Watch as Israeli forces bomb the third high-rise in three days in Gaza City, the eight-story al-Roya residential building. Israel’s city-seizing campaign has currently destroyed at least 50 structures.
The three-judge panel, which has so far mostly refrained from taking any action against the government or military during 23 months of war on besieged and relentlessly bombarded Gaza, deliberated on the issue based on a request from two Israeli rights groups.
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It ruled unanimously on Sunday that the Israeli government had a legal duty to provide Palestinian prisoners with three meals a day to ensure “a basic level of existence” and ordered authorities to fulfil that obligation.
In a two-to-one decision, the court furthermore accepted the petition filed last year by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and Gisha, siding with their allegations that the government’s deliberate restriction of prisoners ‘ food in Israeli detention facilities has caused Palestinians to suffer malnutrition and starvation.
Palestinians in Gaza are meanwhile suffering an Israeli-induced famine, with daily deaths from malnutrition.
“We are not speaking here of comfortable living or luxury, but of the basic conditions of survival as required by law”, the ruling said. “Let us not share in the ways of our worst enemies”.
The Israeli army has taken thousands of Palestinians from Gaza and the occupied West Bank since the start of the nearly two-year war, significantly ramping up its arbitrary detention of people based on suspicions of “terrorism”.
Countless prisoners who have been released have described brutal conditions in Israeli military detention, including torture and abuse, starvation, lack of medical attention, overcrowding, and diseases.
ACRI, one of the two organisations that brought the case forward, said its staff were subjected to “a barrage of harassment, verbal abuse and intimidation” from senior members of the Israeli government and far-right Knesset members during the Supreme Court hearings.
“The outbursts began to seem less like a show of power and intimidation and more like lashing out in desperation”, it said in a statement in late July, when the hearings began.
A main figure fighting their case was Itamar Ben-Gvir, the far-right national security minister of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who leads a small religion-based party and heads the police and other armed forces.
Ben-Gvir attacked the Supreme Court judges following the ruling, saying they are not favouring their country.
“Our hostages in Gaza have no Supreme Court to protect them”, he wrote in a post on X, suggesting that Palestinians now have a Supreme Court that protects them, which they do not.
“We will continue to provide the imprisoned terrorists in jails with the minimum conditions required by law”, he continued.
During a total lunar eclipse that spanned Asia as well as large areas of Europe and Africa, stargazers savored a “blood moon.”
The planet’s shadow on its satellite, when it aligns with the sun, Earth, and moon, gives it an eerie, deep red color, a phenomenon that has fascinated people for ages.
The total eclipse on Sunday, which was also visible on the eastern edge of Africa and in western Australia, was most visible to people in Asia, including those in India and China.
Between 17:30 and 18:52 GMT, the total lunar eclipse occurred.
The Americas were unable to see a partial eclipse until the moon rose in the early evening, which was also available to stargazers in Europe.
According to Ryan Milligan, an astrophysicist at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland, the moon appears red during lunar eclipses because the only sunlight that travels through it is “reflected and scattered through the Earth’s atmosphere.”
He told the AFP news agency that because blue wavelengths are shorter than red, they can be more easily dispersed as they pass through the Earth’s atmosphere.
The moon’s red, bloody color is due to this, according to the legend.
A lunar eclipse can only be observed during clear weather and a designated location, though special glasses or pinhole projectors are required to do so safely.
According to Shincheonji Church of Jesus, a South Korea-based religious group, over 4,000 members of the church who recovered from COVID-19 are willing to donate plasma for developing a new treatment.
Mr. Man Hee Lee, founder of the Shincheonji Church, said that members of the church are advised to donate plasma voluntarily. “As Jesus sacrificed himself with his blood for life, we hope that the blood of people can bring positive effects on overcoming the current situation,” said Mr. Lee.
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