Israel-Gaza news: Five dead after IDF strikes in Rafah as US demand ‘answers’ over hospital ‘mass graves’

Belgian prime minister Alexander De Croo mentioned Israel was “doubly accountable” for killing a Belgian humanitarian employee and his household within the Gaza Strip.

Abdallah Nabhan and members of his household died in a single day following an Israeli airstrike within the metropolis of Rafah in southern Gaza, prompting the international minister to summoned Israel’s ambassador.

Nabhan, whose father, brother, niece and son have been additionally killed, was on the listing of individuals eligible to depart Gaza, in keeping with Belgian improvement company Enabel.

Mr De Croo described the deaths as “tragic information” throughout a plenary session within the decrease chamber of the parliament, 7sur7 reported.“They’ve been refusing it for 4 months,” he mentioned.

“On a regular basis, harmless individuals and kids are being killed. Pricey Israeli authorities: This should cease. Now.”

Belgium was wanting to recognise the state of Palestine, Mr De Croo reportedly mentioned, including: “This should be a part of a peace course of, a technique of political reforms needed on each side.

No less than 108 individuals have been arrested and 4 law enforcement officials have been injured yesterday when Boston police moved to clear a pro-Palestinian encampment at Emerson School.

Pupil protests over the Israel-Hamas conflict have popped up on an rising variety of faculty campuses following final week’s arrest of greater than 100 demonstrators at Columbia College.

The scholars are calling for universities to separate themselves from any corporations which can be advancing Israel’s navy efforts in Gaza — and in some instances from Israel itself.

The protests have erupted all through the US at a dozen universities, together with Yale, Harvard, together with New York College, College of Texas at Austin and College of Southern California and extra.

Almost 282 million individuals in 59 nations suffered from acute starvation in 2023, with war-torn Gaza because the territory with the biggest variety of individuals going through famine, in keeping with the International Report on Meals Crises launched Wednesday.

The U.N. report mentioned 24 million extra individuals confronted an acute lack of meals than in 2022, as a result of sharp deterioration in meals safety, particularly within the Gaza Strip and Sudan. The variety of nations with meals crises which can be monitored has additionally been expanded.

A prime European Union navy officer mentioned {that a} frigate that’s a part of an EU miliary mission within the Purple Sea to guard service provider delivery destroyed a drone launched from an space in Yemen managed by Houthi rebels on Thursday morning.

Austrian Gen. Robert Brieger, who’s chair of the EU’s navy committee, mentioned that it will be essential for the bloc to “preserve sources” over the lengthy haul as a result of the menace posed by Houthi assaults “is not going to disappear” resulting from its connection to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

The organisation mentioned it was reviewing claims greater than 300 our bodies have been found at two completely different burial websites outdoors the Nasser and al-Shifa hospitals, a few of whom have been ladies and aged individuals.

The UK has introduced new sanctions towards Iran’s drone and missile trade, Archie Mitchell experiences.

Two individuals linked to the nation’s community of drone manufacturing, Seyed Mohsen Vahabzadeh Moghadam and Abbas Abdi Asjerd, might be topic to a UK journey ban and asset freeze.

4 corporations – Bonyan Danesh Shargh, Pishro Sanat Aseman Sharif Firm, Alvand Motorbuilding Industries Firm and Moj Gostar Aseman Parvaz Firm – may even face a UK asset freeze.

International Secretary Lord Cameron mentioned: “The Iranian regime’s harmful assault on Israel risked 1000’s of civilian casualties and wider escalation within the area.

“At this time the UK and our companions have despatched a transparent message – we’ll maintain these answerable for Iran’s destabilising behaviour to account.

“Alongside our companions, we’ll proceed to tighten the online on Iran’s means to develop and export these lethal weapons.”

A spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned the navy was shifting forward with its plans for a floor operation in Rafah because the Israeli navy mentioned that it had mobilised two extra reservist brigades for missions in Gaza.