which the finance minister has said “buries the idea of a Palestinian state”.

Smotrich thanked them for their support, calling them “men of truth with a clear and distinct moral voice that is not confused by the hypocrisy of the West”.

He added that Trump and Huckabee believed “that a Palestinian state would endanger the existence of Israel” and that the West Bank is “an inseparable part of our land, the one that God promised to our father Abraham and gave to us thousands of years ago”.

None of the three men have made any statements to confirm Smotrich’s claims.