Israel, Türkiye announce trade barriers, US says ‘no evidence’ of Gaza genocide: 10 points
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As Israel’s war with Hamas rages on, the United States says it has no evidence to support reports of Israeli genocide in Gaza. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden urged Israel to cease fire and said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Gaza policy was a “mistake.” Additionally, trade barriers were announced between Türkiye and Israel.
War and several ground offensives in Gaza over the past six months have killed at least 33,360 Palestinians and injured 74,993, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
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Türkiye and Israel announced trade barriers against each other. Türkiye announced that it will restrict the export of 54 products to Israel with immediate effect. They include aluminum, steel, construction products, jet fuel and fertilizers. In response, Israel said it was preparing a ban on Turkish products.
The United States has denied accusations that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said there was “no evidence” while testifying before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee on Joe Biden’s latest budget request.
In a case brought by Nicaragua to the International Court of Justice, Germany has strongly denied accusations that it supports the genocide in Gaza by supplying weapons to Israel, Al Jazeera reported. Germany’s foreign ministry told the ICJ that Nicaragua’s lawsuit was rushed and weakly substantiated and should be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.
Joe Biden said in an interview with US Spanish-language television network Univision that Benjamin Netanyahu’s attitude towards the war in Gaza was a “mistake”. “I think what he’s doing is wrong. I don’t agree with what he’s doing,” Biden said. The US president also urged Israel to “call” for a six to eight-week ceasefire.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israel had not briefed the United States on any specific date for a major offensive in Rafah, but added that U.S. and Israeli officials remained in contact to try to ensure “any form of major military action” would not causing real harm to civilians. ”
The Israeli army said on Wednesday it had bombed Lebanese Hezbollah positions in Syria to prevent its “consolidation” in the country. An IDF statement said the army “attacked military infrastructure based on precise intelligence used by the Hezbollah terrorist group on the front lines in Syria.”
The White House said on Tuesday that Hamas’s response to a proposed ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza during talks in Cairo has so far been “not encouraging.” “The public statements we’ve seen from Hamas are not encouraging,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan said, but he added that mediator Qatar had not yet received a final response from the group.
Hamas said on Tuesday that an Israeli proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza war did not meet the demands of Palestinian armed factions but that it would further study the proposal and respond to mediators. The proposal was presented to the Palestinian Islamist movement during talks in Cairo between Egyptian and Qatari mediators aimed at finding a way out of the war in the Gaza Strip.
Israel has told Hamas that 40 hostages must be released as part of a proposed truce, the Israeli TV network reported.Hamas reportedly claimed that if it did so, it would have to release the male Israeli soldiers because Terrorist organizations do not own 40 Living old people, women and female soldiers.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he has set a date for the Israel Defense Forces to launch a much-anticipated offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. “victory [over Hamas] Need to enter Rafah and eliminate the terrorist camp there. This will happen. There is a date,” Netanyahu said in a video statement, without revealing when the planned action would take place.
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