al jazeera

By Zaheena Rasheed and Alastair Mccready
   Israeli forces shelled a tent camp in a designated “safe zone” west of Rafah and killed at least 21 people, including 13 women and girls, in the latest mass killing of Palestinian civilians.

    The UN Security Council convened an emergency meeting over Israel’s ground invasion of Rafah as Spain, Ireland and Norway formally recognised the state of Palestine.

    The UN says it has received about 170 trucks of humanitarian aid over the past three weeks – “a drop in the ocean” from the 500 trucks needed each day.

    Israel’s incursion launched in early May has forced 1 million people to flee Rafah, most of whom had already been displaced several times by Israel’s bloody war on Gaza.

    At least 36,096 Palestinians have been killed and 81,136 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s attack is at least 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.

    Women, girls suffer most in Israel’s war on Gaza: UN women’s agency chief

    Sima Bahous, the executive director of UN Women, said more than 10,000 Palestinian women have been killed in the seven months of Israel’s war on Gaza – including scores of women and children “horrifically killed” by an Israeli air strike while sleeping in tents in what was supposed to be a safe zone in Rafah.

    “This war must stop because women and girls are bearing the brunt of it,” Bahous told a UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday.

    Pro-Palestine protesters occupy train station in Italy

    A large crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters have occupied a train station in the Italian city of Bologna to campaign against the war in Gaza.

    Footage from the protest shows large crowds on the platform and standing on the tracks, chanting as they wave Palestinian flags.

    Israeli soldiers beat two Gaza detainees to death: Report

    Israel’s Haaretz newspaper is reporting that an internal military probe found Israeli soldiers beat two Palestinian detainees from Gaza to death.

    The detainees were beaten on their way to the Sde Teiman detention facility in the Nagab desert and died later, Haaretz reports, citing two unnamed sources.

    “While several soldiers were questioned about the incident, no one has been arrested on suspicion of causing their deaths,” the news outlet reported.

    Haaretz has previously reported that at least 27 detainees from Gaza have died in Israeli military custody at Sde Teiman and other bases.

    Released detainees and whistleblowers have long accused the Israeli military of subjecting detained Palestinians to severe abuse, including sexual violence, as well as torture through severe beatings, dog attacks, strip searches, waterboarding, and denial of food, sleep and toilet access.