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Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar met with his US counterpart Marco Rubio to discuss plans for a complete annexation of the occupied West Bank, Walla reported.
According to the Israeli news outlet, Saar hinted that his government is quietly heading towards "applying sovereignty" over the Palestinian territory in the coming months.
Israeli media has reported unanimity among Israel's upper echelon with regard to annexing the West Bank.
Walla reported disagreements in the government about whether the move should be an "ideological step" for Israel to take or a response to the announced upcoming recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations assembly this month by several states, such as France and Britain.
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Prominent doctor Hussam Abu Safiya and his nephew are being kept in appalling conditions in Israeli detention, his lawyer said after a rare visit.
Gheed Kassem said Abu Safiya and his nephew Hussam Zaher were "exposed to sunlight for only thirty minutes a month, while scabies and boils ravage their bodies, and they remain in the same clothes."
"As for bathing, it lasts only two minutes, and they have each lost a third of their body weight. They are in dire need of dermatologists and medicines to treat the widespread skin diseases and infections," said Kassem.
He also relayed a message from Abu Safiya, who was kidnapped by Israeli forces in Gaza in December.
“I entered in the name of humanity, and I will leave in the name of humanity. I am the one who was abducted from inside the hospital. We will remain on our land and continue to provide healthcare services to the people, God willing, even from a tent," he said.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation said Monday its members, who include China, India, Russia and Iran, "strongly condemn acts causing civilian casualties and humanitarian disasters in Gaza", according to a statement published by Xinhua news agency.
The SCO said they also "strongly condemn" US and Israeli strikes on Iran in June, in the statement issued after a summit of the 10 member states in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin.
Reporting by AFP.
Nine more Palestinians, including three children, have died because of Israeli-imposed starvation in the past 24 hours, bringing the famine-linked death toll to 348, the health ministry said on Monday. The total number includes at least 127 children.
At least 63,557 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza since October 2023, according to the Health Ministry.
The ministry statement added that 160,660 Palestinians have also been wounded in the Israeli onslaught.
Famine was officially declared in Gaza last month by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the UN-backed global hunger monitor. Since 2 March, Israeli authorities have closed Gaza's border crossings, pushing the territory’s 2.4 million population into famine.
An aid flotilla of dozens of boats that had set sail for Gaza on Sunday has returned to port in Barcelona due to stormy weather, organisers said on Monday.
The flotilla was carrying aid and pro-Palestinian activists, including climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, news agency Reuters has reported.
"We conducted a sea trial and then returned to port to allow the storm to pass. This meant delaying our departure to avoid risking complications with the smaller boats," the Global Sumud Flotilla Mission said in a statement, adding winds had been up to around 35 mph (56 kph).
The flotilla of several dozen boats aims to deliver food and humanitarian supplies to the enclave.
Israeli-imposed blockade on Gaza has caused at least 339 deaths due to starvation. This includes 124 children. Famine has been officially declared in Gaza by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the UN-backed global hunger monitor.
Activists, including Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham, are on the flotilla.
Only 534 aid trucks out of the estimated 3,000 have entered Gaza over the past five days, the Government Media Office said on Monday.
Aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip remain far below needs, the statement said, adding that the limited number of trucks that did make it through “were looted in the midst of deliberate chaos orchestrated by the Israeli occupation to manufacture famine and instability and undermine the resilience of the Palestinian people".
As per the media office, over the past 35 days out of the 21,000 trucks required to meet basic humanitarian needs, only 3,188 trucks (15 percent) have reached Gaza.
Hospitals in Gaza recorded seven new deaths on Sunday as a result of the famine caused by Israel's months-long blockade of essential aid. This brings the total number of deaths from malnutrition to 339, including 124 children.
Famine has been officially declared in Gaza for the first time by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the UN-backed global hunger monitor.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip has said that the death toll since Israel began its war in October 2023 has risen to 63,459, and more than 160,256 others have been wounded.
The world's leading genocide scholars' association says Israel has met the legal criteria for the crime during its ongoing onslaught in Gaza.
The president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars said on Monday that his organisation had passed a resolution that Israel had "engaged in systematic and widespread crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide".
The resolution called on Israel to "immediately cease all acts that constitute genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza".
Read more: World's top genocide scholars association says Israel committing it in Gaza
Israel has killed 98 Palestinians in Gaza in the last 24 hours, Gaza's health ministry has said. During the same period, 404 others were wounded.
The ministry added that the death toll from Israeli aggression since the beginning of the war has risen to 63,557, and 160,660 Palestinians have been wounded.
At least 34 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since dawn today, Al Jazeera Arabic has reported. The number includes 19 in Gaza City and seven aid seekers.
Earlier today, eight Palestinians were reported killed as Israel conducted airstrikes on homes in Al-Nafaq area and Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip has said that the death toll since Israel began its war in October 2023 has risen to 63,459, and more than 160,256 others have been wounded.
More than 250 media outlets from around 50 countries are taking part in an initiative denouncing the killing of journalists by Israel in Gaza, at the call of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the NGO Avaaz, AFP news agency has reported.
As part of the initiative, black banners were printed on the front pages of newspapers and website homepages.
Front pages of dailies L’Humanité in France, Público in Portugal, and La Libre in Belgium, published messages on the front pages that read: “At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, soon there will be no one left to inform you."
The campaign comes one week after Israeli strikes killed five journalists at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
“These organisations and newsrooms denounce the crimes perpetrated by the Israeli army against Palestinian reporters with total impunity, call for their protection and urgent evacuation, and demand independent access for the international press to the Palestinian enclave,” RSF said in a statement.
The press freedom watchdog said it has filed four complaints with the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes committed by the Israeli army against journalists in the Gaza Strip over the past 22 months.
Since the beginning of the war, the international press has not been allowed to work freely inside the Palestinian territory. Only a handful of outlets, carefully selected, have been able to enter embedded with the Israeli army, with their reporting subject to strict military censorship.
RSF has said that more than 210 journalists have been killed since the beginning of Israel’s offensive in Gaza.
Israel’s offensive has killed at least 63,459 people in Gaza.
Israeli settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque and performed Talmudic rituals under the protection of Israeli police, Al Jazeera has reported.
On Sunday, Palestinian Authority’s Jerusalem Governorate had said that Israeli authorities were carrying out secret excavations and demolitions beneath the Al Aqsa Mosque compound.
“These operations deliberately target Islamic antiquities dating back to the Umayyad period, which stand as living witnesses and irrefutable evidence of Muslims’ rightful claim to the site,” the authority said in a statement, referencing the Islamic caliphate that ruled from 661 to 750.
It said that Israel is working to erase the mosque’s Islamic heritage to prepare for a future Jewish temple, adding that the excavations are taking place without international oversight.
The authority called the works “a crime and a blatant violation of international laws and agreements protecting artefacts”.
At least 29 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since dawn today, Al Jazeera Arabic has reported. The number includes five aid seekers in southern Gaza.
Earlier today, eight Palestinians were reported killed as Israel conducted air strikes on homes in Al-Nafaq area and Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip has said that the death toll since Israel began its war in October 2023 has risen to 63,459, and more than 160,256 others have been wounded.
Hospitals in Gaza recorded seven new deaths on Sunday as a result of the famine caused by Israel's months-long blockade of essential aid. This brings the total number of deaths from malnutrition to 339, including 124 children.
The Israeli military has expressed support for a prisoner exchange agreement, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the idea and said that "no deal currently exists", Israel's Channel 13 reported.
Netanyahu reportedly refused to vote during a security cabinet meeting on a partial prisoner release deal, saying there was no need to vote on a deal because it was not on the meeting's agenda.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and other ministers sought to vote in principle against the partial prisoner release deal, Al Jazeera Arabic has reported.
At least 10,400 Palestinians are held captive in Israeli prisons, including more than 3,300 in administrative detention without charge.
The number does not include Palestinians detained by Israeli forces during their current war on Gaza, of which many are health workers.
17 Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes across several areas in Gaza since dawn today, Al Jazeera Arabic reported, quoting hospital sources.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip has said that the death toll since Israel began its war in October 2023 has risen to 63,459, and more than 160,256 others have been wounded.
Hospitals in Gaza recorded seven new deaths on Sunday as a result of the famine caused by Israel's months-long blockade of essential aid. This brings the total number of deaths from malnutrition to 339, including 124 children.
Gaza’s Government Media Office has said the number of journalists killed in Israel’s war on Gaza has risen to 247 following the death of journalist Islam Abed on Sunday.
Eight Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes on two homes in the Al-Nafaq area and Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Al Jazeera Arabic has reported.
The death toll since Israel began its war in October 2023 has risen to 63,459, with more than 160,256 people wounded.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip has recorded seven new deaths as a result of the famine caused by Israel's months-long blockade of essential aid. This brings the total number of deaths from malnutrition to 339, including 124 children.
