1️⃣ Israeli officials react with outrage after Spain, Ireland and Norway announce their recognition of the State of Palestine, promising to continue the attack on Gaza and build new illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
2️⃣ Intense street battles continue in Gaza’s southern Rafah and northern Jabalia as Israeli troops advance into both areas, packed with terrified civilians.
3️⃣ Israel’s military says its Nahal Brigade joined a division of troops surrounding Rafah as it plans to attack “terror targets” deep in the city, adding that it will prevent “harm to the civilian population as much as possible”.
4️⃣ UN says displaced “families living among the rubble” after more than 800,000 Palestinians flee Rafah as Israeli forces attack.
5️⃣ Washington has warned Israel against withholding Palestinian Authority funds after Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said he would withhold tax revenue.
6️⃣ Biden administration remains concerned about Israel’s possible use of heavy bombs against civilians in Rafah and is in contact with Israel, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.
7️⃣ The Israeli military has bombed a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least eight people, mostly women and children, the Wafa reports.
Today, the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign Choir uplifted Tesco Leith with powerful melodies, urging shoppers to boycott Israeli products and stand in solidarity with Palestine.
In a significant BDS achievement, the UK's government's anti-boycott bill, which targeted pro-Palestine parties and student organizations to prevent them from promoting the boycott of Israeli goods, has been defeated.
During an event in Washington, DC. to celebrate the Nakba and the creation of Israel, US Speaker Mike Johnson gave a religious speech praising Israel as "the fulfillment of promises made millennia ago to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
It was never about Hamas or hostages: An Israeli occupation soldier shares a picture of himself holding a photograph of a Palestinian woman from a home they raided in Gaza, accompanied by disturbing and inappropriate comments about her.
I'm sure Israeli supporters will look the other way or say "boys will be boys" to justify these despicable behaviors.
Defense lawyers for Israel did not convince the #InternationalCourtOfJustice that the ongoing evacuation operation in the southern #Gaza city had enhanced "the security of civilians."
Has #StarmerOurSaviour the great international human rights lawyer made any declaration yet about the #ICJ ordering Israel to end the assault on #Rafah, open up the border crossing for unrestricted humanitarian aid and provide unhindered access for UN war crimes investigators?
> Lo acaba de anunciar el ministro de Exteriores israelí, "como respuesta", dice, al reconocimiento del Estado de Palestina por parte del Gobierno español y a unas palabras de la presidenta Yolanda Díaz #spain #palestine #ceaseFireNow
‘We’re joined now by Dr. Adam Hamawy. He’s a plastic surgeon, Army veteran from New Jersey, who just left Gaza, where he took part in a volunteer mission with the Palestinian American Medical Association.’
“I worked with doctors who had fled other hospitals, like I said. They were targeted. I’ve talked to doctors and nurses who were taken as prisoners, interrogated and tortured”
“We hope other countries will recognize the Palestinian state as Spain did recently & Norway & Ireland. We have the right to live like other countries, to have a state & to live in freedom like other countries in the world”
“It’s a very good day for Ireland that we finally stopped the rhetoric and took the first step in a series of actions that I believe must be taken. And that first step is to recognize the State of Palestine.”
“And we should continue now as a country to use our unique position as one of the few neutral countries left in the world to be a voice for peace, so that Israelis and Palestinians can live and let each other live.”