The Times of Israel is liveblogging Sunday’s events as they happen.
Chile joins South Africa’s Gaza genocide case against Israel at ICJ
Chilean President Gabriel Boric says his country is joining South Africa in its case at the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide in the war against Hamas in Gaza.
Speaking to the National Congress, Boric decries the “catastrophic humanitarian situation” in Gaza and calls for “a firm response from the international community.”
“Chile will become a party to and support the case that South Africa presented against Israel before the International Court of Justice in The Hague,” Boric says.
The ICJ is considering South Africa’s case, but in the interim has brought in “preliminary measures” ordering Israel do everything it can to prevent acts of genocide during its military campaign against Hamas.
Chile has recognized Palestine as a state since 2011, and Boric has previously said the war in Gaza has “no justification” and is “unacceptable.”
Senior Netanyahu adviser on Biden’s Gaza truce offer: ‘It’s not a good deal but we dearly want the hostages released’
A senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is quoted as saying that there are “a lot of details to be worked out” in the latest hostage release and ceasefire deal presented by US President Joe Biden last night.
“There are a lot of details to be worked out and that includes there will not be a permanent ceasefire until all our objectives are met,” Ophir Falk tells the British Sunday Times.
He is also quoted as saying Biden’s address was “a political speech for whatever reasons.”
According to the report, Falk stresses that while Israel agreed to the deal, “it’s not a good deal but we dearly want the hostages released, all of them.”
Echoing an earlier statement by Netanyahu, he adds that Israel’s conditions to end the war in Gaza, sparked by Hamas’s October 7 massacre, “have not changed — the release of the hostages and the destruction of Hamas as a genocidal terrorist organization.”
Houthis claim six operations in Red Sea, Indian Ocean including strike on US aircraft carrier
CAIRO – Yemen’s Houthis conducted six operations targeting a US aircraft carrier, a US destroyer and three vessels in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, the Iranian-backed group’s military spokesperson Yahya Saree says.
The Houthi militia, which controls the most populous parts of Yemen, has attacked ships off its coast for months, saying it is acting in solidarity with Palestinians amid the ongoing war in Gaza.
The group “targeted the American aircraft carrier, the Eisenhower, north of the Red Sea, with a number of missiles and drones,” Saree says, adding it was “the second targeting operation against the carrier during the past 24 hours.”
The spokesperson also adds that the other operations have targeted a US destroyer and the ABLIANI ship in the Red Sea, along with “the MAINA ship that has been targeted twice in the Red Sea and in the Arabian Sea as well.”
Additionally, “the ship ALORAIQ has been targeted in the Indian Ocean,” he added.
The Houthi fighters’ drone and missile strikes have been aimed at the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Gulf of Aden, forcing shippers since November to re-route cargo on longer and more expensive journeys around southern Africa.
New York Police arrest 22 at anti-Israel demonstration at Brooklyn Museum
New York police have arrested at least 22 people after anti-Israel protesters picketed New York’s Brooklyn Museum, charging some with offenses including assault, according to officers, with the gallery reporting damage to artwork.
Hundreds of demonstrators had descended on the art museum yesterday, chanting anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian slogans, and carrying banners and placards, an AFP correspondent reports seeing.
While many remain outside, some enter the museum, with a giant black and white banner reading “Free Palestine, divest from genocide” unfurled above the museum facade’s six distinctive columns.
A pro-Palestinian organization named Within Our Lifetime urged demonstrators to “flood Brooklyn Museum for Gaza,” alluding to the name that Hamas gave to its October 7 terror onslaught that started the war in Gaza. Within Our Lifetime, which praised the Hamas-led attack in the immediate aftermath of the atrocities, says activists occupied the museum to compel it to disclose any Israel-related investments and to divest any such funding.
The moment that our march arrived at the doors of @brooklynmuseum, which they closed early to arrest activists de-occupying the inside demanding they divest from the Gaza genocide ???????? WOL chair @NerdeenKiswani was targeted and brutally arrested by the NYPD#BoycottBrooklynMuseum pic.twitter.com/1RkOoH6TmA
— Within Our Lifetime (@WOLPalestine) June 1, 2024
There have been waves of protests in New York and across the United States, both pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli, since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, which was triggered by Hamas’s massacre in southern Israel on October 7.
Those arrested are accused of offenses ranging from assaulting police officers, resisting arrest and riding a bicycle on the sidewalk.
Lesser action was taken against seven others, police say.
“Unfortunately, there was damage to existing and newly installed artwork on our plaza, and our public safety staff were physically and verbally harassed,” says a spokeswoman for the Brooklyn Museum, confirming that the site was closed early yesterday morning.
Rocket alert sirens sounding in northern community of Arab al-Aramshe
Rocket alert sirens are sounding in the northern community of Arab al-Aramshe, warning of incoming rocket fire.
Towns and cities on the northern border have been largely evacuated since October 8, when Hezbollah-led forces in Lebanon began attacking Israeli communities and military posts on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.
Red Alert [00:12:11] – 1 Alert:
• Confrontation Line — Arab al-Aramshe#Israel #RocketAlert #RedAlert pic.twitter.com/80z7qb2Fa7
— ILRedAlert (@ILRedAlert) June 1, 2024