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‘Israel intensifies Gaza attacks, restricting vital aid supplies to vulnerable populations’
Israel has stepped up the tempo and intensity of attacks across Gaza in recent days and maintains certain restrictions on aid, meaning necessary volumes of humanitarian supplies cannot reach people.
Luciano Zaccara, a Middle East politics analyst, tells Al Jazeera that the measures Israel is taking are “not necessary to take these kinds of severe attacks against the population”.
“At the end of the day these are targeting people, children, livelihoods of people in Gaza. There is nothing that justifies this kind of behaviour,” he said.
“Other mechanisms can be used as leverage to push Hamas to finish what they have to do,” Zaccara added, referring to the handover of the remains of captives, is its part of the ceasefire agreement.
US report finds Israeli forces committed hundreds of potential rights violations in Gaza
A classified US government report has identified Israeli military units as responsible for hundreds of potential breaches of US human rights in Gaza, according to the Washington Post.
The State Department’s inspector general completed the assessment shortly before the ceasefire, according to two US officials who spoke to the newspaper.
The findings mark the first official US acknowledgement of the scale of Israeli actions potentially violating the Leahy Laws, which prohibit American security assistance to foreign forces accused of serious abuses.
Officials said reviewing the incidents could take “multiple years”. The report also revealed a special review process for Israel requiring consensus amongst senior officials, unlike standard procedures, where a single objection can halt assistance to other countries.
“What worries me is that accountability will be forgotten now that the noise of the conflict is dying down,” said Charles Blaha, a former State Department official.
America provides Israel at least $3.8 billion in annual aid. That increased substantially following October 7.