The Israeli Knesset on Monday easily passed legislation to ban UNRWA from any of its territory, drawing swift rebuke from the U.S. because of the role the UN agency plays in the lives of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
Tag: The Israel War
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ISRAEL STRIKE ON IRAN AN ‘OPENING BLOW,’ AND MUST BE FOLLOWED UP BY ADDITIONAL STRIKES: BEN-GVIR
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.”
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LEBANON DEATH TOLL
Israel continued to carry out its bombing campaign across Lebanon last week—bringing the death toll in the country to 2,710 on the year, with over 12,000 people injured. Over 1.2 million have been displaced.
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GAZA DEATH TOLL
The death toll in Gaza surpassed 43,000—and over half of those killed by the IDF have been women and children. The UN said last week that northern Gaza is facing its “darkest hour” as the IDF increases its killing campaign there in an effort to clear out the region.
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IDF TARGETED UN PEACEKEEPERS WITH WHITE PHOSPHORUS GAS
The Israeli military targeted UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon a dozen times, including one incident that injured 15 UNIFIL troops after they were exposed to white phosphorus, according to a confidential report viewed by the Financial Times.
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ISRAEL KEEPS KILLING JOURNALISTS: AIRSTRIKE IN LEBANON CLAIMS ANOTHER 3
The IDF continues to kill journalists amid its wars in Gaza and Lebanon—and claimed another three media workers in an airstrike in southern Lebanon last week, according to reports.
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IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER POSTS ON X IN HEBREW: ‘ZIONIST REGIME’ ERRED IN ITS CALCULATIONS
Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei posted on X in Hebrew on Sunday—a day after Israel carried out waves of attacks on targets in his country—that the “Zionist regime made a mistake.”
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ISRAELI HUMANITARIAN GROUP CALLS ON WORLD TO INTERVENE AS IDF CARRIES OUT ETHNIC CLEANSING IN NORTHERN GAZA
B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights group, called on the global community to intervene as Israel carries out ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza, which it says has been in “complete siege” since Israel began carrying out operations there earlier this month.
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ISRAEL’S SMOTRICH: WE WILL KEEP STEALING PALESTINIAN LAND TO MAKE A ‘GREATER ISRAEL’
Bezalel Smotrich, the extremist Israeli finance minister, said it is “written” that Israel’s future is its expansion to Damascus and parts of Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, according to a French documentary titled: “Israel: Extremists in Power.”
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U.S. APPEARS TO ACKNOWLEDGE ISRAEL’S MASS EXTERMINATION PLAN IN NORTHERN GAZA
The U.S. appeared to acknowledge Israel’s mass extermination plan in northern Gaza last week after Secretary of State Antony Blinken tried to get Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to publicly reject claims that Israel is implementing the “Generals’ Plan”—which calls for the mass expulsion or killing of Palestinians.