"Crusade Against Jewish State" Israel Slams Macron's Sanctions Threat, Backing For Palestine State
Israel accused French President Emmanuel Macron of undertaking a "crusade against the Jewish state." Israel also denied claims of humanitarian blockade in Gaza, calling Macron's statement 'a blatant lie.''There is no humanitarian blockade. That is a blatant lie. But instead of applying pressure on the jihadist terrorists, Macron wants to reward them with a Palestinian state. No doubt its national day will be October 7.', a statement by Israel's foreign ministry said. Israel last week partially lifted a more than two-month blockade on supplies entering Gaza amid shortage of medicines and food.Meanwhile, Germany will decide whether or not to approve new weapons shipments to Israel based on an assessment of the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul questioned whether what is happening in Gaza is in line with international law. 'We are examining this and, if necessary, we will authorize further arms deliveries based on this examination,' he said in an interview with the Sueddeutsche Zeitung. n18oc_world n18oc_crux0:00 INTRODUCTION2:12 MACRON WARNS AGAINST GIVING 'FREE PASS' TO ISRAEL4:08 "MESSAGE TO MACRON AND HIS FRIENDS..."5:34 HOUTHIS WARN OF ATTACKS ON ISRAEL CIVILIAN FLIGHTS
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27 Palestinians killed near Gaza aid site as Israeli forces open fire
Israeli forces fired on people as they headed toward an aid distribution site in Gaza on Tuesday, killing at least 27, Palestinian health officials and witnesses said, in the third such shooting in three days. The army said it fired 'near a few individual suspects' who left the designated route, approached its forces and ignored warning near-daily shootings have occurred after an Israeli and US-backed foundation established aid distribution points inside Israeli military zones, a system it says is designed to circumvent Hamas. The United Nations has rejected the new system, saying it doesn't address Gaza's mounting hunger crisis and allows Israel to use aid as a Israeli military said it 'fired to drive away suspects.' In a statement, army spokesperson Effie Defrin said 'the numbers of casualties published by Hamas were exaggerated' but that the incident was being investigated. He said the army is not preventing Palestinians in Gaza from reaching aid in the distribution areas, but rather allowing it. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which operates the sites, says there has been no violence in or around them. On Tuesday, it acknowledged that the Israeli military was investigating whether civilians were wounded 'after moving beyond the designated safe corridor and into a closed military zone,' in an area that was 'well beyond our secure distribution site.'A spokesperson for the group said it was 'saddened to learn that a number of civilians were injured and killed after moving beyond the designated safe corridor.'advertisementGaza's roughly 2 million people are almost completely reliant on international aid because Israel's offensive has destroyed nearly all of Gaza's food production capabilities. Israel imposed a blockade on supplies into Gaza in March, and limited aid began to enter again late last month after pressure from allies and warnings of famine.'Either way we will die'Witnesses have said the shootings all occurred at the Flag Roundabout, around a kilometer (half-mile) from one of the GHF's distribution sites in the now mostly uninhabited southern city of Rafah. The entire area is an Israeli military zone where journalists have no access outside of army-approved Abu Lubda, a 50-year-old displaced person from Rafah, said the shooting started around 4 a.m. Tuesday and he saw several people killed or al-Aaraj, a woman from Khan Younis, said the Israeli fire was 'indiscriminate.' She added that when she managed to reach the distribution site, there was no aid left.'After the martyrs and wounded, I won't return,' she said. 'Either way we will die.'Rasha al-Nahal, another witness, said that 'there was gunfire from all directions.' She said she counted more than a dozen dead and several wounded along the she reached the distribution site, she found there was no aid left, she said. She gathered pasta from the ground and salvaged rice from a bag that had been dropped and trampled rather die than deal with this,' she said. 'Death is more dignified than what's happening to us.'UN human rights official condemns shootingsAt least 27 people were killed early Tuesday, according to Gaza's Health Mhanna, a spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross, confirmed the toll, saying its field hospital in Rafah received 184 wounded people, 19 of them declared dead on arrival, with eight others later dying of their dead were transferred to Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Younis. Three children and two women were among the dead, according to Mohammed Saqr, head of nursing at the director Atef al-Hout said most of the patients had gunshot Associated Press reporter who arrived at the Red Cross field hospital at around 6 a.m. saw wounded people being transferred to other hospitals by ambulance. Outside, people were returning from the aid hub, mostly empty-handed, while empty flour bags stained with blood lay on the Laurence, a spokesman for the U.N. human rights office, told reporters it also had information indicating that 27 people were killed.'Palestinians have been presented the grimmest of choices: die from starvation or risk being killed while trying to access the meager food that is being made available through Israel's militarised humanitarian assistance mechanism,' Volker Trk, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said it distributed 21 truckloads of food at the Rafah site on Tuesday, while its other two operational sites were a ceasefire earlier this year, around 600 aid trucks entered Gaza daily.3 Israeli soldiers killed in northern GazaThe Israeli military, meanwhile, said three of its soldiers were killed in northern Gaza, in what appeared to be the deadliest attack on Israel's forces since it ended a ceasefire with Hamas in military said the soldiers, all in their early 20s, died during combat on Monday, without providing details. Israeli media reported they were killed in an explosion in the Jabaliya ended the latest ceasefire after Hamas refused to change the agreement to release more hostages sooner. Israeli strikes have killed thousands of Palestinians since then, according to Gaza's Health says the new aid distribution system is designed to prevent Hamas from stealing aid. 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Around 860 Israeli soldiers have been killed since the Oct. 7 attack, including more than 400 during the fighting inside fired from SyriaSirens sounded across Israel late Tuesday army said that two rockets were fired from Syria into open areas in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights, marking the first time a strike's been launched toward Israel from Syrian territory since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad. A group calling itself the Mohammed Deif Brigades claimed the attack in a post on Telegram. 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India Today
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Business Standard
38 minutes ago
- Business Standard
Goyal, Israeli economy minister discuss boosting trade, innovation ties
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