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SvennoJ on 11 June 2024

Israeli military kills three Hezbollah members in strike on convoy

The Israeli military has killed three Hezbollah members in a strike on a convoy of tankers in northern Lebanon, a military source from the Lebanese group has told the AFP news agency.

The Israeli attack targeted a village in Lebanon’s northern Hermel district on the border with Syria, according to the source.

“Three Hezbollah members were killed by nine Israeli missile strikes that targeted a convoy of tankers and a building,” the source said, adding that three people were also wounded.

The Israeli military is yet to confirm the casualties.

Israeli military says it struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon

The Israeli military has announced that it has struck a military compound of Unit 4400, which it described as the “logistical reinforcement unit of the terrorist organisation Hezbollah”, in the Baalbek area of northern Lebanon.

In addition, it said it carried out strikes on the Itatron area of southern Lebanon, including a military site and two military buildings belonging to Hezbollah. It said the attacks were carried out in “response to the downing of an [Israeli military] helicopter” over Lebanon on Monday night.

Earlier, we reported that the Israeli military killed three Hezbollah members in an air attack on a convoy of tankers in the Hermel district of northern Lebanon on the border with Syria, according to a military source from the Lebanese group. It has not been confirmed whether these two incidents are linked.


Israeli drone raid targets southern Lebanon

Israeli drones have attacked the town of Kfar Kila in southern Lebanon, an Al Jazeera correspondent reports.

Meanwhile, Israeli media reported that eight firefighting teams have been working to put out fires that broke out in northern Israel following the recent bombing from southern Lebanon.

Israeli raid kills one civilian in Naqoura: Lebanese Civil Defence

The Lebanese Civil Defence has confirmed the death of a civilian in an Israeli drone raid on the town of Naqoura in southern Lebanon.

In turn, Hezbollah announced it targeted a building used by Israeli soldiers in Metula, northern Israel, confirming a direct hit.



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Pro-Palestine protesters clash with police outside Nova exhibit

Pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with New York City police outside an exhibit in Manhattan commemorating the Nova music festival massacre.

Some 364 civilians were killed in an attack on the festival on October 7, as part of a wider Hamas-led assault on southern Israel that day.

In footage of the protest, demonstrators can be seen waving flairs and Palestinian flags, and can be heard chanting slogans including, “Long live the intifada” and “Resistance is justified where people are occupied”.

The massacre at the Nova Music Festival is a war crime, no way to justify it. This demonstration goes one step too far imo. Yes resistance is justified, and if it was an exhibit commemorating the attack on the military border outposts part of the assault, then you could say it was justified. Yet the spill over into the Nova Music Festival was horrific. It's also a question that Israel needs to answer, why hold a music festival next to a contested military border wall with clear intelligence Hamas was planning to breach the wall.

But I do get the sentiment. Who organized the exhibit in Manhattan along the ongoing genocide, knowing full well it would attract this kind of attention. It feels very much like a "Remember the 7th of October" kind of provocation. Too soon, wrong place, wrong time.

I'm sure Fox will get a kick out of this to paint pro Palestinian protesters as Hamas supporters.


California university academics end Gaza protest strike under court order

Thousands of academic workers at the University of California (UC) have ended their strike over the university’s response to pro-Palestine protesters and returned to work following a court order from a state judge.

United Auto Workers Local 4811, which represents 48,000 graduate students working as teaching assistants, researchers, tutors and other academic employees, started its strike on May 20 in Santa Cruz.

The union alleged that the free speech rights of its members were violated during police and university crackdowns on pro-Palestine protests on six UC campuses last month.

But on Friday, an Orange County Superior Court judge granted a temporary restraining order sought by the university asserting that the walkout was in violation of a no-strike clause in the union’s contract as it stemmed from non-labour issues.

The judge also ruled that the walkout was causing “damage to students’ education” ahead of their final exams. Following the decision, United Auto Workers Local 4811 has said that it is planning protests on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Angry scenes as Israeli parliament votes to move ahead with Orthodox conscription law

Israel’s parliament opted to move ahead with a controversial proposed conscription law for ultra-Orthodox Jewish people in a late-night vote on Monday.

The conscription bill is still required to pass further readings and committee hearings but if approved, it would see the gradual entry of some ultra-Orthodox Jews into the Israeli military.

Ultra-Orthodox Israelis can currently claim the right to study in seminaries instead of serving in uniform for the standard three years. But as the war rages on in Gaza and Israeli troops serve on the northern border with Lebanon, many resent their fellow citizens being spared their share of the risk.

But if approved, the bill would also lower the current age of exemption from mandatory service for ultra-Orthodox students from 26 to 21, and would only “very slowly” increase the rate of conscription, the Times of Israel reports.

Opposition leader Benny Gantz originally put forward the measure in 2022, but he now opposes it, saying it’s inadequate for meeting the Israel military’s personnel needs. Defence Minister Yoav Gallant also broke ranks with his Likud party and voted against the bill.

There were angry scenes outside Israel’s parliament amid voting on the bill, as families of some of the captives still held in Gaza protested outside the Knesset demanding more be done to get them home.


Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest after Israel’s Supreme Court convened to discuss petitions to change government policy that grants ultra-Orthodox Jews exemptions from military conscription on June 2

Parents of Israeli soldiers accuse gov’t of ‘betraying citizens’

Parents of hundreds of Israeli soldiers have penned an angry letter to Israel’s defence minister, complaining that a new conscription law does not do enough to force ultra-Orthodox Israelis, traditionally exempt from the military, to serve.

While the new law does end exemption on military conscription for some ultra-Orthodox Israelis, it also lowers the age of exemption for others, thus limiting how many in the community could be called up.

Frustrated parents of soldiers wrote to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, saying “it is unthinkable that such a law is passed at a time when the brave warriors are giving their lives on the other side”.

“The government is betraying its citizens, giving away the lives of our sons,” they wrote. “We inform our fighting sons that they must stop fighting right now, lay down their weapons and return home immediately.”



SvennoJ on 11 June 2024

US aid pier off Gaza is ‘useless’, Gaza official says

A US floating pier off Gaza’s coast has failed to ease the humanitarian crisis, with Salama Marouf, head of Gaza’s Government Media Office, saying that “this pier is useless”. He added that “humanitarian aid worth 120 trucks have been channelled through the pier since it was built”, in mid-May.

On Friday, the US military announced it reinstalled the aid pier that had been damaged in bad weather.

Aid groups have long warned that the US pier is an ineffective way to deliver aid and cannot be a substitute for opening land routes, which had been blocked or severely restricted by Israel.

It was also reported that the pier was used in the Israeli captive rescue operation in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza that killed more than 270 people, a claim that the US denied.

More than 2,000 trucks waiting to cross into Gaza: EU

“More than 2,000 trucks carrying humanitarian aid and commercial goods are waiting in Egypt, ready to enter Gaza,” the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations has said.

“Due to intense military operations, the Rafah crossing remains closed. The EU advocates for sustained, unimpeded, and safe humanitarian access,” it said on X.

Monday’s satellite imagery, verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency, confirmed a large number of aid trucks parked in the Egyptian logistics zone of the Rafah border crossing.


Satellite imagery shows a large number of humanitarian aid trucks situated on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing



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Israeli shelling hits area near tents of displaced people

A Palestinian activist has posted a video on Instagram that has been verified by Al Jazeera, showing the moment Israeli shelling hit an area near the tents of displaced people in Bahr az-Zawayda in central Gaza.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8EYWjftPjh/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=a648e1eb-9fd2-413c-8562-bacc96e1dcfc

Gaza’s death toll rises

At least 37,164 people have been killed and 84,832 wounded in Israeli military attacks on Gaza since October 7, the enclave’s Health Ministry says.

Of them, 40 Palestinians were killed and 120 wounded in the past 24 hours, the ministry added.


Three killed in Rafah

Rescuers have found the bodies of three people killed in Rafah’s Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report.

Two people were also injured by Israeli shelling in central Gaza’s Maghazi’s camp, according to their report.


Israeli forces say military operation in central Gaza ends

The Israeli forces have announced the end of their military operation in the central Gaza Strip, about six days after its launch.

On June 5, the Israeli army announced that the 98th Division had begun an operation east of Bureij refugee camp and east of Deir el-Balah in the central governorate of Gaza.

During the operation, Israeli forces rescued four captives on Saturday in the Nuseirat refugee camp – in the process killing more than 270 Palestinians and wounding 700 others. Hamas said three other captives were also killed in the operation.


Fewer than 100,000 people left in Rafah: UNRWA

More than month after Israeli forces began operating in Rafah, which was previously Gaza’s main declared safe zone, almost all displaced people have fled the area, leaving fewer than 100,000 still left, according to the UNRWA.

As a result, there are now 1.7 million displaced people in Gaza – more than 70 percent of the population – with many of the displaced having been forced to move multiple times, the UNRWA said in its latest situation update.



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UN examining both Israeli and Palestinian forces involvement in deadly rescue operation

Jeremy Laurence, UN human rights spokesperson, says the UN is investigating the manner in which Israeli forces conducted a captives rescue mission in Gaza on Saturday that left hundreds of Palestinians dead.

“This seriously calls into question whether the principles of distinction, precaution and proportionality, which are blocks of the laws of war were respected by the Israeli forces,” he told Al Jazeera.

He added that the UN is also investigating the responsibility of Palestinian fighters in the matter.

“The same applies, and when it comes with respect to the Palestinian armed groups, they are continuing to hold hostages. Now, the taking of hostages under international humanitarian law is forbidden,” he said.

“Beyond that, we have the holding of hostages in densely populated areas. So you not only put in the hostages themselves at risk, but also Palestinians at risk. Both of these aspects … would amount to war crimes,” Laurence added.


Nuseirat, anatomy of Israel’s massacre in Gaza

It was hailed as a great success in Israel. A bloody, violent ambush that turned into a massacre of nearly 300 displaced people who were going about their day as best they could.

Suddenly, they found themselves “descending into the depths of hell”, Al Jazeera’s Maram Humaid wrote.

An Israeli raid on the Nuseirat refugee camp, ostensibly to free four Israeli captives held there, reportedly resulted in the death of three more including one US citizen, according to the Qassam Brigades.

That is besides the at least 274 Palestinians killed.

What happened in Nuseirat? How did Israel kill so many people? Here is a breakdown of the attack:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/11/nuseirat-anatomy-of-israels-massacre-in-gaza


A testimony from an injured person regarding Israel’s operation in Nuseirat

One of the injured people [in the Israeli operation to rescue the four captives] was saying that they were getting ready to eat when they suddenly heard loud explosions and saw dozens of Israeli helicopters opening fire against multiple areas in Nuseirat refugee camp.

Later on they heard the sound of Israeli tanks and after that, Israeli special forces stormed this injured person’s house, arresting his father and his grandpa. At the same time one of the Israeli special forces’ soldiers opened fire against him, where he was shot in his chest and his abdomen. He’s now receiving treatment at Al-Aqsa Hospital.

The injured are in very desperate need of advanced surgeries, and they’re unable to leave Gaza in order to get treatment due to the Israeli closure of borders and the ongoing control of the Philadelphi corridor.

The grim reality is exacerbating due to the chronic shortage of basic medical supplies as some injured people are unable to afford medications that are required in order to help them recover as soon as possible.



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Blinken to meet Arab leaders at Jordan summit on Gaza

This aid conference has been titled “A Call for Action”, with the organisers saying the purpose is to standardise procedures, identify needs and seek commitment for a collective response to the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

Seventy-five states along with international organisations taking part are trying to coordinate their response to the needs of Gaza.

The main obstacle to improving the humanitarian situation is the absence of a ceasefire, which is on everyone’s minds.

When Blinken gets here this afternoon, it’s going to be a very rare opportunity for him to meet Middle Eastern leaders all in the same place.  You’ve got the Egyptian president, Qatar’s leader, the Palestinian president and the Jordanian king, all here.

Blinken will be able to find time with all of them. He wants them to put pressure on Hamas.

‘Palestinians need their dignity back’

This is what Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egypt’s president, starts off with:

“The Palestinian people in Gaza who are surrounded by killing, famine and starvation and are living in the siege are looking at us and want us to present to them a new hope for a better future. They need their dignity back and they need the right to live in peace and they need to restore the trust in the international law and the justice of the international system right now.”

“Israel must be responsible for what’s going on in Gaza. Israel is destroying Gaza, the infrastructure in Gaza as well destroying the health system in Gaza.

“Gaza is not a place now for humans to live in. Egypt has, so many times and repeatedly, warned of the consequences of Israeli military operations in Rafah. These Israeli operations have ended the flow of humanitarian aid coming to Gaza.”

 

Speed and scale of carnage in Gaza beyond any imagination: Guterres

UN chief Antonio Guterres is next up at the Jordan summit.

He says “the speed and scale of carnage and killing in Gaza is beyond anything in my years as secretary-general”. Guterres adds that at least 1.7 million people – 75 percent of Gaza’s population – have been displaced many times over by Israeli military attacks.

“Nowhere is safe, conditions are deplorable, public health situation is beyond crisis level. Gaza’s hospitals lie in ruins, medical supplies and fuel are scarce or non-existent,” he said. “More than one million Palestinians in Gaza do not have enough drinking water and face desperate levels of hunger. Over 50,000 children require treatment for acute malnutrition.”

Guterres adds that “the only way forward is through a political solution that opens a path to sustained peace based on two states – Palestine and Israel, living side by side in peace and security … with Jerusalem as capital of both states”.

“Let us keep working to keep that a reality as we work to answer today’s call to action for Palestinians in Gaza in such a profound and immediate need,” he said.

Describing conditions in Gaza as “deplorable”, UN chief Guterres has called for all parties to reach an agreement on the latest ceasefire plan. “I welcome the peace initiative recently outlined by President Biden and urge all parties to seize this opportunity and come to an agreement,” Guterres said.

Guterres has also called on parties to respect their obligations under international humanitarian law. “This includes facilitating the delivery of humanitarian aid both into and inside Gaza as they have committed. All available routes into Gaza must be operational and the land routes are absolutely crucial,” he said.

He called for safe routes for humanitarian aid delivery and for the protection of UNRWA workers who “need unimpeded access”. “Civilians must be allowed to seek safety and civilians and the infrastructure they rely on must never be militarised or targeted,” he said.

 

Events since October 7 ‘stain on humanity’

UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths is now speaking at the summit. He starts off by saying that “what we’ve witnessed since October 7 last year is a stain on humanity”. He called for opening of all crossings and the flow of aid and medical personnel to be allowed into Gaza.

 

Palestine’s President Abbas speaks at Jordan summit

He started off by highlighting the hardships of Palestinians in Gaza, saying they desperately need medical aid and food – hampered by Israel’s restrictions on border crossings – and that children need to go back to school.

“The UN Security Council and other international partners have a great role to play in applying more pressure on Israel to open the crossings,” said Abbas, who also echoed calls for an immediate, lasting ceasefire, saying it is time to “stop the suffering of the Palestinian people”.



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Blinken calls on countries to do more to help Palestinians in Gaza

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced more than $400m in humanitarian assistance to Palestinians at the conference in Jordan as he called for other donors to also step up.

“Only one-third of the current UN appeal is funded. That leaves a shortfall of approximately $2.3bn. Every country can help fill this gap … Some have expressed great concern over the suffering of Palestinian people in Gaza, including in countries with the capacity to give a lot, [but they] have provided very little or nothing at all,” he said.

“It is time for everyone to step up. For those who have already given and given generously – give more.”

How about you re-instate funding of UNWRA...

‘Surrealistic listening to Blinken’s speech at Jordan summit’

There’s something surrealistic about listening to a US secretary of state recounting the disaster that Gaza has become, the destruction of hospitals and schools, the deaths of people, of entire families, as if they were not killed by American ammunition, as if the United States did not block every attempt at an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the past three months.

But be that as it may, now we all learned the lesson once again that when it comes to America, it’s either America’s way or the highway – that in as far as America is concerned, American might is right and everything else is wrong and hence, until America passed its own resolution taking into consideration a good number of points by other countries, including the Algerians and apparently the Russians and the Chinese.

The resolution has passed and Hamas has welcomed it, and yet the secretary of state continues to emphasise that now it’s only up to Hamas and everyone needs to pressure Hamas to accept a ceasefire when in fact Hamas and others in Gaza have died for a ceasefire. They have always been, for the past eight months, dying for a ceasefire taking place.

So, if anything, the people in Gaza, including Hamas, want a ceasefire more than anyone else, including the United States and Israel.

Yes, bit late to look like the 'good guys' while still supporting genocide during the ceasefire negotiations and sending Israel over 14 billion in military assistance. Why not take some of that to fill 2.3 Billion shortfall of the UN appeal. It's all about keeping the military industrial complex going with tax payer money.


Arab parliament welcomes UN Security Council resolution

The Arab League legislative body has hailed the resolution calling for an immediate and complete ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, including the withdrawal of Israeli forces from it and the return of displaced Palestinians.

In a statement, the Arab Parliament said that this decision is a step in the right direction to stop the continuous aggression and the genocide against Palestinians, despite its delay for eight months due to consistent US vetos.

“The Arab Parliament affirmed support for Palestinians and their rights, as well as establishing a Palestinian State with Jerusalem as its capital,” the statement added, commending Arab and international efforts and Algeria’s role as well as ongoing Egyptian-Qatari mediation efforts.

 

Gaza health ministry urges Jordan summit states to ‘save’ the besieged Strip

Dr Ashraf al-Qudra, a ministry spokesman, has called on those attending the emergency international conference on the situation in Gaza to take “tangible and urgent measures to save the Gaza Strip, which has been destroyed by the Israeli occupation on the humanitarian and health level”.

The conference in Jordan states that its aims include accelerating the process of delivering and providing humanitarian assistance to Gaza in an immediate, sufficient and sustainable manner. It also aims to identify the operational, logistical and supply needs to urgently deliver all vital aid to the coastal enclave.



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Palestinian child meets with her father eight months after arrest

Journalists and activists have shared on Instagram a video of a child meeting her father for the first time after eight months of captivity and torture in Israeli prisons.

The girl is seen crying and hugging her father, saying, “Dad, I want you,” at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza.

The video has been verified by Sanad, Al Jazeera’s fact checking agency.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8FAm4gtP8S

Note the difference in the condition between the rescued hostages and Palestinian 'hostages'


What will happen with the raids on the West Bank if Biden's ceasefire actually comes true?

Israeli military kills Palestinian in raid on village near Jenin

One man was killed and another injured when Israeli forces raided the village of Kufr Dan in the occupied West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.

Clashes erupted between Palestinian fighters and Israeli troops, Wafa said, adding that an Israeli army helicopter was used in the operation. The clashes took place after a special force snuck into the village using a civilian truck and surrounded a house, which they then attacked.

Palestinian medical sources have said that Ahmad Samoudi was shot in the village of Kufr Dan, in the occupied West Bank, and left to bleed to death as Israeli forces stopped an ambulance from reaching him.

Three other Palestinians were shot and injured; two are in critical condition and one was moderately wounded, medics said.

Samoudi, from the town of Yamoun, west of Jenin, is the brother of a Palestinian child – Mahmoud Samoudi – who was killed by Israeli soldiers in 2022, the sources said.

Death toll in Kafr Dhan raid rises to three

The Palestinian Ministry of Health now reports that three people have been killed by [Israeli] occupation bullets”, where the previous death toll had stood at one.

Death toll in Kufr Dan, near Jenin, rises to 6

The Palestinian Ministry of Health now reports that six people have been killed by Israeli forces.


As well as the strikes in Lebanon, assuming Hezbollah stops attacking Israel during the potential ceasefire.

Series of Israeli attacks target southern Lebanon

Lebanese media reports that Israeli jets and drones have targeted several villages, namely Aita al-Shaab, Aitaroun and the outskirts of the towns of Kafra and Haris. Israeli military jets also breached the sound barrier in southern Lebanon’s airspace, the reports said.

The Israel-Lebanon border has seen an uptick in hostilities over the past week, with both the Israeli military and Hezbollah attacking locations outside the border strip where the exchanges of fire have been concentrated, and with increased intensity.


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Texas university bans students from chanting ‘From the river to the sea’

The University of Texas at San Antonio is facing backlash after banning prohibiting pro-Palestine student protesters from using certain phrases, including chanting in Arabic.

The university’s president is named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by pro-Palestinian students, who say that the university banned the phrase “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” – thus violating their right to free speech.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression told the university that it  has a duty to protect students’ expression under the US Constitution’s First Amendment, which protects speech.

According to the organisation, the university recently banned student protesters from using the words “Zionism,” “Israel,” the chant “from the river to the sea,” and “speaking in Arabic” – under the guise of needing to crack down on anti-Semitism.

US military pier in Gaza resumes humanitarian operations

The US’ floating military pier off Gaza has resumed bringing humanitarian aid into the enclave after being suspended for two days because of rough seas due to weather, according to three US officials, Reuters news agency reported.

The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the sea conditions had improved, and aid was brought to a marshalling area.

The pier had previously been out of operation for 10 days for repairs. The UN said it would review security before resuming aid deliveries from the dock.



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While US says Israel has accepted the ceasefire proposal, Hamas says they have accepted it, and it's backed by the UNSC: Still radio silence from Israel while the bombing campaigns continue.

Israeli bombing kills four in Gaza City

Four people have been killed and some have been wounded in an Israeli bombing targeting residents near the Tayaran intersection west of Gaza City, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report.

Situation for women and girls in Gaza ‘an absolute nightmare’: UNFPA

“More than anything, the damage to the healthcare system means that women have nowhere to turn,” Natalia Kanem, the executive director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), tells Al Jazeera.

“Where do you turn trying to keep a newborn safe and fed in that environment? We are facing a situation where women are delivering babies by caesarean section without anesthesia because there’s no energy, there’s no generator, the medicines are running out.”

The UNFPA is demanding that humanitarian corridors be opened up and for international humanitarian law to be respected, Kanem added.

3,000 malnourished children at risk of ‘dying before their families’ eyes’: UNICEF

“Almost 3,000 children have been cut off from treatment for moderate and severe acute malnutrition in southern Gaza, putting them at risk of death as harrowing violence and displacement continue to impact access to healthcare facilities and services for desperate families,” the UN’s agency for childrens’ relief says in a statement.

The agency said the number equates to approximately three-quarters of the 3,800 children who are receiving life-saving care in the south of the besieged Strip as the conflict in Rafah escalates.

While there has been some improvement in the delivery of food aid to the north, humanitarian access in the south has declined dramatically, the agency added.

“Horrific images continue to emerge from Gaza of children dying before their families’ eyes due to the continued lack of food, nutrition supplies, and the destruction of healthcare services,” said UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa Adele Khodr.

“UNICEF has more nutrition supplies prepositioned to arrive in the Gaza Strip, if access allows,” she added.

Living in safety only possible with an end to Israeli occupation: Charity

The UK-based charity Islamic Relief has welcomed the UN Security Council’s call for an immediate ceasefire, but says “the real test will now be its implementation”.

UNSC Resolution 2735 calls for an immediate ceasefire, unimpeded distribution of humanitarian aid at scale, the safe release of captives and prisoners and the withdrawal of Israeli forces.

“We hope this [resolution] will eventually lead to a lasting peace agreement and an end to Israel’s occupation of Palestine,” it said in a statement.

“All Palestinians and Israelis have the right to live in safety and dignity, and this will only be possible when there is an end to the Israeli occupation.”

Jordan’s foreign minister says Israel must abide by UNSC resolution

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi has said that the credibility of international law was at stake if Israel refused to abide by a UNSC resolution for a plan to end the war in Gaza.

Speaking at a news conference in Jordan, he said Israel had become a “pariah state”.