Iran Press/ Iran news: On Saturday, October 7, 2023, the Palestinian resistance forces launched a surprise operation called Al-Aqsa Storm against Israeli positions, and the Israeli regime, to retaliate and compensate for its defeat and stop the resistance operations, has closed all the crossings of the Gaza strip and is bombarding this area.
In the latest developments from Gaza, at least six Palestinians have been killed and several others injured in the latest Israeli strikes in the southern Gaza Strip.
According to the report, two residential buildings in Khan Younis were directly hit by the strike.
The death toll from an Israeli strike in the occupied West Bank’s Tulkarem refugee camp has risen to five.
At least nine others were also injured and taken to the Martyr Thabet Thabet Government Hospital for treatment.
Mike Seawright, the founder and director of ReliefAid, speaking to Al Jazeera from Auckland, New Zealand said: The situation in Gaza is absolutely dire.
"It’s the hardest we’ve seen in terms of humanitarian delivery. Our teams are worried about the security situation for themselves, worried about when they go home at night; if they’ll have a home, if they’ll have a family," he added.
The UN’s humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, says about 200,000 Palestinians have left northern Gaza for southern parts of the enclave since November 5 through an Israeli military “corridor”.
“Overcrowding and limited access to shelter, food and water, in the south, are of increasing concern,” the agency said.
Japan must do more to prevent atrocities in Palestine and Israel and ensure accountability before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for serious crimes already committed, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.
As the current chair of the G7 nations and a member of the ICC, Japan has an important role to play in supporting the court’s investigation of serious crimes in Palestine, which has been ongoing since 2021, the rights group said in a statement.
“On October 10, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory said there was “clear evidence” of war crimes in Israel and Gaza and that it would be sharing information with relevant judicial authorities, especially the ICC,” HRW said.
“The Japanese government should ensure the ICC has the political, diplomatic and financial support it needs to carry out its work on Palestine and across its global mandate,” the group said.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians “who are either unwilling or unable to move to the south remain in the north” amid continued fighting. “They are struggling to secure the minimum amount of water and food for survival.”Concerns are growing about dehydration and waterborne diseases as people are forced to consume water from unsafe sources.
Rabbis and US legislators including US legislators Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, called the ceasefire resolution.
“Thank you to all the members of Congress who have signed on to this resolution,” said Rabbi Alissa Wise, referring to a proposed measure calling for a ceasefire.
The resolution “seeks to stop this horrific violence, which only entrenches this ongoing nightmare”, Wise said. “The signers of this resolution do not value one people over another – heaven forbid – and to say so is slander.”
Introducing Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress who was censured last week for her calls for Palestinian freedom, Wise added: “Rashida we need you; we will not let them distort your words or defame your character.”At least 100 young Filipino protesters, carrying banners supporting Palestinian rights, clashed with police in the capital Manila as they pushed their way toward the US embassy.
A video posted on X by the Manila-based radio station DZBB showed police in riot gear shoving the protesters, some of whom fell on the ground.
The marchers eventually made it to the street in front of the US Embassy, blocking part of it and causing huge traffic in the area.
The protesters denounced the US role in providing Israel with weapons for its war in Gaza.
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