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20-02-2024
GAZA CITY: Footage verified by media shows hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza City rushing towards aid trucks before fleeing after Israeli forces open fire at them.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says an eighth person has died at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis after the Israeli military cut electricity and oxygen supplies.
The State of Palestine will address the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as hearings on Israel’s occupation of Palestine start on Monday.
At least 127 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza in the past 24 hours. Israeli bombardment has killed at least 28,985 Palestinians and wounded 68,883 since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the October 7 Hamas-led attacks stands at 1,139.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists a ground operation in Rafah in southern Gaza will go ahead, despite warnings from countries including Australia, Canada and New Zealand that such a move would have a devastating impact on the forcibly displaced Palestinians sheltering there.
“Whoever tells us not to operate in Rafah, is telling us to lose the war,” he said.
Israeli gunboats have fired at Palestinian fishermen off the Gaza coast, threatening a vital source of food.
The men were using small boats to catch fish off the coast near Rafah.
Under the Israeli blockade, they used to be able to fish up to 37km (23 miles) out to the sea but not anymore.
The Israeli military has raided the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports.
Israeli forces have destroyed property and vehicles, distributed threatening leaflets and arrested at least three Palestinians in raids on homes, Wafa reports. Confrontations have also broken out, with the Israeli military throwing smoke bombs.
Raids and arrests have been reported elsewhere in the occupied West Bank in the following locations;
The city of Qalqilya, The towns of Hajjah and Kafr Qaddum near Qalqilya, The village of Al-Arooj, east of Bethlehem, The Al-Fawwar camp, south of Hebron, The town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, The village of Kobar, north of Ramallah, The town of Jabal Mukaber, south of occupied East Jerusalem.
Israeli forces have also arrested a man from the Shuafat camp, north of occupied East Jerusalem and beaten a man from the city of Hebron.
US Congressman Robert Garcia has voiced support for a “free and safe” two-state solution and a “lasting ceasefire” in a post on social media.
“Palestinian and Israeli lives have the same value, we must be focused on negotiating a lasting ceasefire, the release of all hostages and an end to the war,” Garcia said.
Garcia’s comments come after the Israeli cabinet voted to formalise its opposition to what it called the “unilateral recognition” of Palestinian statehood. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
