The government of Norway has announced it is formally recognising an independent Palestinian state, which will enter into force next Tuesday. Israel has strongly opposed the move. Several other European countries including Ireland and Spain are expected to follow suit. The Norwegian Prime Minister says this sends a strong message on where the country stands on Israel’s devastating war on Gaza. Israel has recalled its envoys to Ireland and Norway in response. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has banned Al Jazeera in Israel, that’s why we’re reporting from the Jordanian capital, Amman, where Imran Khan is standing by. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us […]
Political analyst, Marwan Bishara, likens Benjamin Netanyahu to an Israeli cat who is running out of political ‘lives’. Bishara is blunt is his assessment of the Israeli prime minister saying “He’s been an utter disgrace” and his war on Gaza an “Utter failure”. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #ICC #KarimKhan #Article70 #RomeStatute #ICCArrestWarrants #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #IsraelHamasWar #GazaWar #IsraelWar #IsraelPalestineWar #IsraelGazaWar #IsraelWarCrimesInGaza #BenjaminNetanyahu #YoavGallant #YahyaSinwar #IsmailHaniyeh #MohammedDeif #GazaGenocide
Political analyst Ali Fathollah-Nejad says the sudden death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has created a power vacuum because Raisi was a protege of Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, and was working on finding his successor. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #Iran #IranHelicopterAccident #IranianPresident #EbrahimRaisi #Raisi #EbrahimRaisiDies #AmirAbdolahian #IranMourns #IranSupremeLeader #AliKhamenei #IranianPresident
Geoffrey Nice, a British barrister and judge, says the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction in Gaza, and that he expects a prompt decision because no one involved with the processes of the law, with respect to Israel, dares to “move slowly”. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #ICC #KarimKhan #Article70 #RomeStatute #ICCArrestWarrants #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #IsraelHamasWar #GazaWar #IsraelWar #IsraelPalestineWar #IsraelGazaWar #IsraelWarCrimesInGaza #BenjaminNetanyahu #YoavGallant #YahyaSinwar #IsmailHaniyeh #MohammedDeif #GazaGenocide
Al Jazeera correspondent Osama bin Javaid, reporting from The Global Security Forum in Doha, relayed reactions to the ICC’s announcement from both Israeli and Palestinian perspectives. Gideon Levy, a prominent columnist from Haaretz, expressed surprise at ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan’s decisiveness but felt satisfaction that war crimes by both Hamas and Israel were being acknowledged. He predicted Israel would react defensively, portraying itself as a victim of global antisemitism, despite his belief in the justice of the decision. Diana Buttu, a lawyer who has represented the PLO, argued that the ICC’s balanced approach was driven by the scale of Israeli actions, which she characterized as genocidal. She criticized the […]
The spokesperson for OHCHR, Ravina Shamdasani says the UN is pushing for an independent investigation into mass graves found at the Nasser and al-Shifa hospitals in Gaza. Shamdasani says that human rights violations “could have” been committed and that the international community must “keep coming back to it and keep insisting on accountability”. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #UnitedNations #OHCHR #Palestine #Gaza #GazaMassGraves #ShifaHospital #NasserMedicalComplex #GazaNasserHospital #GazaHospitals #GazaHumanitarianCrisis #Israel #IsraelHamasWar #GazaWar #IsraelWar #IsraelGazaWar #IsraelWarCrimesInGaza #GazaBombardment #GazaRefugeeCamps #GazaGenocide
Iran’s Supreme Leader has declared five days of national mourning following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash. The wreckage was found early on Monday. The foreign minister, one of the nine on board, has also been confirmed dead. Al Jazeera’s Michael Appel reports on how events unfolded before and after the crash. To discuss this further, Hamidreza Azizi, a Nonresident Fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, joins from Berlin, and Alex Macheras, an independent aviation analyst and consultant, joins from Doha. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our […]
Daniel Levy, president of the US/Middle East Project, says that Israel’s goal for victory is defeating Hamas and that the “IDF has conspicuously failed” to do so. Levy says that Israel is hiding behind the idea of a Rafah invasion being integral to defeating Hamas, but there “is no Israeli victory”. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #Israel #IsraelHamasWar #GazaWar #IsraelWar #IsraelGazaWar #IsraeliArmy #IsraeliMilitary #Netanyahu #Palestine #Gaza #GazaUnderAttack #GazaHumanitarianCrisis #RafahOffensive #GazaBombardment #GazaRefugeeCamps #Rafah
Wassim Hage, an organiser with the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, says that Google’s Project Nimbus, in collaboration with the Israeli government, provides cloud services and image recognition software that the Israeli military can use to target Palestinians in the Gaza war. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #AI #ProjectNimbus #TechApartheid #CloudApartheid #Google #Amazon #IsraelGazaWar #FaceRecognition #CloudTechnology #GoogleWorkers #IsraeliMilitary #Drones #IsraeliDrones #TechWorkers #AljazeeraEnglish
The UN confirmed its first international staff casualty in Gaza after a UN vehicle was struck in Rafah. Farhan Haq, a spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, stated during a news conference that the total number of UN staff killed in Gaza since October 7 has reached 190. Haq characterized the Rafah incident as an attack and confirmed that two individuals were in a UN-marked vehicle en route to the European Hospital as part of their duties. The UN stated they work for the Department of Safety and Security and came under fire, resulting in one death—an international staff member of the UN. The UN is withholding the individual’s nationality […]
