<article data-history-node-id="429508" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-four-sumud-vessels-unlawfully-intercepted-israel" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-four-sumud-vessels-unlawfully-intercepted-israel" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">At least four Sumud vessels unlawfully intercepted by Israel</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israel has now unlawfully intercepted four vessels of the Sumud Flotilla, according to tracking data shared with Middle East Eye by activists.&nbsp;</p> <p>The intercepted vessels are the:&nbsp;Alma, Surius, Adara and Karma.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="428694" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/top-un-legal-investigators-conclude-israel-guilty-genocide-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/top-un-legal-investigators-conclude-israel-guilty-genocide-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The UN’s top investigative body on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestine</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel</a>&nbsp;ruled on Tuesday that Israel is guilty of the crime of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-genocide-gaza" target="_blank">genocide in Gaza</a>, in the most authoritative pronouncement to date.&nbsp;</p> <p>The 72-page report by the UN commission of inquiry on Palestine and Israel finds Israel has committed four of the five acts prohibited under the 1948 Genocide Convention, and that Israeli leaders had the intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza as a group.&nbsp;</p> <p>The finding echoes reports by Palestinian, Israeli and international rights groups that have reached the same conclusion over the past year.</p> <p>But this is the first comprehensive legal probe by a UN body, serving as an indicator of a judgment by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which is currently hearing a case by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide. The ICJ case is expected to take several years to be concluded.&nbsp;</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-concludes-israel-guilty-genocide-gaza">Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza</a></h3> </div> </div> </article>

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