As the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire enters its third week, Palestinians return to destroyed buildings posing deadly hazards with an estimated 66,000 tons of unexploded ordnance buried in the rubble.
    Hamas expands its search for the remains of 13 captives as Israel relents and allows teams from Egypt and the Red Cross into Gaza to help find their bodies.
    US President Donald Trump hints troops from Qatar – and elsewhere – may be part of an international stabilisation force to be deployed “soon” in Gaza.
    Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 68,280 people and wounded 170,375 since October 2023. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023 attacks and about 200 taken captive.

Israeli army says it killed 2 Hezbollah members

    A military update claims Ali Hussein al-Mousawi, an alleged weapons smuggler for the Lebanese group, has been killed in an attack in the Bekaa region in eastern Lebanon.

    He “purchased and transferred weapons from Syria to Lebanon” and “played a significant role in the re-establishment and strengthening of Hezbollah”, the army statement said.

    Separately, the military claimed Abed Mahmoud al-Sayed, who served as the local representative of Hezbollah in the village of Ras al-Bayada, was killed in the Naqoura area of southern Lebanon.

    Lebanese state media reported both deadly attacks, citing the Health Ministry.

    Israel continues to launch air strikes on Lebanon despite the November 2024 ceasefire signed with Hezbollah.

Gaza’s People Tribunal findings a ‘counter-narrative’ to Israel’s ‘security’ claims

    Here is more from the Gaza People’s Tribunal “jury of conscience” statement after four days of public hearings during which international jurists, experts and witnesses presented evidence of Israel’s genocide.

    The tribunal’s work amounts to “a valuable archive, … providing lasting evidence of the truth of the genocide against the Palestinian people”, the statement said. It also expressed solidarity “with the rallies, the marches, the encampments, the flotillas, the strikes and other actions that protest the genocide and states’ unwillingness to hold Israel to account”.

    The ruling “offers a counter-narrative to the security narrative Israel and its allies persistently broadcast”, rejecting language that frames Palestinian suffering merely as a humanitarian disaster.

    Its findings draw on international law, human rights treaties, the Rome Statute and “the unyielding belief that every human life has equal worth”.

    The jury said Israel’s war on Gaza shows global governance is failing to uphold its duties.