Mourners collect for funeral of journalists killed in Israeli strikes
Gazans gathered on Monday for the funeral of 5 Al Jazeera workers members and a sixth reporter killed in an Israeli strike, AFP studies.
Dozens stood amid bombed-out buildings within the courtyard of Al-Shifa hospital to pay their respects to Anas al-Sharif, a outstanding Al Jazeera correspondent aged 28, and 4 of his colleagues, killed on Sunday.
A sixth journalist, Mohammed al-Khaldi who labored as a contract reporter, was additionally killed within the strike that focused the Al Jazeera workforce, in keeping with the director of Al-Shifa Hospital, Dr Mohammed Abu Salmiya.
Their our bodies, wrapped in white shrouds with their faces uncovered, have been carried by way of slim alleys to their graves by mourners together with males carrying blue journalists’ flak jackets.
Israel confirmed it had focused al-Sharif, whom it labelled a “terrorist” affiliated with Hamas, saying he “posed as a journalist”.
The 4 different workers members killed have been Mohammed Qreiqeh, additionally a correspondent, and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa.
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New video footage seems to indicate the second a Palestinian activist was killed as an Israeli settler fired towards him throughout a confrontation with unarmed Palestinians within the occupied West Financial institution final month, AP studies.
The video launched Sunday by B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, reveals Israeli settler Yinon Levi firing a gun towards the particular person filming. The footage cuts however the digital camera retains rolling because the particular person moans in ache.
B’Tselem says it obtained the video from the household of Awdah Hathaleen, 31, an activist, English instructor and father of three who was shot lifeless on 28 July, and who they stated had filmed it. Levi was briefly detained after which launched from home arrest by an Israeli courtroom, which cited lack of proof.
The taking pictures occurred in Umm al-Khair, a village that has lengthy weathered settler violence in an space profiled within the Oscar-winning movie “No Different Land.” Settler assaults on Palestinians have spiked for the reason that outbreak of the Israel-Hamas battle, as have assaults by Palestinian militants.
Talks between Iran and the Worldwide Atomic Power Company will likely be “technical” and “difficult,” the Islamic Republic’s overseas ministry stated forward of a go to by the nuclear watchdog for the primary time since Tehran reduce ties with the organisation final month, AP studies.
Relations between the 2 soured after a 12-day air battle was waged by Israel and the US in June, which noticed key Iranian nuclear services bombed. The IAEA board stated Iran had breached its non-proliferation obligations a day earlier than Israel’s airstrikes on Iran sparked the battle.
The IAEA didn’t instantly situation a press release in regards to the go to by the company’s deputy head, which won’t embody any deliberate entry to Iranian nuclear websites.
Esmail Baghaei, the Iranian overseas ministry spokesperson, criticised the IAEA’s “distinctive scenario” throughout the June battle.
“Peaceable services of a rustic that was underneath 24-hour monitoring have been the goal of strikes and the company avoided exhibiting a clever and rational response and didn’t condemn it because it was required,” he stated.
Italy’s defence minister stated in an interview that Israel’s authorities had “misplaced its motive and humanity” over Gaza and signalled an openness to potential sanctions, AFP studies.
“What is occurring is unacceptable. We’re not going through a navy operation with collateral harm, however the pure denial of the regulation and the founding values of our civilisation,” defence minister Guido Crosetto informed Italian newspaper La Stampa.
“We’re dedicated to humanitarian help, however we should now discover a option to power Netanyahu to suppose clearly, past condemnation.”
Requested about potential worldwide sanctions in opposition to Israel, Crosetto stated that “the occupation of Gaza and a few critical acts within the West Financial institution mark a qualitative leap, within the face of which selections should be made that power (Benjamin) Netanyahu to suppose”.
“And it wouldn’t be a transfer in opposition to Israel, however a option to save that folks from a authorities which has misplaced motive and humanity.
“We should all the time distinguish governments from states and peoples, in addition to from the religions they profess. This is applicable for Netanyahu, and it applies to (Russian president Vladimir) Putin, whose strategies, by now, have turn into dangerously comparable.”
Gaza’s well being ministry stated 5 extra folks had died of malnutrition and hunger in Gaza prior to now 24 hours, Reuters studies.
That raised the variety of deaths from such causes to 222, together with 101 youngsters, for the reason that battle started, the ministry stated.
Israel says it has scaled up the entry of help and business items into Gaza in previous weeks. Palestinian and UN officers say the help is a fraction of what Gaza wants.
Some additional quotes from Downing Avenue, which stated it was “gravely involved” by each the killing of al-Sharif and his colleagues, and the broader concentrating on of journalists in Gaza by Israeli forces.
“We’re gravely involved by the repeated concentrating on of journalists in Gaza,” Keir Starmer’s official spokesperson stated. “Reporters overlaying conflicts are afforded safety underneath worldwide humanitarian regulation, and journalists should have the ability to report independently with out concern, and Israel should guarantee journalists can perform their work safely.”
Requested what motion Starmer may soak up response, the spokesperson stated: “It’s fallacious to focus on journalists who ought to have the ability to report independently, with out concern, and Israel should guarantee journalists can perform their work safely. As you’ve seen from what the prime minister has stated in latest days, he’s additionally clear that Israel’s determination to additional escalate its offensive in Gaza is fallacious as effectively.”
We’ve some more quotes from Emmanuel Macron on Israel’s plans for Gaza.
“This battle should finish now with a everlasting ceasefire,” Macron stated in a press release, including Israel’s plan to take management of Gaza Metropolis was “a catastrophe of unprecedented gravity and a headlong rush into everlasting battle”.
“Israeli hostages and the folks of Gaza will proceed to be the first victims of this technique,” Macron stated.
Israel has stated its navy would “take management” of Gaza Metropolis in a plan permitted by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s safety cupboard that sparked a wave of world criticism.
Within the assertion, Macron stated it was necessary to determine a UN-mandated stabilisation mission to safe the Gaza Strip.
“The safety council should now work to determine this mission and provides it a mandate,” he stated. “I’ve requested my groups to work on this immediately with our companions.”
Starmer ‘gravely involved’ over concentrating on of journalists in Gaza
Keir Starmer has stated he’s “gravely involved” in regards to the repeated concentrating on of journalists in Gaza, the British prime minister’s spokesperson stated on Monday, after the killing of Anas al-Sharif and 4 colleagues by the IDF.
Macron calls Israel’s Gaza plans a ‘catastrophe ready to occur’
Emmanuel Macron has condemned Israel’s plans to step up its military operation in Gaza as a “catastrophe ready to occur” and proposed a world coalition underneath a United Nations mandate to stabilise Gaza.
His overseas minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, had already strongly criticised the plans introduced on Friday by Benjamin Netanyahu, saying in a press release:
France strongly condemns the Israeli authorities’s plan geared toward making ready for the entire occupation of Gaza. Such an operation would worsen an already catastrophic scenario with out enabling the discharge of Hamas hostages, its disarmament, or its give up.
Jerusalem’s Western Wall vandalised with graffiti
The Western Wall in Jerusalem has been vandalised with graffiti condemning Israel’s ongoing battle in Gaza, triggering widespread condemnation from spiritual leaders and politicians, AFP studies.
“There’s a holocaust in Gaza,” was graffitied in Hebrew on the southern portion of the wall, the holiest website the place Jews are allowed to wish.
An analogous message was additionally scrawled on the wall of the Nice Synagogue, elsewhere within the metropolis.
Israeli police stated a 27-year-old suspect had been arrested and would seem in courtroom in a while Monday, with the police requesting that his detention be prolonged.
The incident sparked fast outrage in Israel, with the Western Wall’s Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch calling it a “desecration”.
Nationwide safety minister Itamar Ben Gvir – who oversees the nation’s regulation enforcement companies – stated he was shocked and vowed that the police would act “with lightning pace”.
Sharp condemnation additionally got here from the opposition. Former defence minister Benny Gantz, now an opposition chief, known as it “against the law in opposition to the whole Jewish folks”.
The Western Wall lies within the coronary heart of the Outdated Metropolis of Jerusalem, which Israeli forces captured throughout the 1967 Arab-Israeli battle.
Journalists in Dublin will maintain a vigil this night to “expresss outrage at Israel’s ongoing concentrating on and killing of journalists”, the Nationwide Union of Journalists have stated.
The protest has been prompted by the killing of six journalists in Gaza by Israel.
Qatar’s prime minister and minister for overseas affairs, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani condemned Israel’s killing of six Palestinian journalists, 5 of whom have been working for Al Jazeera, which is headquartered in Qatar and half state-funded.
“The deliberate concentrating on of journalists by Israel within the Gaza Strip reveals how these crimes are past creativeness, amid the shortcoming of the int’l group & its legal guidelines to cease this tragedy. Might God have mercy on journalists Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qraiqea, & their colleagues,” he said in a post on X.
Mourners collect for funeral of journalists killed in Israeli strikes
Gazans gathered on Monday for the funeral of 5 Al Jazeera workers members and a sixth reporter killed in an Israeli strike, AFP studies.
Dozens stood amid bombed-out buildings within the courtyard of Al-Shifa hospital to pay their respects to Anas al-Sharif, a outstanding Al Jazeera correspondent aged 28, and 4 of his colleagues, killed on Sunday.
A sixth journalist, Mohammed al-Khaldi who labored as a contract reporter, was additionally killed within the strike that focused the Al Jazeera workforce, in keeping with the director of Al-Shifa Hospital, Dr Mohammed Abu Salmiya.
Their our bodies, wrapped in white shrouds with their faces uncovered, have been carried by way of slim alleys to their graves by mourners together with males carrying blue journalists’ flak jackets.
Israel confirmed it had focused al-Sharif, whom it labelled a “terrorist” affiliated with Hamas, saying he “posed as a journalist”.
The 4 different workers members killed have been Mohammed Qreiqeh, additionally a correspondent, and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa.
UN human rights workplace condemns killing of Palestinian journalists by Israel
In a statement on X, the UN’s human rights workplace stated: “We condemn the killing by Israeli navy of 6 Palestinian journalists by concentrating on their tent, in grave breach of worldwide humanitarian regulation. #Israel should respect & defend all civilians, together with journalists.
No less than 242 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since 7 Oct 2023. We name for fast, secure & unhindered entry to Gaza for all journalists.”
Israel stated it focused Anas al-Sharif, one of many journalists killed, as a result of he was a member of Hamas. A number of organisations, together with the UN and Reporters With out Borders, have questioned the veracity of that declare.
Gaza Metropolis residents report heaviest bombardment in weeks as journalists killed
Palestinians reported the heaviest bombardments in weeks on Monday in areas east of Gaza Metropolis, simply hours after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated he anticipated to finish a brand new expanded offensive within the territory “pretty rapidly”, Reuters studies.
Witnesses stated Israeli tanks and planes pounded Sabra, Zeitoun, and Shejaia, three japanese suburbs of Gaza Metropolis within the north of the territory, pushing many households out of their properties westwards.
Some Gaza Metropolis residents stated it was one of many worst nights in weeks, elevating fears of navy preparations for a deeper offensive into their metropolis, which is now sheltering about 1 million folks after the displacement of residents from the enclave’s northern edges, in keeping with Hamas.
The Israeli navy stated its forces fired artillery at Hamas militants within the space. There was no signal on the bottom of forces transferring deeper into Gaza Metropolis as a part of the newly permitted Israeli offensive.
Netanyahu on Sunday stated he had instructed the Israeli navy to hurry up its plans for the brand new offensive. “I need to finish the battle as rapidly as potential, and that’s the reason I’ve instructed the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) to shorten the schedule for seizing management of Gaza Metropolis,” he stated.
The plans to step-up the offensive have been criticised by a variety of nations.
Greta Thunberg stated she and a Palestinian activist group plan to sail a brand new flotilla loaded with humanitarian help to Gaza to interrupt the “unlawful Israeli siege”, AFP studies.
Two different makes an attempt by activists to ship help by ship to Gaza, in June and July, have been blocked by Israel. Troops boarded their vessels and detained the activists earlier than expelling them.
“On August thirty first we’re launching the largest try ever to interrupt the unlawful Israeli siege over Gaza with dozens of boats crusing from Spain,” the Swedish campaigner stated in a submit on Instagram late on Sunday.
“We are going to meet dozens extra on September 4th crusing from Tunisia and different ports,” she stated.
Israel’s plan to take over Gaza Metropolis is “a matter of grave concern,” China’s everlasting consultant to the UN Fu Cong, stated at a weekend assembly on the Palestinian-Israeli situation held by the UN Safety Council, China’s state-run Xinhua information company studies.
Urging Israel to “cease this harmful transfer without delay,” Fu stated: “Gaza belongs to the Palestinian folks. It’s an integral a part of the Palestinian territory. Any motion that seeks to change its demographic and territorial construction should be met with utmost rejection and resistance.”
