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SvennoJ on 26 July 2024

Israeli air strikes kill 10 more Palestinians across Gaza, Civil Defence says

At least 10 more Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip on Friday evening, according to the Civil Defence.

It said in a statement that six Palestinians were killed and others injured in Israeli air strikes on two homes; one in the az-Zawayda town in the central Gaza Strip, and the other in the southern city of Khan Younis.

In another statement, the Palestinian Civil Defence said two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air attack on a gathering of people in the al-Kateeba area in Khan Younis.

A third statement noted that an Israeli attack on a gathering in western Gaza City killed two people and injured others.

Palestinian artists paint devastation of Gaza war


Palestinian artist Ahmad Mhanna, 40, draws on cardboard collected from aid parcels in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, July 26


Palestinian artist Issam Mukhaymer, 33, in front of his mural on a wall in a makeshift encampment for displaced people in Deir el-Balah


Some of Mhanna’s work is laid out in Deir el-Balah on July 26



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SvennoJ on 26 July 2024

US envoy says Special Rapporteur Albanese ‘not fit’ for position after Hitler comparison

US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield has said Francesca Albanese is “not fit” for a UN position, after the UN Special Rapporteur endorsed a picture drawing a parallel between Adolf Hitler and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“There is no place for antisemitism from UN-affiliated officials tasked with promoting human rights. While the United States has never supported Francesca Albanese’s mandate, it is clear she is not fit for this or any position at the UN,” Thomas-Greenfield wrote on X.

A post circulating on social media juxtaposed a 1933 picture of Hitler being cheered by supporters of his Nazi Party with Netanyahu being greeted by members of the US Congress after his address on Wednesday.

Albanese responded to the post saying: “This is precisely what I was thinking today.”

Welcoming a war criminal suspected of committing genocide with a standing ovation is antisemitic... Netanyahu is not fit to represent Jewish people.

Never again? You're doing it right now together with Israel.



Israeli efforts to dismantle UNRWA must be resisted, says agency

Antonia Marie De Meo, deputy commissioner of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), has told the UN Security Council that it must “push against” Israel’s attempts to dismantle the UN agency.

De Meo called for the council’s assistance as Israel’s parliament weighs new legislation that would designate UNRWA a “terror group” and officially cut all diplomatic ties between Israel and the UN body tasked with helping Palestinians.

De Meo said the legislation threatens UNRWA staff and the “entire UN system around the world”.

“We cannot afford this to become a new standard for future humanitarian operations in conflict zones across the world,” she said, noting that 199 UNRWA staffers have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza, the vast majority were killed along with their families.

Some 190 UNRWA buildings have been hit by Israeli fire, and schools that were used as shelters by displaced people have been destroyed by air strikes, killing 560 people “sheltering under the UN flag”, she added.



SvennoJ on 27 July 2024

Kamala Harris shifts tone on Gaza, but advocates say US voters want more

After US Vice President Kamala Harris said she will “not be silent” in the face of the suffering in Gaza, Palestinian rights advocates want to know exactly what that means for United States foreign policy.

Critics say the US bears responsibility for the atrocities committed against Palestinians in Gaza because of Washington’s unconditional military and political support for Israel’s war on the territory.

They also say that the vice president’s expression of sympathy without shifting the US away from supporting Israel’s war on Gaza will not help Harris win back voters alienated by President Joe Biden’s full-throated support for Israel in the war.

The alternative is much worse, voters don't really have a choice



Netanyahu seeking to mend ties with Trump in Mar-a-Lago meeting

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s top wish was to mend fences with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during their meeting in Mar-a-Lago on Friday.

Trump and Netanyahu had a fall-out in early 2021 after the Israeli prime minister became one of the first world leaders to congratulate Joe Biden on his presidential election victory, disregarding Trump’s false claim that the election had been stolen from him.

Hassan Barari, analyst and professor at Qatar University, told Al Jazeera that Netanyahu “understands that Trump doesn’t care about the Palestinians but wants a transactional policy whereby he can continue the Abraham Accords”.

Continue the Abraham accords that led to Oct 7...

Albanese rejects ‘selective moral outrage’ following Hitler comparison

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has hit back at criticism from US and Israeli officials after she endorsed a picture drawing a parallel between Adolf Hitler and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“The Memory of the #Holocaust remains intact and sacred thank[s] to people of conscience worldwide. Institutional rants and outburst of selective moral outrage will not stop the course of #Justice, which is finally in motion,” she wrote on X.

Earlier, we reported US Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said Albanese was “not fit” for a UN position, while the Israeli Foreign Ministry said she was “beyond redemption”.




Those using the holocaust to defend the current genocide are tainting the memory of the holocaust. "The Genocide Convention was the first human rights treaty adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 9 December 1948 and signified the international community's commitment to 'never again' after the atrocities committed during the Second World War."
It's happening again, in full view, led by Netanyahu.



SvennoJ on 27 July 2024

Starving Palestinians queue for food aid in central Gaza



 

Palestinian ministry welcomes inclusion of Gaza monastery on UN World Heritage list

Palestine’s Foreign Ministry said the urgent inclusion of the fourth-century Monastery of Saint Hilarion in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah on UNESCO’s world heritage and endangered heritage lists was important to protect the site from “deliberate destruction attempts” by Israeli forces.

In making its decision on Friday, UNESCO referred to “the need to protect” the monastery “from danger”.

The Foreign Ministry said the monastery was once a key stop at the crossroads between Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia, and was an “important exchange site for universal human and religious values ​​and an origin for Christianity in Palestine”.

“Palestinian cultural and heritage properties, world heritage sites, and sacred and historical sites” are endangered by the “Israeli war, which directly targets the memories, history, and identity of the Palestinian people,” the ministry added.



UN says Israel destabilises humanitarian operations in Gaza

The United Nations says continuing attacks on aid convoys and Israeli evacuation orders in southern Gaza, are destabilising humanitarian operations.

On Friday, the Security Council discussed the worsening impact the war is having on civilians.



SvennoJ on 27 July 2024

Israeli military carries out raids, arrests across the occupied West Bank

The Israeli military has stormed several areas across the occupied West Bank, resulting in clashes with Palestinian fighters and arrests being made, according to local media reports.

Incidents from recent hours include:

  • Israeli forces have beaten and seriously injured six people during the storming of the town of al-Issawiya, northeast of Jerusalem. Earlier, we reported that Israeli police wounded and arrested a driver accused of attempting to carry out a ramming attack against officers in al-Issawiya.
  • A 19-year-old has been arrested during the storming of the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah.
  • Clashes erupted after the Israeli military stormed the Shu’fat refugee camp, north of occupied East Jerusalem.
  • Israeli forces have stormed the town Yabad, southwest of Jenin, the Dhnaba suburb, east of Tulkarem city, and the villages of al-Asakra, Beit Tamar and Harmala in Bethlehem governorate.

Translation: The moment the occupation forces arrested the young man, Moamen Shabana, 19 years old, during the storming of the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah.


Israeli forces deploy to Nablus after checkpoint comes under fire

They have been deployed in force around the Beit Furik checkpoint, in the town of Salem, and the eastern region of Nablus in the occupied West Bank after shots were fired at the military control point, Palestinian media report.

Palestinian channels on Telegram also posted videos showing an incursion last night by Israeli forces into the Ras Khamis neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem.


Palestinian critically injured by Israeli forces in East Jerusalem

Israeli forces have critically injured a Palestinian man in the al-Issawiya neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem, according to the Wafa news agency.

Local sources told Wafa that Israeli soldiers detained the man in his 30s after wounding him while driving his vehicle.

The family of Ahmed Joda, 37, said he was driving without a licence and tried to evade the police when he was shot. He is receiving treatment at Jerusalem’s Shaare Tzedek Hospital.

Earlier, the Israeli police said an officer shot a driver in his 30s while he was speeding towards a group of officers in al-Issawiya.

Separately, six people, including a 12-year-old child and a 76-year-old woman, were injured during the night after being targeted by Israeli forces.

In the Shuafat camp in the north of Jerusalem, soldiers stormed the camp and fired rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas canisters. No injuries were reported.


Israeli live fire injures two Palestinian children in Ramallah

Two Palestinian children have received bullet injuries after Israeli forces stormed al-Mazraa al-Gharbiya village, northwest of Ramallah, according to the Wafa news agency.

Bassam al-Khatib, the head of the municipality, said Israeli forces rushed into the village and fired live bullets, tear gas and sound bombs towards residents and their homes.

The two children, who were shot in the thigh, were taken to hospital for treatment.



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SvennoJ on 27 July 2024

Israeli military bombs home near Rafah, killing 2: Reports

The Israeli military has bombed a home north of Rafah in southern Gaza, killing at least two people, according to local media reports.

An unspecified number of people have also been injured in the strike, which targeted the al-Masry family in the Musabbeh area of Rafah.


Israelis hit with sniper fire, rockets, explosives in Gaza City neighbourhood: Monitors

Fighters with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) attacked Israeli forces in the Tal al-Hawa area of Gaza City with sniper fire, rocket-propelled grenades and powerful explosively-formed penetrators on Friday, war monitors report.

PIJ fighters also targeted Israeli forces stationed along the Netzarim Corridor – located south of Gaza City – with mortar shelling, the US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) report.

Israeli forces continued “clearing operations” in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis and Rafah cities and Israel’s air force said it carried out 45 strikes against targets in the Strip between Friday and Saturday.

PIJ fighters also launched a barrage of rockets towards southern Israel’s coastal city of Ashkelon, but Israeli authorities said one missile was intercepted and others fell in open areas without causing damage or casualties, the ISW/CTP report in their latest Gaza battlefield assessment.


Israeli attack helicopters strike area south of Gaza City

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that helicopter gunships attacked an area northeast of al-Shuhada junction, located near the Netzarim area south of Gaza City.

There were no initial reports of casualties.


Death toll rises after Israeli strike near Rafah city

The death toll from an Israeli military strike on a home in the Musabbeh area north of Rafah city has risen to at least five, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues are reporting.


Five bodies recovered after Israeli attack on family home in Bureij

Five bodies have been retrieved from the home of the al-Yemeni family following the Israeli bombing of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza a day earlier, according to Palestinian media.


Child dies in Deir el-Balah from malnutrition, dehydration

A child has died in Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza due to dehydration and malnutrition, our colleagues on the ground report.

Several UN human rights experts have warned that there is “no doubt” famine already exists across the Strip.

In April, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported that 32 people, including 28 children, had died of malnutrition and dehydration at hospitals in northern Gaza.



SvennoJ on 27 July 2024

Israel announces new evacuation orders for Khan Younis

The Israeli military has announced new mass evacuation orders for southern areas of Khan Younis, where fighting has intensified.

The military said, “due to numerous acts of terrorism and the firing of anti-aircraft missiles”, areas in the south of the city have “become dangerous”.

“At this time the space will be adjusted,” the military said in reference to the new areas in Khan Younis that people must leave immediately.

Eastern areas of Khan Younis were ordered evacuated last week, and Israeli forces attacked within minutes of issuing its warning for people to leave.

The military said the latest evacuation order was based on “intelligence” where Hamas had “terrorist infrastructure” in an area “defined as a humanitarian” zone.


New evacuation: Israel says it will ‘act strongly’ in southern Khan Younis

Israel’s military has announced the latest mass evacuation for southern areas of Khan Younis through SMS, phone calls, recorded audio messages, and Arabic-language media broadcasts.

The evacuation order comes on top of last week’s evacuation of eastern areas of the war-torn southern city, which forced an estimated 180,000 Palestinian people to flee within four days and with few belongings.

In its latest order, the military said it would “act strongly against terrorist organisation” in Khan Younis and blamed Hamas for using “the residents of Gaza as human shields”.

UN agencies have sharply criticised Israel’s policy of mass displacement of Gaza’s civilian population and military attacks on areas previously declared “safe zones” by Israel.


Deaths, injuries as Israeli military bombs house near Khan Younis

They have bombed a house in Abasan, east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report.

There have been an unspecified number of deaths and injuries in the town as a result of the strike.


Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis receives 14 bodies

Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that 14 bodies have arrived at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis since this morning.

Meanwhile, an Al Jazeera correspondent also reported that Israeli artillery shelling has been targeting the town of Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.


At least one killed in Israeli drone attack on cemetery in Khan Younis

A Palestinian has been killed and many others wounded in an Israeli drone attack on a cemetery in Khan Younis, an Al Jazeera correspondent reports.



SvennoJ on 27 July 2024

The weekend massacre is here, it never ends.

Chaotic scenes as Israeli bombing casualties rushed to Deir el-Balah hospital

Just in an instant, in the span of just a few minutes, the scene in Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah turned from being very quiet to quite chaotic.

The courtyard of the hospital is overcrowded with people rushed from the nearby evacuation shelter.

At least three bombs fell on the shelter; almost every single ambulance here, including civilian vehicles, rushed to the site where many displaced families are sheltering.

This is beyond catastrophic and tragic.

The fact that we’re seeing many civilians arriving in the ambulance, either fully soaked in blood or in pieces, killed, is just an indication that the Israeli military is not showing any slowdown or any letup in the attacks across the Gaza Strip.

This is happening mainly here in the central area, where we see the vast majority of displaced families have been pushed into this area, more recently from Khan Younis and Rafah cities.

But the one thing we are certain about is the kind of injuries here that we’re seeing have been subjugated to lethal weapons.

The kind of bombs that are dropped, unpredictable rockets and missiles and bombs falling on their homes and shelters, they are packed with shrapnel, they’re packed with nails, they’re packed with little pieces of metal.

Israeli attack on field hospital in central Gaza kills 18: Media office

The Gaza Government Media Office has issued a statement with details about the Israeli attack targeting a field hospital in Khadija School in Deir el-Balah.

It said Israeli jets fired three missiles on the site, killing at least 18 and wounding dozens.

“We condemn in the strongest terms the Israeli occupation’s horrific massacre against a field hospital providing medical services to dozens of patients and wounded, all of whom were civilians,” it said.

“We hold the Israeli occupation and the US administration fully responsible for the continuation of these massacres against the displaced people and civilians,” the statement concluded.


Death toll in attack on field hospital in Deir el-Balah rises to 30: Ministry

We are receiving updates on the previously reported Israeli attack on a field hospital in Khadija School in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah.

The Health Ministry in Gaza says the air strike killed 30 people and injured more than 100 others, many of them critically.

Israel claims Deir el-Balah attack targeted Hamas ‘control centre’

The Israeli military has issued a statement about its bombardment of Khadija school in Deir el-Balah, claiming it hit a “Hamas command and control centre”.

“Hamas terrorists used the compound as a hiding place to direct and plan numerous attacks” against Israeli troops and Israel, the army said without providing evidence, adding, “In parallel, the terrorists developed and stored large quantities of weapons inside the compound.”

It added that “numerous steps” were taken to avoid harming civilians, including the use of aerial surveillance and intelligence.

Officials in Gaza have said the attack killed at least 30 people and wounded dozens more. Children have been reported to be among the casualties.



SvennoJ on 27 July 2024

Chaos at Deir el-Balah hospital after nearby attack

Right now, I am inside Al-Aqsa Hospital after the Israeli military attack carried out on a nearby evacuation centre.

There is a state of chaos inside the hospital as doctors are trying to provide wounded Palestinians with essential medical care.

The situation is absolutely dire; everyone in the hospital has suffered critical injuries. They are receiving treatment on the floor, in all departments, and all beds are over their capacity.

There is a very clear surge of air strikes on evacuation centres – these are the places where Palestinians have been told to go and seek refuge.


Gaza ministry lays out grim health situation around Khan Younis

Gaza’s Health Ministry has released an update on the status of several medical institutions around the southern city of Khan Younis, where Israelis are carrying out a large military operation.

The ministry said on Telegram that it was no longer possible to restart the European Gaza Hospital, which has been out of service, despite the urgent need for it.

The statement added that many primary healthcare centres are out of service – namely, the ones in Bani Suheila, Jurat al-Lut, Abasan and al-Qarara – in addition to several field medical points.

It said there is a vast increase in the number of displaced people, who are congested in certain areas where sewage flows and waste is piled up without water and personal hygiene materials.

“[This] makes things completely conducive to the spread of the polio virus and other diseases that has been spreading like wildfire among the displaced,” the statement said.

“The evacuations may extend to the vicinity of Nasser Hospital, which is the only hospital that is still operating despite all the challenges and obstacles,” it said, adding the facility’s shutdown would lead to a “definitive health disaster”.

Israel’s war on Gaza killed 39,258 people: Ministry

Gaza’s Health Ministry says the Israeli war on the enclave has killed 39,258 people and injured 90,589.

The ministry said the Israeli forces “committed 4 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in 41 martyrs and 103 injuries arriving at hospitals during the past 24 hours”.

The latest death toll did not seem to include today’s attacks on Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis. The ministry said the Israeli bombing of Khadija School in Deir el-Balah killed at least 30 people, and 23 others were killed in the Khan Younis governorate since this morning.


Aftermath of Israeli attack on school in Deir el-Balah


A wounded Palestinian child is carried to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the aftermath of an Israeli strike in Deir el-Balah


Palestinians inspect a school sheltering displaced people following an Israeli strike in Deir el-Balah

About 170 killed in Israeli military operation in Khan Younis: Civil Defence

The Palestinian rescue agency says Israel’s military incursion in and around the sourthern city has also wounded hundreds since it began more than a week ago.

“Since the beginning of the Israeli military operation in the Khan Younis area, we are talking of approximately 170 martyrs and hundreds of wounded,” the agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told the AFP news agency.


At least one Palestinian killed in Israeli attack north of Nuseirat

A Palestinian has been killed and a number of others injured in Israeli bombing that targeted the Ard al-Mufti area, north of Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, an Al Jazeera correspondent reports.

Our colleagues on the ground also report that Israeli forces bombed al-Salah “Ahmed al-Kurd” School, west of Deir el-Balah, injuring a number of people.



SvennoJ on 27 July 2024

Four US-UK air raids target Yemen’s Hodeidah airport: Report

Al Masirah, a Houthi-controlled TV channel, has reported four raids on Hodeidah airport.

It said the facility was targeted in a joint operation hours after four raids on Kamaran Island.

The US and UK militaries have carried out joint attacks against the Houthis since January 12 in response to rebel attacks on vessels in the Red Sea.

The Houthi attacks, launched in response to Israel’s war on Gaza after the Hamas-led October 7 attacks on Israel, have disrupted international trade on the shortest shipping route between Europe and Asia.

Hezbollah claims ‘direct hit’ on Israel’s Misgav Am military site

The Lebanese group has claimed to have targeted Israeli spying equipment at the military site near the Misgav Am settlement in northern Israel.

Hezbollah said it also attacked a military position with rockets in the Jardah Hill near the Lebanese-Israeli border.

Earlier, the Israeli military said its naval missile boat shot down a drone launched from Lebanon.


Israel launches air raids on southern Lebanon

We’re getting information that Israel has launched two air attacks on the southern Lebanese town of Kfar Kila.

Palestine Information Centre said the attacks had reduced two houses to rubble.

Translation: The occupation destroys two houses after bombing them in the town of Kafr Kila, southern Lebanon.