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24-07-2024, 11:56 AM
This live page will soon be closed. Here are today’s top updates: -- 1) Amnesty International has put the US on notice for complicity in war crimes as Netanyahu visits Washington, DC to address Congress. Israeli forces batter parts of Khan Younis in the latest offensive, while 84 Palestinians were killed in Gaza over 24 hours.
2) The UN will send teams to Gaza to test for polio. It also says displaced Palestinians are being forced into just 20 percent of the enclave’s land.
The head of the UN has welcomed an agreement of “national unity” reached between Hamas, Fatah and other Palestinian groups aimed at ensuring Palestinian control of post-war Gaza.
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4h ago: Qatar condemns Knesset’s labelling of UNRWA a ‘terrorist organisation’
The response from Doha comes a day after Israel’s parliament gave preliminary approval to a bill that would give the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency the label. The bill was approved in a first reading and sent to a committee for further deliberation. It is the latest move by Israel to sanction the agency. Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement, called the bill a “flagrant violation of international laws and norms, and an extension of the systematic campaign that aims to disband the agency, at a time when there is an increasing need for its humanitarian services due to the catastrophic consequences of the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip”.
Click here to share on social media (4h ago - 23:20 GMT) Musk says Starlink now active in a Gaza hospital. The billionaire and Tesla owner did not specify which hospital. Israel had previously said that it would need to approve any use of the satellite internet service in Gaza. In February, it said it had approved use at the UAE-run field hospital in Rafah. At the time, the UAE also said the technology would soon be used at the hospital.
2) The UN will send teams to Gaza to test for polio. It also says displaced Palestinians are being forced into just 20 percent of the enclave’s land.
The head of the UN has welcomed an agreement of “national unity” reached between Hamas, Fatah and other Palestinian groups aimed at ensuring Palestinian control of post-war Gaza.
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4h ago: Qatar condemns Knesset’s labelling of UNRWA a ‘terrorist organisation’
The response from Doha comes a day after Israel’s parliament gave preliminary approval to a bill that would give the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency the label. The bill was approved in a first reading and sent to a committee for further deliberation. It is the latest move by Israel to sanction the agency. Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement, called the bill a “flagrant violation of international laws and norms, and an extension of the systematic campaign that aims to disband the agency, at a time when there is an increasing need for its humanitarian services due to the catastrophic consequences of the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip”.
Click here to share on social media (4h ago - 23:20 GMT) Musk says Starlink now active in a Gaza hospital. The billionaire and Tesla owner did not specify which hospital. Israel had previously said that it would need to approve any use of the satellite internet service in Gaza. In February, it said it had approved use at the UAE-run field hospital in Rafah. At the time, the UAE also said the technology would soon be used at the hospital.
