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Palestinian women mourning the loss of a family member at Al-Nasser Medical Hospital in Khan Younis, southern the Gaza Strip. — curtesy UNICEF/UNI472270/Zaqout
Gaza: UN rights chief appeals for end to violence and a return to dialogue
GAZA — The brutal resumption of hostilities in Gaza and its terrifying impact on civilians underscore the need for the violence end and a political solution between Palestinians and Israelis to be found, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Sunday.“Silence the guns and return to dialogue – the suffering inflicted on civilians is too much to bear. More violence is not the answer. It will bring neither peace nor security,” Volker Türk said in a statement, voicing deep concern that negotiations towards a continuation of last week’s pause had reportedly stalled.Fighting resumed on Friday and hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bombardments, he said, citing the Gaza Ministry of Health.No aid entered the enclave via the Rafah crossing with Egypt on...
December 03, 2023

Gaza: UN rights chief appeals for end to violence and a return to dialogue

Displaced Palestinians take refuge in a school in Khan Younis. — courtesy Reuters
US sets clearer red lines for Israel as ceasefire ends
GAZA — In the end it was a diplomatic achievement that the ceasefire lasted as long as it did. Now, after a seven-day pause, Israel and Hamas are facing their greatest military and political challenges.For Hamas, it is the fight to survive. As long as a Hamas gunman can pull a trigger or launch a rocket into Israel it will claim to be undefeated.For all its overwhelming military power, Israel’s task is more complicated.Its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu swore “mighty vengeance” after Hamas breached the border and killed around 1,200 people, mostly Israeli civilians, on Oct. 7.In the first hours after the Israeli military went back on the offensive, the government recommitted itself to its war aims in a WhatsApp post: “Releasing the hostages, eliminating Hamas and ensuring that...
December 02, 2023

US sets clearer red lines for Israel as ceasefire ends

Minutes after the truce expired, Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire hit Gaza City
Israel resumes Gaza bombing after truce expires
GAZA — Israel said on Friday its fighter jets had bombed the Gaza Strip, in the clearest sign yet the war has resumed with full force after a week-long truce. The announcement came shortly after the ceasefire expired at 05:00 GMT Friday.Earlier Friday, Israel accused Hamas of violating the terms of the ceasefire, including by firing rockets toward Israel from Gaza. The Palestinian militant group did not claim any attack.Minutes after the truce expired, an AFP journalist on the scene said Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire hit Gaza City.Six Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air raid on Rafah, in southern Gaza, according to Gaza's health ministry.Two children were killed in air raids on Gaza City, a doctor at Ahli Arab hospital told AFP.With the resumption of conflict, Israeli...
December 01, 2023

Israel resumes Gaza bombing after truce expires

An Israeli Air Force helicopter carrying an Israeli hostage released by Hamas lands at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel -
Israel frees 30 Palestinians as military confirms release of six Israeli hostages in Gaza
TEL AVIV — The Israeli military confirmed that six Israeli hostages have been released from captivity in the Gaza Strip.And the Israeli prison service said a total of 30 Palestinians were released from Israeli prisons in Damon, Megiddo, Ofer, Nafha, Ktzi’ot and Ramon on Thursday.The army said the Red Cross transferred the Israeli hostages to Egypt late on Thursday. They arrived hours after two additional hostages were turned over to Israel separately.From Egypt, the newly freed freed hostages were to be transferred to Israel to be reunited with their families after nearly eight weeks in captivity.It marked the seventh straight night of hostage releases under a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas.Under the terms of the Israel-Hamas truce, Israel has to free three Palestinians...
December 01, 2023

Israel frees 30 Palestinians as military confirms release of six Israeli hostages in Gaza

Mohammed Nazzal says his hands were broken during beatings in jail
Released Palestinians allege abuse in Israeli jails
JENIN, West Bank — Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails say that guards carried out abuse and collective punishment in the weeks after the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October.They have described being hit with sticks, having muzzled dogs set on them, and their clothes, food and blankets taken away.One female prisoner has said she was threatened with rape, and that guards twice tear-gassed inmates inside the cells.The BBC spoke to six people in total, all of whom said they were beaten before leaving jail.The Palestinian Prisoners Society says some guards are alleged to have urinated on handcuffed prisoners. And that six prisoners have died in Israeli custody in the past seven weeks.Israel says all its prisoners are detained according to the law.Eighteen-year-old Mohammed...
December 01, 2023

Released Palestinians allege abuse in Israeli jails

Released Palestinian prisoners react from inside a vehicle after leaving the Israeli military prison, Ofer, amid a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Sunday
Release of Palestinian prisoners sheds light on controversial Israeli justice system in the occupied West Bank
RAMALLAH — Fatima Shahin spent seven months in an Israeli prison. Authorities initially accused her of attempted murder of an Israeli in the occupied West Bank, but she was never charged with any crime.On Friday, the 33-year-old from the West Bank city of Bethlehem was freed, one of the 39 Palestinians released that day in exchange for Israeli hostages as part of the truce between Israel and Hamas.As of Wednesday, Israel had released 180 Palestinian prisoners and detainees and Hamas had released 81 hostages.Like Shahin, the majority of those released so far – 128 of the 180 – were detained and hadn’t been charged, put on trial or given an opportunity to defend themselves. Some say they weren’t even told why they were being detained.Some of the Palestinians were held under a murky...
November 30, 2023

Release of Palestinian prisoners sheds light on controversial Israeli justice system in the occupied West Bank

Two Israeli police officers in front of car reportedly used by attackers in Jerusalem
Israeli police say three killed and 16 injured in Jerusalem shooting
JERUSALEM — Security measures have been ramped up in Jerusalem after the shooting earlier which killed three people and injured 16 others, Israeli police have said.Of those injured, three are in serious condition and the rest suffered "various degrees of injuries (including victims of shock)", a police spokesperson said.Police say the attack was carried out by "two armed terrorists, brothers in their 30s from the Zur Baher neighborhood in East Jerusalem" at around 07:40 local time.The attackers "shot at civilians at bus and shuttle stations, using an M-16 rifle and a handgun".The "immediate response" of two off-duty Israeli soldiers and a civilian near the scene of the attack led to the "neutralization and elimination of the two...
November 30, 2023

Israeli police say three killed and 16 injured in Jerusalem shooting

A man smiles as he is welcomed after being released from prison by Israel, in the West Bank town of Ramallah, early Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023
Israel-Hamas truce extended for a 7th day 
GAZA CITY — Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend the temporary truce in Gaza, just minutes before it was due to expire.The pause in fighting was due to expire at 05:00 GMT, but the Israeli military says it will now be extended "in light of the mediators' efforts to continue the process of releasing the hostages" taken by Hamas.Qatar, which has led international mediation efforts, has confirmed the truce between Israel and Hamas will be extended by one day until Friday.“The Palestinian and Israeli sides agreed to extend the humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip for another day,” Qatar Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari said in a statement.Hamas had already announced early on Thursday the pause would continue for another day, while Israel's army said the...
November 30, 2023

Israel-Hamas truce extended for a 7th day 

Children look at photographs of kidnapped Israelis during a rally joined by hundreds in solidarity with Israel and those held hostage in Gaza, in Romania
Hamas releases 10 Israeli and four Thai hostages as efforts continue to extend truce
TEL AVIV — Israel says 10 Israeli hostages and four Thai hostages have been released by Hamas and are being transferred to Israeli territory. The move comes as international mediators are working around the clock to extend a six day truce which is due to expire Thursday morning.Israel has agreed to prolong the truce by one day for every 10 militant-held hostages who are freed. The cease-fire, which was originally set to expire on Monday, has paused the deadliest fighting between Israel and Palestinians in decades.The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday he was heading to Israel in an effort to extend the truce with Hamas.“We would like to see this pause extended,” he said on the sidelines of a NATO meeting in Brussels, highlighting how the temporary ceasefire had...
November 30, 2023

Hamas releases 10 Israeli and four Thai hostages as efforts continue to extend truce

Scenes of devastation in Gaza City's Nasr neighborhood (file). — courtesy UNICEF/Mohammad Ajjour
Israel-Palestine crisis: Gaza City a ‘ghost town’, reports UN aid agency
GAZA — “As we drove through Gaza City it was like a ghost town; all the streets were deserted,” said Thomas White, Director of UNRWA Affairs in Gaza.“The impact of heavy airstrikes and shelling was so visible. Roads are riddled with craters, complicating aid deliveries.”Wednesday marks the sixth and final day of a truce between Hamas and Israel that was facilitated by Qatar.Humanitarians have urged the warring sides to support repeated international calls to extend the pause in fighting, which has facilitated the reported release of at least 85 hostages by Hamas, and of more than 180 Palestinian prisoners by Israel.The pause has also enabled humanitarian actors, primarily the Egyptian and Palestinian Red Crescent Societies and UN agencies, to “enhance” desperately needed aid...
November 29, 2023

Israel-Palestine crisis: Gaza City a ‘ghost town’, reports UN aid agency

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