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HE HAGUE (Reuters) -Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday rejected Israel's request to withdraw arrest warrants against its prime minister and former defence minister while the ICC reviews Israeli challenges to its jurisdiction over the conduct of the Gaza war.

In a decision published on the ICC website, judges also rejected an Israeli request to suspend the wider ICC investigation into alleged atrocity crimes in the Palestinian Territories.

The ICC issued arrest warrants on November 21 for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence chief, Yoav Gallant, as well as a Hamas leader, Ibrahim al-Masri, for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza conflict.

ICC judges reject Israel's request to withdraw Netanyahu arrest warrant

1 hour ago, Felton Jarvis said:

To the victor belongs the spoils.  America buggered the Native Americans and the case of Israel versus the cockroach Palestinians is the same kind of victory. Israel owns this situation. Best to accept it.  It's not going away.

Your racist language, cockroaches, is no different to the Nazis comparing the Jews to rats 

You should be ashamed debasing yourself to their level.

Children among dead as Israeli strikes hit Gaza City and Khan Younis

A man holds the body of his child who was killed in an Israeli military airstrike on Gaza, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Children among dead as Israeli strikes hit Gaza City and Khan Younis | Watch

18 minutes ago, Felton Jarvis said:

 

Huckabee usually defends Israel to the hilt.

US Senate confirms staunch pro-Israel conservative Huckabee as Israel ambassador | Reuters

At least 20 people have been killed in a crush at an aid distribution centre in southern Gaza run by the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the organisation and a local hospital say.

The GHF said 19 were trampled to death and one was stabbed "amid a chaotic and dangerous surge" at its site in the Khan Younis area. It added that it believed people "armed and affiliated with Hamas" fomented unrest.

But Gaza's Hamas-run Government Media Office denied this claim and accused the GHF of trying to "cover up" a crime.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4rwrkdlzxo

So many deaths and injuries at the GHF centres since they opened. 

When will Israel and the US let the UN back in to do its job with its 400 distribution sites?

9 minutes ago, Felton Jarvis said:

Viva Israel.  Self-defense is a human right.

The Israeli settlements are illegal. They shouldn't be there.

WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said on Tuesday he had asked Israel to "aggressively investigate" the killing of a Palestinian American who was beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, describing it as a "criminal and terrorist act."

The comments by Huckabee, a staunch supporter of Israeli settlement construction, mark a rare and pointed public intervention by the U.S. following the death of a Palestinian American in the Israeli-occupied territory.

"I have asked (Israel) to aggressively investigate the murder of Saif Musallet, an American citizen who was visiting family in Sinjil when he was beaten to death," Huckabee wrote on X, referring to a town north of Ramallah.

US demands probe of Palestinian American's killing by Israeli settlers | Reuters

The UN reported Tuesday that the rate of malnutrition among children in the Gaza Strip has doubled since Israel severely restricted food entry in March.

According to the UNRWA, the main UN agency caring for Palestinians in Gaza, some 10.2% of nearly 16,000 children under age 5 who were screened at UN clinics in June were found to be acutely malnourished.

By comparison, in March, 5.5% of the nearly 15,000 children it screened were malnourished.

UN finds child malnutrition rates have doubled in Gaza since March

Sleazy all round.

GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. rights office said on Tuesday it had recorded at least 875 killings within the past six weeks at aid points in Gaza run by the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and convoys run by other relief groups, including the United Nations.

The majority of those killed were in the vicinity of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, while the remaining 201 were killed on the routes of other aid convoys.

The GHF uses private U.S. security and logistics companies to get supplies into Gaza, largely bypassing a U.N.-led system that Israel alleges has let Hamas-led militants loot aid shipments intended for civilians. Hamas denies the allegation.

UN says 875 Palestinians have been killed near Gaza aid sites

'68-'71  I went to boarding  school in county Rutland, UK. It was/is a stunningly beautiful area with lovely limestone villages and rolling hills. In the summer at weekends we would get on our bikes and pedal away, sometimes stopping at pubs, other times chatting up girls at a nearby boarding school.

Sometimes we ended up visiting a local church, sitting in a graveyard, enjoying the wonderful summer/ early evening sunshine you sometimes get in England with the birds chirping and a sense of peace settling over all of us.

And we had Floyd's early albums, bought my mail order from Virgin's tiny distribution office in London.

Listening to these songs from More always reminds me of those summer days, days you think will never end.

RIP Viv

Here's Nigel with his breakthrough theory on how the early white settlers out West were heavily influenced by Indonesian folk music.

Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed while attempted to get aid in Gaza, according to the UN.

After setting up a total aid blockade in Gaza for more than two months, Israel began allowing aid to re-enter the enclave late May through a new US- and Israel-backed organisation called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) that has effectively sidelined the territory's vast UN-led aid delivery network.

“The UN coordinated system has been crippled and undermined intentionally by Israel and its allies such that they were able then to introduce this horrifically violent alternative”, said James Smith, lecturer in Humanitarian policy and practice at UCL London. 

UN aid system in Gaza ‘crippled and undermined intentionally’ by Israel, expert says | Watch

The UN Human Rights Office has raised the alarm over a sharp rise in attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

According to the office in Geneva, 96 Palestinians were injured in June alone — the highest monthly figure in over two decades. Hundreds of homes were also destroyed.

Since the beginning of this year, the UN has documented 757 settler attacks that resulted in Palestinian casualties or property damage - a 13% increase compared to the same period in 2024, a spokesman said on Tuesday.

UN reports surge in settler violence against West Bank Palestinians

A severe heatwave is gripping Gaza, compounding the humanitarian crisis for more than 1.7 million displaced Palestinians already facing acute shortages of medical care, food and basic supplies after months of the Israel-Hamas war. 

Medical workers say soaring temperatures are worsening the condition of patients sheltering in overcrowded tent camps, where access to treatment is limited and many lack relief from the heat. 

The situation is particularly dire for thousands of people requiring ongoing care for burns and other serious injuries. 

Heatwave compounds crisis for Gaza's displaced and injured

'It's simply horrific that a family would risk their life to find food and water for their beloved'

FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to the IFRC spokesperson Tommaso Della Longa about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza amid continued Israeli strikes.

He stresses that there is no safe place for civilians or humanitarian workers today in Gaza and that plans to force Gazans to move to a planned 'humanitarian city' in Rafah are 'simply unacceptable'. 

'It's simply horrific that a family would risk their life to find food and water for their beloved' | Watch

2 hours ago, Evil Penevil said:

 

   

 

Believe me, no sudden burst of misinterpretation of the Gaza conflict from a pro-Hamas poster will make me uncomfortable.  In my time I  have elsewhere encountered far worse antisemitic attacks on Israel that anything the AN mods would allow.

 

What does bother me is that some BMs remain mired in age-old anti-Jewish tropes,  with criticism of Israel merely the latest manifestation of a 2,000-year hatred.  Perhaps even more distressing are the BMs who don't realize that they are expressing antisemitic ideas or how dangerous those ideas are.  The normalization of antisemitic language and opinion in Germany in the 1930s was a crucial step on the road to the Holocaust.  Never again is now!

You've got to stop referring to the Holocaust, and indeed mentioning Jews as a race, as a blanket defence against anything Israel does.

Criticism of Israel's current actions in Gaza has nothing to do with the Holocaust or indeed the Jewish race as a whole. 

Growing up in Hull, I had many Jewish friends at school, some of their grandparents had escaped pogroms in Europe. 

I was particularly grateful to one friend who introduced me to 'Argus', the excellent album by Wishbone Ash. 

It's equally absurd to paint those criticising Israel's action on AN as Hamas supporters, wittingly or not.

What outrages onlookers is the deliberate and methodical application of suffering and repression on the entire Gaza population by the current Israeli government.

For that they deserve the world's condemnation.

13 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

 

 

The UN Human Rights data is not reliable because;

1. It relies on data provided by Hamas.

2. It includes all deaths reported, even natural deaths and attributes them to the war.

3. It ignores the use of child soldiers and children by Hamas and others.  A boy that is able to grow hair on his body as evidence by  armpit hair is considered old enough to carry a firearm and to be deployed. Others, including  girls are used for logistics and information relay. When such people are  killed in a militarized location or in the course of their activities, they are reported as "innocent child" casualties.

4. The use of   human shields is an acknowledged practice of the militants.  Placing rocket launch sites  in residential areas, does not disallow a  neutralization of the rocket launch site, which results in non direct combatant casualties.

You ignore the illustration I provided above of civilian locations being used as hostage  detention sites and you ignore the examples of  medical personnel and journalists engaging in  acts of war.

5. The UN  group cited has a history of anti israel bias and did not initiate any action when it was aware of UN workers who were directly involved in the October 7 attack on israel. That says it all.

 

And please, using the  BBC with its established h and demonstrable bias as a source for information on Israel is a farce. It's like Al Jazeera reporting on deaths at aid distribution  sites in Gaza and  failing to disclose that casualties came from Gazan thrown grenades.

You really are not convincing anyone. The anti Israel group is already onside with you, and  no one else s going to change their opinions because of your fervent propaganda dissemination effort. If you want tomake a difference, go and volunteer at a aid center in the West Bank, or Jordan or egypt. I am sure you will be welcomed with love and fraternal respect.

As you know Israel prevents any foreign journalists from entering Gaza.

These allegations about untrustworthy figures from the Gaza Health Ministry could be cleared up if Israel was transparent.

By the way, there could be many more civilian deaths than have been reported. Many corpses lie under rubble and have yet to be identified.