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US-Israeli Gaza genocide

Israel’s genocidal war continues unabated across the besieged Gaza Strip, claiming the lives of more civilians, including starving Palestinians seeking food aid. Gaza City remains the focal point of the regime’s attacks. Israel's latest strikes targeted residential apartments and tents for displaced people in Gaza City, killing 15 people, including five children. Three more civilians were killed when an airstrike hit a home near a school in Gaza City's al-Zaytoun neighborhood. Four others, including children, were killed after a vehicle was struck in the western part of the city. An airstrike targeted a group of people near Gaza City's al-Dhafer Tower, killing several civilians. On Thursday, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned that families in Gaza are left without essentials, as the agency has not been allowed to bring in any aid for six months. Israeli forces also killed 17 aid seekers on Thursday. Three Palestinians died from malnutrition, raising the total toll to 370, including 131 children. The death toll from the regime’s genocide has surpassed 64,230, with more than 161,580 others injured.

Israel global condemnation

Global voices are growing louder against Israel’s continued massacre of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Now, a senior European Union official has condemned the regime’s crimes as ‘genocide’, marking the strongest condemnation yet from the 27-nation bloc. The European Commission’s vice president, Teresa Ribera, said the genocide in Gaza exposes Europe's failure to act and speak with one voice. Ribera's use of the term "genocide" came as top EU officials have so far refrained from calling Israel's actions in the territory a genocide. It can also put more pressure on EU commission chief, Ursula von der Leyen, to take a tougher stance against the regime. The bloc has so far failed to agree on a course of action to pressure Israel to end its bombardment and blockade of Gaza. While some member states, such as Spain and Ireland, have called for economic curbs and an arms embargo on Israel, others, including Germany and Hungary, have pushed back against efforts to sanction the regime.

Israel war on media

A number of UN experts have strongly condemned Israel’s deliberate targeting of Palestinian media workers in Gaza. This, after the regime’s strikes killed six more journalists, including two women, in the past 10 days. In a statement, the experts said Israel is deliberately targeting, with impunity, local journalists who serve as the world’s only professional lens into the genocide and famine in Gaza. They noted that these reporters continued to courageously bear witness to Israel’s atrocities while enduring starvation, the loss of loved ones, and life in tents. The experts denounced Israel’s unwillingness to grant access to international media seeking to document the plight of Palestinian civilians in the territory. They also demanded independent criminal investigations into the killings and attacks on journalists across all Palestinian territories, urging the international community to act swiftly before Israel silences the last remaining voices in Gaza. Since October 2023, Israel has killed at least 248 journalists in Gaza, more than any other war in modern history.

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