Israel’s warfare on Gaza: List of key occasions, day 131 | Israel War on Gaza News | USAEMALL.com

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Israel and Hamas are making progress in the direction of one other ceasefire as stress mounts in opposition to deliberate Israeli offensive in Rafah.

Here’s how issues stand on Wednesday, February 14, 2024:

Humanitarian disaster in Gaza

• Israel and Hamas are making progress in the direction of one other truce and captive launch deal, an Egyptian and a Western official have advised the AP information company as negotiations proceed in Cairo amid an impending Israeli offensive in Rafah.
• Releasing Palestinian prisoners is now the “main gap” as truce negotiations proceed, based on Israeli and US officers who spoke to Israel’s Walla information outlet.
• On Tuesday Israeli tanks shelled components of Rafah for the second night time in a row, inflicting waves of panic, residents stated.
• Dozens had been killed in in a single day assaults on Monday. On Tuesday, two journalists, together with an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent, had been focused by an Israeli drone. Al Jazeera’s Ismail Abu Omar’s proper leg needed to be amputated after the strike. A photojournalist working with him was additionally wounded within the assault.
• Amid threats of an Israeli floor assault, tons of of displaced households have began to go away the world – now residence to about 1.4 million folks.
• “More than half of Gaza’s population – well over 1 million people – are crammed in Rafah, staring death in the face: They have little to eat, hardly any access to medical care, nowhere to sleep, nowhere safe to go,” UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths stated.

Regional tensions and diplomacy

• South Africa’s authorities stated on Tuesday that it had filed an pressing request with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to contemplate whether or not Israel’s army operations focusing on Rafah in southern Gaza are a breach of the provisional measures the court docket handed down final month within the genocide case in opposition to Israel.
• The US Senate has handed an emergency spending package deal that would offer $60bn in army assist to Ukraine and $14.1bn to Israel, replenish US weapons techniques and supply meals, water and different humanitarian assist to civilians in Gaza.
• The Church of England has stated in a press release that the style during which Israel is conducting its warfare on Gaza “cannot be morally justified”.
• Separately, a gaggle of 9 unbiased UN human rights specialists have issued a press release calling on governments to guard the best to peaceable protests in solidarity with folks in Gaza.
• And protesters in Providencia, in Chile’s Santiago province, demanded an finish to Israeli aggression on Gaza and the severing of relations with Israel, based on native media.

Occupied West Bank

• The Israeli army has arrested three males throughout raids on town of Qalqilya within the occupied West Bank, the Wafa information company reported. A person has additionally been arrested within the city of Ni’lin, west of Ramallah, based on native media.
• According to the publication round 7,000 Palestinians have been detained within the West Bank because the begin of Israel’s warfare on Gaza.
• Israeli forces have additionally raided town of Ramallah and stationed their automobiles within the neighborhood of the Palestine Medical Complex, Wafa stated.