Israeli demonstrate in Tel Aviv to bring back captives
Jenin hospital suspends dialysis services: Reports
The Jenin Government Hospital announced it had suspended its daily dialysis services due to ongoing disruptions in essential supplies caused by the Israeli military siege of the city, according to Wafa, the Palestinian news agency.
The hospital has been under Israeli military siege for the past four days, leading to severe operational challenges, Wafa reported.
Citing a press statement issued by the hospital, Wafa said Israeli forces had damaged the electricity supply line to the hospital, and the backup generators have been running continuously for four days.
The news agency also said the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) had reported that Israeli forces had obstructed their ambulance teams from retrieving the bodies of two deceased individuals from inside the Jenin refugee camp.
Palestinians fend off settler attack in occupied West Bank: Report
Palestinians have fended off a settler’s attack in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus, Wafa reports, citing Fuad Hasan, a human rights activist. Hasan said Israeli settlers mounted a large-scale attack opening fire on the villagers, according to the Palestinian news agency.
The latest attack constitutes another instance of settler violence that has been increasing since Israel began its war on Gaza. Settlers are Israeli citizens who live illegally on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Israeli forces kill at least 2 Palestinians in Jenin refugee camp
The Israeli army killed two Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, bringing the death toll over four days to at least 22.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said in a statement its crews “arrived at the location of the bodies … but the occupation forces prevented them from receiving the bodies and demanded that the paramedics leave”.
In a later statement, it said Israeli forces also “prevented the transfer of two injuries in Jenin camp to the hospital for the third time”.
Palestine TV broadcast video showing the destruction in the city of Jenin and its camp, where Israeli attacks targeted shops, infrastructure, and the Khalid ibn al-Walid Mosque.
Several wounded by Israeli forces near Nablus: Red Crescent
Four people have been wounded by Israeli gunfire in the town of Qusra, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, the Palestine Red Society Crescent says.
The incident comes during Israel’s largest military assault in 20 years in the occupied territory, killing at least 22 people since it launched its attacks on the towns and refugee camps at Jenin, Nablus, Tubas and Tulkarem overnight on Wednesday.
In Jenin, drones and helicopters circled overhead while the sound of sporadic firing could be heard in the city, where hundreds of Israeli troops have been operating.
Intensity of Israeli raids in Jenin ‘very alarming’: MSF
Doctors Without Borders says Israeli forces are obstructing access to health facilities and targeting ambulances in Jenin. Soldiers are also accused of “delaying” medical care for wounded Palestinians.
“The scale and intensity of Israel’s four-day incursion in Jenin is very alarming,” it said.
The scale and intensity of Israel's four-day incursion in Jenin is very alarming. Israeli forces keep obstructing access to health facilities blocking and even targeting ambulances, delaying people’s access to care. 1/4
— MSF UK (@MSF_uk) August 31, 2024
Israeli army announces death of soldier during West Bank raids
Israel’s military announced the first death of a soldier during its large-scale incursion in the occupied West Bank that began four days ago.
An army statement said Elkana Navon, 20, “fell during operational activity” on Saturday and another soldier was “severely injured” in the same incident, without providing details.
Palestinian residents say the trail of destruction left behind by the Israeli military raids – which have destroyed infrastructure, roads, water and electricity facilities – suggests its goal is to make the territory inhabitable and push Palestinians out of their homes.
Massive destruction in Jenin city: Palestinian spokesperson
Bashir Matahen, director of public relations and media in the municipality, says Israeli forces have bulldozed more than 70 percent of the city’s streets, the Wafa news agency reports.
About 80 percent of Jenin and the entire refugee camp is cut off from water supplies because of the destruction of distribution networks, and technical teams are unable to access the affected areas, Matahen was quoted as saying.
Since Friday, soldiers have concentrated raids on the city of Jenin and its camp, long a bastion of Palestinian armed groups fighting against Israel’s decades-old occupation.
Many wounded Palestinians unable to reach Jenin Hospital
The director of Jenin Hospital, Wisam Bakr, spoke to Al Jazeera about the ongoing situation at the besieged health facility.
Here are his translated comments:
Israeli forces strike near a hospital in Gaza City
Israeli forces launched an air strike near al-Ahli Arab Hospital (Baptist Hospital) in Gaza City.
Within the past 15 minutes, we’ve been getting reports of the Israeli military carrying out air attacks in the vicinity of al-Ahli Arab Hospital (Baptist Hospital) in Gaza, which is in the central part of the city.
From the initial report that we received, it was the house in the hospital’s back yard [that was struck]. It’s a densely populated area with back-to-back houses in that particular location.
Two killed in Israeli attack near hospital in Gaza City: Report
The Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that Israeli air raids near the al-Ahli Arab Hospital (Baptist Hospital) have killed two Palestinians and wounded others.
Citing local sources, it reported that Israeli fighter jets had targeted the perimeter of the hospital, and emergency and rescue teams were still working to retrieve the fatalities and casualties.
Medical facilities directly, deliberately targeted
There are several casualties inside al-Ahli Arab Hospital. This is not the first time we’ve seen health facilities being directly and deliberately targeted by the Israeli military.
This particular hospital was attacked in the initial weeks of this war, and hundreds of people were killed as they were in the courtyard of the hospital.
This was during the early stages of evacuations when the Israeli military ordered many of the residents of the northern part of the Gaza Strip to evacuate to avoid being bombed, and people ended up inside the health facility.
Panic follows attack on al-Ahli Arab Hospital with children wounded
Footage obtained by Al Jazeera reveals the chaos following an Israeli air strike near al-Ahli Arab Hospital in northern Gaza City. The attack caused widespread panic with people screaming and scrambling for safety.
Among the wounded are a toddler and another child, both of whom were being treated at the hospital, as bystanders and family members stood by anxiously. Hundreds of people were killed at the Gaza City hospital in October after an Israeli air strike.
Death toll rises to 3 after Israeli attack on hospital compound
The Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza reports three people have been killed and dozens injured in the Israeli attack in the vicinity of the al-Ahli Arab Hospital.
Palestinians wary of their safety during polio vaccination drive
The UN is set to start vaccinating some 640,000 children in Gaza against polio, but there are concerns about the safety of families during the process.
“The danger is there every second for our children as the war continues and the strikes are everywhere,” said Adly Abu Taha, a displaced Palestinian from the southern city of Rafah. He got his son vaccinated on Saturday ahead of the drive.
“There was a risk to bring my child to Nasser Hospital where the campaign started and to move from one place to another. But thank God, I arrived and wasn’t late and haven’t left until my son got the vaccine, which I hope will be safe and prevent his infection of any disease.”
But Palestinian health officials are sceptical of the campaign’s success given the horrific conditions in Gaza caused by Israel’s war.
“We call for a real ceasefire for this campaign to succeed,” said Dr Yousef Abu al-Rish, deputy minister of health in Gaza.
“Without this all the arrangements that have been made cannot qualify this campaign for success. Regardless our teams will go everywhere. Wherever there is a Palestinian who needs this vaccination, our teams will reach them despite the risks.”
Israeli army carries out new attack in northern Gaza City
Israeli forces targeted the Tuffah area, east of Gaza City, the civil defence agency says. It’s unclear if there are any casualties in the latest attack. Earlier, Israel bombed the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in the city, killing at least three Palestinians and wounding dozens of others.
It was the most recent attack on healthcare facilities by Israel’s army, which has continually targeted hospitals, schools, and other places sheltering terrified and displaced civilians.
Greek tanker damaged in Houthi strike to be towed
Yemen’s Houthi Foreign Minister Jamel Amer says tug boats are expected to begin towing the Greek tanker Sounion on Sunday after it was damaged in an attack by the group on August 21.
The ship is carrying nearly one million barrels of crude oil, raising fears of an environmental catastrophe and posing a risk to navigation in the region.
The Houthis have been targeting what they claim are Israel-linked vessels – an effort they say aims to pressure the Israeli government to end the war in Gaza, which has killed more than 40,600 Palestinians since October.
The crippled Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion in the Red Sea
Houthis claim to hit a ship in the Gulf of Aden
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree says the group carried out a “military operation targeting the ship Groton in the Gulf of Aden”. He said in a televised address the attack was carried out “by the naval, UAV [unmanned aerial vehicles] and missile forces” and that the ship had been hit.
According to several ship-tracking websites, the vessel was sailing under the flag of Liberia. The Houthis have targeted Israel-linked vessels in support of the Palestinians and to pressure the Israeli government to end the war on Gaza.
Houthis reaffirm support for Palestinians amid Israeli ‘aggression’
Yemen’s Houthis expressed “great concern” over Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank, which have killed at least 22 people since Wednesday.
“Yemen and its armed forces will continue to support the Palestinian people and achieve victory for Gaza and the West Bank as long as the aggression and siege continue,” the group said, according to Houthi-affiliated media Al-Masirah.
The Houthis have attacked Israel-linked vessels in an effort they say aims to pressure the Israeli government to end the devastating war in Gaza.
Hezbollah hits Israeli target near border
The Lebanese armed group says its forces fired rockets at the Israeli Ramtha site in the Kfarchouba Hills, claiming direct hits were achieved.
The attack comes after Hezbollah said its fighters targeted the “al-Marj” military outpost in northern Israel with projectiles earlier this morning.
The two sides have been trading tit-for-tat attacks since October 8, the day after Israel launched its war on Gaza following Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel. Hezbollah began engaging Israel in small attacks across the Lebanon-Israel border, saying it would stop only when Israel halted its war.
Casualties after Israeli forces attack home in Gaza’s Jabalia
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report two Palestinians were killed and others injured after Israel’s military attacked a house in the al-Tawbah area of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
Earlier, an Israeli air strike hit the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in northern Gaza City, killing at least three people and wounding dozens.
Dozens of people were reported killed in Israeli raids today, including 27 Palestinians who were taken to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
A boy carries his wounded sibling as they await treatment at Nasser Hospital
‘Yet another war crime’: Israel bombs Gaza City hospital
Combing through the rubble after an attack on a hospital complex in northern Gaza City, a civil defence agency worker condemned the latest medical facility attack by Israel’s army.
“This constitutes yet another war crime, added to the many crimes committed by the military in the Gaza Strip,” the unidentified man said in a video.
“The Israeli warplanes targeted and destroyed the building end-to-end at the al-Alhi Arab Hospital. It remains the only medical facility catering to patients and the wounded in Gaza City since al-Shifa Hospital was flattened by the army.”
He added, “This demands serious action from the international community to prevent further recurrence of these crimes.”
Israel refutes reports of a ceasefire in Gaza for polio campaign
The Israeli prime minister’s office has issued a statement on the upcoming vaccination drive in Gaza.
Here’s what it said:
Palestinian man dies of ‘systematic torture’ in Israeli prison: Rights groups
A Gaza resident has died “of systematic torture” in an Israeli prison, bringing the total number of Palestinian detainees killed in custody since October to 24, rights groups say.
The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Club announced in a statement the “martyrdom of prisoner Nasr Zeyara, 65, from Gaza, in Ramla prison on August 16”.
“Zeyara is one of the many prisoners from Gaza who have died due to systematic torture, and the occupation continues to conceal the identities of the majority of them and to withhold their bodies,” the statement said.
He was arrested on December 29 last year, along with his son Jihad Zeyara, who is currently in Negev prison, it added, citing his family.
The groups noted “prisoners who were visited in Ramla prison confirmed that martyr Zeyara was transferred to Ramla prison a week before his death and was suffering from a complicated health condition, including burns on the lower part of his body”.
An activist holds a banner to support Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons
UN condemns ‘unlawful killings’ and ‘enormous destruction’ in Jenin
The UN Human Rights Office demanded an immediate halt to Israeli military raids in the Jenin refugee camp.
In a statement, the office criticised Israel’s use of weapons and military tactics in the densely populated area, home to about 11,000 Palestinians.
The ongoing incursion in the Jenin camp and “adjacent parts of the city has led apparently to unlawful killings, insecurity for Palestinian residents, and enormous destruction of the camp”, it said.
Israel ‘can’t use the excuse of fighters to starve civilians’
Kenneth Roth, a visiting professor at the Princeton School for International Affairs, says Israel’s attacks on the occupied West Bank have become a “flat-out war” with far-right members of the government wanting to expel all Palestinians from the territory.
“Even though there’s extensive combat between Israeli forces and militants in the Jenin refugee camp, that doesn’t mean there are no rules – the Geneva Conventions still apply,” Roth told Al Jazeera.
“One of the basic rules is Israel has to allow access to humanitarian aid. So it can’t just cut off food, water, electricity and medical care – as we’ve heard it’s doing. It has a duty to allow those for the civilian population. It can’t use the excuse of the fighters to starve civilians, and that’s what it did in Gaza.”
‘The more we screamed, the more they shot,’ Jenin resident says
Oroba al-Shalabi said Israeli gunfire pelted her windows while she was holding a baby.
“We began screaming that we had small children, but they [Israeli soldiers] didn’t respond at first. The more we screamed, the more they shot at the house, shattering the TV and the windows around us,” she said.
The family cowered in their kitchen until soldiers entered, separating women and children from the men and searching everyone’s phones before letting her flee.
The medical charity MSF in a statement said it was alarmed by the scale and intensity of Israel’s incursion while noting that Israeli forces “obstructed access to health facilities and blocked – and even targeted – ambulances”.
Israeli forces shoot, wound child near Nablus
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society has taken a 17-year-old Palestinian child to hospital after he was shot in the back by Israeli forces in the Askar camp, east of the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.
The shooting took place as Israeli vehicles raided the camp and damaged streets and private property using a bulldozer, Wafa reported.
Israeli forces have killed at least 861 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and wounded some 14,196 people there since October, according to UN figures.
Israel’s military forcibly displaces Palestinians from their homes in Jenin: Report
Israeli forces used loudspeakers to order 20 Palestinian families to leave their homes in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Friday, according to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
The news outlet, citing local sources, said the families lived near the Khalid bin al-Walid Mosque in the city of Jenin’s eastern neighbourhood, and had to travel through the mountains to seek refuge with relatives and villages in other parts of the Jenin governorate.
We reported earlier the Khalid bin al-Walid Mosque was one of several buildings attacked by Israeli forces during their ongoing operations in Jenin.
Palestinians ‘terrified’ as Israel’s raid on Jenin continues
Several residents of Jenin spoke to the AFP news agency on the conditions inside the besieged refugee camp as Israeli raids continue.
“It’s hard, it’s very hard for the children and for everyone else. We’re all scared, we’re terrified. Look at the destruction,” Faiza Abu Jaafar told the AFP, standing amid piles of rubble.
“We are living in dark days,” she said
Taher al-Saadi said the Israeli siege has cut Jenin “off from the world”.
“The water is cut off. The electricity is cut off, the sewage system is no longer working. All the infrastructure is destroyed, we no longer have any services that work,” he said.
“The bakeries are at a standstill. We can’t find milk for the children,” he added.
Palestinian families flee Jenin refugee camp
Palestinian families, including women and children, walk past Israeli military vehicles as they flee the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Saturday
Armoured Israeli military vehicles and armed soldiers have taken over the streets of Jenin during their ongoing siege on the city’s historic refugee camp
Israeli army recovers bodies in Gaza
Israel’s military says troops found bodies in Gaza but didn’t provide further details.
“The [army] located several bodies during the fighting in the Gaza Strip. At this stage, the forces are still operating in the area and carrying out a process to extract and identify the bodies, which will last several hours. We ask to avoid spreading rumours,” said military spokesman Daniel Hagari in a post on X.
Families of Israeli captives call for large-scale protests
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum made the call after the Israeli military said it had found bodies in Gaza, prompting speculation the remains were of some of the captives held by Hamas.
“Netanyahu abandoned the hostages. It is now a fact,” the forum said in a statement, according to The Times of Israel.
“Starting tomorrow, the country will tremble. We call on the public to prepare. The country will grind to a halt. The abandonment is over,” the statement said.
Israeli opposition leader accuses Netanyahu of abandoning captives
Yair Lapid took to X accusing the Israeli prime minister of focusing on insignificant issues as “our sons and daughters are being abandoned and dying in captivity”.
“Not the Philadelphi Corridor nor the polio vaccines [in Gaza] interest him — just the coalition” and preserving the partnership with far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir, Lapid wrote.
“In the process, he is crushing the families and the nation of Israel,” he added.
The tweet came after the Israeli military said it had recovered bodies from Gaza and was in the process of identifying the remains.
Family confirms death of Israeli-American captive Hersh Goldberg-Polin
The family of Israeli-American captive Hersh Goldberg-Polin says he has been killed in the Gaza Strip.
“With broken hearts, the Goldberg-Polin family is devastated to announce the death of their beloved son and brother, Hersh,” the family said in a statement hours after the Israeli army said it had located bodies in Gaza.
A much-loved member of an antiracist football community in Jerusalem, Goldberg-Polin was 23 years old when he was taken captive by Hamas on October 7.
Biden says Israeli forces have recovered bodies of six captives from Gaza
The US president said the bodies of the six captives were found in a tunnel under the city of Rafah and included that of American citizen, Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
“I am devastated and outraged,” Biden said.
He added that he grieved deeply with the parents of Goldberg-Polin.
“I have worked tirelessly to bring their beloved Hersh safely to them and am heartbroken by the news of his death. It is as tragic as it is reprehensible. Make no mistake, Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes,” he said.
“And we will keep working around the clock for a deal to secure the release of the remaining hostages,” he added.
It's your own doing, your bombs, your political cover, your genocide. Your red line was Rafah, but you caved, and now the hostages held in Rafah are dead.
More on the Israeli captives who were found dead in Gaza
The Axios news site is reporting that the six Israeli captives – whose bodies were recovered from Gaza by the Israeli military on Saturday – were all abducted from the Nova music festival by Hamas fighters on October 7.
They included that of three men and three women, the US outlet said. And as we’ve been reporting, they included that of Israeli-American captive, Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
Axios, citing Israeli officials, said it is still unclear when and how the captives were killed but some of them were still alive in recent months.
Israeli forces blow up residential buildings in Rafah
The Israeli military is blowing up more residential buildings in western parts of the southern city of Rafah, according to Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent on the ground.
Israeli forces have also launched air raids on the northwestern areas of Rafah city, AJA added.
Remains of destroyed buildings in Rafah, seen through the Egypt-Gaza border on July 4
Israeli military names all 6 captives whose bodies were found in Gaza
The Israeli military has issued a statement on X confirming that the bodies its forces retrieved from Gaza belonged to six captives.
They are Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, Eden Yerushalmi, 24, Ori Danino, 25, Alex Lubnov, 32, Almog Sarusi, 25, and Carmel Gat, 40.
All of them except Gat were taken captive from the Nova music festival in southern Israel on October 7 and their bodies were found in an underground tunnel in Rafah, the military said.
It said all six were “murdered” by Hamas in Gaza. The Times of Israel, citing the Israeli military, also reported that the six were killed about a day or two before they were found.
Kamala Harris condemns Hamas, says it ‘cannot control Gaza’
The US vice president denounced Hamas in a statement after the Israeli military retrieved the bodies of six captives from Gaza, including that of Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
She attacked Hamas as an “evil terrorist organization” and said the Palestinian group now has “even more American blood on its hands”.
Harris, who is also the Democratic presidential nominee in the upcoming election, said she strongly condemns Hamas’s continued brutality and urged the entire world to do the same. “The threat Hamas poses to the people of Israel – and American citizens in Israel – must be eliminated and Hamas cannot control Gaza,” she added.
Harris might indeed be even worse than Biden. Boycott the US, the main driver to keep the genocide going.
Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg, parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, spoke at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, Illinois on August 21
Just awful. Yet Biden/Harris had the power and means to save them by forcing Israel into a ceasefire. They chose not to. Instead more stalling with useless ceasefire talk while sending more bombs and letting Israel do what it wants in Rafah.
"The threat Israel/Aipac poses to the people of Gaza – and American citizens in Israel – must be eliminated and Aipac cannot control the USA"
Israel says captives were killed shortly before troops found them
Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military spokesman, told reporters that Hamas fighters “brutally murdered” the six captives whose bodies were found in Rafah “a short while before we reached them”.
“They were abducted alive on the morning of October 7 by the Hamas terror group,” he was quoted as saying by The Times of Israel.
“Their bodies were found during the fighting in Rafah, in a tunnel, about a kilometre away from the tunnel from which we rescued Farhan al-Qadi a few days ago,” he says in a news conference, referring to the Israeli captive who was found alive in Gaza last week.
So reading between the lines, your 'rescue' caused this. You managed to save 1 and killed another 6.
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