Law, Power, and Justice

MORNING NEWS NOTES

ISRAEL

• The US and the international community are calling for a rejuvenated Palestinian Authority as a possibility of governing post-war Gaza, but it seems President Abbas is going to appoint an insider as the new Prime Minister (NYT). 
• Some 2.2 million Gazans are now in Rafah and Egypt is closing down entry into Egypt as Netanyahu continues to maintain that Israel is going after Hamas fighters in Rafah (NYT)
• Canada promised equal amounts of money to aid Palestinian and Israeli women who were victims of sexual assault.  Israel’s special envoy for combating Antisemitism accused Canada of creating a false equivalency.
• Stabbing attack in Southern Israel.  The assailant is a 22-year-old Israeli citizen originally from Gaza. The man grew up in Gaza, moved to Israel and was granted citizenship.  Police ask the public to be “alert to suspicious individuals and objects” (Haaretz).
• Senate Majority Leader, Shumer, calls for new elections in Israel (Haaretz).
• IDF says it plans to “flood” Gaza with aid.  This is in response to international pressure (Haaretz).
• The international aid ship has left Cyprus for Gaza, but it is still unclear how the ship will be unloaded, or the aid distributed (Haaretz).   (Note: Several commentators have remarked on how this could easily become a disaster.)
• Hamas has drawn Israel into a trap.  It wins politically every time Israel kills Palestinian civilians (Opinion, Haaretz).
• “…at no point in the last five months has there been a clear Israeli policy on allowing supplies into the Strip (Haaretz).”
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