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CrossFireArabia
January 4, 2025

The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) has formally called on Brazilian authorities to arrest an Israeli soldier who filmed himself committing war crimes during his participation in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

According to the HRF, the soldier, currently in Brazil as a tourist, shared footage showing himself detonating Palestinian civilian neighborhoods while serving in Gaza.

Dyab Abu Jahjah, the foundation’s chairperson, hailed the move as a “historic step” and urged Brazilian authorities to act swiftly in detaining the suspect.

Notably, Palestinian families whose homes were destroyed have courageously agreed to participate in the case, despite facing significant risks to their safety.

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Israel Bans UNRWA

CrossFireArabia
January 3, 2025

Last October, Israeli occupation government has legalized two bills banning UNRWA from practicing its work within the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank. These ban laws will come to effect this month, as UN officials stated that the agency is preparing to halt its operations in the occupied territories. Israel’s deputy foreign minister, Sharren Haskel, rejected to explain the method that laws will be employed with during a speech last December.

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Israel Gets Ready to Ransack Al Awda Hospital in Gaza

CrossFireArabia
January 3, 2025

The Israeli army on Friday threatened the Al-Awda Hospital management, its medical staff and patients inside to immediately leave the hospital, “otherwise, it will be struck with everyone inside.”

The Israeli army has already attacked the Kamal Adwan Hospital and the Indonesian Hospital putting them out of service, while the Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia in northern Gaza is still struggling to offer services.

According to a statement by the Al-Awda Hospital management, the Israeli army ordered the medical staff and patients to immediately leave.

These words were written on a white board at Al Awda Hospital on October 20th, 2023 by Dr. Mahmoud Abu Nujaila. He was killed in an occupation airstrike on November 21st, 2023. Today, Al Awda Hospital is under attack. pic.twitter.com/Y4y9SzSuxB
— WearThePeace (@WearThePeaceCo) January 3, 2025

Earlier, the Palestinian Information Centre said the Israeli forces stormed the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, threatened its staff and patients, and ordered its immediate evacuation.

The doctor in charge of the hospital stated that the facility had run out of all medical supplies, calling for urgent international action to save the lives of wounded civilians according to Anadolu.

Last Friday, Israeli forces also stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital, set it on fire, rendered it out of service, and detained over 350 people inside, including its director Hussam Abu Safiya.

Since the onset of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023, the Israeli military has been targeting Gaza’s health sector, bombing and besieging hospitals, issuing evacuation orders, and preventing the entry of medical supplies, especially in northern Gaza, which was re-invaded on Oct. 5.

The Israeli army has continued a genocidal war on the enclave that has killed over 45,650 people, mostly women and children, since Oct. 7, 2023, despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire.

In November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.

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Israeli Kills 202 Journalists in Gaza Genocide

CrossFireArabia
January 3, 2025

202 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the ongoing Israeli genocidal war in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.

The last victim was journalist Omar al-Dirawi who was killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting his family’s home in al-Zawaideh in central Gaza on Friday morning according to Quds News Network.

The office condemned Israel’s killings of journalists, calling on the international community and rights groups to condemn Israeli crimes and prosecute them in international courts.

“Bloody Year”

Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has been considered the deadliest for journalists and media workers in the world in 30 years.

Critics accuse Israel – which banned foreign reporters from entering Gaza – of targeting journalists in the Palestinian territory to obscure the truth about its war crimes there.

“Deliberately targeting journalists is a war crime under international law. This attack must be independently investigated and the perpetrators must be held to account,” Programme Director at Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Carlos Martinez de la, said.

In a recent report, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) described 2024 as a “particularly bloody year.”

According to the IFJ’s annual report, as of December 10, 2024, 104 journalists have been killed worldwide since January 1, with more than half of them in Gaza.

Seventy-five percent of all reporters killed in the world in 2023 were killed between October 7 and the end of last year.

IFJ Secretary General Anthony Bellanger described 2024 as “one of the worst years” for media professionals. He condemned the “massacre taking place in Palestine before the eyes of the entire world.”

In a separate report, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Palestine is the most “dangerous country for journalists, recording a higher death toll than any other country over the past five years.” The report covers data up to December 1.

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