Al-Quds Brigades claims attacks on Israeli forces in Khan Younis

The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group says it has struck separate groups of Israeli vehicles and soldiers in the northeast and east of the city in southern Gaza.

Separately, the group said a sniper shot down an Israeli soldier in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood in the southwest of Gaza City.

Gaza farmer replants amid destruction to combat hunger

_{Palestinian farmer Youssef Abu Rabie works in a field growing seedlings to combat food shortages in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip}

At least three people killed in Israeli attack on Gaza City: Civil Defence

The Gaza Strip rescue organisation says in a statement that it has recovered the bodies of three people, “a girl and two young men”, from the site of the attack. It added that it also rescued four people who were wounded in the bombing, which hit an apartment belonging to the Helles family near al-Wahda Tower in western Gaza City.

Israeli attack on southern Gaza kills three

Al Jazeera’s correspondent on the ground in the Gaza Strip reports that three people were killed and others wounded when the Israeli army bombarded al-Mawasi, near southern Gaza’s Khan Younis.

The area had previously been declared a “safe zone” by the Israeli army. Al-Mawasi has been hit by the Israeli army multiple times this month, most recently yesterday, when an attack killed three people, including at least two children.

Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that at least 33 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip today.

Church housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza City bombed

Al Jazeera’s correspondent reports that a number of Palestinians have been injured when the Israeli army bombed St Porphyrius Church in northern Gaza. Exact casualty numbers are not available at this time.

Israeli army bombs Khan Younis

Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza reports that an Israeli attack on the town of Abasan al-Jadida, east of the city of Khan Younis in the southern Strip, has left several people dead and others wounded.

Israeli military bombs home in Khan Younis, killing at least 1: Reports

The Israeli military has bombed a house in the city of Khan Younis, southern Gaza, killing at least one person and injuring more, according to local media reports. The body of a woman has been recovered from under the rubble following the attack, which struck the Abu Shawish family home.

Elderly man injured in settler attack near Nablus

The Wafa news agency reports that a 62-year-old Palestinian man was beaten up in the occupied West Bank town of Huwara. Wafa quoted the Palestine Red Crescent, which said that Israeli settlers beat the man as they attacked the town, which is south of the city of Nablus.

Israeli forces carry out raids, arrests in the occupied West Bank

The Israeli military has arrested a Palestinian man from the town of al-Yamoun, west of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports. They had summoned him for unknown reasons to meet intelligence agents in the Salem camp, west of the city of Jenin.

Israeli forces have also stormed the village of Beit Duqqu, northwest of Jerusalem, and raided a man’s home before arresting him, Wafa reports.

Israeli forces have arrested a third man from the Jenin camp as he passed through the Jericho checkpoint, according to local media.

Israeli raids have been reported elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, including:

Israeli military carries out arrests in the occupied West Bank

The Israeli military has carried out several arrests in the occupied West Bank in recent hours, the Wafa news agency reports. They include:

Iran warns of ‘serious consequences’ for Israel if it attacks Lebanon

Any possible Israeli attack on Lebanon “will have serious consequences for Israel”, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a phone call with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, Iran’s state media reported on Monday.

“We are willing to improve our relations with France on the basis of mutual trust,” Pezeshkian added in his conversation with Macron.

Macron spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, the French presidency said, as Paris seeks to prevent a broader escalation between Israel and Hezbollah.

The presidency said Macron had reminded Netanyahu that France was fully committed to doing “everything to avoid a new escalation in the region by passing messages to all parties involved in the conflict”.

Demonstrators try to breach Israeli base after soldiers detained on abuse suspicion

Local media is reporting protests outside of the Beit Lid military base, where Israeli soldiers were transported after they were detained earlier today, suspected of committing violations, including sexual abuse, against Palestinian prisoners at the Sde Teiman prison.

Dozens of Israeli protesters, including far-right members of the Knesset, have clashed with military police after at least nine soldiers suspected of abusing a Palestinian prisoner were detained for questioning from the Sde Teiman detention facility in southern Israel.

The protesters waved Israeli flags and stormed through the facility’s gate on Monday to try to prevent the soldiers’ detention as they chanted “shame”. They defended the soldiers, saying they were doing their duty. Several Israeli civilians rushed to lend support to the soldiers, according to media reports.

Some unsuccessfully tried to break into the facility. One soldier was quoted as saying by the Haaretz newspaper that some members of the military directed pepper spray at the military police who came to detain the soldiers.

Demonstrators also tried to breach the Beit Lid military base, where the soldiers were transported, according to local media.

Israeli protesters storm military court

We’ve been reporting on a backlash in Israel against the detentions and investigation of nine soldiers accused of abusing a Palestinian prisoner at the Sde Teiman prison.

According to Israeli media, protesters have now entered a court building at the Beit Lid military base.

Video shared by Israeli Army Radio shows scenes from the court:

Attacks on drinking water reservoirs ‘strictly prohibited’ under humanitarian law, UN says

Under international humanitarian law, it is “strictly prohibited” to attack infrastructure essential to the survival of the civilian population, including water supplies, the UN Human Rights Office has said, referring to Israel’s attack on a drinking water reservoir for Palestinians in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

“It is indeed strictly prohibited under international humanitarian law to attack civilian objects,” spokesperson Jeremy Laurence told the Anadolu news agency. “Moreover, it is prohibited to attack objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as drinking water supplies,” Laurence added.

Earlier on Monday, the Israeli army admitted that its soldiers were responsible for the bombing of the water reservoir in Tal as-Sultan. According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, an investigation into the incident has been initiated.

However, Laurence said: “The Human Rights Office has received no information on any investigations by Israel into the specific incident of the destruction of the water reserve.”

Israel’s foreign minister calls on NATO to expel Turkey

Israel’s foreign minister has called on NATO to expel Turkey as a member of the military alliance in a move likely to further raise tensions between the countries.

“In light of Turkish President Erdogan’s threats to invade Israel and his dangerous rhetoric, Foreign Minister Israel Katz instructed diplomats … to urgently engage with all NATO members, calling for the condemnation of Turkey and demanding its expulsion from the regional alliance,” the Foreign Ministry said.

On Sunday, Erdogan said Turkey might enter Israel as it had done in the past in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh although he did not spell out what sort of intervention he was suggesting.

“We must be very strong so that Israel can’t do these ridiculous things to Palestine. Just like we entered Karabakh, just like we entered Libya, we might do similar to them,” Erdogan told a meeting of his ruling AK Party in his hometown of Rize.

"Israel could be the first country in history to start a civil war over the right of its military to rape prisoners…"

"acted in self-defense"

Can it get any more absurd. Blowing up and sniping children in 'self-defense' is already the most decrepit thing you can do, now brutal torture in self-defense?

It's a theme though with the Israeli court system. I posted a while ago that these cases never go anywhere at trial as torture (for information) is essentially legalized in Israel. Even though they do don't do it for information, you only need to claim that to get absolved.

2019

https://www.omct.org/en/resources/blog/its-now-even-more-official-torture-is-legal-in-israel

Israel’s Supreme Court has recently clarified, this time explicitly, that interrogational torture is lawful in certain circumstances in Israel’s legal system.

Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled for the State virtually every single time PCATI has requested that it intervene against the prevailing system which allows the systematic torture of Palestinians suspected of serious terrorist activity. This is hardly surprising, since it was the Supreme Court itself which has created this system. In a landmark ruling almost two decades ago,[2] the Court emphasised the absolute prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in international law and ceremoniously closed the door on the routine, pre-authorised use of the torture methods most prevalent during the 1990s – sleep deprivation, prolonged shackling in contorted positions (often combined with blindfolding and loud music), violent shaking. However, at the same time the Court opened a window for ISA interrogators to continue resorting to torture – the word the Court used was “physical interrogation methods” – in what it called “ticking time-bomb” situations. While not authorised to do so, the Court said, after the fact the Attorney-General could decide that ISA torturers (not so described) would not face trial, or even be subjected to a criminal investigation.[3]

Far-right Israeli demonstrators storm 2nd Israeli military base

_{Right-wing Israelis, some of them wearing military uniforms and carrying weapons, broke into the Beit Lid army base where Israeli military courts are located on Monday}

_{Several hundred demonstrators broke into the base after learning Israeli soldiers facing questioning over alleged ‘substantial abuse’ of Palestinian prisoners had been taken there}

Little is known about how many Palestinians from the Gaza Strip Israel has imprisoned since October, but Israeli authorities have claimed they are reviewing the Sde Teiman facility where many of the detainees have been taken

Herzog slams Knesset members, protesters for storming Israel’s military bases

We have been reporting that the arrests of several Israeli soldiers suspected of abusing a Palestinian detainee at Israel’s Sde Teiman military prison prompted the storming of two military bases by the far-right Knesset members and their supporters.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog criticised them for disrupting the Israeli military’s work “in one of the most difficult and challenging weeks in terms of security”.

“We must not burden our fighters and commanders any longer. Let’s strengthen [the Israeli military] and its commanders and defend against all chants that only make our enemies happy,” he said.

He also called on the Israeli police to intervene and “act immediately to restore law and order”.

Israeli soldiers suspected of abuse to be brought to military court: Reports

Nine Israeli soldiers arrested on suspicion of abusing a Palestinian prisoner will be brought for a hearing later today to the Camp Gur military court, according to Israeli media. The suspects are accused of severe violence, including acts of sodomy, which caused the Palestinian man to be hospitalised, the Israeli media reports said.

Palestinian rights groups have documented widespread abuse inside Israeli prisons even before Israel launched its military offensive in Gaza nearly 10 months ago.