📽️ In footage aired by AJA Palestine, on Thursday, a nurse at Al Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis is seen after being shot in the chest by an Israeli sniper while working inside the operating room.

Dr Nahed Abu Taaema, chief surgeon at Al Nasser Hospital, stated that the bullet went in and out of the victim’s chest.

🔴 Live updates: https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/israel-palestine-live-dozens-killed-overnight-strikes-gaza-netanyahu-rejects-hamas-ceasefire?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social_traffic

Israel’s attempt to create a “buffer zone” with Gaza could constitute a war crime, the UN high commissioner for human rights says.

“Extensive destruction of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly, amounts to a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention and a war crime,” said Volker Turk.
The destruction “appears to be aimed at or has the effect of rendering the return of civilians to these areas impossible”.

“Israel has not provided cogent reasons for such extensive destruction of civilian infrastructure,” Turk added.

🔴 Live updates: https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/israel-palestine-live-dozens-killed-overnight-strikes-gaza-netanyahu-rejects-hamas-ceasefire?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social_traffic

📽️ Israel’s Channel 12 reported on Wednesday that discussions are currently taking place between the leadership of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority on the possibility of forming a unity government.

Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, is planning a series of meetings in Qatar to engage with Hamas’s leadership, as indicated by Palestinian sources.

Israeli journalist Ohad Hemo highlighted during the interview that Mahmoud Abbas perceives the Palestinian Authority as the “legitimate control of Gaza” and is determined to regain control.

🔴 Live updates: https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/israel-palestine-live-dozens-killed-overnight-strikes-gaza-netanyahu-rejects-hamas-ceasefire?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social_traffic

📽️ On Tuesday, Israelis who were guarded by Israeli forces were seen singing and marching through the Old City of Jerusalem as Palestinians who were looking to commemorate al-Isra and al-Mi’raj on the same day were barred from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The mosque plays a key part in the Prophet Muhammad’s miraculous night journey to the heavens, known in Arabic as al-Isra wa al-Mi’raj.

Muslims believe the Prophet Muhammad met the 124,000 prophets who preceded him and led them in prayer at the al-Aqsa mosque.

Certain Muslim countries mark the event as a national holiday and some Muslim families commemorate the event by gathering in prayer and recitation of the Quran.

🔴 Live updates: https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/israel-palestine-live-dozens-killed-overnight-strikes-gaza-netanyahu-rejects-hamas-ceasefire?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social_traffic

📰 Israel has not even come close to defeating Hamas through its military offensive on the Gaza Strip, US intelligence officials have said.

According to the New York Times, the officials told members of Congress earlier this week that while Israel had managed to degrade Hamas’s fighting capabilities, they were still very far from crushing the organisation itself.

Officials also said that given the nature of Hamas' military wing as a fundamentally "guerilla" force, defeating the group might not even be possible and that simply weakening their combat strength might be a more realistic goal.

Their comments come despite repeated insistence from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the defeat of the Palestinian group was the ultimate goal of his country's ongoing attack on Gaza.

🔗 Read more: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-us-intelligence-officials-say-israel-not-close-defeating-hamas?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social_traffic

📽️ “My enemies, if you don’t run away now, you will run away from our children.”

Lebanese journalist Ali Mortada, who works for Al-Mayadeen, taunted Israeli forces and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhu in a video message he shared on Thursday and revealed that he used an unexploded Israeli artillery shell that landed near him to propose to his partner.

In recent months Mortada has been reporting on the various Israeli attacks on Lebanon’s south since 7 October, which have claimed the lives of at least 25 civilians.

🔴 Live updates: https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/israel-palestine-live-dozens-killed-overnight-strikes-gaza-netanyahu-rejects-hamas-ceasefire?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social_traffic

Israeli forces have killed 340 health personnel and arrested 99 since 7 October, said Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesperson for Gaza’s health ministry, on Friday.

He added that at least 123 ambulances had been destroyed in the same period.

Over the course of the conflict, doctors and medical workers have been killed, arrested by Israeli forces or forced from their homes.

🔴 Live updates: https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/israel-palestine-live-dozens-killed-overnight-strikes-gaza-netanyahu-rejects-hamas-ceasefire?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social_traffic

📽️ “For far too long has Israel been allowed to act with impunity.”

Mary Lou McDonald, President of Sinn Fein, told Sky News presenter Kay Burley on Thursday that she stands by her call to expel the Israeli Ambassador to Ireland and refer Israel to the International Criminal Court, emphasising that Palestinians have endured a “generational injustice”.

🔴 Live updates: https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/israel-palestine-live-dozens-killed-overnight-strikes-gaza-netanyahu-rejects-hamas-ceasefire?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social_traffic

🎥 “They wished me to die, they wished my children to die, they threatened to rape my daughter"

Meir Baruchin, a 62-year-old Israeli history teacher and anti-war activist, revealed how he was arrested in October and imprisoned in solitary confinement as a “high-risk detainee” in November for “intent to commit an act of treason” and “intent to disrupt public order” after he posted a photo of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army on 7 October in opposition to the war on Gaza.

He had also faced harassment and threats from other Israelis online over the post. When he was released from prison and returned to his school to teach, he was met with a “violent demonstration” from his own students and was forced to barricade himself in the teacher’s room

🎥 Alana Hadid (@lanzybear), whose Palestinian father and grandparents were forcibly expelled from their home in 1948, tells @mohhashem why the war on Gaza has given her ‘a greater understanding of the Nakba’.

Watch the full Real Talk interview on MEE’s YouTube channel

🎥 During an interview on Thursday with LBC’s Andrew Marr, Northern Ireland’s first minister, Michelle O’Neill said she believed that Hamas would eventually be “a partner for peace”.

O’Neill also highlighted Northern Ireland’s efforts at pushing for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and called on the global community to “stay firm” in the court of international law

📰 Moroccan hashish sellers are refusing to sell their wares to Israeli criminals in protest at the war in Gaza, according to Israeli media.

A report in the Mako news site cited a number of Israeli drug dealers complaining about the drop-off in trade.

“The hashish dealers in Morocco are not willing to sell us more hashish either directly or through intermediaries,” said one dealer.

“They decided that because of the war they are boycotting us. Since the war we have lost a lot of money. Tens of millions of shekels at least.”

The outlet also quoted a Moroccan hashish dealer saying they were refusing to sell to Israelis over the war.

“Why is it possible for Israelis to make a living selling Moroccan hashish when our Palestinian brothers are suffering from hunger and living in inhumane conditions?” said the dealer, based in the Rif Mountains, a hub for hashish growing

🎥 Arab-Israeli activist, Yoseph Haddad, lashes out on TV during a discussion about the family members of Hamas leaders, in particular Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas's political bureau.

He says that whilst it is important to treat all citizens of Israel, “the citizens who want to harm Israel, and support terrorism, we need to revoke their citizenship”

📰 Pro-Palestinian campaigners have criticised “politically motivated” new plans by the British government that it says are aimed at tackling antisemitism in the education system.

Details of the £5.5m initiative, which it says is intended to “tackle antisemitism in education” and to promote the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) “working definition” of antisemitism in schools and universities, were revealed on Tuesday.

According to the government website, the programme aims to “support schools, colleges, and universities to tackle antisemitism effectively” by “increasing understanding of antisemitism amongst staff and learners” and “increasing staff ability to identify and tackle incidents of antisemitism.”

Read further ⤵️
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-invest-over-fivemillion-antisemitism-schools-and-universities?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social_traffic

🎥 “I can't buy milk for him because we don’t have enough money"

Due to a baby milk shortage in Gaza, a displaced woman resorted to feeding her baby dates instead of milk, as she was unable to afford it

One of the Israelis taken hostage by Hamas on 7 October was most likely killed in an air strike, the army has concluded.

Yossi Sharabi, a resident of Kibbutz Be’eri who was kidnapped along with his 51-year-old brother Eli by Hamas to Gaza, was pronounced dead last month.

According to an army investigation, Sharabi was held in an apartment in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip along with the hostages Itai Svirsky and Noa Argamani.

It concluded Sharabi was killed after Israeli jets struck a nearby building.

🔗 Tap the link for the latest updates from Israel’s #WarOnGaza
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/israel-palestine-live-dozens-killed-overnight-strikes-gaza-netanyahu-rejects-hamas-ceasefire?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social_traffic

In December 1975, the infamous militant Carlos the Jackal and five other members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) stormed an Opec meeting in Vienna.

The mission? To kidnap 11 oil ministers, hijack a plane and bring attention to the Palestinian cause on Arab streets.

But things didn’t exactly go to plan and it resulted in Carlos being kicked out of the PFLP.

Find out why in the full Turning Point episode here:
https://youtu.be/QYKzu6PJNwc

Palestinians perform Friday prayer for the first time in northern Gaza, where most mosques have been destroyed.

Many religious sites in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed including some of the world’s oldest mosques and churches. A BBC report from January verified that 72 mosques and two churches have been hit by Israeli weaponry.

In an interview with Middle East Eye correspondent Azad Essa, Agnieszka Sykes, a global health specialist formerly working for the US Agency for International Development (USAID), explained why Samantha Power must resign as the administrator of USAID. Agnieszka highlighted the hypocrisy of Powers, who having written a Pulitzer-winning book on genocide is staying silent on the genocide that is happening in Gaza.