Palestinian territories

Repeated delays in bringing life-saving medicines, prosthetics and more from Israel into Gaza are having devastating consequences for Palestinians who urgently need them.

That's the message from the UN World Health Organisation, WHO, whose representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Dr Reinhild van der Veert, urged the Israeli authorities to release the pressure on medical supplies.

She also stressed that essential medicines and prosthetics should not be considered as dual use and banned by Israel on the grounds that they could be used by Hamas fighters.

Instead, they are medical items anybody needs anywhere to run a hospital or a clinic, she said.

That's why we're talking to you guys about it now.

In reference to UN Human Rights Council Resolutions 36, 31, 36, entitled Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and in the occupied Syrian Golan, which is just... entitled Implementation of Human Rights Council Resolution 3136.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Basically, they said they're informing us about an update to the UN database of business enterprises involved in certain activities.

Number two, the use of natural resources, in particular water and land, for business purposes.

I think they're talking about the studio here.

And lastly, we're involved in activities due to the provision of touristic services to the Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.

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In other news, controversial claims have emerged from a UN special rapporteur regarding the Holocaust and the origins of the term antisemitism.

UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, claimed in an interview that Jews being taken to gas chambers in Nazi concentration camps were referred to as the Muslims.

However, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial clarifies that the term Muselman, German for Muslim, was used in Nazi camps to describe prisoners in a state of extreme exhaustion or starvation, often leading to their death, and was not a Nazi racial classification identifying Jews as Muslims.

Albanese also argued that the term antisemitism originally referred to discrimination against all Semitic peoples.

In a call for an immediate halt to the demolitions, the UN Office OHCHR said that Israeli bulldozers demolished homes, farm buildings, water tanks and solar panels in the village of Jinba on Wednesday.

The forcible transfer of a civilian population from their land by an occupying power is a war crime, said Ajit Sungay, head of OHCHR in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

Three more villages in Safayata have already been almost entirely destroyed in September 2026, OHCHR said, highlighting fears of ethnic cleansing in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

Overall, there are 12 villages in Masafayata housing over 1,100 Palestinians, most of whom have owned and lived on the land for generations.

Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes and infrastructure have displaced 1,500 people in the occupied West Bank so far this year, according to the UN Aid Coordination Office, OCHA.

That's why we're talking to you guys about it now.

Um, "In reference to UN Human Rights Council resolutions 36, thir- 3136 entitled Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan," which is just-

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... racist, uh, entitled Implementation of Human Rights Council Resolution 3136, uh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

I, I think they're talking about the studio here.

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Um, and lastly, uh, we're involved in activities due to the provision of touristic services to the Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

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Start the clock.

Do you believe Benjamin Netanyahu, Itmar Ben-Gavir and Bizarro Smotrich about what's been happening in Gaza? Or do you believe the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry, the UN Special Committee, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, 14 other UN Special Rapporteurs, the former UN...

Humanitarian chief, UNICEF, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Bet Salem, Gisha, Physicians for Human Rights Israel, Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, Save the Children, Christian Aid, Action Aid, the NGO Air Wars, the NGO Action on Armed Violence, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and its president, Melanie O'Brien, the editor of the...

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He also accused Israel of continuing to level some areas of Gaza where its forces remain deployed, saying bulldozers were operating with no respect for the dead under the rubble.

Ajith Sungay, head of the UN Rights Office for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, said that Israeli restrictions on items like DNA kits and excavators were impeding recovery and identification efforts.

The collective impact of Israel's conduct is making any systematic large-scale search, recovery and identification work nearly impossible, he told the Geneva press briefing.

Sometimes Palestinian teams were having to dig through rubble with their bare hands, he added.

The incident has highlighted the precarious situation for displaced Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, many being forced to shelter in structures damaged during the war between Israel and Hamas fighters.

UN aid coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Ramiz Alakabarov, said that roughly 100 people, including 50 children... were living in the building when it collapsed.

He commended the humanitarian community, which quickly mobilised to support the emergency response and breach those still trapped under the rubble.

Although stocks of relief supplies are limited, we will support survivors with health, shelter and other critical items and services, he said.

The OHCHR report contains detailed analysis of violations that occurred from November 2023 to April 2024.

In Jordan, Ajit Tsunge, head of OHCHR's office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, explained that the pattern of Israeli strikes throughout Gaza and the fact that they'd killed and injured so many people while also destroying vital infrastructure raises concerns that Israeli forces were intentionally attacking the very basic fabric of Palestinian society.

We have been verifying the personal details of those killed in Gaza by strikes, shelling and other conduct of hostilities.

Of those fatalities, we have so far found close to 70% to be children and women, indicating a systematic violation of the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law, including distinction and proportionality.