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SvennoJ on 02 June 2024

‘Gaza is witnessing the worst of the worst levels of malnutrition’

Save the Children’s Alexandra Saieh says aid organisations fear the situation in Gaza may worsen. “Gaza is witnessing the worst of the worst levels of malnutrition, especially child malnutrition, and it’s entirely man-made,” Saieh told Al Jazeera.

“Children in Gaza are being starved, they are being deprived of clean water and they are being deprived of adequate medical assistance. And this is all being fuelled by the systematic obstruction of humanitarian aid and the ongoing hostility. A medical point in Tal as-Sultan [Rafah], which was addressing malnutrition, had to close this past week due to [Israeli] attacks in the area.”

Of the 36,000 Palestinians killed by Israel since October 7, 15,000 are children.

Saieh said there might be “an acceleration of deaths due to malnutrition, starvation, disease and dehydration, possibly even higher than what we are already seeing, which is just the tip of the iceberg”.

“We actually fear that the situation is much worse. Back in March, the UN warned of a famine, and we have not as humanitarian organisations been given the access to stave off that famine.”


A Palestinian child suffering from malnutrition receives treatment with limited facilities at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Saturday

1,858 aid trucks entered Gaza over past week, says Israel

In its weekly summary, the Israeli army said 1,858 trucks carrying humanitarian aid had entered the Gaza Strip via the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) and Western Erez crossings.

The numbers included 764 Egyptian trucks, 312 flour trucks by the World Food Programme and 124 Jordanian trucks.

Thirteen tankers also carried “over half a million litres of fuel” into the besieged enclave.


Yet even if true, it's clearly not getting anywhere. Where are these trucks, and why are they not reporting amounts (tons) anymore.
And half a million liters, that fills up 1,600 trucks or 5 days of critical functions in hospitals if it can be delivered at all.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/at-least-94-000-liters-of-fuel-needed-daily-to-keep-critical-functions-running-at-major-gaza-hospitals-who/3034513

Humanitarian crisis worsens as Israel continues to curb aid deliveries to Gaza

  • Hundreds of aid trucks are stuck in Egypt with food supplies rotting for weeks after Israel took control of the crucial Rafah crossing last month.
  • Pressure is mounting on Israel and Egypt to reopen the crossing, which connects Gaza to Egypt, to allow aid deliveries. Officials from Egypt, the US and Israel are set to meet in Cairo to address the issue.
  • The US built a $320m floating pier to deliver aid but it was washed away within weeks. The US, Jordan and several other countries also dropped aid by planes amid the unprecedented hunger situation in the Palestinian enclave.
  • Even before Israel took control of Rafah, the number of aid trucks entering Gaza was way below the requirement. The UN says at least 500 to 600 trucks are required daily to feed millions of people on the brink of starvation. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a global hunger monitor, has warned of an imminent famine in parts of Gaza, home to 2.3 million people.
  • Another crossing that Israel controls, Karem Abu Salem (known as Kerem Shalom in Israel), remains functionally closed, according to aid workers from multiple aid organisations.
  • A daily average of just eight aid trucks enter Gaza through Karem Abu Salem since it reopened on May 8.
  • Empty trucks from Gaza en route to load aid at Karem Abu Salem often wait for hours behind commercial trucks carrying goods to sell in Gaza, which officials say number more than 100 or 200 per day, according to The New York Times newspaper.
Cogat seems to be lying out of their ass. It's not aid trucks that enter, commercial trucks get through to fleece money from the desperate population.


Children suffering from malnutrition receive limited healthcare at Deir el-Balah hospital



An injured Palestinian baby suffering from malnutrition receives treatment with limited facilities at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah in Gaza on June 1, 2024. Aid groups say the risk of Palestinian children dying from malnutrition and thirst in the Gaza Strip has increased due to the relentless Israeli bombardment for the past eight months and curbs on humanitarian aid.


Amira al-Jojo holds her 10-month-old son Yousef, who suffers from malnutrition, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, where he is undergoing treatment


Gaza is witnessing the worst levels of malnutrition, according to Save the Children’s Alexandra Saieh

‘Nowhere near enough’ resources in Gaza, says Norwegian Refugee Council

Ahmed Bayram, spokesperson for the Norwegian Refugee Council, says they haven’t had “any supplies” make it through the crossings into Gaza for the past month.

“We’re relying on our ever-depleting resources on the ground. It’s nowhere near enough, [we] had big promises of more aid, for safety of our aid workers which my team in Gaza describe as a big fallacy,” Bayram told Al Jazeera.

“The closure of the nine possible potential crossings is a catastrophe … We hear on a daily basis from our teams that children are sleeping on the sands because there are no tents left, they are drinking unsafe water all day long and they are eating very very little,” he said.



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SvennoJ on 02 June 2024

If Hamas agrees to US truce proposal, Israel will say ‘yes’: White House

White House national security spokesperson John Kirby says if Hamas agrees to President Joe Biden’s ceasefire proposal to end the war, the US expects Israel to also accept the plan.

“This was an Israeli proposal. We have every expectation that if Hamas agrees to the proposal – as was transmitted to them, an Israeli proposal – then Israel would say yes,” Kirby said in an interview on the ABC News programme This Week.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a day earlier that its military goal had remained unchanged and that the end of the war would not occur until Hamas had been “destroyed”.

Israel didn't last time.

Netanyahu, war council approve US ceasefire proposal but war goals remain: Report

An Israeli official tells US news outlet CBS that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet have approved US President Joe Biden’s ceasefire proposal and are awaiting Hamas’s response.

The official maintained that Netanyahu would not agree to a permanent ceasefire without fulfilling Israel’s war goals, including returning all Israeli captives held in Gaza and the “destruction” of Hamas and its capabilities.

So they only agree to Phase 1...


Biden needs to see a ‘temporary pause’ in the war

What we are seeing is the White House putting its foot down.

All that stuff about Hamas’s future, whether there seem to be divergent noises from Netanyahu, is one thing, but in the end, this is all about what Biden needs right now, and he needs, sometime in the near future, some kind of temporary pause.

That is what the Israelis have agreed to; a six-week pause, which will then be rolled over as negotiations continue into, for example, the future of Hamas. So that’s what they’re pushing for. That’s been agreed upon, but that’s why there’s still room for that debate about future phases.

But who knows about phase two, phase three, Biden may not be in office. But all the White House is concerned about is that phase one, a six-week temporary pause that can be renewed.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. Hamas only has the hostages as a bargaining chip and wants an end to the war. Without guarantees of a permanent ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal I don't see it happening.



Gallant comes with a West Bank plan.

Israel working to replace Hamas’s rule in Gaza: Gallant

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says Israel is working on finding a government to replace Hamas’s rule in Gaza, as Israeli officials debate post-war plans, The Times of Israel reports.

“In any process of ending the war, we will not accept the rule of Hamas. We are advancing an alternative government to Hamas, within the framework of which we will isolate areas, remove the Hamas members and bring in other forces that will enable a different government,” Gallant said following an assessment at the Southern Command in Beersheba.

“On one hand, military action, and on the other, the ability to change the government, will lead to the achievement of two of the goals of this war: the dismantling of the Hamas government and its military power, and the return of the hostages.”

Last month, Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issue a post-war plan by June 8, threatening to quit the coalition government if no such plan is formulated.

Basically continue occupation with PA type government installed by Israel in local pockets. It's not working in the West Bank, not going to work in Gaza. The idea of militarily eradicating Hamas is a dead end.



Egypt reiterates Israel’s withdrawal from Rafah crossing after meeting: Report

Egypt has stuck to its position that Israel must withdraw from the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing for it to operate again after a meeting between US, Israeli and Egyptian officials concluded in Cairo, two Egyptian security sources told the Reuters news agency.

The security sources said the meeting was positive despite there being no agreement on the reopening of the crossing.

The Egyptian delegation said at the meeting that it would be open to European monitors at the border to oversee its operation by Palestinian authorities if they agreed to resume work.

Egyptian sources added that Israeli and US officials would work quickly to remove the obstacles to the crossing’s operation.



SvennoJ on 02 June 2024

And of course, the West Bank is still left out of all the talks


Israeli forces storm West Bank city of Tubas

Israeli forces have raided the occupied West Bank city of Tubas, according to local sources.

Heavy gunfire was heard after a number of army vehicles and military bulldozers stormed the city, according to footage on social media that was verified by Al Jazeera.

Local sources reported that Israeli forces stormed Tubas from its southern entrance, with a number of military patrols departing from the Atuf Gate, passing through the town of Tammun.

Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in Ramallah

Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian citizens near the Rawabi town roundabout, north of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Security sources told the agency that a group of settlers hurled stones at Palestinian vehicles near the roundabout, causing damage to one car.

Israeli forces begin raids across the occupied West Bank

Israeli soldiers have stormed the villages of Hajjah, Jayyous and Azzun in the Qalaqalia Governorate of the occupied West Bank, local sources are reporting.

Additionally, armed confrontations between soldiers and local Palestinian fighters were reported during a raid on the town of Tammoun, near the city of Jenin.



SvennoJ on 02 June 2024

Settlers set fire to West Bank area of Duma

Israeli settlers have set fire to an area called Duma, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa.

“Settlers, under the protection of the [Israeli] occupation forces, set fire to the village lands from the southern side, which led to their spread in olive fields and crops,” the head of the Duma village council, Suleiman Dawabsha, told Wafa.

Dawabsha said the fire will lead to a lot of damage and huge losses, as Israeli forces prevent the Palestinian Civil Defence from reaching the area.


Israeli forces conduct more raids on occupied West Bank

Al Jazeera’s correspondent reports that large groups of Israeli soldiers have stormed the city of Nablus from its eastern entrance, and have also stormed the town of Husan, close to Bethlehem.

In Husan, our correspondent says that soldiers have launched an arrest campaign.

Casualties following Israeli air attack near Syria’s Aleppo: Report

Syrian state media report that several people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on sites in the vicinity of the northern city of Aleppo.

 

Six children and women killed in Israeli strike on Bureij refugee camp

An Israeli strike has killed six children and women in Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, the Wafa news agency is reporting.

The bodies of six children and women killed in the attack were taken to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, health sources told Wafa, while rescuers were still searching the rubble for survivors after the strike, which hit the home of the Aqal family home after midnight on Monday.

The Bureij refugee camp is approximately two kilometres (1.24 miles) from the Nuseirat refugee camp, where an earlier Israeli strike killed four people.



Thousands march in New York City in support of Israel, captives

Large crowds came out in New York for the annual Israel Day parade to show support for the country as it continues to be the focus of ire worldwide for its war on Gaza, which has killed at least 36,439 Palestinians over its seven-month duration.

Marchers chanted for the release of Israeli captives held in Gaza as they moved through the city under heightened security measures.

The attendees included Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who made headlines in mid-March when he called for early elections in Israel to replace the government of Benjamin Netanyahu.



SvennoJ on 02 June 2024

Overnight Israeli air raids target Rafah, Khan Younis

Overnight Israeli attacks have targeted Rafah and Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting.

Israeli air raids were reported in:

  • Rafah’s western Saudi neighbourhood
  • The Oreiba area, north of Rafah
  • Areas in the vicinity of the European Hospital in Khan Younis

 

Nothing left to sustain human life as Israeli forces turn North Gaza into wasteland

People who are able to get back to North Gaza are describing a very dire situation there right now. There’s nothing left for them to sustain life. We are talking about an area that was quite densely populated with all the necessary needs of life turning into a wasteland.

Israeli forces have destroyed water wells, public facilities and infrastructure, while health facilities are now completely out of service. Whatever is remaining of these health facilities is nothing more than a skeleton, nothing more than a morgue to receive bodies that are collected from the streets or removed from under the rubble.

Maybe the hardest part of what we’ve seen from the north are the bodies that have been removed from under the rubble – many of them completely decomposed, skeletons and skulls of the children, women and elderly.

The paramedics and Civil Defence crew members initially found it very difficult to reach these sites. But they have been able to now and have collected at least 70 of these bodies, although the lack of equipment is making their job quite difficult. More effort is still needed, more time is needed to clear the rubble and remove more bodies, especially with reports of entire families that have gone missing.

Israeli forces raid Nablus, settlers storm Joseph’s Tomb

Israeli forces have raided Nablus city in the occupied West Bank, reportedly accompanying dozens of Israeli settlers to the shrine known as Joseph’s Tomb, the Wafa news agency reports.

Israeli snipers were stationed on top of buildings near the shrine as an Israeli military bulldozer dug up a nearby road to create a barrier, Wafa reported.

The raid comes after dozens of Israelis again stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam’s third-holiest site, last week.

Joseph’s Tomb, also known as Yusuf’s Tomb, is a significant site to followers of the Abrahamic faiths, including Christians, Jews, Muslims and Samaritans.



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SvennoJ on 02 June 2024

Work commission finds Australian journalist who shared Gaza starvation report was fired

The Australian Fair Work Commission has dismissed the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s claim that journalist Antoinette Lattouf was not “terminated” from her employment following the sharing of information on Israel’s war on Gaza.

Lattouf’s short-term contract with ABC was cut short in December, after she shared a Human Rights Watch report alleging the Israeli government was deliberately starving Palestinians in Gaza.

The 50-page ruling by the commission dismissed the ABC’s claim that Lattouf’s “unlawful termination” case was not in the commission’s jurisdiction, though it did not consider the reasons Lattouf was terminated.

Her case can now proceed to the Federal Court, Lattouf’s lawyer Josh Bornstein said in a post on X.

The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), an organisation which represents Australian journalists, described the decision as “an important outcome for the right of journalists to do their jobs [without fear or favour]”.

On Sunday, Lattouf shared a post on X: “Palestinian children are being deliberately starved to death by Australia’s ally. I will keep saying it”.

Photos: Thousands rally in New York in support of Israel, call for return of captives





Is it my imagination or are nearly all of these pro-Israel supporters white people

Palestinian supporters also turned up, holding banners denouncing Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza




Gideon Levy – Israel has achieved nothing with war on Gaza

Israeli journalist Gideon Levy speaks to The Bottom Line on the implications of Israel’s strategy for long-term war in Gaza.

He tells host Steve Clemons that even if Israeli politicians abandon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel would continue its war on Gaza and occupation of the Palestinian people’s territory as a whole.

A “radical change” in Israeli attitude and US support is needed for any improvement in the situation, he adds.


Depressing take, but I agree with Levy, Israel isn't going to change on its own. There will be no ceasefire deal, not even if Gantz replaces Netanyahu. As long as the US keeps protecting and funding Israel, nothing will change. Biden has to make a choice.



SvennoJ on 03 June 2024

Death toll from overnight attacks on homes, refugee camps jumps to 22

At least 12 people have been killed, including women and children, in overnight attacks by Israeli forces on homes located in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis and Rafah cities, the Wafa news agency reports.

Three children were among 10 people killed when two homes were destroyed in Israeli attacks on a neighbourhood in the east of Khan Younis. A separate attack on the home of the Abu Khater family in Khan Younis left two people dead and many wounded, Wafa reports.

In Rafah city, an attack on the Abu Ubaid family home in the Saudi neighbourhood and the Oreiba area, to the north of the city, also resulted in casualties but the number of dead and injured was not yet known.

Earlier in the night, two Israeli attacks on homes in the Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps in central Gaza killed 10 people, Wafa also reported.


Injured taken to Al-Aqsa Hospital after Bureij refugee camp attack

We reported earlier that six people, all women and children, were killed in an Israeli air attack on the Bureij refugee camp.

Photographs taken by the Anadolu news agency at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah after the attack show several people being treated for injuries as well as the lifeless body of a baby being carried by family members and hospital workers.


Injured Palestinians, including children, are brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital following an Israeli attack on the Bureij refugee camp, in Deir-el Balah, Gaza on Monday morning

Jabalia and Beit Hanoon in northern Gaza declared ‘disaster areas’

As we reported earlier, Palestinian municipal authorities have declared Jabalia and Beit Hanoon in the northern Gaza Strip as “disaster areas”. Here’s what Naji Sarhan, the head of the emergency committee for north Gaza, said about the disaster declaration on Sunday.

“The Jabalia refugee camp and Beit Hanoon town are now disaster areas,” Sarhan said. “The people of northern Gaza live in difficult humanitarian conditions with most residents lacking food, medicine and fuel,” Sarhan added. Sarhan pleaded for the UN and other international organisations to “intervene immediately to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip”.

According to the emergency committee, the infrastructure destroyed by Israeli forces in the north of Gaza includes:

  • 50,000 housing units
  • 35 water wells
  • Several schools and other facilities run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA)
  • Drainage networks
  • Roads



Palestinians returning to Jabalia after Israeli forces withdrew have found homes and infrastructure destroyed


Palestinians are struggling to meet their basic needs, including safe drinking water, after Israeli forces destroyed dozens of wells as well as sewage systems and other basic infrastructure. Israeli forces also downed power lines in Jabalia, which has had no electricity since Israeli forces destroyed the entire Gaza Strip’s electricity supply in October last year.


Displaced Palestinians struggling to find shelter in the ruins of Gaza

A ruined school destroyed by Israeli bombs is the best shelter Palestinians can find in Jabalia in northern Gaza after Israeli forces withdrew from the refugee camp following a weeks-long ground attack.

Hamdi Abu Tabak, a displaced person taking part in efforts to clear rubble from a school, said he has returned and will stay in Jabalia despite the Israeli attacks and destruction.

“We were staying in UNRWA schools that were supposed to be safe places but the Israelis bombed us. Some people were killed and injured,” Abu Tabak told Al Jazeera. “When we returned, we found everything destroyed. But I live in Jabalia and I will die here,” he said.



SvennoJ on 03 June 2024

Hamas rebuilds forces amid Israel’s ‘raid-based model’ of war in Gaza: Monitors

Two Palestinian armed groups fired rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Sunday, including an attack by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine that targeted Israeli forces stationed at the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing, war monitors report.

US defence think tanks, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP), also report that Israel had intended to deploy two divisions to the ground attack on Rafah city in the south, but was deterred by US concerns over weapons sanctions and is now, they say, “moving ‘more deliberately’ in Rafah”.

However, the ISW and the CTP reiterate in their latest battlefield report that Hamas is continuing to reconstitute its forces in areas of the Palestinian territory following the withdrawal of Israeli troops, in what the war monitors characterise as a crucial weakness of Israel’s “raid-based model” of conducting war in Gaza.


Gaza hospitals under strain – Israeli blockade puts patients at risk

Al-Aqsa Hospital has been treating wounded Palestinians since Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip began, and it has been constantly overwhelmed. Patients have no option but to sleep on the floor in the overcrowded hospital corridors, and some need treatment that doctors are unable to provide.

One of those is young Mohamed Abu Shgheba, whose right leg was badly injured when he and his father were caught in an Israeli bombardment of their home. Mohamed has been made comfortable for now. But he will need treatment outside Gaza if he is ever to walk again.

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

Mothers, children mourn another night of deadly attacks on central, southern Gaza

The situation is getting completely dire across the Gaza Strip. As we woke up today, there was the sound of artillery bombardments in multiple areas in the central parts of the Gaza Strip, which has been the main focus for the Israeli military attacks in the past 24 hours. At least 10 Palestinians have been reported killed in the central areas.
 
Since the early hours of this morning, there have been disturbing images of mothers and children crying over the loss of their loved ones. Families were directly targeted without receiving any kind of prior warning. They are asking for an immediate ceasefire that would bring an end to the fighting.

The situation continues to be difficult also in the far south of the Gaza Strip. Including Khan Younis city where at least 10 Palestinians have been killed in an air strike that destroyed a residential building and at least three Palestinian children were among the victims.

We have been hearing in the past couple of minutes more artillery bombardments in the northern part of the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps.

Another of the victims today we have heard about is a Palestinian fisherman who has been killed on the Deir el-Balah coast. The Israeli naval force opened fire on him as he was trying to make a living in the ongoing financial crisis that Palestinians have been going through.

Israel targets residential apartment, killing 4 in Gaza City

An Israeli attack on a residential apartment in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood has killed at least four people and injured others, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

The attack follows a series of deadly overnight strikes in central and southern Gaza that killed a total of 22 people, including women and children.


Rescuers recover body of woman killed in central Gaza

Medics with the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) have recovered the body of a woman who was killed in Abu al-Ajeen area, east of Deir el-Balah.

Footage posted by the group shows medics carrying the woman’s body, covered in a blanket, into a hospital to be prepared for burial. She is among dozens of casualties reported in Israel’s latest wave of attacks on the Strip.






SvennoJ on 03 June 2024

Israeli military claims it hit 50 Gaza targets

The targets hit over the last 24 hours included fighters, military infrastructure and weapons depots, according to a military statement. In central Gaza, Israeli warplanes struck a “sniper post” and killed fighters there, according to the military, while ground troops killed a Hamas “rocket operative”.

Israel probes soldiers in death of dozens of Gaza Palestinians: Report

The Israeli army has launched a criminal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of 48 Palestinians from Gaza, most of whom were in Israeli custody, according to the Haaretz newspaper.

The vast majority of the Palestinians died in or en route to Israeli detention centres, while seven died in Gaza, according to the Haaretz report. None of the Israeli soldiers implicated in the case has yet been arrested or indicted, military sources told Haaretz.

At the beginning of the Gaza war, Israeli forces had detained about 4,000 Palestinians from Gaza for questioning, according to official figures, almost half of whom are still being held under permanent detention orders, the daily reported.


3,500 children in Gaza at risk of starvation: Government Media Office

Gaza’s Government Media Office warns that more than 3,500 children under the age of five are at risk of dying due to shortages of food, nutritional supplements and vaccinations.

These children are experiencing severe malnutrition, harming their physical development and making them vulnerable to infectious diseases, said the media office in a statement.

“Their conditions are getting worse and more difficult as they are deprived of the vaccinations and medication doses allocated to them,” it said.

Since Israel took over the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on May 7, aid flow to Gaza has dropped by 67 percent, reported the UN last week, making already scarce supplies of food and medicine even harder to come by.


Egypt rejects Israeli presence at Rafah crossing

Egypt is clear on rejecting an Israeli presence at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry says.

“It is difficult for the Rafah crossing to continue operating without a Palestinian administration,” he said in a news conference with his Spanish counterpart in Madrid.



SvennoJ on 03 June 2024

Israel detains Palestinian journalist in occupied West Bank

The Wafa news agency says that Israeli forces detained one of its journalists, Rasha Hirzallah, after summoning her to a detention centre in Ariel, an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, on Sunday night.

Hirzallah went to the detention centre with a lawyer after being summoned by Israeli intelligence, who told her she would be held for 72 hours, Wafa said. She was not told why she was being detained or what charges, if any, she was facing, Wafa added.

There are 49 Palestinian journalists in Israeli detention, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society. At least 102 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed since the Israel-Gaza war began in October, according to the Committee to Protest Journalists (CPJ).

Israeli military identifies body of paramedic slain during October 7 attacks

The body of Israeli paramedic Dolev Yehud has been identified after being found in the Nir Oz kibbutz in southern Israel, where he was killed while responding to the October 7 attacks by Hamas fighters, according to the Israeli military.

Yehud, who volunteered with Israel’s national emergency service, was initially believed to have been taken captive by Hamas.

However, Israel’s military found “no indications from Gaza of him being there” and, following forensic examination, determined that previously unidentified remains from the kibbutz belonged to him, The Times of Israel reports.

In a post on social media, the Israeli military said the National Institute of Forensic Medicine was involved in the identification process after which the late paramedic’s family was notified.

Palestinian home, park demolished near Jerusalem: Report

Israeli forces have carried out numerous demolitions in the Palestinian town of Anata, on the northeastern outskirts of Jerusalem, tearing down a home, agricultural facilities and a park, reports the Wafa news agency.

Footage verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency shows several Israeli bulldozers razing some of the property in Anata. In May, Israeli forces carried out 20 demolitions throughout the Jerusalem governorate, according to Wafa.

Israel’s military strategy not working in Gaza: Expert

Omar Ashour, of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, says Israel’s military strategy is to reoccupy parts of Gaza, including a 1km (0.62 miles) wide buffer zone between Gaza and Israel – the Netzarim Corridor – which divides Gaza into northern and southern sections, and positions along the Salah al-Din Street to divide Gaza into east and west.

“It also wants to refortify them to make strong positions and then carry out intelligence-led raids that aim to degrade and destroy Hamas cells and other military formations,” he told Al Jazeera. “Then after that when forces get tired, redeploy and continue and repeat again.

“But this is not working as we saw in Jabalia refugee camp. This military strategy created more and more civilian deaths leading to more international pressure on the Netanyahu government.”

Ashour also said that the Israeli military has probably not achieved its military objectives in Rafah as well.