LIVE: Israel bombs Syria as more than 90 killed in Gaza in 24 hours

US Lawmakers Condemn Irish Bill Banning Trade with Israeli Settlements

Nearly two dozen U.S. lawmakers, mostly Republicans, have condemned a proposed bill in the Irish parliament that seeks to ban trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The bill, if passed, would make it illegal for Ireland to import or sell goods produced in Israeli settlements, which are considered illegal under international law.
Senator Lindsey Graham criticized the legislation in a public statement on X (formerly Twitter), urging Ireland to reconsider what he described as an effort to “economically isolate Israel.”
Graham added:
“I do not believe these efforts would be well received in the United States and they certainly would not go unnoticed.”
The coordinated response is part of growing U.S. political pushback against international efforts to isolate Israel economically and diplomatically.

Palestinian Health Ministry Releases Full List of Gaza War Victims

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has released a comprehensive list of every documented Palestinian killed in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7, 2023.

Published on Telegram, the 2,086-page report records the name, age, gender, and ID number of 58,380 individuals.

Among the victims are 953 infants under one year old, with the first nine entries listing babies who were killed on the very day they were born.

‘There is no one who has clean hands when it comes to Palestine’: UN’s Albanese

Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory, has called on countries to cut all ties with Israel over its genocide in Gaza while speaking at a two-day conference in Colombia focused on ending Israel’s war on the territory.

Israeli Airstrikes Kill 7 in Gaza, Including 4 at Central Gaza School

The Israeli military’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip is continuing overnight, with news emerging of two deadly attacks over recent hours.

A strike on the Abu Halu School in the Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza, has killed at least four people, the Palestinian Information Center and the Quds News Network report.

An Israeli strike on a residential apartment near the Imam Shafi’i School in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, northern Gaza, has also killed at least three people and injured others, the Palestinian Information Center reports.

We will bring you more information on these attacks when we have it.

US calls Israel’s bombing of Syria a ‘misunderstanding between new neighbours’

Throughout the course of the day, the State Department has been characterising this conflict as a misunderstanding.

The spokesperson for the State Department, Tammy Bruce, said, “It’s a misunderstanding between new neighbours”.

The secretary of state has been in touch with all parties from both the Israeli and the Syrian side, and he has now taken to social media announcing that the conflict may be nearing an end.

So the US secretary of state is apparently convinced that an end to this splurge of conflict is now in sight.

It is now, he says, up to the parties involved to make good on whatever commitments they have made to the United States and, perhaps, to each other.