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Israel’s plan to split the West Bank | Newsfeed

Israel’s plan to split the West Bank | Newsfeed

Under the E1 plan, Israel demolished Palestinian shops to make an Israeli-only road between the illegal Ma’ale Adumim settlement and Jerusalem. E1 will displace 4,000 Palestinians to build settler homes and cut the West Bank in two. Al Jazeera’s Leila Warah reports. Published On 7 Sep 20267 Sep 2026 Share Israel’s plan to split the West Bank on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Source link

Gaza: Genocide in Real Time? | Gaza

Gaza: Genocide in Real Time? | Gaza

Gaza examined through occupation, blockade, mass killing and the genocide case before the ICJ. Gaza, seen through the legal and political framework of genocide, as allegations are argued in real time before international courts. This episode traces how decades of occupation, blockade and repeated wars created conditions of confinement, dependency and dehumanisation long before the war that began on October 7, 2023. It explores how displacement orders, siege tactics, destruction of infrastructure, and AI-assisted targeting have shaped the scale and pattern of killing and destruction. Drawing on testimony, military analysis and legal argument, the episode follows how Palestinian victims, Israel, and third states frame the intent and nature of the violence, and why the International Court of Justice has warned of a “plausible risk” of genocide without yet ruling on its commission. It asks what this unfolding legal battle means for accountability, future deterrence and the people of Gaza themselves. Published On 7 Sep 20267 Sep 2026 Share Gaza: Genocide in Real Time? on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Source link

UN rapporteur says Israeli rubble-clearing in Gaza could erase ‘atrocity crimes’ evidence

UN rapporteur says Israeli rubble-clearing in Gaza could erase ‘atrocity crimes’ evidence

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, warned in a statement Monday that the implications of Israel’s “ongoing removal, crushing and relocation of rubble in Gaza” risked erasing traces of “atrocity crimes”, and preventing the recovery and identification of human remains. “Gaza’s rubble contains human remains and physical evidence relevant to the investigation of alleged international crimes, including genocide,” she said, pointing to estimates from Palestinian authorities that more than 10,000 people remain buried under the debris in the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave. Read moreIsrael ‘organised and prepared’ to remove Gaza population if US gives green light, Katz says The Italian-born independent expert has faced harsh criticism from Israel and some of its allies over her long-standing accusations that Israel is committing genocide and other war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Albanese, who was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council in 2022 but who does not speak on behalf of the United Nations, said she had received credible information from multiple sources last month of “deliberate …

Pakistan captain Fatima Sana fined over Shafali Verma gesture in Asia Cup | Cricket

Pakistan captain Fatima Sana fined over Shafali Verma gesture in Asia Cup | Cricket

Sana gestured towards the pavillion after removing Verma in a caught-and-bowled dismissal in their Asia Cup match. Published On 7 Sep 20267 Sep 2026 Pakistan captain Fatima Sana has been sanctioned by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for gesturing during her team’s Asia Cup group match against India last week. Sana was fined 10 percent of her match fee by the ICC on Monday, two days after India handed Pakistan a record T20 defeat in the regional tournament. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list The incident occurred after Sana caught and bowled out Shafali Verma in her second over and gestured to the pavilion. Verma scored 12 runs off six balls as India beat Pakistan by seven wickets to remain unbeaten in the competition. Sana admitted to her offence, which breached Article 2.5 of the ICC Code of Conduct relating to “using language, actions or gestures which disparage or which could provoke an aggressive reaction from a batter upon dismissal”. Additionally, one demerit point was added to her disciplinary record for her second …

Israeli air attacks kill at least 11 people in southern Lebanon | Israel attacks Lebanon News

Israeli air attacks kill at least 11 people in southern Lebanon | Israel attacks Lebanon News

Published On 7 Sep 20267 Sep 2026 Israeli air attacks in southern Lebanon have killed at least 11 people, including two children and two medics, Lebanese state media reported. Israeli warplanes hit a residential building early on Monday in the town of Kfar Reman in southern Lebanon, killing nine people including two children, and wounding five others, Lebanon’s National News ‌Agency (NNA) reported. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list A separate Israeli drone attack on a civilian vehicle in the town killed two medics inside the car, NNA said. The Israeli military also struck a residential area in the town of Deir al-Zahrani in southern Lebanon overnight after it issued a forced evacuation order. The army says it targeted a building near a Hezbollah facility, which it claims was used to launch an explosive drone. The attacks come a day after at least seven people were killed and 20 others were wounded in Israeli air raids on the nearby town of Arab Salim, also in the Nabatieh district . Attacks have continued despite a …

Adidas faces boycott calls over campaign featuring former Israeli soldier | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Adidas faces boycott calls over campaign featuring former Israeli soldier | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Activists slam campaign showing soldier while more than 5,000 Palestinians faced amputations due to Israeli attacks in Gaza. Sportswear giant Adidas has faced criticism and calls for a boycott for featuring a former Israeli army soldier in an advertising campaign for the company’s single-shoe service for amputees. The Adidas advertisement promoting its in-store service, which shows former Israeli soldier Shalev Biton trying on a shoe at a store in Israel and then wearing it while running outdoors, was termed “an affront to Palestinians” by a boycott campaigns coordinator on Sunday. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list Biton lost his leg after being wounded during the 2021 Israel-Gaza conflict, during which the Israeli army attacked the besieged enclave repeatedly in an 11-day assault. Human rights campaigners and pro-Palestine activists say the immediate outrage and online boycott campaign targeted at Adidas should not come as a surprise to the German athletic apparel and footwear company. “This isn’t Adidas being tone-deaf or insensitive; it is an absolute affront to the Palestinians who have lost their loved …

Iran touts military response as US maintains blockade, hits tankers | US-Israel war on Iran News

Iran touts military response as US maintains blockade, hits tankers | US-Israel war on Iran News

Tehran, Iran – The United States continues to rely on a mix of military force and economic sanctions against Iran, which has so far only prompted authorities in Tehran to consider more forceful responses. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) released video on Saturday showing three Iranian crude oil tankers being hit – one off Kharg Island, Iran’s main oil export hub, another near Jask and a third in the Gulf of Oman. Two were “permanently disabled”, while a third sank after extensive bombing, CENTCOM said. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) later aired video of its own, showing explosives-laden projectiles crashing into multiple ships in the Strait of Hormuz. “Aggressor US must know that it has no way but to leave the region and stop its malignance,” the IRGC said in a statement on Sunday. It added that a US-built sea drone was hit while trying to enter Iranian waters in the vital waterway, through which one fifth of the world’s oil and gas passes in peacetime. …

Israeli strikes kill four in Lebanon after alleged Hezbollah drone launch

Israeli strikes kill four in Lebanon after alleged Hezbollah drone launch

Lebanon said Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon killed four people on Sunday in the latest escalation despite a months-long ceasefire. Israel alleged that the strikes were in response to Hezbollah launching drones against its troops in the country’s Israeli-occupied south.  Lebanon’s health ministry reported two people killed in south Lebanon’s Nabatieh al-Fawqa and two women killed in nearby Arab Salim. It said 20 other people, including several women and three children, were wounded in those locations as well as in the city of Nabatieh and the town of Kfar Rumman, adding that the toll was provisional. Watch moreUNIFIL peacekeepers patrol south Lebanon, caught between Israel and Hezbollah Israel’s army said it was striking south Lebanon after Hezbollah fighters launched two drones towards Israeli soldiers operating in Israel’s self-declared “security zone” in the south. It did not report any troop casualties.  Shortly before the statement, Israel’s military had issued its first “evacuation” notice in Lebanon in several weeks, warning residents near a building it identified as a Hezbollah “facility” in Arab Salim to leave their …