Israel ramped up its strikes on Gaza overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, slaughtering dozens of Palestinians.
Citing Palestinian medical sources, Middle East Eye reported that 79 Palestinians were killed Wednesday morning, making it one of the deadliest mornings in Gaza for weeks.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said Wednesday that at least 51 Palestinians were killed in the previous 24-hour period, a total that only includes dead and wounded people who arrived at hospitals or morgues and doesn’t account for those buried under the rubble.
The ministry said the latest violence brought its recorded death toll since October 7, 2023, to 41,689. It said another 165 were injured, bringing the total number of wounded to 96,625.
Israeli strikes on Wednesday included attacks on Gaza City, which targeted a school and an orphanage that were both sheltering displaced Palestinians. According to Middle East Eye, at least 25 people were killed in the two strikes, including women and children.
Israel also ramped up attacks on the southern city of Khan Younis on Tuesday night that involved tank raids. Reuters reported that 40 Palestinians were killed and dozens were wounded in Israeli operations around Khan Younis.
The latest massacres in Gaza come as the world’s attention is on Israel’s escalation in Lebanon and the Iranian missile attacks on Israel. The regional escalations put much less scrutiny on Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly considering an ethnic cleansing plan for northern Gaza.
In September, Gaza’s Health Ministry released the names of 34,344 Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli forces, including 11,355 children. Among the children were 710 infants who did not make it to their first birthday.
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Gaza children celebrate missiles hitting Israel. Who could blame them?
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Super post. The quality of journalism then is mindboggling.
I really wish they would cease using that figure for the deaths of Palestinians at the hand of Israel. It is by orders of magnitude much, much more.
Agreed. I failed my math class in high school but can still calculate that it's probably more than 10 times as much. Actually, I'm lying. Norman Finkelstein recently said 300,000 – 500,000 of Palestinians in Gaza "disappeared." Others mentioned 600,000.
I understand, though – agencies have to report the numbers for which they have verifiable data. The actual numbers ARE much higher, but in the interest of good methodology, only those that can be proven (in the colloquial sense) right now should be cited right now.
In time the true figures will be revised upwards as more certainty is established.
Fantastic job Israel. You should work toward killing 10k Palestinians for every 1 Israeli. You're doing God's work, you really are.
ASG's been updated to include more comprehensive thoughts on Ukraine. Some good parts on Zionism and 9/11 as well, if you haven't read in a few weeks. Control + F "July 4" is easiest to skip ahead:
https://roninhardjan.substack.com/p/americas-shadow-government-behind
How many more people have to die before the CRIMINAL DUO of the USA and Israel is dealt with? Do we not have international laws and why aren't they being enforced? If these laws don't apply to everyone then they aren't really laws! The world BADLY needs another "Nuremburg" and THIS time around the REAL culprits must be rooted out!
It's about who holds the "violence vouchers" (the author coining the original phrase did so much better than I paraphrase).
Order is maintain and enforced by those our civilization grants "permission" to use violence (typically military or police) as force is the ultimate underwriting of any demand or threat or decree. "Do, or be forced to do". Eviction, payment or repayment, compliance – everything someone is compelled to do ultimately "comes to shove" when the "push" of words and reason fail.
When the United Nations has no means to enforce except by eventual violence, and no MEANS by which to produce convincing violence (no army), and if / when the perpetrator is itself more powerful than the next dozen nations (most of which are tacit allies), then nothing can be achieved.
But the biggest bully human, or the biggest country, still needs to eat, drink and breathe (after a fashion) – and denied oxygen by some means, the toughest human on Earth is dead in six minutes.
Direct force won't work; indirect means absolutely can.
Historically, losing and desperate armies commit atrocities … most of the killings of the Holocaust happened as the Germans were retreating in the East.