Local Palestinians inspect the destruction following a horrific Israeli airstrike on the Kaware' family home in Khan Younis, where several innocent civilians were killed in their sleep.

More than half of the Palestinian prisoners who have died in Israeli prisons since the start of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza were killed as a result of torture and abuse.

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Israeli forces have killed about 18,000 children, 12,400 women, 1,400 medics, and 212 journalists in Gaza since the start of the genocide in October 2023. As Israel continues its assault on the enclave, more civilians continue to be killed.

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This morning, 11 Palestinian detainees arrived at the Gaza European Hospital in Khan Younis after being held for months in Israeli torture detention camps. They were abducted from various locations across the enclave during the Israeli ground invasion of Gaza.

Khaled Ahmed Abdel Aziz published a photo of his cousin and friends after they were targeted by Israeli missile while gathering at a cafeteria at the entrance to Al-Bureij refugee camp.

He wrote, "The ones you see in the picture are my cousin and his friends. They sat in the cafeteria, trying to steal a moment of warmth amid the inferno, to snatch a laugh, or a breath of hope. But the occupation had other plans...

Instead of granting them a sliver of life, it hurled a missile their way. Now, their bodies lie in Intensive care unite, among the hands of doctors under the fragile ceiling of hope. Our hearts hang by a thread, clinging to prayers as their only companion.

Please, pray for their healing, for the pain is too deep for words, and all we have left is faith in Allah."

An outraged Palestinian woman, overwhelmed with anguish, prays for justice as she watches her home being knocked down by Israeli bulldozers in the town of Idhna, west of Hebron, the occupied West Bank.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) revealed that Israel increased military spending by 65 percent in 2024, about $46.5bn, marking “the steepest annual increase since the Six-Day War in 1967”.

Israel’s “military burden rose to 8.8 percent of GDP, the second highest in the world,” SIPRI added.

Meanwhile, Lebanon’s military spending also rose by 58 percent in 2024, although its overall spending was much lower than Israel’s at $635m.

By contrast, SIPRI found that Iran’s military spending fell by 10 percent in real terms to $7.9bn in 2024, in part due to sanctions.

According to SIPRI, the global military expenditure rose to $2.72 trillion last year, in the “steepest year-on-year rise since at least the end of the Cold War”.

Players from Switzerland’s fencing team turned their backs on the Israeli team during the medal ceremony at the Under-23 European Fencing Championship on Saturday in Tallinn, Estonia, in protest of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.

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Young Sham Ahmad Al-Khatib was killed by the Israeli occupation last night following a horrific airstrike on a home in Al-Maghazi refugee camp, central Gaza.

18-month-old Islam Abu M'hadi was mercilessly taken away from his mother by an Israeli airstrike which knocked a home in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza. He was born and killed by the Israeli occupation during their ongoing onslaught on the enclave.

The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) has filed a criminal complaint in Colombia against an Israeli-French sniper currently in the country, accusing him of war crimes and crimes against humanity during Israel’s assault on Gaza.

https://qudsnen.co/hrf-files-complaint-in-colombia-against-israeli-sniper-over-gaza-war-crimes/

The International Court of Justice is set to begin a five-day hearing on Israel’s humanitarian obligations to allow the UN and others to provide humanitarian assistance in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

The hearings are being held at the request of the UN General Assembly, which voted in favour of asking the World Court to weigh in on Israel’s legal obligations last December.

Officials from the UN and Palestine are scheduled to speak first. The court will hear from some 40 countries over the next five days.

Experts say the hearing will be about the way that Israel can treat UNRWA as well as how Israel controls humanitarian assistance coming into Gaza.

The ICJ hearing is part of several cases against Israel. South Africa’s case at the ICJ accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. The International Criminal Court also has a case against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on war crime allegations.

Gaza Government Media Office says more than 65 percent of the 52,243 people killed by Israel are women, children and the elderly. More than 18,000 are children and more than 12,400 are women.

According to the office, Israel has wiped out more than 2,180 Palestinian families, where the father, mother, and all family members were killed, and it has obliterated more than 5,070 additional Palestinian families, leaving only a single surviving member in each.

In addition, more than 750 security officers who guarded aid convoys have also been killed. Israel has also killed more than 1,400 doctors and healthcare workers, some 113 members of the civil defence, as well as 212 journalists and media workers.

An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson accused a British minister of “blood libel” for suggesting that Israel has deliberately targeted Palestinian aid workers in Gaza and must investigate all attacks that have resulted in their deaths in the war-torn enclave.

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