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Two years after the International Court of Justice said Israel’s occupation of the West Bank was unlawful, settler violence and territorial annexation is “only getting worse”, the UN said yesterday. The United Nations’ human rights office said that with attacks by Israeli settlers and the creation of outposts “hitting an all-time high”, countries had to act to end the occupation.“We are alarmed by the Israeli government’s announcement to further increase the number of settlements and outposts, and open calls by Israeli leaders for revenge and collective punishment against Palestinian communities, accompanied by threats to turn the West Bank into another Gaza,” rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said in a statement.In a sweeping, non-binding “advisory opinion” issued in July 2024, the UN’s top court said that Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian territory was “illegal”.Israel is “under the obligation to bring to an end its unlawful presence as rapidly as possible”, presiding judge Nawaf Salam said.Violence in the West Bank has surged since the Gaza war began. The West Bank has seen near-daily attacks by Israeli settlers and regular raids on Palestinian villages.Shamdasani said that since last Thursday, eight Palestinians, including a boy, as well as two members of the Israeli military had been killed in the West Bank, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967.“Settlers and Israeli security forces, often acting together, have attacked local communities, assaulting families, destroying and confiscating property, and burning mosques,” she said.“Movement restrictions are now tighter, blocking Palestinians from reaching essential services.” Last Friday, deadly clashes broke out last between Israeli settlers and in the village of Tell that left four Palestinians and two Israelis dead.The Israeli military subsequently raided the city of Nablus and several nearby towns, announcing the arrest of dozens of Palestinians as it launched what it described as a “counter-terrorism” operation in the West Bank. Overnight Sunday, Palestinian officials said Israeli settlers set fire to two mosques.“With attacks by Israeli settlers, and the creation of settlements and outposts, hitting an all-time high, third states must act urgently and in unison to halt the continuing killing and dispossession of the Palestinian people, and to bring an end to the Israeli occupation,” Shamdasani said. The comments came after Ramiz Alakbarov, the UN’s deputy special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, warned the UN Security Council on Tuesday that the situation in the West Bank was “rapidly deteriorating”.Since the start of the Gaza war, at least 1,097 Palestinians, have been killed by Israeli troops or settlers, while at least 48 Israelis, civilians and security personnel, have been killed. Excluding annexed east Jerusalem, around three million Palestinians live in the West Bank alongside more than 500,000 Israelis residing in settlements that are illegal under international law. Source link
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A drone hit a US-owned gas storage tanker at Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Damietta, British maritime security firm Ambrey said in an initial assessment yesterday, in what could mark a widening of the Middle East conflict beyond the areas directly involved in the fighting.A statement from Egypt’s petroleum ministry confirmed a fire at the port but made no mention of a drone attack. It was not immediately clear who was responsible. The drone hit floating storage tanker Energos Winter, causing a fire that then spread to another vessel, three trading sources familiar with the incident said. The fire was dealt with immediately with no casualties, the petroleum ministry said. The incident came amid a sharp escalation in the conflict, with Iran firing missiles at US forces in Jordan and the United States and Saudi Arabia striking Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq.Alongside Yemen’s Houthi group declaring a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, the latest exchanges suggest the conflict is spreading further than it has since US and Israel started bombing Iran in February.US President Donald Trump vowed to retaliate against Iran for firing on US troops days after he halted air strikes.“We’ll be hitting them hard,” Fox News quoted Trump as saying. Iran confirmed overnight that it had fired on US bases in Jordan and at ships in the Strait of Hormuz, and also spurned an Omani proposal to jointly manage the strait.Trump had said operations against Iran would last only a few weeks when he launched them in February but fighting has now gone on for five months with no end in sight.Oil prices shot up yesterday in one of the sharpest spikes of the five-month war. Brent crude futures rose more than 8% to push the benchmark well above $90 a barrel, reversing much of a plunge earlier this week when Trump had unexpectedly halted US strikes over the weekend. The joint US-Saudi attacks also mark the first time Riyadh has publicly joined strikes alongside Washington.Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces, powerful Iran-backed paramilitary groups incorporated into the Iraqi security forces, said at least 20 members were killed and 32 wounded in US-Saudi strikes targeting several bases across Iraq.Iraqi men shouted sectarian slogans and “Death to America!” as they carried the bodies of slain fighters in body bags. Washington and Riyadh said they struck the Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq in retaliation for drone attacks on Saudi oil targets launched from Iraq.It was the first major US military action in the Middle East since last Friday, when Trump abruptly suspended an intensive bombing campaign after 13 days, having been advised by commanders that the strategy had run its course.US officials have privately cautioned that resuming major combat operations against Iran would carry risk given the negative impact on stocks of munitions. The Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank, estimated this week that the US military has fewer than 1,000 Patriot interceptor inventories and fewer than 250 THAAD interceptors– two key air defense systems.Though Iran denies its forces have directed strikes from Iraqi territory, Iranian newspaper Hamshahri reported that four Iranian Revolutionary Guards advisers had been killed in the strikes on Iraq.The strikes on Iraq expose a dangerous rift in that volatile country. The government is one of the few in the world to balance close military and diplomatic ties with both Tehran and Washington, but those divided loyalties are a constant source of tension and frequent domestic unrest.The office of Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, who took power just two months ago, urged the parties involved to avoid escalation and said he wanted to keep the country out of regional conflicts. The Iraqi presidency denounced the strikes on the paramilitaries as “an unacceptable attack and a flagrant violation of Iraq’s sovereignty”, while also calling for a halt to attacks by armed groups against Iraq’s neighbours.Hours before launching the joint attacks with Saudi Arabia on Iraq, the US military said its air defences had averted a surprise Iranian attack on US troops in the region. Source link
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