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July 18-17, 2024 Food for thought: the knesset decided not to agree with the finding of a Palestine state basically meaning it declared the 'Totalen Krieg' both against its own people as well as against the global Muslim world. Read all the actual news below and decide for yourself if you agree with an imminent 3rd. WW. Gino d'Artali

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July 15 - 13, 2024 Preface note by Gino d'Artalli: The genocide continues and there are only two words that can and in the end will stop it: STOP and FREEDOM Read all the actual news below and a 'give way or go away' yell!    Click here to go throughout July and earler, 2024

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and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
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France 25 - July 18, 2024 - Video by: Tom CANETTI
<<War in Gaza takes a mental health toll, especially on children
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians struggle with mental health after nine months of war. The trauma has been relentless. People have endured the killing of family and friends in Israeli bombardment.>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240718-nightmares-and-shaking-war-in-gaza-takes-a-mental-health-toll-especially-on-children

France 25 - July 18, 2024 - By: NEWS WIRES
<<Israeli lawmakers vote to oppose the formation of a Palestinian state
Israel's parliament voted to oppose the formation of a Palestinian state, which it said would <encourage Hamas and its supporters>, in a symbolic vote on Thursday. The Palestinian Authority said Israel's government was <plunging the region into an abyss> while France said the vote contradicted UN Security Council resolutions. The Israeli parliament voted Thursday to oppose a Palestinian state as an <existential threat>, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told lawmakers the army had Hamas <by the throat>. The vote, which drew swift criticism from the Palestinian leadership and the international community, is largely symbolic but laid down a marker ahead of a planned address by Netanyahu to the US Congress next Wednesday. The veteran hawk has shown little interest in efforts by the US administration to broker a truce and hostage release deal for Gaza, insisting that <absolute victory> over Hamas is within reach and vowing to ramp up the military pressure. On the ground in Gaza, the Hamas-ruled territory's health ministry reported 54 deaths in 24 hours as Israel kept up its heavy bombardment of recent days. The resolution passed by Israeli lawmakers in the early hours said a Palestinian state on land occupied by the Israeli army would <perpetuate the Israel-Palestinian conflict and destabilise the region>. It said <promoting> a Palestinian state <would only encourage Hamas and its supporters> after its October 7 attack on Israel which triggered the Gaza war. The resolution passed by 68 votes to nine in the 120-member parliament. The Palestinian Authority accused Israel's hard-right ruling coalition of <plunging the region into an abyss>. France expressed <consternation> at the vote, noting that it was <in contradiction> with multiple UN Security Council resolutions.
'Stake through the heart'
The establishment of a Palestinian-state on lands occupied by Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967 has been the cornerstone of the international community's efforts to resolve the conflict for decades. The Oslo Accords of the 1990s, which gave the Palestinian Authority limited autonomy in urban areas of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, were supposed to lead to negotiations for an independent state. But UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday that <recent developments are driving a stake through the heart of any prospect for a two-state solution>. Guterres renewed his call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza war, saying <the humanitarian situation... is a moral stain on us all>. All health facilities in southern Gaza have been pushed to <breaking point> by the influx of casualties from Israeli bombardments, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Thursday. AFPTV images showed mourners at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central town of Deir el-Balah, where several white-shrouded corpses lay on the ground. One man cradled the covered body of a child. Rescuers confirmed several people had been killed in separate Israeli strikes. At the hospital, Ahmed Abu Muheisen said one strike had targeted his cousin's family in the Al-Zuwaida area. <His children and his wife were martyred and so was he,> Muheisen said.
'By the throat'
During more than nine months of war, Netanyahu has repeatedly vowed to eradicate Hamas as well as bring home all the hostages. On Tuesday, he said <we are hurting> Hamas and this is <exactly the time to increase the pressure even more>. On Wednesday, he told parliament: <We have got them by the throat.> Far-right members of his governing coalition, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, oppose a truce deal. On Thursday, Ben Gvir said Netanyahu must not make a <surrender> accord with Hamas. The war began with Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel which resulted in the deaths of 1,195 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures. The militants also seized 251 hostages, 116 of whom are still in Gaza including 42 the Israeli military says are dead. Israel's military retaliation has killed at least 38,848 people, also mostly civilians, according to figures from the Gaza health ministry.
'Not living'
In an address to the European Parliament on Thursday, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen underlined international concern over the civilian death toll in Gaza. <The people of Gaza cannot bear any more, and humanity cannot bear any more,> she said. The war has destroyed much of Gaza's housing and other infrastructure, leaving almost all of the population displaced and short of food and drinking water. Pax, a Dutch activist group, said in a study released Thursday that <continuous bombing and Israel's fuel blockade have decimated> Gaza's outdated waste collection system, threatening water supplies and farm land. For Umm Nahed Abu Shar, 45, staying in a tent with her family in Deir el-Balah, this means clouds of flies, the stench of sewage and constant illness.
"We are not living," she said.
(AFP)>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240718-new-gaza-strikes-after-netanyahu-vows-more-pressure-on-militants

Al Jazeera - July 19, 2024 - By Alastair Mccready
<<Israel's war on Gaza live: Israel bombs UN school, 2 refugee camps in Gaza
This video may contain light patterns or images that could trigger seizures or cause discomfort for people with visual sensitivities. The Israeli army bombed its ninth school shelter in the Gaza Strip in recent days, this time in Gaza City. The attack killed at least two Palestinians who were sheltering there among other internally displaced people. Al Jazeera's correspondent reports that at least five people were killed when the Israeli army shelled a house in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. The attack was followed by shelling that killed at least five in the nearby Nuseirat refugee camp.>>
Read more and video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/7/19/israels-war-on-gaza-live-israel-bombs-un-run-school-refugee-camp-in-gaza

Al Jazeera - July 18, 2024
<<Far-right Israeli minister Ben-Gvir makes inflammatory Al-Aqsa visit
Israel's security minister toured a courtyard of Al-Aqsa Mosque in a provocative move that could threaten ceasefire talks.
Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has visited the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem's Old City. Tensions over the site in occupied East Jerusalem have fuelled past rounds of Israeli-Palestinian violence, and Ben-Gvir's visit on Thursday threatens to disrupt sensitive talks aimed at reaching a ceasefire in Israel's more-than-nine-month war on Gaza. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned the visit as a <provocative intrusion> that endangered the fragile status quo regarding the Jerusalem compound. The mosque is situated in the Al-Aqsa compound, the third holiest site in the world for Muslims. The site is also revered by Jews, who refer to it as the Temple Mount. Under the status quo, non-Muslims may visit the site but cannot pray. However, Jewish visitors have been increasingly defying the ban, something Palestinians consider provocation, fearing that Israel intends to take over the site. Ben-Gvir said he went up to the site to pray for the return of Israeli captives <but without a reckless deal, without surrendering>. Hamas said the move by Ben-Gvir was a <dangerous escalation> and called on the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the Arab League to take <serious action to stop these systemic violations> of the holy site.
Truce talks in jeopardy as Israel steps up offensive
Israeli negotiators landed in Cairo on Wednesday to continue truce talks, which appear to have stalled after a senior Hamas official said that the group was withdrawing from the talks after recent Israeli strikes on Gaza but was ready to return if its attitude changes. Hamas's political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, has accused Israel of deliberately undermining negotiations for a truce and captives release deal because it did not want to end the war. Israel's military offensive in central Gaza continues to intensify, with 54 Palestinians killed in 24 hours, Palestinian authorities said on Thursday.
Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Deir el-Balah, said the intense Israeli bombing campaign in the centre of the enclave has left 500 people dead in the past 10 days. <That's likely a conservative number. When you consider all those missing, it's probably far higher than this,> he said.
<This morning, a whole family of three generations - grandparents, parents, and their children - were all killed. This is the pattern of systematic mass killing that we've witnessed over and over,> Mahmoud stated.
Netanyahu visits Rafah
As Israeli forces continued attacks on Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is due to address the United States Congress next week, made a surprise visit to Israeli troops in the area around Rafah, telling them that military pressure combined and an insistence on securing the release of dozens of captives still held in Gaza was producing results. <This double pressure is not delaying the deal, it is advancing it,> he said, according to a statement from his office. Around 250 people were taken captive during the Hamas-led October 7 attack on Israel, in which at least 1,139 people were killed, according to an Al Jazeera tally based on Israeli statistics. Israel's subsequent war on Gaza has killed at least 38,848 people and wounded 89,459 others, according to Palestinian officials. Israelis released from captivity in the Gaza Strip are planning a protest on Thursday against Netanyahu's US trip. They say they will release a <special statement> at a square in Tel Aviv where protesters calling for the release of captives and new elections have gathered since the start of the war.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>>
Source:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/18/far-right-israeli-minister-ben-gvir-makes-inflammatory-al-aqsa-visit

Al Jazeera - July 18, 2024 - By Simon Speakman Cordall
<<Israel keeps bombing Gaza schools. Why do people still shelter there?
Displaced Palestinians hope for protection and access to limited supplies in UN-run schools, but trauma is mounting.
At least eight United Nations-run schools serving as shelters to displaced Palestinians have been hit by Israeli attacks in the last 10 days. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) say 120 of their educational institutions have been hit since Israel began its war on Gaza on October 7. Families living in disused classrooms face fatigue, trauma and the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions of shelters stretched far beyond capacity. Despite the difficult conditions and the risk of bombardment, many seek out the relative safety of UN schools, some guided by the memory of past wars where these spaces provided a refuge, and since at least 2017, a couple were designed to double up as emergency shelters with additional power, sanitation and generator facilities.
Protection
<You hope that the UN affiliation might protect you,> said journalist Mohammed Mhawish, 25, who sheltered in a UN-run school in Gaza City with his wife, two-year-old child and his parents after an Israeli attack destroyed their home in December, trapping them under rubble for two hours until neighbours dug them free. <You need to remember, there are few residential compounds, or anywhere else in Gaza where you can shelter,> he said, recalling how his neighbours had taken the injured family in after rescuing them. It soon became clear the apartment was overcrowded. However, it was the further Israeli bombardment and land assault on their neighbourhood that forced his family to walk the one and a half hours to the nearest UN-run school, a 15-minute journey by car. <It's a central point. There's nowhere else where you can access aid or medicine,> he said, speaking from Cairo where his family now lives. <To be clear, there isn’t a lot. Everything is in short supply. You seem to spend all your time standing in line for less and less, but it's something.> Mohammed added, that, <from a practical perspective, you can't share what you don't have. The more people in the school can also mean less food, water and medicine.> In winter, blankets and mattresses were in short supply and they were forced to drink from a contaminated water source, increasing the risk of getting sick. And there was always the threat of bombardment. <It was always there,> Mohammed recalled, <Nowhere was safe. People would simply sit and wait for it.> Still, for some, there was a sense of support. <For some people, it's good to be around other people who've been through the same kind of trauma,> he said. <People share their experiences with each other and that can help.> But for Mohammad, it was unbearable to see how his son Rafik had been traumatised after the bombing they survived. <He stopped communicating. He wouldn't cry. He wouldn't show any emotion, there was nothing,> Mohammed recalled. <He stopped remembering how to be a kid.> Then an Israeli evacuation order in January forced them to leave the school to find refuge in the garage of a destroyed apartment building.
Interactive Eightschools Gaza attacked
Nine in every 10 people displaced
<People choose these schools because they believe sheltering under the UN flag, as international law states, should provide safety,> UNRWA's senior communications officer Louise Wateridge told Al Jazeera from Gaza. <For civilians, the schools provide safety in times of war. Under the UN flag, these schools should be protected.> However, the agency faces several challenges in getting supplies to people, even as they shelter in schools. <Several factors continue to stand in our way to bring in humanitarian supplies into Gaza,> she said. <They include the siege, restrictions on movements and safety of humanitarian aid workers,> she explained, going on to stress the limited aid and equipment, much of it medical, allowed into Gaza by the Israeli military, as well as the unpredictability of life in a conflict zone where the schools' occupants are regularly ordered to evacuate by the Israeli army and make their way to another area it designates a <safe zone>. <People continue to be forcibly displaced,> Wateridge continued. <It's estimated that nine in every 10 people in Gaza are displaced. Many of them have been displaced up to 10 times since the war started. Protracted forced displacement makes it very difficult for us to verify data and figures.> In addition, Wateridge said, was <the breakdown of law and order as a result of nine months of horrific living conditions, war, hunger, siege and chaos,> she said. Humanitarian workers also report increasing instances of violence and gender-based violence within schools. <Concerns are growing about the risk of cholera spreading, further deteriorating inhumane living conditions,> Wateridge added. <WHO [The World Health Organization] has registered a growing number of adults and children suffering from waterborne diseases, such as hepatitis A, diarrheal illnesses, skin conditions, and others.>
Psychological support
Ahmad Swais, a psychologist with international medical charity Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials, MSF, has witnessed how gatherings of large numbers of people carry <a lot of suffering and different experiences.> <This increases the negative psychological and social impact on the individuals,> he said speaking from Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza. <It increases the severity of psychological symptoms for the individual and for the families who are gathering in one place whether in schools or other shelters.> The schools offer little respite or space for those who arrive traumatised or seriously injured from the fighting, Swais said. Many feel a sense of dehumanisation in the difficult conditions.
Children are the worst affected psychologically by the repeated displacements and the war. <There [are a] large number of children in urgent need of a psychological support programme. It is crucial to create a suitable environment for the children and a safer place to live and to preserve their dignity and basic humanity,> he said. Still, despite the hardships, <These people living in shelters like UNRWA schools feel they are luckier than those living in plastic tents and sleeping on the sand.>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>>
Source:
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/7/18/israel-keep-bombing-gaza-schools-why-do-people-still-shelter-there

France 25 - July 18, 2024 - Video by Vedika BAHL
<<Deadly strikes pound Gaza as Israel PM vows to ramp up pressure
Israel kept up its air strikes on Gaza Wednesday (July 16) after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to ramp up the pressure on Hamas as hopes faded for a US-announced ceasefire plan. The Israeli military said it had carried out 25 strikes in 24 hours, targeting <military structures, terrorist infrastructure, terrorist cells and rigged structures>. The health ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza said 52 people had been killed in Israeli strikes over the previous 24 hours.>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240718-deadly-strikes-pound-gaza-as-israel-pm-vows-to-ramp-up-pressure


286th day of Israeli attacks
Jinha - Womens News Agency - July 18, 2024
<<286th day of Israeli attacks on Gaza: At least 9 Palestinians killed
At least nine Palestinians were killed and many others, including women and children, injured in Israeli attacks on the central and southern Gaza throughout the night.
News Center- Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have continued since October 7, 2023. The Israeli forces targeted a house in the town of Al-Zawaida, killing at least six civilians and injuring a number of others, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on the 286th day of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. A citizen was killed and 15 others injured in Israeli attacks targeting Abdullah Azzam Mosque in Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, the news agency said. According to the news agency, two civilians were killed and seven others injured in Israeli airstrikes targeting a house in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning. Four children reportedly went missing after the airstrikes. Throughout the night, Israeli forces also bombed civilian houses in the east of the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis and the western and eastern areas of the city of Rafah.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/286th-day-of-israeli-attacks-on-gaza-at-least-9-palestinians-killed-35396

Iranwire - July 17, 2024
<<Three Israelis Arrested for Alleged Ties to Iranian Intelligence
Three Israeli citizens have been arrested over the past two weeks on suspicion of working under the direction of Iranian intelligence agents. The suspects allegedly carried out various tasks in exchange for payment, including hiding money in different locations and posting anti-Israel signs in Tel Aviv. These activities were uncovered through counter-intelligence operations conducted by the Shin Bet domestic intelligence service and the Israeli police's National Unit for International Investigations. The investigation revealed what authorities described as <an infrastructure of Iranian intelligence agents> operating <under the guise of foreign agencies> to recruit Israelis for various operations within the country in recent months.
One of the suspects, 21-year-old Elimelech Stern from Beit Shemesh, has been indicted. According to the indictment, Stern was in contact with a Telegram profile under the name 'Anna Elena,' who instructed him to perform various tasks. These included hanging signs in Tel Aviv, hiding money in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and delivering packages containing disturbing contents to Israeli civilians' doorsteps. The packages allegedly contained a severed animal head or a doll next to a knife, accompanied by threatening messages. The Iranian agents reportedly also requested Stern to set fire to a forest, among other tasks.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/131876-three-israelis-arrested

Al Jazeera - July 17, 2024
<<UN chief slams Israel for dooming prospects for two-state solution
Antonio Guterres says recent developments in the occupied West Bank are 'driving a stake through the heart' of a two-state solution.
UN chief.
Israel's policy toward the occupied West Bank is dooming any prospect of a two-state solution with the Palestinians, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said. Through administrative and legal steps, Israel is changing the geography of the West Bank, Guterres said in a statement read by his chief of staff, Courtenay Rattray, during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday. Settlement expansion is expected to speed up due to big land seizures in strategic areas and changes to planning, land management and governance, Guterres added.<Recent developments are driving a stake through the heart of any prospect for a two-state solution,> said the UN chief. Israeli military raids, arrests of Palestinians and settler violence have soared in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem since Israel launched its war on Gaza in October. Guterres noted that Israel has taken punitive steps against the Palestinian Authority and legalised five Israeli outposts in the West Bank.
Israel has built such outposts as part of its occupation of the West Bank since 1967. <We must change course. All settlement activity must cease immediately,> Guterres said. The UN chief also repeated his call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza war and the release of all hostages.
At least 38,794 people have been killed and 89,364 wounded in Israel's war on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 is estimated at 1,139, with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.
<The humanitarian situation in Gaza is a moral stain on us all,> Guterres said.
Meeting disrupted by protest
At the UNSC quarterly session on the Middle East on Wednesday, Israel's war on Gaza and the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip dominated the agenda. <What is happening in Gaza is going down as the most documented genocide in history,> Riyad Mansour, Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, told the session. <When will the world denounce the crimes and stop tolerating their reoccurrence?> Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan accused Hamas of crimes against humanity and said the Israeli captives were being held by <Iranian-supported and inspired terrorist organisations>. The UNSC meeting was briefly interrupted after Erdan's speech by two women dressed in black, who stood with signs and yelled for the release of Israeli hostages held by Palestinian groups in Gaza. UN security asked the women to leave the chamber and they did so, a UN official said. The demonstration came as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov began to address the 15-member body. Lavrov, who was chairing the meeting because Russia is the UNSC president for July, responded: <I don't understand, speak more clearly. One of you can speak clearly to say what you want to say. I see you don't wish to do so, very well.>
Protests inside the UN headquarters in New York City are rare.
SOURCE: NEWS AGENCIES>>
Source:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/17/un-chief-slams-israel-for-dooming-prospects-for-two-state-solution

France 25 - July 17, 2024 - By: NEWS WIRES
<<Hamas committed 'hundreds' of war crimes on October 7, HRW says
Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups it coordinated committed hundreds of war crimes in the October 7 attack on southern Israel, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) NGO said in a new report released on Wednesday. Hamas rejected the findings, calling on the US-based rights group to withdraw the report and apologise. Hamas led other Palestinian armed groups in committing hundreds of war crimes in the surprise October 7 attack on Israel that set off the Gaza war, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Wednesday. Hamas reacted with fury to one of the most in-depth international studies on the unprecedented incursion into southern Israel, demanding that HRW withdraw the report and <apologise>. The report set out a host of crimes under international law that it says Hamas and its allies breached. <It's impossible for us to put a number on the specific instances,> HRW associate director Belkis Wille told a news conference, adding that <there were obviously hundreds on that day>. The crimes include <deliberate and indiscriminate attacks against civilians and civilian objects; wilful killing of persons in custody; cruel and other inhumane treatment; sexual and gender-based violence; hostage taking; mutilation and despoiling (robbing) of bodies; use of human shields; and pillage and looting>, said the report. The report focuses on violations of international humanitarian law, rules mostly rooted in the Geneva Conventions for conduct in war. Although Palestinian Islamist group Hamas is recognised as the orchestrator of the attack, the report lists other armed groups that committed war crimes on October 7, including Palestinian Islamic Jihad. <The reality is that it really wasn't civilians from Gaza who perpetrated the worst abuses,> said Wille. <That was a claim made very early on by Hamas to distance itself from the events, and by Israel to justify its retaliation operation.>
'Incredibly organised' campaign
Wille pointed to the <incredibly organised and coordinated nature> of the assault on cities, kibbutz communities, and military bases around Gaza.
<Across many attack sites, fighters fired directly at civilians, often at close range, as they tried to flee, and at people who happened to be driving vehicles in the area,> said the report. <They hurled grenades and shot into safe rooms and other shelters and fired rocket-propelled grenades at homes. They set some houses on fire, burning and suffocating people to death, and forcing out others who they then captured or killed.> HRW said it <found evidence of acts of sexual and gender-based violence by fighters including forced nudity, and the posting without consent of sexualised images on social media.> The report quoted a team of the UN special representative on sexual violence in conflict who said they interviewed people who had reported witnessing <rape and gang rape, in at least three locations>. But it said the full extent of sexual and gender-based violence <will likely never be fully known> as victims had died, or stigma would stop them talking out, or Israeli first responders <largely> did not collect relevant evidence.
Hamas angrily rejected the report.
<We reject the lies and blatant bias towards the occupation and the lack of professionalism and credibility in the Human Rights Watch report. We demand its withdrawal and an apology,> said a statement released by the Palestinian militants, considered a <terrorist> group by the United States, European Union and others. The attack resulted in the deaths of 1,195 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures.
The militants seized 251 hostages, 116 of whom remain in Gaza including 42 the military says are dead. Israel responded with a military offensive that has killed at least 38,664 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to data provided by the Gaza health ministry. The report only covered the events of October 7, not the subsequent war. Hamas said it should have taken account of Israel's response. HRW is still looking into the conflict in Gaza. The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor has asked court judges to issue arrest warrants against Hamas leaders including its political leader Ismail Haniyeh and Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The prosecutor has also sought warrants against Netanyahu and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, on charges ranging from <starvation of civilians> to <extermination and/or murder> as crimes against humanity.
(AFP)>>
Source:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240717-hamas-led-groups-committed-hundreds-of-war-crimes-on-october-7-hrw-says


Eight schools hit
Jinha - Womens News Agency - July 17, 2024
<<At least eight schools hit in Gaza in 10 days
<At least eight schools hit in the last 10 days, including six UNRWA schools,> UNRWA Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini said Wednesday on social platform X.
News Center- United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini Wednesday released a statement on social platform X about Israeli attacks targeting schools in the Gaza Strip. <At least eight schools hit in the last 10 days, including six UNRWA schools,> Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. <The war robbed the girls and boys in Gaza of their childhood and education,> he said, stressing that schools are not a target. <Schools must never be used for fighting or military purposes by any party to the conflict. The blatant and constant disregard of international humanitarian law continues unabated. All rules of war have been broken in Gaza. Losing our common humanity must not become the new norm.> On Monday and Tuesday, Israel conducted attacks on two schools run by the UNRWA in the Nuseirat refugee camp, located in the middle of the Gaza Strip, killing at least 30 Palestinians.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/at-least-eight-schools-hit-in-gaza-in-10-days-35392

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