🧵: At least 45 Palestinians have been killed in ongoing Israeli attacks on eastern Khan Younis, amid a new air and ground offensive in the southern governorate.

The army is reportedly still bombing homes and tents housing displaced people in the area ⤵️



The Israeli military accused Hamas of firing at Israeli troops from the humanitarian zone in Gaza, and said it was adjusting the area to target the Palestinian group there

🧵: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued an advisory opinion saying that Israel’s decades-long occupation of the Palestinian territories is "unlawful" and should be brought to an end "as rapidly as possible".

Here are the main points from the advisory opinion ⤵️ “The State of Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is unlawful”

🧵: The Nuseirat massacre and the excessive killing of civilians without any "operational need" has only one explanation: Israel seizes any opportunity to shed the blood of as many Palestinians as possible, writes Palestinian peace activist Ahmed Abu Artema in his column ⤵️ “In the morning of Saturday, 8 June, the racist Zionist colonial army carried out horrific massacres, killing at least 274 Palestinian civilians,” writes Abu Artema.

Hours later, they announced that these massacres were a cover to free four Israeli captives in the Nuseirat camp

🔴 LIVE DAY 249 #Israel #Palestine

- Hamas commander killed in Ramallah
- Four Israeli soldiers killed in Rafah
- Over half of Gaza's buildings destroyed

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An Israeli air strike hit a convoy of trucks in Lebanon’s Hermel region near the border with Syria, killing several people.

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🔴 LIVE DAY 242 #Israel #Palestine

- 3,500 Palestinian children face death from starvation
- Over one million Palestinians fled Rafah: UN
- Far-right Israeli minister calls for Lebanon to be sent back to 'stone age'

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Ben Gvir to join provocative ultranationalist 'flag march' in Jerusalem

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🔴 LIVE DAY 217 #Israel #Palestine

- Unrwa office closes after Israeli settler arson attack
- Netanyahu says country ready to "fight with fingernails" after US warns arms could be halted

Follow our live coverage here ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/live/gaza-live… UTS trustees, affiliate college to Columbia University, endorse divestment from ‘companies profiting from the war in Palestine’

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🔴 LIVE DAY 214 #Israel #Palestine

- Israeli forces storm Rafah border crossing
- 12 Palestinians killed in overnight Israeli attacks on Rafah
= Two Israeli soldiers killed in Hezbollah drone attack

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🧵: In his latest column, MEE’s editor-in-chief David Hearst writes that the anti-Gaza war protest movement has revived the Palestinian national cause and a new generation of American Jews are challenging the claim that Zionism owns their narrative⤵️
middleeasteye.net/opinion/campus… The parallels between the 1968 protest movement against the Vietnam War and today’s global protest against the Gaza War are many, writes Hearst

🧵: An investigation by MEE reveals that a company owned by an influential Egyptian businessman and ally of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is making around $2m a day from Palestinians fleeing Israel's war on Gaza ⤵️ Hala for Consulting and Tourism Services, the company owned by Sinai tribal leader and business tycoon Ibrahim al-Organi, has been charging Palestinians crossing Rafah to Egypt at least $5,000 per adult and $2,500 per child under 16

🧵: Palestinians have accused Israel’s far-right government and army of complicity following devastating weekend assaults by Israeli settlers.

The attacks, which were undeterred by US sanctions, mark a troubling escalation of violence in the West Bank ⤵️
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On Friday, Amer Jabr was shot in the thigh during an assault by Israeli settlers on his home in the village al-Mughayyir.

His home is one of the many that were destroyed in the latest surge in settler violence, triggered by the disappearance and death of a teenage settler

🔴 LIVE DAY 186 #Israel #Palestine

- Hamas to study Israeli truce proposal despite disagreements
- Scores of dead bodies recovered in Khan Younis after Israeli withdrawal
- France, Egypt, Jordan warn against Rafah invasion

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Speaking to the conservative Real America’s Voice network, Donald Trump said that "any Jewish person that votes for Biden does not love Israel and frankly, should be spoken to."

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🔴 LIVE DAY 175 #Israel #Palestine

- Israeli strikes on Syria's Aleppo kill 38 people
- Japan to restore funding to Unrwa
- Israel preparing to enter Rafah, Netanyahu says

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Palestinian journalist killed near al-Shifa hospital

Muhammad Abu Sakhil, a journalist for the local al-Quds Radio, has been shot and killed by Israeli forces, according to Al Jazeera.

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🔴 LIVE DAY 172 #Israel #Palestine

- US Secretary of State: "alternatives exist" to Rafah invasion
- UN rapporteur says genocide threshold may have been crossed in Gaza
- Hamas to stick to permanent ceasefire position

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The head of Hamas's political bureau Ismail Haniyeh will head to Tehran today and meet with Iranian officials, according to Iranian media.

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🔴 LIVE DAY 171 #Israel #Palestine

- Palestinian death toll tops 32,226
- Blocked aid for Gaza is a moral outrage, says UN chief
- US announces new airdrops over Gaza, but UN warn that air aid is not enough

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The UN Security Council will vote on a new draft resolution on an "immediate" ceasefire in Gaza.

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The European Union's top humanitarian aid official said he had seen no evidence from Israel to back its accusations against staff from the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) Israel alleges that 12 Unrwa staff members took part in the Hamas-led 7 October attacks. Upon learning of the allegations, the agency dismissed 10 of the employees (two others were dead) in a process that the head of the agency admitted amounted to "reverse due process"

🔴 LIVE DAY 160 #Israel #Palestine

- At least 3 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Jabalia and Rafah
- Israeli forces conduct raids across West Bank
- US may support limited Rafah operation

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An Israeli air strike on the al-Attar family home in al-Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza killed at least 9 people.

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🔴 LIVE DAY 146 #Israel #Palestine

- Gaza death toll nears 30,000
- Hezbollah says it will halt attacks on Israel if Hamas agrees to truce
- At least 30 killed in separate attacks in the Nuseirat, Bureij and Khan Younis camps

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The amount of aid delivered in airdrops is so “negligible” that it helps “perpetuate the overall blockade strategy,” Jeremy Konyndyk, the president of Refugees International, has said.

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🧵: Disturbing posts from Israeli Telegram channels depicting Palestinians being mocked and abused have been widely shared online.

MEE’s @mayanoraa offers a glimpse into these Telegram groups ⤵️
“[Telegram] has been a hotbed for hate speech and incitement to violence against Palestinians”

Jalal Abukhater, advocacy manager at 7amleh, a non-profit advocating for Palestinian digital rights, told MEE in December that Telegram is "notorious" for its policy of not moderating any content
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🔴 LIVE DAY 138 #Israel #Palestine

- UN suspends food aid in northern Gaza
- Air strikes continue to pound Rafah and central camps
- Israeli troops launch late-night attack in "safe area" sheltering displaced people

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Israel's statements on Brazil's Lula are unacceptable, says foreign minister

"For a foreign ministry to address a head of state from a friendly country in this way is unusual and revolting."

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🔴 LIVE DAY 125 #Israel #Palestine

- Around 100,000 Palestinians killed, wounded or missing
- Over 14 Palestinians killed by Israeli air strikes in Rafah
- Norway transfers $26m to Unrwa

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Hillary Clinton has said that Netanyahu “absolutely needs to go” for his handling of Israel’s war on Gaza.

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🔴 LIVE DAY 112 #Israel #Palestine

- Palestinian death toll in Gaza stands at almost 26,000, the vast majority women and children

- ICJ to deliver ruling on provisional measures requested by South Africa

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Netanyahu’s right-wing government is starving the Palestinian people, says US Senator Bernie Sanders.

"The US must use all of its leverage to end this horrific war”

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