LIVE: Gaza death toll climbs as Canada says Israel violates int'l law
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Israel's denial of humanitarian aid to Gaza is a 'violation of international law'.
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Al Jazeera
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- Al Jazeera
Israeli rights groups call the war on Gaza genocide for first time
Israeli rights groups call the war on Gaza genocide for first time NewsFeed Two Israeli human rights organisations have released reports that call Israel's war on Gaza a genocide for the first time. They warn that Palestinians in the occupied West Bank may face the same fate. Video Duration 00 minutes 44 seconds 00:44 Video Duration 02 minutes 00 seconds 02:00 Video Duration 00 minutes 52 seconds 00:52 Video Duration 03 minutes 59 seconds 03:59 Video Duration 02 minutes 07 seconds 02:07 Video Duration 00 minutes 25 seconds 00:25 Video Duration 01 minutes 14 seconds 01:14
Al Jazeera
2 hours ago
- Al Jazeera
Israeli human rights group: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
Israeli-Palestinian human rights group B'Tselem has declared Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide in its latest report, titled Our Genocide. The report, released on Monday, carries strong condemnation of Israel's war on Gaza, which has killed at least 59,733 people and wounded 144,477. 'An examination of Israel's policy in the Gaza Strip and its horrific outcomes, together with statements by senior Israeli politicians and military commanders about the goals of the attack, leads to the unequivocal conclusion that Israel is taking coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip,' the report reads. 'In other words: Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.' An estimated 1,139 people died during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, and some 200 were taken captive. 'Our Genocide' The report delves into Israeli violations against Palestinians, going back to the 1948 foundation of the Israeli state, which 'had a clear objective from the outset: to cement the supremacy of the Jewish group across the entire territory under Israeli control'. As such, the state of Israel exhibits 'settler-colonial patterns, including widespread settlement involving displacement and dispossession, demographic engineering, ethnic cleansing and the imposition of military rule on Palestinians', the report continues. And while it looks back at Israel's efforts to 'uphold Jewish supremacy, relying on a false pretense of the rule of law while, in reality, the rights of the Palestinian subjects are left unprotected', the report notes that this was accelerated after October 7. The 'broad, coordinated onslaught against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip' that the report points to has 'enjoyed support, legitimization, and normalization from the majority of Jewish-Israelis, as well as from the Israeli legal system'. The report also speaks about the intensified efforts since October 2024 to displace Palestinians in Gaza. 'Israel's actions in northern Gaza were described by many experts … as an attempt to carry out ethnic cleansing. In practice, by November 2024, some 100,000 people who had lived in northern Gaza had been displaced from their homes,' the document reads. The report goes beyond Gaza to say that Israel has intensified its violent operations in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem since October 7, 'on a scale not seen since Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967'. B'Tselem first used the word 'apartheid' in 2021 to describe the two-tier reality for Israelis and Palestinians in historic Palestine. Genocide in words and actions B'tselem's report follows an op-ed in the New York Times by Holocaust scholar Amos Goldberg, where he described Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide, as well as growing demonstrations by protesters in Israel calling for an end to the war. However, opposition to Israel's war on Gaza is still widely controversial in Israeli society. Only around 16 percent of Jewish Israelis believe peaceful coexistence with Palestinians is possible, according to a June poll by the Pew Research Center. Meanwhile, 64 percent of Jewish Israelis believe Israel should temporarily occupy the Gaza Strip, according to a survey by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA). Critics of stereotypical Israeli views include Israeli political commentator Ori Goldberg, a former university professor and national security consultant, who called these views 'vile' on the social media platform X. I was overcome yesterday. The vileness pouring out of Israeli society shut my mouth for 24 hours. It was an immediate reaction, not anger or sadness. I couldn't speak. I broke out in hives for the first time since I was diagnosed. I think I tried to reject reality. I'm back.… — Ori Goldberg (@ori_goldberg) July 27, 2025 'I can only conclude that the pressures from within Israeli society are truly as great as Ori Goldberg recently noted,' Elia Ayoub, a writer, researcher, and the founder of the podcast The Fire These Times, told Al Jazeera. 'Israeli society has normalised a genocide for nearly two years, and this speaks to a deep moral rot at the core of their political culture,' he continued. Meanwhile, Israeli government officials have continued their violent calls against the people of Gaza. 'The government is rushing to erase Gaza, and thank God we are erasing this evil. All of Gaza will be Jewish,' Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said on Israeli radio last week. Welcomed news, even if late B'Tselem's report runs 79 pages and documents interviews with numerous Palestinians in Gaza who have lived through the last 22 months of attacks. That one of Israel's most prominent human rights organisations described Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide is bound to draw criticism of the group in Israeli society. Many Israeli critics of their own country's actions in Gaza have faced brutal denunciations from their compatriots. That makes B'Tselem using the weight of the word 'genocide' all the more powerful, even if some believe it could have been done sooner. 'I welcome this news even though it comes very late into the genocide,' Ayoub said. In December 2023, South Africa brought a case that Israel was committing genocide against Gaza to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Several other countries, including Brazil, Spain, Turkiye and the Republic of Ireland, have joined South Africa in its ICJ case.
Qatar Tribune
20 hours ago
- Qatar Tribune
Military pause not enough to ease Gaza suffering: UK minister
PA Media/dpa London Military pauses promised by Israel will not alone be enough to ease suffering in Gaza, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has warned as the UK joined efforts to airdrop aid into the territory. Lammy welcomed the resumption of humanitarian corridors in the enclave but called for access to supplies to be 'urgently' widened over the coming hours and days. He said Israel's announcement that it would suspend fighting in three populated areas of Gaza for 10 hours a day and open secure routes for aid delivery to desperate Palestinians was 'essential but long overdue.' 'This announcement alone cannot alleviate the needs of those desperately suffering in Gaza,' the UK foreign secretary said in a statement on Sunday. 'We need a ceasefire that can end the war, for hostages to be released and aid to enter Gaza by land unhindered. 'Whilst airdrops will help to alleviate the worst of the suffering, land routes serve as the only viable and sustainable means of providing aid into Gaza. 'These measures must be fully implemented and further barriers on aid removed. The world is watching.' Britain is working with Jordan to airdrop aid into Gaza and evacuate children needing medical assistance, with military planners deployed for further support. However, the head of the UN's Palestinian refugee agency has warned that such efforts are 'a distraction' that will fail to properly address deepening starvation in the strip, and could in some cases harm civilians. UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said: 'A man-made hunger can only be addressed by political will. 'Lift the siege, open the gates and guarantee safe movements and dignified access to people in need.' On Sunday, Israel announced military pauses to enable the 'safe movement' of food and medicine to Gaza via designated UN convoys amid mounting international alarm at humanitarian conditions in the strip. Images emerging from Gaza in recent days of emaciated children have seen the country's government criticised for its conduct during the 21-month war. Food experts have warned for months of the risk of famine as Israel continued to restrict aid, which it says is because the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas siphons off goods. Ceasefire talks between the two sides ground to a standstill this week after the US and Israel withdrew negotiating teams from Qatar, with White House special envoy Steve Witkoff accusing Hamas of a 'lack of desire' to reach an agreement. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to press Donald Trump on the revival of talks as he meets the US president during his visit to Scotland on Monday.
