<article data-history-node-id="422130" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/spain-provide-money-support-un-investigations-israeli-human-rights" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/spain-provide-money-support-un-investigations-israeli-human-rights" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Spain to provide money to support UN investigations into Israeli human rights abuses</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">Spain will provide more than $560,000 to support UN investigations into human rights violations and possible war crimes committed in Gaza, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said, according to media reports on Monday.</p> <p>"With the aim of ending these violations of international law and with the desire to ensure accountability, I announce that we will support the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in increasing its investigative efforts into human rights violations and war crimes that may have been committed in Gaza,” Albares told Spain’s Committee on Foreign Affairs.</p> <p>He said the humanitarian crisis in Gaza caused by Israel’s aid blockade &nbsp;was "totally and absolutely unacceptable" and held Israel responsible for "causing an unprecedented famine".</p> <p>"The urgent entry of food is necessary to save the lives of innocent Palestinians," he said. "The civilian population of Gaza deserves dignity and peace, and Spain demands it and will continue to demand it."</p> <p>Last week, Spain participated in the International Court of Justice hearings concerning Israel’s obligations as an occupying power towards the Gaza Strip and West Bank.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="420846" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/trump-boasts-about-bombing-yemeni-villagers" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/trump-boasts-about-bombing-yemeni-villagers" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Trump boasts about bombing Yemeni 'villagers'</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Donald Trump has taken to Truth Social to brag about a US air strike in Yemen, claiming it wiped out Houthi fighters. The US president, posted a video of an air strike that left a gaping crater at the scene.</p> <p>“These Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack. Oops, there will be no attack by these Houthis! They will never sink our ships again!” Trump proclaimed.</p> <p>Abdulrahman al-Ahnomi, a senior Houthi media official, dismissed Trump’s claim outright, insisting the victims were Yemeni villagers, not fighters.</p> <p>“The US president is showing off his terrorism before the world,” he wrote on X. “Targeting a tribal gathering is not a victory, but a reflection of the US’s failure to identify any real targets.”</p> <p>Washington continues its campaign against the Houthis, who have been disrupting Red Sea shipping in solidarity with Gaza.</p> </div> </div> </article>

The Red Crescent says dead include eight of its personnel, five from the Palestinian Civil Defence and one UN employee.

<span class="field field-title">Israel denied entry to members of EU parliament on official mission</span> <span class="field field-uid"><a title="View user profile." href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/pauline-ertel" lang about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/pauline-ertel" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>Pauline Ertel</a></span> <span class="field field-created"><time datetime="2025-03-12T11:04:31+00:00" title="12 March 2025 11:04 GMT">Wed, 03/12/2025 - 11:04</time> </span> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>On 24 February, MEPs Lynn Boylan and Rima Hassan were refused entry to Israel during an official mission from the European Parliament.</p> <p>During an Irish parliamentary session earlier this week, Ireland's Boylan spoke out against the incident and described how the group of MEPs, including herself, were “detained and subsequently&nbsp;deported" when attempting to enter Israel.&nbsp;</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Today I raised the fact that Israel prevented the EU Parliaments official mission to Palestine from taking place and confiscated the phones of 2 MEPs and 2 officials for 90 mins. <a href="https://t.co/il3z2DBoLS">pic.twitter.com/il3z2DBoLS</a></p> — Lynn Boylan 🍷📖🐾 (@LNBDublin) <a href="https://twitter.com/LNBDublin/status/1899194821559869897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p>“While detained by the Israeli authorities, our electronic devices were confiscated for over ninety minutes. Our passports, including an Irish diplomatic passport were confiscated and not returned to us until we arrived back in Brussels,” Boylan explained.&nbsp;</p> <p>The group of MEPs that was&nbsp;travelling to Israel form part of the European Parliament’s delegation for relations with Palestine, of which Boylan is the chair. The delegation&nbsp;holds regular meetings with Palestinian and international groups on EU-Palestinian relations and on political, economic and social and human rights developments in Palestine.</p> </div>

Prime minister and colleagues use political code to push back at proposal without directly criticising US president