- Gaza’s Civil Defence agency says Israeli air strikes have killed at least 27 Palestinians today, including 10 near a water distribution point.
- Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza killed 110 Palestinians across the Strip yesterday, including 34 people waiting for food at the US-backed GHF site in Rafah.
- The family of Sayfollah Musallet, an American-Palestinian who was beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, is calling on the United States to launch an inquiry and hold the perpetrators accountable.
- Some 59 members of the United Kingdom’s governing Labour Party have called for the recognition of Palestine as a state and criticised the Israeli government’s plan to forcibly transfer all Palestinians in Gaza to the southern city of Rafah.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 57,882 people and wounded 138,095, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Rights group calls for Trump to be prosecuted over killings of aid seekers
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has called for United States President Donald Trump to face criminal prosecution for complicity in genocide for his support of the GHF aid distribution mechanism in Gaza.
In a statement, the Geneva-based organisation urged international bodies to hold Trump accountable for supporting the GHF in Gaza, which operates sites where hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since they began operating at the end of May.
The monitoring group said testimony from the field indicated the involvement of private US security contractors and Israeli soldiers in the attacks on aid seekers.
It said Trump’s administration had also provided “an umbrella of comprehensive military, financial, political, and diplomatic support” for Israel’s war in Gaza.
Al Jazeera is reporting from Amman, Jordan, because it has been banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank.
There was a suggestion from the US envoy Steve Witkoff for the Israeli and Palestinian sides to put aside the outstanding issues, the stumbling blocks, and talk about details.
But that’s not going to work because talking about implementing a ceasefire without agreeing on the framework of that ceasefire, which is where the ceasefire talks are at, really defeats the purpose.
For now, the Israeli side seems to be stuck on the idea that Israel needs to maintain absolute control over Rafah and the Morag Corridor.
This is something that Palestinian groups, especially Hamas, have said that they cannot accept because not only would it legitimise and normalise the occupation but also the taking-over of Rafah and about 40 percent of Gaza. It would also open the way for that mass expulsion plan that Israel has been talking about.
