- Israel says it will suspend more than three dozen humanitarian organisations, including Doctors Without Borders (MSF), for failing to meet its new rules for aid groups working in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.
- MSF – one of the largest medical groups operating in Gaza, where the health sector has been targeted and largely destroyed – says Israel’s decision will have a catastrophic effect on its work in the enclave, where it supports about 20 percent of hospital beds and one-third of births. The organisation also denied Israel’s accusations about its staff.
- Dr James Smith, a British physician who has volunteered in Gaza and then was denied re-entry by Israeli authorities, has told Al Jazeera that the “ruthless” restrictions on aid organisations will make the “already horrific” humanitarian crisis “even more horrific”.
- Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed at least 71,269 Palestinians and wounded 171,232 since it began in October 2023. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks, and about 200 were taken captive.
Teenager in ‘critical condition’ after beating by Israeli soldiers in West Bank
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office has provided further details about the beatings of the two young men earlier today by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.
It said that 17-year-old Majed Salawdi was subjected to a “violent attack” in the village of Tal south of Nablus after his home was raided by Israeli forces who beat him before and after detaining him.
The boy was left bleeding in his underwear at the Awarta military checkpoint, and was found by another person who notified the family. He is now “in intensive care and in critical condition” at the hospital, the office said, adding that he has internal bleeding in the liver and spleen.
The monitor also released an image of the second young man, who was not identified, showing him lying on a hospital bed after being beaten by Israeli soldiers in the village of Jaba in Jenin.
