Israel’s opposition welcomes Supreme Court ruling against Netanyahu’s law restricting judicial powers. Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in a single West Bank village, and a seventh Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli prisons.
Israeli airstrikes kill another Palestinian journalist in Gaza, as the Wall Street Journal writes that the current Israeli rampage in Gaza ranks among the most devastating in modern history. Israel slams South Africa’s ICJ case as “blood libel.”
Amid ongoing attacks on Gaza, Israeli forces attacked ten cities across the occupied West Bank, breaking into homes, seizing 2.7 million dollars from businesses, and killing one Palestinian.
Despite a UNSC resolution calling for humanitarian aid in Gaza amid Israeli attacks, Gazans remain starving. Meanwhile, Palestinian bodies returned by Israel were “mutilated” and missing “vital organs” according to Gaza officials.
Without a ceasefire that would allow for humanitarian aid, the Gaza population faces imminent famine and the worst levels of food insecurity the UN-backed Food Security Phase Classification has ever documented.
Reports emerge of Israeli snipers killing Palestinian civilians in northern Gaza, as U.N. Security Council gears up for vote on Gaza ceasefire, amid fears that continued U.S. support for Israel could thwart any diplomatic intervention.
As leaders discuss extending the temporary truce, Israeli forces kill two children, including an 8-year-old boy, in the occupied West Bank. Meanwhile, Gaza is still facing a grave humanitarian crisis, with children on the front line.
Israeli forces besiege Indonesian Hospital in north Gaza. Meanwhile, two Lebanese journalists were killed by Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon, and Palestinian prisoners continue to face humiliation, abuse and torture inside Israeli prisons.
Israel ignores calls for a ceasefire as the civilian death toll rises in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon, where an Israeli airstrike killed three children. Former child prisoner Ahed Tamimi was among 70 Palestinians arrested in the West Bank.