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26-07-2024
CAIRO/ JERUSALEM/ GAZA: Hamas says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to US Congress “full of lies”, shows he is not serious about a ceasefire and has “thwarted all efforts to end the war and reach a deal to release hostages”, Reuters news agency reports.
Protesters gathered in Washington, DC, as Netanyahu addressed US lawmakers, with anger rising over the war on Gaza and failure to agree on a ceasefire deal to free captives.
The Gaza Government Media Office said Israeli forces targeting “everything that moves” on Khan Younis’s Salah al-Din Street amid reports of medical teams coming under attack from quadcopters while trying to rescue the wounded.
At least 129 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds wounded in southern Khan Younis since Israel launched its latest attack with about 150,000 residents forced to flee. At least 39,145 people have been killed and 90,257 injured in Israel’s war on Gaza. The death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 is estimated at 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.
US forces destroyed two missiles that were in their launchers in Yemen as part of operations against Houthi fighters and their campaign to disrupt shipping in the Red Sea linked to Israel.
US Central Command (CENTCOM), which is responsible for military operations in the Middle East, said the missiles were a threat and they were destroyed to “protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer”.
Houthi fighters have for months launched attacks on Israel-linked vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden as part of a campaign in support of Palestinians in Gaza.
The Houthis say their Red Sea attacks will end when Israel’s war on Gaza ends.
Earlier, we reported that the Israeli military had shelled the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City, killing at least four people, including women and children.
Footage authenticated by media verification unit now shows civilian rescue teams pulling a conscious but startled young baby from the rubble.
The Australian government has placed financial sanctions and travel bans on seven Israeli settlers and a youth group for involvement in violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong said the group was responsible for inciting and perpetrating violence against Palestinians, while the settlers had been involved in beatings, sexual assault and torture of Palestinians, and also deaths in some cases. “We call on Israel to hold perpetrators of settler violence to account and to cease its ongoing settlement activity, which only inflames tensions and further undermines stability and prospects for a two-state solution,” Wong said in a statement.
Australia’s announcement of sanctions follows similar recent actions against individual Israeli settlers by the UK, the US, Canada and Japan. Australia already considers Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory illegal under international law and an obstacle to peace.
US Senator Bernie Sanders has called Benjamin Netanyahu a “war criminal” and a “liar” following the Israeli Prime Minister’s speech to a joint session of US Congress where he spoke of his “vision for Gaza” with a “future of prosperity, security and peace”.
“All humanitarian organizations agree: Tens of thousands of children face starvation because his extremist government continues to block aid,” Sanders wrote on X. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
