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Wednesday, July 17, 2024 6:55:58 AM
Live updates, Israel’s war on Gaza live: ‘Dramatic surge’ in attacks on UN-run centres
Israel's New Demands Are Expected to Delay Completion of Hostage Deal, Sources Say
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[Palestinians survey the damage following the Israeli military bombardment of the UNRWA-run Abu Oreiban school]
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By Virginia Pietromarchi and Mersiha Gadzo
Published On 17 Jul 202417 Jul 2024
* The Israeli military has killed at least 13 Palestinians across Gaza.
* An Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza says there’s a “dramatic surge” in Israeli attacks on UN-run centres sheltering people.
11m ago (10:10 GMT)
Israeli attacks on schools ‘an almost daily occurrence’: UNRWA chief
Commissioner-General of UNRWA Philippe Lazzarini has yet again called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, saying Israeli attacks on schools have become “an almost daily occurrence”.
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26m ago (09:55 GMT)
WATCH: Keys to nowhere – Displaced Palestinians hold on to hope of coming home
For many Palestinians, keeping the keys of places they’ve been forced to flee has become an involuntary tradition, in both the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.
Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh reports from the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, Palestine.
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41m ago (09:40 GMT)
Israeli army detects three rockets fired from northern Gaza
The projectiles targeted the Sderot area and the air force hit the source of the fire, the military said.
Northern Gaza has been repeatedly targeted by the Israeli army with soldiers returning to areas they withdrew from months ago after claiming to have destroyed Hamas’s capabilities there.
Continued fighting in Gaza’s northern districts – a week after the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood – indicates the military still doesn’t have full control of the area.
The destroyed remains of an Israeli army vehicle in the Shujayea district east of Gaza City [Omar al-Qattaa/AFP]
56m ago (09:25 GMT)
Israeli bombing kills two more Palestinians in Rafah
At least two Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted the Shakoush area, northwest of the city of Rafah.
Earlier we reported that Israeli forces attacked a residential building in the Nuseirat refugee camp where at least eight Palestinians were killed.
In the past few hours, at least two people were confirmed dead and 15 wounded following an Israeli attack on a mosque in central Gaza.
1h ago (09:10 GMT)
Israeli forces killed over 2,500 Palestinians every month since ICJ ruling
On January 26, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decided that Palestinians in Gaza had the “plausible” right to be protected from genocide and ordered .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/26/icj-fails-to-order-ceasefire-but-says-israel-must-prevent-genocide-in-gaza .. Israel to refrain from acts that could fall under the Genocide Convention.
At the time, the casualties toll in Gaza stood at 26,083 people killed with more than 64,400 people wounded.
Since then, Israeli forces have killed another 12,630 people and wounded more than 24,600 others, meaning more than 2,500 Palestinians were killed every month over the past five months.
Israeli forces have continued to hit UN-run facilities sheltering civilians. UNRWA, the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, says 70 percent of its schools in Gaza have been bombed during the war, and that the vast majority of them, 95 percent, were being used as displacement shelters at
the time they were attacked.
(Al Jazeera)
1h ago (08:55 GMT)
Israeli families agree to publish pictures of captives
Families of Israeli captives have agreed to publish pictures showing five female Israeli soldiers alive in Gaza.
The captives were among about 240 people taken on October 7 in the unprecedented Hamas-led assault against communities in southern Israel that killed more than 1,100 people, mostly civilians.
One of the images shows the captives sitting on mattresses on a room’s floor, some of them with bandages on their heads. Another picture shows one of the women with a black eye.
The families told Israeli media that the photos were taken from a Hamas video retrieved by the Israeli army during an operation in Gaza. It was given to the families more than a month ago.
A family member told the Israeli Broadcasting Authority that the current physical conditions of the five captives is not clear. Another member told the Times of Israel that she knew that the women were later separated.
1h ago (08:40 GMT)
Infographic
Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s ‘safe zones’ since March
Israeli forces have repeatedly struck “safe zones” where Palestinians were instructed to evacuate to for their safety.
1h ago (08:25 GMT)
‘Dramatic surge in attacks on UN-run evacuation centres’
Tareq Abu Azzoum Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip
The Israeli army and fighter jets have targeted a residential house in Nuseirat refugee camp, where at least eight Palestinians have been reported killed. There’s a notable surge in Israeli attacks on that very densely populated camp which is hosting thousands of Palestinian families.
We’re talking about a dramatic surge in attacks on evacuation centres that are run by the United Nations. That had an absolutely devastating impact on the safety of those civilians, who were [earlier] told by the [Israeli] military to go there for their own safety.
At least six schools were targeted in the past 10 days.
Dozens of families have been left without shelter and dozens of Palestinians have been killed. Many injured people have arrived at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah.
2h ago (08:10 GMT)
WATCH: Israeli military bombs home in az-Zawayda, killing at least 13 Palestinians
The Israeli military has killed at least 13 Palestinians since dawn across the Gaza Strip.
Israeli forces struck a home in az-Zawayda area, in central Gaza, killing at least eight people and injuring others.
Three other Palestinians were killed in two separate attacks there.
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum has the latest from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
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Israeli military bombs home in az-Zawayda, killing at least 13 Palestinians
2h ago (07:55 GMT)
Netanyahu aims to eradicate Palestinian collective memory: Analyst
Adel Abdel-Ghafar, a political analyst, says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is punishing Palestinians collectively in Gaza in the absence of a victory to present to his own constituency.
“It is clear that this is less about eradicating Hamas and more about the collective punishment of Palestinians,” Abdel-Ghafar, director of the foreign policy and security programme at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, told Al Jazeera.
The destruction of schools, mosques, churches, historical archives, among other institutions, he said, is a form of collective punishment aimed at eradicating the collective memory of Palestinians.
“Netanyahu can’t go back to his constituency and sell a ceasefire without coming out with some sort of win – and so far there has not been a major win – so the continued destruction of Gaza is his own win,” he added.
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[...]In an interview with Walla! News' correspondent Tal Shalev, former minister Gadi Eisenkot, who lost a son in Gaza, said that "we are the closest we've been to a deal in nine months. To my great regret, I can't see Netanyahu rising to a level of strategic leadership and taking a very difficult decision to stop the war, to withdraw forces as required, and to discuss Israel's national interests. I find it hard to see Netanyahu accepting a deal and telling Smotrich and Ben-Gvir that this is the right thing to do. We are facing a strategic dilemma – returning the hostages versus the survival of the government – and he knows a deal will topple the government. Netanyahu is limited by personal and political needs, which overcome his ability to save the country."]"
2h ago (07:40 GMT)
Palestinians released from Israeli detention recount torture, humiliation
The Palestinian Red Crescent says its teams have treated 13 detainees including an elderly woman who was released this morning by the Israeli army at the Kissufim checkpoint in central Gaza.
Upon arrival at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, one of the prisoners – who declined to be named – said that a number of inmates inside Israeli prisons had lost their senses as a result of the torture and electric shocks they were subjected to.
Released prisoner Mustafa Fayyad recounted the difficult conditions of his detention due to lack of sleep and food, and being tortured more than once.
Nader Asaliya, who is blind, spoke about the conditions of his detention saying: “They treated us inhumanely inside prisons and called us dogs. We were subjected to all kinds of torture, hunger and humiliation.”
Earlier this month Israel freed dozens of Palestinians detained during its war in Gaza, including the director of al-Shifa Hospital, one of the enclave’s main hospitals.
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2h ago (07:25 GMT)
Photos: The aftermath of the Israeli strike on Abdullah Azzam Mosque in Nuseirat
Israel’s war on Gaza has displaced 85% of the population amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine [Hassan Jedi/Anadolu]
Emergency services continue to scour collapsed buildings in the Nuseirat refugee camp for bodies [Hassan Jedi/Anadolu]
Israeli forces killed at least 17 people after attacking displaced Palestinians in Nuseirat on Sunday [Hassan Jedi/Anadolu]
3h ago (07:10 GMT)
Saudi Council of Ministers condemns Israeli massacres against Palestinian people
The Saudi Council of Ministers has condemned the continuation of genocidal massacres against the Palestinian people.
The session headed by Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman reiterated its demand for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and the protection of unarmed civilians in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The council also stressed the necessity of activating international accountability mechanisms for the continuous Israeli violations of international humanitarian law and international legitimacy resolutions.
3h ago (06:35 GMT)
Israeli air force attacks 25 ‘terrorist targets’ in Gaza over the past day
The Israeli military said that its fighter jets have attacked 25 “terrorist targets” throughout the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, including “military buildings, terrorist infrastructures, [and] terrorist squads”.
Deadly Israeli military attacks have ramped up across the Gaza Strip in recent days, with at least 25 people killed at a UNRWA-run school in central Gaza’s Nuseirat area on Tuesday.
Posting a breakdown of its operations on X, the Israeli military said it attacked an area in northern Gaza from which three rockets were fired into Israel, adding that an aircraft also “attacked and destroyed” a Hamas “sniper operative” in northern Gaza, without specifying where.
In southern Gaza, Israel’s 162nd Division “eliminated a terrorist squad and destroyed a launcher” in the Rafah area. In central Gaza, it said its 3rd and 8th Brigades were engaged in “destroying buildings that serve as observation posts” for Palestinian fighters.
An injured Palestinian child is taken to a hospital to receive medical treatment after Israeli fighter jets bombed a UNRWA school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir el-Balah on July 16 [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Images]
4h ago (06:15 GMT)
500 health workers killed in Gaza, including doctors with rare specialisations
Israeli attacks have killed 500 health workers in Gaza since October, including several specialised doctors, AP news agency reports.
The specialist doctors killed include a plastic surgeon specialising in wound care, a reconstructive surgeon, an obstetrician/gynaecologist, an orthopaedic surgeon, a fertility doctor, and the only liver transplant doctor in Gaza.
Hassan Hamdan, a plastic surgeon who specialised in wound reconstruction, was killed along with 12 members of his family earlier this month after coming out of retirement to treat victims of the war.
His son, Osama Hamdan, an orthopaedic surgeon, was on duty in the emergency room at Nasser Hospital when he received the call. His wife and two sons – aged three and five – were among those killed.
“I was only able to collect some body parts of my kids and their mother because of how huge the explosion was,” Hamdan said.
Dr Hassan Hamdan was killed in an Israeli air attack on July 3 along with his wife, son, two daughters, a daughter-in-law, a son-in-law and six grandchildren in a declared ‘safe zone’ [Family handout/AP]
4h ago (06:05 GMT)
Israeli military arrests 4 people in raids in Hebron, Qalqilya
The Israeli military has arrested three Palestinians in raids in Hebron governorate, the Wafa news agency reports.
Israeli forces stormed the city of Hebron and arrested a man, while they also arrested a man and a woman from the town of Surif, northwest of Hebron.
Local media also reports that the Israeli military has arrested the mother of a wanted man in the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya, in order to pressure her son to surrender himself.
4h ago (05:55 GMT)
Hamas-led groups committed war crimes on October 7: Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has published new research detailing war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Hamas-led Palestinian armed groups on October 7 in Israel.
Hamas fighters led four other armed groups in attacks against 19 kibbutzim and 5 moshavim (cooperative communities), the cities of Sderot and Ofakim, two music festivals, and a beach party on October 7, HRW said.
“The Hamas-led assault on October 7 was designed to kill civilians and take as many people as possible hostage,” said Ida Sawyer, crisis and conflict director at HRW. Hamas officials, however, told HRW its fighters were instructed not to target civilians and to abide by international human rights and humanitarian law.
Israel’s ensuing assault on the Gaza Strip in the aftermath of October 7 amounted to the war crime of collective punishment, HRW also said, exacerbating Israel’s 17-year illegal blockade of Gaza and its crimes of apartheid and persecution against Palestinians.
4h ago (05:45 GMT)
Developing
Two confirmed dead in Israeli mosque bombing in Gaza
At least two people have been confirmed killed and 15 injured following an Israeli attack on a mosque in central Gaza, the Wafa news agency reports.
Earlier, we reported that the Israeli military had bombed the Abdullah Azzam Mosque, which is north of the Nuseirat refugee camp.
Wafa also reports that at least one person has been killed after the Israeli military bombed a building housing displaced people, belonging to the al-Issawi family, near Camp 1 in the Nuseirat area.
4h ago (05:35 GMT)
Breaking
Central Gaza refugee camps under fire
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that Israeli artillery is shelling the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps in central Gaza.
We will bring you more on this story shortly.
4h ago (05:25 GMT)
Still no confirmation Hamas’s Mohammed Deif killed in Israeli strike: Monitors
The Israeli air force dropped eight 2,000-pound bombs in its attack on the al-Mawasi area of Gaza on Saturday in a bid to kill Hamas commander Mohammed Deif .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/14/who-is-mohammed-deif-the-hamas-military-commander-in-gaza .
US-based defence think tanks the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) also said that Israel’s military has still not officially confirmed that it killed Deif in the attack that killed at least 90 people – mostly women and children – and wounded 300 others.
On Tuesday, Israeli forces deployed along the Netzarim Corridor continued to come under mortar, rocket and sniper fire from Palestinian fighters, while in southern Rafah city Israeli armour was targeted with mortar shelling, the ISW/CTP said in their latest battlefield update .. https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/iran-update-july-16-2024 .
Israel’s air force said it attacked 40 targets across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, and at least three rockets were fired towards Israel’s Sderot city by Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters, the ISW/CTP report.
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Israeli air raid kills at least 90 in 'safe zone’
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A Palestinian girl looks at a body after Israeli fighter jets hit a UNRWA school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, on July 16 [Hassan Jedi/Anadolu Images]
5h ago (04:55 GMT)
Almost 100 killed as 6 school shelters attacked in 10 days
Hani Mahmoud Reporting from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip
We are looking at two-thirds of UN facilities across the Strip being either severely damaged or completely destroyed since the beginning of this genocidal war, including evacuation centres.
In the past 10 days, we’ve seen at least six schools being targeted by Israeli air attacks killing close to 100 people.
Just today, 23 people were killed in a single attack in addition to 70-plus critically injured in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
All of this is increasing and exacerbating the already difficult living conditions and the problems that people are experiencing in Gaza.
5h ago (04:45 GMT)
COGAT claims that 206 aid trucks entered Gaza on Tuesday
The Israeli Defense Ministry agency that oversees the occupied Palestinian territory has claimed that 206 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered Gaza on Tuesday.
The Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said the Egyptian, Jordanian and Israeli trucks went through the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing in southern Gaza and the Beit Hanoon (Erez) crossing in the north.
However, the UN and other international organisations continue to report Israeli restrictions on aid delivery to Gaza, while independent UN experts say famine has spread throughout the besieged enclave after more than nine months of war.
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5h ago (04:35 GMT)
10th anniversary of Israeli impunity over killing of 4 children on Gaza beach
The Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights has marked a decade of impunity following the killing of four Palestinian children while playing football on the Gaza City beach.
On July 16, 2014, Israeli forces fired three missiles that killed the Bakr family boys: Ahed, 9, Zakaria,10, Mohammed,11, and Ismail, 9, and wounded six other children.
“Despite clear evidence as to the indiscriminate nature of the attack, the Israeli probe, which was neither impartial nor independent as required by international law, was promptly closed in June 2015,” the rights group said.
??“A decade later, there is no justice for the Bakr family and countless other Palestinian victims of blatant crimes committed by the Israeli military and other officials,” the group added.
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5h ago (04:25 GMT)
Photos: ‘We will go to jail, but not to the army’
Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish youths protested against changes that would see them forced to serve in the Israeli military in Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel, on Tuesday [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo]
The Israeli military on Tuesday said it would begin sending draft notices to Jewish ultra-Orthodox men next week [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo]
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Israelis are bound by law to serve in the military from the age of 18 for 24-32 months, but ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students have largely been exempt [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo]
The changes could pose challenges for Netanyahu’s ruling coalition, which relies on the support of ultra-Orthodox parties that oppose the recruitment changes, even though many support the war itself [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo]
6h ago (04:15 GMT)
Infographic: How Israel used a cancer hospital in Gaza as an army base
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Israel's New Demands Are Expected to Delay Completion of Hostage Deal, Sources Say
"Gaza’s invisible massacre: aid workers killed in record numbers
"Note the latest stolen Palestinian land is contiguous to another block close to the Jordan border. Look at the map again .. ""
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[Palestinians survey the damage following the Israeli military bombardment of the UNRWA-run Abu Oreiban school]
This video may contain light patterns or images that could trigger seizures or cause discomfort for people with visual sensitivities.
By Virginia Pietromarchi and Mersiha Gadzo
Published On 17 Jul 202417 Jul 2024
* The Israeli military has killed at least 13 Palestinians across Gaza.
* An Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza says there’s a “dramatic surge” in Israeli attacks on UN-run centres sheltering people.
11m ago (10:10 GMT)
Israeli attacks on schools ‘an almost daily occurrence’: UNRWA chief
Commissioner-General of UNRWA Philippe Lazzarini has yet again called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, saying Israeli attacks on schools have become “an almost daily occurrence”.
[...]
26m ago (09:55 GMT)
WATCH: Keys to nowhere – Displaced Palestinians hold on to hope of coming home
For many Palestinians, keeping the keys of places they’ve been forced to flee has become an involuntary tradition, in both the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.
Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh reports from the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, Palestine.
Video 02:33
41m ago (09:40 GMT)
Israeli army detects three rockets fired from northern Gaza
The projectiles targeted the Sderot area and the air force hit the source of the fire, the military said.
Northern Gaza has been repeatedly targeted by the Israeli army with soldiers returning to areas they withdrew from months ago after claiming to have destroyed Hamas’s capabilities there.
Continued fighting in Gaza’s northern districts – a week after the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood – indicates the military still doesn’t have full control of the area.
The destroyed remains of an Israeli army vehicle in the Shujayea district east of Gaza City [Omar al-Qattaa/AFP]
56m ago (09:25 GMT)
Israeli bombing kills two more Palestinians in Rafah
At least two Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted the Shakoush area, northwest of the city of Rafah.
Earlier we reported that Israeli forces attacked a residential building in the Nuseirat refugee camp where at least eight Palestinians were killed.
In the past few hours, at least two people were confirmed dead and 15 wounded following an Israeli attack on a mosque in central Gaza.
1h ago (09:10 GMT)
Israeli forces killed over 2,500 Palestinians every month since ICJ ruling
On January 26, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decided that Palestinians in Gaza had the “plausible” right to be protected from genocide and ordered .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/26/icj-fails-to-order-ceasefire-but-says-israel-must-prevent-genocide-in-gaza .. Israel to refrain from acts that could fall under the Genocide Convention.
At the time, the casualties toll in Gaza stood at 26,083 people killed with more than 64,400 people wounded.
Since then, Israeli forces have killed another 12,630 people and wounded more than 24,600 others, meaning more than 2,500 Palestinians were killed every month over the past five months.
Israeli forces have continued to hit UN-run facilities sheltering civilians. UNRWA, the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, says 70 percent of its schools in Gaza have been bombed during the war, and that the vast majority of them, 95 percent, were being used as displacement shelters at
the time they were attacked.
(Al Jazeera)
1h ago (08:55 GMT)
Israeli families agree to publish pictures of captives
Families of Israeli captives have agreed to publish pictures showing five female Israeli soldiers alive in Gaza.
The captives were among about 240 people taken on October 7 in the unprecedented Hamas-led assault against communities in southern Israel that killed more than 1,100 people, mostly civilians.
One of the images shows the captives sitting on mattresses on a room’s floor, some of them with bandages on their heads. Another picture shows one of the women with a black eye.
The families told Israeli media that the photos were taken from a Hamas video retrieved by the Israeli army during an operation in Gaza. It was given to the families more than a month ago.
A family member told the Israeli Broadcasting Authority that the current physical conditions of the five captives is not clear. Another member told the Times of Israel that she knew that the women were later separated.
1h ago (08:40 GMT)
Infographic
Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s ‘safe zones’ since March
Israeli forces have repeatedly struck “safe zones” where Palestinians were instructed to evacuate to for their safety.
1h ago (08:25 GMT)
‘Dramatic surge in attacks on UN-run evacuation centres’
Tareq Abu Azzoum Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip
The Israeli army and fighter jets have targeted a residential house in Nuseirat refugee camp, where at least eight Palestinians have been reported killed. There’s a notable surge in Israeli attacks on that very densely populated camp which is hosting thousands of Palestinian families.
We’re talking about a dramatic surge in attacks on evacuation centres that are run by the United Nations. That had an absolutely devastating impact on the safety of those civilians, who were [earlier] told by the [Israeli] military to go there for their own safety.
At least six schools were targeted in the past 10 days.
Dozens of families have been left without shelter and dozens of Palestinians have been killed. Many injured people have arrived at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah.
2h ago (08:10 GMT)
WATCH: Israeli military bombs home in az-Zawayda, killing at least 13 Palestinians
The Israeli military has killed at least 13 Palestinians since dawn across the Gaza Strip.
Israeli forces struck a home in az-Zawayda area, in central Gaza, killing at least eight people and injuring others.
Three other Palestinians were killed in two separate attacks there.
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum has the latest from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
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Israeli military bombs home in az-Zawayda, killing at least 13 Palestinians
2h ago (07:55 GMT)
Netanyahu aims to eradicate Palestinian collective memory: Analyst
Adel Abdel-Ghafar, a political analyst, says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is punishing Palestinians collectively in Gaza in the absence of a victory to present to his own constituency.
“It is clear that this is less about eradicating Hamas and more about the collective punishment of Palestinians,” Abdel-Ghafar, director of the foreign policy and security programme at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, told Al Jazeera.
The destruction of schools, mosques, churches, historical archives, among other institutions, he said, is a form of collective punishment aimed at eradicating the collective memory of Palestinians.
“Netanyahu can’t go back to his constituency and sell a ceasefire without coming out with some sort of win – and so far there has not been a major win – so the continued destruction of Gaza is his own win,” he added.
"[From post this one replies to:
[...]In an interview with Walla! News' correspondent Tal Shalev, former minister Gadi Eisenkot, who lost a son in Gaza, said that "we are the closest we've been to a deal in nine months. To my great regret, I can't see Netanyahu rising to a level of strategic leadership and taking a very difficult decision to stop the war, to withdraw forces as required, and to discuss Israel's national interests. I find it hard to see Netanyahu accepting a deal and telling Smotrich and Ben-Gvir that this is the right thing to do. We are facing a strategic dilemma – returning the hostages versus the survival of the government – and he knows a deal will topple the government. Netanyahu is limited by personal and political needs, which overcome his ability to save the country."]"
2h ago (07:40 GMT)
Palestinians released from Israeli detention recount torture, humiliation
The Palestinian Red Crescent says its teams have treated 13 detainees including an elderly woman who was released this morning by the Israeli army at the Kissufim checkpoint in central Gaza.
Upon arrival at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, one of the prisoners – who declined to be named – said that a number of inmates inside Israeli prisons had lost their senses as a result of the torture and electric shocks they were subjected to.
Released prisoner Mustafa Fayyad recounted the difficult conditions of his detention due to lack of sleep and food, and being tortured more than once.
Nader Asaliya, who is blind, spoke about the conditions of his detention saying: “They treated us inhumanely inside prisons and called us dogs. We were subjected to all kinds of torture, hunger and humiliation.”
Earlier this month Israel freed dozens of Palestinians detained during its war in Gaza, including the director of al-Shifa Hospital, one of the enclave’s main hospitals.
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2h ago (07:25 GMT)
Photos: The aftermath of the Israeli strike on Abdullah Azzam Mosque in Nuseirat
Israel’s war on Gaza has displaced 85% of the population amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine [Hassan Jedi/Anadolu]
Emergency services continue to scour collapsed buildings in the Nuseirat refugee camp for bodies [Hassan Jedi/Anadolu]
Israeli forces killed at least 17 people after attacking displaced Palestinians in Nuseirat on Sunday [Hassan Jedi/Anadolu]
3h ago (07:10 GMT)
Saudi Council of Ministers condemns Israeli massacres against Palestinian people
The Saudi Council of Ministers has condemned the continuation of genocidal massacres against the Palestinian people.
The session headed by Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman reiterated its demand for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and the protection of unarmed civilians in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The council also stressed the necessity of activating international accountability mechanisms for the continuous Israeli violations of international humanitarian law and international legitimacy resolutions.
3h ago (06:35 GMT)
Israeli air force attacks 25 ‘terrorist targets’ in Gaza over the past day
The Israeli military said that its fighter jets have attacked 25 “terrorist targets” throughout the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, including “military buildings, terrorist infrastructures, [and] terrorist squads”.
Deadly Israeli military attacks have ramped up across the Gaza Strip in recent days, with at least 25 people killed at a UNRWA-run school in central Gaza’s Nuseirat area on Tuesday.
Posting a breakdown of its operations on X, the Israeli military said it attacked an area in northern Gaza from which three rockets were fired into Israel, adding that an aircraft also “attacked and destroyed” a Hamas “sniper operative” in northern Gaza, without specifying where.
In southern Gaza, Israel’s 162nd Division “eliminated a terrorist squad and destroyed a launcher” in the Rafah area. In central Gaza, it said its 3rd and 8th Brigades were engaged in “destroying buildings that serve as observation posts” for Palestinian fighters.
An injured Palestinian child is taken to a hospital to receive medical treatment after Israeli fighter jets bombed a UNRWA school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir el-Balah on July 16 [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Images]
4h ago (06:15 GMT)
500 health workers killed in Gaza, including doctors with rare specialisations
Israeli attacks have killed 500 health workers in Gaza since October, including several specialised doctors, AP news agency reports.
The specialist doctors killed include a plastic surgeon specialising in wound care, a reconstructive surgeon, an obstetrician/gynaecologist, an orthopaedic surgeon, a fertility doctor, and the only liver transplant doctor in Gaza.
Hassan Hamdan, a plastic surgeon who specialised in wound reconstruction, was killed along with 12 members of his family earlier this month after coming out of retirement to treat victims of the war.
His son, Osama Hamdan, an orthopaedic surgeon, was on duty in the emergency room at Nasser Hospital when he received the call. His wife and two sons – aged three and five – were among those killed.
“I was only able to collect some body parts of my kids and their mother because of how huge the explosion was,” Hamdan said.
Dr Hassan Hamdan was killed in an Israeli air attack on July 3 along with his wife, son, two daughters, a daughter-in-law, a son-in-law and six grandchildren in a declared ‘safe zone’ [Family handout/AP]
4h ago (06:05 GMT)
Israeli military arrests 4 people in raids in Hebron, Qalqilya
The Israeli military has arrested three Palestinians in raids in Hebron governorate, the Wafa news agency reports.
Israeli forces stormed the city of Hebron and arrested a man, while they also arrested a man and a woman from the town of Surif, northwest of Hebron.
Local media also reports that the Israeli military has arrested the mother of a wanted man in the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya, in order to pressure her son to surrender himself.
4h ago (05:55 GMT)
Hamas-led groups committed war crimes on October 7: Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has published new research detailing war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Hamas-led Palestinian armed groups on October 7 in Israel.
Hamas fighters led four other armed groups in attacks against 19 kibbutzim and 5 moshavim (cooperative communities), the cities of Sderot and Ofakim, two music festivals, and a beach party on October 7, HRW said.
“The Hamas-led assault on October 7 was designed to kill civilians and take as many people as possible hostage,” said Ida Sawyer, crisis and conflict director at HRW. Hamas officials, however, told HRW its fighters were instructed not to target civilians and to abide by international human rights and humanitarian law.
Israel’s ensuing assault on the Gaza Strip in the aftermath of October 7 amounted to the war crime of collective punishment, HRW also said, exacerbating Israel’s 17-year illegal blockade of Gaza and its crimes of apartheid and persecution against Palestinians.
4h ago (05:45 GMT)
Developing
Two confirmed dead in Israeli mosque bombing in Gaza
At least two people have been confirmed killed and 15 injured following an Israeli attack on a mosque in central Gaza, the Wafa news agency reports.
Earlier, we reported that the Israeli military had bombed the Abdullah Azzam Mosque, which is north of the Nuseirat refugee camp.
Wafa also reports that at least one person has been killed after the Israeli military bombed a building housing displaced people, belonging to the al-Issawi family, near Camp 1 in the Nuseirat area.
4h ago (05:35 GMT)
Breaking
Central Gaza refugee camps under fire
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that Israeli artillery is shelling the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps in central Gaza.
We will bring you more on this story shortly.
4h ago (05:25 GMT)
Still no confirmation Hamas’s Mohammed Deif killed in Israeli strike: Monitors
The Israeli air force dropped eight 2,000-pound bombs in its attack on the al-Mawasi area of Gaza on Saturday in a bid to kill Hamas commander Mohammed Deif .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/14/who-is-mohammed-deif-the-hamas-military-commander-in-gaza .
US-based defence think tanks the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) also said that Israel’s military has still not officially confirmed that it killed Deif in the attack that killed at least 90 people – mostly women and children – and wounded 300 others.
On Tuesday, Israeli forces deployed along the Netzarim Corridor continued to come under mortar, rocket and sniper fire from Palestinian fighters, while in southern Rafah city Israeli armour was targeted with mortar shelling, the ISW/CTP said in their latest battlefield update .. https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/iran-update-july-16-2024 .
Israel’s air force said it attacked 40 targets across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, and at least three rockets were fired towards Israel’s Sderot city by Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters, the ISW/CTP report.
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A Palestinian girl looks at a body after Israeli fighter jets hit a UNRWA school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, on July 16 [Hassan Jedi/Anadolu Images]
5h ago (04:55 GMT)
Almost 100 killed as 6 school shelters attacked in 10 days
Hani Mahmoud Reporting from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip
We are looking at two-thirds of UN facilities across the Strip being either severely damaged or completely destroyed since the beginning of this genocidal war, including evacuation centres.
In the past 10 days, we’ve seen at least six schools being targeted by Israeli air attacks killing close to 100 people.
Just today, 23 people were killed in a single attack in addition to 70-plus critically injured in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
All of this is increasing and exacerbating the already difficult living conditions and the problems that people are experiencing in Gaza.
5h ago (04:45 GMT)
COGAT claims that 206 aid trucks entered Gaza on Tuesday
The Israeli Defense Ministry agency that oversees the occupied Palestinian territory has claimed that 206 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered Gaza on Tuesday.
The Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said the Egyptian, Jordanian and Israeli trucks went through the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing in southern Gaza and the Beit Hanoon (Erez) crossing in the north.
However, the UN and other international organisations continue to report Israeli restrictions on aid delivery to Gaza, while independent UN experts say famine has spread throughout the besieged enclave after more than nine months of war.
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5h ago (04:35 GMT)
10th anniversary of Israeli impunity over killing of 4 children on Gaza beach
The Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights has marked a decade of impunity following the killing of four Palestinian children while playing football on the Gaza City beach.
On July 16, 2014, Israeli forces fired three missiles that killed the Bakr family boys: Ahed, 9, Zakaria,10, Mohammed,11, and Ismail, 9, and wounded six other children.
“Despite clear evidence as to the indiscriminate nature of the attack, the Israeli probe, which was neither impartial nor independent as required by international law, was promptly closed in June 2015,” the rights group said.
??“A decade later, there is no justice for the Bakr family and countless other Palestinian victims of blatant crimes committed by the Israeli military and other officials,” the group added.
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5h ago (04:25 GMT)
Photos: ‘We will go to jail, but not to the army’
Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish youths protested against changes that would see them forced to serve in the Israeli military in Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel, on Tuesday [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo]
The Israeli military on Tuesday said it would begin sending draft notices to Jewish ultra-Orthodox men next week [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo]
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Israelis are bound by law to serve in the military from the age of 18 for 24-32 months, but ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students have largely been exempt [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo]
The changes could pose challenges for Netanyahu’s ruling coalition, which relies on the support of ultra-Orthodox parties that oppose the recruitment changes, even though many support the war itself [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo]
6h ago (04:15 GMT)
Infographic: How Israel used a cancer hospital in Gaza as an army base
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