Thủ tướng Israel giải tán nội các thời chiến

VNE – Thứ hai, 17/6/2024, 16:49 (GMT+7)

Thủ tướng Benjamin Netanyahu tuyên bố giải tán nội các thời chiến Israel, sau khi thủ lĩnh phe đối lập Benny Gantz rút khỏi cơ quan này.

Văn phòng Thủ tướng Israel hôm nay cho biết ông Netanyahu đêm qua thông báo giải tán nội các thời chiến, được thành lập sau khi giao tranh bùng phát với Hamas hồi tháng 10/2023.

Một quan chức Israel nói rằng sau khi giải tán nội các thời chiến, Thủ tướng Netanyahu sẽ tổ chức các cuộc tham vấn về chiến sự ở Gaza với nhóm nhỏ bộ trưởng, trong đó có Bộ trưởng Quốc phòng Yoav Gallant và Bộ trưởng Các vấn đề Chiến lược Ron Dermer. Gallant và Dermer đều từng tham gia nội các thời chiến.

Thủ tướng Israel Benjamin Netanyahu tại Jerusalem hôm 5/5. Ảnh: Reuters
Thủ tướng Israel Benjamin Netanyahu tại Jerusalem hôm 5/5. Ảnh: Reuters
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Ủy ban điều tra LHQ kết luận Israel, Hamas phạm tội ác chiến tranh

VNE – Thứ tư, 12/6/2024, 15:47 (GMT+7)

Cuộc điều tra của Liên Hợp Quốc cho thấy cả Israel và Hamas đều phạm tội ác chiến tranh trong giai đoạn đầu nổ ra xung đột ở Dải Gaza.

Ủy ban Điều tra Liên Hợp Quốc (COI) ngày 12/6 công bố hai báo cáo song song, gồm cuộc điều tra về việc Hamas tấn công Israel ngày 7/10/2023 và chiến dịch quân sự đáp trả của Tel Aviv.

Các cuộc điều tra trình bày đánh giá về giai đoạn đầu xung đột tới tháng 12/2023, cho thấy cả Israel và Hamas đều phạm tội ác chiến tranh như tra tấn, giết người, xúc phạm nhân phẩm, đối xử vô nhân đạo. Israel bị kết luận phạm thêm tội ác gồm sử dụng nạn đói như một phương thức chiến tranh, chặn nguồn cung thiết yếu cho người dân Gaza.

“Số thương vong dân sự lớn ở Dải Gaza và việc phá hủy quy mô lớn các vật thể, cơ sở hạ tầng dân sự là kết quả của một chiến lược mang mục đích gây thiệt hại tối đa, bất chấp nguyên tắc phân biệt rõ mục tiêu, đáp trả tương ứng”, COI ra tuyên bố.

Người dân Palestine đưa một em bé bị thương trong vụ tập kích bệnh viện Ahli Arab ngày 17/10/2023 đến bệnh viện ở Gaza City, Dải Gaza. Ảnh: Reuters
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Liên Hợp Quốc ‘sửng sốt’ về thương vong trong cuộc giải cứu con tin Israel

VNE – Thứ ba, 11/6/2024, 20:03 (GMT+7)

Giới chức Liên Hợp Quốc lên án hành động từ Israel lẫn Hamas dẫn đến thương vong dân thường nghiêm trọng trong cuộc giải cứu con tin ở Dải Gaza.

Người dân Palestine di chuyển trên đống đổ nát tại trại tị nạn Nuseirat, miền trung Gaza sau chiến dịch của đặc nhiệm Israel ngày 8/6. Ảnh: AFP

“Chúng tôi vô cùng sửng sốt trước tác động đến dân thường từ chiến dịch tại Nuseirat vào cuối tuần qua của các lực lượng Israel, trong nỗ lực giải cứu 4 con tin”, người phát ngôn Jeremy Laurence thuộc Văn phòng Nhân quyền Liên Hợp Quốc bình luận ngày 11/6.

Ông đồng thời nhấn mạnh Liên Hợp Quốc “lo ngại sâu sắc” khi các nhóm vũ trang trong khu vực tiếp tục giam nhiều con tin, trong đó hầu hết là dân thường.

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Hội đồng Bảo an ủng hộ đề xuất ngừng bắn ở Gaza của Mỹ

VNE – Thứ ba, 11/6/2024, 06:27 (GMT+7)

Hội đồng Bảo an ủng hộ đề xuất của Tổng thống Mỹ Biden nhằm hướng đến một lệnh ngừng bắn lâu dài giữa Hamas và Israel.

Hội đồng Bảo an họp về tình hình Trung Đông tại trụ sở Liên Hợp Quốc, New York, Mỹ ngày 10/6. Ảnh: AFP
Hội đồng Bảo an họp về tình hình Trung Đông tại trụ sở Liên Hợp Quốc, New York, Mỹ ngày 10/6. Ảnh: AFP

Hội đồng Bảo an Liên Hợp Quốc ngày 10/6 thông qua nghị quyết ủng hộ kế hoạch ngừng bắn ba giai đoạn ở Gaza với tỷ lệ 14 phiếu thuận, một phiếu trắng. Kế hoạch do Tổng thống Mỹ Joe Biden đưa ra ngày 31/5, được ông mô tả là sáng kiến của Israel.

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A look at possible scenarios for how the war could end in Gaza

Palestinians wait for aid trucks to cross in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinians wait for aid trucks to cross in the Gaza Strip on Sunday. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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With Hamas holding firm and fighting back in Gaza, Israel faces only bad options

Hamas is still putting up a fight after seven brutal months of war with Israel, regrouping in some of the hardest-hit areas in northern Gaza and resuming rocket attacks into nearby Israeli communities. Israel initially made tactical advances against Hamas. But those early gains have given way to a grinding struggle against an adaptable insurgency — and a growing feeling among many Israelis that their military faces only bad options. Read more. 
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Why Joe Biden won’t stop Israel

AJ+ – 23-4-2024

It’s been almost seven months since the start of the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza, which has claimed – at minimum – tens of thousands of Palestinian lives, including at least 15,000 children. There is mass starvation in the north, countless mass graves are being found every day from where the Israelis have withdrawn and a ground invasion of Rafah, which is under heavy bombardment, is still on the books. Despite all this and the growing domestic pressure on the U.S. government to change course, Joe Biden and his administration have shown no desire to choose a different course. Instead, unlike the media narrative that puts blame squarely on Netanyahu, this administration is showing what Joe Biden has shown throughout his career: complete deference to and support of the state of Israel.

Half a year into the war in Gaza, here’s a look at the conflict by the numbers

The United Nations chief is blaming Israel’s military strategy and procedures for the killing of nearly 200 humanitarian workers and is calling for independent investigations to fix those failures and practices.Photos

BY JULIA FRANKEL, AP Updated 7:02 PM GMT+7, April 6, 2024

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israel-Hamas war has stretched on for half a year and become one of the most destructive, deadly, and intractable conflicts of the 21st century.

Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 cross-border attack, Israel has pummeled the Gaza Strip, displacing the vast majority of the population and causing many to flee to Gaza’s southernmost city, Rafah. Food is scarce, the U.N. says famine is approaching and few Palestinians have been able to leave the besieged territory.

FILE - People inspect the site where World Central Kitchen workers were killed in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, April 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)
FILE – People inspect the site where World Central Kitchen workers were killed in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, April 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)

Meanwhile, Hamas continues to fire rockets into Israel from Gaza, and Hezbollah and other militant groups do so from southern Lebanon, prompting tit-for-tat fighting that has displaced thousands of civilians on both sides of Israel’s borders. Hamas is still holding hostages taken during the Oct. 7 raid, as well as the bodies of some who died in captivity. And cease-fire talks stretch on with no end in sight.

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AP Photos chronicle 6 months of devastation in Gaza war with no sign of an end

Palestinians flee from the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza after an Israeli ground and air offensive on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. Associated Press photographers have captured what six months of devastating war have brought for Israel and for Palestinians. At its six-month mark, it is not clear what direction the war will now take. Weeks of mediation by the U.S., Egypt and Qatar for a longer cease-fire have so far been unable to make a breakthrough. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

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Palestinians flee from the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza after an Israeli ground and air offensive on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. Associated Press photographers have captured what six months of devastating war have brought for Israel and for Palestinians. At its six-month mark, it is not clear what direction the war will now take. Weeks of mediation by the U.S., Egypt and Qatar for a longer cease-fire have so far been unable to make a breakthrough. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

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China’s role in the Middle East: Can China be a peace mediator between Israel and Hamas?

CNA Insider – 28-3-2024

Over the last twenty years, China’s influence in the Middle East has grown substantially. China has major economic partnerships with Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and also Israel.

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Videos: Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) – Public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa

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A/HRC/55/72: Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan – Advance edited version

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UN rights office says Israeli settlements in Palestinian areas amount to a ‘war crime’

FILE - U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk speaks at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. The U.N. human rights office says in a report published Friday, March 8, 2024, that the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem amount to a war crime. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)
FILE – U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk speaks at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. The U.N. human rights office says in a report published Friday, March 8, 2024, that the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem amount to a war crime. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

Updated 9:33 PM GMT+7, March 8, 2024

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office says in a report published Friday that the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem amount to a war crime.

The report covers the one-year period from Nov. 1, 2022, to Oct. 31, 2023, when it says roughly 24,300 housing units in existing settlements in the West Bank were “advanced” — the highest number in a year since monitoring began in 2017. It deplored an increase in the building of new settlement homes in recent months.

“The West Bank is already in crisis. Yet, settler violence and settlement-related violations have reached shocking new levels, and risk eliminating any practical possibility of establishing a viable Palestinian state,” U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk said. He presented the report to the Human Rights Council on Friday.

Reports this week that Israel plans to build nearly 3,500 settler homes in three areas “fly in the face of international law,” he said.

Türk said the creation and expansion of settlements amount to the transfer by Israel of its own population into territories that it occupies, “which amounts to a war crime under international law,” his office said in a statement.

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Israel’s diplomatic mission in Geneva, which regularly accuses Türk’s office of overlooking violence by Palestinian extremists against Israelis, said the report “totally ignored” what it said was the deaths of 36 Israelis and injuries of nearly 300 others in attacks due to “Palestinian terrorism” last year.

Much of the international community considers the settlements to be illegal under international law.

Expanded settlement activity and an upsurge in violence in the West Bank in recent months have been largely overshadowed by bloodshed and displacement of Palestinians in Gaza, where Israeli forces have led a blistering military campaign against the militant group Hamas following its deadly Oct. 7 attacks in Israel.

Analysis: First fatal attack on shipping by Yemen’s Houthi rebels escalates risk for reeling Mideast

AP explains the escalatory risk of fatal Yemen Houthi rebel attack at sea

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BY JON GAMBRELLUpdated 8:49 PM GMT+7, March 7, 2024

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The first fatal attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on shipping threatens to further sever a crucial maritime artery for global trade and carries with it risks beyond those just at sea.

Already, the White House is warning that there will be a response to Wednesday’s attack on the Barbados-flagged, Liberian-owned bulk carrier True Confidence in the Gulf of Aden. What that will look like remains unclear, but the U.S. has already launched round after round of airstrikes targeting the Houthis, a rebel group that has held Yemen’s capital since 2014, and more are likely on the way.

However, a wider economic, humanitarian and political impact is looming from the attack. It also further highlights Yemen’s yearslong war, now overshadowed by Israel’s grinding war on Hamas on the Gaza Strip that may reach into the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, raising the danger of worsening regional anger.

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Statement of the Commissioner-General of UNRWA to the General Assembly

Statement of the Commissioner-General of UNRWA to the General Assembly

4 March 2024, New York

Mr. President,

Excellencies, 

I am here today because UNRWA, the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees, is at a breaking point.

75 years after its creation by this Assembly as a temporary UN entity, pending a just political solution to the question of Palestine, the Agency’s ability to fulfil its mandate is seriously threatened.

Your urgent action is needed to facilitate a political solution that will bring peace to Palestinians and Israelis, and in this context alone, allow the Agency to transition.

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