Israel's aggression on besieged Gaza — now in its 186th day — has killed at least 33,360 Palestinians and wounded 75,993 others as Security Council reviews Palestine's bid for full UN membership.
Israel's aggression on besieged Gaza — now in its 186th day — has killed at least 33,360 Palestinians and wounded 75,993 others as Security Council reviews Palestine's bid for full UN membership.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that “no force in the world” will prevent his army from invading Rafah in the southern tip of Gaza.
"It is heart-wrenching that Walid Daqqah has died in Israeli custody despite the many calls for his urgent release on humanitarian grounds following his 2022 diagnosis with bone marrow cancer and the fact that he had already completed his original sentence," Erika Guevara-Rosas, senior director at Amnesty International, said.The US does not believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, defence chief Lloyd Austin has said.
“Therefore, at the same time, we are putting massive diplomatic pressure on Israel to open up better opportunities to bring in the emergency aid,” Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy, Dan Jorgensen, said in a statement.Israeli army forces have detained 20 more Palestinians in military raids across the occupied West Bank, according to prisoners’ affairs groups.
Nicaragua has brought Germany before the International Court of Justice to demand that judges impose emergency measures to stop Berlin from providing Israel with"weapons and other assistance". In a statement, the ministry said at least 75,993 others have also been injured in the deadly offensive. The Palestinian Civil Defense Agency said that efforts were still ongoing to retrieve more bodies from both areas.
Hatem al Ghamri, the mayor of the Maghazi district, was killed when Israeli fighter jets struck a local government building in central Gaza, the government media office said in a statement. In a phone call on Monday, Austin and Gallant exchanged views on the Israeli army's investigation of the strike and the"need for procedural changes to ensure such incidents never happen again," the Pentagon said in a statement.
In a statement, Hamas expressed appreciation for"the lawsuit filed by the Republic of Nicaragua against Germany at the International Court of Justice that requests cessation of the military support provided by the German government to the Zionist occupation." "We warn against the dangerous consequences of an Israeli offensive on Rafah, where more than 1.5 million Palestinian civilians have sought refuge," they said in a joint editorial published in several newspapers.
The foreign secretary is expected to discuss arms exports during a joint press conference with Blinken at 15:30 GMT, but will not announce a change of policy, according to UK government sources. On Monday evening, the Israeli military reported an alert in the area of Eilat, which was targeted in February by intercepted ballistic missile fire from Yemen's Houthis,"
In addition, it said Palestinian Mohammad Abu Sneina from Jerusalem died in an Israeli hospital one day after his arrest on February 18.
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