Israeli forces targeted another school-turned-shelter for displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza on Thursday, killing 28, including at least five children, and wounding 160.
The strike targeted the Abu Hussein Elementary School in the Jabalia refugee camp, which has been under total siege for about two weeks, a step Israel has taken to carry out an ethnic cleansing plan in northern Gaza.
“There is no water to extinguish the fire. There is nothing. This is a massacre,” Medhat Abbas, a Palestinian health official, told Al Jazeera. “Civilians and children are being killed, burned under fire.”
Israel claimed that it targeted Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters who gathered at the school. Israel typically claims schools they target are Hamas “command and control centers.” but never offers evidence to back up the claims.
Hamas denied that it was using the Abu Hussein school, which was run by the UN’s Palestinian relief agency, for military purposes. Hamas called the Israeli claims “nothing but lies,” adding it was “a systematic policy of the enemy to justify its crime.”
Earlier in the day, Gaza’s Health Ministry released its daily death toll, saying at least 29 Palestinians were killed and 93 were injured. The latest violence brings the ministry’s recorded death toll to 42,438 and the number of wounded to 99,246. The figures do not account for the Palestinians who are missing and presumed dead under the rubble or indirect deaths caused by the Israeli siege.
Other Israeli strikes in Gaza on Thursday included two in northern Gaza that killed 11 people, and several were reported killed by Israeli strikes in the south. Israel said that Hamas’s leader, Yahya Sinwar, was killed in the southern city of Rafah.
Israel seems overly exuberant on its present course of action and indeed intent.
After reading similar articles about Israel killing children from Dave every day, I'm starting to believe Dave is telling the truth. But now that I believe it's true, I can't believe nobody cares!?
I worked as a trauma surgeon in Gaza from March 25 to April 8. I’ve volunteered in Ukraine and Haiti, and I grew up in Flint, Mich. I’ve seen violence and worked in conflict zones. But of the many things that stood out about working in a hospital in Gaza, one got to me: Nearly every day I was there, I saw a new young child who had been shot in the head or the chest, virtually all of them went on to die . Thirteen in total.
At the time, I assumed this had to be the work of a particularly sadistic soldier located nearby. But after returning home, I met an emergency medicine physician who had worked in a different hospital in Gaza two months before me. “I couldn’t believe the number of kids I saw shot in the head,” I told him. To my surprise, he responded: “Yeah, me, too. Every single day.”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/09/opinion/gaza-doctor-interviews.html
Thank you for your service to humanity!!!!
OMG that is horrible. we, living in the safety of our living rooms, never realize the reality that some parts of the world endure on a daily basis.
Desensitized/Brainwashed. Heavy on the brainwashed.
It gets soggy like a wet doggy in there.
Murderous bastards – every last one including the ones who have elected to bankroll them..