Israel's OWN LAWYER Admits Grave War Crimes
Gaza truce possible in one or two weeks: Israeli official
The Reuters news agency is reporting that a senior Israeli official has tamped down expectations that a deal could be possible before Netanyahu leaves Washington, DC, later today.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Israel and Hamas may be able to reach a Gaza ceasefire and captives-release deal within one or two weeks but such an agreement is not likely to be secured in just a day’s time.
The official said if the two sides agree to a proposed 60-day ceasefire, Israel would use that time to offer a permanent ceasefire that would require Hamas to disarm. If Hamas refuses to disarm, Israel will “proceed” with military operations in Gaza, the official said.
Trump had previously predicted that a deal could be reached this week, but on Wednesday, he appeared to extend the timeframe somewhat, telling reporters that while an agreement was “very close”, it could happen this week or even next – though “not definitely”.
No truce / end of war then, Hamas isn't going to disarm while the occupation continues. The world will have to stop the genocide, the US isn't going to do it.
Conflicting messages from US, Hamas about status of ceasefire talks
In his most recent remarks, US President Donald Trump sounded optimistic about a potential ceasefire – but not nearly as adamant as he had been about demanding one as he was before Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington.
We’re hearing from Trump’s aides that the negotiations are down to one issue. But Hamas says that’s misinformation.
They say they still need to agree on key points, like if the 10 captives are released, will they have guarantees the ceasefire will continue past 60 days if negotiations are taking place, where the Israeli troops will withdraw from, and who will handle aid distribution? So, from Hamas’s perspective, there’s still a lot on the table.
We’re also hearing from the Israeli prime minister, who was asked by a reporter about a recent Israeli proposal that has raised fears of Palestinians being forced from their land.
He replied that it was a matter of freedom of choice, saying that Palestinians should be given the choice to leave Gaza if they want to – without any acknowledgement of the way Israeli restrictions on people in Gaza impact pretty much every aspect of their lives.
He instead accused Hamas of holding a gun to their head and making them stay in Gaza.
All pieces point to Israel’s goal of pushing Palestinians away from Gaza’
Adnan Hayajneh, a professor of international relations and US foreign policy at Qatar University, says Israel is trying to buy time as it works to implement a wider vision of forcing the Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip.
“The whole objective of Israel [is] to move the Palestinians, to push them away from Gaza,” he told Al Jazeera.
“If you put all the pieces together, from talking about the humanitarian centres and pushing the people to Rafah, that means it’s an implementation of a vision of Netanyahu … and he wants to have military control over Gaza – he’s not interested in withdrawing.”
Hayajneh said the attempt to buy time is tied to the potential ceasefire and the proposal of moving forcibly starved Palestinians to Rafah “within a concentration camp” and giving them the option of either staying “in a big prison” or leaving.
“There were some suggestions before even the creation of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a vision that we have to have a Gaza without people – and this vision is shared by Trump, by Witkoff, by Netanyahu, by the minister of defence in Israel,” he added.
“There is no choice when you put people in a prison and ask them to leave,” Hayajneh continued. “This is outrageous, this is unlawful, this is against international law, but unfortunately, nobody is daring to speak against that.”
They said it from the start, Oct 30 2023
https://www.972mag.com/intelligence-ministry-gaza-population-transfer/
‘Big deal’: Israel wants to build ‘concentration camp’ for Palestinians in southern Gaza
Ori Goldberg, Israeli political commentator, says “it is a big deal” for Israel to talk about its plan of setting up “what is for all facts and purposes a concentration camp” for Palestinians in southern Gaza, committing “what is an overt crime against humanity under international humanitarian law”.
“It should be taken very seriously,” he added, but questioned the feasibility of the task of “concentrating the Palestinian population in a locked city where they would be let in but not let out.”
Goldberg said that leading sources within the Israeli army have directly said they cannot build the camp while working “towards the release of hostages, which is codename for continuing to bomb and kill Palestinians all over Gaza”.
The army lacks the resources for “the immense logistical enterprise”, he added. “The Israeli economy is in tatters, the IDF [the Israeli army] is paying millions of shekels for people to demolish Gaza’s structures, not build them.”
‘A second Nakba?’: UN’s Lazzarini slams Israel’s planned concentration camps
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), has warned against the latest mass forced displacement plan by Israel to cram people into camps on the ruins of Rafah.
“This would de-facto create massive concentration camps at the border with Egypt for the Palestinians, displaced over and over across generations,” he said in a post under the title, “A second Nakba?”
“This would also deprive Palestinians of any prospects of a better future in their homeland.”
Lazzarini said people cannot remain “silent and complicit of such large-scale forced displacement” and renewed his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Nakba, or catastrophe, refers to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948.
At least 24 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn
Hospital sources have told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that most of the 24 people killed in the Israeli attacks across the besieged Palestinian territory since dawn were women and children.
The majority of the killings were recorded in central and southern Gaza.
Bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli attack on Jabalia are brought to al=Shifa Hospital for funerary process in Gaza City, Gaza on July 10
Sources from central Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital have told Al Jazeera that 13 of the 24 Palestinians killed across Gaza since dawn were waiting in line for the distribution of nutritional supplements in Deir el-Balah.
Many of those killed in the city were women and children. Dozens of injured people also included women and children.
Child among 4 people killed in Israeli helicopter strike in Gaza City’s Zeitoun area
Four Palestinians, including a child, have been killed in an Israeli helicopter strike outside their home in Gaza City, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. The attack took place in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, the team said.
One operational GHF aid site cannot meet Gaza’s needs
The GHF’s announcement that it is suspending operations at a number of its aid distribution sites in Gaza leaves only one site still open. That cannot be enough to meet the needs of hungry Palestinians in Gaza.
It will mean people will be forced to travel to the southern part of the territory in order to get food supplies, and will often return empty-handed after making the long and dangerous journey to Rafah.
Amid Israel’s blockade, hungry Palestinians have come to rely on food supplies provided by charitable organisations.
Earlier this morning, at least a dozen Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike while they were waiting for a food supplement to be distributed by a charitable organisation very close to where we are in Deir el-Balah.
Tragically, these kinds of horrific scenes have become routine in Gaza, leading to widespread calls for the resumption of normal flows of aid into the territory to avoid the dangerous, chaotic scenes we’re seeing.
4 wasn't enough, the UN had 400 distribution sites.
Gaza death toll since dawn rises to 47
At least 47 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn, with the largest death toll recorded in the central city of Deir el-Balah, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera.
The latest killing came in northern Gaza’s Jabalia al-Balad, where at least one person was killed and several injured, according to a source at Gaza City’s Ahli Hospital.
Hamas says deadly Deir el-Balah attack a new ‘heinous crime’ by Israel
The Palestinian group has strongly condemned the Israeli air attack that, as we reported earlier, killed at least 13 Palestinians, including children, and wounded more as they waited in line in Deir el-Balah to get nutritional supplements.
In a statement, Hamas said the attack “represents a new heinous crime committed” by Israel “as part of its ongoing campaign of genocide in the Strip”.
“The terrorist Netanyahu government is escalating its brutal massacres against innocent civilians in schools, streets, displacement camps, and civilian centres, in a systematic behaviour that amounts to a full-fledged ethnic cleansing crime, perpetrated in full view of the world.”
Hamas also urged action from countries in the region and across the world to stop the killing. The Israeli military claimed the strike targeted a Hamas “terrorist” who was part of the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, without providing evidence.
Israeli forces kill Palestinian man in occupied West Bank raid
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man in the village of Rummanah during a raid in the early hours of this morning. The town is located west of the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli military says that one of its soldiers was stabbed in Rummanah and the suspect was killed. An army statement on X said the soldier was taken to hospital, and described his injuries as moderate.
Israeli forces also arrested a number of Palestinians during a separate raid in the Qalandiya refugee camp in the Jerusalem governorate.
Israeli forces arrest over 50 Palestinians in occupied West Bank raids
More than 50 Palestinians have been arrested in Israeli raids across the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office (ASRA) says. The raids took place in Nablus, Qalqilya, Tubas, Hebron, Jenin, Bethlehem and Ramallah.
ASRA said children, activists and former prisoners who had been released were among those arrested. It added that raids had taken place at homes and educational institutions.
Israeli soldier succumbs to injuries sustained in stabbing attack in occupied West Bank
We have reported earlier, based on The Times of Israel newspaper, that an Israeli soldier was critically wounded in a stabbing attack in the occupied West Bank near the Gush Etzion settlement that also saw two suspected attackers killed.
Now, the newspaper has quoted Israel’s emergency services as saying that the soldier succumbed to his injuries.
Also, the update from the Israeli army confirmed the stabbing attack was carried out by “two terrorists” – a usual way for Israel to describe Palestinian suspects – who were killed by back-up security personnel at the scene.
The military statement published on Telegram said that Israeli soldiers are encircling the nearby Palestinian city of Halhul, north of Hebron, and establishing roadblocks in the area.
Israeli army claims to have intercepted missile launched from Yemen
The Israeli military says it has intercepted a missile launched from Yemen. Air raid sirens were reported in Tel Aviv and other locations in Israel in response to the threat.
Yemen’s Houthis claim missile attack on Israeli airport
The Houthis have confirmed they were behind the missile launched towards Israel earlier, which the Israeli army said it intercepted.
In his latest televised prerecorded message, military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the Yemeni group had launched a Zolfaghar ballistic missile towards Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv.
He said the launch “successfully achieved its objective” as it “caused air raid sirens to sound in more than 300 towns and cities, prompting millions of Zionists to rush to shelters, and halting air traffic at the airport”.
Saree said the Houthis will continue their attacks on Israel, as well as Israel-linked shipping in the Red Sea, “in rejection of the crime of genocide committed” in Gaza.
UNIFIL patrol fires smoke bombs after tension with Lebanese youth in southern town
Footage verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency shows forces with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) being pushed back by Lebanese youth while trying to enter the town of Aytit in southern Lebanon.
Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that the UNIFIL patrol members fired smoke bombs before retreating.
According to other local media, the tensions erupted after several town residents objected to the passing of a UNIFIL patrol alone, considering it a “violation of the adopted protocol” which requires it to be accompanied by the Lebanese army.
إشكال في بلدة عيتيت بين الأهالي واليونيفيل
وقع إشكال اليوم في بلدة عيتيت – قضاء صور، بين عدد من الأهالي ودورية تابعة لقوات "اليونيفيل".
وقام عناصر "اليونيفيل" بإلقاء قنابل مسيلة للدموع باتجاه المواطنين لتفرقتهم.#أخبار_الجديد pic.twitter.com/c5oNqcUmJ4
— Al Jadeed News (@ALJADEEDNEWS) July 10, 2025
Translation: Clash in the town of Aytit between residents and UNIFIL. A clash occurred today in the town of Aytit – Tyre District, between a number of residents and a patrol affiliated with UNIFIL forces. UNIFIL personnel threw tear gas canisters at the citizens to disperse them.
Netanyahu hasn’t met any families of 62 Israeli soldiers killed this year: Report
According to Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has failed to meet any of the families of the 62 Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza this year.
The report said Netanyahu only managed to visit two families who lost family members in previous wars, and whose remains were returned to Israel this year.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu met with freed captives and the relatives of those still held in Gaza since October 2023 roughly 50 times and spoke with them by phone on 36 occasions, the report said.
Israeli soldier dies by suspected suicide at military base
An Israeli soldier was found dead yesterday at the Sde Teiman military base and detention camp in southern Israel, in what appears to be a case of death by suicide, the Times of Israel newspaper has reported.
The outlet said the Israeli military has opened an investigation into the circumstances around the soldier’s death.
It quoted the Israeli military as saying that the soldier was interrogated by the military police shortly before his death. The interrogation was unrelated to an “operational incident”, it added.
In November last year, Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported that at least six Israeli soldiers had taken their own lives, with the outlet citing severe psychological distress caused by prolonged wars in Gaza and Lebanon as the primary cause.
US sanctions on Albanese shows rules-based international order ‘no longer exists’
We’ve spoken to human rights lawyer Arsalan Iftikhar about the Trump administration’s sanctions on UN expert Francesca Albanese over her documentation of Israel’s abuses against Palestinians.
Iftikhar said the sanctions show that the rules-based international order “no longer exists”. “This is another shameless and transparent attack by the Trump administration on the fundamental principles of international justice,” he said.
“It’s a double standard that if you are a strongman that is a friend of President Trump’s, you’ll be welcomed with open arms, even though you have two indictments from the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice,” he said, in a reference to Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu.
“But if you’re a UN human rights lawyer that is trying to investigate, then you’re going to have your visa revoked.”
UN efforts to seek justice for Gaza could be affected by US sanctions on Albanese
The Trump administration has accused UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, of being anti-Semitic, fomenting terrorism, and trying to punish the US and Israel for their leadership in the Middle East.
Now, the US State Department has issued sanctions against Albanese personally, accusing her of essentially leading a conspiracy to try to put Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on trial in The Hague.
The Trump administration says Albanese’s work is disruptive and illegal, because neither Israel nor the US is party to the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court.
So, what do the sanctions mean? They mean Albanese will very likely be denied visas to the US if she tries to go to the United Nations headquarters in New York for her work. She will likely have any of her assets in the US impounded.
And perhaps most importantly, she may find that those Americans who want to work with her as she tries to pursue justice for the Palestinian people could find themselves punished by the US legal system.
UK seeks answers over US firm’s role in Gaza aid mechanism
A parliamentary committee in the UK is demanding that a US consulting giant explain its activities in Gaza, including its role in establishing a controversial aid group under scrutiny over the killings of hundreds of Palestinians.
Labour Party MP Liam Byrne, who chairs the House of Commons Business and Trade Select Committee, asked Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in a letter on Wednesday for “clarification and information” about its work in the besieged enclave, adding that the query was part of the committee’s “scrutiny of the UK’s commercial, political and humanitarian links to the conflict”.
Byrne’s letter to BCG CEO Christoph Schweizer comes after The Financial Times reported on Friday that the firm had drawn up an estimate of the costs of relocating Palestinians from Gaza and signed a multimillion-dollar contract to help create the Israel- and US-backed GHF.
EU says it reached deal to improve Gaza humanitarian access
https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/israelpalestine-statement-high-representativevice-president-kaja-kallas_en
The European Union’s foreign affairs chief says the bloc has reached a deal with Israel to increase aid access to the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip.
“Today, we reached an agreement with Israel to expand humanitarian access to Gaza,” Kaja Kallas wrote on social media.
“This deal means more crossings open, aid and food trucks entering Gaza, repair of vital infrastructure and protection of aid workers. We count on Israel to implement every measure agreed,” she said.
In a separate statement, Kallas listed a number of other steps including the reopening of the Jordanian and Egyptian aid routes; enabling the distribution of food supplies through bakeries and public kitchens throughout Gaza; and the resumption of fuel deliveries for use by humanitarian facilities up to an operational level.
She also mentioned the protection of aid workers and the repair and facilitation of works on vital infrastructure, like the resumption of the power supply to the water desalination facility.
“These measures are or will be implemented in the coming days, with the common understanding that aid at scale must be delivered directly to the population and that measures will continue to be taken to ensure that there is no aid diversion to Hamas,” Kallas said.
I wonder what that will amount to, desperately needed and a big win if true.
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