7:30 PM
A surveillance video shows the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Kibbutz Be’eri, in southern Israel. The video, analyzed by The Washington Post, shows a white car stopping at an intersection where three bodies lie on the ground. They are murdered Israelis.
Two men get out of the vehicle. One of them carries a weapon. They then lift a body and put it in the cart. They then search the belongings on the road and take a telephone and cap with them before driving away.
Both the newspaper and Israeli authorities say they have been able to identify one of the men. It concerns 45-year-old Faisal Ali Musalam Naami, a colleague from UNRWA. A UN aid organization for Palestinian refugees that has recently come under fire.
According to Israel, Naami is also a member of the armed branch of Hamas, but the newspaper could not verify this. Unclear remains why they take the body, and why they leave the other dead. By the way, Naami is no longer alive. He was probably killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says that more than thirty UNRWA staff were involved in the terrorist attacks on October 7. Israel previously made accusations against twelve of its more than 13,000 employees.
Gallant claims that 1,468 of the UN staff (about one in nine) had ties to the extremist Palestinian organization Hamas or the terrorist organization Islamic Jihad. There are said to be 185 active UNRWA staff for the armed branch of Hamas.
The accusations against the aid organization were made to several countries, including the US, Germany and the Netherlands. reason for financing to stop temporarily.
19:23
US forces carried out five strikes on targets in Yemen on Saturday afternoon and early evening, the US command center CENTCOM said. This concerns ‘successful’ attacks on ‘three mobile anti-ship missiles, one unmanned underwater vessel and an unmanned surface vessel” in Houthi-controlled areas of the Arab country.
According to CENTCOM, it was determined that the targets posed an “imminent threat to US Navy ships and merchant ships in the region’. For that reason, the attacks would be ‘self-defense’. Critics, however, call the repeated US attacks on Yemen violations of that country’s sovereignty.
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Not Gaza, but the West Bank is the biggest obstacle on the road to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Sunday at the security conference in Munich. “The West Bank is at a boiling point,” said Borrell. “We are standing perhaps on the eve of a bigger explosion.”
The West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, is home to about 3 million Palestinians and almost half a million Israeli settlers. The settlers live in settlements according to international law are illegal and are protected by the Israeli army.
Since the start of the war in Gaza, violence has also increased in the West Bank. Israeli soldiers shot dead two more Palestinians during a military operation in a refugee camp near the town of Toelkarem in the northwest West Bank on Sunday, according to the Palestinian Authority, which administers the area. According to the Palestinian Authority At least 398 people have been killed in the West Bank by the Israeli army or Jewish settlers since the war between Israel and Hamas began on October 7.
The United States and several Arab countries are working on plans for an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel. Gaza and the West Bank must be united under one and the same board. Borrell said the EU should support the plans, but warned that the West Bank “is the real obstacle to the two-state solution.”