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Al Jazeera - October 15, 2024 - By Urooba Jamal and
Umut Uras
<<Live: Israeli military attacks Gaza from north to south killing dozens
At least 45 Palestinians are killed in the latest wave of Israeli
attacks across Gaza as Israel's siege of the north continues with the
army planting explosive-filled barrels to blow up homes. UN peacekeepers
will stay in their positions in southern Lebanon, the mission's chief
says, after troops from UNIFIL were injured in Israeli attacks.>>
Read more and view video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/15/live-israeli-army-planting-explosives-in-jabalia-amid-siege-of-north-gaza
Al Jazeera - October 14, 2024
<<Israel intensifies assault on northern Gaza amid growing fears of
siege
Israeli attack kills at least 10 Palestinians queuing for food at a
distribution centre in Jabalia, northern Gaza, Palestinian medics say.
Israeli forces have intensified their squeeze around the Jabalia camp in
northern Gaza, killing at least 10 people queuing for food, according to
Palestinian medics, and ordered people to evacuate as they press on with
their ground assault on the area. The Israeli army launched a ground
assault again in northern Gaza 10 days ago, including in Beit Hanoon and
Beit Lahiya. Backed by warplanes, the army has continued to pound the
ravaged area that has seen multiple assaults throughout the year-long
war. More than 400,000 people remain trapped in the area. They have been
unable to move southwards after the Israeli military ordered forced
evacuations due to security concerns. "We have been hit from the air and
the ground, non-stop for a week. They want us to leave, they want to
punish us for refusing to leave our homes," Marwa, 26, who fled with her
family to a school in Gaza City, told the Reuters news agency. People
were afraid they would never be able to return if they head south, she
said. The United Nations Human Rights Office said the Israeli military
appeared to be <cutting off North Gaza completely from the rest of the
Gaza Strip>.
<The separation of North Gaza raises further concerns that Israel does
not intend to allow civilians to return to their homes, and the repeated
calls for all Palestinians to leave northern Gaza raise grave concerns
of large-scale forced transfer of the civilian population,> it said in a
statement.
The renewed assault has underlined how difficult life has become for
civilians in Gaza as fighting has shifted between different areas of the
enclave.
On Monday, Israeli forces killed 10 Palestinians queuing for food at a
distribution centre, and wounded 40 others, including women and
children, according to Palestinian medics, while another eight people
were killed in a separate incident in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan
district.
The Israeli military said the incident was under review.
Separately, at least three people were killed in an Israeli attack on a
school-turned-shelter in the Jabalia camp, the Turkish news agency
Anadolu reported, citing a medical source. Later on Monday, at least
four people were killed in an Israeli artillery attack on a home in the
same camp, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. It said several
others were wounded in the attack that targeted the al-Sayed family home
in the Falloujah area of the camp. The United Nations has described dire
conditions affecting the population remaining in Jabalia, with more than
50,000 people displaced and water wells, bakeries, medical points and
shelters shut down.
'Beyond any rationale'
UN chief Antonio Guterres condemned the "large number of civilian
casualties in the intensifying Israeli campaign in northern Gaza",
according to his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric. "He [Guterres] strongly
urges all parties to the conflict to comply with international
humanitarian law and emphasises that civilians must be respected and
protected at all times," Dujarric told reporters. Hamas said Israel
aimed to displace the people of northern Gaza by force. "The
international community should act against this war crime," said senior
Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri. Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting
from central Gaza's Deir el-Balah, said the situation in northern Gaza
was dire. "Medical sources at Kamal Adwan Hospital say they are running
short of medical supplies and essential medical needs, including fuel
that is required to guarantee that operations can be conducted," Abu
Azzoum said. He said healthcare providers are struggling to deal with
"high rates of casualties" as people are being killed by Israeli drones
and quadcopters. They are being targeted whether in their homes, in
evacuation centres, or simply while "walking the streets of Jabalia", he
said. Israel has continued to seal vital border crossings, and has
prevented aid including food from reaching the north. Israel claimed on
Monday that it allowed 30 trucks carrying flour and food from the UN's
main food agency to travel through the northern crossing after
inspection. The UN has not confirmed the statement. It was unclear where
the aid went because the UN says trucks travelling through that crossing
do not go directly to the north. Gaza's Government Media Office has
refuted the claim, saying Israel's "lies" about allowing trucks in are
completely false.
In a statement, the office said the Israeli army has continued to
prevent trucks from reaching northern Gaza, including Gaza City. <A
siege and complete lockdown on the area has been ongoing for 170 days,>
the office said, adding that more than 342 people have been killed in
the north since the latest assault began 10 days ago. "What is happening
in northern Gaza is a genocide ... the destruction of homes, entire
neighbourhoods, infrastructure, schools, hospitals, mosques" is part of
a plan to cleanse the area of its inhabitants, it said. The cutoff,
combined with the renewed offensive, has raised fears that Israel is
pursuing an extreme plan proposed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu that would besiege the northern third of the Gaza Strip in an
effort to prompt a Hamas surrender. Israel has also continued to bombard
other parts of the besieged enclave on Monday. Early on Monday, Israeli
forces struck a tent encampment housing displaced families outside of
Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah. At least four people were killed, and
dozens were wounded as a fire ignited. Videos shared on social media
showed rescuers scrambling to save people as they struggled to contain
the fire. Israeli forces have repeatedly attacked medical facilities and
shelters in Gaza since the assault began in October of last year. In
recent months, they have repeatedly struck crowded shelters and tent
sites, alleging armed groups were using them - without providing
evidence. Mohammed Tahir, a surgeon on his third medical mission to Gaza
at Al-Aqsa Hospital, said he was in the operating room when he heard the
blasts on the nearby school-turned-shelter early on Monday. Tahir told
Al Jazeera that the hospital was "inundated" with casualties, with
women, children and men "dying in front of our eyes". While in the
operating room, he said another bombing happened within the grounds of
the hospital. Tahir said it is "beyond any rationale that a hospital can
be attacked in such a grave manner". UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Filippo Grandi repeated calls for a ceasefire, saying it is the "only
way to break the cycle of violence, of hatred, of misery".
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/14/israel-intensifies-assault-on-northern-gaza-amid-growing-fears-of-siege
BBC - Oct 14, 2024 - By Robert Greenall
<<Israeli shelling of Gaza school kills at least 22
At least 80 Palestinians were also injured in the shelling of al-Mufti
school in central Gaza
An Israeli attack on a school used to shelter displaced Palestinians has
killed at least 22 people, including 15 children, in central Gaza,
officials say.
Gaza's Hamas-run Civil Defence Agency said the site in Nuseirat camp was
struck by a volley of artillery on Sunday, killing entire families and
wounding dozens more. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it was
looking into the reports. Earlier, five children were reportedly killed
by a drone strike while playing on a street corner in northern Gaza. A
civil defence spokesman said the attack on al-Mufti school, where
hundreds of displaced people from around Gaza were sheltering, had
injured at least 80 people and more than a dozen were killed. The UN
agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, said the school-turned-shelter
was meant to be used to administer polio vaccines. Monday's rollout is
the second stage in the UN's polio campaign in central Gaza, which is
where most residents are now living and where the first case of polio in
two decades was recently discovered in an unvaccinated baby. In a
separate Israeli strike, four people were killed and dozens more injured
at the al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza. Israel said it carried out a
<precise strike on terrorists who were operating inside a command and
control centre> inside a site previously used as a hospital.
The main areas of conflict in Gaza in recent days have been in the
north, where Israeli forces have been intensifying attacks for over a
week as part of a major ground operation. Hundreds have since been
killed, Gazan authorities have reported. Residents of Beit Hanoun,
Jabalia and Beit Lahiya have reported being cut off from nearby Gaza
City, while Israeli tanks have been seen on the outskirts of the
territory's largest city. Hospitals in the area are running out of
supplies, although the World Health Organization said a joint operation
with the Red Cross had resupplied two of them -after nine days of
attempts. Israeli north Gaza attack hints at 'surrender or starve' plan
for war. The five children in northern Gaza were reportedly killed in an
Israeli air strike while playing on a street corner in al-Shati camp.
Graphic images from the scene in the aftermath show the bloodied bodies
of what appeared to be young teenage boys. One of them looked to be
clutching several glass marbles in his hand. According to a report from
the scene, told to a BBC correspondent, a drone strike hit a person
walking down the street, which killed the children and injured seven
other people.
Later images showed the bodies of the five boys wrapped in white shrouds
and laid out on the floor side-by-side. An aunt of one of the boys,
named Rami, wrote a moving tribute to him on social media. She said the
family had moved to al-Shati after being forced to leave their homes in
Jabalia to a <safer area> because of the war. The IDF has not yet
responded to questions about the incident.
Over the last year of war, the Hamas-run health ministry has reported
more than 42,000 people killed. In the past 24 hours, at least 62 people
have died and 220 more injured following four Israeli strikes, it added.
About 1.9 million of Gaza's 2.4 million people have been displaced by
the war - many of whom have been forced to move multiple times to
escape.
The fighting began after Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on
southern Israel on 7 October last year - killing about 1,200 people and
taking more than 200 hostage in Gaza.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y8zj8qrn5o
Al Jazeera - October 14, 2024
<<Deadly Israeli strike on hospital tent camp in Gaza
Israeli jets bomb a camp housing displaced Palestinians on the grounds
of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah. An Israeli air strike on a
hospital courtyard in the Gaza Strip has killed at least four people and
sent flames sweeping through a packed tent camp for people displaced by
the war, leaving dozens with severe burns, according to Palestinian
medics. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir el-Balah
was already struggling to treat a large number of wounded people from an
earlier strike on a school-turned-shelter nearby that killed at least 20
people when the air strike early on Monday hit and fire engulfed many of
the tents. Hospital records showed four people were killed and more than
70 wounded. Twenty-five people were transferred to the Nasser Medical
Complex in southern Gaza after suffering severe burns, according to Al-Aqsa
Martyrs Hospital. The death toll is expected to rise as rescue teams
scramble to rescue survivors. The Israeli military said it targeted
fighters hiding out among civilians but did not provide evidence for
their presence. In recent months, it has repeatedly struck crowded
shelters and tent camps, alleging that Hamas was using them as staging
grounds for attacks. Israel is still carrying out daily strikes across
Gaza as part of its genocide against Palestinians, which has entered a
second year. Its forces are waging a major ground assault in the north.
Israel has ordered the entire remaining population of the northern third
of Gaza, estimated at around 400,000 people, to evacuate to the south
and has not allowed any food to enter the north since the start of the
month. Hundreds of thousands of people from the north heeded Israeli
evacuation orders at the start of the war and have not been allowed to
return.>>
View the horrifying photos here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/10/14/deadly-israeli-strike-on-hospital-tent-camp-in-gaza
strike on hospital tent camp
Jinha - Womens News Agency - Oct. 14 , 2024
<<Israeli strike on hospital tent camp kills at least three
An Israeli strike on a tent camp for displaced Palestinians at the al-Aqsa
Martyrs Hospital premises early Monday killed at least three people and
injured at least 40 people.
News Center- The government in Gaza has announced that an Israeli strike
targeted a tent camp for displaced Palestinians at the al-Aqsa Martyrs
Hospital premises early Monday, killing at least three people and
injuring at least 40 people. According to the Palestinian news agency
WAFA, the strike triggered a fire that swept through the camp. The tent
camp at the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital located in Deir al-Balah, a
Palestinian city in the central Gaza Strip has been targeted by Israeli
warplanes for six times since the beginning of 2024: January 10, March
13, July 22, August 4, September 27 and today, October 14.
Since October 7, 2023, Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed at
least 42,227 Palestinians, including 17,000 children and 11,378 women
and injured 98,464 Palestinians, according to the Gaza's health
ministry.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/israeli-strike-on-hospital-tent-camp-kills-at-least-three-35814?page=1
Al Jazeera - October 14, 2024
<<Are the US and Israel creating a 'new world order' in the Middle East?
The US and Israel are rearranging the Middle East to their liking,
argues Matt Duss of the Center for International Policy.>>
Read more and view video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2024/10/13/are-the-us-and-israel-creating-a-new-world-order-in-the-middle-east
Al Jazeera - October 14, 2024- By Urooba Jamal and Umut Uras
<<Live: Twin Israeli air strikes on Gaza civilian shelters kill dozens
SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB The grandmother of
Palestinian boy Yaman Al-Zaanin, who was born and killed amid the
ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict and lost his life in an Israeli strike on
a school-turned shelter, according to medics, carries his body at Al-Aqsa
Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah. This video may contain light patterns
or images that could trigger seizures or cause discomfort for people
with visual sensitivities. At least four Palestinians are killed and
dozens wounded after Israeli fighter jets bombed a tent encampment
housing displaced Palestinians on the grounds of al-Aqsa Hospital in
Deir el-Balah, central Gaza. The death toll is expected to rise as the
ill-equipped and overwhelmed hospital staff try to treat badly burned
victims, including women, children and the elderly.>>
Read more and view video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/14/live-22-dead-80-wounded-as-israeli-army-shells-gaza-school-shelter
Al Jazeera - October 13, 2024
<<Palestine-s UN envoy says 'genocide within genocide' going on in north
Gaza
Hamas representative in Lebanon says Israel has prevented entry of food
supplies into Jabalia camp for the last 10 days.
A senior Palestinian diplomat to the United Nations has sounded alarm
over Israel's ongoing siege of northern Gaza, in which hundreds of
Palestinians have been killed over the last week and hundreds of
thousands of civilian residents are either trapped or ordered to flee
amid intense bombardment. As the military siege in the Jabalia refugee
camp and its vicinity entered its 10th day on Sunday, Palestinian
authorities said at least 200 people have been killed since the Israeli
operations began earlier this month. The Palestinian news agency Wafa
reported that at least 17 more people were killed on Sunday morning in
central and northern Gaza, including eight members of one family in the
Nuseirat refugee camp as well as five people in al-Ettesalat area west
of the Jabalia refugee camp. "What is happening in northern Gaza now is
a genocide within the genocide," Palestinian Ambassador Majed Bamya, the
deputy permanent observer to the UN, wrote on X.
'Continuation of genocidal acts'
Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza,
said about 400,000 Palestinians are trapped in northern Gaza, with the
Israeli military not allowing anyone to leave the area despite issuing
an evacuation order. "What's happening now is a continuation of the
genocidal acts that began a year ago," he said, adding that more than 70
bodies are still on the streets, with civil defence workers unable to
retrieve them because of relentless Israeli attacks. In Jabalia,
desperate residents are posting about their dire situation on social
media with one declaring, "We will not leave, we die and we don’t
leave." Nasser, a resident of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, said: "As
the world is focused on Lebanon and possible Israeli strike against
Iran, Israel is wiping out Jabalia. The occupation is blowing up roads
and destroying residential districts. People can't find anything to eat.
They are trapped inside their homes, fearing bombs could fall onto their
heads." A statement by the Israeli military on Sunday said 40 targets
were hit in Gaza in the last 24 hours, claiming that the strikes
destroyed weapons and killed dozens of Hamas fighters. Among the
reported deaths in the strikes on Sunday was a person killed after
Israeli warplanes struck a gathering east of Deir el-Balah, Wafa
reported. Israeli artillery shelling also killed three Palestinians and
injured several others in the Bureij refugee camp, the report added.
Explosions were also heard from the Israeli army's demolition of dozens
of homes in Jabalia and its surroundings, particularly in the al-Safatay
and al-Tuwam neighbourhoods, according to Wafa. Osama Hamdan, Hamas's
representative in Lebanon, told Al Jazeera that Israel has "prevented
the entry of food supplies to the north for 10 days", describing what is
happening in Jabalia as "a crime against humanity". Intentionally
starving civilians by "depriving them of objects indispensable to their
survival, including willfully impeding relief supplies" is a war crime,
according to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Meanwhile, six Palestinians, most of them children, were injured when
the Israeli military bombed a home in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza
City, Wafa said. Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the
occupied Palestinian territory, accused Israel of committing "another
massacre", adding that its troops "have accepted to be willing
executioners of a genocidal plan". "It blows my mind to think that WE
KNOW what Israel is doing and altogether we cannot stop it. Looking at
where we were 100 years ago, no much progress has been achieved," she
said in a post on X.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/13/palestines-un-envoy-says-genocide-within-genocide-going-on-in-north-gaza
Al Jazeera - October 13, 2024
<<Japan's Nobel Peace Prize winner says Gaza workers should have won
'I thought those fighting hard for peace in Gaza would deserve it.' The
Japanese anti-nuclear campaigner whose group won the Nobel Peace Prize
says he was surprised they won the award instead of people working to
stop Israel's war on Gaza.>>
View video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/13/japans-nobel-peace-prize-winner-says-gaza-workers-should-have-won
France 24 - Oct 12, 2024
<<40 nations taking part in UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon condemn
'attacks'
Forty nations that contribute to the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon
said in a statement on Saturday that they "strongly condemn recent
attacks" on the peacekeepers. “Such actions must stop immediately,” said
the joint statement, posted on X. The United Nations Interim Force in
Lebanon (UNIFIL) said Saturday that gunfire from an unknown source a day
earlier had hit one of its peacekeepers, the fifth wounded in south
Lebanon in just two days. Read our blog on the day’s developments in the
Middle East.
Summary:
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said Saturday that
gunfire on Friday had hit one of its peacekeepers, the fifth wounded in
south Lebanon near the Israeli border in just two days as Israeli forces
battled Hezbollah. The source of the gunfire that had wounded the fifth
peacekeeper was unclear. Lebanon's health ministry said Israeli strikes
on two villages Saturday, one north of Beirut and another south of the
capital, killed at least nine people. The Israeli military ordered
residents of 23 southern Lebanese villages on Saturday to evacuate to
areas north of the Awali River, which flows from the western Bekaa
Valley into the Mediterranean. Israel observed Yom Kippur, the holiest
day in the Jewish calendar, on Saturday amid a firestorm of
international criticism over its military offensive in Lebanon and its
soldiers firing on peacekeepers.
Hezbollah said it launched a drone attack Saturday on a military base in
north Israel's Haifa, hours after claiming an attack on another base
south of the city.
More than 42,175 Palestinians have been killed and 98,336 wounded in
Israel's military offensive in Gaza since October 7, 2023, according to
the Gaza health ministry.>>
Read more here:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20241012-%F0%9F%94%B4-live-israel-observes-yom-kippur-amid-condemnation-over-lebanon-strikes
Al Jazeera - October 12, 2024 - By: NEWS WIRES
<<UN warns of catastrophic regional conflict as Israel fights in Gaza
and Lebanon
The Israeli military's decision on September 30 to start a ground
offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon adds to the risk that the
conflict with Iran-backed militants Hezbollah and Hamas will escalate
into a regional war, UN peacekeepers say. UN peacekeepers in Lebanon
warned Saturday against a "catastrophic" regional conflict as Israeli
forces battled Hezbollah and Hamas militants on two fronts, on the
holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
Israel has faced a fierce diplomatic backlash over incidents in south
Lebanon that saw five Blue Helmets injured. Lebanon's health ministry
said Saturday Israeli air strikes on two villages near Beirut killed at
least nine people. Official media later reported an Israeli strike
targeted a market in Nabatiyeh, an important southern city. Israel had
earlier told residents of south Lebanon not to return home, as its
troops fought Hezbollah militants in a war that has killed more than
1,200 people since September 23, and forced more than a million others
to flee their homes, Lebanese authorities say. <For your own protection,
do not return to your homes until further notice... Do not go south;
anyone who goes south may put his life at risk," Israeli military
spokesman Avichay Adraee posted on X. Hezbollah said it fired missiles
into northern Israel, where air raid sirens sounded and the military
said it had intercepted a projectile. The Iran-backed militants have
stepped up their attacks on targets in and around Israel's main northern
city of Haifa. Israel's military said Hezbollah fired about 320
projectiles into Israel over the weekend of Yom Kippur, which ended at
nightfall. It also said roughly 280 <terror targets> were attacked in
Lebanon and Gaza over the same period. For the third time, it declared a
<closed military area> along the Lebanese border in northern Israel.
Such measures since late September have preceded ground operations
inside Lebanon. In an interview with AFP, Andrea Tenenti, spokesperson
for the United Nations peacekeeping mission, UNIFIL, said he feared an
Israeli escalation against Hezbollah could soon spiral out of control
"into a regional conflict with catastrophic impact for everyone".
There was "no military solution", Tenenti said.
The UN mission said five peacekeepers have been injured during fighting
in south Lebanon in two days, and Tenenti said "a lot of damage" had
been caused to its posts there. Around Israel, markets were closed and
public transport halted as observant Jews fasted and prayed on Yom
Kippur. After the holiday, attention is likely to turn again to Israel's
promised retaliation against Iran, which launched around 200 missiles at
Israel on October 1.
Tehran said the barrage was retaliation for the killing of top militants
and an Iranian general. Israeli forces have been at war in Gaza since
Hamas Palestinian militants on October 7 last year carried out the
worst-ever attack on Israel. Hezbollah, saying it was acting as a
"support" front for Hamas, had been exchanging cross-border fire with
Israel for almost a year. But on September 30 Israel began a ground
offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon after intensifying air strikes on
targets there.
'Deliberately targeted'
On Friday, Israel faced criticism from the UN, its Western allies and
others over what it said was a "hit" on a UN peacekeeping position in
Lebanon.
Two Sri Lankan Blue Helmets were hurt in the second such incident in two
days, UNIFIL said Friday. Israel's military said soldiers had responded
to <an immediate threat> around 50 metres (yards) from the UNIFIL base
in Naqura, and pledged to carry out a <thorough review>. The Irish
military's chief of staff, Sean Clancy, said it was "not an accidental
act", and French President Emmanuel Macron said he believed the
peacekeepers had been "deliberately targeted".
Both countries are troop contributors to UNIFIL.
Efforts to negotiate an end to the Lebanon war have so far failed, but
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said his government would ask the
UN Security Council to issue a new resolution calling for a "full and
immediate ceasefire". Jordan, however, called for tougher measures and
an end to "impunity" for Israel. It said the UN's Chapter 7 must be
enacted "to force" Israeli compliance with international law. Macron
repeated his call for a ceasefire and said Hezbollah must "immediately
stop" attacking Israel. In a show of support for Hezbollah -- which Iran
arms and finances -- the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Mohammad
Bagher Ghalibaf, on Saturday visited the site of an earlier deadly
Israeli strike. A source close to Hezbollah said the strike had targeted
the group's security chief Wafiq Safa, but neither Hezbollah nor Israel
has confirmed he was the target.
Ghalibaf's visit, a signal of Tehran's defiance, comes after Israel
vowed to respond to Iran's second-ever direct attack, after an earlier
missile barrage in April.
Gaza deaths
Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,206
people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official
Israeli figures.
The number includes hostages killed in captivity.
Israeli operations in Gaza continue, with the army besieging an area
around Jabalia in the north, causing more suffering for hundreds of
thousands of people trapped there, according to the UN agency for
Palestinian refugees, UNRWA. Adraee, the Israeli military spokesman,
posted another evacuation warning on X Saturday for an area near Jabalia,
saying it was "considered a dangerous combat zone". "There is no safe
place, neither in the south nor in the north -- everyone is at risk of
death," Sami Asliya, 27, told AFP. On Friday, Gaza's civil defence
agency reported 30 people killed in Israeli strikes in the area,
including on schools sheltering displaced people. An AFP journalist in
Gaza reported heavy shelling, explosions and gunfire Saturday further
south in Gaza City's Zeitun neighbourhood.
(AFP)>>
Source:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241012-hezbollah-fires-at-israel-as-wars-rage-on-yom-kippur
Al Jazeera - October 12, 2024
<<EU ‘gravely concerned’ over Israeli bill seeking to ban UNRWA
EU warns of 'disastrous consequences' from a draft bill banning the UN
agency for Palestinian refugees in Israel.
The European Union has said it is deeply concerned about draft Israeli
legislation that would ban the United Nations agency for Palestinian
refugees from operating in Israel and likely scale back aid distribution
across war-ravaged Gaza. Earlier this week, an Israeli parliamentary
committee approved a bill that would ban UNRWA from operating in Israeli
territory and end all contact between the government and the UN agency.
The bill needs final approval from the Knesset, Israel's parliament.
"The European Union expresses its grave concern about the draft bill on
UNRWA currently discussed in the Israeli parliament," it said in a
statement released on Saturday. The EU emphasised its strong support for
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's position regarding the draft
bill that, if passed, could have "disastrous consequences" for the UN
agency's ability to assist and protect Palestinian refugees in the
occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza. "The EU urges the Israeli
authorities to ensure that UNRWA is allowed to continue carrying out its
crucial work in line with its mandate adopted by the UN General
Assembly," the EU noted. "UNRWA provides essential services to millions
of people in Gaza, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and across
the region, including Lebanon, Syria and Jordan and is a pillar of
regional stability. It also plays a fundamental role in ensuring the
conditions on the ground for a credible pathway towards the two-State
solution." Israel has campaigned for years against UNRWA, the main
organisation delivering humanitarian aid to Palestinians in occupied
Palestinian territory and providing services for Palestinian refugees in
other countries since 1949, claiming it has connections with
<terrorists> and lobbying for its closure. Earlier this year, Israel
alleged that some of the agency's staff participated in the Hamas-led
October 7 attacks on Israel, leading more than a dozen international
donors to suspend support. The UN launched an investigation into
Israel's accusations and dismissed nine staff, while the records of
others were still being reviewed. However, most donors have since
reinstated funding.
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