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The Israeli army has announced new operations in the Nablus area of the occupied West Bank.
The military has been attacking Palestinians in the northern West Bank since 21 January, mainly focusing on the Jenin and Tulkarm areas.
Another Israeli strike on a home in Gaza City's Shujaiya neighbourhood has killed at least five people, according to Al Jazeera's reporter.
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Raji Sourani, founder and director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, is widely considered to be one of the world's leading Palestinian lawyers.
In early 2024, he narrowly survived an Israeli air strike in Gaza which blew up his two-storey home. In late February that year, he crossed into Egypt with his family.
Since 2015, Sourani has led the legal team representing Palestinian victims at the International Criminal Court.
And in the past year, he has been working with South Africa's legal team in its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.
Now the lawyer is in Britain with a new aim - seeking the prosecution of 10 British citizens accused of committing war crimes in Gaza with the Israeli military.
Read m0re: Top Gaza lawyer who survived Israeli air strike seeks prosecution of UK citizens
US air strikes hit areas near Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah on Tuesday night, killing at least eight people and wounding 16 others, according to the Houthi group.
The strikes targeted the al-Hawak district, home to Hodeidah’s airport.
Washington has intensified its military campaign against the Houthis, claiming to protect maritime trade.
Since mid-March, US air strikes against the Houthis have killed at least 79 people, as part of a campaign aimed at stopping Yemen from standing in solidarity with Gaza.
Hamas has accused Israeli forces of committing a "bloody massacre" in Gaza City's Shujaiya neighbourhood, calling it part of a pattern of violence backed by the US.
"The terrorist Zionist occupation army committed a bloody massacre in Shujaiya," the group said in a statement.
It described the attacks as "brutal crimes committed in full view of the world against innocent, defenceless civilians."
In one of the deadliest attacks in recent days, Israeli forces targeted several adjacent houses in Gaza City’s Shujaiya neighbourhood, killing at least 29 people and wounding around 50 others. More than 80 are believed to be missing among the rubble.
Hamas warned these actions "will not go unpunished and will not be forgotten," while criticising what it called weak responses from Arab and Islamic nations. "It is no longer acceptable for Arab and Islamic positions to remain captive to timid statements," the group declared.
The statement urged stronger action, demanding Arab leaders "pressure the occupation and its supporters in Washington to halt the aggression." Hamas also called for countries to cut ties with Israel, describing it as a "Nazi entity," and appealed for global protests.
"We call on the masses of our Arab and Islamic nation and the free people of the world to continue their movement in support of Gaza," it said.
The Palestinian group Hamas has instructed British lawyers to appeal the UK's 2021 decision to designate the movement as a terrorist organisation, Middle East Eye can reveal.
Legal papers seen by MEE show that Mousa Abu Marzouk, the head of Hamas' foreign relations office, instructed lawyers to appeal a controversial decision by former UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to proscribe the group in its entirety.
Hamas' military wing, the Qassam Brigades, was proscribed by the UK more than two decades ago, but Patel decided to extend the ban to the whole organisation, arguing there was no longer a distinction between the political and military wings of the group.
Fahad Ansari, the director of Riverway Law, which is leading the challenge; Daniel Grutters, a barrister at One Pump Court Chambers and Franck Magennis, a barrister at Garden Court Chambers, submitted a 106-page application to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper on Wednesday which claimed the 2021 decision "pursued explicitly political objectives by a politically compromised Secretary of State".
The lawyers involved in the case stressed that Hamas did not pay them or the experts and lawyers who provided evidence for its submission, as it is illegal to receive funds from a group designated as a terrorist organisation.
Read more: Hamas launches legal challenge against UK terror designation
Israeli air strikes have killed at least 38 Palestinians across Gaza since dawn on Wednesday, with homes and displacement camps coming under relentless bombardment.
In one of the deadliest attacks, Israeli forces targeted several adjacent houses in Gaza City’s Shujaiya neighbourhood, killing at least 29 people and wounding around 50 others.
The assault comes as Israel intensifies its campaign across the besieged enclave, with civilians bearing the brunt of the destruction.
Medics warn that hospitals are struggling to cope with the rising number of casualties, while rescue teams continue to pull bodies from the rubble.
Israel is expanding its buffer zone to swallow Rafah, the last refuge for displaced Palestinians, in what is Israel's latest land grab aimed at permanently severing Gaza from Egypt, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported.
Before the war, this stretch of land that borders Egypt and includes the city of Rafah was home to 200,000 people.
Relentless Israeli bombardment has now reduced it to rubble, forcing nearly everyone to flee. The Israeli military, after breaking the ceasefire in March, forced the remaining residents to evacuate to a so-called humanitarian zone near Khan Younis and al-Mawasi - a barren coastal strip offering little but overcrowding and suffering.
With Israel’s so-called buffer zone now consuming around one-fifth of Gaza, the enclave is being systematically cut up in several zones.
At least 80 Palestinians are unaccounted for after a massive Israeli air strike flattened parts of Shujaiya in northern Gaza City, local officials say.
Rescue workers fear many are buried beneath the rubble of at least 10 destroyed residential buildings. The confirmed death toll has climbed to 22, but that number is expected to rise as emergency crews sift through the wreckage.
Hospitals, already overwhelmed, are treating more than 50 wounded from the attack.
Amid intensifying genocide, forced displacement, and the normalisation of ethnic cleansing targeting two million Palestinians, groups of powerful men in Washington DC, Jeddah, and Doha met calmly last month to discuss their fanciful plans for Gaza's future.
The new colonial attitudes of Trump's Washington dominate, continuing those of Britain in the 20th century.
Two Palestinian faces from 40 years ago illustrate these continuities: a grandmother in the Beqa'a refugee camp in Jordan was walking through the mud with her small granddaughter to collect Unrwa medical supplies for her family. Her shoes sank in the mire, and she turned back empty-handed, cursing the British under her breath, to the child's surprise.
She explained to the girl that it was Britain - a small, faraway country - whose politicians gave away her home and land to foreigners, with a piece of paper called the Balfour Declaration, written in 1917 during the First World War.
That was the year the grandmother, Leigh, was born in the Palestinian village of Iraq al-Manshiyya, between Gaza and al-Khalil, more than 200km south of what would become her home for half a century - a refugee camp in Jordan - until her death in 1993.
Read more: Israel's genocide aims to revive the old Zionist dream of Gaza without Palestinians
The death toll from Israel's war on Gaza has surpassed 50,846 since October 2023, with at least 115,729 wounded, the territory’s health ministry said on Wednesday.
Officials warned that the real number could be even higher, as many bodies remain trapped under rubble and on the streets, where rescue workers are unable to reach them due to ongoing Israeli bombardment.
The largest professional society for the teaching and study of American history has overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning Israel's "scholasticide" in Gaza.
The prestigious Organization of American Historians (OAH), which publishes the Journal of American History, passed the resolution on Saturday 8 April at an OAH business meeting in Chicago.
A decisive majority of 104 members voted for the motion - with only 25 opposing it.
The Israeli military has bombed and mostly destroyed all 12 universities in Gaza and hundreds of primary and secondary schools.
More than 200 heritage sites, including mosques, churches and libraries, have been destroyed.
Read more: Organization of American Historians votes to condemn Israeli 'scholasticide' in Gaza
An Israeli air strike has claimed the lives of at least 20 Palestinians in Gaza City's Shujaiya neighbourhood, according to local health officials.
Medics reported that the attack, which targeted a multi-storey residential building, left more than 50 people wounded.
The death toll is expected to rise as rescue teams continue to search the wreckage.
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto announced on Wednesday that his country will provide temporary shelter to Palestinian medical evacuees and orphaned children from Gaza. "We are ready to evacuate those injured, traumatised, and orphaned, and bring them to Indonesia," he stated, confirming that planes would be dispatched for their transport.
Indonesia plans to receive about 1,000 evacuees, who will remain until they recover and it's safe to return to Gaza. Subianto clarified this is not a permanent resettlement offer.
Speaking before a Middle East tour, he revealed that he would consult with leaders in Turkey, Egypt, Qatar, and Jordan on the matter.
At least nine Palestinians have been killed and 35 others wounded in an Israeli air strike on a house in Gaza's Shujaiya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, reported Al Jazeera Arabic.
