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Israel stands by as aid convoys come under attack in Gaza

Palestinians line up for breadFor the past year, hungry Gazans have waited in desperation for more food to enter the besieged territory from Israel. After aid trucks have been allowed in, there have been episodes of looting.

But now, armed criminal gangs are intercepting entire convoys.

Truck driver Abu Ahmad was in the worst incident so far when more than 100 trucks were attacked on Saturday. The gangs shot through the windows of his truck, he told CBS News, saying they would kill any driver who didn't stop.

Ahmad said Israeli tanks were nearby and an Israeli drone watched the entire attack unfold.

However, Israel's military says it is not responsible for protecting the aid convoys, a premise with which former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert disagrees.

TVNL Comment:  This is one of the many charges against Netanyahu and Gallant by the ICC. Starvtion cannot by weaponized.  Israelis stand by and watch the gangs stopping aid to hungry children.  What an ongoing horror.

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"The Israeli government doesn't want it to happen. They want to punish the Palestinians, because the basic premise is that all of the Palestinians in Gaza support the terrorists and therefore they all should be punished," Olmert told CBS News, adding that if the Israeli army is able to build roads in Gaza, it should be "capable of making the necessary logistical arrangements" to provide humanitarian support for the people that live there.

Humanitarian Aid Efforts At Erez West Crossing
A soldier stands on patrol as trucks carrying humanitarian aid prepare to cross into the Gaza Strip on Nov. 11, 2024, in Erez West Crossing, Israel. Amir Levy / Getty Images

On Thursday, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Deif, a Hamas leader who Israel claims was killed in a July airstrike. The charges included "crimes against humanity" and using "starvation as a method of warfare."

Netanyahu called the allegations "antisemitic," and the White House said it "fundamentally rejected" the decision.

Already, the poorest Gazans scavenge for food in garbage dumps as pitifully little aid gets across the Israeli border. Much of what does make it into Gaza is being stolen at gunpoint, exacerbating the territory's humanitarian crisis.

It's clear who needs to solve it, according to Juliette Touma, a spokesperson for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Gaza.

"It is up to the state of Israel to ensure that aid reaches people in need," Touma said. "They are the occupying power."

Local Gaza police used to protect the convoys in Gaza, but since February Israeli soldiers have been targeting them, accusing them of links with Hamas.

Meanwhile, almost two million Gazans are struggling to survive.

"But to want to starve them, hundreds of thousands of people, to prevent them getting the food, the water which they need for survival, is atrocious, unacceptable and I think that the Israeli government is creating something that may be come back to haunt us in a very, very painful way," Olmert said.

Elizabeth Palmer

Elizabeth Palmer is CBS News' senior foreign correspondent. She is based in the CBS News London Bureau, and reports on major events across Europe and the Middle East. Palmer was previously based in Tokyo, and before that in Moscow, for CBS News.

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Putin says Russia tested a new intermediate-range ballistic missile on Ukraine

Russia tests missile on UkraineRussia fired an experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile at Ukraine overnight, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a TV speech Thursday, warning that the Kremlin could use it against military installations of countries that have allowed Ukraine to use their missiles to strike inside Russia.

Putin said the new missile, called "Oreshnik," Russian for "hazel," used a nonnuclear warhead.

Ukraine's air force said a ballistic missile hit the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, saying it was launched from the Astrakhan region in southeastern Russia, more than 770 miles away. Ukrainian officials said it and other rockets damaged an industrial facility, a rehabilitation center for people with disabilities and residential buildings. Three people were injured, according to regional authorities.

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Merkel: I mistook Trump for ‘someone completely normal’

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Angela Merkel’s first mistake with Donald Trump, she says in her keenly awaited new memoir, was treating him as if he were “completely normal”, but she quickly learned of his “emotional” nature and soft spot for authoritarians and tyrants.

In extracts from her more than 700-page tome, Freedom, published in the German weekly Die Zeit, the former German chancellor says she initially misread Trump during their first meeting in 2017 in the Oval Office, where he attempted to humiliate her by refusing to shake her hand before the cameras.

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Top war-crimes court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, ex-defense minister and a Hamas leader

bibiThe world’s top war-crimes court issued arrest warrants Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and Hamas’ military chief, accusing them of crimes against humanity in connection with the 13-month war in Gaza.

The warrants said there was reason to believe Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant have used “starvation as a method of warfare” by restricting humanitarian aid and have intentionally targeted civilians in Israel’s campaign against Hamas in Gaza — charges Israeli officials deny.

The action by the International Criminal Court came as the death toll from Israel’s campaign in Gaza passed 44,000 people, according to local health authorities, who say more than half of those killed were women and children. Their count does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.

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Witnesses say Israel is using sniper drones in Gaza and they're shooting civilians

Israel using sniper drones to shoot civilins

JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:

Last week British surgeon Nizam Mamode testified in front of a committee in the U.K. Parliament.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

NIZAM MAMODE: What I think I found particularly disturbing...

SUMMERS: Dr. Mamode had recently returned from working at a hospital in Central Gaza, and he told parliamentary members what he witnessed, including...

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

MAMODE: A bomb would drop, maybe on a crowded, tented area. And then the drones would come down, and...

SUMMERS: A new kind of drone in the Israeli arsenal, one with a gun and a camera attached that can shoot remotely.

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Ukraine war briefing: We will regain Crimea through diplomacy, not force, says Zelenskyy

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  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine can take back Crimea only through diplomatic means. “We cannot spend dozens of, thousands of our people so that they perish for the sake of Crimea coming back … we understand that Crimea can be brought back diplomatically,” the Ukrainian president told Fox News. Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014. “I was already mentioning that we are ready to bring Crimea back diplomatically,” Zelenskyy said.

  • Asked on Fox whether Ukraine might give up territory for peace, Zelenskyy said: “We cannot legally acknowledge any occupied territory of Ukraine as Russian. That is about those territories … occupied by Putin before the full-scale invasion, since 2014. Legally, we are not acknowledging that, we are not adopting that.”

  • Russia staged “a massive information-psychological attack” against Ukraine by spreading a fake warning, purportedly from Ukrainian military intelligence, about an imminent mass air attack, Kyiv’s Main Directorate of Intelligence said on Wednesday. “This message is a fake, it contains grammatical errors typical of Russian information and psychological operations.

US vetoes UN resolution demanding Gaza cease-fire

UN vote vetoed by USThe U.S. on Wednesday voted against a United Nations Security Council resolution that demanded an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, citing the lack of a path for releasing hostages held by Hamas as the reason.

The U.S. was the only nation in the 15-member Security Council to vote against the resolution but was able to veto it because of permanent member status.

Robert Wood, the U.S. alternate representative for special political affairs at the U.N., said after the vote that the resolution would have vindicated Hamas, and he called attention to the roughly 100 hostages still held by the Palestinian militant group.

“We will not forget them,” he said.

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