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Ahmad Shabat lost his legs in an Israeli air attack outside a UN school in Nuseirat refugee camp that killed his uncle.

GENEVA: UN rights chief Volker Turk said Thursday he was ringing the loudest possible alarm bell over the “potentially explosive” situation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. “I am deeply concerned about the intensification of violence and severe discrimination against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem,” Turk told a briefing of UN member states.

UK announces emergency legislation after Supreme Court rules against government plans to deport refugees to Rwanda.

JERUSALEM: Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down “immediately,” without waiting until the end of the country’s war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas. “Netanyahu should leave immediately... We need change, Netanyahu cannot remain prime minister,” Lapid said Wednesday in an interview with Israeli news channel N12. “We cannot allow ourselves to carry out a long campaign under a prime minister who has lost the people’s trust,” he added.

Israeli troops enter the medical complex from the south, reportedly destroying a wall and interrogating medical workers.

Western silence on Israel's assault on Gaza and violence in West Bank also risks rift with Arab groups, activists say

US and Chinese leaders make breakthroughs in military communications as well as tackling fentanyl.