A Palestinian family shares a portion of cooked rice after managing to get hot food from a charity kitchen in southern Gaza on Wednesday — AFP NABLUS, Aug 27 (AFP): The Israeli military on Wednesday launched an operation involving dozens of soldiers and armoured vehicles in the old city of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank, witnesses and Palestinian officials said.
The Israeli military confirmed to AFP that it was conducting an operation, without specifying its purpose. The raid began at around 3:00 am (2400 GMT), residents said, with soldiers storming several neighbourhoods of the old city, which has a population of around 30,000 people.
"The assault on Nablus is merely a show of force with no justification," Nablus Governor Ghassan Daghlas told AFP. One witness, who declined to give his name, reported that soldiers had expelled an elderly couple from their home.
Soldiers "are storming and searching houses and shops inside the old city, while some houses have been turned into military posts," Ghassan Hamdan, head of the Palestinian Medical Relief organisation in Nablus, said.
Oscar-winning director
urges Spain to cut ties
with Israel over Gaza
Oscar-winning Spanish director Pedro Almodovar urged Madrid to cut all diplomatic and commercial ties with Israel Wednesday over the war in Gaza, calling the conflict a "genocide".
The "All About My Mother" director called on Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to convince other European leaders to do the same in a video posted on Instagram by his production company.
"I ask our government to sever diplomatic, commercial, and all types of relations with the State of Israel as a sign of repulsion against the genocide it is committing against the people of Gaza before the eyes of the entire world," he said.
Almodovar has previously signed a letter with other Spanish artists including Javier Bardem denouncing the "silence" over Gaza during the Cannes film festival in May.
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