Reading by Tim Foley:

Gaza's Health Ministry says the most critical drug shortages are in emergency services.

Looks like annexation preparation in Gaza; Israeli cruelty across West Bank; Francesca Albanese latest report; what are Israeli media telling their readers?

<article data-history-node-id="430909" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-atrocities-against-palestinians-normalise-violence-worldwide" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-atrocities-against-palestinians-normalise-violence-worldwide" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli atrocities against Palestinians normalise violence worldwide</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="220" data-start="126">Israel’s assaults on Palestinians have set a dangerous global precedent, a UN expert warned.</p> <p data-end="540" data-start="222">“What happens in Palestine does not stay in Palestine,” Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, said during a briefing on Palestinian rights.</p> <p data-end="540" data-start="222">She described the mass killings and brutalisation of Palestinian women and girls as “the most defining moment that declares the world no longer cares.”</p> <p data-end="823" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="542">Alsalem added that the scale of the atrocities has become so normalised “that no one now bats an eyelid about what is happening to women and girls in conflict and crisis elsewhere.”</p> <p data-end="823" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="542">She warned that existing legal frameworks are inadequate to confront the horrors Palestinians face.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Attacks on Palestinians have intensified during the harvesting season as Israel pushes measures to annex the territory.

<article data-history-node-id="430923" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-militarys-top-lawyer-resigns-over-prison-abuse-video-leak" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-militarys-top-lawyer-resigns-over-prison-abuse-video-leak" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli military's top lawyer resigns over prison abuse video leak</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Israeli military's chief legal officer has resigned following the leak of a video that showed the alleged rape of a Palestinian detainee at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/what-are-atrocities-alleged-have-taken-place-sde-teiman-prison" target="_blank">Sde Teiman</a>&nbsp;detention centre.</p> <p>Advocate General Major-General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi said on Friday&nbsp;that she was stepping down because she had approved the video's leak in August 2024.</p> <p>The surveillance video footage led to five Israeli reserve soldiers being charged. A criminal investigation into how the leak happened was launched by Israeli police earlier this week.</p> <p>Before her resignation, Defence Minister Israel Katz had said that Tomer-Yerushalmi would not be allowed to return to her post.&nbsp;</p> <p>In her resignation letter,&nbsp;Tomer-Yerushalmi wrote: “I approved the release of material to the media in an attempt to counter false propaganda against the army's law enforcement authorities.”</p> <p>She called Sde Teiman detainees - where some Hamas fighters who participated in the 7 October attack on Israel are held - “terrorists of the worst kind,” but added that this did not take away from the obligation to investigate suspected abuse.</p> <p>“To my regret, this basic understanding - that there are acts to which even the most vile of detainees must not be subjected - is no longer convincing to all,” she said.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Israel launched major airstrikes on Gaza, killing at least 104 people, including 46 children, in the deadliest attacks since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire was announced. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...