Israel Drops 2000-Pound Bombs On Tents In Gaza "Safe Zone"
Satellite images show destruction at Gaza’s al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’
Israeli envoy attacks UN chief for condemning Gaza school strike
Danny Danon accused Antonio Guterres of distorting reality after the UN chief called Israel’s deadly attack on al-Jaouni school “unacceptable”.
“What is ‘unacceptable,’ @antonioguterres , is the fact you refuse to recognize reality and continue to distort it,” Israel’s ambassador to the UN wrote on X.
“Terrorists operating out of civilian buildings previously used by @UNRWA are not ‘innocent.’ It is unconscionable that the UN continues to condemn Israel in its just war against terrorists, while Hamas continues to use women and children as human shields,” he added.
Israel has offered no evidence for its claim it was targeting a Hamas command and control centre located in the school, which was sheltering 12,000 displaced Palestinians. At least 18 people were killed in Wednesday’s attack.
Currently Online What is "unacceptable,” @antonioguterres, is the fact you refuse to recognize reality and continue to distort it.
Terrorists operating out of civilian buildings previously used by @UNRWA are not "innocent." It is unconscionable that the UN continues to condemn Israel in its… https://t.co/ThWltXRqFY
— Danny Danon 🇮🇱 דני דנון (@dannydanon) September 12, 2024
Still usingg the old tactic "Big lie, repeat often" “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”, is a law of propaganda often attributed to the Nazi Joseph Goebbels.
Stop funding Netanyahu’s war on Gaza: Sanders
Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders has urged the US government to stop funding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war on Gaza.
“This week: 19 people killed; scores injured in a strike in a ‘humanitarian zone’ in Gaza. An American shot in the head in the West Bank. Now, another school bombed, killing 14 people, including 6 UN aid workers,” he posted on X.
“Enough is enough. No more money for Netanyahu’s war machine.”
Israel’s al-Jaouni school attack the ‘result of total impunity’
The lack of accountability that Israel has faced following previous attacks has enabled the latest massacre to take place at the UN-operated al-Jaouni school in central Gaza, Abdullah Al-Arian, assistant professor of history at Georgetown University in Qatar, has told Al Jazeera.
“This is the result of total impunity,” he said, referring to the strike. “We have become so desensitised to this level of atrocity [in] schools and hospitals that we forget that at the beginning this was considered something completely off limits.”
Al-Arian said Israel has been “testing the limits of what is acceptable” to the international community and escalating violence accordingly in Gaza.
“This is exactly how genocidal campaigns unfold,” he said.
Al-Arian added that the targeting of UNRWA facilities and staff was part of a broader attempt to delegitimise and criminalise the agency, which Israel sees as an obstacle to its goal of stripping Palestinians of their refugee status.
Jordan condemns attack on UN-run school
Jordan’s Foreign Ministry has issued a statement denouncing the Israeli attack on the UN-operated al-Jaouni school in central Gaza, which killed at least 18 people, including six UN staff.
“Israel’s continued violation of international law and international humanitarian law is a result of the absence of a strong and decisive international stance,” said a statement attributed to the ministry’s spokesman Sufyan Qudah.
The statement also called on the international community, in particular the UN Security Council, “to take immediate and decisive steps to stop these crimes against the Palestinian people”.
‘Endless and senseless killing, day after day’ in Gaza: Lazzarini
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini has condemned Israel’s bombing of the al-Jaouni school that killed six of its staff members, taking the number of UNRWA employees killed in Gaza to at least 220.
“Endless and senseless killing, day after day,” Lazzarini said in a statement. “Humanitarian staff, premises and operations have been blatantly and unabatedly disregarded since the beginning of the war.”
He called for a ceasefire and accountability saying, “The longer impunity prevails, the more international humanitarian law & the Geneva Conventions will become irrelevant.”
‘Carnage must stop,’ says WHO chief after Israeli attack on school
The director-general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has condemned Israel’s strike on the al-Jaouni school in central Gaza, saying “the carnage in Gaza must stop”.
“No words can reflect the true horror and loss of life in Gaza,” he wrote on X. “Hospitals, schools and shelters have been repeatedly bombarded, resulting in deaths of civilians and humanitarians.”
Indeed, terribly tragic. No words can reflect the true horror and loss of life in #Gaza.
Hospitals, schools and shelters have been repeatedly bombarded, resulting in deaths of civilians and humanitarians.
Our hearts go out to @UNRWA colleagues. We grieve the loss of another… https://t.co/IpLMe6cuhI
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) September 12, 2024
Palestine demands international protection after UN school strike
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has condemned Israel’s strike on the al-Jaouni school in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, calling it a “horrific massacre”.
In a statement, it called on the international community to provide Palestinians international protection and stop the “war of extermination and displacement against our people”.
The ministry also called for UNRWA employees and other humanitarian workers to be protected from “the brutality of the occupation”.
Qatar calls for UN investigation into Israeli attack on UNRWA school
Qatar’s Foreign Ministry has “strongly condemned” Israel’s bombing of the UNRWA-operated al-Jaouni school.
In a statement shared on X, the ministry called the attack a “horrific massacre” that confirms Israel’s “criminal approach and its disregard for the principles of international humanitarian law”.
“We reiterate the call for an urgent international investigation, including the dispatch of independent UN investigators to ascertain the facts regarding the occupation’s continuous targeting of schools and shelters for displaced persons,” said the ministry.
UNRWA staff ‘despairing’ after Israeli attack
Sam Rose, senior deputy director of UNRWA affairs in Gaza, says the organisation is facing one of its most difficult days following the attack on a school it runs that killed six of its staff members.
“Staff in the offices are in shock,” Rose told Al Jazeera from Khan Younis. “They’re grieving. They’re despairing.”
“The scale and the rapidity of the incidents are just too difficult for us to get our head around sometimes,” he said, adding that it is the fifth time the UNRWA-run al-Jaouni school was targeted during the war.
Asked whether UNRWA would be able to keep operating despite the threats against it, Rose said, “We’re running out of options.”
“The space in which we’re able to operate geographically, and even conceptually and existentially, is simply shrinking. And our staff, who are working day in, day out around the clock” do not have the protection they deserve, he said.
Funeral held for victims of Nuseirat school strike
The funeral for the people killed in the Israeli strike on the al-Jaouni school has been held as Palestinians in Gaza go from tragedy to tragedy.
Health facilities are also busy accommodating a large influx of injuries from an attack on a residential building in Khan Younis earlier, where four members of a family were killed by an Israeli drone.
Doctors have been dealing with cases back-to-back for almost a year, which makes it very difficult to save lives.
EU chief diplomat ‘outraged’ by Israeli strike on UN-run school
The European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says he is “outraged” by the killing of six UNRWA staff after an Israeli strike on the al-Jaouni school in central Gaza.
The EU’s top diplomat said the disregard of the basic principles of international humanitarian law, especially the protection of civilians, cannot and should not be accepted by the international community.
Outraged by the killing of 6 @UNRWA staffers after IL strikes hit - for the 5th time - a school in Nuseirat sheltering 12,000 displaced people
The disregard of the basic principles of IHL, especially protection of civilians, cannot & should not be accepted by the int. community.
— Josep Borrell Fontelles (@JosepBorrellF) September 12, 2024
Then do something, you are the EU foreign policy chief after all. You are part of the international community you blame.
‘Humanitarian workers should not be victims of rockets’: Germany
Germany has joined a growing list of states speaking out against the killing of six UN staff at a school in central Gaza that Israel bombed.
In a statement, Germany’s Federal Foreign Office said, “Humanitarian aid workers must never be victims of rockets … the death of six UNRWA staff at a school in Nuseirat is totally unacceptable … Israel’s army has a responsibility to protect UN staff and aid workers.”
The attack on the al-Jaouni school killed a total of 18 people, including women and children, according to Gaza’s civil defence.
Humanitarian aid workers must never be victims of rockets. The death of six @UNRWA staff at a school in #Nuseirat is totally unacceptable. @UNRWA is providing vital aid in #Gaza and has a UN mandate to do so. Israel’s army has a responsibility to protect UN staff and aid workers.
— GermanForeignOffice (@GermanyDiplo) September 12, 2024
Israel must protect aid workers in Gaza: Blinken
The US secretary of state has called for the protection of humanitarian workers after six UNRWA staff members were killed in an Israeli attack on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in central Gaza.
“We need to see humanitarian sites protected, and that’s something that we continue to raise with Israel,” Antony Blinken told reporters on a visit to Poland. He added that a US-backed ceasefire was the best way to ensure their safety.
The US top diplomat also argued that Hamas bore some responsibility. “We continue to see Hamas hiding in, taking over, and otherwise using these sites from which to conduct its operations,” he said.
Israeli forces have struck several such schools in recent months, claiming that Hamas operates from these places and hides among civilians. But Israeli claims have often been not backed by proof, and activists have accused Israel of targeting civilian infrastructures such as residential buildings, schools, universities and hospitals in the enclave.
Blinken carrying the lie. His fake concern is only so he can spread more Israeli propaganda. No it's Blinken that also bears a lot of responsibility for the continueing genocidal massacres.
UN special rapporteur says ‘outrageous’ to blame Palestinians for latest ‘massacre’
UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese says it is “outrageous” to blame Palestinians for the “massacre” committed by Israel at a UN-run school sheltering displaced people in Gaza on the basis of “unevidenced ‘human shielding’ accusations”.
Albanese said Israel’s claims that Hamas operatives hide in humanitarian zones are part of “Israel’s logic of genocide”.
Responding to a statement by the German Foreign Office repeating the Israeli line that “Hamas uses civilians as human shields” despite no evidence having been provided to substantiate the claim, Albanese said she could not believe “how far Germany seems ready to go to protect Israel’s genocidal campaign”.
Deadly Israeli attack on Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood
An Israeli military attack in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood has killed at least two people, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. It follows a wave of lethal attacks in the city yesterday evening that killed a total of 12 people, including several children in their homes.
At least three killed in Israeli strike on Jabalia camp: Report
Israeli fighter jets have bombed the Siam family home near the Tawbah Mosque in the Jabalia camp in the north of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Information Center reports.
Israeli attack kills three in Rafah
The Wafa news agency is reporting that three people have been killed in an Israeli attack in Rafah’s Khirbet al-Adas area. This brings the total number of people killed in Gaza this morning to at least eight, following earlier attacks in Jabalia and Gaza City.
In central Gaza, Israeli forces have also struck residential buildings in the Bureij and Nuseirat camps, according to Wafa.
Four bodies recovered from central Rafah
Gaza’s civil defence say they have recovered the bodies of four people killed by Israeli bombardment in central Rafah’s Tal az-Zohour neighbourhood. Their deaths follow our earlier report of three people being killed in Rafah’s Khirbet al-Adas area.
Israel has killed 41,118 Palestinians since October 7: Health Ministry
Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed at least 34 people and injured 96 over the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. The ministry also reported that there are additional victims trapped in areas inaccessible to ambulances and civil defence crews.
The latest casualties bring the total number of people killed in the enclave since October 7 to 41,118, with 95,125 injured, the ministry added.
Polio vaccination drive continues in northern Gaza
Health workers are continuing to vaccinate children against polio in northern Gaza for a third day. Footage posted by the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) relief group showed its members helping deliver the vaccines.
As of yesterday, the polio vaccination drive had reached at least 530,000 children throughout the enclave, nearing its goal of 640,000 children.
On the third day of the national #polio vaccination campaign in the #Gaza and North Gaza governorates, teams from the Palestine Red Crescent Society continue vaccinating children under the age of ten at the PRCS’s medical points in both areas.
📷Filmed by: PRCS volunteer, Yousef… pic.twitter.com/1YOHBpHaaS
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) September 12, 2024
Four killed in bombing of residential building in Khan Younis: Report
Four people have been killed and several injured following an Israeli air raid on a residential building in Khan Younis, central Gaza, the Palestinian news agency Wafa has reported. Medical sources told the agency two brothers were killed in the strike, which happened in the eastern part of the city.
Israeli bombardment hits eastern Rafah
An Israeli bombardment to the east of Rafah has killed at least one person, according to our colleagues on the ground. It is the third deadly attack reported this morning in or around the southern Gaza city. In total, Israeli attacks throughout Gaza today have killed at least 20 people, medical sources told Al Jazeera Arabic.
Two more killed in Israeli artillery fire on Jabalia camp
Israeli artillery fire has killed two more Palestinians in Jabalia camp, report our colleagues on the ground. The attack, targeting the eastern area of the camp, injured several others, according to their reports.
It comes after an earlier strike this morning on a family’s home in the camp killed at least three.
At least 22,000 people in Gaza suffering from ‘life-changing’ injuries: WHO
About a quarter of the people wounded in Gaza during Israel’s war – more than 22,000 people – have injuries that are “life-changing”, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Many of the injuries require amputations or years-long “rehabilitation services”, the UN health agency said in a statement. Referring to an analysis of the types of injuries, the WHO said “many thousands of women and children” are among those badly wounded.
It estimated there had overall been between 13,455 and 17,550 “severe limb injuries”, which it said were the main driver of the need for rehabilitation. Other life-altering injuries including spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury and major burn injuries, it said.
Six-year-old Palestinian girl Siwar Mahdi Ali and her father Mahdi Ali, at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, on February 26
No rehabilitation services for limb injuries in Gaza, says WHO
Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza have life-altering limb injuries, but the enclave’s only limb reconstruction and rehabilitation centre, located in Nasser Hospital, is non-functional, according to the WHO.
At the same time, people with limb injuries can no longer access “in-patient rehabilitation and prosthetic services”, and many struggle to get assistive products, such as wheelchairs and crutches, due to shortages, the WHO said in a statement.
“Amidst the ongoing hostilities, it is critical to ensure access to all essential health services, including rehabilitation to prevent illness and death,” it said. “WHO reiterates its call for a ceasefire, which is critical for rebuilding the health system to cope with escalating needs.”
Palestinian girl Noor Marouf, whose limb was amputated after being wounded in an Israeli strike, sits in a wheelchair at the European Hospital in Rafah
No space ‘for bodies to be buried’
Within the past couple of hours, the surge seems to be taking place in the eastern part of Khan Younis.
In addition to the four who were already killed in the European residential complex, very near the European Gaza Hospital, there are eight more from different locations in the eastern and central part of Khan Younis city.
Here at the hospital, the past few hours have been quite difficult seeing … collapsed parents crying over the bodies of their children and family members.
They have been taken one by one here from the courtyard of the hospital after performing final prayers before taking them to their final resting place, which is a challenge because right now graveyards in the central area are running out of space.
There are no more spaces for bodies to be buried and what people have been resorting to is opening an already closed grave and burying people on top of each other because there is simply no space left.
Palestinian killed while riding bicycle in southern Gaza: Report
An Israeli strike has killed a person riding their bicycle in Gaza’s Qizan Abu Rashwan area, near Khan Younis, reports Wafa.
The attack follows an earlier Israeli air raid on a residential home in eastern Khan Younis that killed four people, including two brothers, according to the agency.
Makeshift classroom set up on Gaza home rubble
Palestinian teacher Israa Abu Mustafa teaches inside a makeshift classroom in a tent she set up on the rubble of her house, in the Khan Younis camp, southern Gaza Strip.
More than 650,000 students in Gaza are being deprived of their right to education for the second academic year in a row due to Israel’s war on the besieged and bombarded territory.
At least 84 percent of schools in Gaza “require full reconstruction or significant rehabilitation before schooling can resume”, according to UNICEF.
Palestinian children walk past destroyed buildings as they head to class in the Khan Younis camp
Israeli legislator vows to have hospitalised Palestinian suspect killed
A far-right Israeli legislator has posted a video to X showing him entering a hospital room and promising to have a wounded Palestinian suspect killed for carrying out a deadly vehicle ramming attack in the occupied West Bank.
Zvi Succot wrote on X that he was visiting Jerusalem’s Shaarei Zedek hospital when he discovered that the Palestinian man suspected of carrying out the attack that killed an Israeli soldier was being treated there.
In the video, Succot could be heard saying: “We’ll make sure they kill you. The State of Israel will kill you. We will pass a law to kill you.”
Earlier we reported the Israeli army said one soldier was killed and another injured when a “Palestinian truck” rammed into an Israeli military checkpoint near the illegal Israeli settlement of Givat Assaf.
Israeli forces shot a 58-year-old Palestinian man who was driving the truck, and the military later said it had taken him to hospital.
NGOs call on UN to take ‘urgent action’ to protect detainees in Israel, Palestine
The interagency statement, signed by 31 organisations – including Save the Children, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam – calls for UN member states to take steps to “protect people deprived of their liberty” in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory.
“This includes demanding that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is granted immediate and unfettered access to all detainees and hostages, to the full extent required by international humanitarian law,” said the statement, which also called for Hamas to release the remaining captives in Gaza.
The organisations also demanded that Palestinian children arbitrarily arrested and detained by the Israeli military be released “immediately and unconditionally”. The statement cited examples of Palestinian minors in Israeli custody being subject to abuse, including “sexual assaults and violent beatings”.
“No child should ever come into contact with a military court, or any court that lacks comprehensive fair trial rights and basic safeguards. No child should ever be abducted,” the groups said.
The Israeli military has detained about 10,000 people – including at least 650 children – in the West Bank alone since October 7.
Israeli lawmaker demands siege on West Bank cities
Almog Cohen, an MP with the far-right Otzma Yehudit party, has said Israel must collectively punish Palestinians in areas of the occupied West Bank where there are “terrorists”.
“A siege must be imposed on the villages or cities from which terrorists emerge,” said Cohen, in comments carried by Israeli public radio.
As we’ve been reporting, Israeli forces have been waging a two-week offensive in the northern West Bank, killing more than 50 people.
Israel has been accused of using collective punishment against Palestinians for decades. Weeks after the Israeli offensive in Gaza, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke against the “collective punishment” of the Palestinian people.
Stop letting aid into northern Gaza, says former Israeli official
The former head of Israel’s National Security Council has advocated blocking all aid to northern Gaza to defeat Hamas.
“When you completely prevent the entry of supplies, you make thousands of Hamas operatives surrender or starve to death,” said retired Major-General Giora Eiland, according to Israeli public radio.
Aid supply to Gaza has suffered due to increasing Israeli curbs and attacks on humanitarian workers.
Back in May, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel must take action to ensure basic food supplies reach Gaza, where it warned famine and starvation were spreading.
How many more genocidal statements does the ICC need before issuing arrest warrants...
Turkey investigating killing of US-Turkish activist in West Bank
Turkey will conduct its own investigation into the killing of US-Turkish activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi in the occupied West Bank, the country’s justice minister has confirmed.
“Turkey has opened an investigation,” Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc said. “We will continue to defend the right of our sister Aysenur and our Palestinian brothers.”
Tunc also said Turkey would bring Aysenur’s case before the United Nations and push for the body to launch an independent inquiry.
“We will work to ensure that the (UN) special rapporteur on extrajudicial and arbitrary executions takes immediate action, and that an independent commission of inquiry is established and prepare a report,” he said.
On Tuesday, Israel’s military said it was “highly likely” its forces shot Eygi “indirectly and unintentionally” while they were aiming at a “key instigator” of a protest she was taking part in, near the West Bank city of Beita.
However, a Washington Post investigation revealed that Egyi was shot “more than a half-hour after the height of confrontations” and more than 200 yards (182 metres) away from Israeli forces, where she and other demonstrators posed no apparent threat.
Israeli military carries out arrests in Tulkarem, Bethlehem
Israeli forces have stormed the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem and arrested three men, according to the Wafa news agency.
The Israeli military is carrying out an ongoing assault on the city, raiding homes, deploying snipers on roofs and flying reconnaissance planes. Earlier, we reported that an Israeli drone strike killed three men in Tulkarem.
Four men have also been arrested in separate raids across Bethlehem governorate, Wafa reports. Israeli forces arrested two men from the village of ash-Shawawra, while a third man has been arrested in the town of al-Khader, and a fourth man in the town of Zaatara.
Undercover Israeli forces infiltrate Hebron hospital, arrest injured men: Reports
Undercover Israeli forces dressed as civilian women have entered a medical facility in Halhul, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center and the Al Mayadeen outlets report.
Two injured Palestinian men receiving treatment at the hospital, at least one of whom has been accused of attempting to carry out a car bombing on August 13, were arrested during the raid, according to The Times of Israel.
Israel detains 15 in Hebron, Far’a camp
Israeli forces have carried out another wave of arrests in the occupied West Bank, detaining a total of 12 people in the governorate of Hebron and the Far’a refugee camp, reports Wafa.
The forces made a total of 12 arrests in Hebron governorate, raiding the town of Sa’ir and Arroub refugee camp. Three of those detained are former prisoners, according to Wafa.
They arrested three more people, including a father and son, in Far’a camp, reported Wafa.
Earlier in the night, as we reported, an Israeli sniper shot and killed a Palestinian man during the raid on Far’a camp.
Israel arrests 40 in latest West Bank raids
Israeli forces have detained 40 Palestinians in raids throughout the occupied West Bank since last night, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.
Most of the arrests took place in the governorates of Hebron and Tubas. One of those detained was pulled from a hospital where he was being treated, said the society.
Israeli army soldiers deploy in Tubas in the north of the occupied West Bank, on September 11
Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyard, perform prayers
Israeli settlers have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyard in occupied Jerusalem and performed prayers under the protection of the Israeli army.
The Islamic Waqf, which oversees Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem, said 126 settlers stormed the courtyards of the compound under the protection of the Israeli army, the Wafa news agency reported.
Footage obtained by Al Jazeera Arabic shows them performing prayers at the site, which is the third holiest in Islam.
Israeli police also tightened their security measures around Jerusalem’s Old City, Wafa added.
Palestine warns against Al-Aqsa Mosque provocations
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has warned against Israeli incitement for the destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque and its replacement with a Jewish temple, saying such rhetoric is accompanied by an escalation in the storming of the compound.
The comment comes as a group of Israeli settlers entered the compound and performed prayers in the mosque’s courtyard under the protection of the Israeli army. The ministry said Israeli groups were circulating calls for the destruction of the Muslim holy site under the slogan “soon in these days”.
Mahmoud al-Habbash, adviser on religious and Islamic affairs to the Palestinian Authority, warned that such rhetoric would ignite a religious war for which the world would pay the price.
In a statement, al-Habbash called on the international community to put an end to the violations perpetrated by Israel in the compound before they spiral out of control.
Israeli forces stopping medics from reaching Tulkarem: PRCS
The Palestine Red Crescent Society says Israeli forces are blocking its emergency medics from entering Tulkarem to rush people to the hospital “despite prior coordination”.
As we’ve been reporting, Israeli forces are carrying out a violent raid in Tulkarem, busting into homes and deploying snipers on rooftops. Earlier, an aerial attack killed at least three people in the city.
🚨The Israeli occupation forces are preventing Palestine Red Crescent Society EMS teams from entering #Tulkarm camp to transport patients to the hospital, despite prior coordination with the International Committee of the Red Cross.
📷Photographer: Issam Rimawi#IHL #NotATarget… pic.twitter.com/vk5nb8Wj61
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) September 12, 2024
Israel continues largest military operation in decades across West Bank
Israeli forces returned overnight to Tulkarem and Tubas after pulling out of Jenin, Tulkarem and Far’a last Friday. We can talk of a resumption of the military assault launched by the Israeli forces on August 28, which is the largest military operation in the past 20 years.
The levels of destruction in Tulkarem and Nur Shams are extraordinary, according to Palestinians talking to us from there.
At least four people have been killed and three of them have yet to be identified as their bodies were charred.
Israeli settlers attack Palestinian homes near Nablus: Report
A group of Israeli settlers has stormed into the Palestinian town of Yatma near Nablus and attacked locals’ homes, the Wafa news agency reports.
The settlers also set fire around the residences, Wafa said.
Israeli settler attacks have been on the rise in the occupied West Bank during the Gaza war. From October 7 to September 9, Israeli settlers carried out at least 1,350 attacks against Palestinians, according to data from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). About 270 of the attacks caused casualties, the OCHA data show.
Hezbollah claims attack on Israeli military site
The Lebanese armed group said it carried out the attack at 1am local time (10pm GMT) at the Bayad Blida site, which hosts Israeli soldiers on the border with southern Lebanon.
“In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their brave and honourable resistance, the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance targeted … the Bayad Blida site with heavy artillery shells and hit it directly,” it said in a statement.
Israel is yet to acknowledge the attack. There have been no reported casualties.
EU’s Borrell meets Lebanese officials amid uptick in Israeli attacks
In a meeting with Lebanese officials in Beirut, EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said the drums of war have not stopped beating since his last visit in January and that we’re facing dangerous times.
His visit really is about trying to prevent further escalation and reaching a ceasefire deal in Gaza. But he made it very clear that there has been no tangible progress in ending this “horrific war”, as he called it.
In the past few days, we have seen an uptick in the intensity and frequency of Israeli strikes and we’re hearing Israeli officials talk about widening the war and shifting the focus from Gaza to the northern front.
Israel is not expected to launch a wide-scale attack on Lebanon in the run-up to the US election, but many say it will intensify conflict along the border.
Israeli air strike kills 2 in southern Syria: War monitor
An Israeli strike has hit a vehicle near the Syrian town of Khan Arnabah in the occupied Golan Heights, killing at least two people, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor.
AFP, citing a local security source, said “two charred bodies were removed” from the targeted vehicle.
The attack comes days after raids blamed on Israel killed 18 people in the central province of Hama, according to Syrian authorities.
The Syrian Observatory said those strikes killed 27 people, including six civilians, and targeted a “scientific research area” and other sites in the province’s Masyaf area.
Members of Israeli public ‘don’t see what you see abroad’
Alon Liel, former director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, says condemnation by the UN and international media coverage is not affecting the Israeli government’s decision-making regarding its war on Gaza.
“I think the Israeli government cares less at this stage about public reaction, media reaction, and it focuses on [international] governmental reactions,” he told Al Jazeera from Tel Aviv.
As for Israeli citizens, Liel said they aren’t exposed to or focused on killings such as those that occurred in Wednesday’s Israeli attack on al-Jaouni school.
“We don’t see what you see abroad. …. The Israelis are focusing on their own casualties, and we have casualties almost every day now on the damage to the north of Israel and to the south of Israel,” he said.
“I don’t think the Israeli public is worried at this stage about it. It’s much more worried about the personal security and maybe the damage to the economy.”
Israel has access to the internet right? The West also doesn't see what you need to see if only focusing on BBC, CNN, Fox news etc. More than on Israeli TV, but the blackout and propaganda campaign goes far beyond Israel.
UN warns of ‘staggering’ economic devastation across Gaza, West Bank
The UN Trade and Development agency (UNCTAD) says Israel’s war has decimated Gaza’s economy and triggered an “alarming decline” in the occupied West Bank, warning that economic devastation has taken place at a “staggering scale”.
The agency said in a report that by early 2024, up to 96 percent of Gaza’s agricultural assets – including farms, orchards, irrigation systems, machinery and storage facilities – had been “decimated”.
A full 82 percent of businesses in the besieged and bombarded territory had also been damaged or destroyed. “By mid-2024, Gaza’s economy had shrunk to less than one-sixth of its 2022 level,” UNCTAD said.
In the West Bank, a positive economic trend abruptly reversed after October 7. The report showed that 96 percent of businesses saw decreased activity and more than 42 percent reduced their workforces.
Now “poverty affects nearly the entire population of Gaza and is rising rapidly in the West Bank,” UNCTAD said.
What’s the economic toll of Israel’s war on Gaza?
Israel’s finances are under strain and its budget deficit is widening, as agencies downgrade the nation’s credit.
More than 40,000 Israeli businesses are expected to go bankrupt in the coming months. Tourism has ground to a halt and consumption, trade and foreign investment have all slumped. Israel’s war on Gaza is damaging almost every sector of its economy.
It doesn't matter as long as the US tax payer foots the bill for genocide.
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