Israel’s war on Gaza : Israel used Gaza cancer hospital as army base
- Turkey condemns Israel’s military for damaging Gaza’s only specialised cancer hospital after using it as a military base for months and says that those responsible will be “brought to justice in international courts”.
- The Israeli army has killed at least 19 Palestinians in areas across central Gaza since the early hours of Tuesday. In total, at least 35 people have been killed in overnight Israeli strikes in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, az-Zawayda and the Maghazi refugee camps, according to an Al Jazeera correspondent.
- Turkey condemns Israel’s military for damaging Gaza’s only specialised cancer hospital after using it as a military base for months and says that those responsible will be “brought to justice in international courts”.
- The Israeli army has killed at least 19 Palestinians in areas across central Gaza since the early hours of Tuesday. In total, at least 35 people have been killed in overnight Israeli strikes in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, az-Zawayda and the Maghazi refugee camps, according to an Al Jazeera correspondent.
Lebanese state, not just Hezbollah, should pay ‘heavy price’: Israeli minister
Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen has called for his country to open a new front in the north, making the state of Lebanon and not only the Hezbollah armed group pay “a heavy price” for the attacks on northern Israel.
“We are at the end of the Phase 3 in Gaza, so we need to move to the north and charge them a significant price,” Cohen said in an interview with Israel’s Radio Kol Barama.
Gallant condemns attack against officers by anti-conscription ultra-Orthodox protesters
Dozens of ultra-Orthodox Israeli demonstrators in the central city of Bnei Brak gathered overnight outside a house where two Israeli senior army commanders met Rabbi David Leybel, a supporter of ultra-Orthodox conscription into the military, according to Israeli media reports.
The crowd shouted slurs and threw bottles at the officers’ vehicles slurs prompting police to intervene.
In a post on X, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant condemned the incident.
“These are outstanding and dedicated officers, who are working to strengthen Israel’s security at a time when the IDF [Israeli army] needs more soldiers,” said Gallant on X.
The meeting between the three men was aimed at discussing the establishment of a Haredi brigade in the army after Israel’s Supreme Court ruled in June that the military must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men for military service.
The move, which reversed decades of exemption for the conservative students, came as the Israeli army is seeking to boost its forces as the war on Gaza grinds on and tensions with Hezbollah remain high at the country’s northern border.
Health Ministry appealing for medical delegations to enter Gaza
It’s a miracle that hospitals are still barely functional in light of the unprecedented high rates of death and casualties among civilians.
Medical officials say they are struggling with a chronic shortage of essential medical supplies, alongside the fuel crisis that’s impacting negatively on patients and especially people who are in the ICUs [intensive care units]. It requires very stable electricity supply in order to be operational.
The capacity of these hospitals is overwhelmed and doctors are exhausted. There are repeated appeals being made by the Ministry of Health asking for medical delegations to be allowed to get into the Strip.
They’re also appealing for a constant flow of medical supplies to at least help the medical sector to partially recover and to save the lives of wounded people who are receiving treatment in such hospitals.
Israeli settlers build iron structure on Palestinian land in Hebron, video shows
A video posted online, verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency, shows a group of settlers working on an iron structure in the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
The footage shows settlers placing iron poles on private Palestinian land that, according to local sources, belongs to the Qunaibi family.
Israel minister demands West Bank annexation if UN court rules against it
Hardline Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on the prime minister to annex the occupied West Bank if the International Court of Justice (ICJ) rules Israeli settlements are illegal this week.
Smotrich told reporters, “No one will move the people of Israel from their land”, the Times of Israel quoted him as saying yesterday.
Israeli army says it continues fighting in Rafah
The Israeli army says it continues to fight in the Rafah area in southern Gaza where it claims to have killed a number of fighters and destroyed tunnels and infrastructure belonging to armed groups.
The military report also said Israeli soldiers carried out military operations in the centre of the Strip, while the Israeli air force attacked about 40 targets, including sniper and observation posts, being used by fighters.
The military has repeatedly said that its attacks are aimed at Hamas targets. But UN officials, aid groups and witnesses argue that Israel consistently violates rules on avoiding civilian areas.
On Saturday it attacked a tent camp in al-Mawasi – a coastal area that Israel had indicated as a safe zone for Palestinians to flee to – killing at least 90 people and injuring about 300 others.
And last week, Israeli forces targeted four schools in four days, killing at least 50 people.
Footage shows destruction at Gaza aid distribution site in the wake of Israeli attack
The air raid targeted a hospice distributing food to displaced people.
The footage showed people observing the damage in the bombed-out building that had a huge hole in the roof, collapsed side walls and cracks in the beams holding up the ceiling.
A banner in front of the building identified it as a hospice.
