Israel kills 33 in Gaza as Palestinians face ‘forced starvation’
- Gaza’s Health Ministry says 33 Palestinians were killed and 156 wounded in the latest 24-hour reporting period.
- The World Food Programme (WFP) is warning that the humanitarian situation in Gaza “could soon escalate into famine” as Israeli forces continue to severely restrict the entry of food and other supplies into the enclave.
Israeli settlers attack Burqa village in West Bank, torch olive fields
Israeli settlers have attacked the Palestinian village of Burqa near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank and burned olive fields, according to witnesses.
A group of settlers set fire to olive fields in the area and hurled rocks at Palestinian homes, triggering confrontations with local villagers, the witnesses said.
It came hours after some 20 Palestinian vehicles were burned in a settler attack early this morning in nearby el-Bireh.
Jewish academic arrested in UK over ‘terrorism’ after Gaza speech
Retired Jewish professor Haim Bresheeth, a child of Holocaust survivors and founder of the Jewish Network for Palestine, was arrested under a UK anti-terrorism law after speaking at a recent pro-Palestinian protest in London.
Berlin calls on Israel to boost aid access to ‘desperate’ north Gaza
Germany has called on Israel to let more humanitarian aid into north Gaza, where a lack of supplies has led to a “desperate” and “unbearable” situation, a spokesperson for the German Foreign Ministry has said.
“We call on the Israeli government urgently to meet its responsibilities under international law,” the spokesperson told a regular news conference in Berlin.
“Israel has the right to self defence against Hamas within the framework of humanitarian international law,” he added.
The spokesperson was responding to a question about an ultimatum set by Washington for Israel to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza this month or face potential restrictions on US military aid.
Palestinian Foreign Ministry says failure to halt Gaza genocide behind rise in West Bank settler attacks
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry says the international failure to halt the ongoing genocide in Gaza is fuelling widespread settler crimes across the occupied West Bank.
The statement, posted on X, comes after reports of settler attacks in the city of el-Bireh, where settlers burned several Palestinians’ vehicles.
“This assault is viewed as an extension of widespread settler crimes across the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, and as a replication of the genocide and forced displacement campaign endured by the Palestinian people in Gaza, which has persisted unabated for 395 days,” it said.
While several foreign states have issued individual sanctions, the ministry said settlers “would not have committed such heinous crimes without the protection and immunity granted by the Israeli political leadership”.
It called on the international community to take more comprehensive measures to “hold all entities responsible for promoting or engaging in settler terrorism and systematic land annexation against the Palestinian people”.
Netanyahu, a very bad decision-maker and a very good campaigner
Regarding the Israeli prime minister’s reaction to the leaks, Menachem Klein, professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University, has told Al Jazeera that Netanyahu’s strategy “is to distance himself from this affair”.
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If people survive Israeli attacks, they will not survive the forced starvation
as downplayed the leaks as “not a big deal”, explaining away that the assistant who leaked the information wasn’t under his wing or in his inner circle – rather, he was under the chief of staff.
“He’s a very bad decision-maker, a bad prime minister, but he’s a very good political campaigner and political survivor,” Klein said.
“He does many tricks to stay in power and his main means through which he shapes political opinion is the media. He was politically brought up in the US and he’s a Trump-style leader; the media is his main forum to shape public opinion.”
The situation continues to deteriorate in the north of Gaza. We’re talking about 30 days without food, water, medicine, and aid.
We’ve been receiving news of constant attacks on schools, hospitals, and residential areas. The fact that people have been trapped under siege for 30 days makes us wonder: how are these people coping?
If they do survive the Israeli air attacks, they’re not going to survive the forced starvation they are facing.
Last night, Israeli forces attacked Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, and this is not the first time this hospital has been attacked. This is the only hospital that is still working in the northern part of Gaza.
But also here, in central Gaza, we’ve received news of two Palestinians injured while they were picking olives. Another five were killed.
The situation is escalating in different areas and at different levels of the Gaza Strip.
