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SvennoJ on 05 July 2024

Israeli army: Palestinian ‘militants’ targeted during operation in Jenin

The army says that it targeted “militants” during their Friday operation in Jenin.

In a statement on X, it said that their forces had “eliminated” Hammam Hashash, 23, along with another Palestinian, whom they had earlier accused of taking part in an attack on the Israeli forces that had left army captain Alon Scagio dead on June 27.

The Palestinian Health Ministry earlier said that the death toll in Israel’s raid on Jenin had risen to 7 since the early hours of this morning.


Six Palestinians killed in Jenin laid to rest

The Palestinian news agency, Wafa, has reported that thousands march in the funeral processions of the slain Palestinians. Mourners chanted against the occupation and “Israel’s crimes” in Gaza and the West bank, it said.

The body of the seventh person killed in the Israeli raid, identified as Hamam Hashash, remains in Israel’s custody.


People attend a funeral for slain Palestinians following an Israeli raid in Jenin camp, in the occupied West Bank, July 5


Al-Quds Brigades says three of its fighters killed in Jenin

The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad has identified the three as:

  • Fouad Iyad Aziz Ahqar, 25
  • Ahmed Bassem Amouri, 20
  • Qusai Amjad Hazouz Huwaiti, 23

In a statement, the group said its fighters were “assassinated” in the occupied West Bank city.

Earlier, the Israeli army said it targeted “militants” during an operation in Jenin. The Israeli army carries out regular raids on the city and its refugee camp, often using military vehicles and bulldozers and damaging infrastructure.

 


Israeli forces raid town near Bethlehem in occupied West Bank

Israeli forces have raided the Palestinian town of Beit Fajar, near the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, Wafa news agency reported. It said Israeli soldiers stormed the town and stationed themselves near the local medical clinic.

The incursion comes as Israeli forces continue to step up raids into several towns and villages across the West Bank, including Jenin and Tulkarem.


Another Palestinian man killed in occupied West Bank

The Palestinian Health Ministry has said that the body of Mohamad Suleiman, 22, arrived at a medical centre near Ramallah, describing him as a “martyr”, without providing further details. Local Palestinian sources said he was shot earlier by Israeli forces.

The killing of Suleiman brings the death toll from Israeli attacks in the West Bank on Friday to at least eight.



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Qassam Brigades says Israeli base struck in Gaza City

Hamas’s armed wing says its fighters have targeted “a command and control site” in the so-called Netzarim Corridor south of Gaza City with several short-range missiles.

A statement on Telegram said the attack was carried out in conjunction with the al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades, another armed Palestinian group.

Qassam Brigades claims attack on Israeli position in Rafah

Hamas’s military wing says a “large number” of its fighters have carried out an assault on an Israeli base in the Tal as-Sultan area of Rafah with grenades, sniping operations and machineguns.

The group said the operation killed and injured a number of Israeli troops.


Al-Quds Brigades says it targeted base in Israel

The armed wing of the Islamic Jihad group says its fighters attacked an Israeli army headquarters in Nahal Oz outside Gaza with a barrage of rockets. In a statement on Telegram, the group also said it bombed Israeli soldiers and vehicles in the Shujayea neighbourhood in Gaza City with mortar shells.




Al-Quds Brigades spokesperson says resistance defied Israel’s calculations

Abu Hamza, the spokesman of Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, has said Israel’s military setbacks in Gaza is what will force the Israeli government to agree to a deal to end the war.

“Our resistance in Gaza has defied the Israeli enemy’s calculations and prevented it from achieving any of its goals – not giving it an opportunity to take position in any area without having its vehicles and troops targeted,” Abu Hamza told Al Mayadeen TV in a statement.

The Islamic Jihad is a saparate faction than Hamas, but the two groups share a similar ideology, and their armed wings have been conducting joint military operations against Israeli forces.

Abu Hamza said ties between all Palestinian armed groups in Gaza – especially between the Al-Quds Brigades and the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing – are “strong”.



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Several killed in bombing in Khan Younis

Several people have been killed and wounded in an Israeli attack in the eastern part of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, Al Jazeera correspondents are reporting.

Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah, said the attack targeted a group of Palestinians who were coordinating commercial trucks getting into the besieged Strip.


Al-Nasser Hospital receives 10 bodies amid ongoing attacks in south Gaza

Al-Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza has told Al Jazeera correspondent Tareq Abu Azzoum that it received 10 casualties from the earlier strike in the eastern part of Khan Younis as well as from continuing attacks in Rafah.

Rafah was until recently overflowing with displaced Palestinians, before Israel’s ground invasion of the city in early May drove over one million people to evacuate, amid relentless attacks across the Gaza Strip.


Israeli attack kills three people, including two journalists, in Gaza City

The two journalists were named Saadi Madoukh and Ahmad Sukar, local Palestinian reports say. Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul said their bodies reached the al-Ahli Arab Hospital after an Israeli attack on a home in Gaza City.

At least 153 journalists had previously been killed by Israel in Gaza since the start of the war, according to the Gaza Government Media Office.


Two killed in school housing displaced people in Gaza City

An elderly man and his wife were killed in Israeli bombardment at the Freedom School in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Ismail Alghoul has reported.



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Continuous cycle of displacement in Gaza ‘must stop’: Lazzarini

UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini has called for a halt to the displacement of Gaza residents following new evacuation orders by Israel in Khan Younis and Rafah.

“This continuous cycle of displacement, constant being on ‘survival mode’ & despair must stop,” Lazzarini wrote on X.

The UN official said the latest evacuation orders were the largest issued since October, impacting nearly a quarter of a million people, most of whom had already been displaced multiple times.

“People have no where to go. They desperately search for nonexistent safety, setting up makeshift structures often in the rubble of bombed out buildings,” he said, stressing that the risks for children were especially high.

Palestinians relying on seawater for ‘washing, cleaning and even drinking’: UN

The UN says families in central Gaza’s ravaged Nuseirat refugee camp are sheltering in makeshift tents near the water’s edge amid a lack of space as displacement continues.

“Many families rely on seawater for washing, cleaning and even drinking,” it said.

Sewage floods the streets of Khan Younis

As Palestinians in Gaza continue to face forced displacement by Israeli forces, the Associated Press news agency captured photos of streets flooded with sewage in the southern city of Khan Younis.

Rights groups and health advocates have been warning that unsanitary conditions due to displacement and Israeli bombardment could contribute to the spread of diseases in Gaza.


Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive walk next to a dark streak of sewage flowing into the streets of the southern town of Khan Younis



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Israeli army says it hit Hezbollah anti-aircraft launcher in Lebanon

Warplanes have struck a surface-to-air missile launcher that belonged to the Lebanese group in southern Lebanon’s Rihan, according to the Israeli military.

A statement on X said that the launcher had been used to attack Israeli aircraft. A separate attack was conducted on a building in Markaba, targeting a Hezbollah member, the army said.

For its part, Hezbollah has announced several military operations against Israel today, including a rocket attack that it said targeted a base in the northern town of Kiryat Shmona.


Four wounded in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon

Four people have been lightly injured following repeated Israeli strikes on Lebanon’s southern municipality of Bint Jbeil, the National News Agency has said.

The agency said two of them were firefighters who had intervened following a first strike on Yaroun to extinguish a fire. They were injured in a second raid that took place less than half an hour later targeting the Al-Wadi area.


Hezbollah rocket hits building in northern Israel

Video posted on X by Israeli media shows a building in northern Israel’s Kiryat Shmona engulfed in flames after it was hit by incoming rocket fire from Lebanon.

Cross-border fire between Israel and Hezbollah has intensified in the last few days since Israel assassinated a senior Hezbollah military commander in the south Lebanon city of Tyre.

Hezbollah has so far claimed 17 attacks on Israeli territory today alone.

Translation: The shooting to the north: a direct hit to a house in Kiryat Shmona, falls in an open area in Shlomi


More overnight strikes on southern Lebanon by Israeli warplanes

Israeli fighter jets have attacked sites in southern Lebanon that the military said were used by Hezbollah to launch attacks on northern Israel.

A “launch site” and an “observation post” were targeted in the overnight air raids on the Marwahin and Hula areas of south Lebanon, while air defences intercepted aerial attacks launched against northern Israel, Israel’s military said in a post on social media.

In other areas along the border, Israel’s forces attacked “sources of artillery fire” inside Lebanon while two Israeli soldiers were slightly wounded by cross-border missile fire and evacuated for medical treatment, the military said.

 

US must ensure that Israel has weapons it needs, AIPAC says

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), an influential pro-Israel lobby group in the US, has cited Hezbollah’s attacks in Israel to call for more American weapons to the country.

“Hezbollah has fired more than 5,000 rockets, explosive drones, and missiles at Israeli communities nearly every day since October, dragging Israel and Lebanon closer toward a devastating war,” AIPAC said in an email to supporters.

“America must continue to ensure that Israel has the weapons it needs to protect its people.”

Netanyahu had sparked a row in Washington last month when he complained about a “dramatic drop” in US weapon deliveries. The Biden administration expressed bewilderment at his comments, stressing that only a single shipment of heavy bombs to Israel had been suspended out of concern for civilian harm.



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Israeli military carries out raids across occupied West Bank

Local media is reporting that the Israeli military has carried out raids in various locations across the occupied West Bank in recent hours, including:

  • The town of Deir Abu Daif, east of Jenin
  • The Ras Khamis neighbourhood of the Shu’fat refugee camp, north of occupied East Jerusalem
  • The Aqbat Jabr refugee camp in Jericho
  • The city of Nablus


Israeli military arrests 4 Palestinians near Ramallah

The Israeli military has arrested four Palestinians from the village of Qibya, west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports.

Israeli forces stormed the village and raided the homes of four men, named as Qusay Walid Ghaythan, Yassin Musa al-Ajrab, Baraa Ibrahim Shaker, and Muhammad Hassan, before arresting them.


Israeli forces arrest 15 Palestinians across occupied West Bank

The arrests that took place overnight and in the morning included a former prisoner, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society and Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs.

This raises the number of arrests in the occupied West Bank to 9,535 since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, their joint statement released on Telegram said.

The arrests were spread across the governorates of Qalqilya, Hebron, Ramallah, Jericho and occupied East Jerusalem, accompanied by raids and damage to homes.


Number of injured in occupied West Bank’s Balata rises to nine

We reported earlier that Israeli forces had injured a young Palestinian man east of Nablus city in the occupied West Bank.

An Al Jazeera correspondent now confirms that nine Palestinians have been injured by Israeli sniper bullets in the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, after the Israeli army announced it was carrying out an operation it described as “pre-emptive” in the camp.


Israeli forces kill Palestinian man near occupied West Bank’s Ramallah

Israeli soldiers have shot and killed Ahmed Muhammad Suleiman has been killed by in the village of Bayt Ur at-Tahta, west of the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues.


Huge blaze started by Israeli settlers rages near Ramallah

Israeli settlers have set fire to the Turmus Ayya Plain, northeast of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian media.

Translation: A huge fire in the Turmus Ayya Plain, northeast of Ramallah.


Israel prevents Palestinians from praying at Al-Aqsa Mosque ahead of Islamic New Year

Israeli forces have prevented Palestinians from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, ahead of the start of the Islamic New Year tomorrow, according to local sources.

Translation: The occupation forces are on alert in the Old City and prevent worshippers from entering the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.



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Many bakeries in Gaza cannot open because of fuel shortages

Due to severe fuel shortages caused by Israel’s blockade of Gaza, many bakeries in the Palestinian enclave remain closed. In Deir el-Balah, Palestinians are enduring long hours in line, hoping to obtain a simple loaf of bread to feed their families.


‘Dire situation’ grows worse in Gaza amid mass displacement and fighting: UN

Nine in every 10 people in Gaza are internally displaced due to Israel’s war on the territory, the UN reports, and an estimated 250,000 are living in areas of eastern Khan Younis and Rafah that are under an Israeli military evacuation order, which usually precedes a ground offensive.

The latest situation report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also notes that fuel shortages pose a threat to life-saving health services in Gaza’s hospitals, as well as the functioning of crucial water and sanitation infrastructure.

The OCHA also reports that displaced people in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza are facing extremely dire living conditions, including critical shortages of water, shelter and food.


An area in Gaza City on June 04, 2024 after the withdrawal of the Israeli forces


Children in Gaza spend up to 8 hours a day collecting water and food: UNRWA

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says children in Gaza spend six to eight hours a day collecting water and food, carrying heavy weights and walking long distances.

“Sanitation facilities and infrastructure are severely compromised, forcing thousands of families to rely on seawater to wash, clean and even drink,” it added on X, calling for a ceasefire.


Gaza football stadium provides shelter for families fleeing Israeli operation in Shujayea

Thousands of displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza have sought refuge in the Yarmouk Sports Stadium – one of the territory’s largest football arenas.

Families at the stadium, located about 3km (just under 2 miles) northwest of Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood, are now scraping by with little food or water and hoping to avoid Israel’s latest military offensive in the area.

Um Bashar told The Associated Press new agency that she fled Shujayea as the Israeli ground operation began last weekend.

“We woke up and found tanks in front of the door,” Bashar said. “We didn’t take anything with us, not a mattress, not a pillow, not any clothes, not a thing. Not even food,” she said.

Bashar fled with a group of 70 other people to Yarmouk Sports Stadium, which was heavily bombed and largely emptied early in the war. Many of those now living in the stadium say they have no homes to return to.


Fuel crisis suspends hospital departments in Gaza: Health Ministry

The Ministry of Health in Gaza has said the continuing fuel crisis has been affecting the work of the remaining functioning health institutions in the enclave – in particular, the use of their generators, oxygen stations and refrigerators for storing medicines.

“Currently, work has been suspended in many departments within the remaining operating hospitals,” the ministry statement on Telegram said. It said strict austerity measures are being followed in fuel use at hospitals.

“We repeat our appeal to all concerned, international and humanitarian institutions to intervene and quickly provide the fuel necessary to operate the generators,” the statement concluded.


Palestinian father appeals to find his child missing in Gaza for six months

Assat al-Najjar has been searching in Gaza for six months for his 11-year-old son Mahmoud Osama al-Najjar who went missing during a displacement journey, and launched an appeal to the public to help find him.

The father said in a video posted by Palestinian journalist Moamen Abu Odeh on his Instagram page: “I lost my son, a small child, while I was displaced from Jabalia camp at Al-Azhar University in the vicinity of the Gaza port. I am appealing to the living conscience who knows about my son to inform me.”



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Israeli attack helicopters shoot at Bureij refugee camp

Israeli helicopters have opened fired on the eastern part of Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, an Al Jazeera correspondent reports. The camp is located in the middle of the Gaza Strip, next to the Maghazi and Nuseirat refugee camps, south of Gaza City.


Israeli military confirms attack on ‘humanitarian area’ in Deir el-Balah

The Israeli military has confirmed that its aircraft attacked a “humanitarian area … and near civilian population shelters” because a “Hamas launcher was placed inside” the location in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.

“Before the attack, many efforts were made to reduce the chance of harming civilians,” the military said in a post on social media, without confirming whether the attacked had, in fact, harmed innocent people.

The military also said Israeli paratroopers took part in battles in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood against Palestinian fighters and destroyed “terrorist infrastructure” above and below ground. Fighter jets were called in to assist ground forces in the operation, including an attack on three Hamas fighters armed with rocket-propelled grenade launchers, the military said in a series of posts on social media.

In southern Rafah city, ground troops and the air force attacked a “terrorist cell”, the military said.


At least 10 Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Gaza’s Nuseirat

At least 10 Palestinians have been killed and several others injured in an Israeli attack on a house in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, according to medical sources cited by Turkey’s Anadolu news agency.

The sources said that among the dead were nine members of the Jahjouh family, including seven brothers, a woman and a child.


UNRWA worker among two killed in Israeli attack on warehouses near Maghazi

Two people, including one UNRWA employee, have been killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted the UNRWA warehouses north of the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip, according to Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency Sanad.

Video footage verified by Sanad showed the arrival of their bodies, as well as those injured, to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah.

The UNRWA employee was wearing his jacket clearly identifying him as UN staff while working in the humanitarian agency’s warehouses.


Israeli bombing in Nuseirat kills two more journalists

Journalist Amjad Jahjouh, his journalist wife Wafa Abu Dabaan, and their child have been killed in an Israeli bombing in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, according to Al Jazeera’s team on the ground. With the killing of Jahjouh and his wife, the number of Palestinian journalists who have been killed since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza on October 7 has risen to 158.

On Friday, Palestinian journalists Saadi Madoukh and Ahmed Sukkar were killed, following an Israeli raid that targeted a home for the Madoukh family in the Daraj neighbourhood in Gaza City.


Israel targets Palestinian law enforcement around Gaza’s Rafah

  • Six policemen were killed in an Israeli bombardment that hit their car in the Saudi neighbourhood of western Rafah, according to the Palestinian Information Center.
  • One person was killed as a result of an Israeli bombing of a police car in Gaza’s al-Shakoush area, northwest of Rafah.
  • Law enforcement personnel were also targeted by Israeli forces in Tal as-Sultan, in western Rafah city. The forces were protecting residential homes after residents were evicted.


Israeli army releases 15 detainees, then drops bombs on them: Survivors

Palestinian detainees in Gaza have testified that shortly after their release from Israeli detention centre, Israeli forces targeted the group by dropping bombs on them, leading to numerous deaths.

Farid Sobh said in a video testimony verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency Sanad that he was in detention with about 15 Palestinians.

“After four days in detention, we were released. We were handcuffed and blindfolded. The Israeli soldiers kept torturing us. They even urinated on us. I was beaten, kicked and battered all over my body,” he said.

“After that, we were released and as we started walking off on the asphalt, they threw grenades and fired a drone missile on us. Some [seven] of my men were killed. I ran for my life and miraculously survived. I came to this hospital [Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis] to check the injuries I suffered.”

Mahmoud Abu Taha, another survivor of the same deadly incident, confirmed Sobh’s account.



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Qassam Brigades claims killing Israeli soldiers in Gaza City’s Shujayea

The armed wing of Hamas says its fighters detonated an antipersonnel bomb targeting Israeli forces in the eastern Gaza City neighbourhood. The group said on Telegram that the attack left troops “dead and wounded”, without elaborating on the numbers.

Fierce fighting has been reported in the Shujayea neighbourhood for several days.


Al-Quds Brigades claims killing Israeli soldiers in Shujayea

Hamas’s armed wing says its fighters ambushed and clashed with Israeli troops in the eastern Gaza City neighbourhood, where fierce fighting has been continuing for several days.

In a statement on Telegram, the group added that seven soldiers were “killed or wounded” in the fighting, engaged with “appropriate weapons”.


Al-Quds Brigades claims attack on army site in southern Israel

The armed wing of the Islamic Jihad group says its fighters targeted an Israeli military site around the Sufa Jewish settlement with a barrage of heavy mortar shells.

The group added in another statement on Telegram that it also shelled Israeli vehicles on the supply line in the so-called Netzarim Corridor in the west of Gaza City.

The Netzarim Corridor, named after a Jewish settlement in Gaza that was dismantled in 2005, was set up during the war by the Israeli army to separate northern Gaza from the south.


Rare video clip said to show destroyed Israeli army vehicle in Rafah

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic have obtained and verified video footage said to show a destroyed Israeli military vehicle in Rafah. The short video clip features what appears to be a badly damaged armoured personnel carrier (APC) on the grounds of an abandoned building.

Scorch marks on exit and entry hatches of the APC appear to indicate that a fire broke out inside the armoured vehicle.

At least 87 people killed in Israeli attacks in past 48 hours: Ministry

At least 38,098 Palestinians have been killed and 87,705 others injured in Israel’s military offensive on Gaza since October 7, the Health Ministry in Gaza says. The toll includes at least 87 deaths over the past 48 hours, the ministry statement said.

Names of five killed journalists confirmed by Gaza government

Gaza’s Government Media Office has confirmed the identities and affiliations of the five journalists killed by Israel across the enclave in the past 24 hours.

  • Amjad Jahjouh – the Palestine Media Agency – killed in Nuseirat
  • Wafa Abu Dabaan – the Islamic University Radio in Gaza – killed in Nuseirat
  • Rizq Abu Ashkian – the Palestine Media Agency – killed in Nuseirat
  • Saadi Madoukh – Deep Shot Media Production Company – killed in Gaza City
  • Ahmed Sukkar – Deep Shot Media Production Company – killed in Gaza City


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Israeli military announces more attacks on southern Lebanon

The Israeli military has said it carried out air strikes on several “Hezbollah targets” in southern Lebanon.

It said it struck a “military building” in the Kafarkila area, as well as a “number of terrorists” and “terrorist infrastructures” in the Binat Jabal and Yarin areas of southern Lebanon.

Earlier, we reported that the Israeli military struck a “launch site” and “observation post” in the Marwahin and Hula areas of southern Lebanon, which it said were used by Hezbollah to launch attacks on northern Israel.


Drone crash sparks fire on agricultural land in northern Israel

A drone from southern Lebanon fell in northern Israel, causing a fire to break out, Israeli media reports. The fire broke out in an agricultural area called Beit Hillel. Earlier, the Israeli military said it carried out air strikes on several “Hezbollah targets” in southern Lebanon.


‘Suspicious air target’ from Lebanon intercepted: Israeli forces

Israeli forces say they have “intercepted a suspicious air target” launched from Lebanon towards the north of the country without causing casualties. “Two suspicious air targets fired from Lebanon landed in an open area in Beit Hillel without causing casualties,” the Israeli army said on X.


Hezbollah claims air attack on northern Israel’s Beit Hillel

Hezbollah has claimed “an air attack” on an Israeli artillery position in Beit Hillel, northern Israel. It said in a statement the attack was in support of Palestinians in Gaza and in response to Israeli attacks on villages, houses and civilians in southern Lebanon.

Colombia’s President Petro shares clip of concert to stop ‘genocide in Palestine’

President Gustavo Petro – whose outspoken support for Palestinians has brought him into public dispute with Israel – has shared video footage of a large concert in support of Palestine and against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

“This is the concert of hope and against genocide in Palestine,” Petro wrote on social media, along with aerial footage of the concert held on Friday night in Bolivar Square in the capital, Bogota.

Musicians from Colombia, as well as Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Chile, Panama and elsewhere performed at the outdoor concert where a giant Palestinian flag – emblazoned with the words “Stop the Genocide” in Spanish – was hung from a building overlooking the historic square.