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San Francisco Chronicle
29-05-2025
- Politics
- San Francisco Chronicle
Live updates: Israel OKs more settlements in the West Bank as Gaza strikes kill at least 13
Israel announced Thursday it will establish 22 Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, including the legalization of outposts already built without government authorization. Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, where Palestinians have become increasingly desperate for food after nearly three months of Israeli border closures, killed at least 13 people overnight, local health officials said. Israel captured the West Bank, along with Gaza and east Jerusalem, in the 1967 Mideast war and the Palestinians want all three territories for their future state. Most of the international community views settlements as illegal and an obstacle to resolving the decades-old conflict. In 2005, Israel withdrew its settlements from the Gaza Strip, but leading figures in the current government have called for them to be re-established and for much of the Palestinian population of the territory to be resettled elsewhere through what they describe as voluntary emigration. The war in Gaza began with Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack, in which militants stormed into Israel, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251. Hamas still holds 58 hostages, around a third of them alive, after most of the rest were released in ceasefire agreements. Israeli forces have rescued eight and recovered dozens of bodies. Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed over 54,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not say how many of the dead were civilians or combatants. The Israeli military says troops recently located and destroyed an attack tunnel stretching several hundred meters (yards) in the southern Gaza Strip. It said the tunnel was found in a self-declared security zone, apparently referring to the now mostly evacuated southern city of Rafah, which Israeli forces have severed from the rest of the territory. The army said the tunnel had several exits, some rigged with explosives. It said militants emerged from one of the shafts during the operation and were killed. Hamas built hundreds of miles (kilometers) of tunnels beneath Gaza in the years leading up to the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that ignited the war. Its fighters use them to shelter from Israeli airstrikes and move around undetected. Hamas has also held hostages in the tunnels. Israeli newborn dies after mother was killed in West Bank attack An Israeli baby who was delivered after his mother was fatally shot in an attack in the West Bank has died. A Palestinian militant opened fire on Tzeela Gez' car as her husband drove her through the Israeli-occupied West Bank on May 14. The couple was heading to the hospital to give birth. She later died from her wounds, but doctors delivered the baby by emergency cesarean section. Hamas praised the attack but did not claim it. The military announced days later that its forces had killed the suspected attacker. 'It is with great sadness and pain that we learned this morning of the death of baby Ravid Chaim, son of Tzeela and Hananel Gez,' Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. 'There are no words that can offer consolation for the murder of a newborn baby along with his mother.'
Al Arabiya
29-05-2025
- Health
- Al Arabiya
Hospital says baby of Israeli woman killed in West Bank has died
The baby of an Israeli woman killed by a Palestinian gunman in the occupied West Bank two weeks ago has died, the hospital treating the newborn said Thursday. On May 14, Tzeela Gez was on her way from her home in the West Bank settlement of Bruchin to a Tel Aviv hospital to give birth when the gunman opened fire on the vehicle she was travelling in with her husband. Gez, 37, died of her wounds, while her baby was delivered by emergency caesarean section, the hospital that treated them said. But on Thursday, Schneider Children's Medical Center announced 'with regret that last night the baby Ravid Chaim, who was born after the terror attack in Samaria (the northern West Bank) about two weeks ago in which his mother, Tzeela Gez, of blessed memory, was murdered, has passed away.' Ravid had been in 'serious condition in the neonatal intensive care unit', where doctors had 'fought for his life', the hospital added. 'Unfortunately, despite the many efforts, the hospital was forced in recent hours to declare his death.' The Israeli military said last week that the shooter had been identified and 'eliminated' following a manhunt in the West Bank. Like all Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, Bruchin is considered illegal under international law. 'There are no words that can console the murder of a newborn infant together with his mother,' Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. 'The heroism of the pioneering settlers in Judea and Samaria and their self-sacrifice are what will defeat all our enemies.' Israel's far-right Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir called the attack a reminder of 'the need for a decisive response against a cruel enemy who kills mothers and children as a pastime.' Denouncing the deaths, the head of the Samaria Regional Council, Yossi Dagan, called for 'construction and more construction in memory of Ravid and Tzeela.' Earlier on Thursday, Israel announced that the security cabinet had approved the creation of 22 new settlements in the West Bank.
Hamilton Spectator
29-05-2025
- Politics
- Hamilton Spectator
Live updates: Israel OKs more settlements in the West Bank as Gaza strikes kill at least 13
Israel announced Thursday it will establish 22 Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, including the legalization of outposts already built without government authorization. Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, where Palestinians have become increasingly desperate for food after nearly three months of Israeli border closures, killed at least 13 people overnight, local health officials said. Israel captured the West Bank, along with Gaza and east Jerusalem, in the 1967 Mideast war and the Palestinians want all three territories for their future state. Most of the international community views settlements as illegal and an obstacle to resolving the decades-old conflict. In 2005, Israel withdrew its settlements from the Gaza Strip, but leading figures in the current government have called for them to be re-established and for much of the Palestinian population of the territory to be resettled elsewhere through what they describe as voluntary emigration. The war in Gaza began with Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack, in which militants stormed into Israel, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251. Hamas still holds 58 hostages, around a third of them alive, after most of the rest were released in ceasefire agreements. Israeli forces have rescued eight and recovered dozens of bodies. Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed over 54,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not say how many of the dead were civilians or combatants. Here's the latest: Israeli newborn dies after mother was killed in West Bank attack An Israeli baby who was delivered after his mother was fatally shot in an attack in the West Bank has died. A Palestinian militant opened fire on Tzeela Gez' car as her husband drove her through the Israeli-occupied West Bank on May 14. The couple was heading to the hospital to give birth. She later died from her wounds, but doctors delivered the baby by emergency cesarean section. Hamas praised the attack but did not claim it. The military announced days later that its forces had killed the suspected attacker. 'It is with great sadness and pain that we learned this morning of the death of baby Ravid Chaim, son of Tzeela and Hananel Gez,' Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. 'There are no words that can offer consolation for the murder of a newborn baby along with his mother.'
