EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell threw his full weight to support the International Criminal Court, whose prosecutor is seeking an arrest warrant against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others, including the leaders of Hamas.
Israel
Netanyahu calls Israeli strike on Rafah that killed dozens a ‘tragic mistake’
Israel asserts that it adheres to international law even as it faces scrutiny in the world’s top courts, one of which last week demanded that it halt its offensive in Rafah.
Netanyahu’s split with Biden and the Democrats was years in the making
Israel has moved steadily to the right and the Democratic Party to the left in recent years, while memories of the Holocaust, which long undergirded Americans’ sympathy for Israel, have increasingly faded into the past.
Far-right Israeli settlers step up attacks on aid trucks bound for Gaza
Groups of settler youth are tailing relief convoys, setting up checkpoints and interrogating drivers. In some cases, far-right attackers have ransacked and burned trucks and beaten Palestinian drivers, leaving at least two hospitalized.
Palestinian medics say Israeli airstrike kills 22 in Rafah and displaced people are hit
Earlier Sunday, aid trucks entered Gaza from southern Israel under a new agreement to bypass the Rafah crossing with Egypt after Israeli forces seized the Palestinian side of it earlier this month.
UN court order demanding Israel halt its Gaza offensive further isolates U.S. position
The Biden administration stands apart from the global community – though it is opposed to a major offensive in Rafah, the administration also insists that the steps its close ally Israel has taken so far have not crossed red lines.
Top UN court orders Israel to halt military offensive in Rafah; Israel unlikely to comply
Criticism of Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza has been growing, particularly once it turned its focus to Rafah.
First aid from U.S. pier in Gaza has reached starving Palestinians, the UN says
The U.S. Agency for International Development told the Associated Press that a total of 41 trucks loaded with aid have reached humanitarian organizations in Gaza.
Norway, Ireland, Spain will recognize Palestinian state, deepening Israel’s isolation
More than two-thirds of the countries in the United Nations recognize a Palestinian state.
Hague prosecutor says Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Netanyahu, responsible for war crimes
Karim Khan said that he believes Netanyahu, his defense minister and three Hamas leaders are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip and Israel.