Summary of the day …
The UK’s foreign secretary, David Lammy, has described the reported deaths of six Unrwa workers in an Israeli strike on a UN-run school in Gaza as “appalling”. The senior deputy director of Unrwa affairs in Gaza, Sam Rose, has told Al Jazeera that staff at the agency are “despairing” after yesterday’s airstrike
The World Health Organization (WHO) said at least one quarter, or about 22,500, of those Palestinians injured by Israel’s bombardment in the Gaza conflict had suffered life-changing injuries, such as missing limbs that would require rehabilitation services for years to come. WHO said that on Wednesday it evacuated nearly 100 people from Gaza to the UAE for medical reasons, the largest such operation so far of the war
The IDF reports that about 15 projectiles were fired into Israeli-controlled from the direction of Lebanon. Israeli emergency services attended some fires that had broken out on open ground, caused by falling debris or projectiles
Israel’s government press office (GPO) has announced it is revoking the press cards of all Al Jazeera journalists working in Israel. Nitzan Chen, the director of the GPO, said the network constitutes “a threat to IDF soldiers”
Yossi Sarel, the head the IDF’s unit 8200, a prestigious IDF intelligence unit, has announced that he is to resign. In his statement he said on 7 October last year “I failed my mission”. In April this year the Guardian revealed that Sariel left his identity exposed online when he secretly authored a book published in 2021
The Israel Defense Forces have launched an investigation into claims in the Israeli media that the London-based Jewish Chronicle published stories based on “fabricated intelligence” relating to Hamas, amid claims that they may have been planted as part of a disinformation campaign
There are unconfirmed reports in Israeli media that in the last few days Israeli special forces carried out a raid on the ground against a weapons facility inside Syria
Turkey has opened an investigation into the death of a Turkish-American activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi shot and killed by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank and will request international arrest warrants, Ankara said on Thursday
The Israel Defense Forces have launched an investigation into claims in the Israeli media that the London-based Jewish Chronicle published stories based on “fabricated intelligence” relating to Hamas, amid claims that they may have been planted as part of a disinformation campaign.
Among the most controversial claims published by the Jewish Chronicle, the world’s oldest Jewish newspaper, was the suggestion last week that the Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, might be preparing to flee to Iran with Israeli hostages, a suggestion that has also been made by Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Jewish Chronicle article is one of several sensational reports that have been written in recent months by a writer bylined as Elon Perry, whose résumé claims he has worked as a journalist and academic, and served as an elite undercover soldier has also been questioned.
Checks by the Guardian have found no evidence of any record of significant stories published by Perry as a reporter in English or Hebrew, except for the recent series of articles in the Jewish Chronicle now alleged to be fabrications.
Read more here: IDF investigates claim Jewish Chronicle published stories based on ‘fabricated intelligence’
