Israel's war on besieged Palestinians of Gaza — now in its 173rd day — has killed at least 32,490 people and wounded 74,889 as countries at UN rally behind expert who accused Israel of genocide.
Israel's war on besieged Palestinians of Gaza — now in its 173rd day — has killed at least 32,490 people and wounded 74,889 as countries at UN rally behind expert who accused Israel of genocide.The US State Department does not think hostage talks with Israel and Hamas are over, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller has said, adding that Washington thinks there is an ability to continue to pursue the release of hostages.
"The American people, in my view, do not want us to continue funding Netanyahu's cruel war. And I think maybe it's time we start listening to the American people," he said on the Senate floor. Spanish military planes air dropped 26 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Palestinians in besieged Gaza and Madrid called on Israel to open land border crossings to prevent a famine, the Foreign Ministry has said.
The problem is that"airdrops are as inefficient as they are dangerous", according to a source from an international NGO working in Gaza who asked to remain anonymous.Israeli forces have killed three people in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin during a pre-dawn military operation, the Palestinian Health Ministry has said.
Albanese, who presented her report to the Human Rights Council recently, said one of the key findings of her report is that Israel has"intentionally distorted" international humanitarian law"in an attempt to legitimise genocidal violence against the Palestinian people.
The Israeli public broadcaster KAN, however, said that the talks are still ongoing with the return of the displaced Palestinians to Gaza’s north remaining a sticking point in the negotiations. He said Wednesday that a total of 18 people have died while trying to recover airdropped aid in scenes of chaos and desperation."Sometimes it falls into the sea, sometimes on civilians, sometimes on houses, sometimes on Israeli territory beyond the border fence," he said.Hamas has vowed that it will not release any Israeli hostage in its captivity until its demands are fulfilled.
A ministry statement said the UN complaints"documented Israel’s violations of the UN Security Council Resolution 1701." The ministry urged the UN Security Council to condemn Israeli attacks and “to curb the Israeli violations of the Lebanese sovereignty.” At least 453 Palestinians have since been killed and more than 4,750 others injured by Israeli fire, according to the Health Ministry.At least 32,490 Palestinians have been killed and 74,889 injured in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since October 7, 2023, Palestine's Health Ministry in the enclave said in a statement.
A statement by Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said on Telegram that a special flight it dispatched earlier in the day has delivered the 20th batch of humanitarian aid to representatives of the Egyptian Red Crescent in the city of El Arish, who will then redirect the aid to Gaza residents. Emphasising the move is the largest appropriation of Palestinian land by Israel since the Oslo Accords, the Polish Foreign Ministry said on X:"This runs counter to international law and also to efforts to deescalate the current situation."
The Israeli army arrested at least three Palestinians from Jenin, and withdrew from the area after nine hours of raids there, the eyewitnesses added.Israel is not expected to comply with the UN Security Council's recent call for a ceasefire in Gaza, according to an international law expert. Besieged Gaza is in desperate need of aid and the United States said it would continue air drops, despite pleas from Hamas to stop the practice after the group said 18 people had died trying to reach food packages.
"The Russian side expects that the binding UN Security Council Resolution 2728 will contribute to de-escalating violence in Gaza, including preventing the Israeli operation in Rafah, freeing hostages, increasing humanitarian assistance to civilians in the sector," it said.Israel's decision to deny access to food convoys from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees to northern Gaza is unacceptable, Norway's Foreign Ministry said.
"The harrowing number of deaths, the irreparable harm done to those who survive, the systematic destruction of every aspect necessary t o sustain life in Gaza – from hospitals to schools, from homes to arable land – and the particular harm to hundreds of thousands of children and to pregnant and young mothers," said Albanese.
China"calls on the parties concerned to fulfill their obligations under the UN Charter and to take due action as required by the resolution," a Chinese government official said in response to a question byabout comments by the US top envoy to the UN who claimed a resolution passed Monday was"non-binding" on parties to the conflict in Gaza, which has been under an onslaught by Israel since October last year.
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