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Crisis in the Middle East
Welcome! Here's the relevant humanitarian news headlines rundown 2025-APR-24 - 15:00 CEST
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#Gaza #WestBank #Lebanon #Yemen #Syria 🔔 with updates
🛡 SECURITY LEB (local time): 14:00 President Aoun meets 🔵 UNIFIL Commander, UNITAR delegation, and Cypriot Maronite officials: REPORT NNA -- 12:00 🛑 VOT ISR forces carry out bulldozing operations in Jabal al-Hammara near Adaisseh: REPORT NNA -- APR-22 📢 Justice Minister discusses judicial cooperation with Egyptian, Omani Ambassadors: REPORT NNA -- ⚠️ VOT🕯 ISR airstrike on vehicle in Bawarta kills one: Health Ministry - REPORT NNA -- APR-20 VOT🕯ISR drone strikes kill one in Houla, one in Kaouthariyet El Sayad: REPORT NNA -- APR-19 VOT ISR army continues its violations against Lebanon: REPORT NNA -- APR-18 🛑 VOT ISR drone targets vehicle near Maghdoucheh; renewed strikes reported in Mhaibi: REPORT NNA -- APR-14 Italian 🔵 UNIFIL Contingent donates medical supplies and clothing to Tyre 👩🏽⚕️👨🏾🚒 Red Cross: REPORT NNA -- APR-13 🛑 VOT ISR forces demolish statue of Saint George in town of Yaroun - Bint Jbeil: REPORT NNA -- APR-11 VOT ISR infantry unit crosses border into Wazzani Park: REPORT NNA --- 🔎 FactCheck Lebanon: Lebanese Army did not hand over former regime officials to new Syrian administration: REPORT NNA -- Death toll in total: 🛑🕯4156* people killed, more than 16,800* wounded since the beginning of the Israeli aggression: MoH -- 🛑🕯 Israel kills more than 229* 👩🏽⚕️👨🏾🚒 medics, emergency workers: WHO *updated
✈️ AIR SPACE: ++ ✅🛫 Turkish Airlines resumes flights to Syria after 13-year hiatus: REPORT NNA ++ ❌ 🛂 Turkish Airlines forbids Iran, Israel nationals access to flights to Syria: REPORT MEMO ++ ✅🛫 Iraq to resume flights to Lebanon, transport minister says: REPORT MEMO ++
📰 HEADLINES: ++ 🔎 Despite stated ban, Spain continues to buy arms from Israel: REPORT ElDiario/Anadolu ++ 📢 UK lifts sanctions on Syria def., interior ministries, intel agencies: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ ⚠️ Attack on Yemen: US aircraft launch airstrikes on capital Sanaa, its nearby regions - REPORT YNA ++ 🛑 Israel to use Absentee Property Law to approve 1,900 illegal settlement units in Jerusalem: REPORT MEMO ++🕯Pope Francis dies at 88 after prolonged illness: Vatican News - PRIME SOURCE ++ 🛑🕯Yemen: Prominent Sheikh confirms 30 tribal workers killed in US airstrike on Ras Issa: REPORT YNA ++ 🛑🕯🔔 update Yemen: Death toll from US aggression on Ras Issa oil port in Hodeida rises to 74 - REPORT YNA ++ 🔵 UN: More than 2M people trapped inside Gaza -- REPORT MEMO ++ 📢 Palestinian factions warn that any Gaza truce without guarantees is a ‘political trap’: REPORT Anadolu ++ 📢 Maldives bars Israeli passport holders over genocide in Gaza: REPORT Ahram/AP ++ 📢 Algeria orders 12 French Embassy officials to leave country in 48 hours: REPORT Anadolu ++ APR-12 📢 Iran's Foreign Minister meets Omani officials ahead of US talks: State TV - REPORT NNA ++ 40 states to participate in ICJ public hearings on Israel: REPORT Anadolu ++ *updated
⛔ WEST BANK INVASION: ++ UPDATE ⚠️ Tulkarm: 88 days since Israel's aggression began on the city and refugee camps: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑 ISR colonist steal water pumps in the northern Jordan Valley: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑 Colonists uproot hundreds of olive trees, bulldoze land near Ramallah: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯20-year-old Palestinian detainee killed in ISR prison: REPORT PPS/Al Mayadeen ++ ⚠️ Under ISR forces protection, colonists raze lands near Ramallah: REPORT WAFA ++ ⚠️ ISR aggression on Jenin enters its 84th day: REPORT YNA ++ 🛑 ISR forces storm Jenin governmental hospital, cause fear among patients: REPORT WAFA ++ ❌West Bank's Christians denied entry to occupied Jerusalem on Palm Sunday - REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑 ISR expands its military operation in Nablus: REPORT MEMO ++ ✅📢 Foreign Ministry welcomes 🔵 UNESCO adoption of two resolutions in favor of Palestine: REPORT WAFA ++ ❌🚰 ISR forces demolish water tank near the Jordan Valley: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑 ISR forces blow up Palestinian's house in Nur al-Shams refugee camp: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑 Over 5,350 violations committed by illegal ISR settlers in occupied West Bank in past decade: REPORT MEMO ++ 📢 Ministry of Health condemns Israeli raid on Al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron: REPORT ++ *updated
⚖️ GENOCIDE IN GAZA: ++ 📢 'Worst humanitarian situation' in Gaza as aid blockade passes 50-day mark, says 🔵 UN: REPORT Anadolu ++ 🛑🕯Death toll across Gaza Strip surges to 51,355*, over 117,000 injured: REPORT WAFA ++ 🔵 UN expert condemns horrific ISR attack on Al-Ahli hospital: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯 ISR airstrike hits Kuwaiti 👩🏽⚕️🧕🏾⛺️ field hospital in Gaza, killing medic and wounding 9 other Palestinians: REPORT Ahram/AP ++ UPDATE: 🛑🕯14* civilians killed, others injured in ISR airstrikes on northern and southern Gaza -- REPORT WAFA ++ ❌👩🏽⚕️ ISR destroys Baptist hospital, forcing it out of service: REPORT Ahram ++ 🛑👨🏾🚒 Gaza medic missing in Israeli ambulance attack 'forcibly abducted': Red Crescent - REPORT AFP/Ahram ++ 🛑🕯 At least 15 Gazans killed by ISR bombing of UNRWA-run clinic in Gaza: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯👨🏾🚒 PRCS announces the number of bodies retrieved in Rafah rose to 15*: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑 Nasser hospital, the largest functioning hospital in Gaza, Palestine, was hit by an Israeli strike on March-23: PRIME SOURCE MSF ++ 📰 Amid global inaction, Israel intensifies its forced displacement campaign in the Gaza Strip: PRIME SOURCE Euro-Med Monitor ++ 🛑🕯 🔵 UN employee killed, other injured, after ISR forces bombed UN headquarters in Gaza: REPORT WAFA ++ ✅👨🏾🚒🧕🏾 Palestinian Red Crescent Society re-operate Al-Quds Hospital in Tal al-Hawa: REPORT WAFA ++ 🔵 UNRWA opens 130 temporary 🧕🏾📚 education centers in Gaza: REPORT WAFA ++ 🔵 UN inquiry accuses Israel of committing acts of genocide in Gaza: REPORT WAFA ++ *updated by MoH
MEDIA WORKERS: ++ 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 ++ 🛑🕯 211* journalists killed by Israel in Gaza: REPORT MEMO 🛑🕯 ++ Anadolu freelance cameraman Saed Abu Nabhan killed by Israeli army: PRIME SOURCE ++ Number of journalists killed in Gaza exceeds that of World War II: REPORT YNA ++ Family of journalist 🕯Shatha Sabbagh holds PA responsible for her death in Jenin: REPORT
YNA ++ 📢 CPJ calls for international probe after evidence indicates Israel targeted journalists in deadly Lebanon
strike: PRIME SOURCE CPJ ++ 🛑
Israeli military court sentences WAFA’s Rasha Harzallah to prison and fine: REPORT WAFA ++ CPJ: ‘Catastrophic’ Journalists say ethnic cleansing taking place in a news void
in northern Gaza ++ Journalists Syndicate Ramallah: The occupation commits a new massacre against journalists REPORT WAFA ++ *updated
🗄️ Recent breaking news: ++ 📢 US reverses some 🔵 UN food aid cuts, says cancellations were ‘mistakes’: REPORT MEMO ++ 🛑 Ten Britons accused of war crimes in Gaza referred to police after legal complaint: REPORT MEE ++ 🔵 UN rapporteur accuses Israel of concealing evidence regarding killing of paramedics in Rafah: REPORT WAFA ++ 📢 Egypt’s Journalists Syndicate urges suspending Camp David Accords after Israeli statements on Sinai: REPORT Egypt Today ++ Qatar rejects claims of ‘financial payment’ to undermine Egypt’s role in Gaza ceasefire: REPORT MEMO ++ Jordan's King holds talks with German
chancellor in Berlin, urges halt to humanitarian tragedy in Gaza: REPORT JNA ++ 📢 IFRC
'outraged' at killing of eight medics in Gaza: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ 🛑 21K+ flee Syria violence, Lebanese delegation Damascus visit postponed: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ ⚖️📢 Turkish court frees AFP journalist as police break up campus protest: REPORT NNA ++ 📢 Third Palestine Conference kicks off in Sanaa: REPORT YNA ++ 📢 Jewish
activists arrested in US protest for Palestinian’s release: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ 📢 Qatar calls for IAEA
inspection of all Israeli nuclear sites: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ 🛑🕯Over 300 Syrian Alawite civilians killed in latest massacre: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ 📢 LEB Ministry of Public Health and 🔵 UNICEF launch ACWA Programme to support war-wounded children in Lebanon: REPORT NNA ++
🔵 UN expresses support for Egypt's Gaza reconstruction plan: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ 📢 ICC asked to investigate Biden and other former US officials for complicity in war crimes: REPORT MEMO ++
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🛑 #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #GenevaConvention
VOT #ViolationOfTruce
🛡 #CivilProtectionMeasures #security
Latest report
Amid global silence, Israel’s statements and aid blockade confirm intent to continue genocide
Report by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
Humanitarian aid is a fundamental right of civilians under international humanitarian law, with no exceptions, and there is no legal justification for Israel to deny Palestinians access to essential aid. Israel is not only using humanitarian aid as a bargaining chip for political and military gain, but is also deliberately enforcing a policy of systematic starvation, creating life-threatening conditions designed to make survival in the Gaza Strip impossible.
Read the full report: DIRECT LINK
Photo: Trucks of Egyptian Red Crecent carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip cross the border gate in Rafah, Egypt.
2024: A Year of Reckoning - World Report 2025
Report by Human Rights Watch
This has been a year of elections, resistance, and conflict, testing the integrity of democratic institutions and the principles of international human rights and
humanitarian law. Whether in response to heightened repression in Russia, India, and Venezuela, or catastrophic armed conflicts in Gaza, Sudan, and Ukraine, governments around the world are being
called upon to demonstrate their commitment to human rights, democracy, and humanitarian action.
Read the full report: DIRECT LINK
Photo: Palestinian civilians return to Khan Younis in Gaza, April 26, 2024
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.
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Photo: The United Nations General Assembly hashtag #UNGA at UN Headquarters in New York City
‘Catastrophic’: Journalists say ethnic cleansing taking place in a news void in northern Gaza
Report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ Staff)
On Wednesday, November 6, an Israeli strike killed at least 15 people in a house in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza. But communications difficulties meant that the Gaza health ministry struggled to determine the death toll. This is just one example of countless others where local reporters were able to help verify information about potential atrocities during Israel’s escalating offensive in the area, journalists tell CPJ.
Read the full report: DIRECT LINK
Photo: Journalists film destroyed buildings in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in northern Gaza on October 9, 2024
The international system has shamefully failed to halt Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Report by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
Palestinian Territory - The reluctance of the international system to implement decisive actions against Israel’s mass atrocities in the Gaza Strip, especially in the northern region, exposes a stark disregard for Palestinian lives and dignity, and fuels the continuation of its crime of genocide. Institutions like the European Union (EU), International Criminal Court (ICC), and International Court of Justice (ICJ), alongside various United Nations (UN) bodies, have deviated from their founding principles of protecting civilians and upholding justice. In over 13 months, these bodies have neglected their fundamental duty to safeguard civilian life and stop Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
Read the full report: DIRECT LINK
Photo: An Israeli soldier poses as homes burn in the background in northern Gaza - Social Feed
Journalists face Israeli strikes, displacement, attacks as war escalates in Lebanon
Report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ Staff)
The recent escalation of Israel’s war in Lebanon has imperiled the press as they face Israeli strikes that have destroyed news outlet offices and killed at least three journalists, in addition to being assaulted, obstructed, threatened, and detained while reporting. At about 03:00 am - on October 25, an Israeli airstrike hit a compound housing 18 journalists from multiple media outlets in Hasbaya, a town in southern Lebanon. The strike killed Al-Mayadeen TV’s camera operator Ghassan Najjar, broadcast engineer Mohammed Reda, and Al-Manar TV’s camera operator Wissam Kassem.
Read the full report: DIRECT LINK
Photo: Mourners and media personnel carry signs with pictures of the three Lebanese journalists killed in an Israeli strike on October 25, 2024
SPECIAL REPORT - COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS
A year on, there is still no accountability following the October 13, 2023, targeted Israeli attack that killed Issam Abdallah and injured six journalists in southern Lebanon -
Read the full report: DIRECT LINK
Photo: AFP journalist Dylan Collins speaks on his mobile phone after being injured by Israeli shelling in southern Lebanon on Oct. 13, 2023. The Israeli strikes, later determined to be targeted
attacks, killed a Reuters videographer and wounded six other journalists
JUSTICE REPORT 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:
DIRECT LINK
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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