The United Nations Human Rights Office has called on Israeli security forces to immediately cease active participation in and support for attacks on Palestinians by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank.
Tuesday's statement follows a wave of attacks by settlers on Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank. Murder of 14-year-old Israeli boy Authorities said the attack was carried out by armed groups.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said seven Palestinians have been killed and another 75 injured by Israeli forces and settlers since the attacks began on Friday. Israeli authorities have urged the public not to resort to vigilante attacks amid rising tensions. But human rights groups have long criticized the Israeli military. routinely ignore settler attacks Or even participate in them.
Tensions in the region have increased since the recent developments began israel-hamas war On October 7, two Iranian-backed extremist groups, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, carried out cross-border attacks in Israel, killing 1,200 people and kidnapping 250 others. Israel hit back with attacks in Gaza, causing widespread destruction and killing more than 33,800 people. According to local health officials.
World leaders urged Israel not to retaliate after Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles over the weekend in an unprecedented mission that brought the Middle East closer to a regional war. The attack came less than two weeks after what appeared to be an Israeli attack on Syria. Killed two Iranian generals Inside the Iranian consulate building.
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— Direct attack on Israel by Iran It completely changed the decades-long shadow war..
— US Treasury Secretary Yellen speaks Iran's actions could cause global “economic ramifications” and warned of further sanctions.
—Pro-Palestinian demonstrators close airport expressway Major bridges of major cities in the United States.
— artist refused Open an Israeli pavilion at the Venice Biennale until the end of the ceasefire and hostage release.
— Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives pushes for vote aid to israelUkraine and Taiwan.
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Pakistan, Saudi Arabia call for ceasefire in Gaza
Islamabad — pakistan and saudi arabia It called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and uninterrupted access to humanitarian aid.
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, who is visiting Islamabad, said on Tuesday that international efforts towards a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas are “totally inadequate”.
He did not mention Iran's attack on Israel over the weekend, but said: “We are already in a volatile region and the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza has already enraged the region.”
Pakistan's foreign minister described the killings in Gaza as “genocide” and said “the conscience of the world must wake up.” Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called for closer cooperation with Saudi Arabia to help the cash-strapped country.
One person killed in drone attack in southern Lebanon
BEIRUT – An Israeli drone attack on a car in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed a Hezbollah militant group commander and wounded two others, followed by another attack in a nearby area that caused casualties. The state news agency reported.
Hezbollah has identified the commander killed in the attack near the coastal city of Tire as Ismail Baz.
According to the Israeli military, Mr. Baz served as a veteran senior official in several positions in Hezbollah's military wing. It added that as part of his duties, Mr. Ismail was involved in facilitating and planning the launch of rockets and anti-tank missiles toward Israel from the Lebanese coastal area.
The NNA said another drone attack late Tuesday hit two cars in the village of Chehabieh, killing and injuring several people. No further details were provided.
Shortly before the attack that killed Baz, Hezbollah announced that it had attacked Israel's Iron Dome air defense force in the Beit Hillel area, causing casualties. The group said it then fired rockets into the same area.
The Israeli military said two armed unmanned aerial vehicles entered Israeli territory from Lebanon and exploded in Beit Hillel. It is said to be under consideration.
Hezbollah militants and Israeli forces have been engaged in a gunfight since the Israeli-Hamas war began on October 7th. Since then, about 260 Hezbollah members and about 50 civilians have been killed on the Lebanese side of the border. The fighting left nine Israeli civilians and 11 soldiers dead.
EasyJet suspends flights to Israel until October
LONDON—Britain-based low-cost airline EasyJet says it will suspend flights to Israel for the remainder of the spring and summer season after Iran attacked the country with a barrage of drones and missiles over the weekend. did.
The airline said it would not resume flights to Tel Aviv until late October.
“As the situation in Israel continues to evolve, easyJet has made the decision to suspend flights to Tel Aviv for the remainder of the summer season, ending October 27,” the airline said. “Customers who have booked flights on this route by this date will be offered options including a full refund.”
German airline Lufthansa resumed flights to and from Tel Aviv, Amman and Erbil on Tuesday. Flights to Beirut and Tehran remain suspended until at least Thursday.
Officials said Iran would respond within seconds to Israeli counterattacks
TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian officials say the country will respond within “seconds” if Israel attempts to retaliate for the weekend's attacks.
Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani said late on Monday that Israel would face a “firm and harsh response” if it took further action against Iran.
Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles toward Israel over the weekend in response to an April 1 Israeli attack on its embassy compound in Syria that appears to have killed two Iranian generals. fired.
With support from the United States, Britain, Jordan, and other countries, Israel was able to intercept almost all of the projectiles and prevent major casualties and damage. This is the first time Iran has launched a direct military attack on Israel after decades of hostilities since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
However, Bagheri Qani said, “There will no longer be 12 or 13 days between the Zionist regime's actions and Iran's strong response.” Zionists must now count in seconds, not hours. ”
Lieutenant General Helj Halevi, commander of the Israeli army, said: said on monday His country would not say when or how it would respond to an Iranian attack. The United States and Israel's other allies have called for no further escalation.
German Foreign Minister heads to Israel
BERLIN – German Foreign Minister Annalena Verbock said she would fly to Israel on Tuesday to help defuse the tense situation after the weekend's attack on Iran and to demonstrate Germany's support for Israel.
He called on all parties to prevent the conflict from spreading to other countries in the region and to impose new sanctions against Iran.
“I assure our Israeli partners of Germany's full unity,” she said. “And we're going to talk about how we can prevent further escalation, which is increasingly violent. Because what's important now is to stop Iran without encouraging further escalation.” .”
“Of course, this further military escalation also has further consequences,” Germany's foreign minister said, referring to the Iranian attack.
He told reporters in Berlin after a meeting with Jordan's Ayman Safadi that he would push for further European Union sanctions against Iran, pointing specifically to the country's drone program.
Bourbock also said he would use his visit to Tel Aviv to reiterate his call for increased humanitarian aid to Gaza. She also condemned recent violence in the West Bank. In the incident, a 14-year-old Israeli boy was killed in what authorities said was an attack by militants, adding to the death toll of seven Palestinians killed by Israeli forces or settlers since Friday.
“I condemn in the strongest possible terms the unprovoked death of an Israeli boy. At the same time, this must not be misused as a pretext for further violence. I also condemn the killing of four more Palestinians. “We strongly condemn the attacks by extremist settlers in the West Bank,” she said.
UN Human Rights Office urges Israeli military to stop settler attacks on Palestinians
GENEVA – Following a wave of settler attacks on Palestinian towns and villages in the West, a statement Tuesday from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said that Israeli security forces are “actively participating in settler attacks against Palestinians.” “The support should be stopped immediately.”bank trigger Murder of 14-year-old Israeli boy Authorities said the attack was carried out by armed groups.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said seven Palestinians have been killed and another 75 injured by Israeli forces and settlers since the attacks began on Friday.
Israeli authorities have urged the public not to resort to vigilante attacks amid rising tensions. But human rights groups have long criticized the Israeli military. routinely ignore settler attacks Or even participate in them.
“Palestinians have been subjected to waves of attacks by hundreds of Israeli settlers, many accompanied and supported by Israeli security forces,” the UN statement said. In addition to the dead and injured, hundreds of homes and other buildings, as well as cars, were also set on fire in the attack, it said.
“Israel, as the occupying power, must do everything possible to restore and ensure security and security in the occupied West Bank as much as possible,” he said.
Israel occupied the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war and built numerous settlements there, now home to more than 500,000 Jewish settlers. Palestinians want the West Bank, home to about 3 million Palestinians, to form a major part of their future state.
Violence has surged in the West Bank since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack from Gaza that triggered the war. The Palestinian Ministry of Health has announced that at least 468 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the war in Gaza. Most were shot dead by Israeli security forces during arrest raids or violent protests.
Death toll in Gaza exceeds 33,800, Ministry of Health announces
RAFA, Gaza Strip — The Gaza Ministry of Health announced that the bodies of 46 people killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours have been taken to local hospitals. This will increase the overall Palestinian death toll. israel-hamas war The ministry announced Tuesday that the number was at least 33,843.
Ministry of Public Health There is no distinction between combatants and civilians. But the tally said the majority of those killed were women and children.
Israel blames Hamas for civilian casualties, as the insurgents are fighting in densely populated urban areas. The military said without providing evidence that it had killed more than 13,000 insurgents.
Israel withdrawn more troops from Gaza Earlier this month after an attack in the southern city of Khan Yunis. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to invade the southernmost city of Rafah, where more than half of Gaza's population has fled fighting elsewhere.
The war broke out on October 7 when Hamas launched a widespread offensive into southern Israel. On the same day, Palestinian armed groups killed approximately 1,200 people and took approximately 250 hostages. Israeli attacks have forced about 80% of Gaza's 2.3 million people from their homes and pushed the besieged region to the brink of starvation.
