Israel war on Gaza updates: Strike on Gaza school kills eight

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  • That’s a wrap from usThank you for joining us for updates on everything related to Israel’s war on Gaza.For more on why Israel has launched its largest operation on the West Bank in decades, go here.Read Noor Alyacoubi’s dispatch from Gaza City about Ezzeddin Lulu, a young doctor who has established a foundation to provide training and financial support for medical students in the war-torn enclave.Also, read our story on the Biden administration’s latest sanctions on Israeli settlers here.And you can find all our latest coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza here.Click here to share on social media
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  • Here’s what happened todayWe will be closing the live blog shortly, but before we do, here’s a recap of the day’s main events:
    • Israel launched the largest assault on the occupied West Bank in years, with hundreds of soldiers carrying out raids in which at least 11 Palestinians were killed and many wounded.
    • Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says that about 650 patients were forced to leave Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza after Israel placed the facility under evacuation orders.
    • World Food Programme said it was pausing movements within Gaza after a UN humanitarian aid convoy came under fire by Israeli forces.
    • The US issued sanctions against Israeli settlers amid surging settler attacks and land theft against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
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  • Three wounded in Israeli raid on Far’a refugee campThe Palestinian Wafa news agency is reporting that at least three people were wounded during Israeli forces’ raid on the Far’a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.One person was wounded by shrapnel from gunfire while the other two were injured in physical attacks by the Israeli forces, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.Click here to share on social media
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  • Aid flow into Gaza slowest in nine months: UNRWA officialThe humanitarian aid supply in Gaza is likely at its lowest point since November, says UNRWA’s Director of Planning Sam Rose, estimating that some 100 trucks are getting into the enclave per day.“That compares to about 300 per day before the Rafah operation started in May, and way below the 500 trucks that we have insisted are the requirements to meet the minimum humanitarian needs of the population,” Rose told Al Jazeera.Click here to share on social media
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  • LISTEN: At Birzeit University, the fight for education under occupationPalestinian university students in the occupied West Bank live under the constant threat of arrest by the Israeli military, often without trial or charges.At Birzeit University, a centre of Palestinian intellectual life, a staff member who documents those arrests explains the challenges that the best and brightest Palestinian students often face and the obstacles they create for their futures.Listen to Al Jazeera’s The Take podcast below.https://omny.fm/shows/the-take/at-birzeit-university-the-fight-for-education-unde/embedClick here to share on social media
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  • Houthis allowing vessel assistance because successful strike set ‘an example’Hussain al-Bukhaiti, a Yemen-based analyst specialising in the Houthis, has told Al Jazeera that the group has allowed tug boats to assist an oil tanker struck by projectiles last week because the attack has already successfully communicated a message of the Houthi’s commitment to striking ships that it says are associated with Israel.“He [a spokesperson for the Houthis] said that after several international parties contacted us [the Houthis], especially the European Union, we allowed the ship to be towed. And he said that the burning of the ship was an example of the seriousness of Yemenis to target any ship that violated the ban against entering Israel,” he said.Click here to share on social media
  • 6h ago (22:30 GMT)WATCH: What we know about Israel’s latest captive ‘rescue’Play VideoVideo Duration 01 minutes 59 seconds01:59What we know about Israel’s latest captive ‘rescue’Click here to share on social media
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  • Freed Israeli captive calls on Israel gov’t to reach a dealQaid Farhan al-Kadi, an Israeli man who was abducted by Hamas on October 7 and held in Gaza until he was recovered earlier this week, has returned to his home and called on the Israeli government to reach a deal for the release of the remaining captives.“It does not matter if they are Arab or Jewish, all have a family waiting for them. They also want to feel the joy,” he told reporters in his home village of Khirbet Karkur. “I told Netanyahu yesterday, ‘work to have an end to this’.”The 52-year-old is one of Israel’s about 300,000 Arab Bedouins, a group that has long faced discrimination from the Israeli state.The Associated Press reported that Khirbet Karkur, an unincorporated Bedouin village, is currently under demolition orders by the government.Since November, 70 percent of residents have received notifications that their homes will be demolished on the grounds that they were constructed without permits, which Israeli authorities rarely grant to the group. About one-third of Bedouin Arabs live in communities and villages that the Israeli government considers illegal.Click here to share on social media
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  • The biggest Israeli military assault in occupied West BankReporting from occupied West BankIsraeli soldiers and bulldozers stormed the Jenin refugee camp accompanied by drones and fighter jets.It was described as the biggest military assault on the occupied West Bank in more than two decades. The raids also took place in Tulkarem and Tubas, with aerial strikes adding to the number of casualties.Medical teams were finding it difficult to tend to the wounded.Israel says its main target is Palestinian fighters in four refugee camps. The military says that the armed groups are planning attacks against Israeli targets and are getting better at making improvised explosive devices (IEDs).For Palestinians, these groups are part of resisting Israel’s decades-long occupation.Click here to share on social media
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  • Israeli captives’ families march for dealMany families of Israeli captives have set out on a march from Tel Aviv towards an area near the security fence with Gaza to demand a prisoner exchange deal.Shira Albag, the mother of one of the female soldiers held in the Strip, said history would care more about how the country manages the safe return of captives than whether Israel occupied the Philadelphi Corridor.Her comments come after another round of ceasefire talks in Cairo on Sunday failed to yield any results as Hamas rejected new conditions put forward by Israel.Key sticking points in the talks include an Israeli presence in the Philadelphi Corridor, a narrow 14.5km (9-mile) stretch of land along Gaza’s southern border with Egypt.In Cairo, the Hamas delegation demanded that Israel be bound by what was agreed upon on July 2, following a plan laid out by Biden and a UNSC resolution.Click here to share on social media
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  • Israeli military claims to demolish winding central Gaza tunnelEarlier on Wednesday, Israel’s military said it destroyed a 3km-long (1.9-mile-long) tunnel near the Netzarim Corridor, which it set up to split northern Gaza from the south.Members of the military’s Yahalom engineering unit worked with soldiers in the Jerusalem brigade to locate, probe and wreck the tunnel, the military said, sharing footage claiming to show its destruction.The tunnel is among hundreds of pieces of military infrastructure destroyed in recent weeks, the Israeli army claimed.Click here to share on social media
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  • WATCH: Israeli forces opened fire on ‘clearly marked’ humanitarian vehiclePlay VideoVideo Duration 03 minutes 06 seconds03:06Israeli forces opened fire on ‘clearly marked’ humanitarian vehicle: UNClick here to share on social media
  • 7h ago (21:00 GMT)Why has Israel launched an assault on occupied West Bank?Palestinian officials have warned of “dire and dangerous” consequences as hundreds of Israeli forces fan out across the occupied West Bank during a time of mounting tensions.What does the Israeli assault, the largest in nearly two decades, hope to accomplish?What can its timing tell us about other events in the region? And what do analysts expect to see next?You can read more about the Israeli raids here.Click here to share on social media
  • 8h ago (20:45 GMT)Journalist among 51 killed by Israeli attacks todayA journalist and his sister are among at least 51 people killed in Israeli air raids across Gaza since dawn on Wednesday.Journalist Mohammed Abd Rabbuh and his sister were killed when his sister’s home in Nuseirat refugee camp was targeted.Click here to share on social media
  • 8h ago (20:30 GMT)Houthis to allow tug boats to assist leaking oil tankerYemen’s Houthi group has said it will allow tug boats and rescue ships to assist the crude oil tanker Sounion in the Red Sea, after the vessel was damaged by projectiles fired from the coast of Yemen last week.“Several countries have reached out to ask Ansar Allah [Houthis], requesting a temporary truce for the entry of tugboats and rescue ships into the incident area,” Iran’s mission to the UN said.“In consideration of humanitarian and environmental concerns, Ansar Allah has consented to this request.”Click here to share on social media
  • 8h ago (20:15 GMT)Disabled Palestinian man killed by Israeli sniper in West Bank raidThe Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that an Israeli sniper has shot and killed a 62-year-old disabled Palestinian man named Ayed Abu al-Hayja during an Israeli raid on Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.Quoting local sources, Wafa reported that al-Hayja was killed in his home in the Nur Shams refugee camp during the Israeli incursion and was discovered by family members who went to check on him and found al-Hayja covered in blood.Ambulance crews have been unable to reach the home as Israeli forces impose closures on the camp as they carry out operations.Click here to share on social media
  • 8h ago (20:00 GMT)Photos: Aftermath of Israel’s raids in the occupied West BankIsraeli soldiers operate during a raid in the Nur Shams camp for Palestinian refugees near the city of Tulkarem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on August 28, 2024. - At least 10 Palestinians were killed in Israeli raids and strikes in several towns in the north of the occupied West Bank, a spokesman for the Red Crescent said on August 28. The operation comes two days after Israel said it carried out an air strike on the West Bank that the Palestinian Authority reported killed five people. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)Israeli soldiers operate during a raid in the Nur Shams camp near Tulkarem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on August 28 [Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP]Israeli soldiers walk down a street during a raid in the al-Faraa camp for Palestinian refugees near Tubas city in the occupied West Bank on August 28, 2024. - At least 10 Palestinians were killed in Israeli raids and strikes in several towns in the north of the occupied West Bank, a spokesman for the Red Crescent said on August 28. The operation comes two days after Israel said it carried out an air strike on the West Bank that the Palestinian Authority reported killed five people. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)Israeli soldiers walk down a street during a raid in Far’a camp near Tubas city in the occupied West Bank, on August 28 [Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP]An Israeli military bulldozer destroys a road during a raid in the Nur Shams camp for Palestinian refugees near the city of Tulkarem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on August 28, 2024. - At least 10 Palestinians were killed in Israeli raids and strikes in several towns in the north of the occupied West Bank, a spokesman for the Red Crescent said on August 28. The operation comes two days after Israel said it carried out an air strike on the West Bank that the Palestinian Authority reported killed five people. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)An Israeli military bulldozer destroys a road during a raid in the Nur Shams camp near Tulkarem, on August 28 [Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP]Israeli military armoured vehicles including a bulldozer block a road during a raid in the al-Faraa camp for Palestinian refugees near Tubas city in the occupied West Bank on August 28, 2024. - The Israeli army targeted four cities as it launched a major operation in the occupied West Bank on August 28, with the Palestinian Red Crescent reporting at least 10 dead. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)Israeli armoured vehicles block a road during a raid in Far’a camp near Tubas city, on August 28 [Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP] Click here to share on social media
  • 9h ago (19:45 GMT)WFP suspends Gaza movements after Israeli attack on aid convoyThe UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) says it is suspending humanitarian operations in Gaza after Israeli forces opened fire on a “clearly marked” UN aid convoy.The WFP said in a statement that the aid vehicles had received “multiple clearances by Israeli authorities to approach” a checkpoint before Israeli forces opened fire, striking a vehicle 10 times.Israel has opened fire on humanitarian workers throughout the course of its war in Gaza.Click here to share on social media
  • 9h ago (19:30 GMT)Al-Awda Hospital packed as it tries to serve patients displaced by evacuation ordersAfter Israeli forces issued evacuation orders affecting Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza, smaller health facilities, already strained, are being pushed far beyond their limits as they attempt to absorb displaced patients.“Judging from what we’re seeing, the hospital has been pushed to operate beyond its capacity,” said Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from al-Awda Hospital in Gaza.“We’re looking at 30 times more than its capacity,” he added, noting that a large number of people are waiting in line for assistance at the registration desk.Click here to share on social media
  • 9h ago (19:15 GMT)OpinionThe US is Israel’s accomplice, not a ceasefire mediatorWhile President Biden has repeatedly stressed the urgency of a ceasefire, it is a bit tricky to stop a war when you have just approved an additional $20bn in weapons transfers to the party that has officially killed nearly 17,000 Palestinian children since October.Indeed, current US qualifications to ostensibly mediate a ceasefire in Gaza are rather dubious given that the country could easily be taken for a de facto belligerent to the conflict.On Sunday, The New York Times reported that, like Israel, the US has “poured vast resources into trying to find” Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, and has not only “provided ground-penetrating radar” to Israel but also tasked US spy agencies “with intercepting Mr Sinwar’s communications”.Read our opinion piece here on the US is Israel’s accomplice, not a ceasefire mediator.Click here to share on social media
  • 9h ago (19:00 GMT)Israel says it recovers the body of a soldier from GazaKatz says Israeli forces have recovered the body of a soldier in Gaza.Click here to share on social media
  • 10h ago (18:45 GMT)AnalysisWATCH: Israeli military operation in West Bank ‘an act of war’Play VideoVideo Duration 04 minutes 27 seconds04:27Ongoing Israeli military operation in occupied West Bank is ‘an act of war’: Mustafa BarghoutiClick here to share on social media
  • 10h ago (18:30 GMT)Israel says it ‘failed’ to stop deadly settler attackThe Israeli military said that it “failed” to stop a large attack by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank that killed a Palestinian man earlier this month.Major General Avi Bluth said in a statement that Israeli forces did not respond adequately to a settler attack targeting the Palestinian town of Jit, where residents said a group of about 100 settlers descended on the town armed with knives and firearms, setting fire to cars and homes in the village.Palestinians have long maintained that violent settler attacks, which have surged in the occupied West Bank since October 7 and often occur as Israeli soldiers stand idly by or participate themselves, are not cases of rogue violence but consistent with a larger state-backed effort to push Palestinians off of their land.“Several members of the rapid response team from a nearby [settlement] community, who were not in active reserve duty, arrived at the scene without authorisation, dressed in uniform, and acted contrary to the authority defined for the members of the rapid response team,” the statement added.Click here to share on social media
  • 10h ago (18:15 GMT)Israeli forces opened fire on ‘clearly marked’ humanitarian vehicle: UNThe UN has said that Israeli forces in Gaza attacked a marked UN aid vehicle on Tuesday evening during a humanitarian operation that had been coordinated with the Israeli military beforehand.“A clearly marked UN humanitarian vehicle, part of a convoy that had been fully coordinated with the [Israeli military], was struck 10 times by [Israeli military] gunfire, including with bullets targeting front windows,” UN secretary-general spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said.Al Jazeera correspondent Gabriel Elizondo reported that the attack took place near Wadi Gaza, and that two UN workers inside the vehicle were unharmed.Click here to share on social media
  • 10h ago (18:00 GMT)Netanyahu says he views new US sanctions on settlers with ‘utmost severity’Israel’s prime minister has reacted to new US sanctions targeting Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank over violent attacks against Palestinians, pushing back against them and promising a “pointed discussion” with US officials over the decision.“Israel views with utmost severity the imposition of sanctions on citizens of Israel,” Netanyahu said.Click here to share on social media
  • 11h ago (17:45 GMT)EU foreign policy chief slams Israeli foreign minister’s comments on West Bank operationsEU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has expressed alarm over comments from Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz about Israeli operations in the occupied West Bank.Katz likened the Israeli raids to the war in Gaza and said the “temporary evacuation” of Palestinians –  a term with unsettling connotations in the West Bank, where Israel has been forcing Palestinians from their lands for decades – was on the table.“The Israeli major military operation in the occupied West Bank must not constitute the premises of a war extension from Gaza, including full-scale destruction,” Borrell said in a social media post.The parallel drawn by Katz, “especially on evacuating Palestinian residents, threatens to fuel further instability”, Borrell wrote.Click here to share on social media
  • 11h ago (17:30 GMT)If you’re just joining usHere are some of the latest developments:
    • Israel’s military continues raids across the occupied West Bank. In its largest assault in nearly two decades, it has killed 10 Palestinians and wounded 22.
    • Medical workers in the Far’a refugee camp say they have been detained and assaulted by Israeli forces, which also placed Jenin Governmental Hospital under severe restrictions.
    • The US has announced new sanctions targeting Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
    • Doctors Without Borders says it has set up a field hospital in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah after Israel issued evacuation orders that forced about 650 patients out of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
    • The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has released a statement warning that Israel’s operations in the West Bank risk deepening an “already catastrophic situation”, noting that Palestinians in the territory have faced an increase in abuses such as torture, arbitrary detention and displacement since October 7.
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  • 11h ago (17:20 GMT)Jordan calls for ‘more effective American position’ to stop catastrophe: ReportJordan’s King Abdullah II has “warned of the seriousness of developments in the West Bank” and called for a “more effective American position to stop the humanitarian catastrophe” in the Gaza Strip, the Wafa news agency has reported.He made the comments during a meeting with a delegation of the US Congress at Al-Husseiniya Palace in Amman, according to a statement by the Jordanian Royal Court.He noted “the attacks by colonists and extremists against the Palestinians, and to the violations against Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem that will lead to the escalation of violence”, Wafa reported.The king called for “the United States to play a more effective role in pushing to stop the humanitarian catastrophe in the Strip, and to find a political horizon to achieve a just and comprehensive peace based on the two-state solution”.Click here to share on social media
  • 11h ago (17:10 GMT)‘We need source control,’ physician says after working in GazaDr Tammy Abughnaim, an emergency physician, says that since her first visit to Gaza in March, Israeli forces have made conditions in the enclave “orders of magnitude worse”.The doctor, who recently returned to Chicago after three weeks at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, told Al Jazeera that the hospital’s emergency department also handles the vast majority of non-trauma related issues revolved around displacement — heat exhaustion, dehydration, skin lesions and infections, poor wound healing, and malnutrition, she said.“Israel has made it impossible for doctors to offer solutions to any of these problems by actively preventing any substantial aid from entering Gaza,” she said. “Our WHO [World Health Organization] delegation was told by Israeli authorities that we could not bring medical supplies with us, just one bag of our personal belongings, and that violation of this absurd new rule would result in the rejection of the entire emergency medical team.”Abughnaim, who was part of an emergency medical team organised by Medical Aid for Palestinians and the International Red Cross, called for an immediate ceasefire and arms embargo on Israel, saying it is “the only safeguard for civilian life in Gaza”.Click here to share on social media
  • 11h ago (17:00 GMT)Rising prices hammer Palestinians in Gaza: ReportAmid Israeli restrictions on the entry of humanitarian assistance into Gaza, sky-high prices are another factor contributing to the extreme deprivation faced by Palestinians.The news outlet Reuters reported that goods such as food and basic commodities are out of reach for many people in the Strip. Three potatoes, the report states, currently sell for about $41. Before the war, two pounds of potatoes cost about 55 cents.“We are unable to live, we are unable to buy anything. There’s nothing, we are not working,” Palestinian labourer Mohammed al-Katnany is quoted as saying.Click here to share on social media
  • 12h ago (16:50 GMT)Nearly 650 patients forced from Al-Aqsa Hospital: MSFDoctors Without Borders, also known by its French acronym MSF, says it has set up a field hospital in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah after Israeli evacuation orders forced nearly 650 patients from Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.Before the evacuation order, an MSF doctor said the hospital, now nearly empty, was so full that some patients had to receive treatment on the floor.“MSF’s field hospital, which wasn’t scheduled to open until September, started receiving its first patients amid a severe lack of supplies and resources and is facing huge pressure as the other remaining hospitals in the area are under threat,” MSF said in a news release.“It was designed to be complementary and to provide support for other larger hospitals like Al-Aqsa. Field hospitals are not a solution, but a last resort in response to Israel’s dismantling of the health care system.”Click here to share on social media
  • 12h ago (16:40 GMT)WATCH: What we know about the Israeli raid in occupied West BankPlay VideoVideo Duration 02 minutes 08 seconds02:08What we know about major Israeli raid on occupied West BankClick here to share on social media
  • 12h ago (16:30 GMT)Israeli military enforces ‘severe restrictions’ at Jenin hospitalA doctor at Jenin Governmental Hospital has shared what he witnessed today with the British charity Medical Aid for Palestinians:
    • From the early hours of the incursion, there were severe restrictions on the movement of the hospital medical staff and patients.
    • One doctor took nearly half an hour just to be allowed into the hospital after being searched.
    • An ambulance that was transferring a sick child to a hospital in Nablus was prevented by Israeli forces from re-entering the hospital upon its return, remaining outside for several hours before being allowed in.
    • There was also scrutiny of the identities of patients and medical staff who wanted to enter or leave the hospital.
    • Currently, the army is present in the area but is not surrounding the hospital, and staff and patient movements are back to normal.
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  • 12h ago (16:20 GMT)UN human rights office says Israeli assaults risk ‘seriously deepening’ conflictThe UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) says Israel’s assaults on the occupied West Bank risk “seriously deepening” an already “catastrophic situation” there.OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said in a statement that the 637 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the West Bank since October 7 represents the highest death toll over a comparable period in two decades and Israeli forces have ramped up abuses already endemic to the occupation.“Thousands of Palestinians have been arbitrarily arrested and tortured, subjected to unrelenting settler violence, severe restrictions on movement and expression, their homes and property destroyed or seized, and forcibly displaced,” the statement reads. “Israel, as the occupying power, must abide by its obligations under international law.”Click here to share on social media
  • 12h ago (16:10 GMT)EU mission in Red Sea says no oil spill in area of Sounion tankerThe European Union’s mission in the Red Sea, known as Aspides, says there is no oil spill in the area of the MV SOUNION tanker that was targeted recently off Yemen’s coast.Aspides added that the Greek-flagged oil tanker was still anchored and not drifting.The Pentagon said on Tuesday the tanker was still on fire in the Red Sea and appeared to be leaking oil.Reuters couldn’t immediately confirm that a spill or a leak had occurred.The MV SOUNION was targeted last week by multiple projectiles off Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah.Houthi fighters, who control Yemen’s most populous regions, said they attacked it. The Iran-aligned group has been attacking ships in solidarity with Palestinians in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.Click here to share on social media
  • 12h ago (16:00 GMT)What to know as Israel launches largest assault in years on the occupied West BankAt least 10 Palestinians have been reported killed as Israel launches its largest assault on the occupied West Bank in years, with Israeli forces raiding locations across the northern sections of the territory.What is Israel hoping to accomplish with the assault, how does it differ from routine Israeli raids in the occupied territory, and how is the attack connected to what is happening in Gaza?You can read our explainer on the raids here.Israeli military armoured vehicles including a bulldozer block a road during a raid in the al-Faraa camp for Palestinian refugeesIsraeli military armoured vehicles including a bulldozer block a road during a raid in the Far’a camp for Palestinian refugees near Tubas city in the occupied West Bank on August 28, 2024 [Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP]Click here to share on social media
  • 13h ago (15:50 GMT)Through sanctions, US sending message it will not tolerate violence from Israeli settlersReporting from Washington DCThe State Department is alarmed by the uptick in violence, particularly against Palestinians living in the West Bank.They’ve taken action against the group deemed responsible for this extremist settler violence that they say is causing intense human suffering, harming Israel’s security and undermining prospects of peace and security in the region.It is an NGO by the name of Hashomer Yosh that the US says is getting funding from the Israeli government. According to the statement by the US, it is also fundraising through donations in the US.The State Department feels it is critical to hold those responsible accountable. As a result, not only is this group being sanctioned, but also three individuals with ties to this group, as well as a senior civilian law enforcement officer, who has, in the eyes of the US, exceeded the scope of his authority.The US is also sending a strong message through these sanctions that the US is not going to tolerate this kind of violence and taking action through whatever means it can to send a message to the Israeli government that it, too, should hold individuals accountable.Click here to share on social media
  • 13h ago (15:40 GMT)AnalysisIsraeli forces raid medical facilities across occupied West BankReporting from Nablus in the occupied West Bank and Nida IbrahimAfter more than 17 hours, Israeli forces are still in the three areas where they started their raids – we’re talking about Tulkarem, with both its refugee camps, Nur Shams and Tulkarem refugee camps. We’re also talking about Jenin refugee camps and Far’a.We’ve seen videos from inside [refugee camps] showing how the medical teams are having problems carrying the wounded and taking them to medical centres.A raid took place that included the storming of a medical centre inside Far’a [refugee camp] where the head of the Red Crescent medical centre tells us that he’s been assaulted by Israeli forces, who also detained medical teams there.We’ve heard in a warning from the Jenin governor that Israeli forces intend to raid the Jenin hospital, one of the main hospitals there, creating a lot of panic and chaos among Palestinians, especially those who are sick and receiving treatment.We’ve also been receiving news from inside the Nur Shams refugee camp that residents there are scared. They don’t know what to expect, and that’s why some of them have evacuated, fearing the worst.Click here to share on social media
  • 13h ago (15:30 GMT)10 bodies, 22 injured patients transported, PRCS saysThe Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says its medical workers have transported 10 bodies and 22 injured people today due to Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank.Click here to share on social media
  • 13h ago (15:20 GMT)Fate of ceasefire deal in Hamas leader’s hands, US intel official saysThe fate of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is “largely a question that is going to be answered” by the leader of Hamas, Deputy CIA Director David Cohen says.Cohen did not refer to Hamas’s leader, Yahya Sinwar, by name. The Israelis were showing seriousness in the negotiations, Cohen told an intelligence and national security summit in Washington, DC.Mediators from the US, Egypt and Qatar have been working to strike a deal between the two sides and prevent a broader regional war.On those efforts, Cohen said: “There may be episodes where people would step back from the brink, but I don’t think anybody can be confident that that effort to control escalation is something that … any party in that region” can control.In the latest talks in Cairo, Hamas’s delegation rejected new conditions the Israelis put forward and demanded Israel be bound by what was agreed upon on July 2, in accordance with a plan laid out by US President Joe Biden and a UN Security Council resolution.Click here to share on social media
  • 13h ago (15:10 GMT)US announces new sanctions on Israeli settlers over violenceThe US has announced new sanctions on Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank over violence against Palestinians, urging its ally Israel to bring greater accountability.“Extremist settler violence in the West Bank causes intense human suffering, harms Israel’s security, and undermines the prospect for peace and stability in the region,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement, adding that it was “critical” for Israel to hold them accountable.Play VideoVideo Duration 11 minutes 45 seconds11:45What’s happening in the West Bank? | Start HereClick here to share on social media
  • 13h ago (15:00 GMT)If you’re just joining usHere are the latest developments:
    • Israeli forces have killed at least 10 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank as the Israeli military continues its biggest raid in close to 20 years.
    • Israeli forces say they have killed another Hezbollah member, this time in an attack on the Syria-Lebanon border.
    • The EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell Fontelles warns that “regional stability is at stake” amid repeated violations at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem by Israelis, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
    • Many families of Israeli captives have set out on a march from Tel Aviv towards an area near the security fence with Gaza to demand a prisoner exchange deal.
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  • 14h ago (14:45 GMT)Power outage and confrontations ongoing in Jenin refugee campAn Al Jazeera correspondent has confirmed that the power has been cut off in a number of neighbourhoods in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank during the Israeli military operation.He added that confrontations are ongoing between Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters inside the camp.Local Palestinian channels on Telegram have shared videos of a large number of Israeli soldiers patrolling the streets. The videos have been verified by Sanad, Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency.Click here to share on social media
  • 14h ago (14:30 GMT)Israeli forces kill Palestinian in Jenin villageIsraeli forces have killed another Palestinian with live fire, this time in the village of Kafr Dan west of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reports.Resident Mohammed Ibrahim ‘Abed, who was released in 2022 from Israeli prison, was killed after being shot directly, Wafa said.At least 10 Palestinians have been reported killed in the occupied West Bank as the Israeli military continues its biggest raid in close to 20 years.Click here to share on social media
  • 14h ago (14:15 GMT)Medical teams face obstruction by Israeli forces in occupied West BankBritish charity Medical Aid for Palestinians has provided the following update summary from Nebal Farsakh, a spokesperson for the Palestine Red Crescent Society:
    • Our medical teams in Tubas, Tulkarem, and Jenin are facing obstruction by Israeli forces while trying to perform their humanitarian duties in reaching the injured Palestinians.
    • In Far’a refugee camp [near Tubas], our teams were prohibited from operating, so volunteers within the camp’s medical point had to handle cases and provide first aid until ambulances could arrive, where they dealt with four people killed and eight injured Palestinians.
    • Israeli forces stormed the medical point in Far’a camp, detained the medical teams and prevented them from any communication tools.
    • They continued firing shots inside the medical point and assaulted the director of the Tubas Emergency Centre before leaving.
    • In Jenin, the situation is equally bad. Jenin Governmental Hospital is being blocked, where medical teams and ambulances are prevented from entering and/or leaving the hospital making it hard to deliver healthcare services to the injured.
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  • 14h ago (14:00 GMT)‘Anxiety and fear’ for residents of West BankReporting from Tubas, occupied West BankIsraeli rhetoric about this (West Bank) operation is that it might last for days. There is a lot of anxiety and fear here where the Israeli forces say they are working to crack down on Palestinian fighting groups.The feeling here is that there has been a lot of incitement and at the core of it is Israeli media telling the Israeli security establishment that it has failed to thwart certain Palestinian attacks that targeted Israeli settlers.What Palestinians want the world to know is that there is a lot of collective punishment, collective pain inflicted on around 80,000 people here in these three locations in the occupied West Bank.These places have already been subjected to lots of raids and they tell you that the main goal is to push them out of their land and remind them who has the ultimate power and control, who can make their lives more and more difficult if they even think about resisting Israel’s occupation.Click here to share on social media
  • 15h ago (13:45 GMT)Israeli soldier’s remains returned from Gaza: MunicipalityThe remains of an Israeli soldier killed in Hamas’s October 7 attack that triggered the war in Gaza have been recovered and returned to his family, authorities in his home city say.“The mayor and residents of Migdal Haemek share in the heavy grief of the Dahan family, who have recovered the body of their son Shaked, murdered on October 7 while defending the people,” the municipality said on its Instagram account.“His body was recovered in Gaza and returned to his family last night,” it said.The Israeli army said it could not confirm the report.Click here to share on social media
  • 15h ago (13:30 GMT)Creating hope for Gaza’s student doctors amid Israeli bombardmentGaza City – Amid the loss and destruction, Ezz ad-Din Lulu felt driven to volunteer at al-Shifa Hospital, despite knowing that meant he may be “surrounded or targeted at any moment, especially since [Israel] … said al-Shifa was a target”. His family was supportive despite their own fears.On October 10, Ezz was listed on the emergency roster as a doctor, a challenging overnight transition.“This was when people needed me the most, but I didn’t realise how hard it would be,” Ezz said. “But pride overwhelmed me, knowing I was able to help.“We either didn’t have supplies or we didn’t have enough. In some cases … even if we had the capabilities, there was no treatment for [someone] due to the hopelessness of their cases,” he said.Read our feature story here.Ezz LuluMedical student Ezz lost his home, his family and his chance to graduate next year, so he threw himself in to helping others [Courtesy of Ezz Lulu]Click here to share on social media
  • 15h ago (13:15 GMT)Freed Israeli captive returns home: ReportsThe Israeli captive rescued yesterday from Gaza has been released from the hospital and returned home, according to Israeli media reports.Fifty-two-year-old Kaid Farhan al-Qadi, who Israel’s military says troops recovered yesterday in a tunnel in southern Gaza, was greeted by cheering family and friends as he arrived by motorcade to his village near the southern Bedouin town of Rahat, said The Times of Israel.Upon his arrival, al-Qadi said he feels “100 percent” and urged for the release of the rest of the Israeli captives, according to The Times of Israel.Relatives and friends of freed Israeli hostage Kaid Alkadi welcome him as he returns to his village of Kherbet Karkour, unrecognised by Israeli authorities, near the southern bedouin city of Rahat on August 28, 2024. - The Israeli military said its forces rescued an Israeli hostage in southern Gaza on August 27 after a "complex operation" as the war between Israel and Hamas, now in its 11th month, showed no signs of abating. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP)Relatives and friends of freed Israeli captive Kaid Farhan al-Qadi welcome him as he returns to his village near the southern Bedouin city of Rahat, August 28 [Menahem Kahana/AFP]Click here to share on social media
  • 15h ago (13:05 GMT)Israeli army says it killed Hezbollah member on Syria-Lebanon borderThe Israeli forces have said on X that they have killed Hezbollah member Faras Qassem in an attack on the Syria-Lebanon border.Earlier, Hezbollah said in a statement it was mourning a fighter killed in Israeli bombing in the Damascus countryside in the Zabadani area.Click here to share on social media
  • 15h ago (12:55 GMT)Borrell issues warning over Israeli violations of holy sites status quoThe EU’s top diplomat has warned that “regional stability is at stake” amid repeated violations of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem by Israelis, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.Borrell reiterated Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi’s call to the international community “to take effective action to stop the illegal Israeli measures that violate the historical & legal status quo at occupied Jerusalem’s Holy Sites”.Click here to share on social media
  • 16h ago (12:45 GMT)Israeli military claims to demolish winding central Gaza tunnelIsrael’s military says it has destroyed a 3km-long (1.9 mile) tunnel near the Netzarim Corridor, which the Israeli military set up to split northern Gaza from the south.Members of the military’s Yahalom engineering unit worked with troops in the Jerusalem brigade to locate, probe and wreck the tunnel, the military said, sharing footage claiming to show its destruction.The tunnel is among hundreds of pieces of military infrastructure destroyed in recent weeks, the Israeli army claimed.Click here to share on social media
  • 16h ago (12:35 GMT)OpinionUS is Israel’s accomplice, not a ceasefire mediatorOn July 21, 2006, nine days into the 34-day Israeli war on Lebanon that killed 1,200 people, United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice opined that “an immediate ceasefire without political conditions does not make sense”.In response to a journalist’s question at a press briefing, she declared that she had “no interest in diplomacy for the sake of returning Lebanon and Israel to the status quo ante”.In addition to manoeuvring to delay a ceasefire, the US also expedited shipments of precision-guided bombs to Israel to assist in the mass slaughter.Just two and a half years later, Rice was back agitating against a too-quick ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, where over the course of 22 days in December 2008 and January 2009 Israel massacred some 1,400 Palestinians.Fast forward 15 years, how is Washington positioning itself when it comes to ceasefire talks? Is it purposefully dragging out negotiations?Read the full opinion piece here.Click here to share on social media
  • 16h ago (12:20 GMT)Why is Israel targeting Jenin?The Palestinian city of Jenin is one of the areas Israel has zeroed in on, in its continuing raids throughout the occupied West Bank.But what is special about Jenin and why has Israel targeted the city?
    • Located in the far north of the West Bank, Jenin is home to a bustling refugee camp with 14,000 people. The camp’s residents, suffering from high unemployment and poverty, are descendants of Palestinians displaced during Israel’s creation in 1948.
    • Jenin is known as a centre of Palestinian resistance in the West Bank, with numerous armed groups, including the Jenin Brigades, operating in the camp.
    • Israel claims the camp also serves as a haven for fighters supported by Hamas or Islamic Jihad. Israel has increased operations against armed fighters in the camp since 2022, and gone after them with even greater intensity during the Gaza war.
    Smoke rises from a street, as vehicles are driven, in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, May 22, 2024. REUTERS/Raneen SawaftaSmoke rises from a street as Israeli vehicles move through Jenin on May 22 [Raneen Sawafta/Reuters]Click here to share on social media
  • 16h ago (12:10 GMT)Israeli forces impose curfew in Jenin neighbourhoodIsraeli forces have imposed a curfew on the eastern neighbourhood of Jenin and have prevented Palestinians from leaving their homes, an Al Jazeera correspondent has reported from the occupied West Bank.The correspondent said the army has continued with raids and storming homes in the neighbourhood.Separately, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that a Palestinian was injured by Israeli forces’ bullets in al-Yamoun, Jenin governorate, in the northern West Bank.Click here to share on social media
  • 16h ago (12:00 GMT)Impossible to vaccinate children ‘under a sky full of bombs’: UNRWAThe UN agency for Palestinian refugees has again pleaded for a humanitarian pause in Gaza to carry out a mass vaccination campaign against polio, saying it cannot do its job “under a sky full of bombs and strikes”.As we reported earlier, some 1.2 million vaccines have arrived in Gaza, where one infant has contracted the disease. The UN has said it needs a weeklong pause to vaccinate all children.Click here to share on social media
  • 17h ago (11:50 GMT)Israeli captives’ families march for dealMany families of Israeli captives have set out on a march from Tel Aviv towards an area near the security fence with Gaza to demand a prisoner exchange deal.Shira Albag, the mother of one of the female soldiers held in the Strip, said history would care more about how the country manages the safe return of captives than whether Israel occupied the Philadelphi Corridor.Her comments come after another round of ceasefire talks in Cairo on Sunday failed to yield any results as Hamas rejected new conditions put forward by Israel.Key sticking points in the talks include an Israeli presence in the Philadelphi Corridor, a narrow 14.5km (9-mile) stretch of land along Gaza’s southern border with Egypt.In Cairo, the Hamas delegation demanded that Israel be bound by what was agreed upon on July 2, following a plan laid out by Biden and a UNSC resolution.Click here to share on social media
  • 17h ago (11:40 GMT)WATCH: Several killed in major Israeli assault on occupied West BankSeveral Palestinians have been killed in what’s reported to be Israel’s biggest military assault in the occupied West Bank in decades, involving ground troops and air strikes.Play VideoVideo Duration 00 minutes 47 seconds00:47Several killed in major Israeli assault on occupied West BankClick here to share on social media
  • 17h ago (11:30 GMT)If you’re just joining usHere’s a recap of the latest developments:
    • Israel’s military has waged a series of deadly attacks in central and southern Gaza, killing and wounding dozens.
    • Hundreds of Israeli troops are continuing a major raid in the occupied West Bank, with operations in Jenin, Tulkarem and the Far’a camp.
    • They have also set up a checkpoint in Tulkarem’s Nur Shams camp, where Palestinians wishing to leave have been given several hours to do so, reports Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim.
    • Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is cutting short a trip to Saudi Arabia to return to the West Bank due to the raids, reports Wafa.
    • An Israeli strike has hit a car passing through a Syrian checkpoint near the Lebanese border, killing four people, including Palestinian fighters and a Hezbollah member, according to security sources quoted by Reuters.
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  • 17h ago (11:20 GMT)DevelopingIsraeli forces storm Shu’fat camp in JerusalemAn Al Jazeera correspondent reports that Israeli forces have stormed Shu’fat camp north of Jerusalem from several points with more than 150 soldiers and closed its entrances.Earlier today Israeli forces conducted raids in refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas, killing at least nine Palestinians.We will continue to update you on Israel’s ongoing raids on Palestinian cities and towns as we get more information.Click here to share on social media
  • 17h ago (11:10 GMT)Death toll in Deir el-Balah school strike rises to eightReporting from Nuseirat, central GazaThe school attacked in Deir el-Balah served as an evacuation centre in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Hospital, just 300 metres away.The school was targeted by heavy artillery. So far, we have confirmed reports of eight people killed.One more person is in very critical condition, at risk of losing his life. The hospital, in its current state, does not have the capacity or supplies to save his life. So people are basically counting the minutes he has left.Other people injured are lying on the floor of the emergency department, waiting for medical staff to provide care.The attack has further traumatised the group of displaced who were staying at the school, using it as a shelter.They say the reason they did not evacuate from the school despite an order is there is no safe place for them to go.Click here to share on social media
  • 17h ago (11:00 GMT)‘It is an act of war’Mustafa Barghouti, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, says the ongoing Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank is “not just raids … it’s an act of war”.“What Israel is doing is conducting a war on occupied people which is a total violation of international law on how an occupying power should behave,” Barghouti told Al Jazeera, stressing that the West Bank has been under Israeli occupation since 1967.“They are using air strikes, air force, tanks, bulldozers, and what they are trying to do is to transfer the actual genocide and ethnic cleansing ongoing in Gaza into the West Bank,” Barghouti said.The amount of damage Israeli forces inflicted on the Palestinian territory’s infrastructure also indicates their goal to make it uninhabitable for its citizens, Barghouti added.“They destroyed water pipelines, electricity lines, houses, schools – what do they want? They want to create a situation where we cannot live in our country and that is exactly what the settlers’ plans are about.“It’s about Judaization of the West Bank, about annexing the West Bank and killing any opportunity for the Palestinians to be free and to have a state of their own,” he said.Click here to share on social media
  • 18h ago (10:50 GMT)Palestinian president cuts short Saudi trip over West Bank violence: ReportPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has interrupted his visit to Saudi Arabia to return to the occupied West Bank after Israel launched military operations there, Palestinian news agency Wafa has reported.“Abbas cut short his visit to Saudi Arabia and returned to his homeland on Wednesday to follow up on the latest developments in light of the Israeli aggression on the northern West Bank,” Wafa said.Click here to share on social media
  • 18h ago (10:40 GMT)Palestinians in Nur Shams given three hours to leaveReporting from Nablus in the occupied West BankIsraeli forces have been closing down roads leading to Jenin, Tulkarem and Far’a camp.There are roughly 80,000 Palestinians in these areas where military operations are continuing.In Nur Shams camp [in Tulkarem], a checkpoint is allowing people to leave if they want to. Palestinians in the camp have been told they have three hours left if they want to leave. There’s no direct evacuation order, but this suggests a potential escalation.In Far’a, we’ve been speaking to medical sources who say Israeli forces have assaulted the head of the Palestine Red Crescent Society’s (PRCS’s) medical centre, before detaining medical teams for a while and then allowing them to go.According to local medical teams, only people who have coordinated with ambulances have been able to get to the hospital.Click here to share on social media
  • 18h ago (10:30 GMT)All humanitarian aid to Gaza must stop: LiebermanMember of the Israeli Knesset Avigdor Lieberman has called for all humanitarian aid to Gaza to stop.“It is not our job to take care of the civilian humanitarian effort in Gaza, against those who brutally murdered and kidnapped our sons and daughters,” he wrote on X.“The only arrangement that should be in place with Gaza is to stop all transfers of humanitarian aid, equipment, fuel, electricity and water and leave operational freedom of action to the [Israeli forces] in order to prevent renewed military intensification.”Click here to share on social media
  • 18h ago (10:20 GMT)Photos: Aftermath of Israel’s raids in the occupied West BankIsraeli soldiers operate during a raid in the Nur Shams camp for Palestinian refugees near the city of Tulkarem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on August 28, 2024. - At least 10 Palestinians were killed in Israeli raids and strikes in several towns in the north of the occupied West Bank, a spokesman for the Red Crescent said on August 28. The operation comes two days after Israel said it carried out an air strike on the West Bank that the Palestinian Authority reported killed five people. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)Israeli soldiers operate during a raid in the Nur Shams camp near Tulkarem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on August 28 [Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP]Israeli soldiers walk down a street during a raid in the al-Faraa camp for Palestinian refugees near Tubas city in the occupied West Bank on August 28, 2024. - At least 10 Palestinians were killed in Israeli raids and strikes in several towns in the north of the occupied West Bank, a spokesman for the Red Crescent said on August 28. The operation comes two days after Israel said it carried out an air strike on the West Bank that the Palestinian Authority reported killed five people. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)Israeli soldiers walk down a street during a raid in Far’a camp near Tubas city in the occupied West Bank, on August 28 [Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP]An Israeli military bulldozer destroys a road during a raid in the Nur Shams camp for Palestinian refugees near the city of Tulkarem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on August 28, 2024. - At least 10 Palestinians were killed in Israeli raids and strikes in several towns in the north of the occupied West Bank, a spokesman for the Red Crescent said on August 28. The operation comes two days after Israel said it carried out an air strike on the West Bank that the Palestinian Authority reported killed five people. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)An Israeli military bulldozer destroys a road during a raid in the Nur Shams camp near Tulkarem, on August 28 [Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP]Israeli military armoured vehicles including a bulldozer block a road during a raid in the al-Faraa camp for Palestinian refugees near Tubas city in the occupied West Bank on August 28, 2024. - The Israeli army targeted four cities as it launched a major operation in the occupied West Bank on August 28, with the Palestinian Red Crescent reporting at least 10 dead. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)Israeli armoured vehicles block a road during a raid in Far’a camp near Tubas city, on August 28 [Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP]Click here to share on social media
  • 18h ago (10:10 GMT)AnalysisWest Bank ‘a golden opportunity’ for Israelis to try tactics used in GazaRegarding the deadly Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank, Hassan Barari, a professor of international affairs at Qatar University, has told Al Jazeera that “the Israelis think this is a golden opportunity for them to use some tactics used in Gaza unchecked”.The right-wing government believes Palestinians should leave, and the way to accomplish this is by targeting them and expanding settlements; this has been an objective well before October 7, he said.“They’ve been doing this for a long time. Netanyahu made it perfectly clear, Smotrich, Ben-Gvir, Katz – even the minister of foreign affairs who is supposed to be even more diplomatic. He’s talking about evacuation and he uses this line that Iran’s infrastructure is in the West Bank, which is a joke.”Click here to share on social media
  • 18h ago (10:00 GMT)DevelopingHezbollah member, Palestinian fighters killed in Syria border strike: ReportThe victims of an Israeli strike on a car near the Syria-Lebanon border include three Palestinian fighters and one Hezbollah member, according to security officials cited by the Reuters news agency.The vehicle, hit while going through a checkpoint to cross into Lebanon, was not carrying weapons, said the two security sources.Israel, which regularly targets weapons shipments and other military infrastructure in Syria, has not commented on the attack.While Israel often announces strikes it carries out in Lebanon, it rarely does so for attacks it is accused of in Syria.Click here to share on social media
  • 19h ago (09:50 GMT)HouthiIsraeli attack targets Deir el-Balah school, killing 3Israel’s military has waged an attack on a school where displaced people are sheltering in eastern Deir el-Balah, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.The attack has killed at least three people and wounded others, they say.During the war, Israel’s military has repeatedly targeted schools, often accusing Hamas fighters of hiding out in them.An Israeli attack on Gaza City’s al-Tabin School earlier this month killed more than 100 people, including women, children and the elderly, according to local officials.Click here to share on social media
  • 19h ago (09:40 GMT)Four killed in Syria border strike: ReportA presumed Israeli strike has hit a car near the Syria-Lebanon border, killing at least four people, reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.The strike targeted the Lebanon-bound vehicle on Syria’s Zabadani bridge on the road connecting Damascus to Beirut, the observatory said, without providing information on the victims.Lebanon’s An-Nahar news site shared photos and footage of the attack’s aftermath, with thick black smoke rising over a pile of wreckage on the road.The attack would mark the 60th time Israel has hit Syrian territory this year, according to the observatory.Click here to share on social media
  • 19h ago (09:30 GMT)Israeli forces set up checkpoint in Nur Shams refugee campMeanwhile, the Israeli army is allowing civilians who want to leave to do so, residents told Al Jazeera.No evacuation order has been announced, they said.This comes after Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz called for the evacuation of Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory as a strategy to deal with armed groups there.“We must deal with the threat in the West Bank as we are doing in Gaza, including the temporary evacuation of Palestinian residents and whatever other steps are required,” the minister said on X.Click here to share on social media
  • 19h ago (09:20 GMT)Israel’s military claims nine killed in West Bank were ‘armed terrorists’Israel’s military has claimed to kill nine fighters in its latest raids throughout the occupied West Bank.In a post on Telegram, the military described the nine people killed as “armed terrorists who posed a threat to security forces”.It also claimed to arrest more “wanted suspects” in Jenin and Tulkarem, while confiscating explosives “planted under roads” in Far’a camp.As we’ve been reporting, Israel’s continuing military raid has mobilised hundreds of troops in the West Bank, making it the largest operation there in decades. In Jenin, Israeli forces have cut off access to several hospitals, one of which is at risk of being stormed, according to the local governor.Click here to share on social media
  • 19h ago (09:10 GMT)Israel sending military, Mossad, Shin Bet officials to Qatar: ReportAn Israeli delegation attending ceasefire talks in Qatar today will include officials from the military, Mossad intelligence agency and Shin Bet security service, reports Israel’s Haaretz newspaper.The Israeli team is expected to work with mediators to “narrow the gaps” that are blocking a potential deal, according to Haaretz. However, there has not yet been a breakthrough on the status of Gaza’s Philadelphi or Netzarim corridors, which Netanyahu insists on security control of, it reported, citing Israeli sources.Click here to share on social media
  • 19h ago (09:00 GMT)Israel strike hits Hezbollah missile truck: ReportA Lebanese security source told the AFP that an Israeli air strike hit a truck loaded with Hezbollah missiles overnight.“The Israeli Air Force targeted two Hezbollah lorries” some 10km (6 miles) from Baalbek, a stronghold of the Iran-aligned group in eastern Lebanon, the source said on condition of anonymity.“One of the vehicles was hit and a series of explosions were heard in the area.”One person was wounded in the strike, the Health Ministry said.A source close to Hezbollah confirmed the hit and said, “the munitions which were inside the lorry caught fire”.Click here to share on social media
  • 20h ago (08:45 GMT)WATCH: Journalist and his sister among latest victims of Israel’s war on GazaA journalist and his sister are among the latest victims of Israeli air strikes in the central Gaza Strip. They were killed in their family home in the Nuseirat refugee camp.Seventeen people have been killed since the early hours of Wednesday.Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud has the latest from Nuseirat in central Gaza:Play VideoVideo Duration 03 minutes 48 seconds03:48Air strike on Nuseirat refugee camp: Journalist and his sister among latest victimsClick here to share on social media
  • 20h ago (08:35 GMT)DevelopingGaza ceasefire talks resuming today in Doha: ReportReuters reports that Israeli, US, Egyptian and Qatari officials are meeting in Doha today for more Gaza ceasefire talks.Citing a source informed on the talks, Reuters described the meeting as “technical”, “working-level” ceasefire talks.They come after mediators held a round of ceasefire negotiations in Cairo last week that failed to produce a deal. Israel’s team has demanded continued security control of several corridors in Gaza, while Hamas insists on Israel’s full withdrawal from the enclave.We’ll bring you more information on today’s talks as we have it.Click here to share on social media
  • 20h ago (08:25 GMT)PA presidency condemns Israel’s ‘dire and dangerous’ West Bank raidThe spokesman for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said that Israel’s escalating war in the occupied West Bank on the cities, villages and camps of Jenin, Tulkarem, Tubas, in addition to the war in the Gaza Strip, will lead to “dire and dangerous” results.Abu Rudeineh added that the military operation that began at dawn today on the northern West Bank which has so far led to the killing of nine people and the injury of dozens, continues a comprehensive war on the Palestinian people, their land and holy sites.He said Israel’s escalating policy, the destruction of cities, the killing of citizens, detentions and colonisation, will not bring security and stability to anyone.Abu Rudeineh called on the US to intervene immediately and force Israeli authorities to stop their comprehensive war on the Palestinian people, “The world must take immediate and urgent action to curb this extremist government that poses a threat to the stability of the region and the world as a whole,” he said.Click here to share on social media
  • 20h ago (08:15 GMT)HouthiOne killed in Rafah strikeOur colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting an Israeli strike in the Oreiba area, north of Rafah, that killed one Palestinian and injured another.Meanwhile, Israeli artillery fire injured several more people in the central Abu Arif area, near Deir el-Balah, our colleagues report.The casualties follow our reports of earlier strikes in az-Zawayda and Khan Younis, which together killed at least 11 people.Click here to share on social media
  • 20h ago (08:05 GMT)Air strikes slam central Gaza with no warningReporting from Nuseirat, central GazaIsraeli air raids today have mainly been concentrated in central Gaza. Drones and sky predators are often used to carry out these attacks. Most concerning, they often happen with no prior warning … hitting residential homes unpredictably.Within the last couple of hours, a car on a main road between az-Zawayda and Deir el-Balah was targeted. Three people were killed on the spot and some of those passing by were critically injured. They were transferred to Al-Aqsa Hospital.In earlier hours, the Israeli military conducted a sudden ground incursion into an area in southeastern Khan Younis, causing mayhem and panic for an already traumatised population there.And overnight, a journalist, his sister and a neighbour next to a residential home that was attacked were reported killed.Click here to share on social media
  • 20h ago (07:55 GMT)InfographicIsraeli forces kill 9 in occupied West Bank: Where it happenedAs we reported earlier, a major Israeli military incursion took place overnight in different locations in the northern occupied West Bank.Here is where they took place:INTERACTIVE - Israeli forces kill 9 in occupied West Bank Jenin Raid-1724830670Click here to share on social media
  • 21h ago (07:46 GMT)DevelopingSituation in the occupied West Bank is ‘getting worse’Reporting from Nablus, occupied West BankResidents across cities and towns in the occupied West Bank confirmed to Al Jazeera that three strikes have taken place in three different locations overnight.Nine Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces, but the Israeli army is talking about an operation that could last for days – it is considered the largest since 2002, when Israeli forces raided different cities all across the occupied West Bank during the second Intifada.Now we are seeing a similar situation where hundreds of troops are involved in this major military operation.The Jenin governor said that the director of one of the city’s hospitals was informed that the Israeli army intends to raid the medical facility and that is why they have ordered them to evacuate the facility.This is a hospital with 200 employees and 150 patients and we have seen how undercover Israeli units manage to get inside hospitals and arrest or kill Palestinians.We are talking about a tense situation as in the past few weeks the situation in the West Bank has gotten worse.Click here to share on social media
  • 21h ago (07:35 GMT)AnalysisIsrael’s priority is the West BankIsrael’s intense raids in the occupied West Bank, where they have continued to expand settlements during the Gaza war, shows that exerting control over the territory is a top priority, says Hassan Barari, a professor of international affairs at Qatar University.“Israel’s objective number one is not Gaza, it is the West Bank. This is the heart of what they say is the biblical land,” Barari told Al Jazeera, adding that Israel aims to expel even more Palestinians.However, the Israeli military is likely to continue facing fierce resistance from a new generation of hardened fighters who are just as committed to protecting their homeland, he says.The Palestinians “born after the second Intifada are more insistent to realise their objectives, even by violent means”, Barari said, without putting their hopes in the Palestinian Authority (PA).Click here to share on social media
  • 21h ago (07:20 GMT)Greek-flagged oil tanker appears to be leaking oil: PentagonThe tanker, carrying a million barrels of crude oil, is on fire and appears to be leaking oil after being attacked by Houthi rebels in the Red Sea, a spokesperson for the US Department of Defense has said.In a statement on Tuesday, Pat Ryder said the vessel was attacked while sailing from Iraq to Greece with a crew of 23 Filipino and two Russian sailors. They have been all evacuated, he added.“The MV Delta Sounion now sits immobilized in the Red Sea, where it is currently on fire and appears to be leaking oil, presenting both a navigational hazard and a potential environmental catastrophe,” Ryder said.The Sounion was targeted last week by multiple projectiles off Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah. The Houthis, who control Yemen’s most populous regions, said they attacked it in the Red Sea, in line with the Iran-aligned group’s attacks on ships in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.Ryder added that a third party had tried to send two tugs to help salvage the Sounion, but the Houthis threatened to attack them.epa11562196 A handout screen grab taken from a video released by the Houthis media center on 23 August 2024 shows flames and smoke rising from an explosion at the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion after an attack in the Red Sea, Yemen. Yemen's Houthis have claimed responsibility for a two-small boats and three projectiles attack against the oil tanker Sounion in the Red Sea off Yemen 21 August 2024, in the context of the armed conflict that began after Hamas militants launched an attack against Israel from the Gaza Strip on 07 October 2023, and the Israeli operations in Gaza and the West Bank which followed it, according to a statement by Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea. EPA-EFE/HOUTHIS MEDIA CENTER / HANDOUT BEST QUALITY AVAILABLEHANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALESYemen’s Houthis have claimed responsibility for an attack with two small boats and three projectiles against the oil tanker Sounion in the Red Sea off Yemen last week [EPA-EFE]Click here to share on social media
  • 21h ago (07:18 GMT)HouthiDeath toll from Israel’s war on Gaza rises to 40,534The number of people killed in Gaza since the start of the war has risen to 40,534, the Health Ministry in the Strip has said.It added that 93,778 people have been wounded.The ministry said Israeli forces killed 58 people and injured 131 in the past 24 hours.Click here to share on social media
  • 21h ago (07:10 GMT)DevelopingIsraeli forces threaten to storm Jenin hospital: ReportIsraeli forces are continuing to cut off access to leading medical facilities in Jenin and now threaten a military operation in one hospital, warns the local governor.Speaking to the Wafa news agency, Kamal Abu al-Rub said Israeli troops are still blocking the roads leading to Ibn Sina Specialized Hospital while surrounding and threatening to storm Jenin Government Hospital.They also continue to close all entrances to the city, Abu al-Rub said.Click here to share on social media
  • 21h ago (07:00 GMT)Another Palestinian journalist killed in GazaPhotojournalist Mohammed Abd Rabbo was killed in an Israeli air attack that hit his sister’s home in the Nuseirat refugee camp earlier this morning.Rabbo’s sister was also killed in the attack.The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate said Israeli forces have killed 161 media workers and wounded 186 others in Gaza and the occupied West Bank since October 7. Some 51 others have been arrested.Palestinian photojournalist, Muhammed Abd Rabbo lost his life after an Israeli attack at the Nuseirat Refugee CampThe body of Mohammed Abd Rabbo is brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, on August 28, 2024 [Abdallah Alattar/Anadolu]Click here to share on social media
  • 22h ago (06:50 GMT)LISTEN: At Birzeit University, the fight for education under occupationPalestinian university students in the occupied West Bank live under the constant threat of arrest by the Israeli military, often without trial or charges.At Birzeit University, a centre of Palestinian intellectual life, a staff member who documents those arrests explains the challenges that the best and brightest Palestinian students often face and the obstacles they create for their futures.Listen to Al Jazeera’s The Take podcast below.https://omny.fm/shows/the-take/at-birzeit-university-the-fight-for-education-unde/embedClick here to share on social media
  • 22h ago (06:40 GMT)Israeli raids in West Bank could last several days: ReportsThe Times of Israel and YNet News are reporting that Israeli military sources expect the continuing raids in the occupied West Bank to last for several days.The operation is mostly focused on Tulkarem, as the military believes the group that planned and directed an attempted suicide bombing in Tel Aviv on August 18 operates in the area, the outlets said.Hamas and Islamic Jihad have claimed responsibility for the blast.At the time, Israeli authorities said the man who was carrying the bomb was killed when his explosives detonated before he managed to reach a more heavily populated area.Click here to share on social media
  • 22h ago (06:30 GMT)Aid flow into Gaza slowest in nine months: UNRWA officialThe humanitarian aid supply in Gaza is likely at its lowest point since November, says UNRWA’s Director of Planning Sam Rose, estimating that some 100 trucks are getting into the enclave per day.“That compares to about 300 per day before the Rafah operation started in May, and way below the 500 trucks that we have insisted are the requirements to meet the minimum humanitarian needs of the population,” Rose told Al Jazeera.Click here to share on social media
  • 22h ago (06:20 GMT)Israel’s foreign minister calls for forcible transfers of Palestinians in occupied West BankIsrael Katz made the call in a post on X.The minister said:“Our army is working hard in the Jenin and Tulkarem camps to dismantle the Islamic-Iranian infrastructure that have been established there.“Iran is trying to establish an eastern front against Israel in the West Bank, similar to the model in Gaza and Lebanon, by financing and arming terrorists and smuggling advanced weapons from Jordan.“We must deal with the threat in the West Bank as we are doing in Gaza, including the temporary evacuation of Palestinian residents and whatever other steps are required. This is a war in every sense of the word and we must win it.”Click here to share on social media
  • 22h ago (06:15 GMT)DevelopingThree killed in az-Zawayda car strikeAn Israeli air strike has hit a car in central Gaza’s az-Zawayda area, killing three people and injuring others, report our colleagues on the ground.A photo shared by local media shows a crowd of Palestinians getting ready to cover the body of one of the victims at the scene, where a burned-out car lies.The attack comes after our earlier reports of eight people killed by Israeli bombardment of two homes in Khan Younis.Click here to share on social media
  • 22h ago (06:10 GMT)‘Highly contagious’ skin diseases spreading among displaced childrenMore from the MSF:The international medical aid group says the lack of sanitation services in Khan Younis is resulting in the spread of infectious skin diseases among children.“The living conditions are extremely difficult. Every day, we see between 300 to 400 people at the medical clinic, of which 200 cases are related to skin conditions,” said Dr Youssef Salaf al-Farra, a paediatrician working at an MSF-supported clinic.“Children are the most impacted, especially by skin conditions that are highly contagious,” he said.Displaced child Sham al-Hessi, center, who suffers from skin disease, is covered with skin cream as she poses for a picture, at a makeshift tent camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Monday, July 29, 2024.Displaced Palestinian child Sham al-Hessi, centre, who suffers from skin disease and is covered with skin cream, at a makeshift camp in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip in July 2024 [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP]Click here to share on social media
  • 22h ago (06:00 GMT)Palestinian fighters continue to target Israel with rocket attacks: MonitorsMore than 10 months into Israel’s war on Gaza and its full invasion by ground forces, war monitors report that Palestinian fighters continue to fire rockets from the battered territory towards military targets in Israel.In the latest battlefield update from US-based defence think tanks – the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project – rocket launches were reported on Tuesday from both Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.According to the ISW-CTP joint report, the rockets were aimed at three Israeli military sites located inside Israeli territory to the east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.There were no reports of deaths or injuries from the firing of the unguided missiles.A man looks on as a salvo of rockets fired from the southern Gaza Strip towards Israel on December 4, 2023, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Israel has expanded its ground war on Hamas into the south of Gaza, witnesses said on December 4, despite global concern over mounting civilian deaths and fears the conflict will spread elsewhere in the Middle East. (Photo by Mahmud Hams / AFP)A man looks on as a salvo of rockets fired from the southern Gaza Strip streaks towards Israel on December 4, 2023 [File: Mahmud Hams/AFP] Click here to share on social media
  • 22h ago (05:55 GMT)Palestinians in Gaza ‘waking up every other day to evacuation orders’Sam Rose, UNRWA’s director of planning, has spoken to Al Jazeera about the “harrowing” effect of Israel’s latest mass evacuation orders, five of which were issued in six days last week.“The people of Gaza are waking up on every other day to evacuation orders, giving them a very, very short time to move or face the consequences,” Rose said. “This is women, children, the elderly, people who have moved five to 10 times already faced with an impossible dilemma.”“If they stay,” he said, “they risk bombardment, further destruction, further death. And if they go, they don’t know what’s coming for them. There’s either no space when they get there, or they’ll be in even more squalid conditions than those they left behind. Many unfortunately, tragically, horrifically, have been killed en route.”Click here to share on social media
  • 23h ago (05:40 GMT)LISTEN: Occupied West Bank incursionIsrael has launched one of its most extensive military operations in the occupied West Bank in years, involving hundreds of ground soldiers supported by fighter aircraft, drones and bulldozers.It has also carried out intense attacks on targets in central and southern Gaza, where at least 40 Palestinians have been killed in the past 24 hours.Listen to the full report:https://omny.fm/shows/al-jazeera-news-updates/occupied-west-bank-incursion-kursk-nuclear-plant-s/embed?style=CoverClick here to share on social media
  • 23h ago (05:30 GMT)MSF says Israel is blocking the entry of hygiene kits into GazaDoctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym, MSF, said it has been trying to import 4,000 hygiene kits into the Gaza Strip for the past three months.The kits contain basic everyday items such as soap, toothbrushes, shampoo and laundry powder, it said in a statement.But “for three months, importation of these kits has been blocked by the Israeli authorities”.https://www.youtube.com/embed/jYvWXXh89ZA?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1Click here to share on social media
  • 23h ago (05:10 GMT)WATCH: Israeli violence in West Bank comes as world ‘distracted’ by Gaza horror – AnalystThe Israeli army is conducting one of its largest operations in the northern part of the occupied West Bank in years.Deaths are mounting from the operation, which has involved air raids and the use of military bulldozers to destroy civilian infrastructure.Palestinian fighters have battled the military incursion, which began in the early hours of the morning.Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim reports from Bethlehem in the West Bank:Play VideoVideo Duration 06 minutes 57 seconds06:57Israeli violence in West Bank comes as world ‘distracted’ by Gaza horror: AnalystClick here to share on social media
  • 23h ago (05:00 GMT)If you’re just joining usLet’s bring you up to speed:
    • Israeli forces continued to bombard the Gaza Strip, killing at least eight Palestinians in Khan Younis, a day after launching air and ground attacks that killed at least 40 people in 24 hours.
    • In the occupied West Bank, Israel’s military has launched a “major operation” in three refugee camps in the Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas governorates, deploying drones, bulldozers and hundreds of ground troops. Israeli media described the offensive as the largest in the northern West Bank since the second Intifada – or Palestinian uprising – in 2002.
    • In Jenin and Tubas, at least nine people have been killed in Israeli air attacks, with the death toll expected to rise as clashes continue between Palestinian fighters and Israeli forces.
    • Jordan called on the UN Security Council to take immediate action to stop Israeli violations of holy sites in occupied East Jerusalem as Indonesia also condemned ultranationalist Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s plan to build a synagogue in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
    • Bellingcat, an investigative news outlet, said satellite imagery shows Israeli forces have destroyed “vast swaths” of Rafah in southern Gaza, including in the Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood, where only 224 of roughly 670 buildings remain standing.
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  • 24h ago (04:50 GMT)UN experts says Israel’s ‘vast demolition’ in Rafah part of wider pattern of crimesBalakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, was responding to new analysis from Bellingcat showing Israeli forces have demolished large areas of the city in the south of the Gaza Strip.“Israel is demolition nation par excellence,” Rajagopal said in a post on X, adding the latest analysis “shows commission of vast international crimes including domicide”.The International Criminal Court (ICC) “cannot fail to add these to its charges”, the UN rights expert added.Click here to share on social media
  • 24h ago (04:40 GMT)Israel releases video footage of air strike on Nur Shams refugee campIsrael’s military has released video footage of air strikes that killed five people in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank’s Tulkarem governorate on Tuesday morning.In a post on social media accompanied by grainy aerial video clips showing multiple strikes from aircraft on a building and explosions in a residential area, the Israeli military said it had killed “terrorists” in a “compound” that was used to “manage terrorist activity”.The Wafa news agency identified those killed in the strike as Adnan Jaber, 15, Mohammed Ahmad Elayyan, 16, Mohannad Qarawi, 19, Jibril Ghassan Jibril, 20, and Mohammed Ali Yusif, 49.Palestinian women stand near the damaged site of a drone strike in Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm in the Israeli-occupied West BankPalestinian women stand near the damaged site of a drone strike in Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday [Mohammed Torokman/Reuters]Click here to share on social media
  • 24h ago (04:30 GMT)Bellingcat analysis finds vast destruction in RafahThe investigative journalism group says its analysis of satellite imagery shows “vast swaths” of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, “have been damaged or destroyed”.Israeli forces have demolished entire city blocks as part of their expansion of the Philadelphi Corridor into neighbourhoods in the south of Rafah, including the Brazil Refugee Camp and Dahiyat as-Salam, the Bellingcat researchers found.Bellingcat also found that the destruction went far beyond the expanded Philadelphi Corridor, including into the eastern neighbourhood of Tal as-Sultan, where only 224 of roughly 670 buildings remain standing.a satellite image shows destroyed buildings from aboveA satellite image shows the Canada Well water facility in Tal as-Sultan, Rafah, after the site was damaged in an Israeli explosion [Handout: 2024 Planet Labs Inc via Reuters]Click here to share on social media
  • 24h ago (04:15 GMT)Palestinian fighters claim bomb attack on Israeli bulldozer in West BankThe Tulkarem Battalion said its fighters blew up an Israeli military bulldozer in the Nur Shams refugee camp by detonating an improvised explosive device.The Quds News Network posted a video that it said depicted the moment of the attack. The footage showed a large ball of fire followed by clouds of smoke rising above the densely populated area.The Wafa news agency reported that Israel deployed four bulldozers, accompanied by military vehicles, into Tulkarem, and that Israeli forces had used the machines to demolish a garage, roads and water networks in the city.Translation: The moment a bulldozer was targeted with an explosive device in Nur Shams camp, east of Tulkarem.Click here to share on social media
  • 24h ago (04:00 GMT)AnalysisWith no Gaza victory in sight, Israel unleashes violence in occupied West Bank: AnalystMore from Omar Baddar, a Middle East political analyst, who spoke to Al Jazeera earlier about Israel’s major military operation in the occupied West Bank that has killed at least seven Palestinians and is still ongoing:“I think Israel is under tremendous pressure because of the fact that they are stuck in Gaza without a strategic victory,” Baddar told Al Jazeera.“They promised that they would be able to defeat Hamas quickly. That they would be able to free the hostages. They have been able to achieve neither of these things. I think whenever Israel finds itself cornered and is in desperate need of a victory for its public, all they know how to do is unleash indiscriminate violence against Palestinians,” he said.“I think Netanyahu is desperate for some sort of image of an accomplishment and he thinks by launching this massive, large-scale operation in the West Bank… Israel can claim some sort of victory at the end of this.”Click here to share on social media
  • 24h ago (03:58 GMT)HouthiDeath toll in West Bank rises to at least 9The director of the ambulance department at the Palestine Red Crescent Society told Al Jazeera that the death toll from the Israeli drone attack on the Far’a refugee camp has risen to four.This takes the total death toll from Israeli raids on the West Bank to at least nine.Earlier, two people were killed in an Israeli attack on the city of Jenin and three others were killed in a drone assault on their vehicle in a nearby village.Click here to share on social media
  • 28 Aug 2024 – 03:50 (03:50 GMT)Israel killed more than 40,000 people in Gaza. What does that look like?Israeli attacks have killed more than 40,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in the 320 days since October 7.This includes almost 17,000 children. That’s 2.6 percent of all children in Gaza who are now dead.At least 53 children have been killed every day since October 7, and 72 men and women are killed in Israeli strikes, every single day.At least 10,000 are missing under the rubble, most of them presumed dead.You can read more here.Interactive_40000_killed_bytheNumbers_GFX LINE CHART-1724741510Click here to share on social media

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