Al Jazeera :
At least 50 Palestinians, including aid seekers, killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn.
The United States has said it will not allow Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to travel to New York next month for a United Nations gathering of world leaders, where several US allies are set to recognize Palestine as a state.
The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees warned that the Israeli operation in Gaza City could re-displace one million people.
Israel has killed at least 63,371 people and wounded 159,835 in its war on Gaza. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7 attacks and about 200 were taken captive.
Heavy bombardment has been reported in Gaza City early on Saturday as Israel says its planned seizure of the besieged Palestinian
territory’s largest area is progressing.
President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas’s office has urged the US government to reverse its unusual decision to revoke his visa.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio rescinded the visas of Abbas and 80 other officials before next month’s annual high-level meeting of the UN General Assembly.
“We call upon the American administration to reverse its decision. This decision will only increase tension and escalation,” Palestinian presidential spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh told The Associated Press in Ramallah.
“We have been in contact since yesterday with Arab and foreign countries, especially those directly concerned with this issue. This effort will continue around the clock.”
He urged other countries to put pressure on the Trump administration to reverse the decision, notably the countries that have organised a high-level conference on September 22 about reviving efforts for a two-state solution in the Middle East. The conference is co-hosted by France and Saudi Arabia.
The Israeli army has been intensifying its attacks across Gaza City. Homes and community centres have been reduced to rubble, eroding the foundations of civilian life in the area.
This is happening while people are going through famine, enforced starvation and dehydration.Things are leading to a catastrophic humanitarian crisis.
In an attack today, 11 people, including children, were killed while they were queuing for bread from ovens serving communities of displaced people in Gaza City. People are dying while they’re waiting to get food.
The UK has barred Israeli government officials from attending the country’s biggest arms fair.
The decision does not cover representatives of Israeli defence contractors, who will be allowed to attend the DSEI UK exhibition, scheduled for September 9 to 12 in London.
“The Israeli Government’s decision to further escalate its military operation in Gaza is wrong,” the British government said in a statement. “As a result, we can confirm that no Israeli government delegation will be invited to attend DSEI UK 2025.”
Israel said it would withdraw from the exhibition and would not establish a national pavilion.
Pro-Palestinian and antiwar groups have announced plans for protests during DSEI.
Many Palestinians have been forced to flee by Israel’s intensified offensive on Gaza City, with many setting up makeshift tents amid miserable conditions in an area west of Nuseirat refugee camp to the south.
“We are thrown in the streets like what would I say? Like dogs? We are not like dogs. Dogs are better than us,” Mohammed Maarouf, 50, told The Associated Press news agency, standing in front of his tent.
He and his family of nine had already been displaced from the northern town of Beit Lahiya.
“We have no homes. We are on the streets,” he said.
Ahmad Saadeh, originally from Beit Hanoon, told the AP that Palestinians were suffering from hunger, sickness and a lack of shelter in the war-ravaged territory, where famine conditions were recently confirmed.
“We suffer from many things,” he said. “We suffer that our children are ill.”
Israeli columnist Gideon Levy says many Israelis feel “frustrated, angry and helpless” about the lack of clarity around Israel’s war in Gaza and what it hopes to achieve.
“A big part of Israelis, I guess it is the majority, is very, very frustrated, angry and helpless, because people are going to the army and people [are] going to this war without knowing where it is aiming, what is the goal, and above all, what is the legitimacy of this war?” he told Al Jazeera.
Despite this discontent, Levy noted that most Israelis are unwilling to take any meaningful action.
“This war can continue because this majority… is not refusing to serve in the army, it is not taking any measures. They go to protests, to demonstrations in the evenings, which doesn’t affect Netanyahu at all.”
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