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Médecins Sans Frontières’ latest report reveals the violations committed by the Israeli occupation against Palestinians during its ongoing invasion of Jenin and Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank.
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Israeli human rights group B’Tselem stated that Israel supports settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, aiming to scare Palestinian communities into leaving their homes.
B’Tselem shared footage on X of settlers setting fire to a mosque and a tractor at dawn on Sunday, targeting the Bedouin community of Arab Al-Malehat, northwest of Jericho.
According to Palestine’s Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Israeli settlers carried out 2,971 attacks on Palestinians and their property in the West Bank in 2024, killing ten Palestinians and destroying over 14,000 trees.
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British broadcaster and journalist Piers Morgan said Israel’s killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, including women and children, could be justified as a “moral right.”
In an interview this week with journalist Tucker Carlson on a rooftop in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Morgan discussed several topics, including the Israeli assault in Gaza and whether the U.S. should be funding it.
Carlson condemned Israel’s bombardment of civilians for over a year, which Morgan questioned as he said such bombing ‘wasn’t evil.’
Carlson said: ‘If you’re intentionally killing civilians, you probably shouldn’t beat your chest and brag about it… maybe you can make the case that you had to do it, but you should weep.’
‘Is it evil though?’ Morgan responded, to which Carlson argued: ‘To kill civilians on purpose? I think it is. Kids and children? Yeah.’
Morgan said he could see there being a ‘moral right’ to civilian deaths in wartime, saying: ‘If there is a world war that threatens the entire world, yes.’
When Carlson called his view ‘disgusting’, he walked back and said it could be justified ‘in a pure defensive action’ as the two journalists sparred over the assault.
‘To intentionally kill noncombatants, women and children, I think we can say that’s wrong,’ he concluded.
The two journalists moved onto the issue of whether the US should continue funding Israel’s assault in Gaza, after former President Joe Biden sent at least $17.9 billion in military aid since the start of the Israeli genocide in October 2023.
After Carlson repeated his calls for the US to stop supplying aid to Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, Morgan questioned: ‘Why do you support Israel against Hamas? Why do you support giving them billions of dollars?’
‘I don’t,’ Carlson snapped back.
‘I support Israel in the sense that I really like Israel, I brought my family on vacation there… but (I support Israel) only to the extent that it helps the United States.’
Morgan said this was a hypocritical stance given his criticism of aid to Ukraine, saying his support merely ‘depends on which country’.
‘I don’t see a difference between (Israel’s bombing of Gaza) and what is happening in Ukraine,’ Morgan continued.
‘This is a long way away from America, there is no direct involvement with America or no mainland involvement, and yet you think it’s right that America supports Israel, but you don’t think it’s right that America supports Ukraine.’
Fifteen months of Israeli bombardment have reduced buildings to rubble and ash, leaving large areas of Gaza uninhabitable. More than 47,400 Palestinians were killed during the Israeli assault, with 70 percent of the victims being women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
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Jordan’s King Abdullah II will meet with US President Donald Trump at the White House on Feb. 11, the royal court said on Sunday.
The visit comes upon an invitation from the US president, it said in a brief statement.
Trump suggested last weekend that Palestinians in Gaza should be relocated to Jordan and Egypt, calling the enclave a “demolition site” after Israel’s war. His proposal, however, was vehemently rejected by Amman and Cairo.
A six-nation Arab ministerial meeting in Cairo on Saturday firmly rejected Palestinian displacement from Gaza and renewed calls for implementing a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Last week, Abdullah had a phone call with Trump, during which he underlined the importance of the US role in achieving peace and stability in the Middle East region according to Anadolu.
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Israeli forces blew up an entire residential block in Jenin refugee camp on Sunday. The military also announced an expansion of its assaults in the northern West Bank, targeting five additional villages.
The Israeli army said it destroyed 20 buildings in Jenin’s Al-Damj neighborhood as part of what it called an “anti-terror operation.” Local sources reported that Israeli forces brought large amounts of explosives into the camp after forcing residents to evacuate in previous days.
Al-Damj is known for its resistance to Israeli occupation of the West Bank, especially during the First Intifada in 1987 and the April 2002 Israeli invasion of Jenin.
The demolitions extended to multiple neighborhoods, including Al-Damj, Al-Hawwashin, the area behind Al-Aseer Mosque, and Mihoub Street. The ongoing Israeli assault in Jenin has now entered its 13th day. Troops continue to demolish homes, carve out new roads, and turn dozens of houses into military outposts amid a heavy deployment across the city.
The Israeli army announced plans to widen its operations in the northern West Bank. It launched a new military offensive in the town of Tammun, south of Tubas, and deployed reinforcements.
Israeli forces began searching Tammun, claiming to have discovered weapons and ammunition stockpiles. Troops also took over several homes in Al-Jabal neighborhood, turning them into military outposts and displacing their residents.
Israeli forces raided Al-Fara’a refugee camp in Tubas, destroying infrastructure. The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that Israeli troops blocked medical teams from aiding a patient inside the camp.
Jenin residents are preparing to bury 13 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in recent days.
Israeli troops murdered seven Palestinians in less than 24 hours across Jenin and Tulkarm. Airstrikes targeted eastern Jenin and a vehicle in Qabatiya, killing five people.
Palestinian medical teams also transferred the body of an elderly man shot dead by Israeli forces at the entrance to Jenin refugee camp.
In Tulkarm, another Palestinian was killed when Israeli soldiers opened fire during a military raid on the city and its refugee camp according to Quds News Network.
