Gaza

 

UN rapporteur demands global action to  stop Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza (Al Jazeera) The United Nations’s special rapporteur for  the occupied Palestinian territory has said that it is time for  nations around the world to take concrete actions to stop  Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza. Read More

Twenty killed in crowd surge at Gaza aid  site, GHF aid group says (BBC) Twenty people trying to get food have been killed  "amid a chaotic and dangerous surge" at an aid distribution  centre in southern Gaza, the US- and Israel-backed Gaza  Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) says. Read More

Israeli government and military clash over proposed camp for Palestinians   (The Guardian) A feud has broken between the Israeli government and the military over the cost and impact of a planned camp for Palestinians in southern Gaza, as politicians criticised the former prime minister Ehud Olmert for warning that the project would create a “concentration camp” if it goes ahead. Read More

 

‘Why are you not preventing settler terrorism’: Palestinians call out IDF following beating death of American man   (CNN) Saif Musallet was just weeks away from celebrating his 21st birthday, and as he visited his family here, the Florida native’s thoughts began to turn toward marriage. Read More

Israeli ultra-Orthodox party quits Netanyahu government over conscription   (Al Jazeera) Israel’s ultra-Orthodox party, United Torah Judaism (UTJ), has announced it is quitting the country’s fractious right-wing coalition due to a long-running dispute over mandatory military service, threatening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hold on power. Read More

 

 

Gaza father's outrage after Israeli strike kills son 'searching for sip' at water point   (BBC) Mahmoud Abdul Rahman Ahmed says his son, Abdullah, was "searching for a sip of water" when he took the family's jerrycans on Sunday morning and headed as usual to one of the water distribution points in the urban Nuseirat camp, in central Gaza. Read More