Israel kills child in Gaza, UN says West Bank healthcare under attack

An Israeli drone strike on Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood has killed a child, as negotiations continue in Doha over the fate of the ceasefire, with the US proposing a 60-day extension for the release of more Israeli captives.
A UN official says the body has documented at least 54 attacks on healthcare facilities in the occupied West Bank since January, putting 20 out of service entirely.Israel’s attacks on reproductive healthcare in Gaza ‘genocidal’, says UN probe
In its report, the United Nations commission said, it found that Israeli authorities “have destroyed … the reproductive capacity of Palestinians in Gaza as a group through the systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive healthcare”.

It added that this amounted to “two categories of genocidal acts” during Israel’s offensive in Gaza, launched after the attacks by Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023.

For its part, “Israel categorically rejects the unfounded allegations”, its mission in Geneva said in a statement.Trump’s pick for UN envoy threatens student activists with deportation
Trump’s nominee for US ambassador to the United Nations, Elise Stefanik, has doubled down on the threat to deport supporters of Palestinian rights despite the outcry over the detention of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.

Stefanik, a staunch Israel supporter, lauded Trump for the crackdown on Palestinian rights advocates.

“Promises made, promises kept,” she wrote in a social media post. “To be in or study in the United States is a privilege; any supporter of terrorist groups must be immediately stripped of their visas and deported, and the schools that protect them defunded.”

Khalil, who helped organise protests at Columbia University, was a legal permanent resident, not a student visa holder.

Stefanik has often referred to student protesters who pushed for their universities to end financial ties with companies linked to the Israeli military as Hamas supporters. But activists say their main goal has been to end their educational institutions’ complicity in abuses against Palestinians.

Stefanik, a member of the US House of Representatives, has not been confirmed by the Senate to start her tenure at the UN.