Protesters block London’s Oxford Street in pro-Palestine demonstration (www.theguardian.com)
‘More Beautiful Than Ever’: Israeli Minister Delights in Gaza Genocide (www.moroccoworldnews.com)
How international law applies to war, and why Hamas and Israel are both alleged to have broken it (english.elpais.com)
The United Nations says it is collecting evidence of war crimes by both sides in the Israel-Hamas war, which began with the militant group’s brutal Oct. 7 cross-border attack and was followed by Israel’s relentless bombardment and a siege of Gaza.
Doctor at a Gaza hospital pleads for help: "We had to perform a premature delivery from a mother’s womb while she was dying.” --- [video, 2 min] (www.unfpa.org)
Dr. Nasser Bulbul, Head of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, spoke to the UN about the extreme suffering of pregnant women and orphaned infants living in a state of fear and terror as the bombardment intensifies.
UK workers see record pay rises, but inflation eats them up (www.reuters.com)
Serbian police arrest 7 people smugglers and find over 700 migrants in raids (abcnews.go.com)
UN condemns Israel: 'It’s the innocent civilians who are losing’ (news.un.org)
UN human rights office (OHCHR) spokesperson Liz Throssell highlighted concerns over Israeli airstrikes on Jabalia and Al Bureij refugee camps in recent days with dozens of residential buildings destroyed, as well as the high number of casualties reported in the enclave and the “reported use of explosive weapons with wide area...
Tuscany storm and floods ravage central Italy leaving six dead (www.bbc.com)
Gaza is ‘running out of time’ UN experts warn, demanding a ceasefire to prevent genocide (www.ohchr.org)
Hezbollah chief to break silence on Israel-Hamas conflict (www.rte.ie)
(...) Mr Nasrallah's highly anticipated speech will be broadcast as part of an event in Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, at 3pm (1pm Irish time) this afternoon, in memory of fighters killed in Israeli bombardments....
Will Israel shut down Al Jazeera? (www.972mag.com)
North Korea media urges stronger nuclear force after U.S. missile test (www.reuters.com)
U.N. votes to end US embargo on Cuba; US and Israel oppose (www.reuters.com)
Dozens of cancer patients could die as Gaza’s main cancer treatment hospital forced to stop most activities over fuel shortage, UN says (news.un.org)
The UN human rights office OHCHR noted that given the high number of civilian deaths and injuries in Gaza “and the scale of the destruction following Israeli airstrikes on Jabalia refugee camp, there are “serious concerns that these are disproportionate attacks that could amount to war crimes.”
Israel-Palestine war: Settler attacks on the rise in West Bank villages (www.middleeasteye.net)
(...) Ben Gvir and Smotrich leading the charge...
EU data regulator bans personalised advetising on Facebook and Instagram (dig.watch)
Meta will introduce a pay or get tracked option.
Germany’s president apologises for killings in Tanzania under colonial rule (www.aljazeera.com)
During the revolt — known as the Maji Maji Rebellion — between 200,000 and 300,000 Indigenous people were murdered, as German troops systematically wiped out villages and fields, experts say....
Why Is Pakistan Expelling 1.7 Million Afghans? (foreignpolicy.com)
Strikes on south Gaza: BBC verifies attacks in areas of ‘safety’ (www.bbc.com)
Don’t fall into the trap of ‘picking sides’ over Gaza: Hamas’s attacks were unconscionable, razing Gaza to the ground would be abhorrent. In both cases, basic humanity is at stake --- [Opinion] (feddit.de)
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5185724...
Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat The October 7 Attack, Time And Again, Until Israel Is Annihilated (www.memri.org)
Hamad said that Palestinians are the victims of the occupation, therefore no one should blame them for the events of October 7 or anything else, adding: “Everything we do is justified.”