US Israel Iran information: Netanyahu vows to combat sanctions on army as ‘mass grave found’ below Gaza hospital | EUROtoday
Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to combat any impending US sanction on the Israeli army amid a stoop in bilateral ties following the Israeli army onslaught within the Gaza Strip.
President Joe Biden’s administration is predicted to sanction a unit of the Israeli army after a ProPublica investigation claimed that the State Department sat for months on proof of significant human rights abuses.
The investigation printed on Wednesday revealed that an inner State Department investigation had, months in the past, recognized a number of Israeli police and army models going through credible accusations of violating human rights, together with allegations of torture.
It’s an investigation required by legislation, with the panel having been arrange as a part of the so-called “Leahy law”, which prohibits US funding from going to army or safety models discovered to have dedicated atrocities.
This comes amid an Al Jazeera report of our bodies being recovered from a mass grave contained in the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza’s Khan Younis.
“In the hospital courtyard, civil defence members and paramedics have retrieved 180 bodies buried in this mass grave by the Israeli military. The bodies include elderly women, children and young men,” the outlet reported, quoting its reporter and Palestinian emergency providers from Khan Younis.
3 wounded in ‘ramming terror attack’ in Jerusalem
Three folks have been wounded in Jerusalem after a automobile hit them on a road, Israeli police have mentioned.
The pedestrians had been hit at 8am native time in what police described as a “ramming terror attack”.
Two folks emerged from the automobile holding weapons after the incident after which discarded them as they fled the scene on foot. The police mentioned that they’d didn’t open hearth earlier than operating away.
The Shaarey Zedek Medical Center mentioned it admitted a 21-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy for gentle accidents following the assault.
Tom Watling22 April 2024 09:45
Can Iran win an financial battle of attrition in opposition to Israel?
As the world holds its breath within the face of escalating violence within the Middle East, this battle might come all the way down to which nation is greatest positioned to cope with sanctions, writes Mark Almond
Tom Watling22 April 2024 09:30
Israeli army intelligence head resigns
The head of Israeli army intelligence, Major General Aharon Haliva, has resigned and can depart as soon as a successor is appointed, the army mentioned in an announcement on Monday.
Tom Watling22 April 2024 09:15
US anticipated to sanction IDF unit over alleged human rights abuses
A unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is predicted to be sanctioned by the Biden administration this week after a ProPublica investigation claimed that the State Department sat for months on proof of significant human rights abuses.
Tom Watling22 April 2024 08:50
Here are the newest footage from Israel and Gaza
Below are a number of the newest footage from Israel and Gaza
Tom Watling22 April 2024 08:35
Iranian president lands in Pakistan for three-day go to to fix ties
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has arrived in Islamabad for a three-day official go to, the international workplace mentioned, amid tight safety within the Pakistani capital.
The go to, which Pakistan’s international workplace mentioned would run till Wednesday, comes as the 2 Muslim neighbours search to fix ties after unprecedented tit-for-tat army strikes this yr.
“The Iranian president is accompanied by his spouse and a high-level delegation,” Pakistan’s international ministry mentioned in an announcement, including that the group additionally included the international minister, different cupboard members and senior officers.
Raisi will meet Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and different officers, moreover visiting the jap metropolis of Lahore and southern port metropolis of Karachi, it added.
Major highways in Islamabad had been blocked as a part of the safety measures for Raisi’s arrival, whereas the federal government declared a public vacation in Karachi.
Raisi’s go to is a key step in the direction of normalising ties with Islamabad, however Iran’s supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameni, not the president, has the final say on state issues, equivalent to nuclear coverage.
Tom Watling22 April 2024 08:20
Belgian international minister: New Iran sanctions ought to embrace Revolutionary Guards
New European Union sanctions in opposition to Iran in response to the nation’s current assault on Israel ought to embrace the Revolutionary Guards, Belgium’s Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib has mentioned.
Speaking to journalists forward of an EU ministers’ assembly in Luxembourg, Lahbib mentioned that to this point there was no consensus on what authorized foundation the Guards might be added to bloc-wide record of entities seen as terrorist origanisaions.
“We will discuss it together”, she mentioned, including:
“I also think we have to expand sanctions against violent settlers (in the Palestinian West Bank). We have to be balanced and make sure we won’t be accused of having double standards.”
Tom Watling22 April 2024 08:02
Terry Anderson, AP reporter kidnapped in Lebanon and held captive for years, dies
Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who turned one in every of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a road in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for practically seven years, has died at 76.
Anderson, who chronicled his abduction and torturous imprisonment by Islamic militants in his best-selling 1993 memoir “Den of Lions,” died yesterday at his house in Greenwood Lake, New York, mentioned his daughter, Sulome Anderson.
Anderson died of problems from current coronary heart surgical procedure, his daughter mentioned.
Namita Singh22 April 2024 07:15
Editorial: Israel and Iran should not let these violent skirmishes flip into battle
Is this not how wars begin? Conventionally, one sovereign state intentionally bombing the embassy of one other sovereign state in a 3rd nation could be a cause to go to battle, and a lawful one.
This is certainly what occurred on 1 April, when Israel destroyed a constructing throughout the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus, Syria. Iran, nevertheless, didn’t declare battle in true Nineteenth-century model. It as an alternative launched an enormous one-night bombardment of various missiles at Israel, virtually all of which had been handled earlier than they might land via intervention by Israel and different, pleasant, air forces, with the fabled Iron Dome anti-missile defence system working impeccably.
Again, regardless that the Iranian assault turned out to be extra a present of Israeli than Iranian power, that tried bombardment would at the least notionally function a superbly ample casus belli for Israel. Yet it provoked Israel “only” to retaliate by way of a exactly focused aerial assault on a Revolutionary Guard airbase and munitions retailer – greater than seemingly from whence the Iranians had dispatched their very own drones in the direction of Israel days earlier than.
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Israel and Iran should not let these violent skirmishes flip into battle
Editorial: Israel and Iran have entered an period of tit-for-tat hostility, during which the 2 sides’ blows are supposed to be as significant as they’re explosive. The much-anticipated assault on Rafah would fracture this new state of comparatively low-key battle – for the sake of the area, it should be dominated out now
Matt Mathers22 April 2024 07:00
At least 180 our bodies recovered from mass grave – report
Authorities in Gaza allegedly recovered 180 our bodies from a mass grave contained in the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza’s Khan Younis.
“In the hospital courtyard, civil defence members and paramedics have retrieved 180 bodies buried in this mass grave by the Israeli military. The bodies include elderly women, children and young men,” Al Jazeera reported quoting its reporter and Palestinian emergency providers from Khan Younis.
“Our teams continue their search and retrieval operations for the remaining martyrs in the coming days as there are still a significant number of them,” the Palestinian emergency providers mentioned in an announcement on Saturday.
Namita Singh22 April 2024 06:45
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