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Al Jazeera - Sept 14, 2024 - By Federica Marsi
<<Israel's war on Gaza live: 11 killed in attack on house in Gaza City
Israel's military continues to pound Gaza, killing several Palestinians
in attacks on Gaza City and Khan Younis, a day after at least 19 people
died in assaults throughout the Strip. The first phase of a UN-led polio
vaccination drive has officially ended. About 560,000 children received
their first dose over 12 days.>>
Read more and view video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/14/israels-war-on-gaza-live-19-killed-as-first-phase-of-polio-drive-ends
Al Jazeera - Sept 13, 2024
<<'Israel has impunity to kill Americans' | #AJOPINION
Israeli forces murdering American citizens and the United States doing
nothing but express sadness shows how 'ridiculous' the US-Israel
relationship has become, says Muslim scholar and human rights activist
Omar Suleiman.>>
Read more and view video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/13/israel-has-impunity-to-kill-americans-ajopinion
Al Jazeera - Sept 13, 2024
<<Israel's war on Gaza updates: Palestinian children, women among 19
killed>>
Read more and view video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/13/israels-war-on-gaza-live-dozens-more-killed-amid-anger-over-school-attack
41,118 Palestinians killed
Jinha - Womens News Agency - Sept 13 , 2024
<<At least 41,118 Palestinians killed in Israel's war on Gaza since
October 7
At least 41,118 Palestinians have been killed, 95,125 others injured in
Israel's war on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, the Gaza's health
ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
News Center- Death toll in Israel's war on the Gaza Strip has kept
rising. At least 41,118 Palestinians have been killed, 95,125 others
injured in Israel's war on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, the
Gaza's health ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
At least 34 Palestinians were killed and 96 others injured in Israeli
attacks in the last 24 hours, the ministry added, stressing that there
are many bodies under rubble and the civil defense crews cannot reach
them due to ongoing Israeli attacks.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/at-least-41-118-palestinians-killed-in-israel-s-war-on-gaza-since-october-7-35668?page=1
Al Jazeera - Sept 12, 2024 - By Claudia Gohn
<<'Theatrics of danger'
As new semester dawns, campus protesters in US face heightened
restrictions
New York City, United States - Fall semester was meant to be the final
hurdle. Only four months of classes remained before Jonas could graduate
from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. But as Jonas
- who asked to have his last name withheld — started his second week of
class, he found himself confronting a new obstacle: an impending
disciplinary hearing. Jonas was one of thousands of university students
across the United States who participated in on-campus activism to
protest Israel's war in Gaza during the last academic year. Now, as
those student protesters return for a new year of learning, they are
facing a landscape transformed by updated restrictions, heightened
security measures and increased scrutiny of pro-Palestine movements. For
Jonas, returning to school meant confronting the academic consequences
of his activism. Last year, as a co-founder of his campus chapter of
Students for Justice in Palestine, he protested Israel’s actions in Gaza
and rallied others to join him. The school had already alerted him that
he would face discipline. But the hearing had never materialised - until
this September, barely a few days into the start of the new academic
year. Jonas told Al Jazeera he received an email from the university
accusing him of disrupting college activities and failing to register
his group's protests, among other charges. Jonas explained that he was
nervous about the hearing; he had already paid his tuition for the
semester and is worried the school may prevent him from completing his
course load. "Now, if I'm suspended and I'm banned from campus, I don't
know what I'm supposed to do," he said.
Pressure on campus
Colleges and universities were centres of the pro-Palestine protest
movement in the US, sparking trends that spilled across international
borders.
In April, for instance, students in New York started to build "Gaza
solidarity" encampments, erecting tents on campus lawns. Soon, schools
in Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom had established their own
similar protest camps. But the crackdown was swift. More than 3,000 US
students have been arrested since the first encampment rose, and school
administrators threatened some protest leaders with suspension and
academic probation. Donors, politicians and other groups also pressured
universities to take strong action, accusing the protesters of
anti-Semitism and fostering an unsafe learning environment. Student
protesters vehemently denied those allegations. Nevertheless, the
criticism continued even after the spring semester ended in June, with
many campuses emptying for the summer months. "Nobody gets the right to
harass their fellow students," Republican vice presidential candidate JD
Vance said in an interview last week. <Nobody gets a right to set up 10
encampments and turn their college campuses into garbage dumps.> Over
the summer, several high-profile campuses - including Columbia
University and New York University - settled lawsuits from students
alleging anti-Semitic harassment. But tensions remain high. The
Republican-led House of Representatives, for instance, continues to lead
a probe into whether several top schools were too lax in cracking down
on anti-Jewish hate.
New year, new rules
In response, many universities began the new academic year with a slate
of new rules and guidelines that critics say dampen free speech. At New
York University, for instance, a paragraph about the word <Zionism> was
added to the school's official <Guidance and Expectations on Student
Conduct> on August 25. <Using code words, like <Zionist,> does not
eliminate the possibility that your speech violates the
[Non-discrimination and Anti-harassment] Policy,> the school wrote.
Meanwhile, at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, school
administrators initially announced in early August that future protests
would be limited to two hours, before backtracking later in the month.
The revised rules still limit <large demonstrations> to five hours and
designated areas. At Stony Brook University in Long Island, New York,
Zubair - a student who likewise asked for his last name to be withheld,
for fear of repercussions - told Al Jazeera he was surprised to discover
new rules about posting flyers. Zubair helps to lead his campus's branch
of Students for Justice in Palestine. On August 23, the Friday before
his semester started, he and other students put flyers up around campus,
only to find out that there were new rules preventing them from doing
so. Under the updated rules, posting flyers required authorisation from
the university. Chalk messages on sidewalks were also banned. "It was
never enforced until it was political flyers, specifically pro-Palestine
flyers that were being put around," Zubair said. "Then all of a sudden,
they needed to be approved or they can't be taped to this wall, or you
need building manager permission." Jonas at the Fashion Institute of
Technology, meanwhile, noted that his campus had tightened restrictions
in a way that appeared aimed at student protests. "It says unauthorised
overnight activities will be considered trespassing and addressed as
such," Jonas said, pointing to temporary guidelines issued in August. He
feared the guidelines could result in law enforcement actions. "It
basically means, any encampment that you do, you're getting arrested.
Which is expected, but now they have it explicitly in writing."
Swift arrests
Veronica Salama, a staff lawyer with the New York Civil Liberties Union,
said the changing policies reflect a larger trend that has been
developing over the past year. She observed that universities have taken
a harsher approach when it comes to containing pro-Palestinian protests,
compared with the anti-war protests of previous decades. "We've seen
several instances where universities are operating very, very
differently with respect to students' Palestine protests than they have
with respect to and in response to students' protests about issues in
decades past," she said.
But one professor at Columbia University, who asked to remain anonymous
for fear of professional and personal repercussions, said he noticed his
administration was taking action against protesters even more swiftly
this semester. "We're starting the first day of class now with [three]
arrests," the professor said.
Maureen Milligan, a University at Buffalo staff member and divestment
activist, credited the new rules to the continued public pressure
administrators are facing. She referenced a conversation she had with
colleagues at the University at Buffalo. "One of the administrators even
said it's partially a reaction to the criticism they received because of
the police brutality that occurred on the campus on May 1st when an
encampment was attempted," Milligan said. At Columbia, private security
officers from Apex Security now swarm the campus, with an employee
posted at almost every door. Students, staff and faculty are required to
swipe their university identification cards to enter the campus - a
departure from when the school used to be open to the public. New signs
have appeared on the Columbia campus in recent weeks alerting students
that it is prohibited to put up tents.
Columbia professor Amy Chazkel warned the evolving security measures
have created a confused, tense environment for the university community.
"It seems absurd to even think about applying rules in a scenario where
the rules are constantly changing," Chazkel told Al Jazeera. "And the
security measures are being implemented in reaction to things that don't
exist or in reaction to political impulses about intentionally creating
a feeling, a theatrics of danger on campus."
Protesters pledge to continue
For Palestinian American student activist Maryam Alwan, the experience
of coming back to Columbia's campus for a new semester has been
overwhelming, even triggering. "Returning to campus was unbearably re-traumatising
- everywhere I go brings back repressed memories," she wrote in a
message to Al Jazeera. Alwan explained she now has a class in the very
same building where, in late April, police arrested student protesters
barricaded inside. "And of course, the lawns are simultaneously a
nostalgic reminder of the most communal, happiest period of my life and
where I got arrested." Still, Alwan said, the events unfolding in Gaza
push her to continue her protests. The start of the semester coincided
with the beginning of the war's 12th month, and more than 40,000
Palestinians have been killed. "Days ago, my friend found out that her
family's house was turned into a military base, and then she just had to
go to class," Alwan explained. To Columbia, we are political problems,
not people facing the most painful period of our lives. We’re on our own
- but we have each other." As Jonas goes into his final months at the
Fashion Institute of Technology, he too is focused on the ongoing war.
He told Al Jazeera he is committed to continuing his fight. Already, he
helped organise a rally in front of his campus. "All our institutions
and our government is very actively complicit, if not an active
participant, in this genocide," Jonas says. "We know that they will
retaliate harsher against us for standing up against it." He added that
he is undeterred by the changing rules and potential consequences. "We
kind of wear that as a badge of honour in a way, and we are definitely
willing to face those consequences."
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2024/9/12/as-new-semester-dawns-campus-protesters-in-us-face-heightened-restrictions
Al Jazeera - Sept 12, 2024
<<WHO evacuates 97 patients from Gaza to UAE for treatment
The World Health Organization evacuated 97 sick and critically injured
patients from Gaza, half of them children, in its largest operation
since the war began. They were flown to the UAE for treatment.>>
View video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/12/who-evacuates-97-patients-from-gaza-to-uae-for-treatment
BBC - Sept 12, 2024 - By Robert Greenall
<<UN says Israeli strike on Gaza school killed six of its staff
Unrwa said this was the fifth time al-Jaouni school had been hit since
the start of the war
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) says six of its employees
have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a school it runs in central
Gaza.
Gaza's Hamas-run Civil Defence agency said a total of 18 people were
killed in Wednesday’s strike on al-Jaouni school in Nuseirat refugee
camp, which is being used as a shelter by thousands of displaced
Palestinians. Israel's military said it carried out a <precise strike on
terrorists> planning attacks from the school. On Thursday, the military
alleged that nine of those killed were members of Hamas's armed wing and
that three of them were Unrwa staff. Unrwa said the Israeli military had
not requested a list of the staff who were killed, and that the names
published by the military had not been previously flagged to the agency
by Israeli authorities. Earlier, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
condemned the strike, saying: "What's happening in Gaza is totally
unacceptable. These dramatic violations of international humanitarian
law need to stop now," he wrote on X, formerly Twitter. Israel's
ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, hit out at Guterres' criticism. <It
is unconscionable that the UN continues to condemn Israel in its just
war against terrorists, while Hamas continues to use women and children
as human shields,> he said. Hamas - which is proscribed as a terrorist
group by Israel, the UK and other countries - has denied using schools
and other civilian sites for military purposes. Israeli forces launched
a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to the group's unprecedented
attack on southern Israel on 7 October, in which about 1,200 people were
killed and 251 others were taken back to Gaza as hostages. More than
41,110 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the
territory's Hamas-run health ministry. Israel's military said it had
conducted a <precise air strike on terrorists> operating in the school
Unrwa said Wednesday's strike on al-Jaouni school had resulted in "the
highest death toll among our staff in a single incident" since the start
of the war. It was also the fifth time the school had been hit over the
same period, it added. Video of the aftermath showed hundreds of people
inspecting the heavily damaged ground floor of one wing of the school,
as well as the remains of an adjoining structure that appeared to have
been destroyed.
Other footage showed ambulances bringing wounded men, women and children
said to have been hurt in the strike to al-Aqsa hospital in the town of
Deir al-Balah. "My friend and her children were injured, and the
director and deputy director [of the shelter] were martyred. They were
inside the office when the shelling started," one woman told BBC
Arabic's Gaza Today programme. "It's hard to describe the horrible scene
where their bodies were torn into pieces," she added. Civil Defence
spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said on Wednesday night that 18 people were
killed, including Unrwa staff members, children and women, and that 18
others were injured. A Telegram post from the agency identified one of
those killed as the daughter of one of its rescue workers, Momin Salmi.
It said he had not seen Shadia for 10 months because he had stayed in
northern Gaza while his wife and their eight children had fled
southwards. The BBC was not able to independently verify the death toll,
but a medical source at al-Awda hospital in Nuseirat camp told AFP that
a total of 15 people killed in the strike had been brought there and to
al-Aqsa hospital. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Wednesday that
aircraft had <conducted a precise strike on terrorists who were
operating inside a Hamas command and control centre> embedded inside al-Jaouni
school. <Numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming
civilians, including the use of precise munitions, aerial surveillance
and additional intelligence,> it added. "This is a further example of
the Hamas terrorist organisation's systematic abuse of civilian
infrastructure in violation of international law." Gaza's Hamas-run
government media office accused Israel of a "brutal massacre". Later,
Unrwa said in a statement that two air strikes had hit the school and
its surroundings, which were home to around 12,000 displaced people,
mainly women and children. "Among those killed was the manager of the
Unrwa shelter and other team members providing assistance to displaced
people," it said.
The agency insisted that "schools and other civilian infrastructure must
be protected at all times", adding: "They are not a target. We call on
all parties to the conflict to never use schools or the areas around
them for military or fighting purposes." The UN said its premises should
never be targeted nor used by any groups for military purposes." On
Thursday afternoon, the IDF put out a statement saying that it had
repeatedly requested from Unrwa the names of the employees who were
killed in the strike, but that it had received <no answers>. It then
named nine men who it alleged were <Hamas terrorists... confirmed to
have been eliminated in the strike>. The IDF said all nine were members
of Hamas's armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, and that three of them
were <simultaneously an Unrwa employee>. Three names featured on a list
of the six Unrwa workers which was earlier released by the UN. <How long
will the UN continue to bury its head in the sand and ignore the fact
that Hamas terrorists have taken over Unrwa?> Mr Danon said. <These
murderers are not aid workers. They are terrorists with blood on their
hands and were rightly eliminated.>
Unrwa's communications director, Juliette Touma, said Israeli
authorities had not requested a list of staff killed from the agency.
"The names that appear on today’s statement from the Israeli Army have
not been flagged to us before by the Israeli authorities in previous
occasions prior to today," she said. "Unrwa shares the lists of all its
staff with the host governments and in the context of the West Bank and
Gaza also with the state of Israel as the occupying power." Ms Touma
also stressed that Unrwa had repeatedly called on the warring parties to
never use civilian facilities for military purposes. "Now whether this
particular school or other have been used for that very purpose, Unrwa
is not in a position to determine," she added. "This is precisely why we
have repeatedly called for independent investigations to look into these
very serious claims." Israel has previously accused Unrwa of supporting
Hamas.
The agency has denied this, but the UN said in August that it had fired
nine of Unrwa's 13,000 staff in Gaza after investigators found evidence
that they might have been involved in the 7 October attack. Another 10
staff were cleared because of insufficient evidence. Israel also alleged
that hundreds of Unrwa staff were members of terrorist groups, but a UN
review published in April found Israel had not provided evidence for its
claims.
Hours before the incident, Unrwa said in a situation report that almost
70% of its schools in Gaza had been hit during the war. It also reported
that 214 of its staff members had been killed, along with at least 563
displaced people who had been sheltering inside its schools and other
installations.
In a separate development on Wednesday, the IDF announced that two
Israeli soldiers had been killed and eight others injured in a
helicopter crash overnight in southern Gaza. The helicopter was on a
mission to evacuate a critically injured soldier to a hospital for
medical treatment and crashed while landing in the Rafah area, a
statement said. "An initial inquiry conducted indicates that the crash
was not caused by enemy fire. The cause of the crash is still under
investigation," it added.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyn400rm68o
Le Monde - Sept 12, 2024 - By Lucas Minisini (Tel Aviv, special
correspondent)
<<Meir Baruchin, the Israeli teacher accused of 'treason'
The philosophy and civics teacher at a Tel Aviv high school is the
target of violent attacks after publishing two short posts on social
media expressing his compassion for civilian victims in Gaza.
For Meir Baruchin, the air in Israel has become stifling. The
60-year-old, who recently returned from an eight-day hike in
Scandinavia, where he was trying to "go out of the country to breathe
some fresh air," still receives many insulting messages and violent
threats on social media. "Anonymous messages wishes for me and my
children to die," described this philosophy and civics teacher at a high
school in Petah Tikva, east of Tel Aviv, as he sat in the living room of
his south Jerusalem apartment in early August. For almost ten months
now, this teacher has been under investigation for <public disturbance>
and <intent to betray the State of Israel> after publishing two short
texts on Facebook in October 2023 condemning the death of Palestinian
civilians killed in Israeli army strikes on the Gaza Strip, carried out
in retaliation for Hamas' attack on Israeli territory. Despite a
prosecutor's decision not to indict him, the Jerusalem police have not
dropped the charges against him. "They keep the case open to harass me,"
said the political scientist and American history graduate. In addition
to this intense legal pressure, Baruchin, who initially lost his job
before being reinstated in the same position at the beginning of the
year, just received his new timetable and is preparing his classes for
the start of the new school year, which he pointed out with a faint
smile as if to underline the absurdity of the situation. "When I'll look
back at my career, those past months will be the best civic class I'll
have ever given." His story, which began with a simple Facebook post on
October 8, 2023, 24 hours after the Hamas massacres in which over 1,000
people were murdered, has become a symbol of Israel's ferocious attacks
on freedom of speech. In two public posts, accompanied by a photo of
Palestinian children killed in the Israeli army's massive bombardment of
the Gaza Strip, Baruchin urged his government to "stop this madness."
Dozens of people, including some of his high school colleagues, were
incensed by what they considered his overly critical remarks.
Apartment searched by the police
On October 18, the teacher, known for his strong left-wing political
views, was summoned to appear before the disciplinary board of the high
school where he had been teaching for the past ten years. On the sole
basis of a handful of sentences published online, Baruchin was dismissed
the very next day. His superiors immediately filed a complaint. The
police searched and <ransacked> his apartment in early November, looking
for evidence of <sedition> in his archives and electronic devices, all
of which were confiscated. In a video filmed shortly after the search
and viewed by Le Monde, his belongings can be seen strewn across the
floor of his home.>>
Read more here:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/09/12/meir-baruchin-the-israeli-teacher-accused-of-treason_6725698_4.html
France 24 - Sept 12, 2024 - By: NEWS WIRES
<<Hamas says it is ready to implement Gaza ceasefire deal without 'new
conditions'
After meetings with Qatari and Egyptian mediators in Doha on Wednesday,
Palestinian militant group Hamas reiterated its "readiness" to adopt US
President Joe Biden's long-gestating Gaza ceasefire deal, originally
proposed in May, as pressure grows on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu to bring home hostages. A Hamas delegation met Qatari and
Egyptian mediators in Doha on Wednesday to discuss a truce in Gaza and a
potential hostage and prisoner exchange, the militant group said in a
statement. Hamas said its lead negotiator Khalil al-Hayya met with
Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani and
Egypt's intelligence chief Abbas Kamel. The Palestinian group said they
had discussed "developments concerning the Palestinian cause and the
aggression on the Gaza Strip" without indicating that talks had resulted
in a breakthrough.
Months of behind-the-scenes negotiations mediated by Qatar, Egypt and
the United States have failed to secure a halt to the fighting between
Hamas and Israel, with the exception of a one-week truce beginning in
late November. During the sole pause in the now 11-month war, 105
hostages were released to Israel in exchange for 240 Palestinian
prisoners under the deal struck by mediators. Recent rounds of mediation
held in Doha and Cairo have been based on a framework laid out in May by
US President Joe Biden and a "bridging proposal" presented to the
parties in August. The Hamas statement reiterated its "readiness for the
immediate implementation of the ceasefire agreement based on President
Biden's declaration".
Pressure for a deal has intensified after Israeli authorities announced
the deaths of six hostages at the start of September when their bodies
were recovered from a Gaza tunnel. But in the face of the external calls
for an agreement, both Israel and Hamas have publicly signaled deeper
entrenchment in their negotiating positions. Israel's Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu has doubled down in his calls for Israeli control of
the so-called Philadelphi Corridor on the Gaza-Egypt border -- a key
sticking point in negotiations -- saying it was necessary to stop Hamas
from rearming.
Last week, Egypt and then Qatar rejected the charge that the border was
being used to arm Hamas, accusing Netanyahu of trying to distract
Israeli public opinion and obstruct a ceasefire deal. In the statement
on Wednesday, Hamas also restated its demand for Israel's withdrawal
from "all Gaza territories". The militant group also claimed it had not
placed any further demands on negotiators and at the same time was
"rejecting any new conditions to this agreement from any party".
(AFP)>>
Source:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240912-hamas-ready-to-implement-ceasefire-deal-without-new-conditions-group-says
Al Jazeera - Sept 12, 2024 - By Stephen Quillen and Federica Marsi
<<Israel bombs UN-run school in Gaza sheltering Palestinians, killing 18
Some 12,000 displaced Palestinians were sheltering at the al-Jaouni
school, which has been attacked several times.
Gaza rescuers say 18 killed in Israeli strike on school
Israel's military bombed a school housing displaced Palestinians in
central Gaza, killing at least 18 people, including six staff members of
the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). The strike
on Wednesday that flattened part of the UN-run facility in the Nuseirat
refugee camp was condemned by several countries and UN agencies. Some
12,000 displaced Palestinians, most of them women and children, were
sheltering at al-Jaouni, according to UNRWA, when Israeli forces carried
out two air attacks on the building. "Endless and senseless killing, day
after day," UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said.
"Humanitarian staff, premises and operations have been blatantly and
unabatedly disregarded since the beginning of the war." The death of six
staff members takes the number of UNRWA employees killed in Gaza to at
least 220. The Palestinian Civil Defence spokesman in Gaza, Mahmoud
Basal, posted on the Telegram messaging app that the school was bombed
for the fifth time and more than 18 people were wounded. Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, said
<the carnage in Gaza must stop. No words can reflect the true horror and
loss of life in Gaza," he wrote on X. "Hospitals, schools and shelters
have been repeatedly bombarded, resulting in deaths of civilians and
humanitarians." Many school buildings have been repurposed to shelter
displaced families across the besieged Gaza Strip, as a majority of the
enclave's 2.4 million people have been repeatedly uprooted by the war.
Israeli forces have struck several such schools in recent months,
claiming that Hamas operates from these places and hides among
civilians. The Palestinian group has denied the charges.
The Israeli military said in a statement that it had conducted a
<precise strike> on a Hamas command and control centre within the al-Jaouni
compound. It did not elaborate on the outcome, but said “numerous steps”
were taken to reduce the risk to civilians.>>
Source and view photos here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/9/12/israel-bombs-un-run-school-in-gaza-sheltering-palestinians-killing-18
Al Jazeera - Sept 12, 2024 - By Al Jazeera Staff
<<Four killed as Israel's large-scale assault on West Bank enters third
week
Israeli forces kill three Palestinians in Tulkarem and one in Far'a as
they press on with offensive in occupied territory.
Israeli forces have killed at least four Palestinians in the occupied
West Bank, according to media reports, as Israel's biggest military
operation in the Palestinian territory since the early 2000s entered its
third week. The Palestinian Wafa news agency said that three people were
killed in a drone attack on a vehicle in the city of Tulkarem on
Wednesday evening while another was killed by an Israeli sniper in the
Far'a refugee camp, near the city of Tubas. The Israeli drone attack on
Tulkarem set fire to the vehicle as well as a nearby home, Wafa
reported. And in Far'a, the Israeli sniper killed 46-year-old Sufyan
Jawad Fayez Abdul Jawad after shooting him in the heart, the agency
said.
There was no immediate comment from Israel.
The killings took the overall death toll from Israel's large-scale
militarised operation, launched in the West Bank on August 28, to at
least 50. The figure included five people who were killed in an air
attack on Tubas early on Wednesday.
Arrests
About 40 people were arrested throughout the West Bank since Wednesday
night, according to the Palestinian Prisoner's Society. One of those
detained was pulled from a hospital where he was being treated, the
group said on Thursday. The total number of Palestinians arrested since
October 7 has reached 10,700, it added. Israel's offensive, which the
military claims targets Palestinian armed groups in the West Bank, came
as it continues to bombard the Gaza Strip, killing more than 41,000
Palestinians since October 7. The West Bank operation is mostly
concentrated in the territory’s northern governorates of Tulkarem, Tubas
and Jenin, and has displaced hundreds of people and inflicted widespread
damage to roads, water and sewerage networks, according to the United
Nations. In the Jenin governorate, from where Israeli forces withdrew
last week after a 10-day operation that saw the use of "lethal, war-like
tactics", at least 21 Palestinians have been killed and dozens more
wounded, according to Wafa and the UN Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). In its latest update on the situation in
the West Bank, OCHA said Israel’s operation in Jenin displaced 1,000
families. Most of them have returned to their homes, but at least 297
people, including 102 children, remain displaced after Israeli forces
rendered their homes inhabitable. Israeli forces also bulldozed 70
percent of Jenin city's roads and the underlying water and sewage
networks, "severely impacting the safety of movement and access to
essential services of water, sanitation, healthcare, education, and
markets", OCHA reported. As a result of the destruction, water supply
has been cut to approximately 35,000 residents of the camp and its
surrounding neighbourhoods since August 28, it said. The Israel-wrought
destruction was similar in the Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps in
the Tulkarem governorate, where at least 12 people have been killed.
OCHA said about 327 Palestinians, including 123 children, remain
displaced in the two camps after Israeli forces damaged 400 homes and
rendered 61 of them uninhabitable. More than 2.6km (1.6 miles) of water
and sewage networks in the camps have also been bulldozed, cutting off
water to approximately 33,000 people in the camps and resulting in
sewage overflows, the agency added.
Alleged truck ramming
As Israeli operations continued in the West Bank, the military reported
a ramming attack east of the city of Ramallah on Wednesday. It said the
driver of a <Palestinian truck> drove towards Israeli troops, and was <neutralised>.
An Israeli soldier was killed in the incident, while the condition of
the suspected assailant was not clear. On Thursday, Almog Cohen, an MP
with the far-right Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, said Israel must
collectively punish Palestinians in the West Bank. <A siege must be
imposed on the villages or cities from which terrorists emerge,> said
Cohen, in comments carried by Israeli public radio.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/12/four-killed-as-israels-large-scale-raids-on-west-bank-enter-third-week
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