Gaza’s Health Ministry said Wednesday that Israeli strikes across the Strip killed at least 65 Palestinians and wounded 140 in the previous 24-hour period.
The latest violence brings the ministry’s recorded death toll since October 7, 2023, to 42,409 and the number of wounded to 99,153. “There are still a number of victims under the rubble and on the streets, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them,” the ministry said.
Ninety-nine American healthcare workers who have volunteered in Gaza recently estimated in an open letter to President Biden and Vice President Harris that over 118,00 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza over the past year, a toll that includes indirect deaths caused by the Israeli siege, such as starvation and disease.
Israeli attacks on Wednesday included a strike on a home in Gaza City that killed at least five Palestinians and injured seven. The Palestinian news agency WAFA also reported a strike on a car in central Gaza that killed at least two Palestinians and injured several others.
The Israeli military has continued its assault and siege on northern Gaza, where it’s attempting to carry out an ethnic cleansing plan to forcibly displace hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians.
Workers at hospitals in the north have refused Israeli orders to evacuate and say they’re running out of food and medicine due to the tightening of the siege. In 12 days, health officials say at least 350 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the Jabalia refugee camp, where Israel has focused its attack.
This is a heartbreaking memorial of Ramzy Baroud’s well accomplished, generous and loved sister.
No More Texts From My Sister
October 16, 2024
I kept calling her, writes Ramzy Baroud, over and over again, hoping that the line would crackle a bit, and then her kind, motherly voice would say, “Marhaba Abu Sammy. How are you, brother?”
“Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children, who will fill your homes with noise and laughter.”
These were the last words written by my sister in a text message to one of her daughters.
Dr. Soma Baroud was murdered on Oct. 9 when Israeli warplanes bombed a taxi that carried her and other tired Gazans somewhere near the Bani Suhaila roundabout near Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/16/no-more-texts-from-my-sister/
That column by Mr. Baroud is also published here on Antiwar.com, over in the “original” section.
Heart-rending.
Sorry I missed it here.
my article about why anti war community should support ukraine didnt make it to originals
sigh
This too, got to me. Decent human being concerned about the welfare of animals, murdered:
https://x.com/alijla2021/status/1846551370884612235
Wow. I didn't think my contempt could get any more intense. I was wrong.
Merqaba Yisrael
It is hard to live in a world where all the main news channels support, defend, and justify genocide. Genocide of a specific group of human beings from a country with a name they literally wiped off all the maps. You almost want to genocide your own 70 inch TV.
The Palestine News Network @PaliNewsNetwork Looking for the latest baby killing techniques and technologies
https://x.com/PaliNewsNetwork/status/1846688621417714149
How many Palestinian lives equals one Israeli?…
At this rate, about 2000? According to my math, about 700,000 Palestinians to 350 Israelis? …But I failed math.
If we want to attract more demonic genocide apologists to read Antiwar, we may want new pictures of Palestinians burning in tents–preferably with IVs attached.
Bloody well said and spot on!
Days in, days out, Israeli soldiers killed Palestinians in record numbers, and the world looks the other way. Shame.