The group has arrested multiple people accused of working with the intelligence services of the US and Israel through intermediaries in the region, according to a report in Iranian state-linked media.

The Tasnim news website, affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), quoted a Houthi military official as saying a “network of mercenaries” who were in contact with an intermediary linked with the United Arab Emirates were arrested in western Yemen.

The official said they were passing information on where the Houthis were trying to launch missiles and where their forces were located.

The Israeli military has released aerial footage that it says shows two Hezbollah operatives being identified moving near a “military structure” in the Yaron region while carrying weapons.

They were attacked by fighter jets shortly after, it said. It also claimed an attack on “terrorist infrastructure” in Kfar Kila, and said it hit a building in Leida, both in southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah claims rocket attack on Israeli military base

Multiple Palestinian groups are engaged in heavy fighting with Israeli forces across Gaza and in Lebanon and are announcing casualties.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) announced that one of its members was killed in southern Lebanon “while performing their combat duty”.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) said a fighter in its artillery unit was killed by an Israeli drone in a combat area.

Hezbollah, the armed Lebanese group, has also confirmed several of its members killed since yesterday.

The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, says it has fired the rockets in response to the killings of civilians in Gaza. Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that warning sirens had sounded in Beersheba in southern Israel’s Negev region.

Israeli forces have assaulted shepherds in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources cited by the Palestinian Wafa news agency.

Troops also attacked the home of a human rights activist near Hebron, threatening to detain her if she continues her activities, Wafa said. Soldiers also reportedly attacked livestock and demolished barns.

In the West Bank town of Nilin, west of Ramallah, soldiers detained a farmer and confiscated his tractor, the news agency reported.

At least 34,943 Palestinians have been killed and 78,572 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, its Health Ministry says. The ministry added that 39 people were killed and 58 injured in the latest 24-hour reporting period.

South Africa has asked the International Court of Justice to order additional emergency measures as Israel escalates its assault on Rafah in southern Gaza.

Israel’s attack on Rafah “and the extreme risk it poses to humanitarian supplies and basic services into Gaza, to the survival of the Palestinian medical system, and to the very survival of Palestinians in Gaza as a group, is not only an escalation of the prevailing situation”, South Africa said.

It also “gives rise to new facts that are causing irreparable harm to the rights of the Palestinian people in Gaza”.

South Africa brought a case against Israel to the ICJ in January, accusing the country of committing “genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza.

The top UN court ruled there was a plausible risk of genocide in the enclave and ordered Israel to take a series of provisional measures, including preventing any genocidal acts from taking place.

PRESS RELEASE: South Africa submits an urgent request for the indication of additional provisional measures and the modification of previous provisional measures indicated by the #ICJ in the case #SouthAfrica v. #Israel https://t.co/Xixh0GhDAz pic.twitter.com/minw5GvpMK

— CIJ_ICJ (@CIJ_ICJ) May 10, 2024

Libya intervenes in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at ICJ

Several Democrats in the US House of Representatives say they are “deeply concerned” by the Biden administration’s decision to pause a weapons shipment to Israel.

“With democracy under assault around the world, we cannot undermine our ally Israel, especially in her greatest hour of need. America’s commitments must always be ironclad,” the lawmakers said in a letter to US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.

The signatories include staunch pro-Israel lawmakers Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Ritchie Torres. Earlier this week, senior US officials said Washington had paused a shipment of “high payload munitions” to Israel amid concerns about its Rafah offensive.

The decision, which comes as President Biden faces growing domestic pressure over his unflinching support for Israel, set off fierce reactions among hardline, pro-Israel legislators in the US Congress.

You are the ones putting democracy under assault. There's nothing democratic about Israel nor the USA atm.





Biden backing down again, after earlier admitting US bombs killed civilians

US govt report will not say Israel violated law in Gaza: Reports

Not much choice really as the US has done the same in Fallujah, Iraq, and again assisted Iraqi troops decimating Mosul. As well as many other war crimes the USA has gotten away with over the last decades. International law has been a joke since 2001, and Leahy law is just for pretense, selectively applied.

It's up to the younger generations to keep applying pressure.

The Security Council members have expressed “deep concern” over reports that hundreds of bodies – including women, children and the elderly – were uncovered in mass graves in and around Gaza’s Nasser and al-Shifa Hospitals.

The UNSC members “underlined the need for accountability for violations of international law”.

They also called for investigators to have “unimpeded access to all locations of mass graves in Gaza to conduct immediate, independent, thorough, comprehensive, transparent and impartial investigations to establish the circumstances behind the graves”.

Earlier this week, a seventh mass grave in Gaza was uncovered at al-Shifa Hospital – the largest health facility in the enclave.

Palestinian authorities have been investigating allegations that Israeli forces killed patients and medical staff during a two-week raid on the complex.

UN team in Palestine condemns Israeli attack on office

The Biden administration says Israel’s use of US-provided weapons in Gaza likely violated international humanitarian law but wartime conditions prevented American officials from determining that for certain in specific air strikes.

The administration’s findings of “reasonable” evidence to conclude that Israel breached international law in its conduct in Gaza, released in a summary of a report being delivered to Congress, is the strongest such statement from Biden officials.

• “It is difficult to assess or reach conclusive findings on individual incidents” in Gaza.
• “Nevertheless, given Israel’s significant reliance on US-made defense articles, it is reasonable to assess” that US-provided weapons have been used by Israeli forces “in instances inconsistent with its IHL obligations or with established best practices for mitigating civilian harm”.
• US intelligence agencies have “no direct indication of Israel intentionally targeting civilians” but they have assessed that “Israel could do more to avoid civilian harm”.
• “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting the transport or delivery of US humanitarian assistance” within the parameters set by US law. “This is an ongoing assessment and we will continue to monitor and respond to any challenges to the delivery of aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza moving forward.”

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (EuroMed) says an investigation it conducted into the killing by the Israeli military of 12 members of a Palestinian family on December 4 as they tried to evacuate a Gaza City neighbourhood found that the drone strike was “without justification or necessity”.

The Geneva-based group said a video showed the aftermath of the two missiles fired from an Israeli drone that killed the family, mostly women and children. Its investigators visited the site and determined the victims were members of the Abu Al-Ain family and were civilians.

Three more Palestinians – a man, his child and an elderly woman – were wounded in the attack.

The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) says the southern crossings to the Gaza Strip, where the main flow of aid goes through the enclave, have seen nothing enter for three days.

Only one bakery is functioning in Rafah, a city where some 1.4 million Palestinians are displaced, and the Israeli military is advancing with a ground invasion.

“Without a reopening of access, WFP’s operations will go into standstill while families run out of food.”

Hamas wants a real captives-for-prisoners swap, but Netanyahu instead wants the war on Gaza to continue, senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya says.

“Hamas did not suspend nor withdraw from the [ceasefire] negotiations. The occupation [Israel] turned against the mediators’ proposal,” al-Hayya said in comments to Al Araby TV.

The Palestinian group said earlier efforts to agree to a Gaza truce are now “back at square one” after Israel effectively rejected a proposal by international mediators this week.

Gaza ceasefire ‘is possible’, White House spokesman says

Colombia’s leader Petro urges ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu

Hamish Young, senior emergency coordinator in Gaza for UNICEF, described the dire situation in Rafah.

“I have been working on large-scale humanitarian emergencies for the best part of the last 30 years and I’ve never been involved in a situation as devastating, complex or erratic as this,” he said.

According to Young, roads to al-Mawasi – the so-called “humanitarian zone” that Israel ordered people from Rafah to go to – are jammed with hundreds of trucks, buses, cars and donkey carts loaded with people and possessions.

“For five days, no fuel and virtually no humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip and we are scraping the bottom of the barrel,” he said. “Over 14,000 children have reportedly been killed already – a ground offensive in Rafah will undoubtedly result in this number increasing dramatically.”

The Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah could be completely shut down due to fuel shortages in the next 24 hours, staff at the medical complex in central Gaza warn.

The closure of crossings into Gaza since Israel started its assault on Rafah this week means fuel has not been delivered for days and life-saving medical care will not be available to Palestinians who need it.

William Lawrence, a professor at the American University in Washington, DC, said the US State Department’s report on whether Israel had violated international humanitarian law in its use of US weapons in Gaza was released late on Friday as Washington knew “it was not going to be received well”.

“When you actually read the report, I would say it is quite damning,” Lawrence told Al Jazeera. “What they do is make factual findings, of course with some anodyne language … But they make factual findings that Israel is violating international law. And then they don’t make the legal finding,” Lawrence said.

“Because, I think, politically the US government – which is already withholding 3,500 heavy bombs … they want it to be a political decision to withhold weapons, not a legal requirement to withhold weapons,” he said.

“I think that was a political decision of the White House and the State Department to deliberately fall short of requiring themselves to halt arms shipments, so they can use that as a carrot and stick politically with the Israelis,” he added.

“It is dissatisfying … but it’s unprecedented, the US criticising Israel in this way for violating international law.”

State Department report on Israeli arms ‘self-contradictory’: Expert

Silly, it's not Israel that violates International law, it's the civilians that get in the way of the bombs that do.

It's also not Israel that's restricting humanitarian aid, it's the UN's incompetence...

Israel blocks US food aid, setting up battle with Biden

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-aid-to-israel/

That was in Februari, should be in the scope of the report

Israel blocking more food than other aid in hunger-stalked Gaza: UN

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240409-israel-blocking-more-food-than-other-aid-in-hunger-stalked-gaza-un

That's a month ago.

But the US is fully complicit, so they can't say it

Israel and US accused of blocking Freedom Flotilla aid ships to Gaza

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24283350.israel-us-accused-blocking-freedom-flotilla-aid-ships-gaza/


US still trying to play both sides. The longer this goes on, the bigger chance Trump is going to win the elections. Maybe that's not so bad for the world, nobody trusts him anyway unlike forked tongue Biden. For the USA it will not go well. Neither for the Palestinians, Biden needs to right his sinking ship and fast.