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Israel Rafah offensive 

The looming Israeli invasion of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, has triggered global alarms over potential civilian casualties. The International Committee of the Red Cross says the regime’s military aggression would pose a QUOTE disastrous risk to civilian lives and infrastructure in the city.The Red Cross’ Middle East director has called on Israel to take necessary measures to protect civilians in Rafah. Fabrizio Carboni demanded that the fundamental principles of humanity be upheld in any military operation. He also cautioned against forced displacement of Palestinians and the regime’s indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas, stressing that they are banned under international humanitarian law. Meanwhile, Germany’s foreign minister has also expressed concern over the planned Israeli military incursion into Rafah, saying it would lead to a humanitarian catastrophe.

Protesting west support for Israel 

A group of pro-Palestine activists has staged protest actions outside two UK-based firms over their role in fueling the Israeli onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip.The first protest targeted the Manchester offices of Bank of New York Mellon, which were drenched in red paint to symbolize the bank’s complicity in genocide of Palestinians by Israel. The second protest saw activists blockading the Bristol headquarters of Elbit Systems, which is Israel’s largest weapons firm. They attached themselves to each other to prevent access into the central hub of what activists described as Elbit’s lethal business. Activists condemned Bank of New York Mellon for investing over 10-million pounds in Elbit Systems. Elbit provides 85-percent of Israel’s military drone fleet, land based military equipment, missiles, bullets, and other weaponry. The events marked the latest in a series of pro-Palestine protests held to force Israel’s Western allies to stop supplying the regime with weapons amid its genocidal war on Gaza.

Israel rights violations 

Hezbollah resistance movement has strongly condemned Israel’s latest strikes on civilians in Southern Lebanon, saying they will not go unanswered. The head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, Hashem Safi Al-Din, vowed the movement will undoubtedly respond to the regime’s incursions at an appropriate level. He added that Israel will never achieve the goals that it failed to attain during previous acts of aggression against Lebanon. His comments came after on Wednesday, Israeli warplanes struck several villages in Southern Lebanon, killing four civilians, including a mother and her two children.A later strike on the city of Nabatiyeh killed four civilians from the same family, including two women. The regime claimed its attack was in response to an earlier Hezbollah strike that targeted several Israeli military sites, killing one soldier and injuring eight others. Hezbollah says its strikes on Israeli sites will only end when the regime’s genocide in Gaza stops.

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