Columbia University student Sueda Polat – who is negotiating on behalf of students protesting for an end to Israel’s war on Gaza – said that the university’s president, Nemat Minouche Shafik, had announced the end of talks and declared that the university will not divest from Israel.

“Bureaucracy is a prison, and the students refuse to trade in the blood of Palestinians,” Polat said.

“The university has conducted itself with obstinacy and arrogance, refusing to be flexible on some of our most basic points,” she said.

Students hang banner renaming Columbia’s Hamilton Hall to ‘Hind Hall’

Israel’s war on Gaza is ‘completely intolerable’

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“I have decided to suspend all regional funding for Sciences Po until calm and security have been restored at the school,” Valerie Pecresse, the right-wing head of the greater Paris Ile-de-France region, says on social media.

The suspension came as demonstrations against Israel’s war on Gaza last week shook one of France’s most prestigious educational institutions.

The university’s acting administrator, Jean Basseres, lamented the decision. “The Ile-de-France region is an essential partner of Sciences Po, and I wish to maintain dialogue on the position expressed by Mrs Pecresse,” he told the French daily Le Monde.

Regional financial support for Science Po includes 1 million euros ($1.07m) earmarked for 2024, a member of Pecresse’s team told AFP.

French Higher Education Minister Sylvie Retailleau said the French government has no plans to suspend funding for Sciences Po.

Paris, France – Tensions are rising between the French state and students at top universities who are staging pro-Palestine protests amid Israel’s war on Gaza, inspired by their American counterparts.

As well as an end to Israel’s war, demonstrators called on school administrators to cut ties with Israeli institutions and other businesses they see as complicit in the war in Gaza, which to date has killed about 34,500 Palestinians, mostly children and women.

Hundreds of students have gathered at various university campuses in Lebanon to protest against Israel’s war on Gaza.

Students, alumni and other Lebanese waved flags and posters at campuses in the capital, Beirut, and elsewhere, with some demanding their universities boycott companies that do business in Israel, Reuters reported.

At the American University of Beirut, some 200 people gathered in a campus square where they had been given approval by the administration to protest for two hours. Campus security barred protesters or journalists from venturing further into the university grounds and shepherded reporters off campus as the allotted window to demonstrate came to a close.

Demonstrations took place at other universities including the Lebanese American University.

Fifty-nine journalism professors from top US universities have called on The New York Times to address questions about a report that described a “pattern of gender-based violence” in the October 7 attacks on Israel.

The professors said they felt the need to issue a letter to the newspaper after coming across “compelling reports” challenging the integrity of the story.

“The Times’ editorial leadership appears to have largely dismissed these reports and remains silent on important and troubling questions raised about its reporting and editorial processes,” they wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained and posted online by The Washington Post.

“We believe this inaction is not only harming The Times itself, it also actively endangers journalists, including American reporters working in conflict zones as well as Palestinian journalists (of which, the Committee to Protect Journalists estimates, around 100 have been killed in this conflict so far),” the professors said.

A spokeswoman for the Times said the paper has “reviewed the work that was done on this piece of journalism and [we] are satisfied that it met our editorial standards”, the Post reported.

Naama Lazimi, a member of Israel’s Knesset representing the left-wing Labor Party, says she was accosted and beaten by police at a rally in Tel Aviv that called for an immediate captive release deal.

In a post on X, Lazimi said police “lost all restraint” while trying to break up the protest on Monday night, beating her as she tried to help a protester who had been arrested. “The violence on the part of the cops was unrestrained; we all felt it was much much different from previous protests,” Lazimi told Israel’s Kan radio.

“To think that the police force, the body that is supposed to protect me, is something I should be afraid of, that protesters should be afraid of, is a reality that cannot be.”

Thousands of Israelis, including the relatives of some captives still held in Gaza, have been staging regular protests in Israel calling on the government to secure the release of Israeli captives or a Gaza ceasefire.

Palestinians desperate to get their families out of war-battered Gaza are increasingly resorting to crowdfunding campaigns to pay for their journeys.

But burdensome restrictions on Palestinian users of crowdfunding platforms are making it difficult for them to raise and collect funds, while also opening the door for scammers to take advantage of their plight.

Prosecutors from the International Criminal Court (ICC) have interviewed staff from Gaza’s two biggest hospitals, two sources have told the Reuters news agency.

The prosecutors from the war crimes court in The Hague have reportedly spoken to staff from al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Reuters said. This is the first confirmation the ICC is speaking to medical staff about possible crimes in the Gaza Strip, Reuters said, though it noted the sources asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the subject.

The ICC’s office of the prosecutor said it could not comment due to the need to ensure the safety of victims and witnesses.

Israel has repeatedly besieged hospitals in the Gaza Strip, with Palestinian officials calling for investigations in recent days after hundreds of bodies were exhumed from mass graves at both Nasser and al-Shifa Hospitals following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from both locations.


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The World Court has ruled against issuing emergency measures over German arms sales to Israel. “The circumstances are not such as to require the exercise of its power under Article 41 of the statute to indicate provisional measures,” presiding Judge Nawaf Salam said.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague made its ruling on Nicaragua’s request that emergency measures be imposed on Germany over its support for Israel’s war on Gaza.

Nicaragua argued during two days of hearings earlier this month that Germany violated the 1948 Genocide Convention and international law by supplying Israel with arms, accusing Berlin of being well aware there was a risk of genocide.

Germany denied the accusations, and its lawyer argued that Nicaragua’s case was rushed, based on flimsy evidence and should be thrown out for lack of jurisdiction.

Germany is one of Israel’s biggest military suppliers, sending it $353.7m in equipment and weapons in 2023.

Germany’s argument was that 98 percent of their military transfers to Israel after October 7 were non-military in nature, that three out of four of their export licences related to non-lethal material, and the justices looking at those facts as presented by the German legal team have accepted them.

The other crucial argument that has wider implications is that they are not found to be in violation of the Genocide Convention because Israel itself … have not been found to be in violation of the genocide convention and that will be key to other countries that may face similar cases relating to their arms transfers to Israel.

The ICJ says in its ruling that it remains “deeply concerned about the catastrophic living conditions of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in particular in view of the prolonged and widespread deprivation of food and other basic necessities to which they have been subjected”.

“The Court recalls that pursuant to Article 1 of the Geneva Conventions, all States parties are under an obligation ‘to respect and to ensure respect’ for the Conventions ‘in all circumstances’.

“It follows from that provision that every State party to these Conventions, ‘whether or not it is a party to a specific conflict, is under an obligation to ensure that the requirements of the instruments in question are complied with’.”

Moataz El Fegiery, head of the human rights programme at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, says the International Court of Justice (ICJ) reminded the international community of its obligation under the Geneva Convention.

“It’s not the end of the story. There is a legal battle that will continue and many other issues that the court will deal with, with regards to jurisdiction to examine the case or the merit,” El Fegiery told Al Jazeera.

“There is also South Africa versus Israel, and actually Nicaragua intervened in this case as well … of course we hoped that today there would be some measures because this would be an important legal message to many other countries that are right now supporting Israel with weapons and arms.

“But I think even if the court today dismissed the measures, there is also some kind of political message in the whole process.”

More than 10,000 missing Palestinians are buried under the debris of hundreds of destroyed buildings in Gaza.

“The continued accumulation of thousands of bodies under the rubble has begun to cause the spread of disease and epidemics, especially with the onset of summer and the rise in temperatures, which accelerates the process of decomposition,” it said in a statement.

Israeli fighter jets destroyed military infrastructure throughout central Gaza over the last day, according to the Israeli army’s latest war update. The targets included a rocket-launch site, weapons depot, and “operational tunnel shafts”, it said.

In addition, the Israeli air raids killed numerous fighters in the area who either fired at or “advanced towards” Israeli troops in central Gaza, a statement said.

The Israeli military’s latest air attacks on Gaza also killed civilians, including three women sheltering in a Rafah apartment on Monday.

Israeli naval warships opened fire on the coastline of the Nuseirat and Rafah districts with no casualties currently reported.

Overnight there was a clear intensification of artillery fire on the Nuseirat refugee camp specifically. The Israeli military, according to witnesses, has been using drones that release the sounds of children and women calling for help. When people attempt to rescue them, they are attacked.

In northern Gaza City, there have been air strikes that targeted the Zeitoun neighbourhood where at least seven houses were attacked and partially destroyed.

And in southern Rafah, since the early hours we continue to hear Israeli drones hovering overhead at low altitudes as a part of Israel’s intelligence operations, which indicate more attacks to come.

Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip killed 47 people and injured 61 over the last 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry says. The latest strikes bring the total number of casualties since October 7 to 34,535 killed and 77,704 wounded, with 8,000 people still believed to be missing. Among the dead are more than 14,500 children and 9,500 women.

An Israeli attack on al-Zahra city in central Gaza has killed at least two people, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. The attack comes after earlier reports that the military was firing on the Nuseirat camp, to the south.

Israeli army radio said that a plan to attack Gaza’s southern Rafah city will be launched if there is no ceasefire deal with Hamas “in the coming days”.

In a post on social media attributing information to “security officials”, Israel’s GLZ Radio said “the order will be given to launch an operation in Rafah” if progress is not made within days on “negotiations for a deal”.

Hamas negotiators are said to be preparing a written response to what is believed to be an Israeli offer of a 40-day ceasefire.

Senior Hamas spokesperson Osama Hamdan told Al Jazeera on Monday that it was clear Israel still does not want a “complete ceasefire” – a key demand of the Palestinian group.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is on his way to Jordan and then Israel with discussions on the war on Gaza front and centre. Blinken on Monday said the latest Israeli ceasefire proposal is an “extraordinarily generous” offer and Hamas should accept it “quickly”.

But a Hamas official said there’s nothing “generous” about halting attacks that have killed tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, mostly children and women. “The attack itself is a crime so when you stop a crime you can’t claim that it’s a generous action from the Israeli side,” Hamas’s Osama Hamdan told Al Jazeera.

The rival Palestinian groups met in China’s capital recently for “in-depth and candid talks on promoting intra-Palestinian reconciliation”.

“Representatives of the Palestine National Liberation Movement [Fatah] and the Islamic Resistance Movement [Hamas] recently came to Beijing,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said, adding that “positive progress” was made in discussions.

“China and Palestine share a traditional friendship. We support Palestinian factions in achieving reconciliation and increasing solidarity through dialogue and consultation. We will continue to work actively towards that end,” Jian added.

Hamas continues to review the latest Israeli ceasefire proposal but a senior official from the group noted it continues to ignore demands for a permanent end to the war.

Israel has reportedly offered a sustained 40-day ceasefire and the release of potentially thousands of Palestinian prisoners, in return for the freedom of about 130 Israeli captives, according to UK Foreign Minister David Cameron.

“It’s clear from the Israeli paper that they are still insisting on two major issue: they don’t want a complete ceasefire and they are not talking – in a serious way – about the withdrawal from Gaza. In fact, they are still talking about their presence, which means they will continue to occupy Gaza,” Hamas’s Osama Hamdan told Al Jazeera.

“We have serious questions for the mediators. If there are positive answers, I think we can move forward.

Israel is waiting for Hamas to respond to a proposal for a halt to the fighting in Gaza and a return of captives before sending a team to Egypt to continue ceasefire talks, reports Reuters news agency, quoting “a person close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu”.

It follows similar reporting by the Wall Street Journal that David Barnea, head of the Mossad intelligence agency, could travel to Cairo in the coming days, depending on developments in ceasefire negotiations.

A response to Israel’s latest proposal is expected from Hamas by Wednesday evening, reports Al Jazeera’s Stefanie Dekker.

Reports suggest Israel plans to attack Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, where 1.5 million Palestinians are sheltering – if Hamas rejects the deal.

The Israeli prime minister has said Israel will invade the southern district of Rafah even if it reaches a ceasefire and captive release agreement with Hamas.

“The idea that we will stop the war before achieving all its objectives is out of the question,” Benjamin Netanyahu said, according to a statement from his office. “We will enter Rafah and we will eliminate the Hamas battalions there – with or without a deal, in order to achieve the total victory.”

The prime minister has for months pledged to go ahead with an invasion of Rafah, despite public pushback from Israel’s main ally the US. The UN and humanitarian agencies have repeatedly warned that an assault of Rafah, where more than one million displaced Palestinians are sheltering, would be catastrophic.

While there had been some positive signs over the past few days of a potential truce deal in Gaza, the hopes now are dim after Netanyahu’s latest comments, an analyst says.

“For a while, there was a lot of cautious optimism up until this morning, and then the prime minister announced he will order an invasion of Rafah with or without a deal – in essence trampling all of these ceasefire talks,” Nour Odeh told Al Jazeera.

“This is what the families of the captives had feared. This is what the negotiators feared.”

Netanyahu’s comments came after he held meetings with the most right-wing members of his coalition government, including Itamar Ben-Gvir, she said, noting the US secretary of state is on his way to Israel.

“It’s interesting, every time Blinken comes to the region – catching the tailwind of some optimism – something like this happens, and he ends up going home with nothing to show for all this political momentum.”

Israeli forces threatened to blow up homes belonging to parents of Palestinians who Israel’s military said were wanted for arrest in the Askar refugee camp, east of Nablus city, in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports.

The threats were made during another night of military raids, home searches, detentions and fighting with Palestinians resisting the storming of their communities by Israel’s forces.

During the pre-dawn raids, a 44-year-old Palestinian woman was arrested in Aila Ali village, east of Bethlehem, and a man in his 20s was shot in the foot in Qalqilya city.

Wafa also reported events in the following locations:

• Raids in Silat ad-Dhahr town, south of Jenin
• Homes ransacked during raids in Hebron city
• Businesses and houses searched in Anabta town, east of Tulkarem city
• Israeli forces opening fire on Palestinians resisting raids in the villages of Jalbun and Faqqua, northeast of Jenin.
• Raids in the Shuafat refugee camp, northeast of occupied east Jerusalem
• Stun grenades thrown by Israeli soldiers during confrontations in the village of Barqa, east of Ramallah.
• Earlier in the night, the arrest of a 22-year-old from Al-Auja town, north of Jericho, while crossing into Jordan at the King Hussein/Allenby Bridge border crossing.

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