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Inside the Base Where #Israel Has Detained Thousands of Gazans
Since Israel invaded #Gaza, the #SdeTeiman military base has filled with blindfolded, handcuffed detainees, held without charge or legal representation.
Violence has erupted at Israel's annual Jerusalem Day march, with some Jewish Israelis attacking Palestinians and journalists.
ABC reporter Allyson Horn, who was abused at the scene, says the ongoing Israel-Gaza war has spurred hostilities to a different level at this year’s event.
Even before the march began, confrontations erupted inside the Old City, with groups of young right-wing Jews attacking Palestinians and journalists.
Tens of thousands of Israeli settlers invaded the al-Aqsa mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.
Settlers were seen attacking Palestinians in several parts of the city.
“We need to hit them in the most important place for them,” National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir told Army Radio on Tuesday. “We need to come and say the Temple Mount is ours and Jerusalem is ours. If we see ourselves as the sovereign of the area, our enemies will respect us.”
Slovenia has approved, with a majority vote in the parliament, a decision to recognise Palestine as an independent state.
In this way, it dismissed earlier calls by the opposition party for a referendum on the issue.
This comes as support for Palestine appears to be growing in Europe where more states are adopting this move to pressure Israel to end the conflict in Gaza.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee Rafah, a designated “safe zone,” after the Israeli military launched a ground invasion on the area.
“Where Should People Go? The humanitarian zones are a lie,” says Bisan after dozens of Palestinians, many of whom women and children, were killed by Israeli attacks on a camp near Rafah.
UNRWA called the aftermath of the attack “hell on Earth.” Some people were burned alive inside their tents.
Flag Day is to commemorate the day when Israel occupied the West Bank and annexed East Jerusalem in 1967 ... illegal occupation.
This is the far right. Majority in Israel are right wing but these guys are the extreme far right.
There is no redemption here...They are an extension of the IOF, protected by the IOF.
IMO the only way to stop the violence is to heavily sanction Israel (North Korea style) and outlaw these guys.
Abid Al-Najar is struggling to cope with the loss of his wife and three children, killed in an Israeli attack on a displacement camp in Rafah.
Ahmed, just 18 months old, hadn't yet had the chance to dream. Abid witnessed the devastating aftermath, finding Ahmed decapitated in the Israeli blast that killed 45 people.
The family was in an Israeli-designated safe area when the attack occurred.
The US House of Representatives has voted to pass legislation that would sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) after its prosecutor applied for arrest warrants against Israeli officials.
The bill, proposed by pro-Israel Republicans, targets ICC officials involved in the case by blocking their entry to the US.
On Tuesday, it passed with a majority of Republican support by a vote of 247-155.
Given a choice between war and getting all its hostages back, Israel has opted for more war, argues Israeli journalist Gideon Levy.
Even if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was replaced, Israel would continue its war on Gaza and occupation of the Palestinian people as a whole. “Radical change” in Israeli attitude and U.S. support is needed for any improvement in the situation, says Levy.
"When hunger claims many more lives, nobody will be able to deny the horrifying impact of #Israel 's deliberate, illegal, and cruel obstruction of aid."
Fears are growing inside Israel about being blacklisted by the United Nations among countries harming children in conflict zones.
A report is scheduled to be released next month by UN Special Representative Virginia Gamba on the situation of children in conflict zones, which is likely to include Israel among entities violating children’s rights.
If added, Israel will be listed alongside "terrorist groups" such as Daesh/ISIS, al-Qaeda, and Boko Haram.
Former special assistant of the US Interior Department, Lily Greenberg Call, says President Joe Biden is “using the Jewish community” as “justification” for the country’s military support for Israel.
What forced her to resign was that Biden’s support of Israel has threatened both Jewish and Palestinian people, and is incentivised by American military interest in the Middle East.
“House lawmakers voted 247-155 in favor of H.R. 8282, the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act. 42…Democrats joined all but two Republicans…in approving the bill, which was sponsored by far-right Rep. Chip Roy….
“The ACLU warned…, ‘This legislation…would chill U.S. persons from engaging in constitutionally protected speech under the threat of civil and criminal penalties’ and ‘undermine the rule of law and the independence of the ICC.’” #HR8282#IsraelWarCrimes#A1#ICC
Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir slammed US President Joe Biden’s three-stage Gaza ceasefire deal, labelling it “promiscuous”.
Ben Gvir threatened to leave the coalition and topple the government if Prime Minister Netanyahu agreed to the deal, which he said would end the war without eliminating Hamas.
The extremist minister said he was told by Netanyahu that the actual proposal differs from the one announced by Biden.
During an interview with AFP in Jerusalem, an Israeli-American Netanel Aronson believes that there are bigger problems than “this little Rafah” the world should care about, condemning Hamas for starting Israel's war on Gaza.
Another Israeli, Nathalie, a French tour guide has expressed that “it’s never been easy being an Israeli,” adding that “we can feel that we’re really hated.”
Meet Palestinian journalist Bassem al Habal who reports from Gaza in sign language.
Working hard under Israeli bombings despite his hearing disability, Bassem aims to make news accessible for everyone to "know the truth, who is right and who is wrong".
Deaf individuals lack crucial information during disasters due to a lack of sign language interpretation, increasing vulnerability.
More than 22,000 people took to the streets of Paris, in a joint protest in solidarity with the people of Palestine.
It is the sixth day in a row that Parisians take to the streets to protest the continuing Israeli war on Gaza, since Israel bombed a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah on 26 May.
Protesters were heard chanting slogans including “no Olympic Games for the genociders”, “we are all children of Gaza” and “no justice, no peace”.