al jazeeraHamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad say in a joint statement that they have submitted a response to a UN-backed ceasefire proposal to mediators in Qatar and Egypt.
UNICEF spokesperson James Elder says from inside Gaza: “Homes, hospitals, schools, universities, agriculture, the economy… devastated. And still the bombs fall”.
Hezbollah announces that one of its senior commanders was killed in an Israeli attack on Lebanon. News reports indicate that Taleb Abdallah, also known as Abu Taleb, was the most senior Hezbollah commander killed in months, and that several people were killed in the attack in the southern Lebanese town of Jouaiya.
At least six people have been killed during an Israeli military raid on the occupied West Bank town of Kafr Dan, near Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
At least 37,164 people have been killed and 84,832 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll in Israel from Hamas’s attacks stands at 1,139, with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) said it was dismayed by the decision of Argentina’s right-wing President Javier Milei to withdraw from a planned meeting with a council of ambassadors of Arab and Islamic groups because of the presence of Palestine.
The OIC – the world’s second-largest intergovernmental body after the UN – said Milei’s decision undermined the “status and rights” of the State of Palestine and “constitutes a hostile and unjustified attitude towards the Islamic Group”.
“The OIC deemed this behaviour unacceptable, viewing it as part of a recent pattern of hostility by the President of Argentina, who appears to stand on the wrong side of history by aligning with the Israeli occupation,” the OIC said in a statement.
“This stance…runs counter to Argentina’s obligations under international law and resolutions of international legitimacy,” the organisation said.
The OIC called on “Argentina to reconsider its position on denying the rights of the Palestinian people, who are subjected to genocide in the Gaza Strip”.
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin spoke with Israel’s Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant to “congratulate him on the rescue of four Israeli hostages”.
Some 274 Palestinians were killed and hundred more wounded in the Israeli military’s violent assault on the Nuseirat refugee camp during the operation to free the four.
Austin also raised his concerns about escalating tensions on the Israel-Lebanon border, blaming this on “increased aggression” from Hezbollah.
He also reiterated US support for the Gaza ceasefire and captive deal, saying that the “onus is on Hamas to accept the deal”.
A White House spokesperson has described the behaviour of pro-Palestine protesters outside an exhibit in New York City commemorating the Nova music festival massacre as “outrageous and heartbreaking”.
“Anti-Semitism has no place in the United States,” Andrew Bates said, also describing the protesters’ behaviour as “horrifying”.
We previously reported that pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with police outside the exhibit in Manhattan on Monday.
Demonstrators waved flairs and Palestinian flags, and chanted slogans including, “Long live the intifada” and “Resistance is justified where people are occupied”.
Some 364 civilians were killed in an attack on the festival on October 7, as part of a wider Hamas-led assault on southern Israel that day.
Speaking at a conference on Gaza in Jordan on Tuesday, the UN’s humanitarian aid chief Martin Griffiths said an ongoing UN review was examining whether any aspect of the US pier project in Gaza was used in Saturday’s Israeli military operation, which killed hundreds of civilians while freeing four Israeli captives.
The UN World Food Programme, which oversees distribution of aid in Gaza brought in via the pier, announced after the Nuseirat attack that it was suspending operations involving the pier while it reassesses the safety of aid workers.
If the allegations are “true they are very concerning, because they would put at risk any future humanitarian engagement in that operation”, Griffiths said, referring to the US pier project.
Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder said an area south of the pier was used in returning the rescued captives to Israel.
Responding to a question on the Nuseirat attack, Griffiths said the UN would be concerned if it found either the beach or the roads leading from the pier were used in staging the attack.
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These soldiers are from a country whose president is a Jew Zelensky. Orthodox churches are also being destroyed in this country. Synagogues are not touched. Surprisingly, it turns out that Jews get along well with the Bandera Nazis.