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Crisis in the Middle East
Welcome! Here's the relevant humanitarian news headlines rundown 2025-JUL-24 - 18:00 CEST
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#Gaza #WestBank #Lebanon #Yemen #Syria 🔔 with updates
🛡 SECURITY LEB (local time): JUL-24 VOT 🕯 One killed in ISR attack on southern town of Ayta al-Shaab: REPORT Al Mayadeen -- JUL-20 VOT ISR airstrikes target concrete plant near Yaroun, causing panic in Bint Jbeil: REPORT NNA -- JUL-18 VOT Israeli forces raided Mays al-Jabal in southern Lebanon at dawn and blew up two excavators clearing rubble: REPORT Al Mayadeen -- JUL-13 Army dismantles Lebanon’s largest captagon lab in Yammouneh: REPORT NNA -- JUL-11 VOT 🕯 MoPH: One killed, five wounded in enemy airstrike on Al-Numayriyeh in Nabatieh district: REPORT NNA -- JUL-10 VOT🕯 ISR drone strike in Mansouri kills one, injures two: REPORT NNA -- Death toll in total: 🛑🕯4181* people killed, more than 16,800* wounded since the beginning of the Israeli aggression: MoH -- 🛑🕯 Israel kills more than 230* 👩🏽⚕️👨🏾🚒 medics, emergency workers: WHO *updated
✈️ AIR SPACE: ++ ✅🛫 Kuwait’s Jazeera Airways resumes direct flights with Syria after 13-year hiatus: REPORT NNA ++ JUN-13 ❌🛬 Lufthansa stellt Flüge nach Teheran ein: REPORT aero.de ++ JUN-05 ❌🛬 Air traffic to Ben Gurion Airport (TLV) has been suspended following the launch of a missile from Yemen: REPORT YNA ++ ✅🛫 Emirates Airlines set to restart flights to Damascus in mid-July: REPORT Al Maydeen ++ ✅🛫 Flydubai set to resume direct flights to Damascus after 12-year hiatus: REPORT NNA ++ ❌🛬 Spanish Airline Iberia Express suspends flights to Israel: REPORT YNA ++ ❌🛬 Sanaa airport suspends flights after severe damage from Israel strikes: REPORT Ahram/AFP ++ ❌🛬 Yemen missile suspends European airlines’ flights to Tel Aviv: REPORT YNA/aero.de ++
📰 HEADLINES: ++ ⚠️🕯Deadly explosion rocks Idlib countryside, at least five killed, more than 100 wounded: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ Syria’s healthcare system nears
collapse amid worsening conditions and reduced foreign aid: PRIME SOURCE Euro-Med Monitor ++ Amnesty International: Gaza faces mass starvation, permanent ceasefire and
aid access urgently needed: REPORT YPA ++ Israel
denies visa extension for top 🔵 UN OCHA official after Gaza famine
comments: REPORT WAFA ++ 📢 British band Massive Attack unveils alliance of musicians
denouncing genocide in Gaza: REPORT Anadolu ++ 🔵 UN's Türk calls for immediate steps to
ensure protection of people in Suweida and across Syria: PRIME SOURCE UNHRC ++ 🛑⚖️ French legal group to take EU to court for ‘failing to prevent Gaza genocide’: REPORT MEE ++ 🛑📢 New attack reaffirms GHF’s role
in killing and starvation in Gaza, underscores need to stop its operations: PRIME SOURCE Euro-Med Monitor ++ Israeli warplanes launch airstrikes
in Syria’s Suwayda: REPORT MEMO ++ EU official
weaponising anti-Semitism to block sanctions on Israel over Gaza genocide: REPORT MEMO ++
⛔ WEST BANK INVASION: ++ ⚠️🛑 ISR forces issue demolition notices against several vital structures in Bethlehem: REPORT WAFA ++ 🆘 Deteriorating conditions for sick and wounded detainees in Israel’s Ramleh Prison Clinic: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑 Israeli settlers storm Ramallah’s church with cattle, chase shepherds in Hebron: REPORT MEMO ++ 🛑 Illegal colonists kill and steal dozens of sheep in northern Jordan Valley: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🌿 ISR colonists uproot and destroy 180 trees in Qalqilya-area town: REPORT WAFA ++ ⚠️🚰 Jerusalem Water Authority warns illegal colonists seek control of vital wells near Ramallah: REPORT WAFA ++ ⚠️ ISR occupation army intensifies its military offensive across Tulkarm Governorate: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑 Over 5,700* violations committed by illegal ISR settlers in occupied West Bank in past decade: REPORT MEMO ++ *updated
⚖️ GENOCIDE IN GAZA: ++ ✅🔵 WFP and Jordan sends four Aid Convoys to Gaza: REPORT JNA ++ 🆘🛑 Gaza famine crisis: 10 die from starvation in just 24 hours: REPORT WAFA ++ ⚠️🆘 Israeli army issues new displacement orders in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯Israeli ongoing airstrikes on Saturday across Gaza kill 43 Palestinians, including 32 waiting for aid: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯Three civilians killed: Church leaders in Jerusalem condemn Israeli strike on Latin church in Gaza: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯👨🏾⚕️ ISR airstrike kills Gaza Indonesian Hospital's director: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ Gaza finds narcotics in US-Israeli aid, calls for global probe: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ 🆘 39 Palestinians reported missing near aid distribution centers in Gaza Strip: REPORT YPA ++ ❌👨🏾⚕️🧕🏾 WHO: Gaza’s Al-Amal hospital out of service - REPORT WAFA ++ ❌👩🏽⚕️ Gaza European Hospital out of service due to ongoing shelling: medical sources - REPORT WAFA ++ *updated by MoH
MEDIA WORKERS: ++ JUL-23 🛑🕯 231* journalists killed by Israel in Gaza / West Bank ++ JUL-10 🛑🕯 Journalists Syndicate:
Killing of journalist Ahmad Abu Eisha a new crime in Israel’s war on truth: REPORT WAFA ++ JUN-05 🛑🕯 ISR drone strike on Baptist Hospital kills four journalists, critically
wounds fifth: REPORT WAFA ++
MAY-27 🛑 ISR forces assault Palestine TV
crew during raid in Bethlehem: REPORT WAFA ++ MAY-25 🛑🕯Journalist and family members killed in Israeli airstrike on Jabalia: REPORT WAFA ++ MAY-18 🛑🕯
Five more Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza: REPORT MEMO ++ MAY-13 🛑🕯
Journalist Hassan Eslaih killed in Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ APR-07 🛑🕯 ISR strike on media tent kills journalists Helmi al-Faqawi and Ahmad Mansour ++ MAR-24 ++ 🛑🕯 ISR bombardment kills Al-Jazeera journalist in Gaza: REPORT WAFA -- 🛑🕯 Mohammad Mansour of Palestine Today TV killed in an airstrike: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯Anadolu freelance cameraman Saed Abu Nabhan killed by Israeli army: PRIME SOURCE ++ Family of journalist 🕯Shatha Sabbagh holds PA responsible for her death in Jenin: REPORT YNA ++ *updated
🗄️ Recent breaking news:
++ US firm accused of modelling ethnic cleansing in Gaza probed by UK parliamentary committee: REPORT MEMO ++
📢 UNRWA: Banning international media from Gaza aims to hide atrocities against Palestinians: REPORT MEMO
++ 🆘 1 in 3 people in Gaza has not eaten for days, says 🔵 UN: REPORT MEMO ++ Germany backs Israel through cyber defense partnership: REPORT YPA
++ ⚖️📢 Historic genocide case heard in Barbados Supreme Court: Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration demands
accountability over Gaza atrocities: REPORT
MEMO ++ 🛑 Illegal: Israel announces new West Bank settlements - REPORT MEMO ++ 📢 Over 170
NGOs call for end to Israeli-controlled ‘deadly’ aid distribution in Gaza: REPORT MEMO ++ 📢 Tehran halts IAEA access over silence on US-Israeli aggression: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ ✅☢️ No increase in
radiation levels in Egypt after strikes on nuclear facilities in Iran: ENRRA - REPORT Ahram ++ ⚖️ US sanctions four ICC judges: REPORT WAFA ++ Yemen: US Strikes on port an
apparent war crime - PRIME SOURCE HRW ++ Sarajevo Declaration of Gaza Tribunal condemns Israeli genocide of Palestinians: REPORT Anadolu ++
Legend:
⚠️ #attention #imminentdanger
🛑 #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Genocide
VOT #ViolationOfTruce
🛡 #CivilProtectionMeasures #security
Latest Civil Defence Report
Killer Robots: UN Vote Should Spur Treaty Negotiations
Report by Human Rights Watch
Urgent action needed to address Autonomous Weapons Systems: The record number of countries voting in favor of the second-ever United Nations General Assembly resolution on lethal autonomous weapons systems, or “killer robots,” highlights the urgent need to open negotiations on a new treaty to ban them, Human Rights Watch said in a statement from DEC-05 in New York.
Read the full report: DIRECT LINK
Photo: The United Nations General Assembly hashtag #UNGA at UN Headquarters in New York City
ICRC Law & Policy Blog
The problem of algorithmic bias in AI-based military decision support systems
Algorithmic bias has long been recognized as a key problem affecting decision-making processes that integrate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The increased use of AI in making
military decisions relevant to the use of force has sustained such questions about biases in these technologies and in how human users programme with and rely on data based on hierarchized
socio-cultural norms, knowledges, and modes of attention.
In the latest ICRC blog post, Dr Ingvild Bode, Professor at the Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark, and Ishmael Bhila, PhD researcher at the “Meaningful Human Control: Between Regulation and Reflexion” project, Paderborn University, unpack the problem of algorithmic bias with reference to AI-based decision support systems (AI DSS). They examine three categories of algorithmic bias – preexisting bias, technical bias, and emergent bias – across four lifecycle stages of an AI DSS, concluding that stakeholders in the ongoing discussion about AI in the military domain should consider the impact of algorithmic bias on AI DSS more seriously.
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Justice Reports Europe
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared that trade agreements between the European Union (EU) and
Morocco cannot include goods or resources originating from Western Sahara.
The ECJ emphasized that Western Sahara is considered a “non-self-governing territory” under international law and, therefore, it is
distinct from the Kingdom of Morocco. As such, any trade agreements that include products from Western Sahara must explicitly recognise this status and cannot be automatically considered as part
of agreements involving Morocco. Read the report by Middle East Monitor:
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Indie Journalism
In the largest public analysis of ISR military strike footage, Airwars reviewed hundreds of clips of strikes in Gaza posted on official military media accounts in the first month of the war. Despite the grainy videos published with few details on targets or locations, Airwars matched 17 strikes to specific geo-coordinates where researchers had tracked Palestinians killed or injured. In these strikes alone, more than 400 civilians were reported killed. Source: Airwars Org
Lawyers for the Palestinian rights group Al-Haq went back to court to challenge Keir Starmer's failure to ban all arms sales to Israel. Declassified UK spoke to lawyers Dearbhla Minogue and Ahmed Abofoul.
For the 32nd year, the entire world voted at the UN General Assembly to demand an end to the illegal US embargo against Cuba. The USA and Israel opposed the
international community in a vote of 187 to 2. Ben Norton explains why the US empire has waged such a vicious economic war on Cuba for six decades.
Source: G/E
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Debunking Human Shields Claim: A Video Chronicle of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity - presented by GDF US 2024 (YT)
On Friday, 9 August 2024, at around 8:30 P.M., Zuheir a-Rajabi (53), a resident of the Batan al-Hawa neighborhood in Silwan, East Jerusalem, was on his way home
when a neighbor informed him that a Border Police officer was chasing neighborhood children. A-Rajabi approached the officer, who claimed that he was looking for a
child who had cursed and thrown stones at him, in order to arrest him. A-Rajabi told the officer that he would speak with the children and warn them not to throw stones, and then went home. Later
that evening, at around 10:00 P.M., while a-Rajabi was spending time with relatives at the entrance of his home, four other Border Police officers arrived (...)
Read/watch the full report by B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories PRIME SOURCE
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West Bank: During the ISR military invasion of Qabatiya, they besieged a house and demolished it after throwing the bodies of killed
Palestinians out of the balcony. FPTV's O. Tahayne brings the details. Documented: 2024-SEP-19 Credit: FPTV
A Jordanian team specializing in prosthetic limbs restores hope to Palestinians who lost their limbs in the Israeli aggression on Gaza. Credit Footage: WAFA
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Jordanian Armed Forces dispatched two mobile clinics to Gaza on Monday as part of the "Restoring Hope" initiative to provide prosthetic limbs. The clinics are fully equipped with medical supplies to support those who have lost limbs in the ongoing aggression. This initiative was launched three weeks ago under royal directives to aid the war-affected population in Gaza. Full report by Roya News Jordan PRIME SOURCE
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Featured OpEd
History will judge the ICC's inaction. Judges must act now or step aside - Every hour that passes sees more lives lost and defenceless children falling victim to atrocities that, according to the ICC prosecutor, meet the threshold for war crimes. By Tayab Ali for Middle East Eye (Published 2024-OCT-08) PRIME SOURCE
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Nubian Language Code: Invaluable intelligence tool in Egypt’s Strategic Deception Plan for October 6 War - The idea of using the Nubian language as a code for the Egyptian Army is credited to Nubian Sergeant Ahmed Idris. The code was employed by the Egyptian army until 1994. Feature
for Egypt Today (Published 2024-OCT-06) PRIME SOURCE
Global Research
Offshore Gaza: gas in deep-water sedimentary reservoir rocks as another element in the conflict -- The conflict between the Israeli state and the Palestinian people revolves not only around the control of land but also extends to the ocean, particularly the sedimentary rocks beneath the seafloor. Article by senior geo-scientist Ramon Lopez for EGU Blogs SSP (Published 2023-DEC-01) PRIME SOURCE