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☆ Some in State Department don’t believe Israel is using US weapons in accordance with international law, source says
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Jennifer Hansler | Jack Forrest | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —The State Department is divided over whether Israel is using American-provided weapons in accordance with international law ahead of a fast-approaching deadline next week for Secretary of State Antony Blinken to make a determination to Congress. Human rights groups have accused Israel of committing war crimes and abuses during the war in Gaza. The State Department official Sunday did not give further details about which parts of the department are in favor of accepting Israel’s assurances, which are in favor of rejecting them, and which took no position. “We don’t comment on leaked documents, especially those purporting to contain classified information,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement. While the report does not represent the US government’s own conclusions, Blinken said last week that the State Department was looking at the incidents.

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CNN —Health workers in northern Gaza exhumed the first corpses from mass graves in and around Al-Shifa Hospital on Tuesday, after they said Israeli forces killed hundreds of Palestinians and left their bodies to decompose during their two-week siege of the complex. Many of the decomposed remnants they discovered had been buried or were found above ground, officials told CNN on Monday. Palestinians walk through the destroyed Al-Shifa Hospital, in northern Gaza, on April 1. Gazan health workers told CNN they exhumed the first bodies from mass graves dug by Israeli forces. Tell me where my husband is?”Palestinians at Al-Shifa told CNN say they want to give their loved ones a proper funeral, lamenting the indignity of their deaths.

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☆ What to watch for in the Michigan presidential primaries
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Gregory Krieg | Eric Bradner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

“This is not an anti-Biden campaign,” Layla Elabed, a leader of the Listen to Michigan campaign, told CNN. Here’s what to watch for in Michigan:The first ballot test of Biden’s Israel strategyJust how committed are Michigan Democrats to Biden? Republicans opposed an earlier Michigan primary, and it violated Republican National Committee rules limiting which states can hold contests before March 1. After Democrats who control the legislature and the governor’s office moved the Michigan primary to February 27 despite GOP opposition, the RNC and Michigan GOP came up with the hybrid model. Tests for Biden, Trump in key stateThe drama within both the Democratic and Republican contests is playing out in one of the nation’s most important presidential swing states.

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☆ One of last doctors left in Gaza’s Nasser hospital says patients’ fate no longer in his control
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Kareem Khadder | Zeena Saifi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Nasser hospital had been the largest functioning hospital in the enclave before Israeli forces raided it last Thursday after days of intense bombardment. Nasser hospital in the city of Khan Younis, Gaza, on December 22, 2020. Dr. Hatem said he was one of the five doctors allowed to return and care for the patients. On Sunday and Monday, 32 patients in critical condition were evacuated from Nasser hospital, OCHA said. On Saturday, a Palestinian surgeon trapped inside Nasser hospital warned that all the ICU patients would die – a grim prospect that Dr. Hatem is anticipating.

Persons: Nasser, ” Dr, Hatem Raba, “, Ashraf Al, Qidra, Hatem, ”, Khan Younis, Abed Zagout, Dr, OCHA Organizations: CNN, Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israel Defense Forces, IDF, Gaza’s Ministry of Health, Anadolu Agency, Getty, Health Ministry, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, World Health Organization, WHO, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Red Crescent Society Locations: Gaza, Khan, Palestine, Rafah, Nasser, Khan Younis, Palestinian

☆ What is Gaza’s Ministry of Health and how does it calculate the war’s death toll?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Yet the Gaza-based Ministry of Health — an agency in the Hamas-controlled government — continues to tally casualty numbers. "The numbers may not be perfectly accurate on a minute-to-minute basis," said Michael Ryan, of the World Health Organization's Health Emergencies Program. But an outlier is the ministry's death toll from an explosion at al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City in mid-October. There have also been conflicting accounts of the explosion's death toll. Here's a look at how Gaza's Health Ministry has generated death tolls since the war started.

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees told a U.N. emergency meeting Monday “an immediate humanitarian ceasefire has become a matter of life and death for millions,” accusing Israel of “collective punishment” of Palestinians and the forced displacement of civilians. UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell that toll includes over 3,400 children killed and more than 6,300 injured. “This means that more than 420 children are being killed or injured in Gaza each day – a number which should shake each of us to our core,” she said. Now, the 10 elected members in the 15-member Security Council are trying again to negotiate a resolution that won’t be rejected. While council resolutions are legally binding, assembly resolutions are not though they are an important barometer of world opinion.

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