The film, directed by Alexis Blum and produced by Alex Gibni, "The Bibi Files" was screened at the Toronto Film Festival, and it claims that Netanyahu is prolonging the devastating war in Gaza - which has killed more than 40.000 people - in order to avoid possible jail time. punishment due to accusations of corruption.
First responders initially said 40 people were killed in the Israeli attack on Al Mawasi, an overcrowded tent camp in southern Gaza designated as a "humanitarian zone" sheltering people displaced by the war.
That was before Gaza's health ministry revised the death toll to 19. The Israeli military disputed the earlier death toll, the Guardian reports.
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) are investigating reports of the death of Hamas military wing leader Mohamed Deif and will withdraw their indictment against him if they can confirm the reports, legal documents have shown.
Deif, who is 58, is believed to be one of the architects of the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel, which killed 1.200 people and kidnapped around 250.
Israel said Deif was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Khan Yunis on July 13. Hamas neither confirmed nor denied this information.
"The prosecution will withdraw its (arrest) application against Deif if reliable and credible information confirms his death," said the legal document, filed on August 2 and only revealed on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
Last Friday, the ICC announced it had suspended proceedings against Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Iran on July 31.
In May, ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan requested arrest warrants for Haniyeh, Deif and current Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the October 7 attacks.
The prosecutor is also seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Galant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity during Israel's war in Gaza.
Netanyahu said in May that the move by the ICC was absurd and rejected the comparison between Israel and Hamas. Hamas also condemned the arrest warrants when they were first requested.
Sources told Israel's Haaretz newspaper that they were "cautiously optimistic" that the court would rule against issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant.
During a press conference, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was asked about the progress of negotiations on the release of the hostages with Hamas. He said that more than 90 percent of the issues have been agreed upon and that the remaining issues can be resolved, the Guardian reports.
Blinken did not specify what else is being negotiated, but disputes over who should retain control of the Philadelphia Corridor - a strip of land along Gaza's border with Egypt - are said to be the main reason for the standoff.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he intends for Israeli troops to retain control of the corridor, including the Rafah crossing, after its capture in May, prompting concerns from Egypt. Hamas demands the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.
Blinken said it was in the interest of both sides - Hamas and Israel - to reach an agreement. He added that it is in Israel's interest to return the hostages, reduce tension in Gaza and de-escalate tensions with Iran and the Houthis.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is currently in London on a diplomatic visit, where he told reporters that the killing of an American citizen during protests last Sunday in the occupied West Bank was "unjustified and baseless" and shows that Israeli security forces must make substantial improvements. changes in its rules of engagement, the Guardian reports.
"Nobody should be shot and killed for attending a protest," Blinken said at a press conference, in his harshest comments yet against the Israeli army.
"In our judgment, the Israeli security forces need to make fundamental changes in the way they operate in the West Bank, including changes in the rules of engagement," he added.
Aysenur Ezgi Ejgi, a 26-year-old volunteer from the anti-occupation organization International Solidarity Movement, died in hospital on Friday after being shot in the head in the town of Beita near Nablus during a protest against the expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Witnesses claim that she was killed by Israeli forces.
The Israeli military said an American activist who died in the West Bank on Friday was "probably accidentally" hit by a bullet fired by Israeli forces.
American-Turkish citizen Aysenur Ezgi Eggi, according to witnesses, was shot in the head by Israeli troops while participating in a protest against the expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank on Friday. Ejgi (26) was a peace activist and volunteer in the anti-occupation organization International Solidarity Movement (ISM).
The Israeli military previously admitted to firing on protesters and said it was investigating reports that a foreign woman had died at the protests. However, the ISM organization, which organizes foreign volunteers in the Palestinian territories, stated that Israeli forces "deliberately shot and killed" an international human rights activist during the protest, the Guardian reports.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry has condemned the deadly Israeli airstrikes in the designated Al Mawasi humanitarian zone in southern Gaza, describing them as a war crime. Health authorities in Gaza said that Israeli attacks on a tented camp for displaced Palestinians killed at least 40 people and injured 60 others, the Guardian reports.
"We condemn Israel's massacre of dozens of Palestinians in an attack on civilian tents in the so-called 'humanitarian zone' in Khan Yunis," the Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement, saying Israel had "added a new crime to its list of war crimes."
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been a vocal opponent of Israel's war in Gaza. He accused Israel of genocide, called for it to be punished in international courts and criticized Western countries for supporting Israel's military offensive.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a press release that the international community's failure to enforce international law and stop the war has allowed Israel to "continue to carry out new massacres" in Al Mawasi and other areas in Gaza, the Guardian reports.
"An urgent ceasefire is the only way to protect Palestinian civilians and create a favorable ground for reaching an agreement on the exchange of prisoners," the ministry added in a statement.
The comments come after witnesses and medical officials said Israeli airstrikes on the Al Mawasi humanitarian zone in the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Tuesday morning killed at least 40 people and injured 60 others.
At least 41.020 Palestinians have been killed and 94.925 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, Gaza's health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
According to the ministry, this number includes 32 people killed and 100 injured in the last 24 hours.
The health ministry also said thousands of other victims were likely buried under the rubble in the enclave.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said Hamas' military capabilities have been severely diminished after more than 11 months of war, arguing that the Palestinian militant group no longer exists as a military formation in Gaza.
"Hamas as a military formation no longer exists. Hamas engages in guerrilla warfare and we are still fighting Hamas terrorists and hunting Hamas leaders," Galant told foreign journalists, the Guardian reports.
The Israeli military said it had eliminated more than half of the leaders of Hamas' military wing, the Al Qassam Brigades, and had killed or captured more than 14.000 Hamas fighters, down from an estimated 30.000 to 40.000 fighters the group had at the start of the war last year. Hamas disputes these figures.
During a press briefing, Galant also expressed support for an agreement to release hostages in the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal, saying it would give Israel a strategic opportunity to address other security challenges. Bringing hostages home is the right thing to do, he said.
Galant has repeatedly clashed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and hardline religious nationalist ministers over the need to reach a deal to end the war and return the remaining hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
Netanyahu is under intense pressure to agree to a "hostages for peace" deal with Hamas, which has been under negotiation for several months. The main obstacle in the negotiations is the Philadelphia Corridor, along Gaza's border with Egypt, and the Netzarim Corridor, which crosses Gaza from east to west. Netanyahu insists that Israel maintain control of these corridors to prevent smuggling and capture militant fighters. Hamas demands the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.
About 250 hostages were taken during Hamas' October 7 attacks on southern Israel, in which about 1.200 people were killed. According to The Times of Israel, 97 hostages abducted during the attack are still in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 33 people whose deaths have been confirmed by the Israeli military.
Several Palestinians today reportedly suffocated after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers at the Hamra military checkpoint in the Jordan Valley, the Palestinian Wafa agency reports.
Her correspondent reported that the occupying army fired tear gas at the citizens while they were waiting to cross the checkpoint, which caused several of them to suffocate.
Yesterday, the Israeli occupation forces also obstructed the passage of citizens through the checkpoint and fired tear gas at them.
The Hamra military checkpoint has seen increased military forces for months and often closes the passage to citizens.
The Hamra military checkpoint is the main link between the West Bank cities and the Palestinian Jordan Valley, and one of the main points between Tubas and the Jordan Valley. However, Israel controls the movement of citizens through it.
On Monday, before Israel's attack on the Al Mawasi camp, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres commented on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, saying he had never seen such a level of death and destruction.
"The level of suffering we are witnessing in Gaza is unprecedented during my tenure as Secretary General of the United Nations. I have never seen such a level of death and destruction as we are now seeing in Gaza in recent months," he said.
Underscoring the need for a ceasefire, Guterres said the UN had offered to oversee any ceasefire, but that it was unrealistic to think the UN could play a role in Gaza's future, whether to administer the territory or provide peacekeeping forces, as it was unlikely Israel would accepted the role of the UN.
"Of course, we are ready to do whatever the international community asks of us... The question is whether the parties would accept it, and especially whether Israel would accept it," he added.
The third phase of the ongoing campaign to vaccinate children in Gaza against polio is scheduled to begin today. From September 10 to September 13, children in northern Gaza will receive vaccines, the UN said.
A limited pause in fighting was held to allow for a vaccination campaign, which aims to reach 640.000 vaccinated children in Gaza, after the territory reported its first case of polio in 25 years. Although these temporary ceasefires, agreed between Hamas and Israel, are generally respected in certain parts of Gaza, there are reports of continued Israeli airstrikes killing Palestinian civilians in other parts.
The second round of vaccination will have to be done four weeks after the first.
"We are launching a campaign in the north. We hope to succeed in order to complete the first phase of the campaign. The second and final phase is planned for the end of the month when we will have to repeat all this," Juliet Tuma, UNRWA's director of communications, told Reuters.
Three Palestinians were killed on Tuesday during an Israeli bombardment of Al Shawa Square east of Gaza City, according to the Palestinian Wafa news agency. According to the source, the bomb targeted civilians near a falafel kiosk on Al Hakima Street.
These claims have not yet been independently verified.
Al Mavasi is a narrow strip of coast in the southernmost part of Gaza, near the town of Khan Yunis.
In October, just weeks after the start of the Gaza war, the Israeli military declared Al Mawasi a "humanitarian area" and ordered Gazans to evacuate there to avoid clashes that erupted after Hamas attacks on southern Israel that killed 1.200 people, mostly civilians. The Israeli army promised that "international humanitarian aid will be provided as needed."
During the conflict, the Israeli military repeatedly advised communities in active combat zones to evacuate to Al Mawasa. However, there have been several deadly attacks on this camp.
In January, an Israeli airstrike hit a residential complex in Al Mawasi that housed medical teams and their families from the International Rescue Committee and Palestinian Medical Aid, two NGOs working in Gaza.
In April, during a military operation, an Israeli tank reportedly fired on a house where members of Doctors Without Borders and their families were staying, killing two and wounding six.
In June, the Hamas-controlled health ministry said 25 people were killed and 50 wounded after Israeli shells "targeted the tents of the displaced in the Al Mawasi area".
One airstrike on Al Mawasi in July may have killed Mohammed Deif, Hamas' top military commander in Gaza and one of the architects of the attack on southern Israel that triggered the conflict. In the same attack, at least 92 people were killed and more than 300 were wounded, according to the Ministry of Health in the territory controlled by Hamas.
Several other attacks were also recorded. Although Israeli officials claimed that "international humanitarian assistance will be provided as needed" for the large number of displaced people in Al Mawasi, the reality is quite different.
Several hundred thousand people have settled in Al Mawasi since the beginning of the conflict, although there are hardly any basic services there. The water supply is inadequate, there is almost no sewage, health care is basic, and infectious diseases are on the rise.
In May, an aid worker described to the Guardian the "horrendous and inhumane" conditions, with limited food, dirty and scarce water, overburdened health facilities and almost no sanitation.
Another said the coast was "completely crowded, with rows of tents with narrow passages between them."
"There is no infrastructure in the camps and of course there are almost no new supplies coming in," he said.
Last month, aid officials confirmed that overcrowding in the aid zone was deterring those given evacuation orders by the Israeli military from going there, despite the dangers of staying.
"There's just no space, and people know it, so they stay where they are. You can't get tents, and even if you could find a place, it would be difficult to provide shelter, and the conditions there are terrible," one UN official in Gaza told Guardian.
"Some people refuse to move to Al Mawasi because they simply do not want to leave their homes, but most because they would have nowhere to live if they went there," the official added.
A year ago, Al Mavasi, a strip of coast and dunes, was mostly empty. Aid agencies say it is now home to more than 380.000 people.
Almost all of Gaza's 2,3 million people have been forced to flee their homes at least once, and some have had to flee up to 10 times.
In a statement published online, the Israeli military said that warplanes attacked "terrorists of the terrorist organization Hamas who were operating in a command and control complex hidden in a humanitarian area in Khan Younis", reports the Guardian.
A number of steps were taken before the attack to minimize the chance of civilian casualties, including the use of precision weapons, aerial surveillance and additional intelligence, the Israeli military added in a statement.
Hamas has denied Israeli claims that gunmen were present at the site hit by Israeli strikes on Tuesday morning. In a statement, the militant group also rejected allegations that it used civilian areas for military purposes.
"This is a blatant lie intended to justify these heinous crimes. The resistance movement has repeatedly denied that any of its members are in civilian gatherings or use those places for military purposes," Hamas said in a statement.
"Entire families disappeared in the Mavasa massacre in Khan Yunis, under the sand, in deep holes," said civil defense spokesman Mahmud Basal.
Conflict between Israel and Hamas - 340th day.
At least 40 people were killed and 60 wounded in the Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone in Khan Yunis overnight, the Gaza Civil Defense said, while the Israeli military said the attack targeted a Hamas "command center".
Injured people were taken to hospitals, Gaza civil defense official Mohamed Al-Muhair said, adding that rescue teams were searching for 15 missing in the attack.
The strikes left large craters in the humanitarian zone, where between 20 and 40 tents were completely destroyed.
The Israeli military said it targeted an area in Khan Younis after determining that it was occupied by members of Hamas.
The Palestinian organization Hamas has denied having fighters in the humanitarian zone.
(BETA)
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