🔻Protesters in Manchester barricaded the BNY Mellon office over its investments in Elbit Systems, a major Israeli arms company, advocating for divestment from Israeli arms and seeking justice for Palestinians.

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Israel financially sanctions UNRWA - holding up food for 1.1 million Palestinians in Gaza, the main UN aid agency there says

AP|

Israel has imposed financial restrictions on the main U.N. Agency providing aid in the Gaza Strip, a measure which prevented a shipment of food for 1.1 million Palestinians from reaching them, the agency’s director said Friday.

UNRWA’s director, Philippe Lazzarini, said Friday that that a convoy of food donated by Turkey has been sitting for weeks in the Israeli port city of Ashdod. The agency said that the Israeli contractor they work with received a call from Israeli customs authorities “ordering them not to process any UNRWA goods.”

That stoppage means 1,049 shipping containers of rice, flour, chickpeas, sugar and cooking oil — enough to feed 1.1 million people for one month — are stuck, even as an estimated 25% of families in Gaza face catastrophic hunger.


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🔺Children are among the injured due to Israeli shelling of an apartment in the 'Namsawi towers' in Gaza.

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🔻 An important statement will be issued by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq shortly.

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🔺"Any large-scale military operation among this population can only lead to an additional layer of endless tragedy that's unfolding," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini told reporters in Jerusalem.

Adding that : "There's a sense of growing anxiety and growing panic in Rafah. People have absolutely no idea where to go after Rafah."

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🔻 The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation, according to sources:

The United States is preparing to impose sanctions on Israeli soldiers working in the West Bank.

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🔻 The Hebrew newspaper "Maariv":

"David Ben-Gurion" drafted the "18 Points" document in 1953, and from it the three main points of our security concept were derived: deterrence, warning, and resolution.

In 2006, "Dan Meridor" added another point to it: protection.

Three of these four points collapsed on October 7.

We had no deterrence or warning, we did not know how to protect our citizens, and the Israeli army’s decision-making ability still needs to be proven.

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🔺Part of the ongoing invasion of the town of Beita, south of Nablus.

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🔺 This Israeli settler was arrested for raping Israeli children, displaced from settlements around Gaza, in hotels;

At the Lampuni hotel: Settler Zion Vanuno, 64 years old from Kiryat Shmona, was arrested for raping children aged 4-7.

Source: Yideoth

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🔻 The Economist |

🔻 Biden's decision on settlers is a warning shot and the target is Netanyahu

🔻 Biden's decision forces Netanyahu to either get rid of his extremist partners or surrender to them.

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🔻 Ali Abu Shaheen to Al-Mayadeen: As for the resistance, there is no retreat from any fundamental position.

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BREAKING: Biden gives Israel 45 days to submit report on international law violations or lose military aid (PART 1)

Jerusalem Post |

President Joe Biden issued a memorandum on Thursday night asking countries receiving US military funding to prove they're following international humanitarian and human rights laws.

The timing of the memorandum coincides with President Biden's unscheduled press conference where he took reporters' questions on the Israel-Hamas war, saying
Israel's response is "over the top."

Regular updates
Biden’s memorandum requires states receiving military aid to provide the State Department and Congress with thorough reports every fiscal year with details of any alleged law violations, explanations for military actions in question, and the process taken to asses legality in making those decisions. 

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Biden gives Israel 45 days to submit report on international law violations or lose military aid (PART 2 - END)

Jerusalem Post |

For countries actively involved in armed conflict, the memorandum requires the first assessment to be submitted within 45 days of Feb. 8. If not received within that time frame, then the transfer of defense articles and services will be paused until “required assurances are obtained.”

“In order to effectively implement certain obligations under United States law, the United States must maintain an appropriate understanding of foreign partners' adherence to international law, including, as applicable, international human rights law and international humanitarian law,” the memorandum says. 

If reports of violations are found credible, defense articles or services could be suspended. 

According to the memorandum, “As a matter of international law, the United States looks to the law of state responsibility and United States partners' compliance with international humanitarian law in assessing the lawfulness of United States military assistance to, and joint operations with, military partners.”

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🔻Hillary Clinton was interrupted as she spoke about the unproven alleged Israeli sexual victims on October 7th at the Columbia Institute of Global Politics.

"Hilary Diane Rodham Clinton, you are a war criminal!"

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🔻 Statement from the Jenin Battalion.

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US won't restart UNRWA aid until investigation completed -officials

Jerusalem Post |

UNRWA officials say they expect the UN oversight office's preliminary investigation report to take several weeks.


The Biden administration plans to wait for an internal investigation of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees to conclude before resuming aid to the organization, US officials told Arab-American community leaders in Michigan.


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🔺 The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation, according to sources:

Israel has developed a pilot plan to enable tens of thousands to return to the northern Gaza Strip


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🔺️Palestinian Red Crescent:
The occupation forces arrest a number of our staff and patient companions at Al Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis.

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🔺 Two air raids by the American-British aggression on the Qatinat area in the Baqim District in Saada Governorate

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🔺 Channel 12 Hebrew: Netanyahu requested the dismantling of Hamas brigades in Rafah before the month of Ramadan

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🔺"One of the most painful things is when you walk through the hospital, and the children ask you if everything is going to be ok..."

Amid the deafening sound of explosions in Khan Younis, a doctor tells us about the situation in the European Gaza Hospital

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