Mourners collect for funeral of journalists killed in Israeli strikes
Gazans gathered on Monday for the funeral of 5 Al Jazeera workers members and a sixth reporter killed in an Israeli strike, AFP studies.
Dozens stood amid bombed-out buildings within the courtyard of Al-Shifa hospital to pay their respects to Anas al-Sharif, a outstanding Al Jazeera correspondent aged 28, and 4 of his colleagues, killed on Sunday.
A sixth journalist, Mohammed al-Khaldi who labored as a contract reporter, was additionally killed within the strike that focused the Al Jazeera workforce, based on the director of Al-Shifa Hospital, Dr Mohammed Abu Salmiya.
Their our bodies, wrapped in white shrouds with their faces uncovered, had been carried by means of slender alleys to their graves by mourners together with males carrying blue journalists’ flak jackets.
Israel confirmed it had focused al-Sharif, whom it labelled a “terrorist” affiliated with Hamas, saying he “posed as a journalist”.
The 4 different workers members killed had been Mohammed Qreiqeh, additionally a correspondent, and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa.
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Some additional quotes from Downing Avenue, which stated it was “gravely involved” by each the killing of al-Sharif and his colleagues, and the broader focusing on of journalists in Gaza by Israeli forces.
“We’re gravely involved by the repeated focusing on of journalists in Gaza,” Keir Starmer’s official spokesperson stated. “Reporters masking conflicts are afforded safety below worldwide humanitarian legislation, and journalists should have the ability to report independently with out worry, and Israel should guarantee journalists can perform their work safely.”
Requested what motion Starmer may absorb response, the spokesperson stated: “It’s unsuitable to focus on journalists who ought to have the ability to report independently, with out worry, and Israel should guarantee journalists can perform their work safely. As you may have seen from what the prime minister has stated in latest days, he’s additionally clear that Israel’s choice to additional escalate its offensive in Gaza is unsuitable as nicely.”
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We’ve got some extra quotes from Emmanuel Macron on Israel’s plans for Gaza.
“This battle should finish now with a everlasting ceasefire,” Macron stated in an announcement, including Israel’s plan to take management of Gaza Metropolis was “a catastrophe of unprecedented gravity and a headlong rush into everlasting battle”.
“Israeli hostages and the individuals of Gaza will proceed to be the first victims of this technique,” Macron stated.
Israel has stated its army would “take management” of Gaza Metropolis in a plan permitted by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s safety cupboard that sparked a wave of world criticism.
Within the assertion, Macron stated it was essential to determine a UN-mandated stabilisation mission to safe the Gaza Strip.
“The safety council should now work to determine this mission and provides it a mandate,” he stated. “I’ve requested my groups to work on this immediately with our companions.”
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Starmer ‘gravely involved’ over focusing on of journalists in Gaza
Keir Starmer has stated he’s “gravely involved” concerning the repeated focusing on of journalists in Gaza, the British prime minister’s spokesperson stated on Monday, after the killing of Anas al-Sharif and 4 colleagues by the IDF.
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Macron calls Israel’s Gaza plans a ‘catastrophe ready to occur’
Emmanuel Macron has condemned Israel’s plans to step up its army operation in Gaza as a “catastrophe ready to occur” and proposed a world coalition below a United Nations mandate to stabilise Gaza.
His international minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, had already strongly criticised the plans introduced on Friday by Benjamin Netanyahu, saying in an announcement:
France strongly condemns the Israeli authorities’s plan aimed toward getting ready for the entire occupation of Gaza. Such an operation would worsen an already catastrophic state of affairs with out enabling the discharge of Hamas hostages, its disarmament, or its give up.
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Jerusalem’s Western Wall vandalised with graffiti
The Western Wall in Jerusalem has been vandalised with graffiti condemning Israel’s ongoing battle in Gaza, triggering widespread condemnation from spiritual leaders and politicians, AFP studies.
“There’s a holocaust in Gaza,” was graffitied in Hebrew on the southern portion of the wall, the holiest website the place Jews are allowed to hope.
The same message was additionally scrawled on the wall of the Nice Synagogue, elsewhere within the metropolis.
Israeli police stated a 27-year-old suspect had been arrested and would seem in courtroom afterward Monday, with the police requesting that his detention be prolonged.
The incident sparked rapid outrage in Israel, with the Western Wall’s Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch calling it a “desecration”.
Nationwide safety minister Itamar Ben Gvir – who oversees the nation’s legislation enforcement companies – stated he was shocked and vowed that the police would act “with lightning velocity”.
Sharp condemnation additionally got here from the opposition. Former defence minister Benny Gantz, now an opposition chief, known as it “against the law in opposition to your complete Jewish individuals”.
The Western Wall lies within the coronary heart of the Outdated Metropolis of Jerusalem, which Israeli forces captured in the course of the 1967 Arab-Israeli battle.
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Journalists in Dublin will maintain a vigil this night to “expresss outrage at Israel’s ongoing focusing on and killing of journalists”, the Nationwide Union of Journalists have stated.
The protest has been prompted by the killing of six journalists in Gaza by Israel.
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Qatar’s prime minister and minister for international affairs, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani condemned Israel’s killing of six Palestinian journalists, 5 of whom had been working for Al Jazeera, which is headquartered in Qatar and half state-funded.
“The deliberate focusing on of journalists by Israel within the Gaza Strip reveals how these crimes are past creativeness, amid the shortcoming of the int’l group & its legal guidelines to cease this tragedy. Could God have mercy on journalists Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qraiqea, & their colleagues,” he stated in a submit on X.
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Mourners collect for funeral of journalists killed in Israeli strikes
Gazans gathered on Monday for the funeral of 5 Al Jazeera workers members and a sixth reporter killed in an Israeli strike, AFP studies.
Dozens stood amid bombed-out buildings within the courtyard of Al-Shifa hospital to pay their respects to Anas al-Sharif, a outstanding Al Jazeera correspondent aged 28, and 4 of his colleagues, killed on Sunday.
A sixth journalist, Mohammed al-Khaldi who labored as a contract reporter, was additionally killed within the strike that focused the Al Jazeera workforce, based on the director of Al-Shifa Hospital, Dr Mohammed Abu Salmiya.
Their our bodies, wrapped in white shrouds with their faces uncovered, had been carried by means of slender alleys to their graves by mourners together with males carrying blue journalists’ flak jackets.
Israel confirmed it had focused al-Sharif, whom it labelled a “terrorist” affiliated with Hamas, saying he “posed as a journalist”.
The 4 different workers members killed had been Mohammed Qreiqeh, additionally a correspondent, and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa.
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UN human rights workplace condemns killing of Palestinian journalists by Israel
In an announcement on X, the UN’s human rights workplace stated: “We condemn the killing by Israeli army of 6 Palestinian journalists by focusing on their tent, in grave breach of worldwide humanitarian legislation. #Israel should respect & defend all civilians, together with journalists.
At the very least 242 Palestinian journalists had been killed in Gaza since 7 Oct 2023. We name for rapid, secure & unhindered entry to Gaza for all journalists.”
Israel stated it focused Anas al-Sharif, one of many journalists killed, as a result of he was a member of Hamas. A number of organisations, together with the UN and Reporters With out Borders, have questioned the veracity of that declare.
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Gaza Metropolis residents report heaviest bombardment in weeks as journalists killed
Palestinians reported the heaviest bombardments in weeks on Monday in areas east of Gaza Metropolis, simply hours after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated he anticipated to finish a brand new expanded offensive within the territory “pretty rapidly”, Reuters studies.
Witnesses stated Israeli tanks and planes pounded Sabra, Zeitoun, and Shejaia, three jap suburbs of Gaza Metropolis within the north of the territory, pushing many households out of their houses westwards.
Some Gaza Metropolis residents stated it was one of many worst nights in weeks, elevating fears of army preparations for a deeper offensive into their metropolis, which is now sheltering about 1 million individuals after the displacement of residents from the enclave’s northern edges, based on Hamas.
The Israeli army stated its forces fired artillery at Hamas militants within the space. There was no signal on the bottom of forces transferring deeper into Gaza Metropolis as a part of the newly permitted Israeli offensive.
Netanyahu on Sunday stated he had instructed the Israeli army to hurry up its plans for the brand new offensive. “I need to finish the battle as rapidly as attainable, and that’s the reason I’ve instructed the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) to shorten the schedule for seizing management of Gaza Metropolis,” he stated.
The plans to step-up the offensive have been criticised by a lot of nations.
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Greta Thunberg stated she and a Palestinian activist group plan to sail a brand new flotilla loaded with humanitarian support to Gaza to interrupt the “unlawful Israeli siege”, AFP studies.
Two different makes an attempt by activists to ship support by ship to Gaza, in June and July, had been blocked by Israel. Troops boarded their vessels and detained the activists earlier than expelling them.
“On August thirty first we’re launching the largest try ever to interrupt the unlawful Israeli siege over Gaza with dozens of boats crusing from Spain,” the Swedish campaigner stated in a submit on Instagram late on Sunday.
“We are going to meet dozens extra on September 4th crusing from Tunisia and different ports,” she stated.
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Israel’s plan to take over Gaza Metropolis is “a matter of grave concern,” China’s everlasting consultant to the UN Fu Cong, stated at a weekend assembly on the Palestinian-Israeli challenge held by the UN Safety Council, China’s state-run Xinhua information company studies.
Urging Israel to “cease this harmful transfer directly,” Fu stated: “Gaza belongs to the Palestinian individuals. It’s an integral a part of the Palestinian territory. Any motion that seeks to change its demographic and territorial construction should be met with utmost rejection and resistance.”
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