While Blinken may be saying to the media that he's trying to dissuade Israel from escalating the war with Lebanon
"US Secretary of State Antony Blinken emphasized to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Monday the need to stop the conflict in Gaza from spreading, according to a readout of their meeting from State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller."
This ugly genocide is changing one thing at least, lies are getting called out much faster.
Los Angeles protests against Israeli land sales reported inaccurately: Rights group
Elected officials and journalists missed crucial context when reporting on protests at a Los Angeles synagogue that hosted an event allegedly promoting the sale of land in illegally-occupied Palestinian territories, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has said in a statement.
We reported earlier that protests took place at the real estate event promoted by the Israel-based agency My Home in Israel.
US President Joe Biden, however, later described the occupied Palestinian land sale protests as “antisemitic, and un-American”, saying that the right to peaceful protest does not extend to “blocking access to a house of worship”.
In his post on X, Biden did not mention the land sales event.
“We call on political leaders to condemn the organisations involved in the potentially illegal sale of Palestinian land and the counter-protesters who commit violence against anti-genocide protesters with the same fervour used for rightfully condemning antisemitism,” said Hussam Ayloush, the executive director of CAIR’s Los Angeles office.
Our LA office @cairlosangeles condemned real estate events held at CA synagogues allegedly promoting the sale of land in illegally-occupied Palestinian territories. "Any type of violence, harassment, intimidation, or suppression of free speech is never acceptable..." https://t.co/EU8YIEO37X
— CAIR National (@CAIRNational) June 24, 2024
Journalists, diplomats given tour of Beirut airport to counter allegation of Hezbollah weapons
Lebanese government officials gave journalists and diplomats a tour of Beirut international airport on Monday to counter a recent report that Hezbollah stored weapons at the air hub, the Associated Press (AP) news agency reports.
The tour came after the UK’s Telegraph newspaper published a story that quoted anonymous airport workers as alleging that Hezbollah had shipped missiles through the airport.
Lebanon’s caretaker Transportation Minister Ali Hamieh said the Lebanese government will take legal action against the newspaper, accusing it of slander and fabricating information in the story, which was published without the writer’s name.
Ziad T Makary, Lebanon’s information minister, on Sunday urged reporters to come to the Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport to “verify first-hand the falsity of the allegations contained in the Telegraph newspaper”.
“Out of concern for the security of the country and the safety of Lebanese citizens, residents and visitors, and based on the fact that the article contradicts the principles and ethics of journalism, and because its goals are not innocent, we address all media outlets and hope they will not be satisfied with denouncing the article, but rather in exposing its intentions behind its publication in these circumstance,” Makary said.
Head of the Customs Authority at Beirut airport Samer Dia, centre right, speaks with journalists and diplomats during a media tour at the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon on June 24
Netanyahu receives warning over German defence contract corruption probe
A state investigation into an alleged corruption scandal involving Israel’s purchase of submarines and other warships from Germany has sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning him that he could be harmed by the probe’s conclusions.
The inquiry, launched in 2022, is looking into an affair involving the $2bn purchase of naval vessels from Germany’s Thyssenkrupp, the Associated Press news agency reports, while a separate court proceeding into the case took testimony from Netanyahu, though he was not named as a suspect in the corruption case.
The new warning letter could lead to Netanyahu being seen as more deeply implicated in the unfolding scandal, the AP reports.
Netanyahu is already on trial for corruption in three other separate cases, though he denies all charges.
The investigation committee did not detail the latest corruption accusations against Netanyahu, but painted a picture of improper decision-making at multiple levels of the Israeli government, the defence establishment and Israel’s military.
Death toll rises for Israeli attack on crowd in Khan Younis
At least 10 people have now been reported dead following an Israeli attack near the Bani Suheila traffic circle in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, according to the Wafa news agency.
We reported earlier that Israeli forces attacked Palestinians who had gathered as commercial and aid trucks came through the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing in southern Gaza.
Security guards who were accompanying the aid trucks are among the dead.
At least 5 killed in Israeli attack on Maghazi refugee camp
Earlier, we reported that an Israeli strike on a house in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza had resulted in an unknown number of casualties.
The Wafa news agency now reports that at least five people have been killed, including three children, and several others have been injured.
Israeli military strikes school in Gaza City, killing at least 6: Report
The Israeli military has bombed a school housing displaced people in the centre of Gaza City, killing at least six people, according to local media.
Several people were also injured in the strike in northern Gaza, which hit the Abdel-Fanah Hammoud School in Gaza City’s Daraj area.
تغطية صحفية: مجزرة جديدة.. شهــ ــداء أشلاء وإصابات جراء قصف الاحتــــلال مدرسة عبد الفتاح حمود التي تؤوي نازحين بمنطقة الدرج وسط مدينة غزة. pic.twitter.com/qP2nlAQJcn
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) June 25, 2024
The child victims of Israel’s weaponisation of hunger in Gaza
These are the 'lucky' ones that made it to a sort of functioning hospital
A malnourished Palestinian baby is held while receiving treatment at the International Medical Corps field hospital in Deir el-Balah in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 22
Jori Al-Areer, a Palestinian girl who suffers from cancer and malnutrition, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on June 24
A Palestinian mother, Nada, feeds her son Amjad Al-Kanoo, who suffers from malnutrition, while her other son Ahmed, who suffers from cancer, sits next to her while they wait to be transferred for treatment outside Gaza, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis on June 24
Jana Ayad, a malnourished Palestinian girl, is helped by her mother as she receives treatment at the International Medical Corps field hospital in Deir el-Balah in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 22
Palestinian children patient at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on June 24
Extended families ‘wiped out’ leaves no one to take in Palestinian children: Doctor
Here’s more from Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, a paediatric physician from Canada who worked in Gaza, on the Save the Children report that said 21,000 Palestinian kids are unaccounted for since Israel’s war on the territory began.
Haj-Hassan said that multiple generations of families are being killed in Israeli attacks, meaning there is no extended family left to take in Palestinian children who have lost their parents.
Gaza is “a very beautiful, family-centred culture where extended families remain very close”, she said, so “normally, prior to October, what would happen with these children is they would be taken in by extended family”.
Haj-Hassan says displacement has seen sometimes up to 150 members of the same family staying in a building together.
“So if that building is hit, that wipes out not only the child’s mother, father, siblings, first uncles, aunts, it also wipes out all of their entire extended family.”
Israel allows more aid missions to go ahead, UN figures show
Nearly two-thirds of coordinated humanitarian missions in the Gaza Strip have been facilitated by Israeli authorities so far this month, the UN humanitarian agency, OCHA, has said.
This is an improvement from May, when just under half of aid missions went ahead smoothly, according to OCHA data.
However, in the north of the Gaza Strip, just under half of 86 coordinated humanitarian missions were facilitated by Israeli authorities from the beginning of June up until June 23, OCHA figures show.
In total, Israel has outright denied access to 38 humanitarian missions in both the north and the south of Gaza in June so far, while other missions were impeded or cancelled due to logistical, operational or security reasons, OCHA added.
At least 495,000 Palestinians facing ‘catastrophic food insecurity’
That amounts to one in five Palestinians in the enclave suffering from the highest level of malnutrition, according to the UN’s hunger monitoring system, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
At the same time, according to the IPC’s latest report, more than one in five households go entire days without eating.
“The humanitarian space in the Gaza Strip continues to shrink and the ability to safely deliver assistance to populations is dwindling. The recent trajectory is negative and highly unstable,” the IPC update said.
More than half of the population of #Gaza doesn’t have any food stored, with over 20% of people going entire days without eating, according to @theIPCinfo.
The risk of famine remains at least as high as at any time during the past few months of war.https://t.co/VDhsKepLiv https://t.co/ZRG5uK2hBh pic.twitter.com/PWwnaf1fDW
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) June 25, 2024
UN says 273 aid workers killed in Israel’s war on Gaza
On top of targeting aid seekers in Gaza, Israeli forces have also repeatedly struck humanitarian aid offices and aid convoys in its assault on Gaza.
At least 273 aid workers, most working for the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), have been killed by Israel’s attacks, making Gaza the deadliest place for aid workers.
UNRWA’s Lazzarini: ‘Little positive news’ in Gaza
UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini has held a media conference in Geneva.
He says there is “little positive news” to share regarding Gaza’s humanitarian situation. Aid flow, in particular, has been strained in recent weeks, with the number of open crossings low and numerous aid trucks being looted, he said.
“We are confronted with a near total breakdown of law and order. Truck drivers [are] being regularly threatened and assaulted, and less and less are willing to move assistance from the border to our warehouses,” said Lazzarini
Meanwhile, he said more UNRWA facilities were targeted overnight, bringing the total number of its affected premises to 190. These attacks deprive Palestinians seeking shelter there of what little protection remains in the enclave, he added.
Ten children in Gaza losing legs every day: UNRWA
An average of 10 children per day are losing one or both of their legs due to attacks in Gaza, the UNRWA’s Lazzarini has told reporters in Geneva. Lazzarini said the figures, sourced from the UN children’s agency UNICEF, do not include children who have lost their hands or arms.
On top of the thousands of children killed and injured during the war, more than 21,000 are also estimated to be missing, according to humanitarian organisation Save the Children. Many of them are trapped under rubble, detained, buried in unmarked graves, or separated from their loved ones, the organisation says.
UN agency for Palestinian refugees has funding until August, agency chief says
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has underlined the funding gap, saying the agency has a budget until the end of August.
Philippe Lazzarini told a news conference in Geneva that he is referring to the regular budget, which is the “backbone” of the organisation that covers 30,000 staff. “We have the cash until the end of August, and basically, we still have a shortfall of about $100-140m to reach the end of the year,” Lazzarini said.
Regarding the funding of emergency appeals, he said that the appeal on the occupied Palestinian territory is funded by 15-18 percent, while the appeal on Syria is about 15 percent funded.
“These two appeals are significantly underfunded, which prevents us, for example, from doing cash distribution or food distribution in Syria and Lebanon and in Gaza,” he said.
Gaza entering ‘most critical humanitarian phase’, OIC warns
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has warned that Gaza is “entering its most critical humanitarian phase” since the start of the war.
OIC said in a statement 70 percent of Gaza’s urban infrastructure has been destroyed, making most areas of Gaza uninhabitable. The entry of limited quantities of humanitarian aid, fuel, and water is preventing any recovery, it said, adding that Israeli forces refuse to cease military operations.
Israeli tank likely hit AFP Gaza office, International media probe finds
Israeli tank fire was likely the cause of blasts that damaged the AFP news agency’s office in Gaza on November 2, a collaborative investigation by AFP and international media outlets has found.
The Israeli military has indicated “the building was not targeted in any way”, and in June said the incident that occurred less than a month into the Gaza war was under review.
Tank fire: ‘A weapon not owned by any other party in the conflict apart from Israel’
Staff had already evacuated the office before the attack, but a camera broadcasting a live feed of the war captured the moments the agency’s server room on the 11th floor of the Hajji building in Gaza City was hit.
Five experts consulted said the damage to the server room was likely caused by a tank, a weapon not owned by any other party in the conflict apart from Israel.
“The weapon type and accuracy inherent in the Israeli tank weapon system means that the weapon hit the target it was aimed at,” said British munitions expert Adrian Wilkinson. “No other actor has a weapon system that fires line of sight with a warhead of 2.3 kilos, which is consistent with the damage caused inside the building,” he added.
This photograph taken on November 3, 2023, shows a gaping hole where a strike hit the AFP’s bureau in the Hajji building in Gaza City
Israel targeted livestreams that could be used as evidence, probe finds
The investigation noted other examples where livestreams appeared to be targeted, including an attack on the office of the Palestinian Media Group (PMG) just one hour before the strike on the AFP’s office.
Like the AFP, the PMG had been livestreaming the war to clients that included the Reuters news agency. One of PMG’s journalists was also injured in the attack.
An earlier investigation by AFP found an Israeli tank was likely behind an attack on journalists in southern Lebanon which killed Reuters video journalist Issam Abdallah, 37, and seriously injured an AFP photographer. Al Jazeera was livestreaming from the same location at the time of the attack.
Israeli authorities also recently briefly blocked the livestream of the AP news agency last month, the investigation noted.
Irene Khan, the UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, said that livestream footage could become “critical evidence” in investigations into potential war crimes.
This photograph taken on April 3, 2024, shows damage from a November 2, 2023 strike inside the AFP Gaza office server room, in Gaza City
Gaza journalists have long known that their ‘press’ vests do not protect them
A collaborative investigation by 50 journalists from 13 news outlets has found that at least 14 Palestinian journalists were wearing protective press gear when they were killed, wounded or allegedly targeted in Gaza.
“Today’s Gaza journalists have long known that their ‘press’ vests do not protect them,” said Laurent Richard from the news organisation Forbidden Stories, which led the investigation.
The report found that more than 100 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza – including 40 who were killed while they were at home – since October last year.
“Whereas the press vest was supposed to identify and protect us according to international laws … it is now a threat to us,” said Basel Khair al-Din, a Palestinian journalist in Gaza who believes he was targeted by an Israeli drone strike while wearing a press vest.
Sister and family of senior Hamas official reported killed in Shati camp strike
Local media is reporting that the Israeli military has killed a senior Hamas official’s sister and other family members in a strike on the Shati camp area near Gaza City. Earlier we reported that the Israeli military had attacked the Asmaa School, an UNRWA shelter housing displaced Palestinians in Shati camp area, killing five people.
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Israeli military bombs family home of senior Hamas official, killing 10
Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues are reporting that the Israeli military has bombed the family home of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in northern Gaza, killing at least 10 people, including his sister.
Earlier we reported that the Israeli military had carried out an attack in the Shati camp area near Gaza City. Local media is reporting that everyone killed in the strike is a member of the Haniyeh family.
And there you have it, targeted 'Hamas fighters'
Israel confirms overnight attacks as strikes on UN-run shelters kill at least 11
Israel’s military said its warplanes carried out attacks on two buildings overnight – one in the Shati refugee camp and another on the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City – claiming the strikes targeted Hamas fighters.
We reported earlier that at least six people were killed overnight when a UN-run school sheltering displaced people was attacked in Daraj and that at least five people, including children, were killed in another strike on UN-run shelter in the Shati camp. Five people were also reported killed in other attacks overnight.
Israel’s military said its aircraft attacked sites where “terrorists operated from school premises” and some of those targeted were involved in the Hamas attack of October 7 and “holding hostages”.
Reports have emerged more recently that Israeli forces also bombed the family home of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in northern Gaza’s Shati camp, killing at least 10 people, including his sister.
In its post on social media, Israel’s military made no mention of the Hamas leader’s relatives being targeted in the Shati attack.
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Gaza civil defence confirms Hamas chief’s relatives killed in Israeli attack
Gaza civil defence has confirmed that an Israeli air strike killed 10 relatives of Hamas chief Haniyeh, including his sister. The Israeli military has yet to comment on the attack.
“There are 10 martyrs … as a result of the strike, including Zahr Haniyeh, sister of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh,” Mahmud Basal, spokesman for Gaza’s civil defence, told AFP news agency, also reporting “several” wounded.
Drones drop firebombs on Deir el-Balah; tanks, jets and artillery pound Rafah
Israeli military drones dropped fire-starting incendiary bombs on Abu Arif Street in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip overnight, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reports, while air raids, artillery shelling and tank fire blasted western areas of Rafah city.
As we reported earlier, at least 15 people have been killed and many wounded in attacks overnight by Israeli forces.
Rocket attacks on Israel continue from Gaza warzone: Monitors
Palestinian fighters carried out at least seven separate rocket attacks on Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip on Monday, war monitors report.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters fired rockets towards five Israeli towns, while rockets were also launched towards two Israeli troop sites situated inside Israel near the border with Gaza, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) report.
Israeli air defence systems intercepted another two rocket barrages – one launched from Rafah in the south and another from northern Gaza, the US-based defence think tanks said in their latest battlefield update.
Casualties in southern Gaza as home, tent attacked
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting Israeli military attacks on a home in central Khan Younis and a tent sheltering displaced people in Mawasi.
Together, the attacks have killed and injured at least six people, according to their report.
Rescuers search for victims of Khan Younis home attack
Footage verified by Al Jazeera shows Palestinians searching for victims under the rubble of a bombed-out home in Khan Younis.
Several victims are seen wrapped in white shrouds, while one man, heavily bandaged and bloodied, is put on a stretcher and into an ambulance, to be brought for treatment in Nasser Hospital.
A neighbour of the targeted home said its residents were “unarmed civilians” who had arrived just days ago. They added that passersby were also injured in the attack.
Shot 12-year-old dies from wounds inflicted by Israeli soldiers
A Palestinian child rights group has released details of the 12-year-old who was shot by Israeli forces on June 14 and died in hospital in Ramallah on Saturday.
The victim, Mohammad Morad Ahmad Hoshiyeh, was on his way home from football practice when he was shot in the abdomen by Israeli soldiers at 6:30pm on June 14 near the Al-Amari refugee camp in Ramallah.
The 12-year-old was shot at a distance of between 70 to 90 metres (230 to 295 feet) by an Israeli soldier who was inside an armoured military vehicle, Defense for Children International – Palestine said in a statement.
The organisation said that 135 Palestinian children have now been killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank since October 7.
“During these incursions, Israeli forces routinely resort to intentional lethal force in situations not justified under international law and make no effort to impartially investigate” afterwards, the group said. “All Palestinians, including children, are considered targets,” it added.
Mohammad Morad Ahmad Hoshiyeh died on Saturday after Israeli forces shot him in the abdomen on June 14 in Ramallah.
Israeli forces and settlers have killed 54 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank in 2024. https://t.co/Q8O2lgEPZU
— Defense for Children (@DCIPalestine) June 24, 2024
Four more arrested in West Bank
Israeli forces have carried out raids throughout Bethlehem governorate in the occupied West Bank, arresting four men and searching their relatives’ homes, reports Wafa news agency.
The raids took place in:
Wafa reported that during the raid in Jab’a, Israeli forces entered a home and took gold jewellery and money.
Earlier, we reported that Israeli forces also arrested 14 Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem and the governorates of Tubas and Ramallah.
Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian-owned land in occupied West Bank
Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian-owned lands near the village of Qusra overnight, residents have told Al Jazeera.
The village, south of Nablus, is one of several in the area to have been targeted.
Settlers have been increasing their attacks against Palestinians south of Nablus, east of Ramallah and south of Hebron over the past few months. The UN has documented 968 attacks in the past nine months alone.
Israeli military carries out widespread arrests in Balata refugee camp
The Israeli military has arrested 13 Palestinians in the Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reports.
We earlier reported that Israeli forces, accompanied by military bulldozers, stormed neighbourhoods in the camp and raided several homes. Intense fighting has been reported in the area and two young Palestinian men have been wounded, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
Netanyahu is ‘biggest danger’ to Israel, says former intelligence agency spy
A former member of Israel’s Shin Bet internal intelligence agency has railed against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in an interview with the French news agency AFP. Gonen Ben Itzhak accused Netanyahu of propping up Hamas while seeking to stymie any peace process in Gaza so that he could stay in power.
“Netanyahu is really the biggest danger to the state of Israel and believe me, I arrested some of the biggest terrorists during the second Intifada,” the 53-year-old ex-spy told the AFP, referring to the Palestinian uprising between 2000-2005.
“I think Netanyahu is dragging Israel into destruction,” Ben Itzhak said, focusing on Netanyahu’s recent tensions with US President Joe Biden. “Biden is the biggest supporter of Israel… and Netanyahu spit on his face,” said Ben Itzhak. “He’s destroying the very important relationship with the United States.”
“Netanyahu thinks only about himself, about his criminal problems, how to survive politically in Israel,” he added. “Today, Israel from the inside is destroyed. He [Netanyahu] is destroying everything.”
What is Netanyahu’s stance on a ceasefire deal?
Israel’s PM Netanyahu, speaking to the Knesset yesterday, made three promises:
According to senior Hamas official Izzat al-Rishq, Netanyahu’s promise to root out Hamas, while simultaneously saying he is committed to a ceasefire plan, shows he is merely stalling and wants to continue the “war of genocide”.
Gallant says Israel, US need to quickly ‘resolve’ disagreements
Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who met US Secretary of State Blinken in Washington, DC, yesterday, has stressed the need to “resolve disputes” between the two allied nations to put up a strong front.
“At a time when the eyes of our enemies and friends are focused on the relationship between Israel and the US, we must resolve our disagreements quickly,” Gallant said in a post on X. “This will weaken our enemies and help achieve our goals.”
Netanyahu has recently blasted the US for “withholding” weapons shipments, a claim the US denies and says it does not understand.
במחלקת המדינה בוושינגטון, יחד עם מזכיר המדינה האמריקני אנתוני בלינקן.
בשעה בה עיניהם של אויבינו וידידינו נשואות לעבר הקשר בין ישראל וארה״ב - עלינו לפתור במהירות את המחלוקות - זה יחליש את אויבינו ויביא להשגת מטרותינו. pic.twitter.com/k2fVaalP7R
— יואב גלנט - Yoav Gallant (@yoavgallant) June 25, 2024
Translation: “At the State Department in Washington, DC, together with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. At a time when the eyes of our enemies and friends are focused on the relationship between Israel and the US, we must resolve our disagreements quickly. This will weaken our enemies and help achieve our goals.”
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