The victim is Nadav Poplewell, 51 years old, kidnapped from Kibbutz Nirim
May 11, 2024
UPDATING – The conflict in Gaza is now in its 218th day. Yesterday theUnited Nations General Assembly passed a resolution that recognizes that Palestine is qualified to become full member of the UN hey Israeli tanks surrounded the eastern part of the city of Rafah. Today, Israeli raids on the Strip continue: according to the Palestinian agency Wafa, the bombings have remained hundreds of civilians killed. Here is all the news from today, Saturday 11 May.
8.37pm Scholz: “Israel’s offensive on Rafah would be irresponsible”
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned the Israeli government against aoffensive military on Rafah. Such an offensive would be “irresponsible”, Scholz said at an event organized by the German Publishing Network (Rnd), as reported by NTV. Scholz explained that he does not believe that such an offensive is possible “without incredible human losses.” Responding to a question about the supply of weapons, the chancellor said that the German government only supplies weapons in individual cases and where it is clear that they cannot be used in situations that may go against international law. In any case, Germany does not supply weapons to Israel like the United States does.
19:13 15 dead in Israeli attacks in Rafah, including four children
At least 15 people were killed in two Israeli attacks on Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip. Kuwait hospital officials said the bodies were brought to the medical center today. The hospital’s press officer, Saber Abu A’arar, told CNN that “15 Palestinians were killed, including four children and five women” in the two attacks. Artillery shelling hit the Al-Salam neighborhood in eastern Rafah, while an airstrike hit a building in the Al-Hashasheen neighborhood in western Rafah. Al-Hashasheen was not included in the latest evacuation order issued by the Israeli army.
6.45pm Hamas: “We hold the US responsible for the escalation in Rafah”
Hamas believes the United States is responsible for the Rafah invasion and the resumption of fighting. The Palestinian group says new Israeli ground attacks across the Gaza Strip, including in Rafah, Jabalia and Zeitoun, demonstrate that Israel wants to continue to “massacre” civilians. “We hold the US administration and its President Biden fully responsible for the escalation of these crimes against civilians, including children, women and the elderly, while continuing to provide cover for Zionist fascism to continue its crimes,” Hamas said in a statement , as reported by Al Jazeera. In the statement, the group also called on the international community and the United Nations to stop adopting “timid positions” and to put pressure on Israel to halt its attacks and provide aid to civilians.
16:18 Hamas: Nadal Poplewell killed in attack on Israel
The Qassam Brigadesthe armed wing of Hamasdeclared in a statement that theIsraeli hostage Nadav Poplewell was killed in an Israeli airstrike more than a month ago. Al Jazeera reports it. A few hours ago the Palestinian group had published a video in which he was seen with an injury to one eye. Poplewell, 51, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nirim and taken to Gaza with his mother Channa Peri, who was released in November. His brother Roy was killed in the October 7 attacks.
1.34pm Hamas releases video of Nadav Poplewell hostage
Hamas has released a new video which shows a Israeli hostage in the Gaza Strip. In the 10-second clip, the hostage identifies himself as Nadav Popplewell, 51 years old, and shows a wound in one eye. Hamas said it would soon release more information or footage about the hostage, the Times of Israel reports. Hamas has already published similar videos of hostages he has held captive since October 7th. Poplewell, Haaretz reports, was kidnapped by Kibbutz Nirim and was taken to Gaza with his mother Channa Peri, who was released following the hostage-taking in November. His brother Roy was killed in the October 7 attacks.
1.01pm Ministry of Health Gaza: 34,791 deaths since 7 October
The number of people killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since the beginning of the war it has risen to 34,971according to the latest data from Gaza Ministry of Health, controlled by Hamas. Rescuers in Gaza say more than 10,000 other bodies are still under the rubble and have not been recovered so far. They have remained since October 7th Another 78,641 people were also injuredthe ministry said in a statement.
11.02 IDF: “About 300 thousand people evacuated from Rafah to a humanitarian zone”
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) they estimated that approx 300,000 Palestinians were evacuated from Rafahin southern Gaza, in one designated “humanitarian zone”. in the areas of al-Mawasi and Khan Younis. The Times of Israel reports it. This morning, the Israeli Forces have expanded the number of areas in eastern Rafah that need to be evacuated in the context of an ongoing operation against Hamas.
10.21 IDF prepares operation in northern Gaza: over 100 thousand evacuated
L’Israeli army is getting ready to launch one new operation in Jabaliya, in northern Gazaafter identifying a Hamas’s attempt to reorganize in that zone. According to the Times of Israel, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) estimate that a evacuation order to a number between 100,000 and 150,000 Palestinians: they were called to move to shelters in the western part of Gaza City. It will be there second time the IDF will operate in Jabaliya after the city was captured during the first months of the Israeli ground offensive against Hamas. Later the Israeli forces they withdrew from northern Gaza. The evacuation order comes as the IDF continues to operate in Zetouin neighborhood of Gaza City, where he believes he has identified other Hamas exponents.
08:05 Wafa: dozens of civilians killed in raid on Gaza Strip
Dozens of civilians, including a journalist, his wife and son, were killed and others injured in Israeli bombings on various areas of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian agency reports it Wafaciting local sources who confirmed that the journalist Bahaa Okashahis wife and son were killed in a Jewish State raid that targeted their home in the camp Jabaliah, in the north of the Strip. Further victims and injuries were reported following an Israeli bombing of the Siam family home in the old city of Gaza. in the center of Gaza City. The same sources also speak of at least 10 other people killed and others injured, including children, following an Israeli bombing of a house belonging to the Al-Khatib family in the city of Al-Zawaida, in central Gaza. Additionally, another Israeli raid targeted the northern Nuseirat camp and another hit the city of Al-Zawaida in the center of the Strip. Moving towards the center and east of Rafah city – the Wafa agency reports – in southern Gaza, Israeli fighter planes launched intense artillery bombardmentcausing multiple civilian casualties.
07:00 US report: probable violations of international law by Israel
Israel has “probably” violated international humanitarian law employing in the conflict in Gaza weapons supplied by the United States, but war conditions on the ground prevent these violations from being determined with certainty. This is what one reports report from the US State Department delivered to Congress on Friday. There are, we read in the document, “reasonable” evidence to claim that Israel violated international law in its conduct of the war in Gaza, and yet it is not possible directly link the use of US weapons to specific bombings in order to limit the supply of US weapons to the Jewish state in the future. The report’s conclusions, while not definitive, so far represent the more pronounced criticism of Israel by the Biden Administration compared to the ongoing war.
