Hezbollah attacks kill one in northern Israel
- The latest Hezbollah rocket barrage has killed one person in northern Israel’s HaGoshrim, fueling fears of regional spillover of the Gaza conflict.
- About 300 people were killed and hundreds of others are wounded or missing in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis after a nine-day ground assault by Israel’s military, the civil defence agency says.
Sde Teiman violations are systematic: Gaza ministry of detainees
The ministry has said that the violations at the detention camp are systematic, calculated and carried out with orders from Israeli authorities.
It also said that the clashes that took place at military bases with Israeli police over the detention of nine Israeli soldiers accused of “substantial abuse” of a Palestinian prisoner were a “charade intended to show that these violations are individual ones carried out by a few bad apples”.
“The truth is that what is happening is systematic torture that has led to several deaths of detainees,” the ministry said, adding that this is a war crime, and that the detention centre has to be shut down.
“The prisoners are being subject to torture, assault and humiliation not because they are suspected of any wrong-doing but as a form of revenge for the October 7 attacks.”
Hezbollah it killed Israeli soldiers in drone attack
The Lebanese group says it attacked the “al-Sahl Battalion” in the Beit Hillel settlement in northern Israel with “suicide drones”.
The attack was carried out in support of the people in Gaza and in response to an Israeli attack on the Beit Lif village in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah said on Telegram.
The group added the strike hit the target accurately, killing and wounding soldiers in the area.
Israel and Hezbollah have been exchanging fire since the Hamas-led attacks on communities and military outposts in southern Israel on October 7.
Hezbollah says it will end its attacks on Israel if a ceasefire is reached in Gaza, where Israel’s war has killed nearly 40,000 Palestinians.
Israel responds to rocket fire that killed one
Earlier, we reported that one person was killed when a rocket fired from Lebanon fell on the HaGoshrim kibbutz in the Upper Galilee area of northern Israel.
The Israeli army says in a statement on X that it detected the launch of about 10 rockets that crossed into Israel from Lebanese territory. Most of them were intercepted, it said, but one fell in the Gesher area.
Israeli forces attacked the source of this fire with artillery, according to the statement.
Palestine NOC president once again pushes IOC to ban Israel
The Palestinian National Olympic Committee (NOC) sent a reminder to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) about Israel’s breach of the Olympic truce, the NOC’s President Jibril Rajoub has said, speaking to journalists at a press conference at the Mission of the State of Palestine building on the sidelines of the Paris Olympics.
“We posed a specific question and asked the IOC to clarify whether the breach of the Olympic truce, implementation of the apartheid regime, annexation of the Palestinian territory, and Israeli athletes being members of the occupying forces will bring a change in the IOC policy towards Israeli participation in international sports,” added Rajoub.
The Palestinian team for the Games consists of six athletes who will be competing in boxing, judo, taekwondo, shooting and swimming, with slim hopes of a medal.
Palestinian sports officials have said that since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza in October 2023, more than 300 athletes, referees and sports officials have been killed and all sports facilities in Gaza demolished.
At every Olympics, the IOC calls on all countries participating to observe a truce for the duration of the games.
Israeli attack on Lebanon likely to draw in regional fighters
If a full-scale war breaks out between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon it’s likely other armed groups will enter the conflict against the Israeli army, an analyst says.
Adel Abdel Ghafar, director at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, says coming to Hezbollah’s aid would be fighters from the Islamic Resistance in Iraq and the Houthi militia in Yemen – “and maybe from Iran itself”.
Ghafar told Al Jazeera that Lebanon is suffering through a major economic crisis, and Israel’s repeated threats to attack civilian infrastructure only make the situation worse for beleaguered people there. But the population is steadfast, he added.
“It’s a very resilient country, resilient culture. They’re used to going to war and rebuilding again. So what’s happening now is not something new to them.”
Hezbollah says it attacked Israeli military site with rocket barrage
The Lebanese group says it attacked the “al-Sahl Battalion” in the Beit Hillel settlement in northern Israel with “a salvo” of Katyusha rockets.
The barrage was carried out in support of the people in Gaza and in response to an Israeli attack on the village Jebchit, in southern Lebanon, that caused civilian causalities, Hezbollah said on Telegram.
Israel and Hezbollah have been fighting a low-scale conflict since the Hamas-led attacks on communities and military outposts in southern Israel on October 7. Hezbollah has repeatedly said it would end attacks on Israel if a ceasefire is reached in Gaza, where Israel’s war has killed nearly 40,000 Palestinians.
One killed after rocket falls in northern Israel
Israel’s Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency service says a man in his 30s has succumbed to his injuries after a rocket landed on the HaGoshrim kibbutz in northern Israel.
“MDA medics and paramedics provided medical treatment to a 30-year-old man with life-threatening shrapnel injuries and after CPR they determined his death,” it said on Telegram.
‘If you are in Lebanon, leave’: UK’s David Lammy
The foreign secretary has also repeated his call for British nationals not to travel to the country amid heightened tensions between Hezbollah and Israel.
“My message to British nationals in Lebanon is clear: If you are in Lebanon, leave,” he said in video message on X.
“You should leave while commercial flights are running,” he stressed.
He also said his government will do all it could to prevent the outbreak of a full-scale conflict but added that “the risk is rising”.
UN concerned over Palestinian families in East Jerusalem facing eviction
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says it’s concerned that more than 80 Palestinian families face eviction from their homes in Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem due to “unlawful” and “discriminatory Israeli laws against Palestinians”.
In a statement, it said 87 Palestinian families, totalling 600 to 680 individuals, are facing legal proceedings initiated by Israeli settlers to evict them from their homes in the Batn al-Hawa neighbourhood.
It said the “systematic settlers’ campaign” aims to “uproot Palestinians from their homes, take over their property and implant Israeli settlers in the heart of Palestinian neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem”.
“International humanitarian law prohibits Israel from imposing its own laws in occupied territory, which includes the application of Israeli laws to evict Palestinians from their homes,” the UN said.
