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Fascist Israeli settlers have attacked a group of foreign journalists filming their assaults on the Palestinians in the West Bank, injuring five, two of them so badly they were hospitalised.

Israeli police have launched a search for former military prosecutor Yifat Tomer Yerushalmi, who has gone missing after admitting that she was the source of a leaked video that showed Israeli troops raping a Palestinian abductee at Israel’s Sde Teiman torture camp. Yerushalmi resigned her post yesterday after her admission.

After initial enthusiasm, people fear ceasefire does not mean end to war but just less frequent, more unpredictable violence

Surya McEwen is an Australian volunteer among the almost five hundred humanitarians kidnapped by Israel as they tried to break Israel’s criminal starvation blockade on Gaza with baby food and other essentials. While the world’s attention has been on Israel’s violence and ritual humiliation toward Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, McEwen and Muslim volunteers were treated even more viciously.

Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), warned of the danger of statements by the Israeli government describing some 250,000 civilians trapped in Gaza City and northern Gaza as ‘terrorists or supporters of terrorism.’

86% of those who voted among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars backed the resolution declaring Israel's "policies and actions in Gaza" had met the legal definition set out in Article II of the 1948 UN convention on genocide.