#hospitals and refugee camps and residential blocks

[chaiaurchaandni]

and people still debate whether this is a genocide

[astraystayyh]

the fact that Israel can precisely target ONE apartment in an entire residential block in BEIRUT to kill two hamas leaders, proves once again that they CHOSE to carpet-bomb Gaza and murder 31.000 Palestinians to "defend themselves" against Hamas. Israel CHOSE to kill civilians, they CHOSE to bomb every hospital, every school, every refugee camp, every residential block. israel does NOTHING to spare the lives of palestinians, they want to thin out the population of gaza so they'd be able to settle their citizens there.

this is a genocide it's an ethnical cleansing PLEASE WAKE UP don't stop talking about Palestine it is not a trend, people are still dying, Israel has no plan to stop if WE don't force it to, through public pressure and protesting and boycotting. it's the least we can do.

[workersolidarity]

[ 📹 A number of children are brought in to a hospital in Gaza after an Israeli drone bombed the children on the roof of their home in the Al-Bureij Refugee Camp, in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday. 📈 The current death toll in the Gaza genocide now exceeds 38'919 Palestinians killed, while another 89'622 others have been wounded since October 7th. ]

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GAZA GENOCIDE DAY 288: ISRAELI OCCUPATION PRIME MINISTER BLOCKING NEGOTIATIONS WITH HAMAS, WHITE HOUSE CONSIDERING SANCTIONS AGAINST BEN-GVIR AND SMOTRICH AS ICJ ACCUSES ISRAELI OCCUPATION OF VIOLATING INTERNATIONAL LAW, GENOCIDE CONTINUES UNABATED AS MASSACRES OF CIVILIANS ESCALATE

On 288th day of the Israeli occupation's ongoing special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) committed a total of 4 new massacres of Palestinian families, resulting in the deaths of no less than 37 Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children, while another 54 others were wounded over the previous 24-hours.

It should be noted that as a result of the constant Israeli bombardment of Gaza's healthcare system, infrastructure, residential and commercial buildings, local paramedic and civil defense crews are unable to recover countless hundreds, even thousands of victims who remain trapped under the rubble, or whose bodies remain strewn across the streets of Gaza.

This leaves the official death toll vastly undercounted as Gaza's healthcare officials are unable to accurately tally those killed and maimed in this genocide, which must be kept in mind when considering the scale of the mass murder.

The Zionist Prime Minister of the Israeli occupation, Benjamin Netanyahu, refuses to authorize his negotiating team's return to Doha, Qatar, to resume negotiations with the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, in order to finalize a ceasefire and hostage exchange deal that could lead to an end to the genocide in the Gaza Strip.

Reporting also stated that Netanyahu is hesitant to ratify any deal prior to his planned trip to the United States, where the Prime Minister is scheduled to give a speech on July 24th to the American Congress, and will meet with US President Joe Biden.

This comes as pressure builds on Netanyahu to sign a deal with the Hamas resistance movement, which has resulted from increasing diplomatic isolation for the Zionist entity, while dozens of families of Israeli hostages being held in Gaza continue to demand the Prime Minister ink a deal to return their family members as quickly as possible.

The families, along with other groups of Israeli activists, have organized regular popular protests in Tel Aviv and elsewhere, demanding the Netanyahu regime reach an agreement for a ceasefire and hostage exchange deal, while Netanyahu has accused the Israeli security establishment of imposing the US President's proposal on his government.

In a meeting Netanyahu called on Friday, the IOF Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, demanded that he sign an agreement for a hostage exchange deal, after which, the Prime Minister ended the meeting.

Earlier last week, the Israeli Prime Minister said in a press conference that "for months there has been no progress (in hammering out an agreement in Gaza), because the military pressure was not strong enough."

In response, Halevi demanded Netanyahu apologize for his comments during a security conference attended by the heads of the Shin Bet security services and the Mossad intelligence agency, telling the Prime Minister that "These statements are serious. I demand that the prime minister issue an apology."

In other news on Saturday, US President Joe Biden's White House are considering issueing sanctions against National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, two openly fascist Israeli cabinet ministers, during a meeting of the National Security Council on Wednesday covering how to respond to Israeli attacks on the occupied West Bank of Palestine, and the deteriorating situation there.

Israeli colonial settlers have regularly attacked Palestinian communities in the West Bank, largely sanctioned by the Israeli government and backed by the Israeli occupation army, while the government has continued a policy of expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, while holding up the tax revenues belonging to the Palestinian Authority.

According to reporting in the American media outlet Axios, the Biden administration is "deeply frustrated" with the Netanyahu regime's continued policy of settlement expansion and the weakening of the Palestinian Authority, noting that the more extremist members of Netanyahu's coalition have openly allied themselves with fascist colonial settler groups and militias.

Axios says the meeting was called after yet another surge in violence by Zionist colonial settlers against Palestinian communities, while the Netanyahu government has announced plans to build another 5'000 housing units for Zionist settlers and to legalize five illegal outposts.

On Friday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague determined the Israeli occupation's practices and policies "violate International law" and that the occupation is violating Palestinians right to self-determination in the occupied West Bank, and further accused the occupation of violating the Geneva Conventions.

Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation has continued its genocidal war in the Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, while decimating the few remaining housing units, facilities and infrastructure of Gaza.

On Saturday, sources with Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, reported that doctors with the facility succeeded in saving the fetus of a pregnant woman who was killed after the Israeli occupation forces bombed her home in the camp during the early morning hours.

The woman was immediately transferred to the hospital, where doctors in the Operating room managed to remove the fetus, which was born alive, before being transported to the Nursery at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city of Deir al-Balah.

According to Palestinian sources, Zionist warplanes bombed several residential homes and a gathering of civilians in the Nuseirat Camp, killing at least 6 Palestinians and wounding several others.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said it's rescue crews recovered the bodies of 4 Palestinians killed in the occupation's strikes, after Israeli warplanes bombed the home of the Al-Tawil family in the Nuseirat Camp, before recovering two more dead bodies after a bombing that targeted a group of civilians on Al-Rashid Street, a coastal road west of the camp, transferring the dead and wounded to Al-Awda Hospital.

In another atrocity, occupation artillery detatchments shelled the vicinity of the community college in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City, after which, PRCS paramedic crews transported the bodies of 6 martyrs to Al-Ahili Baptist Hospital in the city.

The war crimes of the Israeli occupation continued when Israeli fighter jets bombed a residential apartment belonging to the Ayyad family in the Mari' Abu al-Amin area of the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City, killing 6 Palestinians and wounding more than 10 others.

Zionist warplanes also bombed the Al-Sharahi family home in the New Camp area of the Nuseirat Camp, killing 4 civilians, including citizen Yassin Al-Sharahi, his wife and his children, and wounding a number of others.

The Israeli occupation army then went on to bomb a residential house belonging to the Abu Sidra family in Camp-2 of the Nuseirat Camp, near the Al-Talaa Mosque in the central Gaza Strip, killing and wounding several Palestinians.

The occupation's atrocities and war crimes continued when Zionist fighter jets bombed the Abu Jasser family home in the Al-Alami area of the Jabalia Refugee Camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, resulting in the martyredom of 4 Palestinians and wounding a number of others who were transferred to Kamal Adwan Hospital in the camp.

Occupation warplanes later bombed a residential home belonging to the Al-Batran family in the Al-Bureij Refugee Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of 3 civilians and wounding several others, while another bombing destroyed a populated house near the Martyr's roundabout in the camp.

The crimes of the Zionist Army continued with an occupation drone strike that targeted a civilian riding a bicycle on Street-5, north of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, killing the Palestinian resident who was taken to Nasser Hospital in the city.

Reports also state that the occupation army continues to bomb and shell neighborhoods west of the city of Rafah, in southern Gaza, in conjunction with artillery shelling of residential neighborhoods east of Khan Yunis.

In yet another violation of International humanitarian law, IOF fighter jets bombed a residential house belonging to journalist Mohammad Jasser, killing the journalist, his wife and two children, all of whom were transferred to Kamal Adwan Hospital.

The Israeli occupation army followed up their horrific crimes by bombing the home of the Al-Sabbagh family in the Al-Zarqa area, north of Gaza City, resulting in the deaths of two Palestinians and wounding several others.

Occupation artillery and airstrikes also continue pummeling the Al-Da'wa neighborhood, north of the Nuseirat Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, while near non-stop airstrikes and shelling have also been targeting various neighborhoods of Gaza City, as well as northern and southern Gaza, killing more than 25 civilians since dawn on Saturday, with the majority of victims being children.

The attacks continued into the evening, when Zionist army fighter jets bombed a residential house belonging to the Siam family, west of the Yassin station, in the Saftawi area north of Gaza City, while victims of the bombing were transported to Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in the city.

Another occupation bombing targeted a residential building in the Nuseirat Camp, resulting in the martyredom of 3 civilians and wounding a number of others who were transferred to Al-Awda Hospital in the camp.

Later on Saturday evening, an Israeli occupation drone targeted the Araba area, north of Rafah City, in the southern Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinians and wounding others, while four Palestinian children were wounded by an occupation drone strike that targeted the children on the roof of their home in the Al-Bureij Camp, in the central Gaza Strip.

As a result of the Israeli occupation's ongoing war of extermination in the Gaza Strip, the death toll now exceeds 38'919 Palestinians killed, including more than 10'000 women and well over 15'000 children, while another 89'622 others have been wounded since the start of the current round of Zionist aggression, beginning with the events of October 7th, 2023.

This brings the official total number of casualties to 128'541, or the equivalent of 5.58% of Gaza's 2.3 million Palestinian residents.

July 20th, 2024.

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[athena5898]

(Quds) Massive destruction and the flattening of entire residential blocks due to the Israeli occupation forces detonating explosive-rigged robots and explosive barrels amid relentless attacks in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza.

For the 55th consecutive day, the Israeli occupation army continues its annihilation plan in northern Gaza, aiming at the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by deliberately targeting residential neighborhoods and hospitals in the area, resulting in the killing of tens of thousands of civilians.

[tealingual]

Israel Genocide in Gaza vocabulary in Finnish

Israel - Israel Israelilainen - Israeli Palestiina - Palestine Palestiinalainen - Palestinian Gazan kaista - Gaza Strip Hamas - Hamas Vastarintaliike - resistance movement Terroristijärjestö - terrorist organization Israelin puolustusvoimat - IDF Asevoimat, armeija - military, army Sotilas - soldier Komentaja, päällikkö, johtaja - commander Sionismi - Zionism Sionisti - Zionist Radikaali juutalaisuus, äärijuutalaisuus - radical Jewishness, Jewish extremism Juutalainen ylivalta - Jewish supremacy Rasismi - racism Syrjintä - discrimination Rotusyrjintä - racial discrimination Palestiinalaisvastaisuus - Anti-Palestinianism Arabivastaisuus - Anti-Arabism Arabophobia - arabophobia Islamophobia - islamophobia Sulku, saarto - blockage Kollektiivinen rangaistus - collective punishment Pakkosiirto - forced transfer Kolonialismi - colonialism Apartheid - apartheid Etninen puhdistus - ethnic cleansing Kansanmurha - genocide Väkivalta - violence Verilöyly - massacre Hyökkäys - attack Maahyökkäys - ground attack Tankki, panssarivaunu - tank Ilmaisku - airstrike Taistelukone - combat aircraft Hävittäjä - fighter plane, destroyer Räjähde - explosive Raketti - rocket Ohjus - missile Pommi - bomb Atomipommi - atomic bomb Valkoinen fosfori - white phosphorus Tulitauko - ceasefire Kohde - target Sairaala - hospital Ambulanssi - ambulance Koulu - school Pakolaisleiri - refugee camp Moskeija - mosque Kirkko - church Kauppa - store Leipomo - bakery Hautausmaa - cematary Asuinrakennus - residential building Aurinkopaneeli - solar panel Avustuskuljetus - aid delivery Humanitaarinen käytävä - humanitarian corridor Evakuointikäytävä - evacuation corridor Rajanylityspaikka - border crossing Aseistautumaton - unarmed Siviili - civilian Uhri - victim Pakolainen - refugee Panttivanki - hostage Loukkaantunut - injured Kadonnut - missing Ruoka - food Vesi - water Polttoaine - fuel Sähkö - electricity Internet - internet Tietoliikenne - telecommunications Raunio, kivimurska - rubble Pöly - dust Kaasu - gas Ulosteet - excrements, feces, waste Mädäntynyt - rotten Ruumis - corpse, dead body Veri - blood Haju - smell, stink, odor Kärpänen - fly Melu - noise Tauti, sairaus - disease, illness Nälkä - hunger Jano - thirst Unettomuus - lack of sleep, sleeplessness, insomnia Turvattomuus - lack of safety, insecurity Pelko - fear Menetys - loss Trauma - trauma Rikos - crime Ihmisoikeusrikkomus - human rights violation Kansainvälisen oikeuden vastainen rikos - violation of international law Rikos ihmisyyttä vastaan - crime against humanity Sotarikos - war crime Propaganda - propaganda Vale - lie Tekosyy - excuse Vastuu - responsibility Syy - blame; reason Hyökätä - to attack Kostaa - to revenge, to avenge, to retaliate Ampua - to shoot Pommittaa - to bomb Iskeä - to strike Tuhota - to destroy, to demolish Vaurioittaa - to damage Rikkoa - to break; to violate Tappaa - to kill Murhata - to murder Teurastaa - to slaughter Haavoittaa - to injure Estää - to block Katkaista - to cut

[farida-mourad]

i am really sorry to have to show you these horrifying pictures..these are remains of human bodies were recovered in "Beit Hanoun" by civil defense in northern Gaza

The bodies were found completely decomposed after the Israeli army forces were prevented access to bury them.

Israel didn't just attack the hospitals again and again,bomb residential buildings,bomb schools, refugee camps,wiped out entire families,,block aid and cut off all necessities of life

Now prevent the people to bury the martyrs and they have been left lying on the streets!!

this is beyond diabolical

i never hated the world as i hate it now

i am going to be haunted by this as long as i live

[palms-upturned]

Reports say Jabalia refugee camp Gaza hit in air raid

Oct 31st, 13:52

From Hani Mahmoud in Khan Younis, southern Gaza

Within the past 30 minutes or so, there has been an Israeli air attack that targeted a group of residential homes in Jabalia camp in the north of Gaza.

There are initial reports that at least 50 people were killed on the spot. We have learned that most of those killed are from the same family. The group of residential homes collapsed while people were still inside.

We do not have the exact number of people injured, but we believe that hundreds are being brought to local hospitals.

More than 50 killed in Jabalia strike: Indonesian hospital director

Oct 31st, 14:15 GMT

The director of the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza says dozens of people were killed in the strike on the Jabalia refugee camp.

“More than 50 people have been killed so far,” Atef al-Kahlout told Al Jazeera, adding that the hospital was unable to yet provide the total number of casualties as it was still counting the victims.

“The hospital will stop working completely tomorrow evening due to fuel shortages,” the director warned.

A health ministry statement also said that at least 50 people were killed in the bombardment.

“More than 50 martyrs and around 150 wounded and dozens under the rubble, in a heinous Israeli massacre that targeted a large area of homes in Jabalia camp in the northern (Gaza) Strip,” the statement said, according to AFP.

Jabalia refugee camp ‘completely destroyed’

Oct 31st, 14:20 GMT

Gaza’s interior ministry reports the Jabalia refugee camp has been “completely destroyed” by Israeli bombardment.

“These buildings house hundreds of citizens. The occupation’s air force destroyed this district with six US-made bombs. It is the latest massacre caused by Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip,” spokesman Iyad al-Bazum told reporters outside of a hospital in Khan Younis.

He said about 400 people were either dead or wounded.

“The international community must act immediately to stop Israel before it is too late.”

‘Stop this mass killing’: Doctor says US and Europe need to step in

Oct 31st, 14:40 GMT

Dr Mads Gilbert, a pro-Palestinian activist who has worked in Gaza, says his sources on the ground say Israel bombed 15 civilian homes in the Jabalia camp.

“The last number I got was about 100 killed and 300 injured. There is absolutely no doubt that this is a mass murder. The hospital system in Gaza cannot accommodate 300 new injuries,” Gilbert told Al Jazeera.

He noted the main hospital al-Shifa will run out of fuel to power its generators and keep life-saving operations ongoing on Wednesday.

“It’s a continuation of an attack on the civilian society and the diminishing capacity of the healthcare system. I wonder when [US] President Joe Biden and EU President Ursula von der Leyen are going to say “enough is enough, stop this mass killing.

“More than 3,000 dead children, and we know hospitals cannot cope. These scenes now show flagrant violations of international law. Not only are they bombing civilian areas, they are also attacking hospitals.”

Chaotic scenes at Jabalia camp

Oct 31st, 14:54 GMT

The latest images and video from Jabalia refugee camp show buildings heavily damaged as rescuers and volunteers use their bare hands to search for survivors in huge amounts of concrete debris.

“It’s a massive massacre. It is hard to count the number of buildings that have been destroyed here,” Al Jazeera’s Anas Al Shareef, who is at the scene, reports.

People in different parts of the devastation can be seen frantically trying to pull people from the rubble – many of the victims women and children. Others are seen standing and crying, fearing family members and friends may be among the dead.

Destroyed vehicles litter the scene. Members of the civil defence units are on the ground looking for survivors. An aerial shot of the area shows tall buildings completely levelled to the ground.

‘The world is signing the death warrant’ of wounded Gaza people

Oct 31st, 15:15 GMT

Ahmad al-Kahlout, director of Gaza’s civil defence, has pleaded for international help to get fuel to overloaded hospitals after the latest Israeli attack killed and wounded hundreds of people in the Jabalia refugee camp.

“The beds are not enough, the dead and wounded are on the floor. We can’t guarantee treatment for anybody. Without fuel, our operations will completely stop. The intensive care patients, the kidney patients will all lose their lives. The world is signing the death warrant of these people,” al-Kahlout told Al Jazeera.

24 hours of relentless bombing in Gaza

Oct 31st, 15:20 GMT

Youmna ElSayed, reporting from Gaza

[note from OP: Youmna ElSayed is continuing to report live despite bombardments, white phosphorus dropped on residential buildings near her, and threats from the Israeli government to evacuate Gaza City or be killed in her home with her family]

All we can hear and see is the sound of war jets, missiles and smoke billowing from the sky. We can still hear the sound of tanks that keep on shelling.

The massive attack on the Jabalia refugee camp today was the largest of these bombings that have taken place in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

The situation at the nearby Indonesian Hospital suffering from a lack of fuel is catastrophic. The patients and the injured are on the floor of the hospital since there are not enough beds to accommodate the vast number of casualties.

Meanwhile, the hospital suffers from a lack of medication, medical staff and all medical resources; it’s impossible for these teams to operate and save the injured that are brought there.

Jabalia bombardment an ‘earthquake’

Oct 31st, 15:25 GMT

Jabalia resident Ragheb Aqal described the bombardment as “an earthquake” that shook the entire refugee camp.

“I went and saw the destruction … homes buried under the rubble and body parts and martyrs and wounded in huge numbers,” the 41-year-old told the AFP news agency.

“There’s no exaggerating when they talk about hundreds of martyrs and wounded.

People are still “transporting the remains of children, women and elderly”, he added.

Rescue teams trying to evacuate people from under the rubble

Oct 31st, 15:30 GMT

Rescue teams are trying to do their best to evacuate victims from under the rubble as more than a hundred Palestinians are missing due to the massive Israeli attack.

Medical teams are facing great difficulty dealing with the evacuation process as they are using simple equipment. But this devastation has destroyed hundreds of houses.

The Indonesian hospital, which was previously attacked, is already overcrowded and flooded with patients and displaced people who fled from their houses.

With the ongoing fuel crisis in that hospital, they are now depending on their second generators, which are also about to run out of fuel. So the situation will be dramatic if there’s going to be any further massacres committed in the area.

Most homes in Jabalia ‘very simple’

Oct 31st, 15:30 GMT

Safwat Kahlout, reporting from Gaza

I am from Jabalia refugee camp. I was born and grew up there … it is a very densely populated area.

The people who live in Jabalia are people who were expelled from their original villages in 1948. Most of the homes – not just in Jabalia but in other camps too – are very simple, with simple roofs. A big raid is good enough to destroy huge areas of the camp.

There are large families living in Jabalia in small houses; sometimes 20 people living on one or two floors.

‘We’re watching genocide live,’ former UN officials says

Oct 31st, 15:35 GMT

Aicha Elbasri, from the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, says the green light from the international community for Israel’s “crimes” means the carnage will only continue.

“What we are seeing today is one of the darkest hours of our times. We’re watching genocide live – the crime of crimes,” the former United Nations official told Al Jazeera.

Asked why Israel continues to commit massacres of civilians in Gaza, Elbasri replied, “Israel doesn’t have to justify – Israel is above the law. Israel is above the moral compass. It’s been permitted to carry out the worst crimes against humanity without any sense of accountability to anyone.

“As long as Washington is on its side, as long as the Europeans are giving it the licence to kill, as long as Arabs also aren’t taking any steps that could make Israel think again about its plan – I don’t think we’ll be seeing anything else.”

Red Crescent trying to transfer casualties, situations ‘absolutely horrific’

Oct 31st, 15:40 GMT

A spokesperson from the Palestine Red Crescent Society says teams are working on the ground to try and transfer the casualties to hospital following the attack on the Jabalia refugee camp.

“The situation is absolutely horrific,” Nebal Farsakh told Al Jazeera from Ramallah. “We have been witnessing this increasing number of casualties among Palestinian civilians in Gaza due to attacks against residential buildings, homes, streets, as well as places of worship and hospitals.

“Hospitals are already overwhelmed, and they barely can deal with the increasing number of casualties they are dealing with every single hour,” Farsakh said.

“[They] are working on full capacity. This comes at the same time all hospitals are literally collapsing due to shortages [of] medical supplies as well as medicines, and they are running out of fuel, which is urgently needed”.

Fast facts: Jabalia refugee camp

Oct 31st, 16:00 GMT

Jabalia is the largest of the Gaza Strip’s eight refugee camps.

The densely populated camp in the north of the besieged enclave covers an area of only 1.4 square kilometres (0.5sq miles). According to the UN, there are some 116,000 registered refugees in the camp.

The Israeli military has repeatedly attacked the camp since the start of the war, including on October 9, 12, 19 and 22, killing and wounding hundreds of people.

The camp houses three UN-run schools, which have been converted into shelters for hundreds of displaced families.

According to the UN, the camp suffers from overcrowding and a lack of living space.

“Shelters are built in close proximity to one another and there is a general lack of recreational and social space. In many cases, residents have had to add extra floors to their shelters to accommodate their families. Often, these lack proper design. Many live in substandard conditions,” it says.

Israeli bombing kills at least 15 in Nuseirat camp: WAFA

Oct 31st, 16:15 GMT

An Israeli air assault has killed at least 15 Palestinians in central Gaza in the Nuseirat refugee camp, after two residential buildings were hit, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.

The bombing targeted 20th Street in Nuseirat, leaving dozens of others injured.

WAFA reported that there are believed to be more dead bodies under the rubble of the collapsed buildings.

‘They’re treating us like animals. And the world is silent’: Gaza writer

Oct 31st, 16:20 GMT

Yousri al-Ghoul says, since the war began, life for the people of Gaza has come to a complete halt.

“There are air raids every day. We can’t sleep or eat,” the writer from Beach refugee camp, also known as al-Shati camp, told Al Jazeera. “We have no fuel, no electricity. We can’t even go to the bathrooms.”

“They are treating us like we are animals,” he added. “And the world is silent. The US is giving Israel legitimacy to do whatever they want to Palestinians.”

“This is collective punishment. Everything is being targeted.”

Hamas calls on Arab, Muslim countries to take ‘decisive stance’ after Jabalia devastation

Oct 31st, 16:35 GMT

Hamas has released a statement following today’s Israeli attack on Jabalia.

The group has called on Arab and Muslim countries “to take a historic and decisive stance to stop the massacres” committed by Israel, and what it describes as a “genocide” against the Palestinian people.

“The massacre of the terrorist Zionist occupation [Israel] in the Jabalia camp is tolerated by all countries, governments and organisations that support this terrorist Zionist entity,” the statement said. “They are all biased towards the Israeli aggression and crime 25 days ago, first and foremost the United States of America.”

The statement added that “the blood, body parts and wounds” of those killed would remain.

“When will consciences be moved to stop the series of massacres, open the Rafah crossing, bring support, relief, fuel, and field hospitals into the Gaza Strip, and save thousands of innocent lives and souls, including children, women, the sick and the wounded?”

People came to Jabaliya in 1948, 1967 as ‘war refugees’

Oct 31st, 17:45 GMT

Mansour Shouman and his family left their home in central Gaza to seek refuge in Khan Younis amid Israel’s bombardment.

He spoke to Al Jazeera about Jabalia and how the area housed Palestinian refugees who first fled the Nakba in 1948, and then the Naksa in 1967.

“People in 1948, 1967, left their original homes in what is called now Israel, and came as war refugees to this area,” he said, adding that his wife also has relatives who are still living in Jabalia. “We don’t know right now what is going on with her family.”

Shouman described Jabalia as “the most condensed area” in Gaza, with hundreds of families and tens of houses stuck closely next to each other – and this made him believe that the death toll would rise significantly.

“I think there are hundreds under the rubble, and many families will mourn tonight inside Gaza – with their extended family outside of Gaza – and I think the whole world should mourn the death of humanity.”

‘At least 10 dead’ in Israeli attack on Gaza’s al-Shati camp

Another target of Israeli bombing today has been al-Shati refugee camp along the coast of Gaza City.

At least 10 people were killed in the attack, which hit a house in the camp, local sources told the Palestinian news agency WAFA.

A massive massacre’: Al Jazeera reporter describes the scene from Jabalia

Oct 31st, 17:55 GMT

From the middle of a giant crater that used to be homes in the Jabalia refugee camp, Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Shareef described the scene in front of him, as rescuers desperately dug into the rubble with their bare hands, in footage aired on the network.

“There was a little girl in this place, they are trying their best to reach this little girl,” al-Shareef said. Around him, people were attempting to help those trapped or retrieve bodies. Others were in shock at what had happened.

“Look at the destruction,” al-Shareef said, as he pointed to the shell of a building. “Most of the victims are kids, children, women. We’ve seen hundreds of victims here. The destruction is huge.”

Al-Shareef continued to walk over the rubble, amid an apocalyptic scene.

“It’s a massive massacre. You cannot count the number of destroyed buildings in this place.”

Israeli military says Jabalia attack targeted Hamas commander

Oct 31st, 18:00 GMT

In the first Israeli response since the Jabalia attack, spokesperson Daniel Hagari said that Israeli forces had carried out a large attack on Jabalia and killed Hamas commander Ebrahim Biari.

The military described Biari as the commander of the Jabalia centre battalion that oversaw fighting in all of northern Gaza. Hagari said Israeli forces killed about 50 Hamas fighters over the last day.

Hagari added that the Jabalia attack had severely damaged the command and control centre of the sector.

Hamas did not immediately respond to the claim, which comes after Gaza’s interior ministry said an Israeli attack on the Jabalia refugee camp had killed and wounded hundreds.

Footage of the aftermath of the attack shows widespread devastation, with many civilians killed and injured.

Hamas denies one of its commanders was in Jabalia

Oct 31st, 18:50 GMT

Hamas has denied an Israeli claim that one of its commanders was in Jabalia when an Israeli air attack struck the refugee camp earlier on Tuesday, killing and wounding hundreds.

In a statement on the messaging app Telegram, the group said the Israeli claim was “a baseless lie”.

Impossible to verify Israeli claims: Analyst

Oct 31st, 19:00 GMT

Khaled Al Hroub, a professor in residence at Northwestern University in Qatar, said he was sceptical of the Israeli claim it had killed 50 Hamas fighter.

“When you cut off the entire Gaza Strip and specifically the northern part of it, from any internet, any communication, you have monopoly and full control on what goes in or goes out,” he told Al Jazeera.

“In this case, you are the only source of information. And so I think we need to be extremely careful at this moment in time in accepting any information that comes from the Israelis,” he said.

He added that Hamas’s ability to continue to launch rockets into Gaza draws into question how weakened the group is amid the Israeli ground operations.

19 members of Al Jazeera staff member’s family killed in Jabalia attack

Oct 31st, 19:25 GMT

The Israeli strike on Jabalia has claimed the lives of 19 members of the family of Al Jazeera’s broadcast engineer in Gaza, Mohamed Abu al-Qumsan.

The dead include Abu al-Qumsan’s father and two sisters.

Photos: Hundreds protest in Hebron against deadly Israeli attack on Jabalia

Oct 31st, 19:40 GMT

Hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets of Hebron to protest the deadly Israeli attack on Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

Carrying the flags of Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah, the demonstrators chanted against Israeli crimes and demanded that the Palestinian Authority stop security coordination with Israel.

Others held up posters of Palestinians killed and injured in the Gaza Strip.

Political parties have declared a commercial strike in Hebron on Wednesday.

Al Jazeera denounces Israeli ‘massacre’ of member of staff’s family in Jabalia

Oct 31st, 19:50 GMT

Al Jazeera vehemently condemns the heinous and indiscriminate Israeli bombing that has resulted in killing of 19 family members of our dedicated SNG engineer, Mohamed Abu Al-Qumsan.

This unforgivable act, during the Jabalia massacre, claimed the lives of Mohamed’s father, two sisters, eight nephews and nieces, his brother, his brother’s wife, and their four children, his sister-in-law, and one uncle.

We extend our sincere condolences to Mohamed and his family and stand in solidarity with them during this time of profound sorrow, and we call for justice and accountability for this senseless murder of innocent lives.

These Israeli crimes against the civilians must not go without being held accountable and face the full force of international justice.

We urge the international community to address this grave injustice with utmost urgency to justice served for the families of Mohamed Abu Al-Qumsan and countless other innocent Gazan civilians who lost their loved ones.

Hundreds gather in Ramallah’s Manarah Square to support Gaza

Oct 31st, 19:55 GMT

Imran Khan, reporting from Ramallah, occupied West Bank

Emotions are running incredibly high and there is a pattern developing. Every time we see something like the Jabalia refugee camp bombing, or indeed the bombing of a hospital, people come out on the streets in the Manarah Square in Ramallah.

Just two hours ago, there were about 300 to 400 people out on the streets, chanting in support of the people of Gaza. What they do is they normally kind of walk into the square, they gather – this was during the prayer time – so they actually pray in Manarah Square and then they walk around the square and then they come back.

In the distance I can still hear people chanting … As more and more details of this Jabalia refugee camp bombing come out, we were expecting people to come out on the street despite the late hour.

People want to show their solidarity with the people of Gaza, with the Palestinians there.

Oftentimes there are familial connections there, as well. People from the occupied West Bank have families, uncles, aunts, et cetera, within Gaza, that they can’t get a hold of, so emotions [are] running incredibly high.

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Israeli forces went through their “most intense day” of battle as they approached the Gaza Strip’s second-largest city of Khan Younis on Tuesday afternoon. The occupation forces had been attempting to control the Khan Younis governorate since Friday and reach the seaside street of Al-Rashid. Khan Younis is split into a zone east of Salah El-Din Street, where the towns of Al-Qarara, Abasan, Khuza’a, and Bani Suheila are located, and to the west lays the city of Khan Younis, Nasser Hospital, and the town of Al-Mawasi. Israeli forces have bombed most of these locations in the past 24 hours to pave the way for tanks to drive and cut Salah El-Din Street, a tactic it employed in southern Gaza at the start of the ground incursion in late October. Overnight, Israeli forces heavily bombed the Jabalia refugee camp north of Gaza City, killing and injuring hundreds of people. Wafa news agency reported that a residential neighborhood, known as Block 2 in the center of Jabalia, was bombed with a barrage of white phosphorous and smoke shells. Jabalia’s Falasteen School, where hundreds of people are taking shelter, was targeted by air strikes. Israeli forces also pummelled Gaza City and its environs, including Al-Nafaq Street, and Gaza City’s Al-Yarmouk and Al-Sahaba neighborhoods, killing at least ten people. In central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, at least six people were killed and dozens injured in an Israeli air strike on two houses, and three were killed when a house in Khan Younis refugee camp was bombed. Munir Al-Bursh, the Ministry of Health’s director general, told Al-Jazeera on Wednesday morning that 100 bodies are still inside Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, and that Israeli forces that surround the complex are not allowing medical staff to bury the dead as they are shooting at people endeavoring to move in the area. Bursh added that all of northern Gaza had run out of medical services on Wednesday morning. [...] Currently, 80 percent of the population in the Gaza Strip is internally displaced. Some 117,000 cases of acute respiratory infection were recorded by the Ministry of Health; 50,000 cases of skin disease, 86,000 cases of diarrhoea and severe dehydration in children under the age of five, and 1,000 cases of Hepatitis A short-lived liver infection.

-- From "‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 61: U.S. believes Israel’s Gaza invasion could last until the end of January" by Mustafa Abu Sneineh for Mondoweiss, 6 Dec 2023

[talesinfallacies]

so let me get straight; i$rael has bombed:

schools

hospitals

UN facilities

masjids

churches

ambulances

aid trucks

restaurants

bakeries

electric generators

water storage tanks

civilian buses

civilian cars

roads

hotels

grocery stores

refugee camps

fishing boats

refugee camps near the beach

the only cancer hospital in gaza

pediatric cancer clinic

roads that lead to the egyptian’s border

entire residential blocks

and you have the audacity to ask “do you condemn hamas?”. if anything this question is reductive because it fails to encapsulate 75 years worth of zionist aggression and occupation. people dont wake up and choose violence; they only resort to it when they have exhausted all other options and means to gain their freedom, when international law and community keep failing them for 75 years!!!

you call them barbaric, uncivilized and vulgar. you never hear their pleas or outcries, you turn a blind eye to their suffering. and you have not only dehumanized and demonized them, but you have also enabled their occupier’s aggression and funded it.

and yet,

you dare to criticize the methods they choose to seek their freedom?

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"46.(indent) "Nowhere is safe in Gaza”, as the United Nations Secretary-General — and many other United Nations experts — have now made clear to the international community.(small text)188(regular text) Palestinians in Gaza have been killed in their homes, in places where they sought shelter, in hospitals, in UNWRA schools, in churches, in mosques, and as they tried to find food and water for their families. They have been killed if they failed to evacuate, in the places to which they fled, and even while they attempted to flee along Israeli declared “safe routes”.(small text)189(regular text)(highlighted) Reports are multiplying of Israeli soldiers performing summary executions, including of multiple members of the same family — men, women and older people.(small text)190(regular text) One such account is the reported execution in Gaza City of at least 11 male members of the Annan family and their relatives — boys and men, said to have been separated out by Israeli soldiers and shot in front of their family — before the women and children were then attacked.(unhighlighted)(small text)191(regular text) There are also reports of unarmed people — including Israeli hostages — being shot dead on sight, despite posing no threat, including while waving white flags.(small text)192(regular text) Attacks on Palestinian homes and residential blocks account for a significant number of the dead,(small text)193(regular text) with Israel reportedly using Artificial Intelligence (‘AI’) to generate up to 100 bombing targets per day.(small text)194

(next line) (regular text) 47.(indent) Israel is said to be dropping ‘dumb’ (i.e., unguided) bombs on Gaza,(small text)195(regular text) as well as heavy bombs weighing up to 2,000 lbs (900 kgs),(small text)196(regular text) which have a predicted lethal radius “of up to 360m”, and are “expected to cause severe injury and damage as far as 800 metres from the point of impact”.(small text)197(regular text) This weaponry is being deployed in one of the most densely populated areas in the world, where (highlighted)approximately one in every 100 people has now been killed.(unhighlighted) Some Israeli strikes on Palestinian homes and refugee camps have killed upwards of 110 Palestinians.(small text)198(regular text) An estimated 1,779 Palestinian families in Gaza have lost multiple family members, (highlighted)and hundreds of multigenerational families have been killed in their entirety, with no remaining survivors — mothers, fathers, children, siblings, grandparents, aunts, cousins — often all killed together.(unhighlighted)(small text)199(regular text) By 7 November 2023, 312 Palestinian families in Gaza had lost over 10 members each.(small text)200(regular text) Numerous Palestinian families have lost upwards of 70 members each.(small text)201(regular text) The level of mortality in Palestinian families is such that (highlighted)medics in Gaza have had to coin a new acronym: ‘WCNSF’, meaning ‘wounded child, no surviving family’.(unhighlighted)(small text)202" /end id.]

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"(indent)(italicized)2.(indent) Causing Serious Bodily and Mental Harm to Palestinians in Gaza

(next line)(regular text)51.(indent) Over 55,243 Palestinians have been wounded in Israel’s military attacks on Gaza since 7 October 2023, the majority of them women and children.(small text)215(regular text) Burns and amputations are typical injuries,(small text)216(regular text) with (highlighted)an estimated 1,000 children having lost one or both legs.(unhighlighted)(small text)217(regular text) There are reports of Israeli forces using white phosphorus in densely populated areas in Gaza: as the World Health Organization describes, even small amounts of white phosphorus can cause deep and severe burns, penetrating even through bone, and capable of reigniting after initial treatment.(small text)218(regular text) There are (highlighted)no functioning hospitals in the North of Gaza, in particular, such that injured persons are reduced to “waiting to die”,(unhighlighted) unable to seek surgery or medical treatment beyond first aid, (highlighted)dying slow, agonising deaths from their injuries or from resultant infections.(unhighlighted)(small text)219

(regular text)52.(indent) The extreme levels of bombardment and lack of any safe areas are also causing severe mental trauma in the Palestinian population in Gaza.(small text)220(regular text) Even before the latest onslaught, Palestinians in Gaza suffered severe trauma from prior attacks: (highlighted)80 per cent of Palestinian children experienced higher levels of emotional distress(unhighlighted), demonstrating (highlighted)bedwetting(unhighlighted) (79 per cent) and reactive (highlighted)mutism(unhighlighted) (59 per cent), and engaging in (highlighted)self-harm(unhighlighted) (59 per cent), and (highlighted)suicidal thoughts(unhighlighted) (55 per cent).(small text)221(regular text) Eleven weeks of relentless bombardment, displacement and loss will necessarily have led to a further increase in those figures, particularly for the estimated tens of thousands of Palestinian children who have lost at least one parent, (highlighted)and those who are the sole surviving members of their families.(unhighlighted)(small text)222(regular text) For the families who remain intact or partially intact, (highlighted)“it’s about doing everything you can so your child doesn’t realise that you’ve lost control”.(unhighlighted)(small text)223

(next line)(regular text)53.(indent) It is already known that “[r]epeated exposure to conflict and violence, including witnessing and experiencing housing demolition, combined with Israel’s siege of Gaza since 2007” is “associated with high levels of psychological distress among Palestinians”.(small text)224(regular text) Indeed, the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 2712 (2023) expressed its “deep concern that the disruption of access to education has a dramatic impact on children, and that conflict has lifelong effects on their physical and mental health”.(small text)225(regular text) That disruption and its “dramatic impact” on children must be considered, in particular, in the context of (highlighted)the number of Palestinian students and educators who have been killed (4,037 and 209 respectively), and wounded (estimated at 7,259),(small text)226(regular text) and the number of Palestinian schools having been damaged or destroyed (352, or 74 per cent of the schools in the whole of Gaza).(unhighlighted)(small text)227(regular text) Medical professionals assess that “[t]he health effects on all Palestinian children, women, men, older people, people with disabilities, and people of marginalised identities are immense”.(small text)228(regular text) An Emergency Coordinator for Médecins sans Frontières interviewed on her return from five weeks in Gaza described:

(next line)(indent)“[I]t's even worse in reality than it looks. It's - the amount of suffering is just something… incomparable. It's really unbearable. I'm speechless when I try and think of the future of this children. It's generations of children who will be handicapped, who will be traumatized. (highlighted)The very children in our mental health program are telling us that they would rather die than continue living in Gaza now.”(unhighlighted)(small text)229

(next line)(regular text)54. Alongside its military campaign, Israel has engaged in the dehumanisation, and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of members Palestinians in Gaza. (highlighted)Large numbers of Palestinian civilians, including children, have reportedly been arrested, blindfolded, forced to undress and remain outside in the cold weather, before being forced on to trucks and taken to unknown locations.(unhighlighted)(small text)230(regular text) Medics and first responders, in particular, have been repeatedly detained by Israeli forces, with many being detained incommunicado at unknown locations.(small text)231(regular text) Videos published by Israeli media on Christmas Day appeared to show hundreds of (highlighted)Palestinians, rounded up inside Al Yarmouk football stadium in Gaza City, “including children, older people and persons with disabilities, being forced to strip to their underwear in degrading conditions”.(unhighlighted)(small text)232(regular text) Many Palestinian detainees who have been released report having been subjected to torture and ill-treatment, including the deprivation of food, water, shelter and access to toilets;(small text)233(regular text) the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (‘OCHA’) reports “video footage showing bruises and burns on the … bodies” of detainees.(small text)234(regular text)(highlighted) Images of mutilated and burned corpses — alongside videos of armed attacks by Israeli soldiers — billed as ‘exclusive content from the Gaza Strip’, are reportedly circulated in Israel via a social media ‘Telegram’ channel called ‘72 Virgins - Uncensored’.(unhighlighted)(small text)235" /end id.]

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"(indent)3.(indent)(italicized) Mass expulsion from homes and displacement of Palestinians in Gaza

(next line)(regular text)55.(indent) It is estimated that over 1.9 million Palestinians out of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million people — approximately (highlighted)85 per cent of the population — have been forced from their homes.(unhighlighted)(small text)236(regular text) There is nowhere safe for them to flee to, those who cannot leave or refuse to be displaced have been killed or are at extreme risk of being killed in their homes.

(next line)56.(indent) Israel is repeatedly issuing ‘evacuation orders’ demanding that Palestinian civilians in certain areas of Gaza leave their homes for other areas. (highlighted)The first such order, issued on 13 October 2023 demanded that the 1.1 million Palestinians living or otherwise present in the North of Gaza, including Gaza City, move to the South of Gaza within a 24-hour window.(unhighlighted)(small text)237(regular text) The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that the evacuation directive, impacting approximately 36 per cent of Gaza’s territory — combined with the complete siege of Gaza — was not compatible with international humanitarian law.(small text)238(regular text)(underlined) The World Health Organization warned that it “could be tantamount to a death sentence” for hospital patients.(underline end)(small text)239(regular text)(highlighted) The evacuation was, however, maintained and has been reissued on a number of occasions,(unhighlighted) including on 28 October 2023,(small text)240(regular text) ahead of the Israeli announcement of ground operations in(text cuts off with image)

(next line)57.(indent) Palestinians fleeing the North pursuant to Israel’s evacuation orders were urged to move south along Gaza’s main traffic artery, Salah Al Din Road, on certain days, during certain designated hours. However, (highlighted)there were numerous reported instances of shelling along the routes and of other violence by Israeli forces against evacuating Palestinian civilians, including inhuman and degrading treatment, arbitrary arrests, unlawful detention, and killings.(small text)243(regular text) Israel has also continued bombing south of Wadi Gaza throughout this time, killing many Palestinians who evacuated,(unhighlighted)(small text)244(regular text) initially prompting many Palestinian families to seek to return north to at least risk being bombed in the familiar surrounding of their homes.(small text)245(regular text) Some of those attempting to return north during the temporary pause in hostilities between Israel and Hamas were shot at by Israeli forces, who killed at least two people, and injured others.(small text)246

(next line)58. (indent)(highlighted)On 1 December 2023 — the end of the eight-day temporary truce between Israel and Hamas — Israel began dropping leaflets, urging Palestinians to leave areas in the South to which they had previously been told to flee — an area constituting approximately 30 per cent of Gaza.(unhighlighted)(small text)247(regular text) As stated by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, (underlined)“Israel has reneged on promises of safety made to those who complied with its order to evacuate northern Gaza two months ago. Now, they have been forcibly displaced again, alongside the population of southern Gaza”.(small text)248(regular text) Israel also published a detailed map online, dividing the Gaza Strip into hundreds of small areas.(underline end)(small text)249(regular text) The map was ostensibly intended to provide notice of Israeli orders to evacuate individual areas ahead of planned air strikes. However, as noted by OCHA, “the publication does not specify where people should evacuate to”. Moreover, after months of bombardment — amidst the ongoing electricity blackout imposed by Israel since 11 October 2023 and regular telecommunications blackouts250 — most Palestinians in Gaza have little access to electricity to charge phones or other(text cuts off with image)

(next line)59.(indent) Palestinians are not safe, even in those “small … slivers”: as United Nations chiefs keep reiterating. “No place is safe”,(small text)253(regular text) there is “nowhere safe to go”.(small text)254(regular text) The Director of UNRWA Affairs in Gaza has pleaded that “[p]eople in Gaza are people … they are not pieces on a checkerboard - many have already been displaced several times. The Israeli Army just orders people to move into areas where there are ongoing airstrikes”.(small text)255(regular text) This is creating terror.(small text)256(regular text) The increased population density as a result of the evacuation ‘orders’ is also rendering Israeli strikes ever more lethal. (highlighted)On Christmas Eve itself, the Israeli army bombed Al Maghazi Refugee Camp in the Middle Area — an area to which tens of thousands of Palestinians had fled from the North — killing an estimated 86 people, including many women and children, and injuring many others.(unhighlighted)(small text)257(regular text) A spokesperson for the OHCHR stated that they were “gravely concerned” that “this latest intense bombardment comes after Israeli forces ordered residents from the south of Wadi Gaza to move to Middle Gaza”.(small text)258

(next line)(regular text)60.(indent) For many Palestinians, (highlighted)the forced evacuation from their homes is necessarily permanent. Israel has now damaged or destroyed an estimated 355,000 Palestinian homes — amounting to 60 per cent of the entire housing stock in Gaza.(unhighlighted) The extent of the destruction in the North of Gaza, in particular, has rendered it largely unliveable, with the destruction in the South reaching a similar level. As noted by the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, “Gaza’s housing and civilian infrastructure have been razed to the ground, frustrating any realistic prospects for displaced Gazans to return home, repeating a long history of mass forced displacement of Palestinians by Israel”.(small text)259(regular text)(highlighted) The forced displacements in Gaza are genocidal, in that they are taking place in circumstances calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza.(unhighlighted)(small text)260" /end id.]

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"(highlighted)“Many people are measuring the effectiveness of the humanitarian operation in Gaza based on the number of trucks from the Egyptian Red Crescent, the UN and our partners that are allowed to unload aid across the border. (italicized)This is a mistake.(unitalicized) The real problem is that (italicized)the way Israel is conducting this offensive is creating massive obstacles to the distribution of humanitarian aid inside Gaza.”(unitalicized)(small text)268

(next line)63.(indent)(highlighted) It is for that reason that United Nations Security Council Resolution 2720 — which fails properly to address the situation on the ground, including by failing to call for a ceasefire — has been described by a former senior UNRWA official as “a greenlight for continued genocide”(unhighlighted), marked by “the wholesale and industrial ignoring of international humanitarian law”.(small text)269(regular text) Oxfam has called the “failure to call for a ceasefire” in the resolution “incomprehensible and utterly callous” as well as a “profound dereliction of duty” on the part of the United Nations Security Council,(small text)270(regular text) having regard to the extreme seriousness of the situation in Gaza.

(next line)64.(indent)(highlighted) Israel has now pushed the Palestinian population in Gaza to the brink of famine,(unhighlighted) with international agencies warning that “the risk of famine is real” (World Food Programme or ‘WFP’) and that it is “increasing each day” (IPC).(small text)271(regular text)(highlighted) Most of the Palestinian people in Gaza are now (italicized)starving,(unitalicized)(unhighlighted) with levels of starvation rising daily.(small text)272(regular text) The World Health Organization warns that “[h]unger is ravaging Gaza”.(small text)273(regular text) As the United Nations Secretary-General has stated, (highlighted)“[f]our out of five of the hungriest people anywhere in the world are in Gaza”,(unhighlighted)(small text)274(regular text) with Palestinians in Gaza facing the highest levels of acute food insecurity ever classified by the IPC.(small text)275(regular text) UNRWA’s Commissioner-General describes (highlighted)“[d]esperate, hungry and terrified” people, who are now “stopping aid trucks, taking the food, and eating it right away.”(unhighlighted)(small text)276(regular text) The World Health Organization has stated that (highlighted)“[a]n unprecedented 93% of the population in Gaza is facing crisis levels of hunger, with insufficient food and high levels of malnutrition”.(unhighlighted) They say that “[a]t least 1 in 4 households are facing ‘catastrophic conditions’: experiencing an extreme lack of food and starvation and having resorted to selling off their possessions and other extreme measures to afford a simple meal”. They caution that “[s]tarvation, destitution and death are evident”,(small text)277(regular text) calling Israel’s actions in cutting off Gaza “from water, food, anything which is necessary for any sort of life” “a cruel campaign”, brought “against the whole population of Gaza”.(small text)278(regular text) Their Emergency Medical Teams Coordinator explained that “every single person” he speaks to is hungry: (highlighted)“Everywhere we go, people are asking us for food even in the hospital, I walked around in the emergency department, somebody with an open bleeding wound, an open fracture; they asked for food. If that's not an indicator of the desperation, I don't know what is”.(unhighlighted)(small text)279(regular text) The situation is such that the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has felt the need to caution that “[s]tarvation must never be a means or result of warfare”.(small text)280(regular text) (highlighted)Oxfam and Human Rights Watch have gone even further in expressly accusing Israel of using starvation “as a weapon of war” against the Palestinian people in Gaza.(unhighlighted)(small text)281

(next line)(regular text)65.(indent) The conditions created by the siege are exacerbated by Israel’s continuing strikes on Gaza, including on its bakeries, water facilities and last remaining operating mill, and its razing of agricultural lands, crops, orchards and greenhouses.(small text)282(regular text) By 16 November 2023, the food infrastructure in Gaza was already considered “no longer functional”, given shop and market closures, the lack of essential food items, and the inflated price of the scarce food available.(small text)283(regular text)(highlighted) Bread is scarce or non-existent,(unhighlighted)(small text)284(regular text) with food scarcity leading to significant price hikes, and the price of flour increasing by 65 per cent at one stage.(small text)285(regular text)(highlighted) Livestock that has not been killed is facing starvation,(unhighlighted) and crops are damaged or destroyed.(small text)286(regular text) Many Palestinians are (highlighted)resorting to foraging due to hunger, collecting spilled flour from aid distributions from the road,(unhighlighted) or other unsafe food practices.(small text)287

(next line)(regular text)66.(indent)(highlighted) Water is also severely depleted. Israel continues to cut off piped water for the North of Gaza,(small text)288(regular text) and the North’s water desalination plant is non-functioning.(unhighlighted)(small text)289(regular text) From 15 October 2023, Israel began piping a small amount of water to the South, in part to “push the civilian population to the southern [part of the] Strip”.(small text)290(regular text) The damage from Israeli airstrikes and shelling has also rendered most of the water system inoperable.(small text)291(regular text)(highlighted) The World Food Programme has reported that there is only 1.5 to 1.8 litres of clean water available per person per day, for all uses (unhighlighted)(drinking, washing, food preparation, sanitation and hygiene).(small text)292(regular text) (highlighted)This is far below the ‘emergency threshold’ of 15 litres per day for “war or famine-like conditions”, or the ‘survival threshold’ of 3 litres per day.(unhighlighted)(small text)293(regular text) The World Health Organization Emergency Medical Teams Coordinator described the scene at Al Ahli Arab Hospital, where medical staff were struggling to cope with “no food, no fuel, no water”, stating that “it looks more like a hospice now than a hospital. But a hospice implies a level of care that the doctors and nurses are unable to provide . . . It’s pretty unbearable to see somebody with casts on multiple limbs, external fixator on multiple limbs, without drinking water and almost no IV fluids available”. He said that “patients were crying out in pain, but they were also crying out for us to give them water”. He urged that “[t]he time is now. We are dealing with starving people now, adults, children, it’s unbearable”.(small text)294

(next line)(regular text)67. (indent)The lack of water is severely impacting lactating women, in particular, who, even if undertaking only a moderate amount of exercise, require a supply of 7.5 litres of water a day for drinking, sanitation and hygiene to keep themselves and their babies healthy.(small text)295(regular text)(highlighted) Young mothers — unable to breastfeed for lack of proper nutrition arising from the food scarcity — have been forced to use contaminated water to prepare formula — where it is available — risking disease in vulnerable babies.(unhighlighted) In parallel, the (highlighted)chronic unavailability of formula is also risking the lives of newborn babies, who are already reportedly dying from avoidable causes (unhighlighted)due to the absence of medical care, food, water and adequate sanitation.(small text)296(regular text) The (highlighted)impacts of malnourishment on older children may also be particularly grave and long-lasting,(unhighlighted) preventing them from reaching their full potential in terms of physical growth, cognitive capacity, (text cuts off with image)

(next line)68.(indent)(highlighted) This is all happening to a population that was already extremely vulnerable as a result of Israel’s prior actions against Gaza.(unhighlighted) Israel has long hindered the creation and repair of water installation and desalinisation plants in Gaza, such that (highlighted)95 per cent of water from Gaza’s sole aquifer was already unsuitable for consumption prior to 7 October 2023.(unhighlighted)(small text)299(regular text) Through its 16-year blockade, Israel also severely impacted water supply.(small text)300(regular text) Its repeated attacks on Gaza and its restrictions on repairing the degraded wastewater infrastructure damaged the soil, rendering agriculture challenging.(small text)301(regular text)(highlighted) Israel also restricted access by Palestinians in Gaza to up to 35 per cent of agricultural land and up to 85 per cent of Gaza’s fishing waters.(unhighlighted)(small text)302(regular text) Consequently, over (highlighted)68 per cent of households (around 1.3 million people) were severely or moderately food insecure prior to 7 October 2023, with 58 per cent of the population dependent on humanitarian aid.(unhighlighted)(small text)303(regular text) 7,685 children under five years of age in Gaza were suffering from life-threatening (highlighted)‘wasting’, the deadliest form of child malnutrition.(unhighlighted)(small text)304(regular text) The impact on Palestinian children of Israel’s forced starvation of Gaza will necessarily be serious and long-lasting.

(next line)70.(indent)(highlighted) Experts are now predicting that more Palestinians in Gaza may die from starvation and disease than airstrikes,(unhighlighted)(small text)308(regular text) and yet Israel is intensifying its bombing campaign, precluding the effective delivery of humanitarian assistance to Palestinians. It is clear that Israel is through its actions and policies in Gaza, deliberately inflicting on Palestinians conditions of life calculated to bring about their destruction.(small text)309(regular text) /end id.]

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"(indent)(italicized)5.(indent) Deprivation of access to adequate shelter, clothes, hygiene and sanitation to Palestinians in Gaza

(next line)(unitalicized)71.(indent) The majority of the 1.9 million displaced Palestinians in Gaza are seeking shelter in UNRWA facilities, which primarily consist of schools and tents.(small text)310(regular text) These locations are themselves not safe: to date — and (highlighted)despite Israel having been provided with the coordinates of all United Nations facilities(small text)311(regular text) — Israel has killed hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children seeking shelter in UNRWA facilities, and injured over a thousand.(unhighlighted)(small text)312

(next line)(regular text)72. The situation in UNRWA shelters was described as follows by the Commissioner-General of UNRWA in his 7 December 2023 letter of which the United Nations General Assembly took note in its Resolution ES-10/22 of 12 December 2023:

(next line)(indent)“Today, as a result of Israel’s military operation, nearly 1.2 million civilians are sheltering in UNRWA premises. The Agency has become the (highlighted)primary (italicized)platform for humanitarian assistance(unitaliczed) to over 2.2 million people in Gaza (unhighlighted)— a (highlighted)platform (italicized)on the verge of collapse.

(next line)(indent)(unhiglighted)UNRWA is, as of today, still operational in Gaza, though just barely. Our staff are still operating health centers, managing shelters, and supporting traumatized people, (highlighted)some arriving carrying their dead children.(unhighlighted) We are still distributing food, even though the corridors and courtyards of our premises are too crowded to walk through. (highlighted)Our staff take their children to work so they know they are safe or can die together. More than 130 UNRWA staff are confirmed killed in bombardments, most with their families; the number might rise by the time you read this.(unhighlighted) At least 70% of UNRWA staff are displaced, and lack food, water and adequate shelter. We are hanging on by our fingertips. If UNRWA collapses, humanitarian assistance in Gaza will also collapse.

(next line)(indent)This week, the Israeli military forces have instructed people to move further South, forcing Gaza’s population into an ever-shrinking space. Shelters are shockingly overcrowded, with high risk of epidemic illness.(highlighted) In these overfull and unsanitary spaces, more than 700 people use a single toilet, women give birth (an average of 25 per day), and people nurse open wounds.(unhighlighted) Tens of thousands sleep in courtyards and streets. (highlighted)People burn plastic to stay warm.(unhighlighted) Nearly 90 UNRWA premises, including schools, have been hit or impacted by munitions, killing over 270 internally displaced people, many this week. In Gaza as a whole, over 16,000 people, two thirds of whom are women and children, are reported killed during bombardments. Large swathes of Gaza are destroyed and uninhabitable.

(next line)(indent)(italicized)The premise of UNRWA’s mandate — to provide services to Palestine Refugees until there is a political solution — is at great risk:(unitalicized) without safe shelter and aid, civilians in Gaza risk death or will be forced to Egypt and beyond. Forced displacement out of Gaza may end prospects for the political solution that is intrinsic to UNRWA’s mandate, with grave risks for regional peace and security. (highlighted)A forced displacement beyond Palestinian land, reminiscent of the 1948 Nakba, must be prevented.

(next line)(unhighlighted)(indent)In my 35 years working in complex emergencies, (italicized)(highlighted)I have never written such a letter — predicting the killing of my staff and the collapse of the mandate I am expected to fulfil.”(unhighlighted)(unitalicized)(small text)313

(next line)(regular text)73.(indent) Those Palestinians with a place in UNRWA shelters are “the lucky ones”, according to UNRWA’s Commissioner-General.(small text)314(regular text) Others attempt to find shelter in the homes of relatives or strangers, in government facilities, hospital courtyards, or makeshift camps, without any access to food, water or sanitary facilities, or simply live and sleep in the streets, exposed to the elements. (highlighted)UNRWA’s shelters now have on average 486 people using a single toilet,(unhighlighted)(small text)315(regular text) while other locations where people are seeking to shelter often have (highlighted)no toilets at all.(unhighlighted)(small text)316(regular text)(highlighted) Palestinians are unable to maintain personal hygiene, with menstruating girls and women being particularly impacted.(unhighlighted)(small text)317(regular text) The World Health Organization estimates that there is on average (highlighted)“only one shower for every 4500 people”.(unhighlighted)(small text)318(regular text) Newborns in shelters are reportedly dying from avoidable causes due to the absence of adequate sanitation, food, water and medical care.(small text)319

(next line)(regular text)74.(indent) Since the Commissioner-General of UNRWA wrote to the President of the United Nations General Assembly on 7 December 2023, advising that the humanitarian situation in Gaza was already “untenable”,(small text)320(regular text) over one million Palestinians have continued to be forced by Israeli military ‘orders’ into the Rafah Governorate near the Egyptian border. The area has become the “epicentre of displacement”, with an estimated (highlighted)“fourfold” increase in its population density,(unhighlighted) thought to now exceed (highlighted)12,000 people per square kilometre.(unhighlighted)(small text)321(regular text) OCHA is warning there is “no empty space left for people to shelter, not even in the streets and other open areas”.(small text)322(regular text)(highlighted) Al-Mawasi — a sandy, barren strip of approximately 14 square kilometres along the Mediterranean Sea, without aid provisions, water, food or sanitation — the so-called ‘safe zone’ to which Israel has told Palestinians in Gaza to flee, is anything but safe.(unhighlighted) As UNRWA has underscored “unilaterally-declared ‘safe zones’ are not safe at all. Nowhere in Gaza is safe”.(small text)323(regular text) The Head of Humanitarian Policy at Save the Children International has warned: “People are in overcrowded shelters in makeshift tents. There is no access to clean water, there are crumbling sanitation facilities. We’ve heard of children starving in the so-called ‘safe zone’ of Al-Mawasi.”(small text)324" /end id.]

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"78.(indent) Since early December 2023, Israeli army attacks on Palestinian hospitals have only increased.(highlighted) The Israeli army has continued to attack and besiege hospitals and healthcare centres; to deprive them of electricity and fuel crucial to maintain effective functioning and equipment; to obstruct them from receiving medical supplies, food and water; to force their evacuations and closure; and effectively to destroy them.(unhighlighted) The North of Gaza, without any functioning hospital for a week, has only four severely challenged partially functioning hospitals available now.(small text)333(regular text)(highlighted)Israel has transformed Palestinian hospitals in Gaza from places of healing into “death zone[s]”,(small text)334(regular text) and scenes of “bloodbath”,(small text)335(regular text) “death, devastation and despair”.(small text)336(regular text) Many hospitals have now become mere “place[s] where people are waiting to die”.(small text)337(regular text) The World Health Organisation describes the situation as “unconscionable” and “beyond belief”.(unhighlighted)(small text)338

(next line)(regular text)79.(indent) There have now been more than 238 attacks on ‘healthcare’ in Gaza, in which over 61 hospitals and other healthcare facilities have been damaged or destroyed.(small text)339(regular text)(highlighted) Only 13 out of 36 hospitals and 18 out of 72 healthcare centres are still even functioning — some of them barely (unhighlighted)— despite the overwhelming number of people injured in Israeli attacks.(small text)340(regular text) The Israeli army has targeted hospital generators, hospital solar panels,(small text)341(regular text) and other life-saving equipment, such as oxygen stations and water tanks.(small text)342(regular text) It has also targeted ambulances, medical convoys and first responders.(small text)343(regular text)(highlighted) 311 health workers have been killed (on average four killed per day),(small text)344(regular text) including at least 22 health workers killed on duty.(unhighlighted)(small text)345(regular text) Those killed include some of (highlighted)Gaza’s most experienced and skilled doctor(unhighlighted)s including Dr Hani Al Haitham, Head of the Emergency Section at Al Shifa hospital, killed with his wife, Dr Sameera Ghirafi, and their children;(small text)346(regular text) Dr Mohammad Dabbour, Head of Pathology at Al Shifa Hospital, reportedly killed with his son and father while attempting to flee Gaza City;(small text)347(regular text) Dr Medhat Saidam, plastic reconstructive burn surgeon at Al Shifa Hospital and Dr Hammam Alloh, nephrologist at Al Shifa Hospital were killed in attacks on their family homes.(small text)348(regular text)(highlighted) Interviewed shortly before his death, Dr Alloh responded as follows when asked why he was not fleeing the North to the South: “If I go who would treat my patients? We are not animals, we have the right to receive proper health care. You think I went to medical school and for my postgraduate degrees for a total of 14 years so I think only about my life and not my patients?”.(unhighlighted)(small text)349(regular text) The systematic destruction of Palestinian hospitals and the killing of specialist Palestinian doctors is not only impacting the care of Palestinians in Gaza at present, it is also (highlighted)undermining the prospect of a future Palestinian healthcare system in Gaza, destroying its capacity to rebuild and to care effectively for the Palestinian people in Gaza.

(next line)(unhighlighted)80.(indent)(highlighted) At least 570 Palestinians have been killed at hospitals and healthcare centres in Gaza and a further 746 have been injured.(unhighlighted)(small text)350(regular text) They include patients and internally displaced Palestinians, who vainly sought sanctuary on or near hospital grounds, killed by Israeli strikes or snipers.(small text)351(regular text)(highlighted) Palestinian mothers have been killed in maternity hospitals, and Palestinian children in children’s hospitals.(unhighlighted)(small text)352(regular text) Even those tending to and counting the dead –– like Saeed Al Shorbaji, Director of Nasser Hospital’s mortuary –– have themselves been killed.(small text)353(regular text) Some have been victims of Israeli attacks multiple times over, like 12-year old (highlighted)Dina Abu Mohsen –– interviewed by UNICEF after losing her parents, two siblings and her leg in an Israeli strike on her home –– she was then killed herself when the Israeli army shelled the hospital where she was being treated.(unhighlighted)(small text)354

(next line)(regular text)81.(indent)(highlighted) Other Palestinians have died as a direct result of Israel cutting off electricity and fuel to hospitals; they include five premature babies and 40 ICU and kidney patients at Al Shifa hospital.(unhighlighted)(small text)355(regular text) Other Palestinians have died as a direct result of Israel’s forced evacuation of hospitals, including at least (highlighted)four babies in Al Nasr hospital, whose tiny bodies were found weeks later –– during a temporary ceasefire –– decomposing in their hospital beds.(unhighlighted)(small text)356(regular text) Hospital courtyards have been turned into sites of (highlighted)mass graves:(unhighlighted)(small text)357(regular text) at Al-Shifa Hospital, it was medics themselves who had to dig a mass grave for the decomposing bodies of 179 patients and others.(small text)358(regular text)(highlighted) Israeli bulldozers excavated and exhumed a hospital mass grave in the besieged Kamal Adwan hospital on 16 December, where 26 Palestinians had been buried.(unhighlighted)(small text)359(regular text) Speaking to CNN, Hossam Abu Safiya, Head of Paediatric Services at Kamal Adwan

(next line)Hospital, stated, (highlighted)“[t]he soldiers dug up the graves this morning and dragged the bodies with bulldozers, then crushed the bodies with the bulldozers … I have never seen such a thing before”.(unhighlighted)(small text)360

(next line)(regular text)82.(indent) United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES10/21 of 27 October 2023 –– calling for the “respect and protection … of all civilian and humanitarian facilities, including hospitals and other medical facilities … as well as all of humanitarian and medical personnel”(small text)361(regular text) –– has been resolutely ignored. (highlighted)Doctors and medics have continued not only to be killed but also to be rounded up and disappeared by the Israeli authorities.(small text)362(regular text) They include the General Director of Al Shifa and his staff, seized and held incommunicado since 23 November 2023.(small text)363

(next line)(unhighlighted)(regular text)83. Those wounded by Israel in Gaza are being deprived of life-saving medical care:(highlighted)(small text)364(regular text) Gaza’s healthcare system –– already crippled by years of blockade and prior attacks by Israel –– is unable to cope with the sheer scale of the injuries, now at 55,243 injured including at least 8,663 children.(small text)365(regular text) There are reports of severely injured patients walking for miles trying to find help.(unhighlighted) UNICEF highlighted(text cuts off with image)

(next line)(previous text not in image)disinfectants(small text)370(regular text) ––(highlighted) have led not only to otherwise unnecessary amputations of limbs,(small text)371(regular text) but also to amputations without anaesthesia, often undertaken by flashlight.(small text)372(regular text) Pregnant women are also being subjected to caesareans without anaesthetic.(unhighlighted)(small text)373(regular text) Patients are being treated on dirty floors covered with blood, with family members having to stand holding saline bags, where saline is even available.(small text)374(regular text) There are insufficient staff and resources for adequate wound or post-operative wound care:(small text)375(regular text) unclean wounds –– often infested with worms and flies –– rapidly become infected, necrotic or gangrenous.(small text)376(regular text) Patients plead for food and water.(small text)377(regular text) Even basic pain-management treatment is often unavailable, and patients are at risk of dying from treatable conditions.(small text)378(regular text) One doctor described having to do procedures without anaesthetic, he said:

(next line)(indent)“I was forced to do dressing changes on massive wounds, excruciatingly painful wounds. There was a girl with just her whole body covered in shrapnel. She was nine. I (highlighted)ended up having to change and clean these wounds with no anaesthetic and no analgesic.(unhighlighted) I managed to find some intravenous paracetamol to give her … (highlighted)her Dad was crying, I was crying, and the poor child was screaming…”.(unhighlighted)(small text)379" /end id.]

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"(indent)(italicized)7.(indent) Destruction of Palestinian life in Gaza

(next line)(unitalicized)88.(indent) On 16 November 2023, 15 United Nations Special Rapporteurs and 21 members of United Nations Working Groups, warning of a “genocide in the making” in Gaza, observed that the level of destruction that had by then taken place of “housing units, as well as hospitals, schools, mosques, bakeries, water pipes, sewage and electricity networks . . . threatens to make the continuation of Palestinian life in Gaza impossible”.(small text)391(regular text) As they note, (highlighted)Israel has in its bombing campaign against Gaza used “powerful weaponry with inherently indiscriminate impacts, resulting in a colossal death toll and destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure.”(unhighlighted)(small text)392(regular text) Israel has destroyed not only individual homes, houses, and whole apartment blocks; it has destroyed entire streets, and entire neighbourhoods:(highlighted) Shuja'iyya, a suburb of Gaza City, once home to approximately 110,000 Palestinians(unhighlighted), appears to now be a (highlighted)vast wasteland(unhighlighted), entirely flattened as far as the eye can see.(small text)393(regular text) Its shops, schools, vibrant market place, family homes, doctors clinics, historic streets and Ibn Uthman Mosque, and everything that once sustained Palestinian life there has been damaged or destroyed, along with so many of its people.(small text)394(regular text)(highlighted) Other areas in Gaza appear to have experienced a similar level of destruction, including Beit Hanoun,(small text)395(regular text) Beit Lahia,(small text)396(regular text) Gaza Old City,(small text)397(regular text) Al Rimal,(small text)398(regular text) and Nuseirat refugee camp in the South.(small text)399

(next line)(unhighlighted)(regular text)89.(indent)(highlighted) Across Gaza, Israel has targeted the infrastructure and foundations of Palestinian life, deliberately creating conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinian people.(unhighlighted) In addition to the attacks previously cited on homes, neighbourhoods, hospitals, water systems, agricultural lands, bakeries and mills, Israel has also targeted the foundational civil(text cuts off with image)

(next line)90.(indent) Israel has left Gaza City’s (highlighted)main public library in ruins.(unhighlighted)(small text)403(regular text) It has also damaged or destroyed (highlighted)countless bookshops, publishing houses, libraries,(small text)404(regular text) and hundreds of educational facilities.(unhighlighted)(small text)405(regular text) Israel has (highlighted)targeted every one of Gaza’s four universities(unhighlighted)— including the Islamic University of Gaza, the oldest higher education institution in the territory, which has trained generations of doctors and engineers, amongst others,(small text)406(regular text)—(highlighted)destroying campuses for the education of future generations of Palestinians in Gaza.(unhighlighted) Alongside so many others, (highlighted)Israel has killed leading Palestinian academics(unhighlighted), including: (highlighted)Professor Sufian Tayeh(unhighlighted), the President of the Islamic University — an award-winning physicist and UNESCO Chair of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Sciences in Palestine — who died, alongside his family, in an airstrike; (highlighted)Dr Ahmed Hamdi Abo Absa(unhighlighted), Dean of the Software Engineering Department at the University of Palestine, reportedly shot dead by Israeli soldiers as he walked away, having been released from three days of enforced disappearance; and (highlighted)Professor Muhammad Eid Shabir(unhighlighted), Professor of Immunology and Virology, and former President of the Islamic University of Gaza, and (highlighted)Professor Refaat Alareer(unhighlighted), poet and Professor of Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at the Islamic University of Gaza, were both killed by Israel with members of their families. Professor Alareer was a co-founder of ‘We are Not Numbers’, a Palestinian youth project seeking to tell the stories behind otherwise impersonal accounts of Palestinians — and Palestinian deaths — in the news.(small text)407

(next line)(regular text)91. (highlighted)Israel has damaged and destroyed numerous centres of Palestinian learning and culture, including:(unhighlighted) the Al Zafar Dmari Mosque and Center for Manuscripts and Ancient Documents;(small text)408(regular text) the Orthodox Cultural Centre; the Al Qarara Cultural Museum; the Gaza Centre for Culture and Arts; the Arab Social Cultural Centre; the Hakawi Society for Culture and Arts; and the Rafah Museum — Gaza's newly opened museum of Palestinian heritage, housing hundreds of cultural and archaeological artefacts.(highlighted) Israel’s attacks have destroyed Gaza’s ancient history:(unhighlighted) eight sites have been damaged or destroyed, including the (highlighted)ancient port of Gaza(unhighlighted) (known as ‘Anthedon Harbour’ or ‘Al Balakhiya’) — the archaeological site of a (highlighted)2,000-year-old Roman cemetery(unhighlighted) listed on both the Islamic Heritage List and the tentative UNESCO World Heritage List.(small text)409(regular text)(highlighted)Israel has also destroyed Gaza City’s ‘Old City’, including its 146-year-old historic houses, mosques, churches, markets and schools.(unhighlighted) It has also destroyed Gaza’s more recent history of more hopeful times, including the Rashad al-Shawa Cultural Center — site of a historic meeting between United States President Bill Clinton and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat 25 years ago — and an important cultural hub for Palestinians in Gaza, with its theatre, library and event space.(small text)410(regular text)(highlighted) And Israel is destroying Gaza’s future academic and cultural potential: alongside the 352 Palestinian schools it has damaged or destroyed,(small text)411(regular text) the 4,037 students and 209 teachers and educational staff it has killed, alongside the other 7,259 students and 619 teachers it has injured.(unhighlighted)(small text)412

(next line)(regular text)92.(highlighted) Israel has damaged or destroyed an estimated 318 Muslim and Christian religious sites, demolishing the places where Palestinians have worshipped for generations.(unhighlighted)(small text)413(regular text) These include the (highlighted)Great Omari Mosque,(unhighlighted) originally a fifth century Byzantine church, an iconic landmark of Gaza’s history, architecture and cultural heritage, and a place of worship by Christians and Muslims for over 1,000 years.(small text)414(regular text) Israeli shelling has also damaged the (highlighted)Church of Saint Porphyrius,(unhighlighted) founded in 425 AD and believed to be the (highlighted)third oldest church in the world(unhighlighted)— alongside two other churches that have sustained direct Israeli fire.(small text)415(regular text) Gaza’s Christians themselves have been targeted and killed by Israel in the very church compounds where they sought shelter.(small text)416

(next line)(regular text)93.(indent) Along with its destruction of the physical monuments to the history and heritage of the Palestinians in Gaza, (highlighted)Israel has sought to destroy the very Palestinian people who form and create that heritage:(unhighlighted) Gaza’s celebrated journalists, its teachers, intellectuals and public figures, its doctors and nurses, its film-makers, writers and singers, the directors and deans of its universities, the heads of its hospitals, its eminent scientists, linguists, playwrights, novelists, artists and musicians. Israel has killed and is killing Palestinian story-tellers and poets, Palestinian farmers and fishermen, alongside Gaza’s local legends: (highlighted)pastry chef Masoud Muhammad al-Qatati(unhighlighted), killed in an Israeli airstrike on his house on 3 November 2023, whose shop’s motto ‘let the poor eat’ — and reputation for giving away the popular Palestinian treat ‘knafeh’ to indigent customers — earned him the nickname ‘Father of the Poor’; (highlighted)84- year-old Elham Farah(unhighlighted), from one of Palestine’s oldest Christian families — a reputed accordionist and music teacher, known as ‘Mother Orange’ to generations of Palestinian music students for her shock of red hair,(small text)417(regular text)— shot dead by an Israeli sniper outside the Holy Family Church in Gaza City when she returned home for warm clothes, and was left to bleed to death;(small text)418(regular text) and (highlighted)Al-Shaima Saidam(unhighlighted), the student with the highest final high school exam grades in the whole of Palestine, killed with multiple members of her family in a strike on Al Nuseirat refugee camp.(small text)419(regular text)(highlighted) Just as Israel is destroying the official memory and records of Palestinians in Gaza through its destruction of Gaza’s archives and landmarks, it is obliterating Palestinian personal lives and private memories, histories and futures,(unhighlighted) through bombing and bulldozing graveyards,(small text)420(regular text) destroying family records and photographs, wiping out entire multi-generational families,(small text)421(regular text) and killing, maiming and traumatising a generation of children.(small text)422(regular text) As a Palestinian man, in a video by UNRWA, succinctly sums up: “These are all our memories, our entire lives . . . Now it’s all gone; everything has turned into ashes.”(small text)423 /end id.]

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'Dismembered bodies' as Israel kills 66 in latest north Gaza massacre

Overnight bombing of residential area near Kamal Adwan hospital leaves scores of people wounded without access to emergency response

Israeli jets carpet-bombed a residential block near the war-battered Kamal Adwan hospital in the besieged north Gaza on Thursday, killing at least 66 Palestinians and wounding more than 100, according to health officials. At least 22 more were killed hours earlier in separate bombardments in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, including 10 children.

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Homes belonging to five families, al-Madhoon, Khadr, Abu Wadi, Shakoorah, and Nassar were targeted in the attack, according to Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif. "We are talking about the complete destruction of an entire residential block in this area that is in the vicinity of the Kamal Adwan hospital," al-Sharif reported.  He added that these homes housed a number of displaced people from the Jabalia refugee camp and the rest of Gaza's north who were forcibly expelled by Israeli forces in recent weeks.

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In Gaza City's Sheikh Radwan, the bombing hit a five-storey building belonging to the al-Arouqi family, completely destroying it, according to local media. Civil defence search-and-rescue team said they struggled to recover those trapped and missing under the rubble. "Tell the world there are no facilities, no tools, there's nothing we could work with. No one is listening," a civil defence worker told Al Jazeera, as he attempted to pull out a decapitated corpse from the wreckage. "Right now there is a great number of missing people, martyred and wounded. Only a small number of casualties were removed. Unfortunately, the majority are martyred and wounded."

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Concerned Citizens,

  Jenny is a School Librarian and her book Fair started today. We were both up and coffeed and out well before dawn this morning, as she went to engage kids and parents all week, and I rode a couple of miles to the early voting site, wearing my "Palestine" bike jersey, and sporting front and rear flashing lights.

  There was a pretty long line at 6:50, when I arrived, and it got longer. They had to redirect the tail of the snake all over to the other side of the door, due to blocking entrances to businesses. It was fairly quiet and reserved outside, with light conversation, nothing partisan, but I felt the tension when I stepped through the door. I wasn't expecting that, and it didn't feel like "me" to me... Maybe it was. I doubt it.

  Everything proceeded normally, with wait lines at each step, and I forgot to read the fine print on my ballot-printout, even though I brought reading glasses, because everybody was waiting for everybody else to move-along. Maybe my Jill Stein vote got flipped to Harris or Trump... 

..Oh, well.

  As I exited the door a lade smiled in my face and gave the "power fist" or "solidarity sign", with a meaningful look. I guess she noticed my Palestine jersey. 

I smiled back automatically. That's me...

  The eastern sky had brightened up and the sun rose over the horizon as I rode home. None of that was unexpected, though.

Who knows what's going to go down by Valentine's Day?

  Israeli Military Bulldozer Demolishes UN Watchtower, Fence in Southern Lebanon UNIFIL statement reiterates intention to remain in area despite Israeli demands   The growing chorus of international voices calling for Israel to stop hassling the UNIFIL peacekeepers in southern Lebanon appears to be falling on deaf ears, and a new statement from UNIFIL reports that an IDF bulldozer demolished their perimeter fence and a watchtower in Marwahin.   Israel has not commented on this specific incident yet, and it is unclear why they destroyed that particular watchtower, and in so deliberate a manner. It is worth noting that just a few days ago Israeli tanks attacked a damaged a similar UNIFIL watchtower and cameras in Kfar Kela, which is only 5 km from the site of today’s demolition.   https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/20/israeli-military-bulldozer-demolishes-un-watchtower-fence-in-southern-lebanon/#gsc.tab=0

  Patients, medics trapped as Israeli tanks shell North Gaza hospitals Three partially functioning hospitals in the Northern Gaza Strip, which treats severely wounded Palestinians, have now been surrounded and shelled by Israel’s military tanks, according to health authorities.   https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/10/19/735559/Israel-bombs-north-Gaza-hospitals-Jabalia-attack-kills-33

  Israeli forces bomb Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza   Hossam Abu Safiya, the hospital’s director, confirmed in a statement that Israeli strikes have damaged the hospital’s water tanks and electricity grid, severely disrupting medical services.   The area surrounding the hospital has been subjected to intense bombing and gunfire for several hours, placing patients and medical staff in grave danger, he added. This assault on the hospital is part of a broader campaign of relentless air and artillery strikes that have pummeled northern Gaza for 16 days.   The Jabalia refugee camp and surrounding areas have also been hit particularly hard, with witnesses reporting plumes of thick smoke rising from the devastated neighborhoods.   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241020-israeli-forces-bomb-kamal-adwan-hospital-in-northern-gaza/

  UN chief 'unequivocally condemns' loss of life in northern Gaza after deadly Israel strike Last Saturday, an Israeli air strike targeted Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, killing at least 87 people and injuring dozens, including children. The Israeli strike also destroyed an entire residential block in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, according to witnesses.   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241020-the-genocide-in-gaza-after-the-death-of-sinwar/

   After Israel Killed Hamas Leader, D.C. Pushes to Hand Palestine to Saudi Arabia   “An independent sovereign nation called ‘Palestine’ with security guarantees for Israel to make sure there’s no future October 7ths,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in a recent interview. “It will be more like an emirate than it will be a democracy. MBS and MBZ at the UAE will come in and rebuild Gaza … create an enclave in the Palestine” — referring to Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.   Graham, one of the biggest hawks in Congress, also praised Blumenthal for being “a Democrat trying to get the votes” for a deal requiring the U.S. to “go to war for Saudi Arabia.”   Despite claims of wanting justice for Palestinians or supporting a two-state solution, American officials make little mention of Palestinian self-determination. None of the post-war plans offered have involved an election or process that would allow Palestinians to have a say in their future after enduring the humanitarian emergency of the Israeli war against them.   https://theintercept.com/2024/10/18/israel-hamas-yahya-sinwar-killed-congress/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

  Scott Ritter seems to be one step behind events, but maybe he just can't acknowledge the seismographic data.   SCOTT RITTER: Iran’s Bomb Is Real — And It’s Here  This is the situation confronting Israel and the United States as they decide on an Israeli retaliation against Iran for the Oct. 1 missile attack.   Iran has indicated that any attack against its nuclear or oil and gas production capabilities would be viewed as existential in nature. That could trigger the reversal of the fatwa and the deployment of nuclear weapons within days of such a decision being made.

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[ 📹 Scenes from Khan Yunis, where the friends and family of Palestinian journalist Muhammad Abu Dakka retrieve his body from Nasser Hospital after he was targeted in an Zionist army airstrike. ]

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GAZA DAY 297: PALESTINIAN CHILD DIES OF STARVATION, TURKIYE WARNS IT COULD ENTER INTO WAR AGAINST THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION, GENOCIDE CONTINUES AS DOZENS MORE KILLED

On 297th day of the Israeli occupation's ongoing special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) committed a total of 3 new massacres of Palestinian families, resulting in the deaths of no less than 39 Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children, while another 93 others were wounded over the previous 24-hours.

It should be noted that as a result of the constant Israeli bombardment of Gaza's healthcare system, infrastructure, residential and commercial buildings, local paramedic and civil defense crews are unable to recover countless hundreds, even thousands of victims who remain trapped under the rubble, or whose bodies remain strewn across the streets of Gaza.

Turkiye must be “very strong so that Israel can’t do these things to the Palestinians,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told AKP Party officials in a speech on Sunday night, implying a threat to the Israeli occupation, according to the Hebrew media.

“Just as we entered [Nagorno-]Karabakh, just as we entered Libya, we might do the same to them. There is nothing we can’t do. We must only be strong.”

Further, Turkiye's Foreign Ministry said on Monday that "just as the end of the genocidal Hitler came, so too will be the end of the genocidal (Israeli occupation Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu."

"Just as the genocidal Nazis were held accountable, those who seek to destroy the Palestinians will also be held accountable,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

"Humanity will stand with the Palestinians. You will not be able to destroy the Palestinians," it added.

Similarly, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan posted on the social media platform X, "our President has become the voice of humanity's conscience."

"Those who seek to silence this just voice, especially international Zionist circles including Israel, are in a state of great panic," Fidan said, adding that "history has ended the same way for all genocidal perpetrators and their supporters," he added.

The comments came after Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz insulted Erdogan on X, and appeared to make threats against the Turkish President.

Turkiye's head of Communications wrote on X that those who threaten the Turkish President "do so at their own peril," and accused the Israeli occupation of "ongoing genocide in Palestine."

In other news on Monday, July 29th, thousands of Palestinians were once again displaced from the Al-Bureij Refugee Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, as well as its outskirts, after the Israeli occupation army ordered their evacuation in preperation for ethnic cleansing operations in the camp.

Witnesses reported seeing thousands of citizens fleeing their homes from various areas of the Bureij Camp, most of whom headed towards the cities of Deir al-Balah and Al-Nuseirat.

According to local reporting, the Zionist army ordered the evacuation of citizens from Al-Bureij Refugee Camp and the Al-Shahuda areas in blocks 660, 661, 2220, 2225, and 2348.

For several months now, the Israeli occupation army has repeatedly ordered Palestinians to leave their homes for southern Gaza, claiming that they are "humane and safe," while forcing families into cramped, densely populated tent cities, along with UNRWA Schools and other public facilities before bombing those areas randomly and intermittently, while citizens starve and encounter disease.

In the latest example of the catastrophic and inhumane conditions in Gaza, medical sources announced on Monday, a 6-year-old child named Ali Anas Al-Tatar died as a result of starvation and dehydration at Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City.

This brings the total number of victims to succumb to famine in the Gaza Strip to 39.

Back in May, the head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) declared the northern Gaza Strip to be in a "full blown famine."

"It's a horror," Cindy McCain, who leads the WFP, said on NBC's Meet The Press. “There is famine — full-blown famine — in the north, and it’s moving its way south.”

Meanwhile, the horrors the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) inflict on the Palestinian population of Gaza continued.

In one of many examples, Zionist army warplanes bombed a residential house belonging to the Abu Muslim family in the city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, killing 10 Palestinian civilians who were transported to Nasser Hospital in the city.

Occupation forces also targeted a gathering of civilians in the Al-Sikka area of Khan Yunis, resulting in the deaths of three Palestinians.

Similarly, on Sunday evening, occupation aircraft bombed a residential house in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City, killing three civilians, and wounding several others, including women and children.

Occupation soldiers went on to burn civilian homes in the Al-Nuseirat Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, while Zionist soldiers also detonated residential homes and buildings in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City.

Additionally, occupation drones opened fire with live bullets on Al-Sina'a and Al-Maghribi Streets, south of Gaza City.

The horrors continued on Monday when Zionist artillery shelling targeted the Abu Hamid roundabout east of Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza, killing 5 Palestinians and wounding a number of others.

Occupation forces continued to detonate civilian homes and residential buildings in the town of Al-Qarara, north of Khan Yunis, while also shelling the Sheikh Al-Nasser neighborhood in central Khan Yunis.

Local civil defense and paramedic crews reported the recovery of 3 martyrs from the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City as a result of occupation artillery shelling several days ago.

Throughout the day, IOF artillery shelling targeted the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of the city, while occupation warships shelled the coast of Gaza City.

At the same time, Zionist warplanes and artillery shelling continue pummeling the Al-Bureij Camp, while the occupation army is also shelling the Nuseirat Camp, as well agricultural lands in the vicinity of the mills south of Deir al-Balah.

As the day continued, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported recovering the bodies 5 Palestinians killed after occupation fighter jets bombed a gathering of civilians in the vicinity of Al-Firdaws School, west of Rafah, in Gaza's South.

Following that, occupation aircraft bombed another residential home in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, injuring 4 Palestinians.

Meanwhile, IOF warplanes bombed a civilian residence in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, south of Gaza City, killing one resident and wounding another.

The Israeli occupation army also detonated an entire residential block in the Block-12 area of the Bureij Camp.

On Monday evening, occupation artillery shelling targeted a residential apartment near Al-Wahda Tower in the Al-Nasr neighborhood of Gaza City, resulting in the deaths of three Palestinians and wounding several others.

Then at dawn on Tuesday, Zionist army fighter jets bombed a residential house in the town of Abasan Al-Jadida, east of Khan Yunis, killing several civilians and wounding others.

Occupation warplanes also bombed the Church of Saint Porohyrius, which houses displaced Palestinian families, injuring a number of civilians.

Similarly, occupation artillery forces shelled in the vicinity of the Al-Awda Schools that also shelter displaced civilians, while occupation aircraft bombarded a house in the Jorat Al-Lot area, east of Khan Yunis.

Also in Khan Yunis, Israeli occupation forces bombed a house near the Al-Salam Mosque in the Tahlia area, east of the city.

Just prior to midnight, Zionist aircraft bombed a house again in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City, as well as the Friend's Building in the Ansar area, southwest of the city, leading to the injury of several civilians, including women and children.

As a result of the Israeli occupation's ongoing war of extermination in the Gaza Strip, the death toll now exceeds 39'363 Palestinians killed, including at least 10'300 women and more than 15'700 children, while another 90'923 others have been wounded since the start of the current round of Zionist aggression, beginning with the events of October 7th, 2023.

This brings the total casualty count to more than 130'286, or the equivalent of 5.66% of Gaza's 2.3 million Palestinian residents.

July 30th, 2024

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🚨🟢 Hamas held the first conference in 4 months, presented by leader Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri (1/2): —

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

On the zionist Aggression and the Situation in Northern Gaza.

To the masses of our great people, our Arab and Islamic nation, and the free people of the world, Peace be upon you, and Allah's mercy and blessings,

Glory and eternal honor to the spirit of the heroic martyr leader Yahya Al-Sinwar (https://t.me/PalestineResist/63239?single) "Abu Ibrahim," head of Hamas’s political bureau and commander of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, and his companion on this path, the martyr leader Mahmoud Hamdan (https://t.me/PalestineResist/63348) "Abu Yusuf" and to the souls of the martyrs of our people in the steadfast Gaza Strip, the proud West Bank, Al-Quds, and the refugee camps and diaspora. We also honor the martyrs of our Arab and Islamic nation who have fallen on the fronts supporting our people and our valiant resistance in the path to liberating Palestine, Al-Quds, and the blessed Al-Aqsa.

For the fifteenth consecutive day, (https://t.me/PalestineResist/63538) the fascist military campaign launched by the zionist occupation army continues against more than 200,000 of our Palestinian people in the northern Gaza Governorate, including Jabalia and its surroundings. The aim is to carry out the evil plans of its generals (https://t.me/PalestineResist/63116)to displace our people, committing genocide through the intensified bombing of residential neighborhoods, refugee tents in schools (https://t.me/PalestineResist/63117?single), and the daily destruction of dozens of homes. They are planting bombs in buildings and detonating them remotely (https://t.me/PalestineResist/63038), preventing fuel from reaching hospitals, blocking food and medical supplies (https://t.me/PalestineResist/63038), cutting off communications and the internet, and besieging (https://t.me/PalestineResist/63466) and bombing hospitals (https://t.me/PalestineResist/63416)—aggravating an already dire humanitarian situation and signaling a rise in the number of martyrs.

In light of this continued barbaric escalation by the occupation army and its extremist government against our people in Gaza, particularly in the northern region, we in the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas emphasize the following:

The horrific crime being committed by the zionist occupation in the northern Gaza Strip is beyond description or reduction to a mere image or report. What is happening is complete genocide and execution of the people of our nation living there, in blatant violation of international humanitarian law and all international treaties and conventions. The international community and its institutions are now facing a real test to break their silence and inaction and work to uphold the values of humanity, justice, and the principles upon which they were founded.

It is no longer acceptable to rely on the language of condemnation and denunciation, which the occupation disregards and does not care about. The international community and the United Nations must take serious and effective action to impose sanctions on this fascist government, isolate it from all UN institutions, and pressure it and its supporters to stop their war of genocide against our people.

The criminal occupation army’s cutting off of communications and the internet in northern Gaza is intended to cover up the genocide it is committing, isolating our people, and preventing the real picture from being transmitted to the world about the daily massacre and holocaust it is executing there. In this context, we denounce and reject the actions of some Arabic-language media outlets that adopt an editorial policy and media discourse that aligns with the zionist occupation’s agenda and its dark narrative, distorting our people’s resistance and national symbols. This strips them of all values of objectivity and professionalism, placing them on the side of the zionist enemy and as partners in the war of genocide against our people.

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#Gaza : Survivors of #JabaliarefugeeCamp from children #ceasefirenow  Survivors from Palestinian children from the Jabalia Refugee Camp Massacre which was committed by Israeli forces on Tuesday at the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza. Israel dropped 6 bombs —6 tons each— on a residential block in Jabalia refugee camp wiping it out completely. Forty houses turned into a graveyard of dismembered and murdered bodies. Reports of hundreds killed and many others injured.