Phillippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), called Israel’s demolition of his agency’s offices in occupied East Jerusalem an “unprecedented attack” and a “new level of open and deliberate defiance of international law” by Israel.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Israeli national security minister, came out strongly against the language in the Gaza ceasefire deal that vaguely mentions a pathway to a Palestinian state and rejected the idea as farcical.
The Israeli government last week approved a controversial bill that would impose the death penalty for those whose acts helped cause the death of an Israeli if the crime committed was carried out with the “objective of harming the state of Israel or the rebirth of the Jewish people.”
The U.S. told Israel to “show restraint” on Sunday after Tel Aviv accused Hamas of carrying out attacks on IDF troops inside Gaza, as both sides approached the deal with some level of expectation that Israel will ramp up its massacre campaign inside the enclave.
After some late snags, the long-anticipated Gaza ceasefire took hold on Sunday after Hamas’s return of three female Israeli hostages who were kidnapped during the 7 October 2023 raid that killed at least 1,200 and resulted in a 15-month punishment campaign inside the enclave that resulted in at least 46,000 deaths and one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, a politician from the Jewish Power party and Israel’s National Security Minister, said the Saturday attack on Iranian positions was “important as an opening blow,” but must be followed up because of a “historical obligation to remove the Iranian threat to destroy Israel.”
Chanting “Death to Arabs” and “Muhammad is Dead,” a frenzied mob of tens of thousands of far-right Israelis took part in the Jerusalem Day Flag March through the Muslim Quarter of the city to threaten and confront Arabs.
Eliyahu Mali, Israel’s top rabbi in Jaffa, said last week that the Torah calls for the killing of all Palestinian men, women, children, and babies in Gaza, stating that there should not be a soul still alive after the conflict.
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump agree on one thing: Israel’s genocide in Gaza must go on. Trump told pro-Zionist Fox News that Israel must “finish the problem” in Gaza.
A major protest broke out on Saturday Night in Tel Aviv to voice opposition to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—demanding new elections to be held and accusing the current government of being inept.