Large Gaza solidarity rally held in Indonesian capital

_{Protesters shout slogans during a rally in support of Palestinians in Gaza, in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, on Saturday}

Palestinian athletes join Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony

_{Palestinian athletes are seen on board a boat in the floating parade on the river Seine in Paris during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Friday}

It rained all day on the parade, the weather agrees

_{Palestinian team supporters display a banner criticising Israel over war crimes in Gaza from a balcony in Paris}

I caught a glimpse of the floating parade (ffwd through the thing) Iran came in, the Canadian voice over went on about how there was a push to get Iran banned from the Olympics for there treatment of women. And see how there are only male athletes on their boat.

Then when Israel appeared soon after, nothing about the push to ban Israel. The Canadian broadcaster only said: "The sad truth is the Israeli athletes need 24h protection after attacks through social media". Always the victim. The voice over didn't touch why they would be 'attacked' on social media.

Double standards and hypocrisy.

At least the voice over did show some sympathy when the Palestinian athletes came in "Over 400 athletes killed and injured in the war in Gaza". Of course no context about the 'war'.

ASEAN foreign ministers call for Gaza truce

Foreign ministers of the Southeast Asian regional bloc ASEAN have expressed “grave concern over the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza”.

In a joint communique released after a meeting in Laos, the ministers condemned “all attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure, which have resulted in the alarming number of casualties, particularly women and children, the restricted access to food, water, and other basic needs, leading to the further deterioration of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza”.

They also called for a ceasefire in the besieged and bombarded territory as well as the immediate and unconditional release of all captives.

The ministers urged “rapid, safe, unimpeded and sustained humanitarian access to all those in need, including through increased capacity at border crossings, including by sea”.

They also called for “all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and to abide by international humanitarian law and international human rights law”.

Qassam Brigades reports fierce clashes in Gaza City

The armed wing of Hamas says its fighters struck an Israeli troop carrier surrounded by soldiers with an al-Yassin 105 rocket in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood, south of Gaza City.

Multiple soldiers were killed or wounded in the attack, according to the group’s statement on Telegram.

In a separate incident, the group said it destroyed Israeli forces penetrating to the same neighbourhood with mortar shells.

Al-Quds Brigades says it captured Israeli drone

The armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad says it took control of an Israeli Evo Max drone while it was carrying out intelligence missions in the east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

A statement on Telegram also said, in conjunction with the Hamas’ Qassam Brigades, al-Quds fighters destroyed with heavy mortar shells an Israeli army headquarters in the Bani Suhaila area in eastern Khan Younis.

Qassam, al-Quds Brigades claim attacks on Israeli military targets

The military wings of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad say their fighters:

‘Every square metre of land has people on it’

Nebal Farsakh, spokesperson for the Palestine Red Crescent Society, says Israeli forces are forcing Palestinians to flee to areas that are coming under frequent attacks, while other parts of Gaza are overcrowded and not fit for people to live in.

Speaking to Al Jazeera from Ramallah, Farsakh said that “today marks the sixth day of forced displacement of thousands of families in Khan Younis where the city is under repeated attacks. Israeli forces are making thousands of families flee from the south of Khan Younis to either al-Mawasi or to Deir el-Balah.”

She added, “Al-Mawasi is also an overcrowded area. There is no way to find a space to set up shelter. Every square metre of land has people on it.”

Farsakh also said that the attack on a school in Deir el-Balah left more than 100 injured, in addition to the about 30 killed, which we reported earlier. PRCS teams have evacuated the injured to hospitals, but “many others were still stuck under the rubble and our teams could not reach them”.

Those who were evacuated to Al-Aqsa Hospital are facing an overcrowded facility, she said – one that is “lacking medications and medical supplies, which is urgently needed to provide emergency medical services to this number of casualties”.

‘We have seen this over and over again’

Tanya Haj-Hassan, a paediatric intensive care physician, says Al-Asqa Hospital is overwhelmed by the increasing number of wounded arriving in the aftermath of the Israeli attack earlier on the school sheltering wounded people and displaced Palestinians in Deir el-Balah.

“The problem when you have a mass casualty at this scale, you can’t even provide compassionate and the life care to relieve the suffering,” she told Al Jazeera from the Jordanian capital of Amman.

Haj-Hassan, who was worked in Gaza during the war, said the reports coming in show that this was a triple strike on a field clinic. “A lot of the cases that would otherwise be cared for at Al-Aqsa are being cared for in this clinic, because Al-Aqsa is above capacity,” the doctor added.

Haj-Hassan also said there are reports that up to 1,000 people were in the vicinity of this school, including patients and their caregivers.

“We have seen this over and over again, where places civilians are highly concentrated are struck by Israeli forces. The rescue workers go in to rescue any survivors and the same location is hit recurrently after that,” she added.

Injured at Al-Aqsa Hospital have burns and amputated limbs

Many of the injured reaching Al-Aqsa Hospital after an attack at a nearby evacuation centre have amputated upper or lower limbs, doctors say.

The attack also “caused severe burns to their bodies”, Khalil Dawran, a doctor at Al-Aqsa Hospital, told Al Jazeera.

Our correspondent Tareq Abu Azzoum earlier reported from inside the hospital, which was in a state of chaos. Patients, including a child, were being treated on the floor as there are not enough beds.

‘Another absolutely catastrophic day in Deir el-Balah’: Doctor

Emergency doctor James Smith has described to Al Jazeera that the situation at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah.

“The emergency room is full of patients, many of them with severe trauma wounds,” said Smith, who worked at the hospital until last month and in regularly in touch with staff there.

Medical staff is “treating patients on the floor, providing whatever care they can, but pain relief is in chronically in short supply so that means that patients with the most horrific injuries are in pain on the floor and there’s nothing health workers can do”.

More than 30 people have been killed in air raids on a school, at least 15 of them children. “It has been another absolutely catastrophic day in Deir el-Balah,” Smith said.

Israel carries out air raid on Balata refugee camp in West Bank

Israel has carried out a rare air raid on the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

Here’s what we know so far:

A Palestinian man has been killed due to Israeli shelling of citizens in Balata, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS). A PRCS medic was injured while evacuating the wounded, the medical charity said.

Israeli military confirms Nablus air raid

According to Israeli army radio, an aircraft targeted the Balata refugee camp east of Nablus, killing a Palestinian man the army said was wanted.

The military said on X that an aircraft had launched an attack on the Nablus area.

We reported earlier that a drone attack on the camp killed a Palestinian man and wounded a paramedic, who is in critical condition.

An Israeli army spokesperson also said that earlier today, Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a military site near one of the entrances to the city of Nablus, injuring an Israeli soldier.

⁠According to the army, the shooting came from deep inside the city of Nablus, prompting a raid into the Balata refugee camp. “Our forces are conducting combing operations in the area,” it said in a statement.

Israeli forces detain at least 40 in occupied West Bank overnight

The arrests took place mainly in Qalqilya and Nablus, according to the Commission for Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.

Among those detained are children and several former prisoners, as well as family members of some wanted men, the organisations said.

“Since the war began, Israeli forces have detained about 9,840 Palestinians. The detentions are systematic and have increased in an unprecedented way since October 7, not just in numbers but also in the mistreatment exercised against the detainees,” they added.

Palestinian ministry names minor killed by Israel in West Bank’s Balata

We have reported earlier that one person was killed in a rare Israeli air raid on the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health says the victim was a 17-year-old, Louay Muhammad Misha. [a Palestinian man the army said was wanted]

It also said nine injured people, including two in critical condition, were being treated at Rafidia Hospital in Nablus.

Second person dies in Israeli drone attack near Nablus

The death toll of Palestinians killed in an Israeli drone attack in the occupied West Bank refugee camp of Balata, near the city of Nablus, has risen to two, Wafa reports.

The Israeli military said the aerial strike came after Palestinian gunmen fired at an Israeli army post and injured a soldier.

The attacks, which also injured 28 people, happened during an Israeli military raid in the area, the Palestinian health minister said. It added that those killed in the air strikes were 17-year-old Louay Muhammad Misha and 24-year-old Ali Hashash.

Palestinian Olympian wore shirt showing bombed children at Opening Ceremony

Boxer Waseem Abu Sal, one of two flag-bearers for the Palestinian delegation during yesterday’s opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, wore a shirt with embroidered images of fighter jets dropping missiles over children playing sport.

“This shirt represents the current image in Palestine,” Abu Sal told AFP today.

“The children who are martyred and die under the rubble, children whose parents are martyred and are left alone without food or water,” said the 20-year-old, who lives in the occupied West Bank and is unable to train with his Cairo-based coach, a Palestinian from Gaza who cannot travel to him due to Israeli restrictions.

Jibril Rajoub, president of the Palestine Olympic Committee, told the news agency the team had checked with the local organising committee of the Paris Olympics to see if Abu Sal’s shirt contravened Olympic regulations.

“It’s a message of peace. It’s a message to attract attention,” he said. “This is antiwar, against killing. This abides with the Olympic Charter.” He added, “We presented it, they approved it.”

The Palestine Olympic Committee wrote to the International Olympic Committee last week asking for a ban on Israeli athletes at the Paris Olympics, which has been rejected.

Rajoub said the Palestinian team intended to use the Paris Olympics to draw attention to the suffering of civilians in Gaza.

Indonesia says need for sustainable peace in Gaza urgent

Retno Marsudi, the foreign minister of Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, has said the need for sustainable peace was urgent. Speaking on the sidelines of the ASEAN Regional Forum in Laos, Retno also said international law should be applied to all parties involved.

“We cannot continue closing our eyes to see the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza,” Retno said.

Following his comments, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States was “working intensely every single day” to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza and find a path to more enduring peace and security.

Stop sending more bombs, ceasefire will happen...

‘Ceasefire has to happen now’: EU’s Borrell

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has repeated his call for a ceasefire in Gaza, after an Israeli attack on a field hospital in Khan Younis reportedly killed 30 people.

“Yet another attack on a school used as a shelter for internal displaced people in Khan Younis,” he said on X. “At the same time an already very fragile population is asked to relocate again and again, with no end in sight,” the diplomat added.

He concluded, “Ceasefire has to happen now. International Humanitarian Law has to be respected. Humanitarian assistance to civilians needs to be delivered at scale.”

Do something, it's time for sanctions. Clearly you repeating a ceasefire has to happen after each massacre isn't working.

Ceasefire talks to resume in Italy on Sunday

Some sources have been speaking to the Israeli media saying that Israel could be headed for a crisis, rather than some sort of breakthrough, in these negotiations.

The say that Netanyahu is taking a big gamble here taking a much harder and tougher stance in these negotiations.

Just three weeks ago, Netanyahu himself released a list of four nonnegotiable items going into these talks and it’s something that mediators behind the scenes have been saying was deterring these negotiations, something that were nonstarters
for the Israelis so there was no room really for negotiations.

So some sources are saying that they are trying to find a pathway forward for the talks as a whole, for the war, and for a ceasefire that is longer than what just it is this deal that’s on the table because it seems that there are a lot of gaps that cannot be bridged right now.

Hezbollah claims attack on Israeli soldiers in Yiftah

Lebanon’s Hezbollah armed group has claimed its fighters carried out an air attack against an Israeli army position in the Yiftah settlement on the eastern side of the Lebanon-Israel border.

The group said in a statement on Telegram that a swarm of drones hit the tents of Israeli soldiers, “causing confirmed casualties”.

The cross-border attacks have become a daily occurrence on the Lebanon-Israel border since Israel’s war on Gaza started on October 7 last year.

Hezbollah has said it will stop its attacks on northern Israel only when there is a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.‏

Israeli attack sparks fires in southern Lebanon

A drone attack has caused a blaze to break out in the border village of Adaisseh, in southern Lebanon, the state-run news agency NNA reported.

Artillery shelling on the town of Meiss el-Jabal also caused a large fire to break out, the agency reported, adding that civil defence teams were deployed to the area.

Israeli fighter jets also conducted mock attacks on the city of Tyre, Lebanon’s fourth largest, breaking the sound and triggering loud explosions in the air.

‘We will respond appropriately’, Israeli army spokesperson says

Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari has given a news briefing on the Majdal Shams attack.

“Hezbollah is lying, it is denying its responsibility” Hagari said, adding that an investigation by the army had determined the group was behind the attack. The Lebanese group earlier put out a statement denying its involvement.

“Once again, the brutality of Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation is revealed to everybody and we will respond appropriately,” he said. “We are in an escalating war and tonight’s incident is a very difficult incident, children have been targeted and those children are Druze Israeli citizens.”

Ten killed, 20 wounded in Majdal Shams: Israeli army

At least 10 people have been killed and more than 20 wounded in the attack on Majdal Shams, Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari has said.

Hagari said the victims were children playing at a local football pitch.

“All were aged between 10 to 20 years old,” he said, adding that Israel will defend the Druze community that was victim of the attack.

“This attack shows the true face of Hezbollah, a terrorist organisation that murders children. We will act to restore full security on our northern border for all citizens of the state of Israel,” Hagari added.

What does that make the IDF after killing 15,000 children in Gaza...

On Israel: ‘They don’t care. They lie. They exaggerate.’

Rami Khouri, a public policy fellow at the American University of Beirut speaking from Boston, has said that Hezbollah is very precise in its statements.

“When it says that it did not fire the rockets that landed in Majdal Shams, probably one should believe them because their track record is one of not exaggerating. They do what they say they’re going to do and they admit what they did or not do,” Khouri said.

“This is a typical situation that we have had not just since October, but for the past 10-15 years, where retaliatory strikes by one side against strikes from the other build up tension – and this one is particularly dramatic – because it hit a football field.”

The Israeli response is normally theatrical, Khouri told Al Jazeera, because “their concern for children being killed in war is not believable, in view of their incredible machinery that has focused on killing tens of thousands of children in Gaza. They don’t care. They lie. They exaggerate”.

Israel’s president says ‘world cannot sit in silence’ in the face of Hezbollah’s attacks

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has said “the world cannot continue to sit in silence in the face of Nasrallah’s terror attacks,” after the attack in Majdal Shams.

The Israeli military has blamed the air raid on Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, lead by Hassan Nasrallah, but the group has denied any responsibility.

“Hezbollah, armed and funded by Iran, does not distinguish between child or adult, soldier or civilian, Jew or Muslim, Druze or Christian,” he said on X. “The State of Israel will firmly defend its citizens and its sovereignty.”


Lebanon condemns ‘violence against civilians’ after deadly Golan attack

Lebanon’s government condemned on Saturday attacks on civilians and called for an end to hostilities on all fronts.

Its statement came after the Israeli military said 10 people were killed in a rocket attack on a village in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The Israeli military accused Hezbollah of being behind the attack but the group denied any involvement.

“Targeting civilians is a flagrant violation of international law and goes against the principles of humanity,” a Lebanese government statement said, calling “for an immediate cessation of hostilities” after months of cross-border exchanges between Hezbollah and Israeli forces.

Israeli army says rocket on Majdal Shams launched from Sheba

The Israeli army says its investigation revealed that the attack that hit Majdal Shams originated from an area located north of Sheba, a village that lies in an area along the border of Lebanon and the occupied Golan Heights that has long been disputed.

The statement issued on X stated again that Hezbollah was responsible for the rocket that struck a football pitch in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

‘Hezbollah will pay a heavy price’, Netanyahu says

Hezbollah will pay a heavy price for a rocket attack that killed 11 people, including children, at a football pitch in a Druze village on Saturday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

“Hezbollah will pay a heavy price, the kind it has thus far not paid,” Netanyahu told the leader of the Druze community in Israel in a phone call, according to a statement from his office.

Hezbollah has denied involvement in the attack.