Israel’s war on Gaza live: Army targets homes, kills 33 in single day
- Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israeli attacks on the Strip have killed 33 Palestinians and wounded 145 more over the latest 24-hour reporting period.
- An attack at the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge on the border between the occupied West Bank and Jordan killed three Israeli private security guards.
Israeli forces issue notices to stop construction in Rafat: Report
Israeli forces halted the construction of a stadium and houses in the village of Rafat, west of Salfit in the occupied West Bank, Wafa reported.
The head of the Rafat village council, Shafe’ Shehadeh, told Wafa that Israeli forces delivered notices to stop work and construction in the municipal stadium of Rafat.
Houses under construction were also halted, some of which are inhabited by residents in the areas of al-Ras and Arara northeast of the village.
Palestinians march in Nablus to honour killed US activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi
Palestinians held a march in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus to honour an American woman killed by Israeli soldiers on Friday.
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was participating in a weekly protest against an illegal Israeli settlement near the Palestinian village of Beita when she was shot in the head.
- Gaza’s Health Ministry says over the latest 24-hour reporting period, Israeli attacks on the Strip killed 33 Palestinians and wounded 145 others.
- A truck driver opened fire at an Israeli-controlled border crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan, killing three Israeli security guards.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for unity following the attack and reiterated that he was committed to fulfilling the goals of the war.
- The Palestinian Civil Defence says two more Israeli attacks took place in northern Gaza.
- The Health Ministry says 69 percent of children in Gaza have received their first dose of the polio vaccine since the start of the campaign seven days ago.
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Jordan-Israel relations strained, but bilateral security remains strong
Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli diplomat, says that security cooperation between Jordan and Israel has been strong and dependable since 1994.
“It remains extraordinarily strong between the two countries’ respective security and intelligence branches, the foreign intelligence branches, and tactically along the pretty long border between [the Israeli-controlled] West Bank and Israel,” he told Al Jazeera.
Speaking from Tel Aviv, Pinkas said that the bilateral cooperation has been steadfast and solid and “there have been very few and far between attacks coming from infiltrators or perpetrators from the Jordanian side”.
“All that being established, relations between Israel and Jordan in the past few years have not affected security, but relations have been increasingly strained because of [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s policies, and his reluctance to engage in a political process – what we used to call a peace process with the Palestinians, and certainly in the last year since the war in Gaza,” he added.
Pinkas said that the attack was not surprising. But “what is surprising”, he added, “is that it is the first such incident in the last 11 months”.
Allenby crossing the only entry and exit point for Palestinians
For Palestinians, the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge is their only entry and exit point out of the occupied West Bank.
There is no airport, there is no other way for Palestinians to leave their homes so the ones we spoke to today said they are now unsure of when they’re ever going to be able to go back. It could be a day; it could be perhaps a week. It’s still unclear when it’s going to open at all.
When it comes to trade, there are several thousand trucks that go through this border crossing with goods that are making their way into Israel. So it’s quite a significant border crossing.
On an average day, it can see up to 2,500 going to and from, and they are mostly Palestinians making their way in and out of the occupied West Bank.
Israeli attacks kill 33 Palestinians in one day
Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israeli attacks on the Strip have killed 33 Palestinians and wounded 145 more over the latest 24-hour reporting period.
Israel targeted 16 shelter schools in Gaza in one month: human rights group
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor says its field team has documented Israeli air strikes at midnight on Saturday, September 7, targeting the Halimah al-Saadiyah School in Jabalia Al-Nazla, north of the Gaza Strip. The building was sheltering hundreds of forcibly displaced people. The attack killed four Palestinians and injured others.
Earlier on Saturday, Israeli aircraft also bombed Amr Ibn al-Aas School, another shelter for displaced people north of Gaza City, killing four Palestinians, including a child.
According to the human rights group, since the beginning of August, Israel has bombed 16 schools used as shelters in the Gaza Strip, killing 217 Palestinians and injuring hundreds – many of them women and children.
American film director speaks in solidarity with Palestine
Sarah Friedland used her acceptance speech at the Venice Film Festival for her debut film, Familiar Touch, to voice support for Palestinians facing what she described as “the 336th day of Israel’s genocide in Gaza”.
West Bank-Jordan crossing shooting: What we know so far
Earlier today, a truck driver opened fire at an Israeli-controlled border crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan, killing three Israeli security guards before he was shot dead.
Here is what we know about the incident:
- The Israeli army said the attacker came from Jordan and the shooting took place in the cargo area of the crossing.
- The driver “exited the truck and opened fire at Israeli security forces operating at the bridge”, an Israeli army statement said, later clarifying the three victims were working as security guards.
- Israeli media named the three victims as Yohanan Shchori, 61, from the illegal settlement of Ma’ale Efraim; Yuri Birnbaum, 65, from the illegal settlement of Na’ama; and Adrian Marcelo Podzamczer.
- Jordan’s Interior Ministry said authorities in Amman were “investigating the incident”.
- Hamas called it a “confirmation of the Arab peoples’ rejection of the Israeli occupation and its crimes and ambitions in Palestine and Jordan”.
- The Israel Airport Authority, which controls the Palestinian side of the crossing, has confirmed that all of Israel’s crossings with Jordan have now been closed.
Several killed in Gaza City attack: Civil defence
Earlier we reported that the Israeli army hit two homes in the Sabra area, citing the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza.
Officials are now saying that the bodies of four people who were killed in the attack on the Qarout family home have been recovered.
Schools start but not in Gaza, Israelis withdraw from Jenin
Al Jazeera’s The Take podcast rounds up the past week of Israel’s war on Gaza as Israel ends its 10-day operation in the occupied West Bank and the death toll hits 40,972.
