2024-07-16 01:47:47
The war between Israel and Hamas has left at least 38,664 dead in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to a new report released on Monday July 15 by the Palestinian Authority’s Islamist health center. At least 80 people have been killed in the past 24 hours, he announced in a statement, adding that 89,097 people have been injured in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war caused by attacks on October 7 by Hamas on Israeli soil.
Gaza authorities also updated the death toll from an Israeli air strike on a school in central Gaza on Sunday, from 15 to 22 deaths. The Abou Eriban school is managed by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees. (UNRWA), and hung up “thousands of people who were forced”, civilian defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal told Agence France-Presse on Sunday. The Israeli army, for its part, confirmed on Sunday that a “Many terrorists are operating in the area” from school.
On the Israeli side, 1,195 people died – most of them still civilians – during the attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023, according to the reading from Agence France-Presse (AFP) established from official Israeli sources. According to the Israeli army325 Israeli soldiers have also been killed since the military operations, out of a total of 682 including those who fell during the attack on October 7. Of the 251 people kidnapped on October 7, 116 are still in captivity in Gaza, 42 in which the soldier said he died.
Thirteen NGOs protested the extremely difficult conditions for delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza
Thirteen NGOs warned, in a product published Monday, of the “corruption” of humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip. Agencies, including Oxfam, Care, Save the Children and Doctors of the World, objected “Blocking Israel’s aid program and its attack on aid services”. According to them, less than half (53) of the 115 humanitarian missions planned in Israel were facilitated (46%).
Since the Israeli airstrike in early May in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, humanitarian workers have faced great difficulties in delivering aid. The capture of the Rafah crossing point by the Israelis at the beginning of May, now destroyed, happened a “Perfect Stay” of delivery, according to the NGO. Delivery to the north of the strip – separated from the south by the Israeli army and where 20% of the families are divided according to location. “disaster” a 50% a position “urgent” for hunger danger – there is, “extreme end”MSF explained.
For its part, Israel denies any famine in Gaza and accuses the United Nations of being responsible for blocking aid deliveries. “Yesterday, 211 trucks entered Gaza through Kerem Shalom, eight trucks were picked up at the Erez border in the Gaza Strip, and 103 in Kerem Shalom”David Mencer, a spokesman for the Israeli government, confirmed Monday.
Lebanon: Hezbollah says it bombed northern Israel after an attack that left two dead
A Hezbollah fighter and his sister were killed in an Israeli strike on the town of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon, the National News Agency (ANI) and the Lebanese Islamist group said, with the Israeli army saying it had targeted the site. Hezbollah weapons depot and military. presentation.
In response, the Lebanese Islamist group announced that it had sent dozens of rockets to the border town of Kyriat Shmona on Monday evening. “in response to attacks by Israel’s enemies on villages, including the horrific massacre in Bint Jbeil”. The Israeli army says it has captured half of the war “Projects from Lebanon”without reporting any injuries.
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Since the start of the war in Gaza, Hamas ally Hezbollah has exchanged daily cross-border fire with Israel, raising fears of a large-scale war. Violence on the Israel-Lebanon border has left 505 dead in Lebanon, most of them Hezbollah fighters, according to an AFP tally. On the Israeli side, at least 29 people, including 13 civilians, have been killed in these tensions, according to authorities.
A meeting between Hamas and Fatah in Beijing on July 20 and 21
The main two Palestinian movements, Fatah and Hamas, should meet in Beijing on July 20 and 21 to try to put an end to the differences that have contradicted each other for years, we learned on Monday from Fatah, the Palestinian Authority’s president, Mahmoud Abbas.
The two movements have been at odds since the Hamas government ousted the Palestinian Authority from Gaza in May 2007, after a year of political crisis and violence following the Islamist party’s victory in legislative elections in January 2006.
Palestinian minister accuses Israel of waging ‘war’ on Gaza prisons
At a press conference on Monday in Ramallah, the capital of the Palestinian Authority, Palestinian Minister for Prisoners Qadoura Fares accused Israel of carrying out an operation. “war of revenge” against the Palestinian detainees taken in the war zone in Gaza, by what he opposes as the widespread use of torture since October 7. Mr Fares, who heads the Department of Prisoner Affairs, opposes “Crimes committed against prisoners” take, like i, like “the roommates”. The department’s lawyer, Khaled Mahajneh, opposed the acts of torture, as well “rape” and violence “psychology” on prisoners, according to the testimonies of prisoners from Gaza who visited him in the Israeli military prison of Ofer, in the West Bank.
In response to an AFP inquiry on these allegations, an Israeli army spokesman specifically denied “Allegation of sexual violence against prisoners”. The army works “in accordance with Israeli law and international law to guarantee the rights of detainees”added the spokesman, confirming that the detainees agreed “three meals a day” in greatness covered by a “Registered Dietitian” and they have “Access to health care” ask.
On Monday evening, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) announced in a statement that following its appeal to the Supreme Court seeking the closure of the Sde Teman detention center, the Supreme Court has granted the State three to explain the rule of law. this interval. With the war in Gaza, the Sde Teman military base has been turned into a detention and interrogation center for Palestinians arrested in Gaza and suspected of being fighters or links with Hamas. ACRI and other human rights organizations accused Israel “punishments” in this locker center.
New round of EU sanctions against Israeli extremists
The European Union on Monday imposed a new round of sanctions on Israeli settlers and activist groups responsible for violations “significant and systematic” the rights of Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem. To his list of settlers and groups “bears” or others “Violent activists”, the EU added five additional people and three additional institutions, according to a press release from the EU Commission, which stands for Twenty-seven. This brings the total number of people and companies registered to fourteen, after the first announcement of sanctions in April. Sanctions include the freezing of assets and a ban on visas for entering the European Union.
The organizations targeted at this time are Moshe’s Farm, Zvi’s Farm and the Tzav 9 group, which is accused of specifically blocking the entry of humanitarian aid and fuel into Gaza by “Violent Acts”, underlines the press release. Among the five new people who received the mandate are Moshe Sharvit and Zvi Bar Yosef, directors of Moshe’s Farm and Zvi’s farm colonies. All of them have already been subject, since spring, to sanctions imposed by the United States and Canada. The other three are Isaschar Manne, Ben-Zion “Bentzi” Gopstein (whose Lehava organization was licensed in April by the EU), and Baruch Marzel who “openly called for the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians”according to the release of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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