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Israeli forces kill Palestinian in West Bank as violence heats up
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian during clashes in the flashpoint occupied West Bank city of Hebron, the latest in a surge of violence, the Palestinian...
Israel has maintained a tight blockade on the territory since 2007, the year Hamas took power.
Hamas said in a statement that it 'congratulates the Taliban movement and its courageous leadership on this victory, which was the culmination of its long struggle over the past 20 years'.
In a report released Tuesday, HRW said it had investigated three Israeli attacks that 'killed 62 Palestinian civilians where there were no evident military targets in the vicinity,' interviewing Palestinians in Gaza and analysing data from the sites and digital imagery.
Michelle Bachelet voiced deep concern about the surge in deadly violence between Israelis and Palestinians earlier this month.
Diplomatic efforts are underway to solidify a fragile Egypt-brokered truce that halted the fighting, with plans to rebuild the Gaza Strip where Israeli air strikes damaged infrastructure and levelled buildings.
Israeli strikes on Gaza, since 10 May, have killed 232 Palestinians, including 65 children, as well as fighters, and have wounded another 1,900, according to the Gaza health ministry.
Talks aiming to end the bloodshed continued after US President Joe Biden urged a "significant de-escalation" while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to push on until the military campaign reaches its objective, "to restore quiet and security" for Israelis.
While an international diplomatic push aims to end the worst bloodshed in years, Netanyahu issued another tough threat against the armed group that has fired thousands of rockets at Israel since 10 May.
The source added that Israel was evaluating whether its objective of degrading the fighting capacity of Gaza's Hamas rulers had been achieved.
Israel's intense bombing campaign has killed 213 Palestinians, including 61 children, and wounded more than 1,400 people in Gaza. The death toll on the Israeli side rose to 12 when a volley of rockets Hamas fired at the southern Eshkol region killed two Thai nationals working in a factory and wounded several others.
Are we witnessing the early stages of a third intifada, in which casualties mount on both sides until the participants exhaust themselves?
The Gaza death toll includes 31 children, and 900 were injured, authorities said, while the Israeli fatalities count one child and one soldier.
Warplanes 'completed a series of raids, hitting homes that belonged to high-ranking members' of Hamas, the Israeli military said, with Hamas saying a key police building had also been destroyed.
At least nine people - including three children, and a senior Hamas commander - were killed in Gaza, local authorities said. It was not immediately clear whether they all died in Israeli strikes or from a misfired Hamas rocket.
The withholding of essential healthcare is war crime and a violation of all international laws and humanitarian standards, writes Mike Shingane.
"Priority is being given to medical staff working on the front line in the pandemic, then to sick elderly people."
Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said the raids were aimed at "cutting off the roots of political Islam".
Both the Erez crossing for people and Kerem Shalom crossing for goods had been closed on 4 May, when Gaza rulers Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad fired hundreds of rockets at Israel.