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Airlines ground flights amid Middle East tension
Several international airlines have suspended flights to the Middle East due to security concerns.
Air France – KLM cancelled all flights to and from Tel Aviv until October 26.
EasyJet stopped flying to and from Tel Aviv in April and will resume flights on March 30, 2025, a spokesperson told Reuters.
Lufthansa resumed flights to Tel Aviv on September 5 while flights to Beirut will remain suspended through September 30.
Swiss International Air Lines, also a part of the Lufthansa Group, separately said it had suspended flights to Beirut until the end of October.
Ryanair cancelled flights to and from Tel Aviv until October 26.
Jordan slams attack on UN-run school in Gaza
Jordan’s Foreign Ministry has issued a statement denouncing the Israeli attack on the UN-operated al-Jaouni school in central Gaza, which killed at least 18 people, including six UN staff.
“Israel’s continued violation of international law and international humanitarian law is a result of the absence of a strong and decisive international stance,” said a statement attributed to the ministry’s spokesman Sufyan Qudah.
The statement also called on the international community, in particular the UN Security Council, “to take immediate and decisive steps to stop these crimes against the Palestinian people”.
Endless and senseless killing' in Gaza; UN official
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini has condemned Israel’s bombing of the al-Jaouni school that killed six of its staff members, taking the number of UNRWA employees killed in Gaza to at least 220.
“Endless and senseless killing, day after day,” Lazzarini said in a statement. “Humanitarian staff, premises and operations have been blatantly and unabatedly disregarded since the beginning of the war.”
He called for a ceasefire and accountability saying, “The longer impunity prevails, the more international humanitarian law & the Geneva Conventions will become irrelevant.”
Senator calls to cut funds for Netanyahu's Gaza offensive
Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders has urged the US government to stop funding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war on Gaza.
“This week: 19 people killed; scores injured in a strike in a ‘humanitarian zone’ in Gaza. An American shot in the head in the West Bank. Now, another school bombed, killing 14 people, including 6 UN aid workers,” he posted on X.
“Enough is enough. No more money for Netanyahu’s war machine.”
Hardline Israeli general pushes starve-and-surrender tactic on Gaza
The former head of Israel’s national security council has advocated blocking all aid to northern Gaza in order to defeat Hamas.
“When you completely prevent the entry of supplies, you make thousands of Hamas operatives surrender or starve to death,” said retired Major-General Giora Eiland, according to Israeli public radio.
Aid supply to Gaza has suffered due to increasingly Israeli curbs and attacks on humanitarian workers.
Back in May, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel must take action to ensure basic food supplies reach Gaza, where it warned famine and starvation were spreading.
Bloodcurdling threats from Israeli politician against hospitalized Palestinian
Sharing a video on X, a far-right member of Israel’s parliament has threatened to kill a Palestinian man in a hospital room in Jerusalem.
Zvi Sukkot said he was visiting the hospital when he discovered that a Palestinian man who had carried out a “serious attack” in the occupied West Bank was a patient there.
Earlier we reported the Israeli army said one soldier was killed and another injured when a “Palestinian truck” rammed into an Israeli military checkpoint near the illegal Israeli settlement of Givat Assaf.
Israeli forces shot a 58-year-old Palestinian man who was driving the truck, and the army later said it had taken him to hospital.
NGOs demand UN intervene to halt abuse of detainees in Israel, Palestine
The interagency statement, signed by 31 organisations – including Save the Children, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam – calls for UN member states to take steps to “protect people deprived of their liberty” in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory.
“This includes demanding that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is granted immediate and unfettered access to all detainees and hostages, to the full extent required by international humanitarian law,” said the statement, which also called for Hamas to release the remaining captives in Gaza.
The organisations also demanded that Palestinian children arbitrarily arrested and detained by the Israeli military be released “immediately and unconditionally”. The statement cited examples of Palestinian minors in Israeli custody being subject to abuse, including “sexual assaults and violent beatings”.
“No child should ever come into contact with a military court, or any court that lacks comprehensive fair trial rights and basic safeguards. No child should ever be abducted,” the groups said.
The Israeli military has detained about 10,000 people – including at least 650 children – in the West Bank alone since October 7.
Hamas says ready to implement ceasefire without new conditions
CAIRO (Reuters) – The Palestinian Hamas group said on Wednesday that its negotiators reiterated its readiness to implement an "immediate" ceasefire with Israel in Gaza based on a previous US proposal without new conditions from any party.
The Palestinian group said in a statement that their negotiation team, led by senior official Khalil al-Hayya, met mediators on Wednesday including Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and Egypt's intelligence chief Abbas Kamel in Doha to discuss the latest developments in Gaza.
Carnage at Gaza school leaves UNRWA staffers reeling
Six members of the UNRWA, including the manager of the shelter, were killed in Israel's attack on the UN-operated al-Jaouni school in central Gaza.
During the 11-month old war, the agency said it was the highest death toll for its staff in a single incident.
At least 18 people were killed in this horrific attack.
Women and children torn apart in Israeli attack
Witnesses claimed that “women and children were blown to pieces” in an attack carried out by the Israeli military on the UN-operated al-Jaouni school in central Gaza, which led to the deaths of at least 18 people.
Israeli airstrikes hit UN school and homes in Gaza and kill at least 34 people, hospitals say
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes across Gaza overnight and Wednesday hit a U.N. school sheltering displaced Palestinian families as well as two homes, killing at least 34 people, including 19 women and children, hospital officials said. A U.N. official said six staffers were among the dead.
The war in Gaza is now into its 11th month, with tens of thousands of people dead, and international efforts to mediate a cease-fire between Israel and the Hamas militant group have repeatedly stalled as they accuse each other of making additional and unacceptable demands.
