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SvennoJ 5 days ago

Three killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza City, Rafah

One Palestinian has been killed and four wounded when an Israeli helicopter targeted them in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood of northern Gaza City, the news agency Wafa reports. They were taken to the nearby al-Ahli Arab Hospital, Wafa said, citing paramedics.

At least two others – a father and his son – were killed in an attack on the southern city of Rafah. Their bodies were taken to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

This brings the total number of Palestinians killed across Gaza today to 19.


11,000 families in Gaza receive food parcels

The Palestine Red Crescent Society says its teams have managed to deliver food to 11,000 families in Gaza, including the northern part of the enclave, where acute hunger has taken hold.

“This effort aims to alleviate the ongoing suffering of citizens due to the worsening humanitarian situation in the northern part of the Strip, caused by the shortage of food supplies,” it said.

Israeli forces have continued to seal vital border crossings, preventing the entry of humanitarian aid and much-needed fuel as it presses ahead with its 11-month war.


Initial phase of polio vaccination drive now complete

The first phase of a massive polio vaccination campaign in Gaza has officially ended.

About 560,000 children received their first dose over 12 days, Gaza’s Health Ministry said in a statement. In two weeks, a second dose is expected to be administered to those who received the first dose of the vaccine.

Earlier, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hailed the campaign’s success. It was accomplished despite the vast challenges of doing it in a war zone with incessant Israeli attacks under way.


Displaced Palestinians killed in attack on Khan Younis

Several Palestinians have been killed and others wounded in an Israeli attack that struck a tent sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis. The attack took place in the al-Attar area, the Wafa news agency reports, citing Gaza’s civil defence agency.



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SvennoJ 5 days ago

‘World needs to wake up’, witness to activist’s killing by Israeli soldier says

Palestinian rights activist Jonathan Pollak, who was at the scene when an Israeli sniper shot Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi in the head, says the claim that her killing was unintentional is a “lie” as he watched the shooter take aim and fire.

He said an internal inquiry by Israel would be just another “whitewash investigation that attempts to deflect blame and attention from Israeli crimes”.

Pollak said Israel’s powerful allies have to take action to achieve justice for Eygi and the Palestinian people being murdered with impunity by Israeli forces.

“The world needs to wake up. The US administration and Western powers must hold Israel accountable,” he told Al Jazeera.

 

Israeli killing of Turkish-American activist shows US double standards

The killing of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi has revealed the US government’s double standards when it comes to the lives of its own dual citizens, according to British-Israeli analyst Daniel Levy of the US-Middle East project.

“We are very used to the US and its policies treating Israelis and Palestinians not as equal humans … but what about American citizens? Here you are creating that separation line between lesser and more human Americans with a different set of rights,” he told Al Jazeera.

There are growing calls for US President Joe Biden to push for an independent investigation.

“It’s absolutely the correct thing for the Biden administration to be wrapping their arms around the families of the dual national Israeli Americans who have been killed or who are being held in Gaza, but what about a dual national American killed by the same Israeli military who get their weapons and political and diplomatic cover from the US?”

“Biden’s instinctive, automatic go-to place is, ‘How do I protect Israel, how do I defend Israel, what lie can I tell?’”

 

Mother of pro-Palestinian activist killed in 2003 responds to latest slaying

American peace activist and International Solidarity Movement volunteer Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to prevent a home demolition in Gaza in 2003.

Her mother talked to Al Jazeera after the shooting death of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi in the occupied West Bank last week. Watch the video below:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_vDY75IDw_/







SvennoJ 5 days ago

‘Message is no resistance to Israeli colonialism will be tolerated’

Witness Jonathan Pollak says the Israeli sniper who shot dead pro-Palestinian activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, stood about 200 metres (220 yards) away from her on an elevated position when he fired the fatal shot.

“There was no one around other than her who could have possibly been the target. She was deliberately hit by a soldier standing on a rooftop aiming at her head. That soldier took a kill shot, and anything else the Israelis say is a cover-up,” Pollak told Al Jazeera.

He noted 17 anti-settler protesters have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank village of Beita since 2021 – “and none of them got justice.”

“The same bullet that killed Aysenur is the same bullet that Israel uses to kill Palestinians in Nur Shams, in the Jenin refugee camp, in Tubas. It is the same bullet Israel uses to perpetuate its genocide in Gaza with complete impunity. These things are part of one whole.”

Pollak said a demonstration was held again on Friday in the West Bank village of Beita, a week after Eygi’s killing. “The Israeli army came there and even prevented people from praying in her honour. The message is ‘no resistance to Israeli colonialism will be tolerated.'”


Israeli forces raid more towns in occupied West Bank

Several Palestinians have suffered tear gas inhalation during an Israeli raid in Madama, a town south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, the Wafa news agency reports.

Quoting local sources, it said Israeli troops stormed the town with heavy gunfire and tear gas, leading to confrontations with residents.

Earlier, Israeli soldiers also raided al-Tabqa village, south of Hebron. Wafa said “dozens” of Palestinians suffered tear gas inhalation there too.


Israeli sniper kills UN worker in the West Bank

Earlier, we reported on the killing of a UN staff member in the occupied West Bank. More details have now emerged.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said the employee was its first to be killed in the Palestinian territory in more than a decade. UNRWA said in a statement Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad was “shot and killed on the roof of his home by a sniper” in the Far’a camp in the northern West Bank.

“The northern West Bank has experienced weeks of protracted Israeli military operations,” said Roland Friedrich, director of UNRWA in the occupied territory.

“Civilian infrastructure, including water and electricity networks, have been destroyed with precarious access for communities to basic supplies. UNRWA has been forced to suspend services … because of the unacceptable risk to staff.”

Jawwad’s death is in addition to six other UNRWA staffers killed in Gaza on Wednesday in an Israeli strike on a UN-run shelter. It was the highest single death toll for the agency.



SvennoJ 5 days ago

Jordan holds talks with Spain on sidelines of Gaza meeting

The Jordanian Foreign Ministry says Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister  Ayman Safadi is having discussions with his Spanish counterpart Jose Manuel Albares.

The talks will “address developments in the region, ways to intensify efforts to stop the Israeli aggression on Gaza, [and] the dangerous escalation in the West”, the ministry wrote on X.

The high-level meeting is taking place on the sidelines of a conference hosted by Spain on implementing the two-state solution and including members of the Arab-Islamic Contact Group for Gaza – Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa were among those attending.

 

EU’s Borrell urges ‘collective effort’ for Gaza peace, two-state solution

The EU’s foreign policy chief has called for “a new collective effort” to stop the war in Gaza “and finally make the common EU objective of two states, Palestine and Israel, living side by side in peace and security”.

Borrell shared the remarks on X while attending a high-level meeting in Madrid with EU and Middle Eastern leaders focused on implementing a two-state solution.

In response, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz accused Borrell of fostering “anti-Semitism and hatred towards Israel”.

Katz criticised the EU’s outgoing top diplomat, stating on X: “Instead of pressing the European Union to join the sanctions imposed on Iran, Borrell supports the establishment of a Palestinian terrorist state.”

 

Israeli criticism ‘makes no sense’, top EU diplomat says at two-state solution talks in Spain

The EU’s foreign policy chief has responded to criticism levelled against him by his Israeli counterpart while he attends talks with Arab and other European officials in Madrid to advance a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying it “makes no sense”.

Israeli Foreign Minister Katz blasted Borrell for taking part in the gathering, writing on X: “Borrell supports establishing a Palestinian terror state controlled by Iran, and the axis of evil against Israel, moderate Arab states, and Europe.

“This is Borrell’s legacy – anti-Semitism and hatred towards Israel.”

Asked about Katz’s comments, Borrell responded: “Accusing those who disagree with a government’s position of anti-Semitism makes no sense.”

“There have unfortunately been examples in history of what it means to be anti-Semitic, and I don’t think we should play with big words that have had a tragic dimension in history.”


Turkey spy chief meets Hamas officials in Ankara: Report

Turkey’s top spy has met a delegation from Hamas in the capital Ankara and discussed the negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza, state broadcaster TRT reports.

Ibrahim Kalin, head of Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency, held discussions with the Hamas officials, unnamed Turkish security sources were quoted as saying.

The news report didn’t identify the members of the delegation.

Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization has been in contact with all actors in the war and ceasefire talks, including Hamas, Israel, Qatar and the United States, and is conducting intensive diplomacy for a truce in Gaza, TRT said.



SvennoJ 5 days ago

Pro-Palestinian supporter shot by pro-Israel demonstrator in the US

A widely circulated video has captured the moment a pro-Palestinian protester was shot by a pro-Israel demonstrator in Newton, Massachusetts, on Thursday night.

The incident took place as a small group of pro-Israel demonstrators stood on one side of a street while a man wearing a pin with the Palestinian flag was on the other. He could be seen yelling at the demonstrators before running and tackling Scott Hayes, 47, who pulled out a gun and fired, striking him in the abdomen, as they wrestled on the pavement.

Local newspapers reported Hayes is a former soldier who served in Iraq. He was arrested and charged with assault, carrying a dangerous weapon with a legal permit, and violating the victim’s constitutional rights, causing serious injury.

The man who was shot is receiving treatment at a local hospital.

US ‘enabling Israel to genocide the Palestinians’

Hassan Barari, an international affairs professor at Qatar University, says the inability of the UN Security Council to reach consensus on anything is rendering it “dysfunctional, paralysed” when it comes to stopping Israel’s assault on Gaza.

Despite calls for a ceasefire by UN chief Guterres – who in an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera said the US must pressure Israel to end its war – Barari said the secretary-general was “explicit” in telling the Security Council to “do something”.

“I think he is pointing … to the United States because the United States has been … enabling Israel to genocide the Palestinians,” Barari said.

After Gaza, ‘election madness’ is not the same on US campuses

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/13/after-gaza-election-madness-is-not-the-same-on-us-campuses

The core demand of America’s Gaza dissenters, an end to weapons shipments to Israel, is beyond the pale for America’s elected officials. It is not and – by the logic of American empire-building – cannot be on the ballot.

Today’s political climate gives a lie to the promise of “never again”. As the highest seats of power bankroll the greatest crime, young learners are profoundly alienated.

For critical educators, this moment poses both a remarkable challenge and a teachable moment.



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SvennoJ 5 days ago

Extraordinary announcement on ICC arrest warrant against Netanyahu by the US



US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield has announced that the US will not arrest Benjamin Netanyahu even if he travels to her country after an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court. She also said that the Palestinians did not deserve an independent State yet.

Call Your Senator NOW To Stop 'Israel Criticism = Antisemitism' Bill



Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and voice your opposition to the so-called Anti-Semitism Awareness Act!



SvennoJ 5 days ago

Several killed and wounded as Israeli forces strike northern Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency says a number of Palestinians were killed and others hurt after Israeli forces targeted a residential home in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood.

The home belonged to the Bustan family, it said.

In a separate statement, the agency said its teams have also been attending to several wounded people at the scene of an attack in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp. The attack was on a home belonging to the al-Ashqar family.


Two killed in Israeli attack on Khan Younis

The Wafa news agency is reporting that two Palestinians were killed and several others wounded in an Israeli attack on Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Civil defence crews said Israeli forces had targeted a tent housing displaced people in the city’s al-Attar area.


Eight killed as Israeli forces attack Jabalia, Gaza City

Israeli forces have bombed a building housing displaced Palestinians in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, killing at least two people and wounding several others, according to the Wafa news agency.

At least six more Palestinians, including three children and a woman, were also confirmed dead following an Israeli attack on the Bustan family home in Gaza City, Wafa reported. The house is located in the Tuffah neighbourhood

American survivor shot in West Bank by Israeli soldier tells his story

Daniel Santiago is an American activist who was wounded by Israeli gunfire just weeks before Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was killed while demonstrating against illegal Israeli settlements in Beita village.

He told Al Jazeera as protesters gathered on August 9, Israeli troops opened fire with live ammunition and tear gas.

“We saw the dust coming off the walls as they shot at us. we had to run. After I got shot in the leg, I kept running because I thought it was a tear gas canister. The Palestinians lifted me and carried me to a pick-up truck,” said Santiago, adding that Israeli forces initially blocked his trip to the hospital.

“They [Israeli forces] said for me it was a mistake, they were shooting warning shots, which is false.”

He denounced President Biden’s initial explanation for Eygi’s killing as “ridiculous”, after he described it as “an accident” from a ricochet that bounced up to her head.

Santiago said he hasn’t heard back yet after filing a report with US authorities. “In my view, if they investigated when I was shot, I think Aysenur may still be with us today."



SvennoJ 5 days ago

Arab, EU countries call for ‘irreversible’ implementation of two-state solution

The foreign ministers of several Muslim and European countries have urged the international community to take “active steps” to implement the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including through the universal recognition of the State of Palestine.

The call followed a meeting of the top diplomats in the Spanish capital, Madrid.

The ministers said the “credible” and “irreversible” implementation of the two-state solution was “the only way to establish lasting peace and security” for Israelis and Palestinians.

The two-state solution, which was set out in the 1991 Madrid Conference and the 1993-95 Oslo Accords, has long been seen by the international community as the best way to settle the decades-long conflict, but the peace process has been moribund for years.

However, the search for a peaceful solution has been given new urgency by Israel’s 11-month war on the Gaza Strip – the bloodiest episode yet in the overall conflict – as well as the escalating violence in the occupied West Bank.

Delegates at the Spain-hosted conference on Friday included top diplomats from Norway and Slovenia, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa and members of the Arab-Islamic Contact Group for Gaza that includes Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey.

Palestine welcomes Arab, European commitment to two-state solution

The office of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has praised the joint statement issued by Arab and European foreign ministers, which called for the “irreversible” implementation of a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

It said the Madrid statement aligned with its position on the conflict and welcomed the ministers’ calls for Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza as well as the prevention of further displacement of Palestinians.

“The presidency underscored that the courageous stances expressed by the participants in Madrid highlight the international consensus on the need to stop ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people, from Rafah to Jenin,” it added.



SvennoJ 5 days ago

Palestinian woman killed in Israeli attack on Gaza City

The deadly Israeli bombing was the second attack on the Omrani family home in the Shujayea neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, according to the Palestinian Civil Defence. Several people were also wounded in the attack and have been transferred to the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in northern Gaza.

Death toll rises in Gaza City’s Tuffah

Ten people are now confirmed dead after the Israeli military bombed the Bustan family home in the city’s Tuffah neighbourhood, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report. At least four children and three women are among those killed in the bombing, while several more people remain missing under the rubble of the destroyed home.


Israel attacked aid groups in Gaza 14 times despite knowing their exact location

A US think tank has compiled 14 incidents in which Israel’s military has attacked humanitarian workers, despite the groups notifying Israeli authorities of their location and movements and clearly marking their vehicles or facilities.

The list, compiled by the Security Policy Reform Institute, includes:

  • Israel’s attack on a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) convoy that killed two staff members on November 18.
  • Israel’s attacks on a church that killed two women on December 16.
  • Israel’s attack that killed a five-year-old girl in an MSF shelter in Khan Younis on January 8.
  • An Israeli air attack that killed an Anera employee in Deir el-Balah on March 9.
  • An Israeli drone attack on a World Central Kitchen convoy that killed seven aid workers on April 1.
  • Israel’s air attack on an Anera aid convoy that killed four Palestinians on August 29.


Several casualties reported in Israeli shelling in northern Gaza

Two people have been killed and many wounded after Israeli shelling of the Beit Hanoon neighborhood, our colleagues on the ground report.


At least 5 killed in Israeli bombing near Gaza City

Five people have been killed and several wounded in an Israeli strike near the Dar al-Arqam School, northwest of Gaza City, the civil defence said. Our colleagues on the ground say the Israeli army launched three air strikes on areas northwest of Gaza City.

The attack that just took place in the western part of Gaza City hit at least two homes that are very close to a UNRWA school used as an evacuation centre. In the vicinity, there is also a facility that contains a pyrolysis device that turns plastic waste into fuel, a very basic machine that attempts to make up for the lack of fuel entering Gaza.


Death toll in Gaza rises

At least 41,182 people have been killed and 95,280 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October last year, the Health Ministry announced.


Eleven bodies retrieved from rubble in Gaza City’s Tuffah area: Civil defence

Gaza’s civil defence says those killed after an Israeli strike near the Shujayea school include four children and three women.

“We have recovered the bodies of 11 martyrs, including four children and three women, after an Israeli air strike hit the house of the Bustan family in eastern Gaza City,” civil defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal told the AFP news agency.

“Rescuers are continuing to search for the missing,” he added.

Gaza residents dig with bare hands after devastating Israeli raid in northern Gaza

Palestinians in Gaza have shared footage on Instagram revealing the extensive damage caused by an Israeli air strike near Dar al-Arqam School in northwest Gaza City.

The videos, verified by Al Jazeera, show residents desperately trying to clear the rubble by hand, while calling out for family members still buried beneath it.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_5Fqp3Igro


Several wounded in another attack in northern Gaza

A number of Palestinians have been wounded in an Israeli raid near al-Istijabah Mosque in the Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City, according to Gaza’s civil defence.

Earlier, it announced that Israeli shelling near Dar al-Arqam School in northwest Gaza City had killed five people.


Israeli army claims it hit Hamas buildings in Gaza City strikes that killed 5

The Israeli military has claimed that the strike near Dar al-Arqam School, northwest of Gaza City, hit two buildings that were used by Hamas operatives to carry out attacks and manufacture weapons.

It also denied reports that it struck a fuel facility in the area.


Israeli raid on home in central Gaza results in casualties

Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that several people have been killed and wounded in an Israeli attack which targeted a home in Maghazi camp.


Two rockets fired at Israel’s Ashkelon from northern Gaza: Army

The Israeli army says two rockets were launched from northern Gaza towards Israel’s southern city of Ashkelon. One of the rockets was shot down by the country’s air defences, while the second one landed in the sea, it said on X.


Israeli military issues another evacuation order

The Israeli military has issued a new order to displaced Palestinians in a designated block in eastern Beit Lahia to immediately evacuate. Avichay Adraee, the Arabic-language spokesman of the Israeli military, told Palestinians the area is “currently considered a dangerous combat zone”.

The area includes al-Manshiya, Sheikh Zayed and the Beit Lahia project. “The evacuation does not include medical facilities in the area,” Adraee claimed.



SvennoJ 5 days ago

Clashes reported as Israel’s military raids West Bank cities, towns

Israeli forces have carried out raids across the occupied West Bank in recent hours, according to local media.

They include:

  • The town of Deir Abu Mishal near Ramallah, where Israeli forces arrested the brother of a wanted man
  • The city of Nablus, where a Palestinian armed group said its sniper shot an Israeli soldier
  • The al-Ein refugee camp, west of Nablus, where clashes broke out between Palestinian fighters and Israeli soldiers
  • The towns of Hajjah and Baqat al-Hatab, east of Qalqilya
  • The town of Yabad, west of Jenin


Nearly a dozen Palestinians arrested in Israeli raids in occupied West Bank

Israeli forces have arrested at least 10 Palestinians between Friday and today, including several former prisoners, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club says. “The arrests were distributed across the governorates of Nablus, Ramallah, Tulkarem and Hebron,” it said in a statement.

The group said that more than 10,700 people have been arrested in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem since the war on Gaza began about a year ago.


Israeli army disperses Palestinian protest near Ramallah

The Israeli army has dispersed a protest against settlement expansion in the town of Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah, the Palestinian news agency Wafa has reported.

The military fired sound bombs and tear gas at demonstrators against Israeli attempts to seize their lands in the Jabal al-Ras area.

Israel’s government has continued to approve new housing units across the occupied West Bank despite the ICJ ruling that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful and should come to an end.


Two people injured by live ammunition at checkpoint near Hebron

Israeli forces have shot and injured two Palestinians near the Tarqumiya military checkpoint west of Hebron, according to the Wafa news agency, which quoted security sources.

The Red Crescent transported them to hospital, the medical charity told Wafa, adding that one of the injured was in critical condition.

Separately, the Israeli army arrested two people from Dura and Hadab al-Fawar south of Hebron after raiding several homes in the area, Wafa said.