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Gaza: 150 Palestinians were killed, 313 wounded by Israeli attacks in past 24 hours

noreply@blogger.com (Blogger) — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 08:51:00 -0800

London, (Agencies): 150 Palestinians were killed and 313 were wounded by Israeli attacks in Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, according to Health Ministry. This brings the number of Palestinians killed to 26,751, including 11,000 children, 7,500 women, and 65,636 injured. 8,000 Palestinians are missing.

At least nine civilians, including a child, were killed and several others injured over the last hours due to Israeli aerial and artillery strikes targeting residential areas across the Gaza Strip, reports Wafa news agency.

Palestinian officials accuse Israeli troops of killing at least 30 civilians “execution-style” after blindfolded bodies with hands bound are discovered in a mass grave in northern Gaza, according to Al Jazeera.

Meanwhile, Christian Aid, Global Justice Now, Oxfam and War on Want say that until the UK stops sending weapons to Israel, it is complicit in the “slaughter of innocent civilians taking place every day in Gaza”.

“The UK public have consistently and overwhelmingly supported a ceasefire, with more than seven in ten in favour according to recent polling, while fewer than one in five approve of the government’s handling of the conflict,” the aid groups said in a statement.

They also called on the UK government to “insist” that Israel abides by the provisional measures ordered by the ICJ last week, including taking steps to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza.

“A ceasefire was needed yesterday,” the groups’ statement added.

“We don’t know where they were injured or even their names,” Dr Omar Abu Taha tells Al Jazeera as Palestinians bury dozens of bodies, released by Israel, in Rafah.

Meanwhile, Israeli troops have stormed al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis and are demanding doctors and displaced Palestinians evacuate, the Palestine Red Crescent says.

Israel has repeated new evacuation orders for neighbourhoods in western Gaza City where 88,000 Palestinians had been living in shelters, the UN humanitarian agency (OCHA) has said.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society has released a video showing the burial of an infant girl and an elderly woman, aged 75, in the yard of al-Amal Hospital.

The organisation said the two died after oxygen had ran out in the medical facility.

According to local sources, Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike on a residence in the Maghrebi neighborhood southeast of Gaza City, resulting in the killing of two individuals and the injury of others, reports Wafa.

Simultaneously, ongoing artillery shelling on the city of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip led to the killing of three civilians and left dozens more injured. The wounded were promptly transported to Kamal Adwan Hospital for medical treatment.

In a separate incident, Israeli forces targeted a vehicle north of the city of Rafah, south of the enclave, resulting in the tragic death of four civilians, including a child, and injuring others.

Additionally, dozens of civilians were injured as a result of Israeli forces targeting the Yarmouk Stadium in Gaza City. The wounded were swiftly transferred to Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital for medical treatment.

Accoding to Israeli authorities 1,139 Israelis were killed by Hamas in southern Israel on 7 October, 2013. 136 Israeli and foreign nationals are still held captive by Hamas in Gaza.

[Photo: Injured Palestinian child being treated at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital following Israeli attacks in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza on 31 1 24.
Photojournalist: Ali Jadallah/ AA]

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West Bank: Israeli sp forces dressed in doctors & nurses’ uniforms raid hospital in Jenin, kill 3 Palestinians

noreply@blogger.com (Blogger) — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 10:50:00 -0800

By Harun Nasrullah

London (The Muslim News): Israeli troops disguised themselves as doctors, nurses, and civilians invaded a hospital in Jenin City, north of the occupied West Bank, on Tuesday morning, killing three Palestinians, including two brothers. Israeli military claimed the three members of a “Hamas terrorist cell” were planning to carry out terror attacks. Meanwhile Israeli forces killed 215 Palestinians in Gaza in the last 24 hours.

Ten Israeli special forces troops dressed in doctor and nurse costumes, as well as ordinary people wielding automatic weapons, attacked the Ibn Sina Hospital and killed three youngsters with silencers, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing hospital sources.

The three Palestinians killed have been identified as brothers Mohammad and Basil Al-Ghazzawi and Mohammad Jalamna, with 25-year-old Basil undergoing medical care in a hospital when Israeli soldiers attacked, according to the news agency.

In a viral video released on platform X, Israeli troops can be seen brandishing guns and terrorising hospital workers and patients. One of the soldiers, clothed totally in black, is seen forcing a Palestinian to lower his knees while raising his hands.

When Israeli troops stormed the hospital with rifles in hand and looked to be screaming at the patients, panic spread throughout the facility.

Palestinian Health Minister Mai Alkaila urged the United Nations and international rights organisations to put an end to Israel’s daily atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as to safeguard Palestinian health facilities from attack.

The Palestinian groups in Jenin have called for a general strike to protest the killing of Palestinians. Many Palestinian civilians have been killed in Israeli attacks on residential homes in the Sabra and Tuffah neighbourhoods of Gaza City, the Wafa news agency reports.

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, more than 380 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank since Oct. 7, with over 4,000 others injured.

Meawhile in Gaza, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, at least 26,637 Palestinians have been killed, including 11,000 chldren, 7,500 women and 65,387 wounded in Israeli indiscriminate bombings on Gaza since October 7. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, 7,500 Palestinians are missing.

According to Israeli authorities 1,139 Israelis were killed by Hamas in southern Israel on October 7. 136 Israelis and foreigners are still held captive by Hamas in Gaza.

[Photo: Relatives of 3 Palestinians killed by Israeli special forces in Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin, West Bank on 30 1 24. Photojournalist: Nedal Eshtayah/ AA]

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Gaza: 350 Palestinians killed, 310 injured by Israeli bombing last 48 hours

noreply@blogger.com (Blogger) — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 01:50:00 -0800

Gaza City, (WAFA): Medical sources said that the Israeli forces haves “committed 38 massacres” in the Gaza Strip during the last 48 hours, killing 350, at least 24 of whom were killed in the ongoing shelling of Khan Yunis, in south of Gaza, bringing total number of Palestinians killed to 26,422, including 11,000 children, 7,500 women and 65,087 injured. Gaza Ministry of Heatlh said 7,800 Palestinians are still missing.

As Israeli bombing on Gaza enters 115th day, dozens of civilians, mostly children and women, were killed and others wounded following the ongoing Israeli shelling of multiple areas in Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that journalist Issam Al-Lulu along with his wife and two sons were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting the town of Al-Zawaida, in the middle of the Gaza Strip.

This brings the total number of journalists who were killed to 121 since the the beginning of the aggression.

Israeli military forces carried out intense and fierce airstrikes targeting Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, and the Tal Al-Hawa area, west of the city, killing several people and causing multiple causalities.

Earlier last night, at least 23 civilians were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting an inhabited house belonging to Al-Mutwi family west of Nuseirat camp, in the central Strip.

Meanwhile, Israeli fighter jets bombed a house west of Al-Zawaida, in the central region, killing 14 people and injuring of several others.

Medical sources said that the Israeli forces “have committed 38 massacres” in the Gaza Strip during the last 48 hours, killing 350, at least 24 of whom were killed in the ongoing shelling of Khan Yunis, in south of Gaza.

Wafa reporting on Saturday said dozens of people, mostly women and children, have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza overnight.

Ten Palestinian civilians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli shelling of a house in the Shati refugee camp to the west of Gaza City, the news agency reports, citing local sources.

At least 23 civilians were also killed and others injured when Israeli air attacks hit a multistorey house west of the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip, Wafa reports.

Dozens of civilians, mostly children and women, were killed and others were wounded in a barrage of Israeli airstrikes that targeted several areas across Gaza Strip.

Israeli fighter jets shelled at least five homes in the Al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City, killing several people and causing multiple causalities.

According to sources, ambulance and rescue crews are facing difficulty in reaching the wounded individuals and people killed due to the intensified Israeli shelling, amid constant shooting to prevent any movement on the ground.

Meanwhile, Israeli artillery bombed a school belonging United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA) housing displaced people in Al-Rimal neighborhood, killing at least 10 people.

The Israeli army also raided the school and brutally beat up civilians who took the school as a shelter from the ongoing Israeli shelling.

Additionally, the airforce shelled, with two missiles, two ambulance vehicles, killing several people and injuring dozens of others.

Ambulance and rescue teams were unable to transfer the injured individuals and people killed to the besieged al-Shifa hospital, amid constant shooting of heavy gunfire, causing multiple casualties among displaced persons inside the hospital.

Israeli warplanes further bombed a cemetery and gatherings of citizens in Al-Daraj neighborhood in the central Gaza Strip, killing two people.

Meanwhile, Israeli artillery jets targeted several inhabited homes in Al-Sabra and Al-Zaytoun neighborhoods in the city.

In Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli aircraft bombed two houses, massively destroying them.

Intense Israeli airstrikes targeted several civilians in Beit Lahia, wounding dozens, who were transferred to Kamal Adwan and the Indonesian hospitals in the north for medical treatment.

According to Israeli authorities, 1,139 Israelis were killed on October 7 in southern Israel by Hamas and 136 Israelis and foreigners are still held captive by Hamas in Gaza.

[Photo: Mother & daughter among debris of collapsed structure due to bombing by Israeli forces taking refuge in Rafah, Gaza on 28 1 24. Photojournalist: Abed Zagout /AA]

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ICJ: Israel on notice for “plausible” genocide against Palestinians

noreply@blogger.com (Blogger) — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 10:50:00 -0800

By Mahomed Faizal

London (The Musilm News): In an historic ruling, the United Nation’s apex court, the International Court of Justice, has drawn the veil from more than seven decades of Israel’s impunity by ruling on Januart 26 that South Africa’s claim that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza is indeed “plausible”.

The decision is part of a larger case brought to The Hague by South Africa in December, which alleged that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The Israeli killing of Palestinians escalated after 7 October 2023, when the Hamas attacked Israel at the Zikim military base, five kilometres north of Gaza City, seizing many prisoners.

On 11-12 January, South Africa asked the ICJ to issue provisional measures that would require Israel to immediately halt its assault on Gaza. Israel in its response asked the ICJ to reject SA’s application on the grounds that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the case because critical conditions had not been met, including that South Africa had not declared a dispute between the two states. The court rejected Israel’s request to throw the case out.

Noting the “catastrophic humanitarian situation” in the Gaza Strip, the Court also found “urgency” and “real imminent risk” that irreparable damage will be done to Palestinians before the case concludes. On this basis, the court found it necessary to order a series of provisional—or “emergency”—measures to protect the population based on South Africa’s pleadings.

In delivering the six provisional measures, the Court’s President, Joan Donoghue, said Israel must ensure “with immediate effect” that its forces not commit any genocidal acts against Gazans. These acts include the deliberate physical destruction of Gazans’, which is carried out with the intent to destroy the Gazan people. It also ordered Israel to prevent and punish incitement to genocide, to prevent destruction and preserve evidence of crimes, and to report back to the court in a month on the implementation of these measures. However, the order stops short of calling for a cease-fire.

The ICJ also ruled that to further reduce the risk of genocide, Israel must immediately allow food, water, medical aid, fuel, and other humanitarian aid into Gaza, without delay or hinderance on quantities or types of aid. The court found that Palestinians are facing a “catastrophic humanitarian situation” and Israel must restore conditions that can support life in Gaza and it must must limit its military operations to ensure that the aid can be delivered to all of Gaza. Further Israel must ensure that Gazans are not attacked while waiting for humanitarian aid.

The ICJ’s provisional measures against Israel “have binding effect and thus create international legal obligations for any party to whom the provisional measures are addressed.”

While the Court’s decision was not intended to answer the question of whether Israel is committing genocide, it held that “at least some of the acts and omissions alleged by South Africa to have been committed by Israel in Gaza appear to be capable of falling within the provisions of the Convention.”

According to the Court these “facts and circumstances mentioned above are sufficient to conclude that at least some of the rights claimed by South Africa and for which it is seeking protection are plausible.”

This means that the case can proceed to a decision on the merits. It also puts other states—namely, the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and all other countries offering support to Israel — on genocide notice. These countries could also be held complicit in the encouragement, condonation and promotion of genocide.

The Court voted 15-2 on the measure that Israel must do all in its power to stop genocidal acts in Gaza and by 16 votes to 1, that Israel needs to to prevent and punish those involved with inciting genocide against Palestinians. By a 16-1 vote, the judges said that Israel must take “immediate and effective” measures to ensure the provision of urgently needed humanitarian aid and basic services.

South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Naledi Pandor, stated that should the ICJ find there is genocide, the states that aided Israel would be considered complicit in the commission of the crime under the Convention.

South Africa’s International Relations and Cooperation Department said in a statement that the decision “marks a decisive victory for the international rule of law and a significant milestone in the search for justice for the Palestinian people.”

“Third States are now on notice of the existence of a serious risk of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. They must, therefore, also act independently and immediately to prevent genocide by Israel and to ensure that they are not themselves in violation of the Genocide Convention, including by aiding or assisting in the commission of genocide. This necessarily imposes an obligation on all States to cease funding and facilitating Israel’s military actions, which are plausibly genocidal’, it continued

The statement added that “South Africa will continue to act within the institutions of global governance to protect the rights, including the fundamental right to life, of Palestinians in Gaza – which continue to remain at urgent risk including from Israeli military assault, starvation and disease – and to obtain the fair and equal application of international law to all, in the interest of our collective humanity. Notably, South Africa will continue to do everything within its power to preserve the existence of the Palestinian people as a group, to end all acts of apartheid and genocide against the Palestinian people and to walk with them towards the realisation of their collective right to self-determination, for, as Nelson Mandela momentously declared, “our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians”.

Addressing the South African nation on Friday after the ICJ ruling, President Cyril Ramaphosa, said: “We, as South Africans, will not be passive bystanders and watch the crimes that were visited upon us being perpetrated elsewhere.”

Algeria has formally notified the United Nations Security Council of the Court’s order. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has directed Algeria’s permanent mission to the UN to request a Security Council meeting to “give an executable form” to decisions by the ICJ.

The UNSC is schedule to meet on Wednesday, 31 January, to discuss the ICJ’s ruling.

[Photo: Injured Palestinian child at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital for treatment following Israeli attacks in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza on 26 1 24.
Photojournalist: Ashraf Amra/ AA]

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Gaza: ICJ decisions on Gaza are binding: UN Chief

noreply@blogger.com (Blogger) — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 16:50:00 -0800

By Diyar Guldogan

WASHINGTON (AA) :After the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a provisional rulings on Gaza, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday said that the court’s decisions are “binding.”

“The Secretary-General recalls that, pursuant to the Charter and to the Statute of the Court, decisions of the Court are binding and trusts that all parties will duly comply with the Order from the Court,” his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement .

The statement came after the ICJ ordered Israel to “take all measures within its power” to prevent further bloodshed in Gaza in line with Genocide Convention obligations. The court also called for the immediate release of all hostages.

“He also notes the Court’s instruction to Israel to ensure with immediate effect that its military does not commit any of these acts.

“Further, the Secretary-General takes special note of the Court’s order to Israel to ensure the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to address the adverse conditions of life faced by Palestinians in Gaza,” he added.

Guterres will promptly transmit the notice of the provisional measures ordered by the Court to the Security Council, Dujarric said.

At a news briefing, Dujarric told the reporters that Guterres “strongly” believes that the Court’s decisions should be respected as they are binding, and he believes in the dependence of the Court.

Underlying the call of Guterres for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, Dujarric said: “His position has been what it is. It’s been very clear. We’ve taken note of everything that the court has decided.”

South Africa brought a genocide case against Israel to the ICJ in late December and asked it to grant emergency measures to end the bloodshed in Gaza, where more than 26,000 Palestinians have been killed, including 10,400 children, 7,100 women and 64,487 injured since Oct. 7. 7,800 Palestinians are missing.

The court also ordered Israel to take “immediate and effective” measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance in the Gaza Strip, but fell short of ordering a cease-fire.

What are the provisional measures ordered by ICJ?

ICJ on Friday ordered Israel to contain death and damage in its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, where more than 26,000 Palestinians have been killed since last October.

Seventeen judges sat on the panel, which dismissed Israel’s request to throw out the case.

Public hearings on South Africa’s request for provisional measures were held on Jan. 11 and 12.

The provisional measures:

1 Israel shall, in accordance with obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention, take all measures to prevent genocide in Gaza Strip

By 15 votes to 2

Against: Uganda, Israel

2. Israel shall ensure with immediate effect that its military does not commit any genocidal acts

By 15 votes to 2

Against: Uganda, Israel

3 – Israel shall take all measures to prevent and punish direct and public offense to commit genocide

By 16 votes to 1

Against: Uganda

4 – Israel shall take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to address the adverse conditions of life faced by Palestinians

By 16 votes to 1

Against: Uganda

5 – Israel shall take effective measures to prevent the destruction and ensure the preservation of evidence related to accusation of acts of genocide

By 15 votes to 2

Against: Uganda, Israel

6 – Israel shall submit a report to the ICJ on all measures taken to give effect to this order within 1 month

By 15 votes to 2

Against: Uganda, Israel

[Photo: Netherlands The Hague South Africa Minister of Foreign Affairs Naledi Pandor making statements after attending ICJ session on Gaza genocide case against Israel made by South Africa at The Hague, Netherlands on 26 1 24. Photojournalist: Selman Aksünger/ AA]

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Gaza: 210 Palestinians killed last 24 hours by Israeli bombing

noreply@blogger.com (Blogger) — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 01:50:00 -0800

Gaza, (Wafa, AA, Al Jazeera): 210 Palestinians have been killed by indiscriminate Israeli bombing in Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours according to Gaza Health Ministry, increasing the number of Palestinians killed to 25,700, including 10,400 children, 7,100 women and 63,740 injured. 7,000 Palestinians are still missing.

The Israeli army carried out an airstrike Wednesday on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip which killed four children.

The children’s bodies were found in the debris of houses, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.

It added that the Israeli military continued its attacks from the air and ground on the Khan Younis region in southern Gaza, targeting the surroundings of Nasir Hospital with artillery shells.

The World Health Organization’s director-general denounced Israel’s bombardment of the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday.

“The ongoing heavy bombardment, evacuation orders and killing of civilians in Khan Younis, Gaza is just horrendous,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.

“WHO team joined an UNRWA mission to help those who were injured in today’s blast at the training centre where civilians were sheltering,” he noted and extended his condolences to the victims’ families.

Earlier, the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Gaza, Thomas White, wrote on X that an attack on the Khan Younis Training Centre took place Wednesday, during which two tank rounds hit a building that shelters 800 people.

Nine people were killed and 75 injured in the attack, according to White.

“Two tank rounds hit a building that shelters 800 people,” Thomas White, Director of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza, said on X.

According to an Anadolu reporter, a fire erupted at the center as a result of the Israeli shelling.

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said heavy bombardment of Khan Younis continues.

“Ordering trapped people to evacuate and bombing them before they can even do so is callous,” Griffiths said on X.

The Israeli offensive has left 85% of Gaza’s population internally displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.

*Diyar Guldogan from Washington contributed to this report

Gaza’s Health Ministry accused the Israeli army Wednesday of shelling two medical facilities in the southern city of Khan Younis.

“Israeli forces are extensively shelling the vicinity of Nasser Medical Complex and al-Amal Hospital” in Khan Younis, ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told Anadolu.

He said Israeli forces blocked roads to the two facilities and prevented ambulance dispatches there.

The spokesman warned that patients and medical staff at the two facilities “are at severe risk.”

Palestinian health authorities have repeatedly accused the Israeli army of targeting hospitals and ambulances during its deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7.

Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reports Israeli forces have imposed a “complete curfew” around al-Amal Hospital as Israel continues its assault on Khan Younis.

Israeli shelling of the al-Satar al-Gharbi area of Khan Younis has led to the deaths of at least three people including two children.

Israeli forces are inside Al-Khair Hospital, between Khan Younis and Rafah, according to the UN humanitarian agency’s (OCHA) latest update, while three hospitals and an ambulance headquarters are under siege in Khan Younis.

The main medical facilities surrounded by heavy fighting in Khan Younis are:

Nasser Hospital
Al-Amal Hospital
Al-Aqsa Hospital

According to israeli authorities, 1,139 Israelis were killed in southern Israel by Hamas on October 7. Israel says 136 Israelis and foreign indiciduals are still held captive by Hamas in Gaza.

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Gaza: 195 Palestinians killed by Israeli indiscriminate bombing

noreply@blogger.com (Blogger) — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 02:50:00 -0800

By Abdul Adil

Gaza, (AA, Aljazeera, Wafa): According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, 195 Palestinians were killed by Israeli indiscriminate bombing in the last 24 hours in Gaza Strip.

The Ministry said total number of Palestinians killed since October 7 has risen to 25,490, including 10,400 children, 7,100 women and 63,354 injured. 7,000 Palestinians are still missing.

There was mass panic as Israeli forces issued evacuation orders for about 513,000 people crammed into an area in southern Gaza to flee elsewhere.

Medical sources tell Al Jazeera “at least 40” Palestinians were killed in Khan Younis over the day while Israeli bombings are preventing the recovery of “dozens” more bodies.

Israeli forces targeted a school in Khan Younis that was sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians, critically injuring at least eight people, according to Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud.

“We heard from paramedics and first responders that it was difficult to transfer those injured inside the school to Nasser Hospital … despite the fact it was a very short distance,” said Mahmoud, reporting from Rafah.

“The intensity of the bombing prevented the ambulance and paramedics from getting to the school … this is what we have been seeing since the early hours of this morning.”

As a days-long, intense Israeli bombing campaign continues in Khan Younis, the UN reports that almost 90,000 residents and 425,000 displaced people have been ordered by the Israeli military to leave certain residential areas in the city in southern Gaza.

The Israeli military has killed three Palestinian civilians in strikes on the headquarters of the Palestine Red Crescent Society in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, the organisation says.

“Three displaced people were martyred and two others were injured as a result of the occupation’s targeting in front of the northern gate of the association’s headquarters in Khan Yunis,” the medical charity wrote on X.

According to Wafa news agency, the Palestinian Red Crescent said that three displaced people were killed, and two others were injured, after Israeli fighter jets targeted the northern gate of the Red Crescent headquarters in Khan Younis.

According to medical sources, at least 50 people were killed and nearly 120 injured after Israeli airstrikes shelled the western areas of Khan Younis during the past 24 hours.

Meanwhile, the UN humanitarian office warned Tuesday that the Gaza Strip will “bleed to death” amid the denial of humanitarian access to the Palestinian enclave.

”The recurrent denial of access of humanitarian teams to northern Gaza is preventing the needed scale-up of life-saving operations,” Olga Cherevko, a spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said in a statement

”Today was the first time that we managed to reach Al-Shifa Hospital after five days of denied and aborted missions,” she added.

“Equipment, fuel, water and food are all in very short supply,” the spokesperson said. ”The doctors told us stories today of incredible courage of people’s strength and resilience and the suffering we saw coming here is unimaginable.”

She cited a doctor in Al-Shifa Hospital as saying ”we are so alone in this world; they have forgotten us. “The world must not grow numb to the suffering of the people in Gaza.”

”Unless we are enabled to with safe, meaningful and sustained access to these areas, Gaza will simply bleed out,” Cherevko.

According to Israeli authorities, 1,139 Israelis were killed in southern Israel by Hamas on October 7. 136 Israelis and foreign nationals are still being detained by Hamas in Gaza Strip.

[Photo: Relatives of Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks in Khan Yunis mourn at Najjar Hospital in Rafah city, Gaza on 24 1 24.
Photojournalist: Abed Rahim Khatib/ AA]

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Gaza: 190 Palestinians killed, 340 injured last 24 hours by Israeli attacks

noreply@blogger.com (Blogger) — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 01:50:00 -0800

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA): At least 190 people have been killed and 340 others injured in the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, bringing the total Palestinian death toll from Israel’s deadly assault on the besieged enclave since Oct. 7 to 25,295, the Ministry of Health in the territory said Monday.

A ministry statement said Palestinians killed included 10,400 children, 7,100 women and 63,000 others have been injured in the offensive during the same period. 7,000 Palestinians are still missing.

“Many people are still trapped under rubble as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.

Some 70,000 houses have been completely destroyed in Israeli attacks, and 290,000 houses were made uninhabitable.

On Israeli attacks on the health care sector, the statement said 337 health care workers and 45 civilian defense officials have so far been killed.

Since Oct. 7, a total of 119 journalists have lost their lives in Israeli attacks in Gaza.

Attacks threw health care in crisis, endangering lives

Israeli forces detained 99 healthcare workers and 10 journalists, and 2 million people were displaced in the Gaza Strip.

Pointing to the inhumane conditions in crowded shelters where Palestinian displaced seek refuge, the statement said 400,000 cases of infectious diseases and more than 8,000 cases of Hepatitis A have been detected as a result of Israel’s forced displacement.

Some 60,000 pregnant women in Gaza face critical risks due to the inability to provide health care, while 350,000 individuals with chronic illnesses are facing critical risks due to the lack of medication.

The Israeli army destroyed 140 government facilities as well as 99 schools and universities, while partially damaging 295 schools and universities.

Outside Gaza, there are 11,000 injured people who need treatment, and 10,000 cancer patients are facing the risk of death due to inadequate health care.

The statement said the Israeli army damaged 253 mosques and also caused the destruction of three churches.

Israel targeted 150 health care institutions in Gaza, rendered 53 health centers and 30 hospitals inoperative, and made 122 ambulances unusable.

Israel also targeted Palestine’s cultural heritage, destroying 200 historical and cultural assets in Gaza.

The statement further decried how the Israeli army has launched more than 65,000 tons of explosives at Gaza since Oct. 7.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army said Tuesday that at least 21 troops were killed and several others injured in a single ambush in the central Gaza Strip.

In a statement, army spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the incident took place near the Kissufim border community as Hamas attacked the soldiers attempting to destroy military infrastructure of the Palestinian resistance group.

He said the Hamas fighters fired a rocket-propelled grenade at an Israeli tank, while, simultaneously, an explosion caused two two-story buildings to collapse.

“The buildings collapsed due to this explosion, while most of the forces were inside and near them,” Hagari added.

He said an investigation had been launched into the incident as the explosion was the result of mines planted by Israeli soldiers, though the cause of their detonation is yet to be confirmed.

The deaths bring the death toll of Israeli soldiers in Gaza since a ground assault began on Oct. 27 to 219, while the army’s overall death toll since the launch of the Israeli offensive against Gaza on Oct. 7 has risen to 556.

According Israeli authorities, 1,139 Israelis were killed in southern Israel by Hamas on October 7. 136 Israelis are held captive by Hamas in Gaza.

[Photo: Injured Palestinians, incl children treated at Nasser Hospital following Israeli attacks in Khan Yunis, Gaza on 22 1 24.
Photojournalist: Belal Khaled/ AA]

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Gaza: 178 Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes in 24hours

noreply@blogger.com (Blogger) — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 01:50:00 -0800

By Abdul Adil

Gaza (Wafa news agence, AA): At least 178 Palestinians have been killed and 293 injured in the last 24 hours as Israeli forces continued their onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip, the territory’s Health Ministry said on Sunday.

“The Israeli occupation committed 15 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 178 martyrs and 293 injured during the past 24 hours,” the ministry said in a statement.

At least 25,105 Palestinians have been killed, including 10,400 children, 7,100 women, 62,681 wounded in Israeli indiscriminate attacks on Gaza since October 7. 7,000 Palestinians are still missing. The death toll in Israel from the October 7 Hamas attack stands at 1,139.

So far 12 people have been killed overnight. Very dark days ahead as the situation gets worse by the hour.

“Many people are still trapped under rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” the statement said.

Israeli forces bombed a residential building in the Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City, resulting in deaths and injuries, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported, citing medical sources.

Three Palestinians were killed when an Israeli military drone targeted a vehicle they were traveling in at the Yarmouk market, the agency added.

Meanwhile, Israeli artillery shelling targeted the Al-Manara neighborhood in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, the agency also reported.

An air attack on the Shati Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip resulted in massive destruction, with no confirmed reports of casualties.

At least one Palestinian was killed and others were injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Amal neighborhood west of Khan Younis.

Israeli artillery also shelled the coastal areas of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip and the vicinity of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis for several hours.

According to local sources, Israeli warplanes bombed Al-Mawasi School, west of Khan Yunis, which shelters displaced people from several areas in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the tragic death of several civilians and causing multiple causalities.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PCRS) said its crews were unable to reach the dead bodies due to an Israeli artillery bombardment that targeted Al-Mawasi School,

PCRS said that Israeli forces prevented ambulance vehicles from reaching the site of the bombing.

Israeli military air force carried intense and fierce airstrikes that targeted hospitals and shelter centers housing displaced People west of Khan Yunis since dawn today.

Israeli tanks and military vehicles also cordoned off al-Nasser Medical complex and Al-Amal Hospital, where at least 20 civilians dead at Nasser Hospital following the ongoing Israeli artillery bombardment

Earlier today, Israeli fighter jets heavily shelled, with several missiles, the vicinity of Al-Aqsa University, west of Khan Yunis, despite the presence of several of displaced people there.

The city of Khan Yunis recorded a large number of deaths and wounded individuals among displaced in shelter centers and hospitals as a result of the ongoing Israeli shelling against the city since dawn today.

Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by Hamas on Oct. 7, which Tel Aviv says killed nearly 1,200 people.

[Photo: Palestinian family returning to their homes try to gather salvageable belongings casued by Israeli attacks in Zawaida region of Deir Al-Balah, Gaza on 20 1 24. Photojournalist: Ashraf Amra/ AA ]

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Gaza: 165 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli IDF attacks last 24 hours

noreply@blogger.com (Blogger) — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 16:50:00 -0800

Gaza, (Wafa, Al Jazeera): According to Palestinian Health Ministry 165 Palestinians were killed and 280 wounded by Israeli indiscriminate bombings in southern Gaza in the last 24 hours.

The latest killings brings number of Palestinians killed to 24,927, including 10,400 children, 7,100 women, 62,388 injuredby Israeli bombings in Gaza Strip since October 7. 7,000 Palestinians are still missing.

Deadly Israeli air raids continue to rain down on Gaza as fighting continues in Khan Younis and near Nasser hospital.

Five more Palestinian civilians were killed this evening as a result of Israeli airstrikes targeting Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip and the Bureij refugee camp in the central province of the enclave.

Medical sources reported that four individuals were killed when Israeli warplanes targeted the vehicle they were traveling inside in the city of Rafah, in the farthest south of the territory.

In a separate incident, another Palestinian was killed in an Israeli airstrike while attempting to retrieve the body of one of the Palestinians killed of a previous shelling in the Bureij refugee camp, located in the central Gaza Strip.

Simultaneously, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, in coordination with the International Committee of the Red Cross, reported that it had evacuated five critically injured individuals from Al-Shifa Medical Complex to the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza.

The society further stated that its teams also evacuated seven individuals, including four children, from Gaza City to the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. Among them were children awaiting reunification with their mother in Egypt, along with two other children and their mother.

In central Gaza, medical sources reported that four individuals were killed as a result of the Israeli shelling targeting a residential apartment in the Nusseirat refugee camp.

Meantime, three other civilians were killed in an Israeli airstrike which targeted the al-Salatin area west of the town Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.

Meanwhile, Civil Defense teams recovered the bodies of three martyrs following an Israeli shelling that hit everal areas in the Abasan Al-Kabira town, east of Khan Yunis. The bodies were subsequently transported to the European Hospital in the city.

At the same time, Israeli aircraft are currently targeting the vicinity of the Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis with a series of airstrikes and intense artillery bombardment.

Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General António Guterresof spoke about Israel’s war on Gaza at the 19th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Kampala, Uganda Saturday. “The wholesale destruction of Gaza and the number of civilian casualties caused by the Israeli army in such a short period are totally unprecedented during my mandate.This includes 152 of our own UN staff members, a heartbreaking tragedy for our organisation, for their families and for those they were serving in Gaza.

“While humanitarian workers are doing their best to deliver relief, they face constant bombardments, daily dangers to themselves and their families and the enormous constraints by damaged roads, communication blackouts and access denials.

“Meanwhile, disease and anger are deepening, people are dying not only from bombs and bullets but from lack of food and clean water, hospitals without power and medicine and gruelling journeys to even smaller slivers of land to escape the fighting. This must stop.”

According to Israeli authorities, 1,139 Israelis were killed in southern Israel by Hamas on October 7. 136 Israelis are still held captives by Hamas in Gaza.

[Photo: Injured Palestinian mother & her daughter by Israeli attacks in Khan Yunis attending Nasser Hospital for treatment on 19 1 24.
Photojournalist: Belal Khaled /AA]

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Gaza: 163 Palestinians killed last 24 hours in Gaza by Israeli bombing

noreply@blogger.com (Blogger) — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:51:00 -0800

Gaza, (Wafa, AA, imemc): On Tuesday evening, Israeli forces killed 13 Palestinians in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. This is in addition to 10 civilians killed in Khan Younis earlier Tuesday, making the total number of Palestinians killed in Khan Younis Tuesday 23 – and raising the total killed across Gaza on Tuesday to 163, according to Gaza Ministry of Health. Israeli drone strike and other strikes has killed 10 Palestinians in West Bank.

At least 24,285 Palestinians have been killed, including 10,400 children, 7,100 women, and 61,154 injured by indiscriminate Israeli bombings since 7 October, according to Palestinian health authorities. 7,000 Palestinians are still missing.

The Jordanian army says its military field hospital in Khan Younis was badly damaged as a result of Israeli shelling in the vicinity.

At least 23 Palestinians were killed in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip as Israeli bombings levelled dozens of residential homes and damaged the Nasser and Al-Amal hospitals affiliated with the Palestine Red Crescent Society resulted in critical damage to the medical facilities.

Dozens of Palestinians were also injured in air and land attacks, said the Palestinian news agency WAFA.

Israeli jets also targeted Palestinian homes west of Khan Younis with air strikes and artillery fire, it added.

Israel’s bombardment of the surroundings of Nasser Hospital and Al-Amal Hospital

Local sources said that civil defense and ambulance crews retrieved the bodies of at least 25 people and dozens of wounded individuals following an Israeli airstrike targeting multiple homes in the Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City, reported Wafa news agency. They also recovered the bodies of 7 people after the Israeli occupation vehicles withdrew from the vicinity of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli fighter bombed a house belonging to the Al-Namrouti family, resulting in the killing of 4 Palestinians.

Another Israeli airstrike targeted a house for the Safi family, leading to the tragic death of three others. Additionally, a number of citizens were wounded following an Israeli bombardment of houses belonging to the Hamdan and Muhaisen families.

The occupation artillery targeted Al-Manara neighborhood, Batn Al-Sameen, and the center and south of Khan Yunis. The area east of Jabalia camp was also bombed by Israeli military force.

Israeli air force further carried out intense airstrikes targeting Ansar complex and the port west of Gaza City

Medical sources warned of serious health complications to which chronic patients are exposed, as 350,000 chronic patients are without medication in the Gaza Strip.

13 civilians were killed and others were injured late tonight on Tuesday in the continuous Israeli strikes and artillery bombardment of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, raising the number of people killed since Tuesday morning to 23.

Israeli warplanes launched strikes targeting four houses west of Khan Yunis with the inhabitants still inside. Heavy shelling also targeted several residential buildings in the al-Namsawi neighborhood in Khan Yunis.

Israeli artillery also targeted the Batn al-Sameen and the New Abasan areas to the west and east of Khan Yunis, respectively.

The airstrikes and artillery also targeted the vicinities of the Nasser Medical and Al-Amal Hospitals, causing severe damage to the Al-Amal hospital and spreading a state of panic and terror among patients, wounded, medical staff, and displaced people seeking shelter there.

Local sources said that the Israeli occupation reduced to rubble scores of houses and residential buildings in Khan Yunis governorate.

Earlier Tuesday night, a Palestinian mother and her child were killed in an Israeli air raid that targeted a group of civilians in the al-Hashashin area, west of Rafah city, in the southern Strip.

At least four other civilians were killed in an Israeli bombing targeting the town of Jabalia, in the north.

According to sources, four civilians, including a child, were killed by an artillery shelling of the town of Jabalia. Israeli jets also launched several strikes on the town of Beit Hanoun, in the north.

In Gaza City, rescue teams were able to recover the bodies of 20 civilians and dozens of wounded after violent airstrikes that targeted several homes in the An-Nafaq area of Gaza City, causing massive destruction.

At least 355 Palestinians have since been killed and nearly 4,000 others injured by Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank according to the figures released by the Health Ministry.

Hamas killed 1,139 Israelis in south Israel on October 7 according to Israeli authorities. 136 Israelis are held captive by Hamas in Gaza.

[Photo: Injured Palestinian child injured by Israeli attacks in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital for treatment on 16 1 24.
Photojournalist: Ashraf Amra /AA]

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Gaza: 132 people killed in relentless bombing Gaza past 24 hours

noreply@blogger.com (Blogger) — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 01:50:00 -0800

Gaza, (Wafa, AA, Agencies): At least 132 people killed in Gaza in the past 24 hours as Israel steps up air-and-ground assault.

Accordng to Gaza Health Ministry, 24,100 Palestinians have been killed, including 10,400 children, 7,100 women, 60,834 others have been injured by Israeli indiscriminate bombing in Gaza Strip since 7 October. More than 7,000 Palestinians are still missing.

Israeli attacks killed at least 25 people in Gaza on Monday night, including 11 Palestinians from two families in Miraj, in the north of Rafah, reported Palestinian news agency Wafa.

The UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) says Israeli authorities are denying access to northern Gaza for deliveries of medicines and fuel to run water and waste pumps.

At least 57 Palestinians at night were killed and dozens wounded following intense Israeli airstrikes targeting several areas in the Gaza Strip, according to local and security sources.

Sources said that at least 20 people were killed following an Israeli airstrike targeting a house for the Al-Sousi family in the Al-Sabra neighborhood in the center of Gaza City, while dozens of others sustained several injuries.

The intense and fierce airstrikes resulted in massive destruction of the house on the heads of its occupants, in addition to neighboring houses,

Following the bombing, dozens of dead bodies and injured individuals were transferred to Al-Shifa Medical Complex west of the city. .

Israeli military air force carried out fierce airstrike targeting a house for the Al-Haddad family in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, resulting in the killing of 11 people. Shahad Harbi Al-Haddad was seriously injured as a result of the bombardment, and she is the only survivor of her family.

At least 11 people were killed and others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a house south of the city without previous warning.

The causalities were transferred to the Gaza European Hospital. Additionally, seven people arrived to Nasser Hospital in the city.

Israeli fighter jets carried out intense airstrikes targeting Al-Maghazi and Al-Bureij camps, resulting in the killing of seven people and the injury of several others.

A citizen was further killed and others wounded in an Israeli airstrike targeting a house for the Al-Muznar family in the Al-Saftawi area, north of Gaza City.

Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes targeting the neighborhoods of Tal Al-Hawa, Sheikh Ajlin, Al-Sabra and Al-Zaytoun, and the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip. The city of Khan Yunis was also targeted in the non-strop Israeli bombardment against the enclave.

For the fifth day in a row, the complete interruption of communications and Internet services in the Gaza Strip continues, due to the ongoing Israeli aggression.

This is at least the seventh time that communications have been completely cut off from the Gaza Strip since the start of the aggression on October 7.

Networks and transmission towers were damaged as a result of the massive destruction caused by the aggression to the infrastructure, and the lack of fuel due to the siege. This led to frequent outages, pressure on the network, and weak transmission in various parts of the sector.

Medical sources reported that the Israeli occupation committed 12 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leading to the killing of nearly 132 and 252 injured during the past 24 hours.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Monday that the high-intensify ground operation in the northern Gaza Strip has ended, reported Al-Jazeera.

“In the south of the Gaza Strip [the intensive phase] will end soon,” Gallant said, without giving an exact timeline.

Gallant said the army will carry out low-intensified operations in northern Gaza, adding that Israeli forces are working to locate the remaining Hamas sites in the area.

The Israeli army on Monday withdrew its 36th Division from the Gaza Strip for rest and training amid a deadly offensive on the Palestinian territory.

According to Israeli Army Radio, three other divisions will remain in Gaza as part of the current offensive in the enclave.

The move is seen as part of the Israeli army’s plans for a long war in the Gaza Strip.

The UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) says Israeli authorities are denying access to northern Gaza for deliveries of medicines and fuel to run water and waste pumps.

West Bank

Meanwhile in the West Bank, nine Palestinians were killed and nine others injured in Israeli fire since Sunday, according to the Health Ministry.

A ministry statement said a 20-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman sustained injuries during the army’s gunfire in the town of Dura, southwest of Hebron city, and later succumbed to their wounds.

Nine other people were injured in the raid, the statement said.

According to eyewitnesses, Israeli military forces conducted the raid in the town, leading to clashes with local residents.

The state-run Palestine Television station also reported that a member of the Palestinian security forces was killed by Israeli army fire at a military checkpoint east of Tulkarm city in the northern West Bank.

The General Authority for Civil Affairs informed the Ministry of a second child, Khaled Amer Hmeidat, 16, who was shot and killed by the army at the northern entrance to Al-Biereh, east of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, adding that Israeli authorities are still withholding the body, according to imemc.org.

Earlier Sunday, Israeli forces killed a Jordanian-Palestinian child in the Ein Al-Sultan refugee camp northwest of Jericho city in the northeastern part of the West Bank.

Medical sources confirmed that Israeli forces shot and killed the child, Lu’ay Majed Salem Soufi, 16, in the chest with live ammunition while he was in front of his relative’s home.

In the southern West Bank, Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Sunday, two Palestinian young men near Sa’ir town, northeast of Hebron.

According to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), occupation soldiers shot and killed Ahmad Mousa Mohammad Jabarin and Jalal Issa Mohammad Jabarin.

On Sunday evening, Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinian children at the northern entrance to the city of Al-Biereh, east of Ramallah.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the child, Suleiman Mohammad Suleiman Kanaan, 17, arrived dead at the Istishari Arab Hospital after Israeli soldiers shot him in the heart with live ammunition.

At least 355 Palestinians have since been killed and nearly 4,000 others injured by Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank territory, according to figures released by the Health Ministry.

Hamas killed 1,139 Israelis in south Israel on October 7 according to Israeli authorities. 136 Israelis are held captive by Hamas in Gaza.

[Photo: Injured Palestinian child by Israeli attacks in Khan Yunis, south Gaza,being treated at Nasser Hospital on 15 1 24. Photojournalist: Jehad Alshrafi/ AA]

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Gaza: 125 Palestinians killed, 265 injured by Israeli bombing in 24 hours

noreply@blogger.com (Blogger) — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 10:50:00 -0800

Gaza, (Wafa news agency and AA and agenies); Israel’s relentless attack on Gaza continues with 125 Palestinians killed and 265 wounded over the past 24 hours.

The NetBlocks observatory says the more than 48-hour outage has left “most residents cut off” as the war in the enclave passes the 100-day mark.

The monitor added that operator Paltel has said that two of its repair crews have been killed while trying to restore service.

Dozens of Palestinian civilians were killed and dozens of others were injured, while a number of missing persons were reported, in a series of raids launched by Israeli occupation aircraft, artillery, and gunboats on various areas in the Gaza Strip.

On the 100th day of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, medical sources at Shifa complex in Gaza City said that four people were killed, including three from the Sheikh Ajlin neighborhood.

At least one citizen was killed and several others were injured as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a civilian car in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Two citizens were killed and others were injured in an Israeli occupation aircraft bombing two citizens while they were repairing a sewage line in the town of Abasan, east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

10 bodies were found in a house after Israel’s vehicles retreated from the entrance to Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip following a massacre committed by the Israeli occupation.

Ambulance crews also recovered the bodies of two people from the telecommunications company’s crews whose car the occupation targeted Satruday downtown in Khan Yunis.

The Israeli Defvence Forces’ artillery bombed the town of Al-Zawaida in the middle of the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli warplanes bombed the neighborhoods of Tal Al-Hawa and Sheikh Ajlin, west of Gaza City. The warplanes also bombed a house for the Abu Al-Sabah family in the Al-Bassa area in Deir Al-Balah in the middle of the Strip, which led to a number of casualties.

An airstrike targeted the center of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, and another raid targeted the northeastern areas of the Bureij camp in the center of the Gaza Strip. People heard explosions and Israeli shelling around Route 10, south of Gaza City.

According to Gaza Health Authority, 23,968 Palestinians have been killed, including 10,400 children, 7,100 women and 60,582 injured by indiscriminate bombing by Israeli Defence Forces in Gaza Strip since 7 October. 7,000 Palestinians are still missing.

According Israeli authorities, 1,139 Israeli were killed by Hamas in south Israel on October 7. 138 Israelis are still held captive by Hamas in Gaza.

Meanwhile, in the West Bank the Red Crescet Society said in a statement that the Israeli army handed over to their crews the bodies of two youths who were shot in Wadi al-Rim near Sa’ir.

The General Authority for Civil Affairs said that it informed the Ministry of Health of the death of Ahmed Musa Muhammad Jabareen and Jalal Issa Mohammad Jabareen by Israeli forces near Sa’ir.

With the killing of the two youths, the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city today has risen to three.

A 14-year-old boy was killed by Israeli forces in Ain Sultan camp north of Jericho earlier Sunday.

Medical sources said that the child, Louay Al-Sufi, 14, from Ain Al-Sultan camp, died as a result of being shot in the chest by Israeli soldiers after they targeted Palestinian civilians with live bullets during their storming of the camp. He was transferred to Jericho Governmental Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Around 5,875 Palestinians have been detained in 100 days of Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank, according to figures released by the Palestinian Prisoner Society.

“The details included 335 children and 200 women,” the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a statement.

More than 2,856 Palestinians have been held without trial or charge under Israel’s notorious policy of administrative detention since Oct. 7, the NGO said.

“This figure takes the number of administrative details in Israeli prisons to more than 3,290 Palestinians,” it added.

According to figures released by prisoners’ affairs groups, at least 8,800 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli prisons.

[Photo: Palestinian boy in a shock as he looks at his relatives dead bodies killed in Israeli attacks at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on 13 1 24. Photojournalist: Ashraf Amra/AA]

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Gaza: 135 Palestinians killed in 24 hours by indiscriminate Israeli bombing

noreply@blogger.com (Blogger) — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 05:50:00 -0800

London (The Muslim News): At least 135 Palestinians have been killed and 312 others injured by Israeli indiscriminate bombing in Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours according to the Gaza Health Ministry Saturday.

According to the Health Ministry, 23,843 Palestinians have been killed, including 10,000 children, 7,000 women and 60,317 injured by Israeli bombings since 7 October. The Ministry said that 7,000 Palestinians are still missing.

“The Israeli occupation (forces) committed 12 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in 135 deaths and 312 injuries during the past 24 hours,” a statement ministry said.

An overnight Israeli army strike on a house in Rafah killed 14 Palestinians, including a two-year-old girl.

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, one in 20 Palestinians in Gaza are dead, wounded or missing. They report that on the 99th day of Israeli attacks on Gaza “is witnessing more massacres, destruction and survey of residential neighbourhoods.”

“Israeli forces committed 12 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, killing 135 people and injuring 312 in the last 24 hours. A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads that ambulance and rescue officials cannot reach,” the Ministry added.

In Gaza City, civil defense crews managed to recover the bodies of 20 Palestinians who were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a house in the Daraj neighborhood.

Meanwhile, a number of wounded individuals were transferred to Nasser Hospital, following intense and fierce Israeli bombardment in the center and south of Khan Yuins.

Israeli military air force launched a fire belt on Qazan al-Najjar and al-Batn al-Samin in the southeastern areas of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, reprted Wafa news agency.

Israeli fighter jets further shelled several homes in the Al-Dawa neighborhood, north of Nuseirat, in the middle of the Gaza Strip, resulting in killing dozens and wounding others, and there are still missing people under the rubble.

Israeli Defence Forces’ artillery also bombed east Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat, and al-Maghazi refugee camps and near the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the center of the Strip.

Meanwhile, on Friday, three Palestinian teenagers were shot dead near an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank claiming one Palestinian had opened fire at Israeli soldiers near Hebron city, causing injury to one of the soldiers.

The incident occurred near the Israeli settlement of Adora, constructed on lands belonging to the Palestinian village of Tarqumiyah, west of Hebron.

Security sources said that the three were identified as 19-year-old Ismail Ahmed Abu Jahisha, 16-year-old Mahmoud Arafat Abu Jahisha and his cousin, Odai Ismaiel Abu Jahisha,16.

The two cousins were killed after the occupation forces opened fire at them near the Adora Israeli illegal settlement.

The latest killings bring the total number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the West Bank from of 7 October to 346, with over 3,900 others injured, according to statements by the Ministry of Health.

According to Israeli authorities 1,200 Israelis were killed by Hamas on 7 October in south Israel. 136 Israelis are still being held by Hamas in Gaza.

[Photo: Injured mother and child being treated at Nasser Hospital. They were injured in Israeli attack on house of Palestinian Abu Aram family in Khan Yunis, Gaza on 12 1 24. Photojournalist: Jehad Alshrafi/ AA]

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Gaza: More than 100 children being killed daily in 100 days by Israeli bombing say Save the Children

noreply@blogger.com (Blogger) — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 02:50:00 -0800

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London (The Muslim News): More than 10,000 children have been killed by Israeli indiscriminate bombings and ground operations in Gaza in nearly 100 days of war, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, with thousands more missing, presumed buried under rubble, Save the Children said.

Jason Lee, Save the Children’s Country Director for the occupied Palestinian territory, said: “For every day without a definitive ceasefire, 100 children on average have been killed. There can never be any justification for killing children. The situation in Gaza is monstrous and a blight on our common humanity.

The latest data from the Ministry of Health in Gaza shows more than 10,000 of Gaza’s 1.1 million children – or 1% of the total child population – have been killed since an attack on Israel on 7 October and the assault on Gaza that has followed. The war will have been ongoing for 100 days on Sunday 14 January.

Children in Gaza surviving the violence are enduring unspeakable horrors, including life-changing injuries, burns, disease, inadequate medical care, and losing their parents and other loved ones. They have been forced to flee violence, often repeatedly, with no safe place to go, and face the terror of an uncertain future. About 1,000 children in Gaza have lost one or both of their legs, many having them amputated without anesthetic, and will require a lifetime of medical care, reports Save the Children.

Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip’s southern cities of Rafah and Khan Younis killed and injured at least 12 Palestinians overnight.

In the early hours of this morning, a number of civilians were reported killed and others sustained injuries as the Israeli Defence Forces continue its devastating war of genocide against the Gaza Strip for the 98th consecutive day, reports Wafa news agency.

In central Gaza, Israeli warplanes targeted a residential building in the Al-Mashaala neighborhood in Deir Al-Balah. Simultaneously, Israeli artillery shelled the town of Al-Zawaida and the neighboring Nusseirat and Al-Bureij refugee camps, resulting in casualties.

In Khan Yunis, south of the Strip, over 30 bodies arrived at hospitals in the city due to the ongoing Israeli airstrikes in various parts of the province.

Further, Israeli air force conducted intense raids in the central area of Khan Yunis, targeting ambulance and rescue crews as they worked to transport the wounded and retrieve the martyrs.

Earlier last night, nine civilians were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a residence in the Shawka area, east of Rafah in southern Gaza.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that its teams transported nine bodies during the Israeli targeting of the Abu Senema family home in the neighborhood.

The airstrikes targeted the Abu Namous family’s home in Khan Younis, according to information acquired by Anadolu on Thursday from local sources.
Seven people were killed, including women and children, while 25 were injured.

Separately, five people were killed and many others injured in strikes on a home in a northern area of Rafah and a shelter for displaced people.
Shelling also reportedly caused numerous injuries in northeastern Rafah.

Israel has bombed Gaza since October 7, killing at least 23,465 Palestinians, including 10,000 children, 7,000 women, wounded 59,604 and 7,000 Palestinians missingmore, according to health officials.

According to the UN, around 85% of Gazans have been displaced, with all of them experiencing food insecurity. Hundreds of thousands of people remain without shelter, and fewer than half of the assistance trucks arrived before the war began.

Three more Palestinian journalists were murdered in fresh Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, increasing the total to 115 since October 7, according to the government media office.

A statement by the media office identified the slain journalists as Ahmed Badir, Sherif Okasha, and Heba Al-Abadla, without giving any further details.

According to an earlier announcement, Badir was killedin an Israeli bombardment on a residence near the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip

According to Israeli authorities, 1,139 Israelis were killed on October 7 by Hamas. Israel says Hamas still holds 136 Israelis captive in Gaza.

[Photo: Injured mother & child by Israeli air strikes on Az-Zawayda in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, arriving to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital for treatment on 11 1 24. Photojournalist: Ashraf Amra/ AA]

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147 Palestinians killed across Gaza, 40 killed & injured near Al-Aqsa Hospital by Israeli bombing

noreply@blogger.com (Blogger) — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 14:50:00 -0800

London, (The Muslim News): Israeli bombing near Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital in Deir el-Balah, in central Gaza, killed and injured at least forty people according to Gaza’s Media Office.
Latest attack comes as Israel has intensified bombing and ground incursions in central and southern Gaza, with at least 147 people killed in the past day.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Palestinian ambassador to UN, Riyad Mansour, said eleven Palestinians have been killed every hour in the Gaza conflict that began in October.

Mansour said residents in Gaza are being killed, tortured and humiliated, and children are being amputated and orphaned as he called for an end to Israeli atrocities in the Palestinian enclave at a UN General Assembly meeting on a US veto for a Gaza cease-fire, reported Andolu Agency.

“During these 90 days, 11 Palestinians were killed every hour, including seven women and children. Every single hour for 90 days. Hundreds are killed every day to this day,” he said.

“Ninety days of hell on earth. Ninety days of massacres. How many more Palestinians killed till you say enough is enough? How many more tragedies? How much more destruction?” said the envoy.

Mansour said 1% of Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, and “that is the equivalent of 3 million Americans.”

“Three percent of Palestinians in Gaza have been wounded. Take a moment and imagine what that represents compared to your own population. That is the equivalent of 10 million Americans,” he said. “Eighty-seven percent of Palestinians in Gaza have been displaced. Take a moment and imagine what that represents compared to your own population. That is the equivalent of 284 million Americans.”

Mansour said supporting an immediate cease-fire is the only moral, legitimate and responsible position.

“Our people have a right to life. To freedom. To justice. Palestine is here to stay. The Palestinian people are here to stay. The Palestinian people will not disappear, but their resilience is no reason to prolong their suffering,” said the envoy

“Don’t call for peace and spread fire. If you want peace, start with a cease-fire. Cease fire. Cease fire. Now,” he said.

Israel intensifies bombing and ground incursions in central and southern Gaza with dozens killed in overnight attacks, including 15 from one family in Rafah City – an Israeli-declared “safe zone”.

The Israeli military says it has hit 150 targets around Gaza in a day as it continues to bomb areas in and around Maghazi and Khan Younis.

Deadly overnight Israeli attacks in central and southern Gaza have continued. At least 15 people, mostly women and children, belonging to the same family in Rafah, and six people sheltering in refugee camps in central Gaza, were killed in those attacks.

Daily raids by Israeli forces across the West Bank have intensified since October 7, with at least 340 Palestinians killed and almost 4,000 wounded.

Overnight, homes were targeted in the western side of Rafah city in the Tall as-Sultan area. This is very close to al-Mawasi evacuation zone, where many Palestinians are living in makeshift tents.

Fifteen people, all from the same family, were killed in the overnight strikes on Rafah. The vast majority are women and children, all sheltering in the same home.

On the eastern side of Rafah, the Israeli military is still carrying out artillery shelling on homes and razing agricultural land. This is taking place east of Salah al-Din Street.

In the Bureij and Maghazi refugee camps, the Israeli military has continued its bombardment. At least six people are reported killed as of the early hours of this morning.

We were expecting a de-escalation of Israel’s aerial bombardment as the war enters its third phase, but we are seeing the opposite.
We can now bring you more on the Israeli air strike in Tall as-Sultan that our colleague Hani Mahmoud mentioned earlier.

As he mentioned, 15 people, including women and children, were killed in the attack that targeted a house.

“We were bombed tonight while in a house that was crowded with displaced people,” Harb Nofal, a resident of the house that was targeted, said.

“There are four women among those killed. What was their fault? What was the fault of the children [who were killed]?”

Dozens of Palestinian civilians were killed, and others were injured, in missile and artillery shelling and gunfire by the Israeli occupation forces in various areas of the Gaza Strip, on the 96th day of the aggression against Gaza, Wafa news agency reported.

WAFA correspondent said that six civilians were killed and others were wounded by bullets from Israeli occupation forces stationed on the coastal road in the Sheikh Ajlin area, southwest of Gaza City. They were taken to Al-Shifa Hospital, west of the city.

15 civilians were killed and dozens were injured as a result of Israeli warplanes bombing with a missile an inhabited house belonging to Nofal family, west of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. The majority of them were transferred to Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital in the city.

Israeli warplanes bombed a house in Deir al-Balah camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip, causing dead and wounded who were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.

The Israeli occupation artillery shelled the eastern and southern areas of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, and dozens were killed and wounded, the majority of whom were displaced from Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip.

The occupation artillery also bombed Al-Bureij and Al-Maghazi camps in the middle of the Gaza Strip, killing at least twenty civilians, the majority of whom were children, women, and the elderly.

A number of civilians were killed and others were injured as a result of the IDF targeting a house belonging to the Asalia family in the town of Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli gunboats fired dozens of rocket shells towards citizens’ homes in Al-Waha and Sudaniya areas and the outskirts of the Beach Camp, west of Gaza City and off the central sea and south of the Strip, resulting in dozens of injuries.

[Photo: Injured Palestinian child being treated in al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza. He was injured in Israeli attack on their house near the hospital on 10 1 24. Photojournalist: Ali Jadallah/ AA]

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Palestine: 4,000 Palestinian students killed, 8,059 injured in Gaza, & West Bank by Israeli forces

noreply@blogger.com (Blogger) — Tue, 9 Jan 2024 09:51:00 -0800

By Harun Nasrullah

London, (The Muslim News): Over 4,000 Palestinian students have been killed and 8,059 injured in Gaza and the occupied West Bank since October 7, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Education.

The ministry stated that 4,257 students were killed in the Gaza Strip and 39 in the West Bank.

In Gaza, 281 government schools and 65 UN Relief and Works Agency for Refugees schools were attacked and vandalised, with 83 seriously damaged and seven destroyed.

On Tuesday, the Israeli army attacked the city of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, clashing with Palestinians.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that its medical teams treated eight Palestinians injured by Israeli live bullets in the Askar refugee camp in Nablus City.

According to eyewitnesses, Israeli forces attacked the camp and encircled a home. The Red Crescent and the Israeli army initially denied their medical professionals access to the injured Palestinians but subsequently permitted them.

Israeli forces also attacked the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, resulting in confrontations with Palestinian fighters, but no injuries were recorded.

Early on Tuesday, the Israeli army struck a home Palestinian in Tulkarem refugee camp, leaving nine Palestinians injured, according to another statement by the Red Crescent.

On Monday night, the Israeli army killed three Palestinians in the city of Tulkarem.

A Palestinian man in his early 30s was killed Tuesday afternoon after being shot by Israeli occupation forces near the military checkpoint of Ein Sinya to the north of Ramallah, according to the Ministry of Health, bringing the death toll of Palestinians in the West Bank from Israeli fire since October 7 to 341.

The young man, who was identified as 31-year-old Ibrahim Samih Jayousi, was shot dead by the occupation forces near the said checkpoint north of Ramallah.

Local sources said that forces opened fire at a man near the Ain Sinya checkpoint after he allegedly attempted to carry out a stabbing attack. The occupation forces closed the checkpoint in the aftermath of the shooting and prevented Palestinians from crossing.

Israeli settlers fired live bullets at a group of farmers Tuesday while they were cultivating their lands in the town of Al-Samu’, south of Hebron, while the occupation soldiers also detained two of them.

A WAFA correspondent reported that settlers from the illegal “Otnael” settlement opened fire on a group of farmers in Khallet Nias in the town of Al-Samou’, while they were cultivating their lands.

No injuries were reported.

The Israeli army also detained farmers Turki Shehda Abu Awad and Salim Hamdan Abu Awad. The occupation imprisoned a number of farmers and stopped them from entering their farms in the Sadda al-Thaghla neighbourhood, east of Yatta and south of Hebron.

According to a WAFA correspondent, Israeli occupation soldiers shot and killed three Palestinian males in their early twenties Monda night in the town of Iktaba, east of Tulkarem City.

A special Israeli unit, accompanied by a large military force, stormed the town of Iktaba amid the heavy firing of live bullets towards a parked vehicle before cordoning off one of the houses in the area and fatally shooting three youths inside.

The Ministry of Health announced that three youths arrived dead at the Tulkarem Governmental Hospital after being shot by Israeli forces.

The three were identified as Yusuf Ali Al-Kholi, 22, Ahed Salman Mousa, 23, and Tareq Amjad Shahin, 24.

According to sources, Israeli forces ran over one of the bodies with their military jeep before withdrawing from the area.

A fourth youth was shot and injured by the occupation soldiers during the military offensive and detained despite his injuries.

National and Islamic factions declared a general strike in Tulkarem Tuesday, in mourning for the three slain Palestinians.

Meanwhile in Gaza, Health Ministry said 126 Palestinians were killed in Israeli indiscriminate bombings on Tuesday, the 95th day of the war.

Health Ministry said that 23,210 Palestinians have been killed including 9,600 children, 6750 women, 59,167 injured by Israeli bombing in Gaza since 7 Ocober. 7,000 Palestinians are missing in the war.

According to Israeli authorities 1,139 Israelis were killed in southern Israel on October 7. 136 Israelis are captives by Hamas in Gaza.

[Photo:Injured Palestinian girl injured by Israeli airstrike in al-Maghazi refugee camp in Deir al Balah, Gaza being treated in al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital, Gaza on 9 1 24. Photojournalist: Ashraf Amra /AA]

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Gaza: 249 Palestinians killed, 510 injured by Israeli indiscriminate bombing

noreply@blogger.com (Blogger) — Mon, 8 Jan 2024 08:50:00 -0800

By Nadine Osman

London, (The Muslim News): The Gaza Ministry of Health announced on Monday that at leas 249 Palestinians have been killed and 510 wounded in the previous 24 hours in Gaza.

Israeli attacks on Sunday targeted the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, killing several people, including children. According to an Anadolu correspondent, the dead and injured were brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.

According to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, a corpse and 17 injured individuals were transferred on Sunday because of Israel’s assault on two houses in Deir al-Balah.

The group also stated that Israeli forces opened fire on many civilians on Salah al-Din Street, the Gaza Strip’s main highway.

The Israeli army is also accused of targeting the same hospital with drones forcing patients to flee under the fire. “The Israeli occupation is terrorising the patients and medical staff at the facility by attacking it with drones,” the ministry said in a statement.

“The Israeli drones intensively fire towards the buildings and areas of the hospital, targeting anyone in motion,” it added.

The Israeli army’s attempt to take the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital out of service constitutes a death sentence for thousands of wounded and patients inside, the ministry also said.

The latest body count rose as the Gaza authorities announced that 6,000 seriously injured individuals must be transferred out of the enclave for treatment amid a humanitarian crisis caused by Israel’s blockade and continued bombardment.

It stated that 30 hospitals in the vicinity are out of service as more than 58,000 people have been injured due to the attacks.

“We call on our brothers in Egypt to urgently open the Rafah border crossing and approve the immediate transfer of 6,000 critically injured people out of Gaza for treatment due to the inadequacy of hospitals in the Gaza Strip to respond to so many patients,” it said.

Doctors Without Borders, announced late Saturday its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, including the Al-Aqsa Hospital, in the face of increasing Israeli army attacks.

The Israeli onslaught has left Gaza in ruins, with 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure damaged or destroyed, and nearly 2 million residents displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicines.

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, 22,835 Palestinians have been killed, including 9,600 children, 6,750 women and 58,416 injured by Israeli indiscriminate bombing. 7,000 Palestinians are still missing.

According to Israeli authorities 1,139 Israelis were killed by Hamas on October 6 in Israel. 129 Israelis are still held captive by Hamas in Gaza.

[Photo: Wounded child targeted by Israeli Defence force in Deir Al Balah, Gaza, being treated in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Gaza, on 8 January 2024.
Photojournalist: Ashraf Amra/ AA]

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Palestine: 8 Palestinians killed by Israeli drone attack in Jenin, West Bank

noreply@blogger.com (Blogger) — Sun, 7 Jan 2024 04:50:00 -0800

By Qais Abu Samra

JENIN, Palestine (AA): At least eight Palestinians were killed early Sunday when Israel bombed a civilian gathering area in the Jenin Governorate in the northern occupied West Bank.

In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry said: “Six Palestinians were martyred when the Israeli occupation bombed a gathering of citizens in Jenin.” Since the statement was made, two more Palestinians have succombed to injuries sustained in the Israeli drone attack.

Out of the eight Palestinians killed by Israeli drone attack, included four brothers, according to Wafa news agency.

In an official statement, the Ministry of Health said the four siblings, Hazza’, 27, Rami, 22, Ahmed, 24, and Alaa Najeh Darwish, 29, in addition to Razqallah Nabil Sleiman, 18, Mohammad Yasser As’ous and Wadia Yaser As’ous, 18, were killed in the Israeli drone strike. The name of the eighth Palestinian has not been released yet.

The eight, including the four brothers, are residents of the village of Muthallath ash-Shuhada in the Jenin province. added Wafa.

The Israeli army bombed a public gathering in Martyrs’ Square near the city of Jenin in the West Bank, eyewitnesses told Anadolu.

Witnesses said the bombing resulted in many casualties, with human remains scattered at the scene, and the injured were taken to Jenin Governmental Hospital in the city.

Israeli police officer killed in dawn raid

Earlier, at daybreak Sunday, Israeli forces stormed the city of Jenin – the center of the governorate – including its refugee camp and several neighborhoods. Sounds of gunfire and explosions were heard, according to witnesses.

Witnesses said that a helicopter bombed the camp, but no casualties were reported there.

At least one Israeli police officer was killed due to injuries sustained during the raid.

At least four Israeli officers were injured in an explosion during the raid, and two sustained serious injuries, said a joint Israeli army and police statement.

The wounded border police officers were taken to a hospital in northern Israel, where injured Shay Germay, a woman officer, was reported dead, a later joint statement said.

The casualties came from the explosion of a device on the roadside as an Israeli forces’ vehicle was on site during the raid.

Images on social media showed a vehicle belonging to Israeli forces overturned due to the impact of the explosion.

Tensions have been high across the West Bank since fighting broke out in Gaza on Oct. 7 between Palestinian groups and Israel.

The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces and Israeli Jewish settlers in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is at least 330, according to Health Ministry data. Israel has detained 5,630 Palestinians without trial in West Bank since 7 October.

In Gaza, Gaza’s media office condemned the killing of two more Palestinian journalists, bringing the number of media workers killed to 109 since the war began, reported Al Jazeera.

The media office denounced “in the strongest terms this heinous crime” committed by the “Israeli occupation army against journalists”.

Since Oct. 7, Israeli attacks in the West Bank have escalated simultaneously with the devastating war against Gaza, which has killed at least 22,722 Palestinians, including 9,600 children, 6,750 women, injured 58,166; 7,000 Palestinians are still missing.

According to Israeli authorities, 1,139 were killed on 7 October in Israel by Hamas.

The conflict has also caused extensive infrastructure damage and an unprecedented humanitarian disaster, according to authorities in the Gaza Strip and the UN.

*Writing by Ikram Kouachi

Additional report from Wafa news agency and The Muslim News

[Photo: Injured Palestinian child by Israeli bombing being treated at Nasser Hospitalt in Khan Yunis, Gaza on 6 1 24. Photojournalist: Belal Khaled/ AA]

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Gaza: More than 90,000 Palestinians are dead, wounded or missing due to indiscriminate Israeli airstrikes

noreply@blogger.com (Blogger) — Sat, 6 Jan 2024 10:50:00 -0800

By Nadine Osman

Palestine (The Muslim News): At least 22 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes overnight Friday across the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian news agency, WAFA.

Israeli planes bombed two residences in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza and the Al-Manara area in the southern city of Khan Younis.

News of the latest casualties of Israel’s indiscriminate killing comes as the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor announced that more than 90,000 Gazans (4% of the population) are dead, wounded, or unaccounted for.

According to the Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, Israel’s continued air, land, and sea shelling has damaged more than 70% of the civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip since October 7.

“Israel is pushing hundreds of thousands of civilians towards mass forced displacement,” said the group in a statement.

Hundreds of bodies that cannot be recovered remain on roads, notably in regions where the Israeli army has conducted ground assaults.

According to the group, Israel’s attacks are an “apparent attempt” to extend its territory to include the whole Gaza Strip, uprooting the majority of the population in violation of international law, which “likely amounts to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.”

Referring to reports that Israel is prohibiting humanitarian supplies from entering the Strip more frequently, Euro-Med noted that Israel is using “starvation as a weapon.”

It reaffirmed calls for UN special rapporteurs and the International Criminal Court prosecutor to investigate “violations that have been widely documented since Israel began its genocidal war on Gaza.”

The onslaught has left Gaza in ruins, with 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure damaged or destroyed and nearly 2 million residents displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine.

The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) report has more harrowing points about the situation in the Gaza Strip.

As of January 3, only 13 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals were “partially functional,” and even those faced staff and medical supply shortages. Fuel, food, and drinking water are all “urgent” requirements for all medical facilities.

There are only nine partially functional hospitals in the south, where most Gazans have been forced to go by Israeli bombardment, and they are operating at three times their capacity.

The risk of famine “is increasing daily,” and UN agencies’ plans to expand ready-to-eat food options “are falling short of meeting people’s crucial caloric needs”.

Every citizen in Gaza has been classified as being in “urgent need of food assistance” every day, although daily assistance reached only 8% of the targeted population on average in the last week of December.

An overwhelming majority of Palestinians in Gaza have been displaced internally, with the latest report by OCHA putting the number at a staggering 85 percent at the end of 2023.

The 1.9 million internally displaced Palestinians include many who have been displaced multiple times, as families are forced to move repeatedly in search of safety, which is guaranteed nowhere in the Strip.

Nearly 1.4 million of these internally displaced people are sheltering in 155 UNRWA facilities across all five governorates in the Strip. All the facilities are “far exceeding their intended capacity”.

Following intensified Israeli attacks on Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah, more than one million people were crammed into an extremely overcrowded space in the Rafah governorate.

According to Gaza Ministry of Health, 22,722 Palestinians have been killed, including 9,600 children, 6,750 women and 58,166 injured and 7,000 missing since October 7.

According to Israeli authorities 1,139 Israelis were killed on October 7 in Israel. 129 Israelis are still held captive by Hamas in Gaza.

[Photo: Injured Palestinian boy being carried to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital for medical treatment. He was injured by Israeli bombaredment in Deir al Balah, Gaza on 5 1 24. Photojournalist :Ashraf Amra/ AA]

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Gaza: 125 Palestinians killed, 318 injured by Israeli indiscriminate bombing

noreply@blogger.com (Blogger) — Fri, 5 Jan 2024 03:50:00 -0800

Palestine (Wafa, AA, Al Jazeera):

At least 125 Palestinians have been killed and 318 injured in 24 hours between Wednesday and Thursday, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.

In a preliminary toll, the ongoing Israeli indiscriminate bombing on the Gaza Strip for the 91st includes 22,438 Palestinians killed, including 9,600 children, 6,750 women and 57,614 injured; 7,000 Palestinians still missing, according to Gaza Ministry of Health.

For the past hour or so, there has been an intensive military campaign in central Gaza, reports Al Jazeera.

There is heavy bombardment near Deir el-Balah, including at the Nuseirat, al-Maghazi, and Bureij refugee camps.

The bombing surge seems to be an attempt to force the remaining residents of the area to evacuate.

These attacks – along with overnight artillery shelling and air strikes in the central area – have killed over 20 people and destroyed many of the remaining high-rise buildings.

At the same time, the Israeli military is pushing deeper into Khan Younis, particularly the southeast. There are reports of more than 10 people killed there. aljazeera

Israeli gunboats targeting Gaza’s coastal areas as Israeli forces clash with Palestinian fighters near Maghazi and Bureij refugee camps.

Even though Rafah has been designated a safe area, it has continued to come under attack. The number of attacks on Rafah city are similar to those in the north of Gaza.

Overnight, a home was targeted in the northeast of Rafah city, killing an entire family.

Dozens of innocent civilians, including children and women, were brutally murdered over the past few hours as the Israeli genocide campaign from the air, land and sea against the Gaza Strip enters its 91st consecutive day, according to local and medical sources, reports Wafa news agency.

In central Gaza, emergency and rescue teams retrieved the bodies of two Palestinians who were killed in Israeli airstrikes targeting residential homes in the town of Al-Zawaida yesterday evening.

In Khan Yunis, south of the Strip, the bodies of three slain Palestinians and five wounded individuals were transported to Nasser Medical Complex following an Israeli strike which targeted the area of al-Mawassi, located west of the province.

At least 32 people killed in Khan Younis and five in Rafah as Israeli attacks continue across Gaza, reports Al Jazeera.

Simultaneously, the Israeli air force carried out intense airstrikes in the southeast of Khan Yunis city, while numerous explosions were heard across the central province amid nonstop Israeli bombardments.

Meantime, the ambulance and rescue teams retrieved several wounded individuals from the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, coinciding with ongoing shelling by the Israeli occupation artillery on the camp and the eastern areas of Al-Bureij refugee camp.

Israeli warships fired on the beaches of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, coinciding with continuous air raids and artillery shelling on the city.

Earlier yesterday evening, at least two civilians were killed and others injured in relentless Israeli airstrikes on Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Medical sources reported the death of a civilian and injuries to others in an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential apartment in the Al-Amal neighborhood in the city.

In another incident, an Israeli airstrike claimed the life of a woman, and several others were injured in the Qarara area in Khan Yunis. The Israeli military also destroyed homes in Khazaa town and adjacent areas east of Khan Yunis.

Also in Khan Yunis, at least one civilian was killed, and others were injured in the Israeli shelling around the European Hospital southeast of the city. Additionally, Israeli warplanes destroyed a house belonging to the Kawara’ family east of the city and carried out airstrikes in the vicinity of Nasser Hospital, Al-Amal Hospital, and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society’s headquarters.

Video footage revealed the dead bodies of 14 Palestinians, including nine children, being recovered after an Israeli airstrike targeted the tents of displaced individuals in the Mawassi area west of Khan Yunis.

In Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, five civilians were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting the home of the Abu Senjar family in the city center.

In the al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, Israeli warplanes targeted the Abu Holi family home, resulting in multiple casualties.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that the Israeli military targeted the home of Anwar Abu Holi, the director of the Central Governorate Ambulance Center in the Maghazi refugee camp, leading to multiple casualties, including at least two martyrs and five injuries until this moment, with several people still under the rubble.

Meanwhile, rescue and ambulance crews managed to retrieve several dead Palestinians and wounded individuals from under the debris of another house targeted by the Israeli occupation military in the same refugee camp.

Moreover, Israeli drones fired live ammunition at displaced individuals near the entrance of Al-Msaddar village in central Gaza.

At least five civilians were also killed and others injured in an Israeli strike on a vehicle in the New Al-Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

Israeli artillery further targeted the areas of Al-Zawaida, Nuseirat, Maghazi, Al-Bureij in central Gaza, destroying the home of the Al-Louh family near the Wadi Gaza bridge.

In Gaza City, medical sources reported the arrival of the bodies of nine dead Palestinians to Shifa Medical Complex due to Israeli airstrikes targeting residential neighborhoods. The strikes included areas south of Juhor al-Dik and near Gaza seaport.

Meanwhile, Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza received 155 dead and 357 wounded following Israeli attacks on two refugee camps in December, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Thursday, reiterating its call for a cease-fire, according to Anadolu Agency.

“From the hospital, we can hear the bombing in the neighborhoods northeast of Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza’s Middle Area, near the Al-Bureij and Al-Maghazi refugee camps,” it quoted Carolina Lopez, MSF emergency coordinator in the besieged enclave, as saying on its X account.

“No one and nowhere is safe in Gaza,” the MSF said.

“We need a sustained #ceasefire now to prevent more deaths and injuries, to ensure the delivery of unhindered aid, and a massive scale up of health care to meet Gazans’ medical needs,” it added.

In a news conference, Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari said: “136 Israelis are still held in the Gaza Strip, including 3 civilians who were initially reported missing but later turned out to be among the hostages held in Gaza.”

According to Israeli authorities 1,139 Israelis were killed on October 7.

[Photo: Palestinian man puts pressure on head of injured woman as result of Israeli attack in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on 5 1 24. Photojournalist: Ali Jadallah/AA]

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Gaza: 5 killed, incl newborn by Israeli strikes on Palestinian Red Crescent HQ , south Gaza

noreply@blogger.com (Blogger) — Wed, 3 Jan 2024 03:50:00 -0800

Palestine (Agencies): Israeli fighter jets struck the eighth floor of the Palestine Red Crescent Society headquarters in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Tuesday, killing five civilians and injuring several others.

“Several people were killed and injured in the attack that targeted our premises in Khan Younis,” the society said in a statement, without giving an exact figure.

Hundreds of Palestinian displaced people have taken shelter at the premises of the humanitarian aid organization in Khan Younis amid relentless Israeli attacks on the city, reports Anadolu Agency.

Israeli jets hit the same floor last week, injuring several displaced Palestinians.

Meanwhile, dozens of Palestinian civilians, including children and women, were killed and injured at dawn on Wednesday, as the Israeli occupation forces continued to bomb various areas of the Gaza Strip, concentrated in the center and south of the Gaza Strip, according to Wafa news agency.

Several people were killed in Rafah by Israeli bombardment. Volunteers are still searching for casualties and injured under the rubble. Two-year-old child was killed amongst three members of the family when Israel targeted a house owned by Al-Nahhal family in the Khirbet Al-Adas area, east of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip.

A number of civilians were killed, and dozens were injured, when the occupation bombed a house behind the schools of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), east of Al-Maghazi in the central Gaza Strip.

According to Gaza Ministry of Health, total number of Palestinians killed since October 7 by indiscriminate bombing by Israeli Defence Force has increased to 22,185 including 9,100 children, 6,500 women ad 57,035 others injured. 7,000 Palestinians are still missing in Gaza Strip.

According to Israeli authorities, 1,200 Israelis believed to have been killed in the Hamas attack in south Israel. 129 Israelis are still held captive by Hamas in Gaza.

[Photo: Young Palestinian girl injured in Israeli attack in Khan Younis, Gaza being treated in Al-Amal Hospital on 2 1 24. Photojounalist: Belal Khaled/ AA]

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Gaza: 16 Palestinians killed, several injured in Israeli strikes in Gaza

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(Agencies): Multiple areas of the Gaza Strip witnessed a series of airstrikes by warplanes and drones, accompanied by artillery shelling, causing immense damage.

Monday evening, seven civilians were killed and others injured in an Israeli strike which pounded two houses in Deir al-Balah. Nine civilians also lost their lives and dozens were injured in Khan Yunis due to Israeli airstrikes, according to Wafa news agency.

According to Gaza Health Ministry, 21,978 Palestinians were killed, including 9,100 children, 6,500 women, and 57,697 injured by Israeli’s indiscriminate bombing and 7,000 missing since October 7.

The central Gaza Strip, particularly the northern region of the al-Maghazi refugee camp, experienced Israeli artillery bombardment, while naval forces heavily targeted other areas in the central governorate of Gaza.

In the south, Israeli airstrikes struck fiercely in the central and eastern areas of Khan Yunis, with artillery shelling hitting the northern neighborhoods of the city, resulting in civilian casualties, including children and women.

Intense clashes erupted in the northern Gaza regions where Israeli tanks are advancing, coinciding with continuous aerial and artillery bombardment by the Israeli occupation forces.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army on Tuesday killed five Palestinians near the city of Qalqilya in the occupied northern West Bank.

The Palestinian official news agency Wafa said the four Palestinians were “shot dead during confrontations” that erupted as Israeli forces stormed the town of Azzun.

Witnesses told Anadolu Agency that the Israeli army withdrew from the town after clashing with the Palestinians for a few hours.

The Israeli army also raided and searched several homes and shops in the town, the witnesses added.

Several Palestinians were also injured and arrested from a building in Azzun.

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, at least 324 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank since Oct. 7, with over 3,400 others injured.

[Photo: Palestinian children injured receive medical treatment at Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah after they were bombed by Israelis Dier Al Balah, Gaza on 1 1 24. Photojournalist: Ashraf Amra /AA]

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