Bodies of 14 crew members executed by Israeli forces recovered in Rafah; Gazans perform Eid prayers under bombardment, atop ruins of mosques; Israel makes counter-offer to Hamas for 50-day ceasefire; Israel blocks access to Ibrahimi Mosque during Eid; Trump threatens Iran with ‘bombing’; Israel’s connection to ‘Signalgate’
Notorious prison needs reform, so Israel just relocated detainees; Netanyahu, Defense Minister Katzthreaten to ‘seize territory’ in Gaza; Jenin refugee camp ‘uninhabitable’; Israel refuses to fully open Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque for prayer on holiest day of Ramadan; US embassy tells US doctor in Gaza ‘not our role’ to protect hem from Israeli bombings; crises at Tufts and Yale; Motion Picture Academy hangs Hamdan Ballal out to dry; more.
Israeli calls for all essentials of life to be cut off in Gaza; Palestinian journalists, aid workers killed; new genocide report; hunger in Gaza; more.
Today marks the 25th anniversary of Israeli settler Baruch Goldstein’s massacre of 29 Palestinians as they prayed. Israeli soldiers blocked Palestinians who tried to flee and who wanted to enter to help the victims. The repercussions of the attack are still felt by Palestinians in Hebron, who have seen their rights eroded and their formerly bustling city centre turn into a ghost town.
IDF entered Hebron to protect 3,000 Israeli settlers as they entered the courtyards of the Ibrahimi Mosque, under pretext of celebrating Jewish holidays and marking the Jewish New Year, which starts on Thursday.