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SvennoJ on 11 June 2024

US thanks Indonesia’s incoming leader for Gaza aid

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has thanked Prabowo Subianto for offering assistance to Palestinians in Gaza during their meeting at an aid conference in Jordan.

The president-elect of the world’s largest Muslim-majority country pledged to send peacekeeping forces if a UN-backed ceasefire is in place and to increase medical aid immediately.

Addressing the conference on the Dead Sea, Prabowo said Indonesia was ready to send medical teams, a field hospital and a hospital ship to war-battered Gaza.

He also said Indonesia would evacuate 1,000 people for medical treatment in the Southeast Asian country, as well as children who have lost their parents or suffered other trauma, and help them return to Gaza after the war is over.

While the United States had previously denied Prabowo a visa over alleged involvement in the abduction of democracy activists at the end of Suharto’s dictatorship, US President Joe Biden’s administration has signalled a change in approach by personally congratulating Prabowo.

Australian billionaire proposes building new aid system for Gaza

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/11/middleeast/australian-billionaire-gaza-aid-gate-system-intl/index.html

An Australian billionaire is offering to build a secure gate system on the Israel-Gaza border that he says could allow 10,000 metric tons of food aid to be delivered each day to starving Palestinians.

Andrew Forrest, founder of the philanthropic Minderoo Foundation, was set to raise the proposal Tuesday at an emergency summit on Gaza in Jordan, co-hosted by that country, Egypt and the United Nations, and attended by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

He’s also committed $5 million to improve the Jordanian humanitarian land corridor by building storage warehouses to allow more aid to pass to Gaza.

“Right now, the Jordanian people are bearing a significant load by leading the single most effective route into Gaza. It is my intention to lighten their load,” Forrest, a mining magnate and avowed eco-warrior, said in a statement.

According to a video presentation on its website, Minderoo said the more ambitious plan, to build SafeGates at three points along the Israel-Gaza border, could be up and running in three weeks, if Israel gives the green light.

In a separate statement, Forrest said the project had been devised in consultation with Israel and Palestinian communities for the past two months. CNN has asked Israel for comment on the plan.



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SvennoJ on 11 June 2024

‘Palestinians will not raise the white flag’: Hamas on West Bank killings

Senior Hamas official Abdel Hakim Henini has said that “Israel is delusional if it thinks that its massacres in the West Bank and Gaza will push the Palestinian people to leave their land or to surrender.”

An Israeli raid on a village near Jenin has so far rendered six Palestinian men dead.

In a statement on the official Hamas Telegram channel, Henini said: “Israel has not learned from history that people who defend their freedom and independence cannot be beaten no matter how big their sacrifices are.”

“With today’s killings in the West Bank, the enemy will not achieve its goals,” he added.

Dozens out to mourn those killed during Israeli raid of Kafr Dan

Crowds of people showed up to the funeral procession for the six Palestinians killed earlier today by Israeli forces during a raid in the West Bank city of Kafr Dan, west of Jenin.

Social media footage, verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency, showed people chanting slogans and praising those who died.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8FrhUgukhI

Palestinian man injured by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank: Report

The incident took place at the Annab military checkpoint, east of Tulkarem city, the Wafa news agency is reporting.

Separately, Wafa said Israeli forces raided the Shuweika suburb, north of Tulkarem, firing sound bombs and live bullets. No injuries were reported, the news agency said.

Thousands in Israeli detention being tortured, abused: Prisoner rights group

Testimonies from several prisoners who were forcibly disappeared by the Israeli army from Gaza and were just released have revealed that detainees are being subject to torture, a rights group says.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said that thousands of Gaza detainees are still subject to enforced disappearance. Israeli authorities refuse to disclose their identities and places of detention, and is preventing the International Committee of the Red Cross from visiting them.

“With the release of some Gaza, accounts of torture crimes and harsh detention conditions are emerging, in addition to the state of the released prisoners, which reflects the level of torture and humiliation to which they were subjected,” the group said.

The group also said that Israeli authorities are refusing to disclose the number of prisoners who have died in prison.

“The Prisoners’ Club renews its demand for the necessity of an international investigation into the crimes and grave violations committed against detainees and prisoners in Israeli prisons and camps.”



SvennoJ on 11 June 2024

Germany sticking its fingers in its ears.

German court refuses request to block arms exports to Israel

A Berlin court has rejected an urgent request by Palestinian residents to halt the German government’s export of weapons to Israel on the grounds that they might be used in violation of humanitarian law, Reuters news agency reported.

The court said that the Palestinian plaintiffs had not shown that decisions on arms exports to Israel were actually pending, as Germany had abstained from issuing any this year, or that Germany was likely to permit exports in violation of international humanitarian law.

Legal teams representing the Palestinians argued there were reasons to believe such violations are taking place. They called the ruling incomprehensible, adding that the government kept pending arms export applications secret.

Lawyer Ahmed Abed said the government’s suppression of information about weapons and war crimes “puts the lives of our clients at risk”.

Last year, Germany approved arms exports to Israel worth 326 million euros ($354 million), 10 times more than in 2022.

Activists say basic liberties in Austria under threat

Austrian academics, legal experts and activists are concerned the space for basic freedoms is shrinking. In recent months, authorities have cracked down on multiple Palestinian solidarity demonstrations.




Palestine and Barbados sign joint declaration establishing diplomatic ties

The state of Palestine and Barbados have signed a joint declaration formally establishing diplomatic ties between the countries in a meeting on Tuesday.

Palestine’s United Nations Ambassador Riyad Mansour and his Barbadian counterpart Francois Jackman signed the declaration at UN headquarters in New York City, according to the Wafa news agency.

In April, Barbados announced it would be formally recognising Palestine as a state, becoming the 11th Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member to do so.

They join a raft of countries taking that step in recent months, including European countries Ireland, Spain, Norway and Slovenia.



SvennoJ on 11 June 2024

More Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon

Video footage shared by a local Lebanese news outlet, and verified by Al Jazeera, shows plumes of thick smoke arising from an area in the town of Joya.

Earlier we reported that Israeli jets and drones targeted several villages in southern Lebanon, namely Aita al-Shaab, Aitaroun and the outskirts of the towns of Kafra and Haris.

Hezbollah says several Israeli targets hit

In a statement on Telegram, the Lebanese armed group says its fighters bombed Kfar Blum and Gesher Haziv in northern Israel with dozens of Katyusha rockets.

Moreover, Hezbollah said it bombed a group of Israeli soldiers at the Birkat Risha near Lebanon’s southern border.

Several people killed in Israeli strike on Lebanon: Report

An Israeli strike on the village of Joya in southern Lebanon killed at least four people, three security sources told the Reuters news agency.

Senior commander among those killed in southern Lebanese town

An Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese town of Joya has killed a senior commander of Hezbollah, the Reuters and AFP news agencies are reporting, citing Lebanese security sources.

Meanwhile, the Lebanese armed group in a post on Telegram announced the death of one of its senior figures, Talib Sami Abdullah.

As usual, Hezbollah did not mention when or where exactly he was killed.



SvennoJ on 11 June 2024

Hamas, Islamic Jihad submit ceasefire response to mediators

Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad have expressed “readiness to positively” reach a deal to end the war in Gaza in a joint statement.

They added that they submitted their response to the proposed Gaza ceasefire deal to Qatari and Egyptian mediators. “Our response prioritises the Palestinian people and the complete end of the ongoing onslaught on Gaza,” the two groups said.

Egypt, Qatar state they received Hamas’s response to ceasefire deal

Egypt and Qatar confirmed that they have received a response from Hamas about the ceasefire deal, according to a post on Facebook by the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“The two sides confirm that their joint mediation efforts with the United States of America will continue until an agreement is reached, as the mediators will study the response and coordinate with the parties concerned regarding the next steps,” their statement on Facebook also read.

Important that both Hamas, Islamic Jihad on board for ceasefire

It is certainly good news for the potential of a real ceasefire. At least, Hamas is engaging, despite the fact that they are dealing with Israel, which has not really come out in the open and adopted or embraced the US-sponsored UN Security Council resolution.

Also, they are dealing with the United States … which has been aiding and abating genocide while at the same time trying to broker a ceasefire.

So you can’t blame Hamas for not trusting the Biden administration to broker a ceasefire. It is important the Palestine Islamic Jihad is on board as well, because this means that the two main fighting groups in Gaza are both now engaged with the various parties in order to move the process forward.

The need for clarifications about the full withdrawal from Gaza, including the Gaza crossings, is essential for Hamas. Otherwise, you could expect Israel to be imposing a siege any day by simply closing those crossings or by redeploying its troops.

So I think these guarantees are essential, and I think the United States, as a sponsor of this proposal, is going to have to give them.


US received and is evaluating Hamas response to ceasefire deal, says White House

The US has received Hamas’s formal reply to a UN-backed Gaza ceasefire proposal sent to Qatari and Egyptian mediators, White House spokesperson John Kirby says.

Kirby told reporters that it was helpful to have a response from Hamas and that US officials are currently evaluating it.

Earlier today, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the UN Security Council’s vote in favour of the Gaza ceasefire plan made it “as clear as it possibly could be” that the world supports the proposal.

Hamas demand for full withdrawal from Gaza is not new: Former Israeli negotiator

Daniel Levy says that “this demand for a full withdrawal is not new. It is in the paper, it is in the proposal, it is even in the UN resolution. This is part of any deal.”

“The question being posed is what kind of commitment that you as a mediator – namely the US – are you making to your own plan in all its phases. Because what has prevented a breakthrough is whether this is an actual ceasefire or is this a temporary pause followed by more deaths, horror and destruction,” he told Al Jazeera.

Levy said that Israel’s answer has been unequivocal: the war would continue – even as the US said otherwise. “That is the question that not just Hamas and Islamic Jihad are asking, but the whole world is asking.”


Hamas’s response to ceasefire proposal opens ‘wide pathway’: Official

Hamas’s response to a proposed Gaza ceasefire deal “opens up a wide pathway” to reach an agreement, Izzat al-Rishq, a member of the group’s political bureau, has said in a statement, the Reuters news agency reports.

The movement’s response is “responsible, serious and positive”, al-Rishq added.



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SvennoJ on 11 June 2024

Hamas’s response to ceasefire proposal appears to put ball back ‘in Israel’s court’

The National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby has confirmed that the US administration has received the response from Hamas.

He says that they are evaluating it right now. He added that it’s certainly helpful that we have a response. As for the reported details, he said, ‘I think I’m just going to demur right now’.

That means that they have received the response and now they are looking at it and working through the details.

The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that the ball was in Hamas’s court in terms of responding to President Biden’s ceasefire proposal. Well that would now appear to have changed. Since the Hamas response, the ball would now appear to be tossed over the net and in Israel’s court to come up with some form of response.

Hamas responds to Gaza cease-fire plan seeking some changes. US says it’s ‘evaluating’ the reply

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-06-11-2024-d3733d55c6a66222da1a4a051997094c

Hamas said Tuesday that it gave mediators its reply to the U.S.-backed proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza, seeking some “amendments” on the deal. It appeared the reply was short of an outright acceptance that the United States has been pushing for but kept negotiations alive over an elusive halt to the eight-month war.

The foreign ministries of Qatar and Egypt — who have been key mediators alongside the United States — confirmed that they had received Hamas’ response and said mediators were studying it.

“We’re in receipt of this reply that Hamas delivered to Qatar and to Egypt, and we are evaluating it right now,” White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters in Washington.

Hamas spokesman Jihad Taha said the response included “amendments that confirm the cease-fire, withdrawal, reconstruction and (prisoner) exchange.” Taha did not elaborate.

But while supporting the broad outlines of the deal, Hamas officials have expressed wariness over whether Israel would implement its terms, particularly provisions for an eventual permanent end to fighting and full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in return for the release of all hostages held by the militants.



Here we go again, just like last time Hamas accepted a ceasefire proposal. Now it's up to the Biden administration to put pressure on their proxy outlaw state to accept / stick to Biden's ceasefire deal. Which is basically what the 'amendments' are about. Hamas wants a guarantor.

Israel ‘spinning’ reported Hamas amendments in ceasefire response

    This is already being spun in Israel. Israeli officials are saying that this is a rejection of the Biden ceasefire proposal and what was tabled as a resolution by the UN Security Council.

    Hamas are actually saying that, you asked us to respond. We have responded, and the ball is now firmly in Israel’s court; Israel needs to come to the negotiating table.

    Hamas have also said that they are willing to send negotiators to go and get a ceasefire deal done.



    CNN is spinning as well

    US intelligence suggests Sinwar believes Hamas has upper hand in negotiations with Israel, officials say

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/11/politics/us-intelligence-sinwar-gaza/index.html

    For US negotiators pursuing a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel, it’s a discouraging assessment. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the families of American hostages being held in Gaza in a meeting in Tel Aviv on Tuesday morning that the fate of the latest proposal rests with Sinwar.

    While the US is pressuring those who have sway over Hamas to push the group to accept the deal, Blinken on Tuesday made it clear that the US believes that Sinwar is the ultimate decision-maker.

    They accept the deal, wake up CNN.

    Hamas gambled on the suffering of civilians in Gaza. Netanyahu played right into it

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/11/middleeast/analysis-yahya-sinwar-hamas-ceasefire-talks-intl-latam/index.html

    Yahya Sinwar has so far survived eight months of Israeli’s brutal military campaign to kill him. His longevity is a personal victory for the Hamas leader – and increasingly appears to be grim vindication of his decision to seize the initiative in the generational Palestinian struggle with Israel by launching a bloody attack on October 7 that would plunge Gaza’s two million residents into a predictable hell.

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his military responded as expected to Sinwar’s onslaught of terror that killed more than 1,200 people and saw over 220 taken hostage, declaring war and vowing to destroy Hamas.


    Rewriting history as usual, Hamas has had pretty much the same proposal on the table since December.

    Hamas also did not expect to be this successful on October 7th and lost track of their soldiers while more and more people and other militants walked into Israel to take revenge since the Israeli response took many many hours to arrive.

    I'm sure they expected another bombing campaign like in 2014, 2012, 2008 etc. Yet the primary objective was another hostage exchange. Hamas effed up, Israel effed up, many innocent civilians got murdered by terrorists as well as by friendly fire in the chaos.

    Now is the time to make sure this never happens again through diplomatic means leading to a 2 state solution.



    SvennoJ on 11 June 2024

    Meanwhile

    Israeli forces hit southern Gaza areas

    Israeli air raids have targeted residential homes in the Brazil neighbourhood, in the southern area of Rafah, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report.

    Israel’s ground offensive in Rafah has been ongoing since early May despite an order from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to halt operations there.


    Palestinians flee with their belongings as smoke rises in the background, in the area of Tal as-Sultan in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip

     

    ‘Devastation of Gaza already happened’

    UNICEF spokesperson James Elder says that “so much suffering is being inflicted on Gaza”.

    “The intentions must now be clear. The absolute devastation of Gaza, indeed, it’s already happened,” Elder, who is currently in the coastal enclave, added in a video post on X.

    “Homes, hospitals, schools, universities, agriculture, the economy… devastated. And still the bombs fall.”

    Majority of people in Gaza ‘fully dependent on humanitarian aid’: EU official

    Despite the efforts of humanitarian actors over the past eight months, the amount of aid allowed into Gaza has fallen to unacceptably low levels, said the European Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarcic, in comments carried by the Wafa news agency.

    “A ceasefire is desperately needed to deliver life-saving aid to those in need,” he said at the Gaza summit in Jordan.

    He stressed the need to reopen the Rafah and Karem Abu Salem, known as Kerem Shalom to Israelis, crossing points, as well as the Jordan corridor.

    “Aid is piling up at Gaza’s borders when children are dying of hunger just a few kilometres away. We can and we must stop this catastrophe,” said Lenarcic.

    Israeli military bombs home in Rafah, killing child

    The Israeli military has bombed a house in Rafah city in southern Gaza, killing a child, the Wafa news agency reports.

    An unspecified number of other people were injured in the attack, which occurred in the al-Nasr neighbourhood in the north of the city, according to Wafa.

    Israeli forces have also bombed a home in the Shujayea neighbourhood in the east of Gaza City. No casualty figures have been reported so far from that attack.



    SvennoJ on 11 June 2024

    Predicted by Russia, Israel busts US lies on Gaza in UN Security Council | Janta Ka Reporter




    Ceasefire talks in turmoil as Hamas responds to proposal

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/11/middleeast/hamas-responds-hostage-deal-intl-latam/index.html

    Talks to bring about a ceasefire and hostage deal that could stop the war in Gaza were thrown into doubt Tuesday evening when Israel characterized a Hamas response to the latest proposal as a rejection, precipitating a blame game between the two sides.

    Hamas had submitted its response to Qatari mediators, proposing amendments to the Israeli proposal, including a timeline for a permanent ceasefire and complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, a source with knowledge of the talks told CNN earlier on Tuesday.

    After submitting its response Tuesday, Hamas spokesman and political bureau member Osama Hamdan told Lebanon-based TV Al Mayadeen, the group was committed to achieving a ceasefire. “Our response is a clear reaffirmation of our commitment to the ceasefire and withdrawal from Gaza, a commitment we have consistently upheld,” Hamdan added.

    But in a potential sign of how Israel views the proposed amendments, one Israeli official speaking to CNN analyst Barak Ravid described Hamas’ response to the original deal as a rejection.

    “Israel received Hamas’ response. Hamas rejected the proposal for a hostage deal, which was laid out by President Biden in his speech,” the source said according to Ravid’s post on X.

    Hamas leadership quickly pushed back on the claim as an attempt to back out of the proposal.

    “The response of Hamas and the Palestinian factions to the truce proposal was responsible, serious and positive. The response is consistent with the demands of our people and the resistance and opens the way to reaching an agreement,” said Izzat al-Rishq, a member of the Hamas political bureau, late on Tuesday.

    “The Israeli media’s incitement to Hamas’s response is an indication of attempts to evade the agreement’s obligations.” 



    Looks like it's going nowhere again. The US will have to take Israel to account or it's not happening.


    The plan, drafted by Israel, has not been made public in full. Endorsed by the United Nations Security Council on Monday, the plan envisages a six-week ceasefire - during which Hamas would release hostages and Israel would release Palestinian prisoners – that would evolve into a permanent cessation of hostilities through negotiations.

    The White House has been at pains to stress it is an Israeli plan and have repeatedly said that Israel has accepted it, despite objections from Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

    Earlier Tuesday, Israel had made its clearest signal yet that it was poised to formally sign up to the plan - though in the same short statement it suggested it intended to maintain the freedom to keep fighting.



    SvennoJ on 12 June 2024

    Israeli military placed on UN ‘blacklist’ in annual Children in Armed Conflict report

    The UN’s annual report on Children in Armed Conflict, a copy of which was obtained by the Associated Press (AP) on Tuesday, provides details on why the Israeli military for the first time has been placed on a blacklist of countries that have killed and maimed children and attacked schools and hospitals.

    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres chief said in the report that he was “appalled by the dramatic increase and unprecedented scale and intensity of grave violations against children in the Gaza Strip, Israel and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem”.

    The magnitude of the Israeli military campaign against groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad “and the scope of death and destruction in the Gaza Strip have been unprecedented”, he said.

    The report also listed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad for the first time as well for killing, injuring and abducting children, the AP reported.

    In 2023, the report said, 5,698 grave violations against children were attributed to Israeli forces, 116 to Hamas, 58 to unidentified perpetrators, 51 to Israeli settlers, 21 to Islamic Jihad, 13 to Palestinian individuals, and one to Palestinian Authority Security Forces. The process of verifying the attribution of 2,051 other violations is ongoing.

    The report said the UN had verified the killing of 2,267 Palestinian children in Gaza among some 9,100 children that have been reported killed in the territory “and verification is ongoing”.

    And that's only for 2023, the war on children has been raging on got another 5 months since.

    800 Palestinians killed in one week demonstrates Israel not adhering to international law: MSF

    International medical charity Doctors without Borders (known by its French initials MSF) said Israel’s reported killing of more than 800 people and the wounding of more than 2,400 more in Gaza since the start of June highlights the Israeli military’s “disregard for Palestinian lives”.

    “Numerous military offensives in recent weeks have led to recurrent mass casualty influxes,” MSF said in a statement, calling on Israeli forces to “halt these massacres”.

    “How can the killing of more than 800 people in a single week… be considered a military operation adhering to international humanitarian law?” MSF emergency unit chief Brice de le Vingne said in a statement.

    “We can no longer accept the statement that Israel is taking ‘all precautions’- this is just propaganda”, de la Vingne said. “Since October (and certainly before), the dehumanisation of Palestinians has been a hallmark of this war,” he added.

     

    UNRWA head urges Germany to press Israel to halt deadly attacks on UN workers

    The UNRWA chief has told Germany it must press Israel to stop its deadly attacks on UN aid workers.

    “Germany must help the UN protect itself against Israel’s attacks. There is no contradiction, being a close friend of Israel and [having] red lines,” UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini said in an interview with Germany’s Der Spiegel news magazine.

    “So far, 192 of our employees have been killed in Gaza. There have also been several arson attacks on our headquarters in East Jerusalem.”

    Lazzarini pointed out that UNRWA workers have also been abused and tortured by Israel during their imprisonment.

    “Released employees have reported to us that they faced mistreatment, humiliation and torture, including even waterboarding,” he said. “Many were almost naked, blindfolded and with cable tied up for long periods of time. What I had never heard before, that prisoners were forced to wear diapers for weeks because they couldn’t get access to sanitary facilities or just to humiliate them.”


    Palestinians suffer water shortages, pollution in Jabalia refugee camp



    SvennoJ on 12 June 2024

    UN probe accuses Israel of ‘extermination’ in war on Gaza

    An independent UN investigation has concluded that Israel committed crimes against humanity during the war in Gaza, including the crime of “extermination”.

    “The crimes against humanity of extermination; murder; gender persecution targeting Palestinian men and boys; forcible transfer; and torture and inhuman and cruel treatment were committed,” the Commission of Inquiry said in a report, due to be presented to the UN Human Rights Council next week.

    It also blamed Hamas for committing war crimes in the early stages of the Gaza war.

    The findings were from two parallel reports, one focusing on the October 7 Hamas attacks and another on Israel’s military response, published by the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI).

    Israel does not cooperate with the commission, which it says has an anti-Israel bias. The COI says Israel obstructs its work and prevents investigators from accessing both Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory.

     

    UN inquiry says Israel and Hamas have both committed war crimes since October 7

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/12/middleeast/un-report-israel-hamas-gaza-war-crimes-intl-hnk/index.html


    Palestinians inspect the destruction around residential buildings following Israeli air strikes in the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza on December 1, 2023

    UN report chronicling Gaza war crimes is ‘damning’

    The report by the UN’s independent Commission of Inquiry is damning. The bit that’s on the occupied Palestinian territory includes findings that are really serious.

    According to the commission, Israel has carried out crimes against humanity, including the crime of extermination. It talks about Israel using starvation as a method of warfare, intentional attacks on civilians and collective punishment, including the use of sieges.

    With regard to October 7, the report is very critical of Hamas. It says Hamas carried out war crimes too – wilful killings, murder and torture.

    And it does say there are some instances of sexual violence and gender-based violence, although, on that, it’s worth noting that it’s looked at some of the allegations of rape made by Israeli authorities and some Israeli journalists and says it cannot independently verify some of those allegations.

    A lot of evidence has clearly been gathered here that can potentially go to a judicial body at a later stage.

    Footage shows Israeli soldiers killing unarmed Palestinians in Gaza

    Al Jazeera has obtained footage from Gaza that appears to show Israeli soldiers killing Palestinian people.

    The videos were captured around al-Rashid Street, a coastal road connecting north and south Gaza. Israel had designated it a safe zone for Palestinians wanting to move between those areas.

    Footage from June 1 shows a person walking along the beach before Israeli soldiers appear to have stopped them. Moments later, the person is shot.

    Another video appears to show a group of Palestinians walking north on May 17. One of them steps out of the group and raises their hands in the air, apparently showing they are unarmed. They are shot within minutes. Soldiers are then seen coming in to take the person’s body away.

    Israeli forces conduct overnight raids across occupied West Bank

    Israeli forces have carried out several overnight raids across the occupied West Bank in the following locations:

    • Shuweika, north of Tulkarem
    • Baqat al-Hatab, east of Qalqilya
    • Balata refugee camp east of Nablus as well as the village of Burqa, northwest of the city
    • Deir Ibzi and Budrus, west of Ramallah
    • Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem
    • Beit Ummar, north of Hebron

    A general strike is also being observed in Jenin to mourn the Israeli military’s killing of six Palestinians on Tuesday evening in the town of Kafr Dan.

    Since October 7, at least 544 people in the occupied West Bank have been killed in Israeli military and settler attacks. More than 5,200 Palestinians have also been wounded and at least 9,170 detained.

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