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A leaked photograph of an enclosure where detainees in gray tracksuits are seen blindfolded and sitting on paper-thin mattresses. CNN was able to geolocate the hangar in the Sde Teiman facility
Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center
SDE TEIMAN, Israel — At a military base that now doubles as a detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, an Israeli working at the facility snapped two photographs of a scene that he says continues to haunt him.Rows of men in gray tracksuits are seen sitting on paper-thin mattresses, ringfenced by barbed wire. All appear blindfolded, their heads hanging heavy under the glare of floodlights.A putrid stench filled the air and the room hummed with the men’s murmurs, the Israeli who was at the facility told CNN. Forbidden from speaking to each other, the detainees mumbled to themselves.“We were told they were not allowed to move. They should sit upright. They’re not allowed to talk. Not allowed to peek under their blindfold.”Guards were instructed “to scream uskot” – shut up...
May 10, 2024

Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center

Palestine has had limited status at the UN since 2012
UN General Assembly calls on Security Council to admit Palestine as member
NEW YORK — The United Nations General Assembly has enhanced Palestine's rights within the organization and called for it to be accepted as a member.Palestine has had non-member observer state status since 2012, which allows some rights short of a full member.Membership can only be decided upon by the UN Security Council.The US would veto a bid for full membership in the council, but Friday's vote can be seen as a gesture of support for the Palestinians.It comes amid reports that several European countries plan to recognize a Palestinian state.EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told Spanish broadcast RTVE on Thursday that Spain would do so on 21 May. He has previously said Ireland, Slovenia and Malta would also take the step, without confirming the date.Friday's UN...
May 10, 2024

UN General Assembly calls on Security Council to admit Palestine as member

The Kuwaiti Specialist hospital has seen a surge in patients despite lacking beds, staff and equipment
Israeli operation leaves Rafah's hospitals overwhelmed
GAZA — Even without a full-scale Israeli ground invasion, Rafah's medical facilities have been overwhelmed.Medics say more than a million people sheltering in the southern Gaza city are at risk of being deprived of healthcare after the Israeli military began a "limited" operation against Hamas on its eastern outskirts on Monday.The largest of the city's three partially functioning hospitals, Abu Youssef al-Najjar, had to be hastily abandoned the following day after staff received an evacuation order and there was fighting nearby.The hospital's dialysis department had been the only surviving one in Gaza, a lifeline for patients suffering kidney failure.The Israeli advance has also cut off access to the nearby European Gaza Hospital in Khan Younis, where critical...
May 10, 2024

Israeli operation leaves Rafah's hospitals overwhelmed

Benjamin Netanyahu
Netanyahu defies US threats to cut off weapons, says Israel can 'stand alone'
TEL AVIV — Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed Israel can "stand alone", after the US warned arms shipments could be stopped if he orders a full-scale invasion of Rafah in Gaza.Thousands of people have already fled the southern city after the Israeli military began what it called a "limited" operation on Monday.US President Joe Biden has repeatedly warned against the operation, saying that it would cross a "red line".But Netanyahu dismissed the US warning, saying Israel would fight on."If we need to ... we will stand alone. I have said that if necessary we will fight with our fingernails," the prime minister said.Netanyahu also invoked the war of 1948 - where the newly formed State of Israel was attacked by a coalition of Arab states - to dismiss the US...
May 10, 2024

Netanyahu defies US threats to cut off weapons, says Israel can 'stand alone'

Accumulated sewage is contaminating Gaza's water supply - Rafah, 24 April 2024
Half of Gaza water sites damaged or destroyed, satellite data reveals
GAZA — Hundreds of Gaza's water and sanitation facilities have been damaged or destroyed since Israel began military action against Hamas, satellite analysis by BBC Verify has found.Damage to a major supplies depot has also severely disrupted repairs.The lack of clean water and flows of untreated sewage pose a serious threat to health, say aid agencies.The Israel Defense Forces told the BBC that Hamas cynically exploits civilian infrastructure for terror purposes.The destruction comes despite Israel's duty to protect critical infrastructure under the rules of war, unless there is evidence sites are being used for military reasons, say human rights lawyers.Clean water has always been a limited resource in Gaza and the territory has largely relied on a system of boreholes and...
May 09, 2024

Half of Gaza water sites damaged or destroyed, satellite data reveals

President Joe Biden speaks about his Investing in America agenda, at Gateway Technical College in Sturtevant, Wisconsin, on May 8, 2024
Biden says he will stop sending bombs to Israel if it launches major invasion of Rafah
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said for the first time Wednesday he would halt some shipments of American weapons to Israel – which he acknowledged have been used to kill civilians in Gaza – if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders a major invasion of the city of Rafah.“Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers,” Biden told CNN’s Erin Burnett in an exclusive interview on “Erin Burnett OutFront,” referring to 2,000-pound bombs that Biden paused shipments of last week.“I made it clear that if they go into Rafah – they haven’t gone in Rafah yet – if they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities –...
May 09, 2024

Biden says he will stop sending bombs to Israel if it launches major invasion of Rafah

Palestinians arrive at Al Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah, Gaza, after Israeli air strikes on May 8
Israeli military operations in Rafah expand from airstrikes to ground operations, satellite images show
GAZA — Israel’s attack in the southern Gaza city of Rafah has expanded from airstrikes to ground operations, new satellite images obtained by CNN from Planet Labs show.The images, which bear a striking resemblance to the early stages of Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza last year, show the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are active outside of the immediate border crossing area between Egypt and Gaza, which Israel took control of on Monday evening.The images, which span from May 5 to 7, suggest some buildings have been bulldozed and show what appear to be mustering areas for IDF vehicles. Some of the IDF forces have penetrated more than a mile inside the Palestinian enclave from the Rafah crossing gate, the images also show.The build-up comes despite intense international pressure on...
May 09, 2024

Israeli military operations in Rafah expand from airstrikes to ground operations, satellite images show

(File photo) The Israeli military said aid lorries from Egypt were already arriving at the Kerem Shalom crossing
Israel reopens key Kerem Shalom border crossing for Gaza aid
TEL AVIV — Israel says it is reopening the Kerem Shalom crossing with southern Gaza for aid deliveries, four days after it was closed because of Hamas rocket fire.Lorries from Egypt with food, water and medicine have arrived at the crossing, according to the Israeli military.The UN had expressed alarm on Tuesday over what it called Israel's "choking off" of Gaza's two main aid arteries.It came after Israeli troops took full control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing with Egypt.Overnight, there were fresh Israeli air strikes in the nearby city of Rafah, where the Israeli military says it began a limited operation on Monday.A senior US official also confirmed that a shipment of US weapons to Israel had been paused last week over concerns that Israeli forces...
May 08, 2024

Israel reopens key Kerem Shalom border crossing for Gaza aid

Israeli artillery units fire at an undisclosed target in the Gaza Strip on 7 May 2024
US says it paused shipment of bombs for Israel over Rafah concerns
WASHINGTON — The US last week paused a bomb shipment for Israel over concerns it was going ahead with a major ground operation in Rafah, southern Gaza, a senior administration official says.The shipment consisted of 1,800 2,000lb (907kg) bombs and 1,700 500lb bombs, the official told CBS News, the BBC's media partner in the US.Israel has not "fully addressed" US concerns over humanitarian needs of civilians in Rafah, the official says.Israel made no immediate comment."The US position has been that Israel should not launch a major ground operation in Rafah, where more than a million people are sheltering with nowhere else to go," the White House administration official said."We have been engaging in a dialogue with Israel in our Strategic Consultative Group...
May 08, 2024

US says it paused shipment of bombs for Israel over Rafah concerns

Displaced Palestinians fleeing Rafah after the Israeli military told civilians to leave the eastern parts of the southern Gazan city, May 6, 2024
Palestinians fleeing Rafah describe their fear and despair
GAZA — Palestinian civilians told to evacuate eastern Rafah by the Israeli military have described their fear and despair at being uprooted from their homes and shelters, as Israel airstrikes hit Gaza’s southernmost city.There were hopes that the Rafah offensive would not go ahead after Hamas accepted a ceasefire proposal on Monday, but those were quickly dashed after Israel said the terms were “far from Israel’s necessary requirements” and it would continue “in order to exert military pressure” on the militant group.By Tuesday morning, Israeli airstrikes on Rafah had killed 23 people, including six children, according to hospital officials in southern Gaza.The Israeli military said it had “operational control” of the Gazan side of the Rafah crossing, a vital entry point...
May 08, 2024

Palestinians fleeing Rafah describe their fear and despair

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