Spain, Ireland, Norway set to recognise Palestinian statehood – Beragampengetahuan

Summary:

• Spain, Ireland and Norway will officially recognise a Palestinian state on Tuesday.

• The UN Security Council was set to convene an emergency meeting Tuesday over an Israeli strike that killed dozens in a displaced persons camp in Rafah.

• Egypt’s military said Monday that a border guard was killed in a shooting in the Rafah border area with Gaza, where Israeli forces are deployed, adding that a probe had been launched.

• French President Emmanuel Macron voiced outrage on Monday over deadly Israeli strikes on a tented camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah and called for an “immediate ceasefire” in the Gaza war.

• At least 35,984 Palestinians have been killed and 80,643 wounded in Israel’s war in Gaza, according to the last official death toll given by the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry. Including the health ministry’s latest figure given for those killed in Rafah, the toll has now topped 36,000. Some 1,170 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and 250 people were taken hostage, according to Israeli figures, with 132 still missing.

   

• French President Emmanuel Macron voiced outrage on Monday over deadly Israeli strikes on a tented camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah and called for an “immediate ceasefire” in the Gaza war.

• The death toll from the Israeli strikes on a camp housing displaced Palestinians near Rafah rose to 45, according to Gaza’s health ministry. The Israeli military said it was investigating reports of civilian casualties. 

• EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Monday said an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling telling Israel to stop its offensive in Gaza’s Rafah must be implemented.

• Israel said Monday it had told Spain’s consulate in Jerusalem to stop offering consular services to Palestinians from June 1, as a “punitive” measure for Madrid’s recognition of a Palestinian state.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP & Reuters)