Photo released, Military media of the Qassam Brigades
The Israeli army announced the destruction of a new tower in Gaza City.
“The defense army shortly before a multi -storey building, in Gaza City, was used by Hamas, where its terrorist elements were placed in the building, survey means, with the aim of monitoring the places of the defense forces in the area,” Israeli army spokesman, Avichai Adraei, said in a statement published on X.
He added: “As part of its preparations to maneuver the land defense army in the area, Hamas elements planted inside and next to the building several explosive devices in order to target our forces.”
Videos circulated on social media showed that a 15 -storey residential tower collapsed in a dense dust cloud after explosions in its base.
Israel Defense Minister Yisrael Katz, one of these clips on the X platform, published it, accompanied by the word “continuous”, after he wrote the word “we started” after the destruction of a tower in the west of Gaza City.
The Israeli army directs a warning to the residents of Gaza City
Table of Contents
- The Israeli army directs a warning to the residents of Gaza City
- Al -Qassam fighters wandering with detainees in Gaza City
- “You must back down immediately.”
- The Associated Press questioned Israel’s arguments to bomb Nasser Hospital
- “The starvation of civilians will not be easy to release the hostages.”
On Saturday morning, the Israeli army called on the residents of Gaza City in the northern Palestinian sector, to move to what it described as a “humanitarian area” in the south, coinciding with the plans of the Israeli army to expand its attacks on the largest city in the Strip.
In a message “to the residents of Gaza City and all those in it,” an Arabic spokesman, Evikhai Adrai, said on social media: “From this moment and with the aim of facilitating those who leave the city, we announce the area of Al -Mawsa, a humanitarian area,” and Adrai warned Gaza residents of what he described as “obedience to Hamas’s allegations.”
The United Nations appreciates that about a million people live in and around Gaza City, and warns of a “disaster” if Israel launched a large -scale attack on the city.
Al -Qassam fighters wandering with detainees in Gaza City
On the other hand, the Izz al -Din al -Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, released, on Friday, a video clip showing Israeli alive detainees in Gaza City.
The clip, which dates back to August 28, the Israeli detainee, Gay Ghallawal, shows a car roaming between devastating buildings, asking Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Hebrew language that the planned military attack was not carried out to control Gaza City.
Dalal also appealed to the Israeli clip to demonstrate “a lot and strongly”, before he met another detainee in the video, Alon Olun, in his first video since his kidnapping, seeking help, “returning us to our homes.”
Netanyahu’s office said that the Israeli Prime Minister spoke to the families of the detainees, saying, “No video clip will weaken us or make us deviate from our determination” to destroy Hamas and liberate the hostages.
Relatives of the hostages and their supporters demonstrated in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Friday to demand their release.
In a related context, US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Washington is conducting “very deep” negotiations with the Palestinian Hamas movement, and urged it to release all the hostages detained in Gaza.
Trump, the strong ally of Israel, said in the oval office: “There may be those who have died recently. I hope this is a mistake, but you have more than 30 bodies in these negotiations,” Trump, the strong ally of Israel, at the Oval Office.
The Israeli army says that 25 of 47 remaining hostages in Gaza have died, and Israel is seeking to restore their remains.
This comes at a time when the Israeli army destroyed a tall tower in Gaza City on Friday, shortly after announcing the targeting of tall buildings that Hamas used, before implementing its plan to control the largest city in the Palestinian sector.
“You must back down immediately.”
On the other hand, Palestinian lawyer Raji Al -Sourani, who runs the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, described US sanctions on three Palestinian organizations as “shameful”, and insisted that they will not be a deterrent.
“This is our reaction: to work as usual, we are only in the court we do what we must do,” Al -Sourani told reporters outside the International Criminal Court after his meeting with the court’s deputy prosecutor.
On Thursday, the United States imposed sanctions on three Palestinian NGOs, accusing it of working with the International Criminal Court that issued an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The penalties declared related to the freezing of any assets of these associations in the United States or to carry out any financial transactions with them.
A statement by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that the “Right” associations in Ramallah, “Al -Mizan” and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza, “participated directly in the efforts of the International Criminal Court to investigate, arrest, or try Israeli citizens without the approval of Israel.”
The United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights, Volcker Turk, described Washington sanctions as “completely unacceptable, and must be retracted immediately.”
“For decades, these NGOs continued to perform vital in the field of human rights, especially with regard to accountability for human rights violations” in the Palestinian territories.
The three associations accused the United States of “chose to protect and consolidate the Israeli Zionist settlement regime based on apartheid and illegal occupation.”
Photo released, Anadolu via Getty Images
“This attempt to silence Palestinian votes is only a new link in a continuous campaign for decades led by Israel and its allies to erase the Palestinian people and deny their collective right to self -determination and return, all under the cover of escaping from international punishment.”
The associations called for the use of “all the means available to end the crime of genocide against the Palestinian people and to hold Israel accountable for its actions.”
The three organizations asked the International Criminal Court in November 2023 to investigate accusations of Israel of war crimes, including the genocide of bombing and blockade the Gaza Strip.
It is worth noting that the United States and Israel are not a member of the International Criminal Court, and it is a permanent court based in the Hague in the Netherlands charged with pursuing and prosecuting individuals accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
The Associated Press questioned Israel’s arguments to bomb Nasser Hospital
Two weeks after the Israeli raid on Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, the Associated Press questioned the motives of the Israeli shelling of the hospital.
On August 25, the Israeli raid killed five journalists among 22 Palestinians, including the journalist Maryam Abu Duqa, who was working for the Associated Press.
After the shelling, the Israeli army announced that it was “a preliminary investigation”, and the next day, he said that its forces were targeting a Hamas camera.
In a special report of the American Agency, the Associated Press raised “serious questions about Israel’s motives for raids and the way they are implemented.”
The report published on Friday stated that the roof of the building bombed by the Israeli army was “known as a gathering point for reporters”, adding that eyewitnesses described Israel as watching the area “repeatedly” by a drone, one of which was “about 40 minutes before the attack”
The agency quoted a military official as saying that it is believed that Hamas used a camera on the roof of the hospital building in “suspicious behavior”; But the only clarification provided, according to the agency, is the presence of a towel over the camera and its operator, which was interpreted as an attempt to avoid identifying it.
However, the Associated Press reported that the camera belongs to the video journalist Hossam Al -Masry, who was working for a Reuters, and “was covering his equipment regularly with a white cloth to protect it from the hot sun and dust.”
The agency added that Al -Masry, who was killed in the first raid on the hospital, was regularly registered with a live broadcast from the site, and it is assumed that the Israeli march that flew over him before the raid had met him.
The US News Agency confirmed that “there is no evidence of a second camera on the site where the Egyptian was killed.”
The agency said it had revealed other “disturbing decisions” that Israel has taken regarding the raids of late August.
The agency added that its results revealed that the army used “high -explosive tank shells” to bomb the hospital, and that the double army’s attack on the hospital was a widely condemned practice aimed at inflating losses and may constitute a war crime.
The agency’s report concluded that Israel was in general, bombing the hospital four times, “and every time without warning.”
Agence France -Presse had contacted the Israeli army to comment on the Astusht Press report, referring to his statement issued the day after the raids, and included that the head of the General Staff “ordered a deeper examination of several gaps” to include “” adopted ammunition “and” decision -making mechanism in the field “.
“The starvation of civilians will not be easy to release the hostages.”
Photo released, AFP via Getty Images
On the other hand, the Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanum Guerberesus, called on Israel to stop starving civilians in Gaza, pointing out that 370 Palestinians died due to hunger in the besieged sector.
Dr. Tidros said during a press conference at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva, that among this number is more than 300 in the past two months, describing the situation as “a catastrophe that Israel could avoid, and could stop it at any moment.”
He added that “people die from the severity of hunger while the food that may save them is present in trucks close to them,” stressing that “making the inhabitants of Gaza die hunger will not make Israel safer, and this matter will not be easy to release the hostages.”
Dr. Tedros said that “the starvation of civilians as a war tool is a war crime that can never be accepted and threatens to use it for future conflicts.”
The Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed, on Friday, that during the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health has recorded three new deaths “as a result of famine and malnutrition,” so that the total number increases to 376, including 134 children. “
On August 22, the United Nations announced that a state of famine prevails in some areas of the Gaza Strip, while Israel denied this accusing Hamas of looting aid.
