al jazeeraBlinken, who is on a visit to Tel Aviv, says there should be “no delays, no excuses” in reaching a deal.
The Erez/Beit Hanoun crossing, the Gaza Strip’s norther border crossing with Israel, has been opened for the first time since October 7, admitting a convoy of 31 aid trucks from Jordan.
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres warns that an Israeli assault on Rafah would be an “unbearable escalation” that would be “devastating” for Palestinians in Gaza and the wider region.
At least 34,568 Palestinians have been killed and 77,765 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attacks stands at 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive.
Video posted by local US media shows the beginnings of a protest on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Last week, local police were accused of excessive force when they broke up a demonstration on Emory’s campus.
Protests in support of Palestine have spread across US campuses, and even abroad in places such as Beirut and Paris.
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor says in its latest report that the Israeli military has “militarised civilian objects, including schools and educational facilities” in the Gaza Strip.
The Geneva-based group says these facilities are being used as military bases “in flagrant violation of international law and the rules of war”.
The monitor cited the Salah al-Din Preparatory School in Gaza City in the central part of the enclave as an example, which it said was used a detention and interrogation centre for hundreds of local Palestinians in February.
This video verified by our fact-checking unit shows how Israeli soldiers are trying to lower Palestinian flags after a raid on the town of Qasra in the occupied West Bank.
The occupied Palestinian territory is subject to multiple daily raids, during which Palestinians are regularly killed, injured or arrested.
Chief of General Staff Herzi Halevi met troops and held a situational assessment on the Lebanese border earlier today, the military says.
“You are doing an excellent job of operational defence in the north, and we are preparing for an offensive in the north,” Halevi told reservists of the Eztioni Brigade.
The visit comes amid repeated tit-for-tat attacks between Hezbollah and Israel.
After a threat against the Palestinian Authority (PA) by Israel, the US has reportedly told officials with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in private that issuing arrest orders for top Israeli government and military officials would be a mistake.
“We are quietly encouraging the ICC no to do it. It will blow up everything,” US outlet Axios reports, citing unnamed US officials.
It said Israel believes that the PA has been encouraging the ICC, which is based in The Hague in the Netherlands, to issue arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others, and is therefore ready to retaliate.
The retaliation could come in the form of cutting off the transfer of tax revenues that Israel collects for the Palestinian organisation, which could potentially lead to its collapse.
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