September 7, 2024

Daily News Brief

*) Israel bombs schools and homes in Gaza Israel has killed at least 13 Palestinians and wounded another 15 in fresh strikes on a school sheltering refugees and a residential building in Gaza. At least eight of the dead were in refugee tents at Halima al-Sa'diyya School in Jabalia in northern Gaza. As usual, the Israeli military called the strikes "precise". *)Turkish activist shot on Israeli politicians' orders — Palestine The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has said the killing of a Turkish-American activist by the Israeli army in the northern occupied West Bank was carried out on the orders of Israeli politicians. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish-American peace activist, was shot dead by Israeli forces during a protest against illegal Israeli settlements in the town of Beita, near Nablus city in the northern occupied West Bank. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry called Aysenur's killing "an integral part of the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people." *) UN expert slams Netanyahu's 'starvation campaign' in Gaza The UN independent investigator on the right to food has accused Israel of carrying out a "starvation campaign" against Palestinians during its genocidal war in besieged Gaza. In a report this week, investigator Michael Fakhri said Tel Aviv began to block all food, water, fuel, and other supplies into the blockaded Gaza on 9th October. He said that never in post-war history had a population been made to go hungry so quickly and so completely as was the case for the 2.3 million Palestinians living in Gaza. *) Court delays Trump's sentencing in 'hush money' case until after election Sentencing for Donald Trump in his New York "hush money" trial has been delayed until after November's election as he battles Democrat Kamala Harris in the knife-edge White House race. The former US president was scheduled to be sentenced on September 18 for falsifying business records in a scheme to silence an adult movie star's politically damaging story. However, Judge Juan Merchan postponed it until November 26, three weeks past the November 5 election, as requested by Trump's lawyers. *) West Africa flooding displaces nearly 1M people: aid group International charity Save the Children has said severe flooding in West Africa has displaced nearly 950,000 people and disrupted children's education at the start of the school year. The NGO has said hundreds of thousands of children now displaced from their homes are facing disease, hunger from crop destruction, and disruption to their education, as schools have become crowded with fleeing families or damaged in the floods.