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SvennoJ on 27 May 2024

Netanyahu’s ‘reckless pursuit’ of Hamas caused deaths of innocents: US lawmaker

Citing the attack on the tent camp in Rafah, which killed 45 people, US Congressman Eric Swalwell says, “The same tactics by the same leaders will only produce same or worse results”.

“Netanayhu’s [sic] reckless prosecution of Hamas has killed Israeli hostages, aid workers, and innocent Palestinians. And nothing changes,” the Democratic Party lawmaker said in a post on X.

Democratic US President Joe Biden has publicly opposed Israel’s offensive in Rafah, and his administration suspended one shipment of weapons to Israel over its concerns.

Yet, despite saying in early May that he would withhold more weapons if the country went ahead with a large-scale operation in Rafah, Biden has largely backed away from using such leverage even as Israeli leaders rejected Washington’s warnings.



How many more 'tragic mistakes' before Biden grows a pair. Genocide Joe, butcher of children.

US lawmaker Ocasio-Cortez calls Rafah strike an ‘indefensible atrocity’

Prominent Democratic party lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called an Israeli strike that killed at least 45 people in Rafah “an indefensible atrocity”.

She added in a post on X that the strike on the city in southern Gaza was carried out in “open defiance” of the White House and the International Court of Justice. “It is long past time for the President to live up to his word and suspend military aid,” she said.




Rafah camp attack shows US has no ‘red line’ for Israel’s slaughter in Gaza

Mouin Rabbani, a non-resident fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies in Doha, Qatar, said that in contrast to previous attacks by Israeli forces on Palestinian civilians, Isreal claims now that it is investigating the Rafah camp attack that killed 45 people.

“Quite clearly, what’s called the ‘diplomatic tsunami’ – the recent ruling by the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court’s applications for arrest warrants, and so on – are gradually beginning to have an effect,” Rabbani told Al Jazeera.

“At the same time, when we look at the broader international situation, what we’ve learned is that US President Joe Biden’s “red line” [in Gaza] is actually a river of Palestinian blood. And senior US officials are quite happy to swim in it,” Rabbani said.

“As far as the Europeans are concerned, we’ve seen quite extensive condemnation of this attack,” he said. “But eight months into this brutal, genocidal campaign, I think simply making statements becomes entirely meaningless when this is not paired with concrete actions to bring such acts – that are taking place on an almost daily basis – to a definitive end,” he added.

“I think one objective of this attack was to demonstrate that the US actually does not have a red line.”



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SvennoJ on 27 May 2024

Demonstrators take to streets in northern UK city

Hundreds of demonstrators, if not thousands, have marched in Manchester following the attack on a tent camp in Rafah yesterday.

Protesters carried banners that read “Stop Arming Israel” and “Ceasefire Now”, footage shared online showed, as they shouted slogans calling for the end of the occupation of Palestinian territory.


Pro-Palestine rallies across the world after Rafah attack

Pro-Palestine demonstrations were held in cities across the world – from the US, to Europe, the Middle East and North Africa – on Monday, after an Israeli strike on a tent camp in the city of Rafah, southern Gaza killed at least 45 people on Sunday.


Demonstrators take part in a protest in New York City in the US on May 27

She's referring to my birth country's bloody colonial past, when Manhattan was still New Amsterdam
https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/dutch-american-stories-mass-murder-on-manhattan

It's an apt comparison. 381 years later, still the same crap. History repeating. And The Netherlands still supports Israel's 'colonialism'.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-anti-muslim-pro-israel-far-right-now-runs-holland-is-the-european-parliament-next/


A person sits on the ground during a pro-Palestinian protest in central Paris, France


People stand near a giant Palestinian flag as they march outside an EU office at Passeig de Gracia, in Barcelona, Spain


Demonstrators carry Palestinian flags during a protest in Tunis, Tunisia


Demonstrators gather during a protest outside the al-Kalouti Mosque near the Israeli Embassy in Amman, Jordan


Pro-Palestinian demonstrators rally in Westlake Park in the city of Seattle in the US



SvennoJ on 27 May 2024

Family displaced for eighth time in Gaza

The Salman family wants the world to know they’ve been displaced eight times since Israel’s war on Gaza began.

As they packed up what’s left of their charred belongings following Israel’s latest attack on Rafah, they compared the military assistance given to Israel with the meagre food aid provided to Palestinians and asked if they’ll ever have anywhere safe to live again.

 

Palestinians continue to flee Rafah through the night

A video posted on Instagram by Palestinian journalists shows groups of people leaving their place of shelter in Rafah amid intense clashes and bombing in the city under cover of darkness.

The journalists say this footage, which has been verified by Al Jazeera, was taken after midnight local time (21:00 GMT).

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7fO2IftwJx/

Civil Defence reports Israeli attack on Gaza City

The organisation says via a statement on its official Telegram channel that its crews are searching through rubble for survivors after the Israeli army attacked the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City, in the northern Strip.

The statement adds that the strike was on a home belonging to the al-Ghussein family.

A video shared by the group shows its crews and other volunteers crouching in piles of rubble, shouting into the ground to try to contact survivors of the attack.

 

Staff at Rafah’s Kuwaiti Hospital evacuating patients under Israeli fire: Surgeon

We’ve been covering the closure of Rafah’s main medical facility, the Kuwait Specialist Hospital, following an Israeli attack that killed two of its staff members.

Dr Mohammed Tahir, an orthopaedic surgeon, who just returned to the United Kingdom after volunteering in Rafah, described the situation at the hospital..

“I’ve [just] got off the phone to some of my colleagues who I worked with [in Gaza] and they are experiencing artillery fire and quadcopters attacking very nearby. They are in fear for their lives,” Tahir told Al Jazeera.

“It’s a dire situation. This is in Tal as-Sultan, which is in the west of Rafah. This is an area which has not been evacuated and yet there is very fierce, very fierce attacks happening as we speak,” Tahir said.

“The Kuwaiti hospital was evacuated, that is the main hospital and they are moving to al-Mawasi, where they have a field hospital, which is not quite ready. And in the meantime, quadcopters […] are restricting the movements of ambulances. So those that are injured cannot even receive help,” he said.

“The international community needs to do more. We need to allow for medical personnel to enter Gaza. We need to allow medical provisions to enter Gaza. All these hospitals are experiencing diminishing supplies of very critical medicines and also fuel to run […] so the situation is terrible there and I urge the international community to please act.”


It's been a long time since CNN has been this attentive to Gaza. At least this massacre isn't going unnoticed by the mainstream press.
(Most days it's one or no results about Gaza)

https://www.cnn.com/search?q=Gaza+hamas+war&from=0&size=10&page=1&sort=newest&types=all&section=




SvennoJ on 27 May 2024

How the media reacted to the tent massacre





Warning graphic scenes




How Did the World React To Israel's Attack On Rafah Tent Camp



KratosLives on 28 May 2024

Netanyahu is on par with adolph. If there was no mainstream media, he would have no issue wiping out all of palestine. Guy has no conscience, Palestinian lives don't matter, obviously.



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SvennoJ on 28 May 2024

Hundreds of Palestinians at risk of dying as Al-Aqsa Hospital runs out of fuel

Some 200 trucks, including four fuel trucks, are supposed to have entered the Gaza Strip [on Sunday]. But till this point, nothing has entered the Gaza Strip. We’ve been trying all day to follow up to see what happened to these trucks, and there’s no confirmed reports that they made it inside.

In the meantime, we’ve just spoken to the health officials here at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah and they said they have not received any fuel so far, and that they are going to witness a very catastrophic situation if this continues. They have to receive fuel as soon as possible.

I’m at the entrance of the hospital and many patients are receiving their treatment outside, because the weather is so hot and the hospital is overwhelmed with patients. People here say it’s suffocating inside the hospital.

A lot of Palestinians rely on this hospital. If the hospital does not receive any fuel in the next 24 hours, hundreds of patients are going to be at risk of death.

Seven Palestinians killed as Israel continues attacks on Rafah

We’ve been following an Israeli attack on a house in the al-Hashashin area in Rafah. Local sources are reporting that at least seven people were killed and six more wounded in that bombing.

A Palestinian man who witnessed the attack told Al Jazeera: “It is a safe zone that is crawling with tents and displaced people. Suddenly, a missile fell on the residence, which was built using some blocks and metal tubing. We saw people out in the street, displaced people and citizens. There were no combatants or anything. It was a safe zone!”

The latest attack comes just 24 hours after the widely condemned Israeli assault that killed at least 45 Palestinians at a tent camp for displaced people in Rafah.


Another hospital hit as Israel continues to pound Rafah

More on Israel’s ongoing attacks on the Tal as-Sultan area in western Rafah.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that the Indonesian Field Hospital in the area has been hit as Israel continues to pound western Rafah. The attack caused damage to the hospital’s upper floors.

AJA correspondents also say medical staff and patients are trapped inside the facility as well as in the Tal as-Sultan clinic because of the intense attacks. Many Palestinian families have also taken shelter there.

Ambulances are also facing difficulties reaching the wounded due to the bombings.

The Indonesian Field Hospital is the latest medical facility in Rafah to come under attack. Earlier, we reported that the Kuwait Speciality Hospital has been forced to shut down after an Israeli attack just outside the building’s gate killed two medical staff and wounded many more.

Tal as-Sultan is the same area in Rafah where a tent camp for displaced Palestinians was attacked by Israel, leaving 45 dead, many of them women and children.


Seven killed in new Israeli attacks on tents in Rafah

More on Israel’s onslaught on Tal as-Sultan, west of Rafah.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that at least seven Palestinians were killed after Israeli forces shelled tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in the area. AJA also said that Israeli attacks caused a fire at an apartment building in the neighbourhood.

Earlier, we reported that an Israeli air raid on the al-Hashashin area, north of Rafah, killed another seven people.

No red lines, US and Europe only keep stalling.

More on Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip

  • Air raids on the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, which killed at least two people
  • Artillery shelling in central Gaza, including the city of Deir el-Balah, and areas east of Bureij refugee camp, north of the Nuseirat camp and east of the Maghazi camp
  • Bombing of a home in the Daraj neighbourhood in northern Gaza City, which killed at least two people
  • Artillery shelling in the al-Mughraqa and az-Zahra neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Gaza City.

Three Hamas battalions defending Jabalia refugee camp: War monitors

Three Hamas battalions are fighting to defend the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza and not just one battalion that Israel’s military planners had believed was operating in the area, war monitors report.

US-based think tanks the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) said Israeli forces now realise that three battalions are participating in the defence of Jabalia some two weeks into Israel’s current “re-clearing” operation in the north of Gaza, which began in mid-May.

Members of Israel’s war cabinet had previously declared “repeatedly” that all of Hamas’s 12 battalions in Gaza City and the north of the territory had been “dismantled”, the latest ISW/CTP joint battlefield report notes.

That Israel’s military now needs to “re-dismantle” Hamas battalions that have reconstituted their forces in Jabalia underscores the lack of a thought-out “sustainable political and military end state in the Gaza Strip”, the war monitors add.

Israel’s chief of staff Herzi Halevi has previously described such re-clearing operations as a “Sisyphean task”, the ISW/CTP add.

Palestinians killed, wounded near Jabalia in northern Gaza

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting strikes in the al-Faluja area, west of Jabalia camp, that have killed and wounded Palestinians. Al-Faluja has been repeatedly targeted in recent weeks as Israeli forces intensify ground and air attacks on the nearby Jabalia camp.

Israeli tanks reach Rafah city centre: Report

Israeli tanks have reached the Rafah city centre, Reuters news agency reports, quoting witnesses on the ground. The Israeli army has been carrying out a large operation in the southern Gaza city despite international warnings and an ICJ ruling for it to stop the offensive.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced as a result of the operation.


Three people killed in western Rafah

The Palestine Red Crescent Society says its rescue workers have found the bodies of three people killed in western Rafah and have transported several injured people for medical treatment.



SvennoJ on 28 May 2024

Japan tells Israel ICJ order to halt Rafah attack ‘legally binding’, must be observed

Japan’s Foreign Minister Kamikawa Yoko told her Israeli counterpart that Tokyo wants to see an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza and that rulings by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) are binding under international law and must “be observed in good faith”.

In a phone call with Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz, Yoko also said that “humanitarian assistance activities” in Gaza “should not be impeded” and that Tokyo wants to see a “conducive environment for humanitarian assistance”, including “making use of the Rafah crossing”.

“Both sides concurred to continue close communication,” Japan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement following the call on Monday.

The ICJ last week ordered Israel to halt its offensive in Rafah in a case brought by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide, and warning of “immense risk” to the Palestinian population from the ground invasion of the city in southern Gaza, which was earlier declared a “safe zone” by Israeli forces.

Nine Israelis arrested in Haifa protest against Rafah assault

Nine demonstrators were arrested on Monday night in the Israeli city of Haifa during a protest held to oppose Sunday’s deadly attack on Rafah in southern Gaza and calling for an end to the war.

Footage of the protests, verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit Sanad, shows dozens of demonstrators at the site, holding signs saying “Palestine Lives Matter” and “Hands off Rafah”.

Two of the arrested demonstrators were released, while two more are expected to be released overnight.

EU ministers discuss sanctions on Israel: Report

The European Union has for the first time discussed placing sanctions on Israel over its war on Gaza, Ireland’s Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said.

Martin said the imposition of EU sanctions was discussed as a possible measure to be taken if Israel does not comply with the ICJ’s ruling to halt its attack on Rafah, according to a report by Irish public broadcaster RTE.

Ireland would support sanctions, Martin suggested, according to the RTE.

“Certainly, if compliance isn’t forthcoming, then we have to consider all options,” Martin said, adding that it was the first time he had witnessed EU ministers hold “a significant discussion on sanctions”.

“Mr Martin said a number of foreign ministers had also raised the prospect of sanctions against Israeli officials who were aiding and abetting violent West Bank settlers,” RTE also reported.

Seems pretty fucking clear they are not complying. How much longer are they going to stall.



SvennoJ on 28 May 2024

UN aid chief slams Netanyahu’s claim of mistake in Rafah

Martin Griffiths has responded to Netanyahu’s claim that Israel’s deadly attack on displaced Palestinians in Rafah was the result of a “tragic mistake”.

“Whether the attack was a war crime or a ‘tragic mistake’, for the people of Gaza, there is no debate. What happened last night was the latest – and possibly most cruel – abomination,” Griffiths said in a statement.

“To call it ‘a mistake’ is a message that means nothing for those killed, those grieving, and those trying to save lives.”



Bodies of father, child killed in Rafah attack ‘burned and charred’, could not be separated

Javed Ali, the director of emergency response in Gaza for International Medical Corps, described the horrific scenes as the dying and wounded were brought for treatment following the Israeli attack on a tent camp for civilians sheltering in Rafah that killed 45 people.

“With this loud air strike that we heard, we just rushed to the hospital and in about five minutes or so after arrival we started seeing ambulances coming in. I think in total we had about 75 patients. Out of those 75, 25 were really critical,” Ali said in a video interview.

“I saw the dead body of a father who was basically holding his child perhaps around three years of age. They were burned and charred. We couldn’t separate them. So we had to put both of them together in a body bag,” he said.

“That was very, very hard.”

Colombian president says ‘powerful democracies’ compromised, unable to oppose Israel

Gustavo Petro said in a post on social media that “so-called powerful” democratic countries were unable to oppose Israel’s war on Gaza because “many owners of banks and capital funds belong to people who support the massacre”.

Petro said the inaction of such states “endangers not only the existence of the Palestinian people but the very existence of democracy and humanity”.

“Power in geopolitics today is nothing more than accumulated money and war planes,” he said, “hopefully tomorrow, it will be accumulated life”.

Colombia’s leader has been an outspoken critic of Israel and its war on Gaza, ordering last week that a Colombian embassy be opened in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank following the announcement that Bogota would sever diplomatic ties with Israel.

 

More than 1 million displaced in 20 days as fighting rages across Gaza

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that more than one million people have been displaced in the south and north of the Gaza Strip since May 6.

Heavy fighting is taking place in the Jabalia refugee camp south of Gaza City in the north of the Palestinian territory, as well as in the north of the Nuseirat area in central Gaza, and eastern Deir el-Balah, also in the central area, and in eastern and central areas of Rafah in Gaza’s south.

Due to Israel’s enforced closure of Gaza’s borders, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) reports that its health centres have not received medical supplies in 12 days, particularly affecting stocks of antibiotics for children and antiepileptic drugs, OCHA says in its latest situation report.

“Over five per cent of Gaza’s population has been either killed, injured, or is missing. At least 3,000 women are estimated to be widowed, 10,000 children orphaned, 17,000 children left unaccompanied or separated, and more than one million people have lost their homes,” OCHA states.

 

OIC tells UNSC to ‘assume responsibilities’ after Rafah ‘massacre’

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has described Israel’s deadly attack on a tent camp for displaced people in Rafah as a “heinous massacre”, which it considers an act of “state-organised terrorism”.

The OIC – the world’s second largest intergovernmental body after the UN – said those responsible for the “war crime” attack on the camp in Rafah must be held to account and face international criminal law.

“The Secretary-General held the Israeli occupation accountable for the consequences of its crimes, terrorist practices, and brutal attacks against the Palestinian people, which are inconsistent with all human values,” OIC, representing 57 member states, said in a statement.

“The OIC renewed its call on the international community, especially the UN Security Council, to assume its responsibilities in compelling Israel, to implement the orders of the International Court of Justice to stop this Israeli aggression immediately,” it said.



SvennoJ on 28 May 2024

Spain, Ireland, Norway to recognise Palestinian state today

The three European nations are set to formally recognise a Palestinian state later today, joining 144 other countries that have already done so. Ireland’s cabinet is expected to affirm the decision after several hours of debate this morning in parliament.

Speaking yesterday, Ireland’s Prime Minister Simon Harris said: “We believe in the state of Israel and in the state of Palestine, living side by side in peace and stability. And we believe it at a time when others are seeking to bomb that hope to oblivion.”


Spanish PM: Palestinian state ‘only route to peace’

PM Pedro Sanchez has been speaking at the Moncloa Palace on the country’s recognition of a Palestinian state. “The recognition of the state of Palestine is not only a matter of historical justice, but we are all aiming at establishing peace,” he said.

“The only route towards establishing peace is the establishment of a Palestinian state, living side by side with the state of Israel.”

Spain envisions unified Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as capital

Continuing his remarks, Spain’s PM Sanchez emphasised the country’s vision for a unified and geographically connected Palestine.

“The state of Palestine must be viable, with the West Bank and Gaza connected by a corridor and with East Jerusalem as its capital,” said Sanchez. “It must be unified under the legitimate government of the Palestine national authority.”

He added that Spain’s recognition of Palestine should not compromise its relationship with Israel, which it considers a “friendly nation” and wants to “foster the strongest possible relationship”.

He also said Spain continues to reject Hamas, which it deems a “terrorist organisation”.

Sanchez says Palestine recognition a ‘decision for peace’

It’s a momentous and symbolic day. The symbolism is not lost on the Israelis, who have reacted with great unhappiness at the way that Spain, Norway and Ireland have announced their recognition of a Palestinian state.

In his speech, Spain’s PM Sanchez was absolutely adamant that the decision is aligned with UN resolutions, as adopted by EU member states. So the impression in some quarters that Spain, Ireland and Norway are somehow doing it alone is not borne out by the reality.

Sanchez was also adamant that the decision is not “against anybody”. Israel has been complaining bitterly that this is an anti-Israel policy … Sanchez said that is absolutely not the case. He says this is a decision for peace and hopes it will push forward the idea of a ceasefire and release of captives.

Sanchez condemned the October 7 attacks but said what Spain, Ireland and Norway are doing is, in his belief, the only way forward to get a two-state solution and make it survive.

 

Ireland’s decision to recognise Palestine both ‘political and symbolic’

Over the next couple of hours, we’ll have a cabinet meeting involving the taoiseach (the prime minister of Ireland), along with his foreign minister and the deputy prime minister.

The deputy PM will be talking about why they’ve taken this decision to recognise Palestinian statehood and how this comports with Ireland’s position when it comes to Palestinian rights over many, many decades.

Later on this afternoon, inside Ireland’s parliament, there’ll be a several hours-long debate about this issue, offering individual politicians their chance to express their positions and why they think this is important.

Simon Harris, the taoiseach, will make it very clear that he sees this as both a political and a symbolic decision the Irish government has made.

 

Recognition gives hope to Palestinians

The vast majority of the Palestinians across the occupied West Bank say they are optimistic and welcoming about the decision by Ireland, Norway and Spain to recognise the state of Palestine.

That is really seen here as a show of support to Palestinians and as a show of defiance against Israel. They hope that more states will follow. The feeling here among Palestinians is that people around the world now see what Israel is doing to the Palestinians.

They were also able to see the nitty-gritty of the occupation such as illegal Israeli settlements, arrests and military occupation that is controlling each and every aspect of Palestinians’ lives.

Palestinians are now more hopeful as they feel, with the media coverage, worldwide protests and the exposure of what is happening to Palestinians on social media despite bans, the world moving to take some action, after not paying attention to Palestine for so long.

Palestinians fear violent Israeli response to statehood recognition

There are some people here in Gaza who see this recognition as a very significant move, eventually putting more pressure on Israel to end the war. But the vast majority of displaced Palestinians are just busy trying to find basic necessities – food, water and medical care.

There is also worry, particularly among Palestinians traumatised by the constant displacement, that Israel’s military will retaliate against the recognitions by attacking more civilians in Gaza.

This is because every time something happens at the international level, we see a surge in attacks here. So the fear right now is real, the panic is real.

 



SvennoJ on 28 May 2024

UK adds nothing meaningful again, keeps supplying arms to Israel

UK says Israel’s army must launch swift probe into Rafah air raid

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron says an investigation by the Israeli military into the Rafah air strikes that killed dozens of displaced people on Sunday night must be “swift, comprehensive and transparent”.

“Deeply distressing scenes following the air strikes in Rafah this weekend. The [Israeli military’s] investigation must be swift, comprehensive and transparent,” Cameron said on X.

“We urgently need a deal to get hostages out and aid in, with a pause in fighting to allow work towards a long-term sustainable ceasefire.”

Britain supplied 42 million pounds ($53m) of arms to Israel in 2022. Last month, Cameron said arms sales to Israel by British companies will not stop after he said he reviewed the latest legal advice on the matter.

 

Mossad chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over 2021 war crimes inquiry: Report

The Guardian newspaper reports that Yossi Cohen, former head of Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, allegedly threatened a chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and tried to pressure her into abandoning a 2021 war crimes investigation.

Cohen held secret meetings with the ICC’s then-Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda in the years before her decision to open a formal investigation into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in the occupied Palestinian territory, the daily reported.

Citing four unnamed sources, The Guardian reported Bensouda had briefed a small group of senior ICC officials about Cohen’s attempts to persuade her and was concerned about the “persistent and threatening nature of his behaviour”.

Three of those sources were familiar with Bensouda’s formal disclosures to the ICC. According to them, she said Cohen had pressured her on several occasions not to proceed with the criminal investigation. “You should help us and let us take care of you. You don’t want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family,” he allegedly told her.

One source likened Cohen’s behaviour to “stalking”.

Multiple Israeli intelligence agencies ran a covert “war” against the ICC for almost a decade, The Guardian reported.


Israeli weapons firm sees boost in profit

Elbit Systems, one of Israel’s biggest defence contractors, has tracked an 11.5 percent increase in first-quarter revenue year-on-year as Israel’s military demands more products for its war on Gaza.

Elbit supplies weapons and equipment to Israel’s Defence Ministry, including simulators, drones, artillery, munitions and high-powered lasers, CEO Bezhalel Machlis said.

In addition to increased profits from Israel’s Defence Ministry, the fact that Elbit’s systems are “in operational use” in Israel is driving demand from international customers, Machlis said. Consequently, the company expects to reach its revenue goals earlier than anticipated, he said.