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According to the IDF, the truck was allowed to enter Gaza as part of Israel's aid-supply mechanism. COGAT's chief said 'no exploitation of this mechanism will be tolerated' and ordered the company's authorization suspended

A United Nations inquiry on Wednesday expressed concern at reports of abuse against a prominent Palestinian doctor seized by the Israeli military in Gaza in December 2024, who is still being held in Israel. The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, called for the immediate release of Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Gaza Strip. Rights groups and Abu Safiya’s lawyer have said his life is in imminent danger, and he continues to be held without charge, according to the Physicians for Human Rights Israel, an Israeli rights group. “The actions of the Israeli Prison Service guards towards Palestinian detainees raise grave concerns of violations of international law that likely amount to international crimes. “Dr Abu Safiya’s medical condition is the direct result of these actions,” the UN inquiry said in a statement. An Israel Prison Service (IPS) spokesperson said on Wednesday, “The allegations and character...

Gruparea militantă Hamas a anunțat luni că și-a dizolvat guvernul din Gaza și se pregătește să transfere puterea, ca parte a unui acord de încetare a focului mediat de Statele Unite.

Hamas hopes Monday's announcement will break the political deadlock. But with members of Gaza's technocratic committee still outside Gaza and no guarantee Israel will allow them in, only sustained U.S. pressure, a highly unlikely prospect, could move things forward

After Trump imposed cease-fires in Iran and Lebanon, the Israeli prime minister may renew fighting in the Gaza Strip to achieve his primary goal – surviving the elections. After all, there has been a surge in recent reports about the possibility of a broad military operation in Gaza, one that will truly, sincerely and finally deal with Hamas. Just like all those that came before

Palestinian group Hamas announced on Monday the dissolution of the body that has governed the Gaza Strip for nearly two decades, clearing the way for a technocratic committee to implement civilian rule. The move marks a significant political shift by Hamas, which has run Gaza since it seized control from Palestine’s Fatah group in 2007 after winning legislative elections the previous year. Since a ceasefire took effect in Gaza last October between Hamas and Israel, the group has repeatedly said it is prepared to step aside from day-to-day governance, but the thorny issue of its disarmament remains unresolved. “The head of the government’s emergency committee Mohammed al-Farra has officially submitted his resignation,” Ismail al-Thawabta, head of Hamas’ government media office told AFP. “He has also decided to dissolve the committee to facilitate the administrative and governmental transition to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG).” The NCAG was created by the Board of Peace that US Pr...

The move remains largely symbolic as Israel is not allowing members of the technocratic committee, currently in Cairo, to enter Gaza • The resignation does not apply to Hamas' military wing

More than 90pc of the Gaza Strip has been destroyed and more than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed in the 1,000 days since Israel started bombarding the besieged enclave following the retaliatory Hamas attack of Oct 7, 2023, according to the local government’s media office. The Palestinian government’s media office released key statistics on the destruction and death toll on Thursday, marking 1,000 days since the start of the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. As of July 2, Israel has seized control of more than 80pc of the Gaza Strip, while 2.4 million people in the territory were being subjected to genocide, starvation and ethnic cleansing, the statement said. A plume of smoke rises above buildings in Gaza City on October 7, 2023 during an Israeli air strike. — AFP/File Of those killed by the Israeli military, more than 21,500 were children and more than 12,500 were women. More than 1,000 of the children killed were under the age of one, the statement said. “More than 520 infants were born and subsequent...

The controversy that erupted after the Committee to Protect Journalists removed some Palestinian journalists from its Gaza death toll is a cover for the grim reality that Israel is the deadliest country in the world for journalists

UNITED NATIONS - The continued expansion of areas under Israeli control in Gaza since October’s ceasefire agreement is placing civilians at greater risk and severely constraining humanitarian operations, the UN and humanitarian partners warned on Wednesday.

Touring the Gaza border, the far-right finance minister said the plan is awaiting PM Netanyahu's approval. 'We must establish a belt of Jewish settlements that will serve as a security buffer for Israeli communities'

October 7, which enabled a genocide in Gaza, loosened all restraints in the West Bank as well. Now the verdict that there are no innocent civilians has been applied to the Palestinians of the West Bank, too

Raad Abu al-Kiyan, a bulldozer operator from the town of Hura in southern Israel, was killed while in a building collapse in the Strip. He is the first Israeli citizen to be killed in Gaza since February

Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian children in what has become a key factor in an ongoing “genocide” in Gaza, United Nations investigators charged on Tuesday, in a report slammed by Israel. The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry said it had found evidence that “Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted and killed by Israeli security forces”. This, it said, was a key factor in establishing “the genocidal intent of the Israeli authorities and security forces to destroy the larger Palestinian group in Gaza”. The three-member investigative team, which does not speak for the UN itself, first determined in a report last September that Israel had committed “genocide” during its assault in Gaza — a finding Israel flatly rejected. In Tuesday’s follow-up report, they said the intense scale and systematic nature of Israeli military operations had continued, resulting in the “unprecedented” death, injury and trauma of Palestinian children. There were “reasonable grounds” to conclude t...

Israeli activist and artist Rachel Hagigi embroiders images of the bombing of Gaza, forcing viewers to slow down and confront Palestinian suffering. Also this week: Major Israeli paintings could soon be yours provided you have a spare $300,000; and Tel Aviv's student film festival opens

Bij een Israëlische droneaanval op het vluchtelingenkamp Bureij in Gaza is een journalist van Al Jazeera omgekomen. Dat meldt de zender.

GAZA CITY: Gaza health officials said Israeli strikes on Saturday killed at least 11 people, including four members of the same family, in the latest violence to rock the Palestinian territory despite a ceasefire. Hamas accuses Israel of daily truce violations and the Gaza Strip continues to suffer severe bloodshed, with efforts to permanently halt the destructive assault on the enclave still at a standstill. An overnight Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City killed four members of the Al-Safadi family, including the husband, wife and their two daughters, according to the civil defence agency, a rescue service that operates under Hamas authority. It said the strike also injured 12 others. Apartment bombing leaves four family members dead Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital confirmed receiving the bodies of four members of the Safadi family, including two children. “Around 2 o’clock, my cousins were asleep when a missile struck them. They have no connection to Hamas, nor ...

UNITED NATIONS - Gaza remains in a perilous state, Pakistan told the UN Security Council as the 15-member body shifted its focus back to the dire humanitarian situation in the war-shattered enclave, which had been overshadowed by wider regional developments.

The war in Gaza officially ended in October, but army orders facilitating the killing of innocent civilians remain in effect. 'Small and very thin. What was his fault? His face and body are full of shrapnel. What did he do to the Jews?'

Israel has condemned Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko after he compared the Holocaust to the Gaza war, calling his remarks “deeply disturbing” and unacceptable.