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Israeli soldiers are seen during a ground operation in the northern Gaza Strip, amid a report of HRW reporting starvation being used as a tactic against Palestinians
Report indicates starvation used as a weapon by Israel in Gaza occupation
GAZA — A report by human rights organization, Human Rights Watch, has accused the Israeli government of committing war crimes by allegedly resorting to starvation as a method of warfare in the occupied Gaza Strip.The organisation alleges that Israeli forces are obstructing the delivery of essential resources, including water, food, and fuel, and hindering humanitarian assistance, exacerbating the already dire conditions in the region.Since the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas-led fighters on Israel, high-ranking Israeli officials, including Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Energy Minister Israel Katz, have openly expressed their intent to deprive Gazan civilians of basic necessities.Human Rights Watch claims that this policy is being...
December 19, 2023

Report indicates starvation used as a weapon by Israel in Gaza occupation

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at a press conference in Tel Aviv on Monday
US announces security operation after Houthi attacks on commercial shipping
TEL AVIV — US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Monday announced a new US-led operation focusing on the “security challenges in the southern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden” following recent attacks by Houthi forces on commercial marine traffic in the region.“I am announcing the establishment of Operation Prosperity Guardian, an important new multinational security initiative under the umbrella of the Combined Maritime Forces and the leadership of its Task Force 153, which focuses on security in the Red Sea,” Austin said in a statement.Austin, who was in the region for meetings with senior Israeli officials to discuss the Israel-Hamas war, said countries “must come together to tackle the challenge posed by this non-state actor launching ballistic missiles and uncrewed aerial...
December 19, 2023

US announces security operation after Houthi attacks on commercial shipping

People fleeing fighting in Gaza continue to search for safe places to shelter in the enclave. — courtesy UNICEF/Eyad El Baba
Gaza hospital destroyed, WHO chief reiterates ceasefire call
GENEVA — The head of the UN health agency Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has spoken out against the “effective destruction” of a hospital in northern Gaza by Israeli forces over the weekend, leading to the deaths of eight patients including a nine-year-old child.Kamal Adwan Hospital was raided by the Israeli military over four days last week and the World Health Organization (WHO) said that many health workers were reportedly detained.“Gaza’s health system was already on its knees and the loss of another even minimally functioning hospital is a severe blow,” Tedros wrote on social platform X.Less than a third of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are at least partially functional, including only one in the enclave’s north.“Attacks on hospitals, health personnel and patients must end....
December 18, 2023

Gaza hospital destroyed, WHO chief reiterates ceasefire call

USS Carney (DDG 64) transits the Mediterranean Sea Oct. 23, 2018. Carney, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is on its fifth patrol in the US 6th Fleet area of operations in support of regional allies and partners as well as US national security interests in Europe and Africa. — courtesy US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ryan U. Kledzik
US warship responds to an attack on commercial ship in Red Sea
LONDON —The USS Carney responded Monday to a distress call from a commercial vessel after it was attacked by “multiple projectiles” in the southern Red Sea, a US military official said.The merchant vessel Swan Atlantic was attacked at roughly 9 a.m. Sanaa time, the official said. More information regarding what kind of projectiles were launched and from where was not immediately available, though the attack follows a string of others in recent days by Houthi forces, who are funded and trained by Iran, on commercial vessels in the Red Sea.The attack came as US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is in the region for meetings with senior Israeli officials in Tel Aviv amid ongoing violence between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi forces have been targeting commercial...
December 18, 2023

US warship responds to an attack on commercial ship in Red Sea

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
Austin becomes latest US official to visit Israel as Biden presses for strategy shift
WASHINGTON — US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is visiting Israel on Monday to get a clearer assessment from Israeli officials on their military operations, marking the latest administration official to visit the country amid an intensifying rift between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over mounting civilian casualties in Gaza.Biden is under increasing pressure, domestically and internationally, to push Netanyahu away from the heavy bombardment of Gaza, which has sparked global outcry and calls for a sustained ceasefire.CNN reported earlier this month that US officials expected Israel could transition by January to a lower-intensity, hyper-localized strategy that narrowly targets specific Hamas militants and leadership. A senior defense official said...
December 18, 2023

Austin becomes latest US official to visit Israel as Biden presses for strategy shift

A 2018 file photo showing the exterior of the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family in Gaza City
Pope speaks out after IDF sniper kills two women inside Gaza church
JERUSALEM — An Israeli military sniper shot and killed two women inside the Holy Family Parish in Gaza on Saturday, according to the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.The mother and daughter were walking to the Sister’s Convent, the patriarchate said, when gunfire erupted. “One was killed as she tried to carry the other to safety,” it added.Seven others were also shot and wounded in the attack at the complex, where most Gaza’s Christian families have taken refuge since the start of the war, according to the patriarchate, which oversees Catholic Churches across Cyprus, Jordan, Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.“No warning was given, no notification was provided,” the statement continued. “They were shot in cold blood inside the premises of the parish, where there are no...
December 18, 2023

Pope speaks out after IDF sniper kills two women inside Gaza church

Amal Clooney
Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney represents 400 plaintiffs in lawsuit seeking ‘accountability for Yazidi genocide’
NEW YORK — More than 400 Yazidi-Americans represented by renowned human rights attorney Amal Clooney filed a lawsuit in New York Thursday, alleging French conglomerate Lafarge SA conspired to provide material and funds to support ISIS terrorist campaigns against the ethnic minority.Filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act in the Eastern District of New York, Clooney and former diplomat Lee Wolosky aim “to hold Lafarge accountable for its admitted criminal conspiracy with ISIS and to obtain justice for the Yazidi people,” according to a news release from Amal Clooney Media.Marwan, 11, weeps into the crook of his grandmother's neck after reuniting with his family for the first time in 3 years.Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking ethnic and religious group with significant populations in Iraq...
December 18, 2023

Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney represents 400 plaintiffs in lawsuit seeking ‘accountability for Yazidi genocide’

Israeli army hit the pediatric department of Nasser Hospital in Gaza's Khan Younis city
Fighting rages on in Gaza as pressure on Israel grows
GAZA — Fierce fighting has been continuing across the Gaza Strip after hopes were raised over the weekend for another ceasefire and hostage release deal.In the past 24 hours, there’ve been deadly Israeli air strikes from the north to the south of Gaza. Attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp are said to have killed 110 people, according to local health officials.Israel says it goes to great lengths to avoid hitting civilians. But the mistaken killing of three of its own hostages carrying a white flag on Friday has added to international and domestic pressure for another ceasefire deal which could free some of the 120 others still believed to be held captive in Gaza by Hamas. The Jabalia area, north of Gaza City, has been repeatedly hit by Israeli air strikes and has been a focus of the...
December 18, 2023

Fighting rages on in Gaza as pressure on Israel grows

Hostages’ sign pleading for help. Three Israeli hostages mistakenly killed by soldiers in Gaza on Friday had used leftover food to write signs pleading for help, Israel says. — courtesy Israel Defense Forces
Hostages shot by IDF put out ‘SOS’ sign written with leftover food
GAZA —The men had been staying at the building next to where they were shot “for some period of time”, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).Officials have admitted that killing the men who were holding a white flag was a breach of “rules of engagement”.Israel is under increasing pressure for a deal to free more hostages. About 120 are believed to be still in captivity in the Gaza Strip.They were seized by militants during the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks that killed around 1,200 in southern Israel.Israel has launched a massive retaliatory operation it says is aimed at destroying Hamas.More than 18,000 people have been killed in Gaza since, according to the local health authorities, with hundreds of thousands of others pushed out of their homes.The hostages — Yotam Haim, 28,...
December 18, 2023

Hostages shot by IDF put out ‘SOS’ sign written with leftover food

Israel Defense Forces soldiers gain access to a Hamas tunnel in Gaza in this screengrab from an undated video released by the IDF. — courtesy Israel Defense Forces
Israel’s military claims to discover the biggest Hamas tunnel in Gaza
LONDON/ GAZA — The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claims to have discovered “the biggest Hamas tunnel” in Gaza, spanning a length of four kilometers (about 2.5 miles).The IDF said the tunnel, secured “a few weeks ago” but revealed to the public Sunday, is wide enough to drive a large vehicle through, reaches up to 50 meters (over 160 feet) underground and is equipped with electricity, ventilation and communication systems.It does not cross into Israel but ends 400 meters before the now-closed Erez crossing on the northern Israel-Gaza border, according to the IDF.The tunnel is part of Hamas’ “strategic infrastructure” and would be destroyed, the IDF said.In a video shared by the IDF, the Israeli military claimed the tunnel was created for Hamas troop movements and as a...
December 17, 2023

Israel’s military claims to discover the biggest Hamas tunnel in Gaza

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