Israel continues to unleash its bloodbath in the enclave, rendering all public hospitals in north Gaza ‘out of service’.

A British surgeon working in southern Gaza has compared the region to a "slaughterhouse" because of the daily bombardment from Israeli forces.

<article data-history-node-id="422420" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/rights-groups-take-uk-govt-court-over-israel-arms-sales" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/rights-groups-take-uk-govt-court-over-israel-arms-sales" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Rights groups take UK govt to court over Israel arms sales</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Rights groups and NGOs are dragging the UK government to court on Tuesday, accusing it of breaching international law by supplying fighter jet parts to Israel's war on&nbsp;Gaza.</p> <p>Supported by Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, Oxfam and others, the Palestinian rights association Al-Haq is seeking to stop the government's export of UK-made components for&nbsp;Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets.</p> <p>Israel has used the American warplanes to devastating effect in&nbsp;Gaza&nbsp;and the West Bank, and the head of Amnesty UK said Britain had failed to uphold its "legal obligation... to prevent genocide" by allowing the export of key parts to Israel.</p> <p>The&nbsp;new Labour government suspended around 30 licences following&nbsp;a&nbsp;review&nbsp;of&nbsp;Israel's compliance with international humanitarian law, but the partial ban did not cover British-made parts for the advanced F-35 stealth fighter jets.</p> <p>It is not clear when a decision could be made following the four-day hearing at London's High Court, the latest stage in a long-running legal battle.</p> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="A protestor dressed as Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer poses in front of a 16-foot replica of a MK-84 2,000-pound bomb labelled with the word " and with a tag reading that people data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="69dedc64-77e0-4cda-8a23-4b54b815839d" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/000_46C733C.jpg" width="1024" height="682" alt="A protestor dressed as Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer poses in front of a 16-foot replica of a MK-84 2,000-pound bomb labelled with the word " and with a tag reading that people typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>A protestor dressed as Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer poses in front of a 16-foot replica of a MK-84 2,000-pound bomb labelled with the word "Complicity" and with a tag reading "more that 52.000 people killed", (AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

Palestinian rights group says remarks criticising a Lancet analysis on impact of the conflict are ‘sickening’

Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family As a young photojournalist living in Gaza, Fatima Hassouna knew that death was always at her doorstep. As she spent the past 18 months of war documenting airstrikes, the demolition of her home, the endless displacement and the killing of 11 family members, all she demanded was that she not be allowed to go quietly. “If I die, I want a loud death,” Hassouna wrote on social media. “I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear, an impact that will remain through time, and a timeless image that cannot be buried by time or place.” Continue reading...

<article data-history-node-id="421380" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-stage-die-protest-israels-killing-reporters-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-stage-die-protest-israels-killing-reporters-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">French journalists stage die-in to protest against Israel’s killing of reporters in Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>About 200&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/france" target="_blank">French</a>&nbsp;journalists staged a die-in in Paris and Marseille on Wednesday evening to protest against&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel</a>’s killing of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a>&nbsp;journalists and show solidarity with their colleagues in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-war-gaza" target="_blank">Gaza</a>.</p> <p>Wearing press vests marked with symbolic red stains, the journalists lay on the steps of the Opera Bastille in the French capital as the names of colleagues killed since the start of the war in October 2023 were read aloud.</p> <p>They held placards featuring photos of the slain journalists alongside the slogan: “Gaza: faces, not just numbers.”</p> <p>In the southern city of Marseille, around 160 people gathered for a similar tribute, reading out the names of the victims and observing a minute's silence.</p> <p>“As journalists, it is our duty to express our solidarity with our Palestinian colleagues and to demand, time and again, the right to enter Gaza,” Reporters Without Borders said in a statement following the protest.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/france-journalists-stage-die-in-protest-israel-killing-reporters-gaza">French journalists stage die-in to protest Israel’s killing of reporters in Gaza</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Protesters wearing jerseys reading " stage a die-in during demonstration in support of palestinian journalists front the opera bastille on april kotan data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="3bfcd0e6-8661-44ae-b30a-157783198466" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/france-demonstration-Palestinian-journalists-Opera-Bastille-16-April-2025-Kotan-MEE.jpg" width="1400" height="933" alt="Protesters wearing jerseys reading " stage a die-in during demonstration in support of palestinian journalists front the opera bastille on april kotan typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Protesters stage a die-in in support of Palestinian journalists in front of the Opera Bastille in Paris, on 16 April (Bilge Kotan/MEE)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img alt height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

Exclusive: Met to be handed dossier of evidence alleging crimes including killings of civilians and aid workers A war crimes complaint against 10 Britons who served with the Israeli military in Gaza is to be submitted to the Met police by one of the UK’s leading human rights lawyers. Michael Mansfield KC is one of a group of lawyers who will on Monday hand in a 240-page dossier to Scotland Yard’s war crimes unit alleging targeted killing of civilians and aid workers, including by sniper fire, and indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas, including hospitals. Continue reading...

<article data-history-node-id="420887" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/netanyahu-takes-longer-route-washington-dodge-icc-warrant-risk-0" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/netanyahu-takes-longer-route-washington-dodge-icc-warrant-risk-0" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Netanyahu takes longer route to Washington to dodge ICC warrant risk</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="74" data-start="0">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touched down in Washington on Sunday—after taking a detour of roughly 400 kilometres to avoid airspace over countries that might enforce the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant.</p> <p data-end="656" data-start="315">Israeli officials feared that if Netanyahu’s plane were forced into an emergency landing, nations like Ireland, Iceland, and the Netherlands could move to detain him, Haaretz reported.</p> <p data-end="656" data-start="315">The ICC warrant is linked to Israel’s war on Gaza and allegations of war crimes.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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<span class="field field-title">UN experts accuse Israel of genocidal acts and sexual violence in Gaza</span> <span class="field field-uid"><a title="View user profile." href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/bilge-kotan" lang about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/bilge-kotan" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>Bilge Kotan</a></span> <span class="field field-created"><time datetime="2025-03-13T08:49:09+00:00" title="13 March 2025 08:49 GMT">Thu, 03/13/2025 - 08:49</time> </span> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israel carried out "genocidal acts" against Palestinians by systematically destroying women's healthcare facilities during its war on Gaza, and used sexual violence as a war strategy, United Nations experts said in a <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/03/more-human-can-bear-israels-systematic-use-sexual-reproductive-and-other?sub-site=HRC">new repor</a>t on Thursday.</p> <p>"Israeli authorities have destroyed in part the reproductive capacity of the Palestinians in Gaza as a group, including by imposing measures intended to prevent births, one of the categories of genocidal acts in the Rome Statute and the Genocide Convention," said the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and&nbsp;Israel.</p> <p>Those actions,&nbsp;in addition to causing a surge in maternity deaths due to restricted access to medical supplies, amounted to the crime against humanity of extermination,&nbsp;the commission said.</p> <p>The report accused&nbsp;Israel's security forces of using forced public stripping and sexual assault as part of their standard operating procedures to punish Palestinians since the beginning of the war.</p> </div>

<span class="field field-title">Hamas urges international action against Israeli siege on Gaza</span> <span class="field field-uid"><a title="View user profile." href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/bilge-kotan" lang about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/bilge-kotan" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>Bilge Kotan</a></span> <span class="field field-created"><time datetime="2025-03-13T10:24:02+00:00" title="13 March 2025 10:24 GMT">Thu, 03/13/2025 - 10:24</time> </span> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Hamas has called on the international community to act to prevent famine in Gaza, where residents have been under siege for two weeks.</p> <p>The group's spokesperson, Abdel-Latif al-Qanou, described the Israeli blockade of food, medicine and fuel as a new form of "starvation" in a statement on Thursday.</p> <p>He warned that if action was not taken, Gaza would face famine during the holy month of Ramadan. Qanou also urged mediators to increase pressure on Israel to open the crossings, allow humanitarian aid in and end the collective punishment of Gaza's residents.</p> </div>

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