■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)
■ THE EXPRESSION OF HATRED FOR GENTILES (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

Fiona Lali clashed with Suella Braverman on GB News. | Suella Braverman was involved in a tense clash with a pro-Palestine student who accused the former Home Secretary of being a “war criminal”. Braverman confronted pro-Palestine protesters at a camp in Cambridge earlier in the day with GB News host Patrick Christys. Dismayed by what she had witnessed, Braverman was then challenged in the GB News studio about her comments by National Campaigns Coordinator for the Revolutionary Communist Party, Fiona Lali. Opening up the argument, Lali insisted camps across theShe also boasted that the pro-Palestine movement “brought down” Braverman, and has the power to “bring down the Tory Government”. country are not being set up in response to October 7, the day Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, and it is “disingenuous” to suggest otherwise.

Ansarullah downed a US MQ-9 Reaper drone in Yemen's northeast. | The US drone was downed in the Wadi Ubaidah region in Marib province. Ansarullah's official sources claimed responsibility for downing the US drone. ● Yemenis have declared their open support for Palestine’s struggle against the Israeli occupation since the regime launched a devastating war on Gaza on October 7 after the territory’s Palestinian Resistance movements carried out a surprise retaliatory attack, dubbed Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, against the occupying entity. Yemeni Armed Forces have said that they won’t stop their attacks until unrelenting Israeli ground and aerial offensives in Gaza, which have killed at least 27,948 people and wounded another 67,459 individuals, come to an end. ● The United States and Britain in December announced a military coalition to target Yemen in support of Israel.

■ Yemeni air defenses shoot down US MQ-9 drone over Marib: YAF Spox (Al Mayadeen)
■ US spy balloon crashes in northeast Syria (The Cradle)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has described the Chinese city of Harbin as an important scientific and educational center that embodies the close ties between Russia and China. | Speaking at the opening ceremony of the VIII Russian-Chinese EXPO and the IV Russian-Chinese Forum on Interregional Cooperation, Putin said it was symbolic that these events were being held in Harbin, one of the largest scientific, educational, and innovation centers in China.

■ 'Sanitary zone' near Kharkov and talks on Ukraine: What Putin told the media in Harbin (TASS)
■ Dedollarization of Russia-China trade will continue — Kremlin (TASS)
■ China dumps largest amount of US Treasury and Agency Debt in history (Finbold.com)
■ Russia and China oppose seizure of foreign assets – Putin and Xi (RT.com)
■ Russia-China ties are model of relations between great powers – Xi (RT.com)
■ Putin Meets With Students at Harbin Polytechnic University (Sputnik News)
■ Russia, China Reveal Their Global Agenda (Moon of Alabama)
■ Global hegemonical restructuring (Hassan El Hajj)

The attempt to kill Prime Minister Robert Fico stems from a combustible political environment in the country, a top official has said | Slovakia appears to be on the brink of a civil war, its interior minister has warned, following the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Robert Fico on Wednesday. ● The head of the Slovak government was shot in the eastern town of Handlova, where he had chaired a working meeting. The gunman, identified by the media as an opposition party supporter in his early 70s, acted on political motives, according to Deputy Prime Minister Robert Kalinak. ● Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok warned that the country was “on the edge of a civil war” over political tensions. Social media is full of “hateful comments” in the wake of the attack, he added.

■ ‘No country should be punished for its sovereignty’ – Fico in quotes (RT.com)

Dmitry Medvedev (Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council) (Дмитрий Медведев)

 ■ Is it surprising that for the first time in decades, an assassination attempt in Europe was made on a politician with a sensible stance towards Russia? By the way, by no means pro-Russian. Just pragmatic and non-Russophobic.

 ■ Of course not. R. Fitzo, and I have been in contact with him since 2008, represents that part of the European establishment that has not lost touch with reality and does not want its citizens to turn into grey radioactive ashes. And of course, he was the target. There are only a few people like the Slovak prime minister in Europe. And they urgently need to address their security.

 ■ Yes, the perpetrator of the attack is a rabidly marginalized intellectual. A kind of Gavrilo Principle in reverse. Yeah, he didn't like Fitzo. He wrote all sorts of rubbish. But what he did was the quintessence of the new Europe - moronic, Russophobic, vassal-like, unbridled and completely headless. Unwilling to realize basic things. Willing to throw its citizens into the furnace of self-serving American policies. A Europe of vile degenerates who don't know their history.

 ■ So, [like a pack of dogs] Macron, Sunak, Scholz, and Von der Leyen are still not home dry—can't shake their hides just yet, too early for that.

 ■ And I wish Robert Fitzo gets well soon from his serious injury!

 ■ PS. Here it turns out that the perpetrator participated in anti-government rallies in Slovakia. He insulted the authorities and shouted: "Long live Ukraine!" Not surprised at all. Now supporters of the Banderites are trying to assassinate European leaders as well. — There's more to come! (Translation by DeepL + Grammar check by Grammarly)

■ Slovakia's Fico Remembers Circumstances of Assassination Attempt - President-Elect (Sputnik)

The participation of foreign officials in an anti-government rally is unacceptable, the parliament speaker said | The participation of politicians from NATO countries in anti-government rallies in Tbilisi is a hostile step aimed at overthrowing the Georgian government, parliamentary chairman Shalva Papuashvili has said. ● The statement comes as foreign ministers from Iceland, Lithuania and Estonia took part in a rally against the recently passed ‘foreign agents’ bill on Wednesday. The ministers, who arrived in Tbilisi to discuss the controversial law with the country’s government, were later seen addressing a crowd of protesters at the parliament building.

■ Radio host calls for Slovakia-style assassination attempt on Belgian PM – media (RT.com)

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— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 13, 2023

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■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)
■ THE EXPRESSION OF HATRED FOR GENTILES (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

Eric Zuesse | "After Israel’s incursion into Rafah this week, the Israeli military shut down the Kerem Shalom crossing and seized the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing, stopping the flow of desperately needed food, fuel and medical supplies. Since Sunday, no aid trucks have entered Gaza from either entry point." | The United States is now the only Government that continues to donate weapons to Israel’s Government. The extermination-program is being carried out by the troops, who come from Israel, and by the bombs, bullets, tanks, and planes, which come from America. Though U.S. President Biden has recently threatened to stop supplying this equipment, it still hasn’t happened; and a retired Israeli general said “All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it’s all from the U.S. The minute they turn off the tap, you can’t keep fighting. You have no capability. … Everyone understands that we can’t fight this war without the United States. Period.” So: this is an Israeli-American genocide of Gazans, even though the genocide case, at least as-of now, is being pursued against only Israel. (Perhaps that’s because America’s Government is untouchable, the most powerful in the world — above any international law, never punishable by any.)

■ Israel Descends Into Barbarism (Lawrence Davidson)

Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’ Political Bureau, has expressed certainty regarding the Israeli regime’s eventual removal from the entirety of the Palestinian territories. | The Hamas’ leader made the remarks in a speech on Wednesday. He was marking the anniversary of Palestinians’ historical exodus from their homeland at the hands of the Israeli regime and its Western backers in 1948, which is known by Palestinians as the day of “Nakba” or Catastrophe.

💬 Israel’s “removal from our land is a Qur'anic inevitability and historical truth,” he asserted. ● “They intended the Nakba to destroy the Palestinian people and end their sacred cause,” Haniyeh said. “Yet, the Palestinian cause remains strong in the consciousness of our people, our nation, and the free people of the world.”

■ 'Nakba never ended, it continues as we see live-streamed in Gaza today' (Syed Zafar Mehdi)
■ The Al-Aqsa Flood Operation Is - Despite All Damage - Effectual (Moon of Alabama)

■ Russia-China relations not opportunistic, not directed against anyone — Putin (TASS)
■ Russian-Chinese Cooperation is One of Main Stabilizing Factors in International Arena - Putin (Sputnik)
■ 90% of Russia-China transactions are in national currencies – Putin (RT.com)

A senior Iranian commander sounds a note of warning addressed to the UK, Germany, and France after the trio deployed their warplanes to defend the Israeli regime against a retaliatory operation staged by Iran last month.

💬 “All criminals should know [this] that their measures and crimes have been chalked up to their accounts,” Qa’ani said. ● “France, Germany, and the UK should not think that they deployed the planes that night and that the issue was over. Yes, that night was over, but they will be held accountable in due course,” he added.

According to Qa’ani, the United States and the entire Western military alliance of NATO contributed all of their military capabilities towards defending the occupying regime against the Iranian operation. “[Up to] seven to eight naval groups were deployed to the Black Sea to prevent the [Iranian] operation,” he said, adding that more than 200 aircraft were also scrambled across the region’s skies during the night of the operation. ● The commander described the aerial expanse, where the operation was conducted, as “the most condensed spot in the world as far as [the issue of] air defense is concerned,” billing the operation as “unprecedented and historically unachievable.”

■ LIVE UPDATES: Robert Fico's Life No Longer in Danger - Deputy Prime Minister (Sputnik News)
■ Slovak PM Robert Fico: Noted critic of Western approach to Ukraine conflict (RT.com)

The politician was wounded after an assailant fired multiple shots | The politician was wounded after an assailant fired multiple shots. [...] Fico took office in October 2023, after serving two stints as prime minister from 2006 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2018. Fico immediately halted the previous government’s policy of military aid to Ukraine and called for a negotiated settlement between Moscow and Kiev. His neutral stance on the conflict has seen him clash with Brussels, and with pro-Western figures within Slovakia like Caputova.

■ US Psyop Vet: Slovakian PM Fico's Assassination Attempt Seems to Be NATO Operation (Sputnik News)
■ Slovak PM Robert Fico: Noted critic of Western approach to Ukraine conflict (RT.com)
■ Robert Fico shooting latest: Prime Minister of Slovakia 'fighting for life' after assassination bid (The Mirror)
■ Live Updates: Slovak Prime Minister Fico Injured in Shooting at Cabinet Meeting Outside Bratislava (Sputnik News)
■ What we know about attempt to assassinate Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico (TASS)

Georgia might be punished for passing the “foreign agents” law | Members of the Georgian government could face sanctions for “undermining democracy,” [i.e. the U.S.] a senior US diplomat said on Tuesday, after the parliament in Tbilisi approved a foreign agents law that Washington has opposed. ● Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs James O’Brien arrived in Tbilisi for meetings with both Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze and members of the opposition, only to find that the Georgian legislature passed the Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence.

Maria Zakharova | Vedant Patel, deputy chief of press service of the US Department of State: “We have made it clear (...) that the adoption of the law on NGOs by the Georgian parliament is not only inconsistent with US values, but also inconsistent with the aspirations of the Georgian people... The Georgian government needs to change course”.

We would like to ask clarifying questions:

1. Is the problem that the Georgian law is much softer than the American one?
2. Why should Georgia or any other country conform to someone else's values?
3. US “values” do not include non-interference in the internal affairs of other states?

■ India-Iran Chabahar deal: How Jaishankar responded to US sanctions warning (Business Standard)
■ US warns of sanctions after India-Iran Chabahar Port agreement (Hindustan Times)

John Miles | Moscow and Beijing have moved from strength to economic strength as US attempts to confront its adversaries militarily and economically have been undermined by the realities of a newly-multipolar world. | Newly-reelected Russian president Vladimir Putin is set to visit Chinese leader Xi Jinping later this week at the invitation of Beijing, it was announced today. ■ The diplomatic trip – the first of Putin’s new term as president – signifies the close relationship between the two leaders; Xi also made Moscow his first stop after beginning his third term as Chinese president in 2023. The United States has criticized ongoing ties between the two nations, recently sanctioning Chinese companies it claims are contributing to Russia’s special military operation through the trade of “dual use” products, but Beijing has insisted on its sovereign right to continue economic cooperation with the country.

■ Western elites want to prosper at expense of others – Putin (RT.com)

Israel's use of #IHL jargon (warnings, evacuation orders, safe zones) is to create the illusion that its military operations ensure protection of civilians. This "humanitarian camouflage" has de facto turned Gaza into a place "without civilians", where everything is detroyable &… https://t.co/12qtYtgvtJ

— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) May 14, 2024

Concern comes as International Court of Justice is set to hold hearings on Thursday and Friday | Israel is worried that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) may order it to cease fighting in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, reports said Tuesday. Its concern comes ahead of public hearings scheduled for Thursday and Friday. ● Earlier in the day, the ICJ announced that it would hold hearings to consider South Africa's request for “additional measures” against Israel. This request is in relation to the case of genocide filed against Israel following the Israeli army's operation in Rafah. ● In response to the court's announcement, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported that Israel has not yet decided whether it will participate in the hearings.

■ Erdoğan: Netanyahu and those complicit in genocide will be held accountable (aNews)

The package, which is yet to be approved, includes about $700m for tank ammunition, $500m in tactical vehicles and $60m in mortar rounds, congressional aides told The Associated Press news agency. | The Biden administration has told Congress that it plans to send a $1bn package of military aid to Israel, according to media reports, despite the United States’s opposition to a full-scale invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza and concerns about rising civilian deaths. ● The US Department of State on Tuesday moved the package into the congressional review process, Reuters news agency reported, citing two unnamed US officials. ● The package, which is yet to be approved, includes about $700m for tank ammunition, $500m in tactical vehicles and $60m in mortar rounds, congressional aides told The Associated Press news agency.

■ War on Gaza: US to send $1bn more in weapons, ammo, to Israel despite Rafah tensions

The US State Department's spokesperson says Blinken will highlight ongoing US support to Kiev and discuss battlefield developments with Ukraine's top officials. | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Tuesday and will hold a series of meetings with the country's top officials, including President Volodymyr Zelensky and Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. The trip comes as Russian forces continue to advance in Kharkov after launching an unexpected offensive across several regions last week. ● Russia's Defense Ministry announced last weekend that Russian armed forces managed to take control of another four villages across the Kharkov region. The areas were captured within 24 hours, the ministry said. It stated that Ukrainian forces suffered major losses, both in manpower and military equipment.

■ Blinken promises Zelensky new US weapons will be game changer (RT.com)
■ US promises Ukraine military aid to make ‘real difference’ on the way (Al Jazeera)
■ Russian Army Crushes Ukrainian Defense In Kharkiv Region (South Front)
■ Frontline situation ‘on the edge’ – Ukrainian intel chief (RT.com)
■ Scott Ritter: The Russians Advance and Ukrainians Can't Stop Them (Sputnik News)
■ Ukraine SitRep: An Army And Country At Their End (Moon of Alabama)

The trip will focus on fostering strategic partnership, with a number of agreements expected to be signed | Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to China later this week to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, the Kremlin has announced. It will be the Russian leader’s first foreign trip of his new presidential term. ● In a statement on Tuesday, the Kremlin said that the state visit at the invitation of the Chinese leader is scheduled for May 16 and 17. During the summit, the two leaders “will discuss in detail the entire range of issues of comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction” between Moscow and Beijing, as well as determine key directions for the further development of Russian-Chinese ties. ● Putin and Xi will also discuss the “most pressing international and regional issues,” the Kremlin added. The leaders are expected to sign a joint statement and a number of bilateral documents, the announcement said, without giving further details. ● The Russian leader will also hold talks with Chinese Premier Li Qiang, the second-highest ranking official in the country. The meeting will focus on bilateral trade, [and] economic and humanitarian cooperation.

■ Putin to Visit China at Invitation of Xi Jinping on May 16-17 - Kremlin (Sputnik News)
■ NATO boss attacks China over Russia ties (RT.com)

At least 14 Palestinians were killed after the Israeli army conducted an air strike on a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
The WAFA news agency has reported that casualties from the air strike include dead children, with many others wounded.
The airstrike hit a three-story… pic.twitter.com/hsv3b2WCGI

— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) May 14, 2024

Israeli warplanes have conducted fresh aerial assaults on the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of civilians, including children, in the besieged Palestinian territory. | Citing medical sources, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported on Tuesday that 14 people lost their lives in overnight Israeli bombing of a three-story house owned by the Karaja family, south of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. ● The report added that children were among those killed in the strike that also injured several more. Other reports updated the death toll to at least 20 people. ● Meanwhile, dozens of Palestinians were killed in Israeli air raids on the Jabalia refugee camp and the city of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza. Jabalia residents said Israeli tanks were advancing towards the camp. Civilians are “running in the streets,” a Jabalia resident told Al Jazeera, adding, “We’ve been displaced from one place to the next … we don’t know where to go.”

■ Day 221: 35,173 Palestinians killed, 79,061 injured in Gaza (Al Mayadeen)
■ Gaza under Israeli fire: 220 days of genocide and loss (Al Mayadeen)
■ Israel carpet bombs Gaza with no goal in sight (The Cradle)
■ Gaza civilians voice out their chilling encounters with Israeli torture (TRT World)
■ Tied, diapered, beaten: Israeli insiders reveal severe Palestinian torture (TRT World)
■ Gaza Al-Shifa doctor tortured to death by Israeli forces (Al Mayadeen)

Lavrov: If the West wants to fight on the battlefield - it will be on the battlefield

💬 "It is their right if they want to fight on the battlefield - it will be on the battlefield," (Lavrov said these words within the walls of the Federation Council as part of consultations on his reappointment as Foreign Minister.)

The minister also mentioned the upcoming conference in Switzerland on Ukraine, to which Russia was not invited. Lavrov said that the conference...

💬 "...boils down to once again formulating an ultimatum to Russia. You know, like a colonel - a pedagogical advice. They kicked him out (out the door - "RG"), and decided everything among themselves, then they summoned him and announced the verdict." (Lavrov believes that) "this is no way to talk to anyone, much less us." (DeepL)

■ If West Wants to Settle Ukrainian Conflict on Battlefield, Russia Ready - Lavrov (Sputnik News)
■ West chooses to prolong fighting in Ukraine – Lavrov (RT.com)

Hundreds of civilians are fleeing under the gunfire as the Israeli occupation army is strenuously trying to invade Jabalia refugee camp, faced by fierce Palestinian resistance. pic.twitter.com/qCd86RzAcD

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) May 13, 2024

Palestinian prisoners were handcuffed for so long that their limbs died and had to be amputated, three Israeli whistleblowers who spoke to US media revealed, detailing a litany of alleged abuses against prisoners held by Israel in the Sde Teiman military base. | The whistleblowers quoted by The Hill said that the base has two parts, one which includes “intense physical restraint” and the other acting as a field hospital where prisoners are strapped to beds, blindfolded, put in diapers and fed through a tube. ● Prisoners were routinely beaten by guards the whistleblowers say, but the torture wasn’t a part of any kind of interrogation program, according to the news agency. “(The beatings) were not done to gather intelligence. They were done out of revenge,” the whistleblower claimed. “It was punishment for what they did on October 7 and punishment for behavior in the camp.” ● A prisoner from the camp claimed that even talking to another prisoner was enough to earn a beating by Israeli guards. [...] The accusations by the whistleblowers and prisoners match the accusations made in a letter addressed to top Israeli officials by an Israeli doctor who worked at the facility. He described a facility where limb amputations caused by consistent handcuffing were unfortunately “a routine event.”

■ Gaza under Israeli fire: 220 days of genocide and loss (Al Mayadeen)
■ Israel carpet bombs Gaza with no goal in sight (The Cradle)
■ Gaza civilians voice out their chilling encounters with Israeli torture (TRT World)
■ Tied, diapered, beaten: Israeli insiders reveal severe Palestinian torture (TRT World)
■ Gaza Al-Shifa doctor tortured to death by Israeli forces (Al Mayadeen)
■ 3,000+ Palestinians from Gaza detained, tortured in Israeli prisons (04/16/24)
■ Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees, spike in arbitrary arrests (04/13/24)
■ Released Detainees From Israeli Prisons Showed Signs of Torture (03/18/24)
■ Torture, Executions, Babies Left to Die, Sexual Abuse… These Are Israel’s Crimes (03/18/24)
■ Iron bars, electric shocks, dogs and cigarette burns: How Palestinians are tortured in Israeli detention (03/12/24)
■ Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests

Heavy Israeli bombardment of Jabalia refugee camp continues. This video shows the bombardment of the medical personnel and journalists in the camp. pic.twitter.com/HFVEA5Be9B

— Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti (@MustafaBarghou1) May 12, 2024

At least 22 civilians were killed or wounded on May 12 after Kiev forces shelled the Russian region of Belgorod, which is located on the border with Ukraine. | “The city of Belgorod and the Belgorod Region were subjected to a massive shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces,” the region’s governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, wrote on Telegram. Gladkov added that “an entire section of an apartment building – from the tenth to the first floor – collapsed as a result of a direct hit by a shell” in the Kharkovskaya Mountain residential area of Belgorod city. ● Videos from the scene showed a whole section of the ten-story building collapsing as a result of a strike and first responders digging through the rubble. The Telegram news channel 112 said that at least 20 people could be trapped under the rubble. It added that residents were being evacuated from the apartment block, as there is danger that its other sections may also collapse. There have so far been no official announcements about casualties, but Mash Telegram news channel reported that at least seven people were killed and 15 others wounded in the Ukrainian attack.

US Senator Lindsey Graham says Israel should drop nuclear bombs on Gaza to end the war and do “whatever” it deems necessary in the aggression, drawing a comparison to when the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan during World War II. | Graham, a South Carolina Republican, suggested that Israel would be right to flatten the besieged Gaza Strip simply because the US did it to the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and killed more than 200,000 people.

💬 “Why is it OK for America to drop two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end their existential threat war? Why was it OK for us to do that? I thought it was OK,” he told NBC News on Sunday, “So, Israel, do whatever you have to do to survive ... Whatever you have to do.”

Graham also urged US President Joe Biden to provide the occupying regime with more bombs. [...] The remarks came days after Biden claimed that he had halted a weapons shipment to Israel and that he might continue to do so if the regime launched a full-scale assault on Rafah, the southernmost Gaza city where 1.5 million Palestinians are sheltering.

The United Nations Security Council has called for an immediate and independent investigation into reported mass graves containing hundreds of Palestinian dead bodies near hospitals in the Gaza Strip amid the Israeli regime’s months-long aggression on the besieged territory. | In a statement on Friday, the 15-member council expressed their “deep concern over reports of the discovery of mass graves in and around the Nasser and al-Shifa medical facilities in Gaza, where several hundred bodies, including women, children and older persons, were buried.” ● The members underlined the need for “accountability” for any Israeli violations of international law and called for “unimpeded access to all locations of mass graves in Gaza to conduct immediate, independent, thorough, comprehensive, transparent and impartial investigations.” ● The statement comes as some 400 bodies have been recovered at the Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip while around 300 bodies have been discovered at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

■ IOF commit massacres in Gaza Strip, 18 martyrs in Rafah (Al Mayadeen)
■ 80 bodies recovered from Shifa hospital mass graves, some victims 'executed' at point blank range (PressTV)
■ Another mass grave uncovered in Gaza, bodies ‘without heads’ found (PressTV)

80 bodies unearthed from newly discovered mass graves at al-Shifa Hospital | Israeli forces ordered fresh evacuations from areas in Rafah on Saturday as it prepared to expand its operation in the city. ● The Israeli army said on Saturday about 300,000 people had left eastern Rafah after Israel ordered people to leave that area of the southern Gaza city this week. ● Israeli forces issued the order and captured the Rafah border crossing with Egypt as it prepared for a ground invasion of the city. ● On Friday, the UN said more than 100,000 Palestinians had evacuated Rafah this week. On Saturday the European Union also condemned Israel's forced evacuation orders in Rafah "unacceptable". “Evacuation orders for civilians trapped in Rafah to unsafe zones are unacceptable,” President of the European Council Charles Michel posted on X. ● The Palestinian health ministry is reporting that at least 34,971 Palestinians have been killed and 78,641 others wounded since Israel's war on Gaza began in October. There are also an estimated 10,000 Palestinians buried under the rubble of buildings flattened by Israeli bombing, according to the Palestinian civil defence.

■ Israel army calls on Palestinians to evacuate more areas in Gaza Strip (Anadolu)
■ Israel’s war on Gaza live: Israeli forces ‘carpet bombing’ Jabalia (Al Jazeera)
■ France condemns Israel's ground attack on Rafah (Anadolu)