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SvennoJ on 06 June 2024

‘Historic’: NAACP urges President Biden to end arms transfers to Israel

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/6/historic-naacp-urges-biden-to-end-weapons-shipments-to-israel

The NAACP, one of the largest Black civil rights organisations in the US, urged Biden to “indefinitely” suspend weapon transfers to Israel in a sign of growing discontent with the US president’s support for the Israeli war on Gaza.

In a statement, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said the group has a “responsibility to speak out in the face of injustice and work to hold our elected officials accountable for the promises they’ve made”.

“The Middle East conflict will only be resolved when the US government and international community take action, including limiting access to weapons used against civilians,” Johnson said.

“The NAACP calls on President Biden to draw the red line and indefinitely end the shipment of weapons and artillery to the state of Israel and other states that supply weapons to Hamas.”

Rules-based international order established after World War II ‘falling apart’

Barry Trachtenberg, a historian and professor from Wake Forest University in the US, said while D-Day commemorations are under way in Europe, world leaders are closely watching what Israel is doing in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territory.

“What we’re seeing is this clear double-standard where when it’s in the interests of the United States and Western allies, they’ll invoke international law. When it’s not in their interests, they’ll clearly violate international law,” he said.

He told Al Jazeera the rules-based order established after World War II is “falling apart”.

“What Israel has been doing since October 7 is clearly in strong violation of international law – of the Conventions on Genocide, and Geneva Conventions on the pursuit of war. International bodies that are there to enforce these laws are really quite powerless, in large part because of Western opposition,” Trachtenberg said.

“For the 36,000 Palestinians who have already been murdered after October 7, it’s clear this ‘order’ has already failed. Perhaps there’ll be possibilities to restore or strengthen it. But in the meantime, Palestinians are paying a very, very heavy price for this double standard.”


Palestinians react at a UN school after an Israeli attack killed dozens on Thursday


Countries must use ‘leverage’ in fighting impunity: UN relief chief

In a post on X, Martin Griffiths said an Israeli strike on a UN-run school in the Nuseirat refugee camp again shows there is “nowhere safe for civilians in Gaza”.

“The rules of war must be respected. Civilians must be protected,” Griffiths said. “States must use their leverage: Diplomatic and economic pressure, conditioning arms exports, and cooperation in fighting impunity.”



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Israeli military alarmed by standoff over West Bank funds, report says

The Israeli military has warned the government that its policy of cutting off funds to the Palestinian Authority could push the occupied West Bank into a third “intifada”, public broadcaster Kan Radio has reported.

The warning underlined the increasingly dire state of the West Bank economy where hundreds of thousands of workers have lost their jobs in Israel and public servants have been unpaid or on partial pay for months.

Israel has blocked Palestinian workers from entering from the occupied West Bank since October 7.

According to estimates from the Palestinian finance ministry, Israel has been holding back a total of around 6 billion shekels ($1.61bn) in tax revenues, which has resulted in growing hardship.

US says collapse of Palestinian Authority a ‘massive security threat’

The United States says Israel will see a “massive” negative impact if the Palestinian Authority collapses as Washington presses its ally to let revenue flow to the occupied West Bank’s governing body.

“We have made clear to the government of Israel in some very direct conversations that there is nothing that could be more counter to the strategic interests of Israel than the collapse of the Palestinian Authority,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters.

While acknowledging shortcomings in the Palestinian Authority, he said the Ramallah-based body has helped maintain stability in the occupied West Bank even as war rages in Gaza, run for years by rivals Hamas.

“If you saw the Palestinian Authority collapse and instability spread across the West Bank, it’s not just a problem for the Palestinians,” he said, adding it is also “a massive security threat for the state of Israel”.

Under peace agreements in the 1990s, Israel collects money for the PA, which exercises limited autonomy in parts of the occupied West Bank. Israel then disburses the funds to the PA. However, Israel has been blocking revenue since Hamas’s attack inside Israel on October 7.


Israeli leader promises to change ‘security reality’ in occupied West Bank

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking at the end of a security assessment on the occupied West Bank, says while Israel is facing “complicated international pressure” it’s determined to change the “security reality” in the area.

“Israel is engaged in a difficult battle on many fronts. We are fighting in the south, we are fighting in the north, we are also fighting in [West Bank],” he said.

The West Bank is among territories Israel seized in a 1967 Middle East war. The Palestinians want it to be the core of their future independent state and say the expansion of Israeli settlements in the area is an obstacle to achieving that goal. According to the UN, more than 500 Palestinians and 12 Israelis have been killed in the occupied West Bank since October 7.

 

Israeli troops kill 3 Palestinians in Jenin raid

We have more information on the ongoing Israeli assault on Jenin, in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian health ministry says Israeli forces killed three Palestinians and another 13 people were wounded during the incursion. The Israeli army didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, said in a statement that its fighters were engaged in “violent clashes” near the Jenin refugee camp.

 

Israeli forces fire at emergency responders removing bodies in Jenin: PRCS

The Palestine Red Crescent Society posted video on X showing the paramedics taking cover as they worked to put two men onto stretches and load them into two ambulances.

Palestinian health authorities said earlier at least three Palestinians were killed in the Israeli raid on the camp in the occupied West Bank.

Medics with the PRCS have repeatedly been targeted and killed by Israeli forces since the war on Gaza began. Intentionally killing medical workers is a war crime under international law.



SvennoJ on 06 June 2024

‘Why did they bomb us?’

Imad al-Maqadmeh, a wounded Palestinian boy, says his father was killed in the Israeli attack on the UN-run school.

“What did we do? There are no armed people in the school. There are children playing. We play together … Why did they bomb us?” he said, his face bruised and bleeding.

In images of the dead laid out at the hospital surrounded by wailing mourners, bodies were mostly wrapped in shrouds or carpets, making it impossible to determine from video if they included non-combatants.

As people at the school cleared rubble from bloodstained classrooms, survivor Huda Abu Dhaher described waking up to the sound of missile blasts. “People’s remains were scattered inside the yard and outside.”

Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the government media office, rejected Israel’s assertion the UN school in Nuseirat, in central Gaza, had hidden a Hamas command post.

“The occupation uses … false fabricated stories to justify the brutal crime it conducted against dozens of displaced people,” Thawabta said.


Palestinians mourn relatives killed in the Israeli attack on the UN-run school

Even if there were Hamas members sleeping there, assassinations are not legal warfare. By the IDF's logic everyone in Israel is a valid target for Hamas (bar the Ultra Orthodox) since the mandatory 24 to 32 months military draft makes everyone a member of the IDF. By Israel's logic, Oct 7 was legal warfare. (Of course it wasn't, yet that's the logic the IDF and the USA are pushing to justify these kind of strikes)


Israeli army spokesperson chides media for ‘falling for Hamas tactics’

Rear-Admiral Daniel Hagari lambasted the media for not reporting that Hamas operates in schools, hospitals, and mosques after the deadly attack on a UN shelter.

“In the last months alone, Hamas wages wars from schools and hospitals. Hamas hopes that international law and public sympathy will provide a shield for their military activities, which is why they systematically operate from schools, UN facilities, hospitals and mosques,” said Hagari.

“Sadly, we saw some media outlets fall for Hamas’s tactics yet again before checking the facts.”

Earlier, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller noted: “We’ve seen the claims that 14 children were killed in this strike and certainly when you see – if that is accurate – that 14 children were killed, those aren’t terrorists.”

So far we only have proof of the IDF using schools and hospitals in Gaza as military outposts. Zero evidence of Hamas fighters operating from schools or hospitals. The media isn't falling for your lies anymore. (Well some of the media at least)






Press activists slam attacks on reporters at Jerusalem Day march

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned the harassment and assault of journalists during the Jerusalem Day flag march, urging Israel to protect reporters.

During the march, which commemorates the June 5 capture of East Jerusalem by Israeli forces in the 1967 war, Israeli settlers and far-right protesters attacked Palestinian freelance journalist Saif Qwasmi, who contributes to local agency Al-Asiman News, and Israeli journalist Nir Hasson, a reporter for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, CPJ said in a statement.

“Israeli security forces stood idly by while protesters harassed and assaulted Palestinian and Israeli journalists reporting on the march. Not only did they fail to do their duty, but they blamed journalist Qwasmi for protecting himself,” CPJ programme director Carlos Martinez de la Serna said.

The group urged Israel to probe the incidents and hold those responsible to account.

The Israeli government has faced criticism from human rights and press advocates for the killing of more than 100 journalists and media workers in its war on Gaza and for its ban on Al Jazeera operations in Israel.



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Mayor of Nuseirat killed in Israeli strike: AJ correspondent

The prominent mayor of Nuseirat, Iyad al-Maghari, is among five people killed in an Israeli raid on central Gaza, an Al Jazeera correspondent reports.

In a post on X, Ramy Abdul, chairman of the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, called al-Maghari “one of the most active mayors in the Gaza Strip”.

Gaza media office decries killing of Nuseirat mayor

The press office released a statement calling the killing of Iyad Ahmed al-Maghari, mayor of Nuseirat, “a war crime aimed at creating a state of chaos”.

Al-Maghari was “loyal and dedicated to his work” and continued to assist the people of the Nuseirat refugee camp throughout the war.

Israeli strikes previously killed the mayors of az-Zahra in the south and the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, while destroying the headquarters of several municipalities across the enclave.

“The mayors who were assassinated were faithful examples of diligent and continuous service,” the statement said.

 

Smoke billows over Deir el-Balah after deadly strikes

A video posted on social media – and verified by Al Jazeera – shows the moment of the attack on a residential building in the central Gaza city. Two bodies and several wounded were taken to the Al-Aqsa Hospital in the wake of the strike.


Palestinians watch following an Israeli air strike in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza


Israeli attacks in central Gaza ongoing

More attacks have taken place in the past couple of hours in central Gaza. Throughout the day, we could hear constant air strikes and artillery shelling by the Israeli military in different areas.

Here at Al-Aqsa Hospital, we saw several ambulances dispatched to the eastern part of the city of Deir el-Balah where a residential building was targeted.

People passing by the area were among the casualties. So far, three people were pronounced dead, two of them killed right on the spot. The third arrived at the hospital and doctors did everything possible to save him but were unable to.

Several other people who were injured are still inside the emergency department, lying on the floor waiting for medical intervention.


Wounded Palestinians are brought to the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza


Israeli forces carry out air raids near al-Mawasi

Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report that Israeli air strikes targeted the coastal al-Mawasi area, west of the southernmost city of Rafah.

At least 21 people were killed last month in Israeli attacks on a tent camp housing displaced families in al-Mawasi.


Displaced Palestinians at the al-Mawasi camp, declared by Israel as a ‘safe zone’



SvennoJ on 06 June 2024

UN chief Antonio Guterres pays tribute to fallen UNRWA employees

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has paid tribute to the 188 staff who died in the line of duty last year, including 135 employees of the agency for Palestinian refugees.

“That is by far the highest number of our personnel killed in a single conflict or natural disaster since the creation of the United Nations – a reality we can never accept,” Guterres said in remarks to the UN’s annual memorial service for fallen staff on Thursday.

“Some were killed with their families by bombardment of their homes; others were at work, both in offices and shelters.”

Guterres said there needed to be a “full accounting” for every death.

“We owe this to their family members and friends, to their colleagues and to the world. Our UNRWA personnel lived and died as representatives of the international community in Gaza, and that community deserves an explanation.”





US pundit Briahna Joy Gray fired after interview with sister of Israeli captive

A talk show host in the United States has been fired after a backlash over her interview with the sister of an Israeli captive.

Briahna Joy Gray said on Thursday that The Hill had terminated her employment as a co-host of the online talk show, Rising. Gray said in a post on that X that her firing reflected a “clear pattern of suppressing speech – particularly when it’s critical of the state of Israel”.

During an interview with Yarden Gonen, the sister of Hamas captive Romi Gonen, on Tuesday, Gray sighed and rolled her eyes after Gonen said the host should believe women who say they were victimised by Hamas.

“I really hope that you, specifically, will believe women when they say that they got hurt,” Gonen said.

Gray has previously questioned claims that Hamas carried out rapes during the group’s October 7 attacks on Israel.

Gray, who served as the press secretary for Bernie Sanders during his 2020 presidential campaign, last month attracted criticism when she said during a panel discussion that Hamas’s calls for the elimination of Israel did not mean it was calling for the killing of all Jews in the country.

Oh well, that's it for The Hill: Rising then. She was indeed the critical one on the channel.

Israel privately objects to US ceasefire resolution circulated at UN Security Council: Report

The Associated Press (AP) news agency reports that Israel is privately objecting to a US attempt to pass a resolution at the UN Security Council that would lead to a ceasefire in Gaza.

According to the AP, the US has circulated a revised draft of a UNSC resolution aimed at bringing about a ceasefire in Gaza, and which states that the council “welcomes the new ceasefire proposal announced on May 31, which is acceptable to Israel … [and] calls upon Hamas to also accept it”.

But an Israeli official told the AP that the language overlooks Israel’s stated aim of destroying Hamas as a military force. Israel also objects to the proposed language in the resolution that “rejects any attempt at demographic or territorial change in the Gaza Strip”.

The official told the AP, speaking on condition of anonymity, that Israel also objects to the resolution’s reference to “actions that reduce the territory of Gaza, such as through the permanent establishment officially or unofficially of so-called buffer zones”, which Israel said it plans to establish.



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Former US Congressman shares pictures of Israeli army ‘onslaught’ in Gaza

Former US Congressman Justin Amash has shared photos that he says show the devastation inflicted on his cousin’s neighbourhood in Gaza.

Amash, who represented a district in Michigan from 2011 to 2021 and was the second Palestinian-American to be elected to Congress, said his cousin had shared the pictures with him after months without communication.

“He sent me photos from his quarter of the Old City, where much of the Christian community resides. Their lives have been devastated by the [Israeli military] onslaught. The people here are descendants of Canaanites and Israelites, and they’re determined not to be uprooted from their ancestral home, but they live each day fearing it may be their last,” Amash said in a post on social media.

“Please continue to pray for the people of Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel. May the death and destruction, violence and hostage-taking come to an end. May they all live together in peace,” he said.

Amash was elected as a Republican before leaving the party to become an independent and then a member of the Libertarian Party.

Video captures Israeli forces ‘targeting’ two Palestinians on motorcycle

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic have obtained and verified video footage that shows Israeli forces pursuing two Palestinians travelling on a motorcycle in Jenin who were among three people killed during the military’s raid on the Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank.

The shocking footage shows the two victims being followed by Israeli forces travelling in an armoured jeep and then suddenly falling from their motorcycle as if being shot from behind.

After the victims crash to the ground, the Israeli military vehicle pulls up alongside the driver and passenger and pauses briefly before continuing on without checking on the wellbeing or providing first aid to the stricken pair.

Later video footage shows ambulance crews from the Palestine Red Crescent Society retrieve the bodies of the two victims and then come under fire from the Israeli military while doing so.



More dead, injured as Israel continues attacks on central Gaza refugee camps

As well as the attacks that were reported earlier on the Nuseirat refugee camp that killed five people, and the four people killed and six injured in the Maghazi refugee camp, Israeli forces have also carried out air, land and sea attacks on northern, central and southern Gaza.

According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, and Al Jazeera Arabic, the overnight attacks include:

  • Israeli strikes hit the Oreiba neighbourhood in the north of Rafah.
  • Artillery fire targeted the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
  • Air strikes have pounded the coastal areas of the al-Mawasi region, located to the northeast of Rafah.
  • Shelling from Israeli artillery has hit the Tal as-Sultan and Saudi neighbourhoods of Rafah.
  • Strikes by Israeli naval ships and attack helicopters have also been reported in Rafah, the southern city that Israeli ground forces invaded last month despite international warning not to do so due to the humanitarian catastrophe such a campaign would spark.


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‘Between 35 and 45 people’ killed in Thursday strike on UNRWA school

UNRWA spokeswoman Tamara Alrifai says the shelter that Israeli forces attacked on Thursday was housing “up to 6,000 people”.

“Originally, this was a school but since the beginning of the war, it has housed people who have been repeatedly displaced as the conflict in Gaza evolved,” she told the Democracy Now news outlet.

“The strike happened around 2am and from what we understand there are between 35 and 45 people killed, many of them are children.”



UN warns Israeli military of violations of international law after UN school attack

The UN’s human right office has said that the Israeli military’s failure to ensure “distinction, proportionality and precaution” in its attacks that have killed Palestinian civilians would amount to violations of international humanitarian law.

Responding after an Israeli air strike killed at least 35 people at a UN-run school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the UN rights office said that Israel’s claim that Palestinian fighters were using the school does not justify such an attack.

The presence of fighters “would not allow or justify violations” of the international humanitarian law principles of distinguishing between civilians and combatants when carrying out attacks, and proportionately and precaution to ensure civilians are not targeted, the UN said in a statement.

“We note with concern that this attack follows a strike last week on an IDPs camp that left at least 45 Palestinians dead,” the UN rights office said.




And Israel does it again the next day

Several people killed in Shati refugee camp

Several people have been killed and a number of others have been injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted an UNRWA school housing displaced people in Shati refugee camp, located on the coast of Gaza City, according to our colleagues on the ground.

 

Israeli forces open fire on Palestinian fishermen

An Al Jazeera correspondent has reported that a number of Palestinian fishermen have been injured after Israeli forces opened fire on a port west of Rafah.

Two bodies recovered in Gaza City’s Sabra area

Gaza’s civil defence says two bodies and several injured people have been recovered after Israeli forces targeted a house near as-Salam Mosque in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City.

Israeli bombing kills one in central Gaza’s az-Zawayda

An Al Jazeera correspondent reports that Israeli forces have bombed the az-Zawayda area in central Gaza, resulting in the death of a Palestinian and the injury of others.

Israeli forces kill 2 west of Rafah city

An Al Jazeera correspondent reports that two Palestinians have been killed and a number of others injured by Israeli forces’ fire west of the city of Rafah.

 


More than 50 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks in central Gaza

A spokesman for the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza says 54 Palestinians were killed, while dozens of others have been injured, in Israeli attacks targeting areas in the central Gaza Strip.

Hospital spokesperson Khalil al-Degran said the number of bodies and injured patients that arrived at the hospital was within one day.

Clear surge in Israeli attacks on areas classified as safe zones

The Israeli military has been increasing attacks across many areas in Gaza. The main focus in the past couple of days, even early this morning, are the central areas, including the Bureij and Maghazi refugee camps and Deir el-Balah.

These areas have been classified by the Israeli military as safe zones, yet what we’ve noticed a clear surge in military on Maghazi.

In last night’s attacks, at least six Palestinians were killed after a house was targeted. Two others were killed here in Deir el-Balah and there is ongoing constant bombardment in the Bureij refugee camp.

What we do know and hear from citizens is that the vast majority of attacks were carried out without any prior warning. They have been targeting densely populated areas without any kind of precaution to avoid any casualties among the civilians and that reflects the Israeli intention to grow the military operation.

Gaza’s death toll rises

At least 36,731 people have been killed and 83,530 wounded in Israeli military attacks on Gaza since October 7, the enclave’s Health Ministry says. Of them, 77 Palestinians were killed and 221 wounded in the past 24 hours, the ministry added.



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UNRWA sounds alarm on disease outbreaks across Gaza

 

Hollywood marketing guru tells staff not to work with Israel critics: Report

A high-profile Hollywood marketing and branding guru has told staff they should not work with anyone “posting against Israel”, entertainment magazine Variety has reported.

Ashlee Margolis, the founder of communications and marketing agency The A List, said in an email that her firm would “hit pause” on working with any celebrity or influencer attacking Israel, Variety reported on Thursday.

Margolis said that while there was a distinction between acceptable and unacceptable commentary about Israel, the ban would include anyone accusing the country of committing genocide in Gaza, “as that is simply not true”, according to the magazine.

“While Jews are devastated by the loss of innocent lives in Gaza, we are feeling immense fear over the rising Jew Hatred all over the world,” she told staff, according to Variety.

Variety said that Margolis declined a request to comment.

 

Delegates walk out of UN meeting during Israel speech

Dozens of delegates walked out of a UN meeting as an Israeli official responded to criticism it has decimated Palestinian workers’ labour rights since the start of its war in Gaza.


Unemployment nears 80 percent in Gaza, UN agency says

Unemployment in Gaza has reached nearly 80 percent, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said, bringing the average unemployment rate across Gaza and the occupied West Bank to more than 50 percent.

An ILO report, released on Friday, added that:

  • Unemployment in Gaza reached 79.1 percent, while the occupied West Bank has seen joblessness hit nearly 32 percent.
  • The figures give a combined unemployment rate of 50.8 percent.
  • Real GDP contracted by nearly 33 percent in Palestine with an estimated contraction of 83.5 percent in Gaza and by 22.7 percent in the occupied West Bank.
  • Daily private sector production losses amount to $19m across the occupied Palestinian territory during the first four months of the war.
  • Among West Bank workers who are still employed, 51 percent faced reduced hours of work and 62.8 percent experienced a reduction in wages.

I'm actually surprised 20% still manage to work in Gaza. I'm guessing it's mostly government and aid workers.



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Israeli forces conduct raids across occupied West Bank

The Palestinian news agency Wafa has reported on numerous raids by Israeli troops and military vehicles on communities, villages, towns and cities across the occupied West Bank following the killing earlier of three young people in Jenin.

A crowd of thousands formed a funeral march for the three Palestinian youths, aged 17 to 24, who were killed by Israeli forces on Thursday.

Areas raided overnight and into early Friday morning, include:

  • The Abu Sneina neighbourhood in Hebron City
  • Israeli snipers took up positions in the al-Ein refugee camp in Nablus while a house in the camp was raided and buildings searched on the camp’s outskirts, Wafa reports. Local residents engaged in clashes with the Israeli military to prevent the incursion.
  • A dawn raid was carried out on the towns of Silat, al-Dhahr and al-Fandaqumiya, located to the south of Jenin, where Palestinian homes were searched by troops accompanied by police dogs.
  • Israeli soldiers fired stun grenades and deployed a noxious gas during confrontations with local Palestinians, who rallied to resist a raid on Husan village, west of Bethlehem.
  • Troops also stormed the Khallet al-Farra village community south of Hebron, where they searched and ransacked homes before withdrawing.


Israeli settlers cut down olive, citrus trees in Nablus attack

During an assault on the occupied West Bank town of Nablus on Thursday, Israeli settlers cut down olive and citrus trees.

The Times of Israel reported that settlers threw stones at Palestinian residents and tried to burn down a house. Army Radio reported that Israeli forces shot at Palestinians trying to protect themselves, injuring two people.

In addition to the destruction of property and agricultural land, at least 531 Palestinians have been killed and more than 5,200 wounded in Israeli army and settler attacks across the West Bank since October 7.


Israeli settlers set fire to agricultural lands east of Ramallah

Israeli settlers have set fire to agricultural lands in the village of Barqa, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, an Al Jazeera correspondent reports.

Dozens of Israeli settlers who descended from the illegal Atarot settlement participated in a march near the Rawabi roundabout north of Ramallah, waving Israeli flags, Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.

Israeli forces have set up a military checkpoint near the Rawabi roundabout, preventing Palestinian vehicles from entering or exiting to secure the march, the report said.

Israeli forces seize private Palestinian land in Hebron

The Israeli forces have seized privately owned Palestinian land in Hebron, occupied West Bank, under the pretext of “appropriation orders”, Palestinian Wafa news agency reports.

Head of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, Minister Muayad Shaaban, told Wafa the orders are aimed at expanding Route 60, in Hebron, for Israeli settlers.

Shaaban said Israel exploits the pretexts of infrastructure rehabilitation and road development as a tool to stifle Palestinian presence and disconnect villages and towns in all Palestinian areas, the report said. He slammed the measures as serious violations of international humanitarian law.



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Warplanes bomb 3 areas in south Lebanon, says Israeli military

The latest attacks by Israel’s air force hit targets in the Jabal Rezlane region as well as the villages of Ramyah and Kfar Kila in the south of Lebanon.

Hezbollah “military structures” were hit in the latest overnight attacks, Israel’s military said.


Are Lebanon and Israel on the cusp of war?

Tensions and tit-for-tat attacks are escalating between Israel and the Lebanese group, Hezbollah.

Since October 8, Hezbollah has engaged Israel in a low-level conflict to impede Israel’s war on Gaza, which has already killed more than 36,000 people.

Civilians have been evacuated from villages on both sides of the border. Israel has targeted Lebanese villages with white phosphorus, while Hezbollah has targeted Israeli military installations with drones, guided missiles and other weapons.

Over the last week, both sides have stepped up attacks as President Biden pushes for a ceasefire in Gaza.


An Israeli firefighter works to extinguish a fire burning in an area near the community of Ramot Naftali, by the border with Lebanon, northern Israel, on Tuesday, June 4