Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Thursday that Israeli attacks killed at least 71 Palestinians and wounded 176 in the previous 24-hour period as Israeli strikes continued to pound targets across the Strip.
Al Jazeera reported that Israeli strikes in northern Gaza early Thursday killed 88 people, but the Health Ministry only counts bodies that are brought to hospitals and morgues. The strikes in north Gaza targeted Beith Lahia, where 66 were killed, and the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, where 22 were killed.
“A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them,” the ministry said.
Beit Lahia has been under a total Israeli siege since early October as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign. Hind Khoudary, a reporter for Al Jazeera, said there were no paramedics or civil defense crews left in Beit Lahia. “There are dozens of Palestinians still trapped under the rubble in the two northern areas targeted overnight – Sheikh Radwan and Beit Lahia,” Khoudary said.
Israeli strikes were also reported in southern and central areas of Gaza. In the southern city of Rafah, at least three Palestinians were killed. Israeli strikes near Khan Younis also killed at least three people.
The Health Ministry said that the latest violence has brought its death toll to 44,056 and the number of wounded to 104,268. The figures don’t account for Palestinians missing and presumed dead under the rubble, which has previously been estimated to be over 10,000.
A group of American healthcare workers who volunteered in Gaza estimated in an open letter to President Biden in October that the US-backed Israeli bombing campaign and siege have killed at least 118,908 Palestinians, including over 60,000 who have starved to death. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, who led the letter, told Antiwar.com in a recent interview that the estimate was the bare minimum they came up with by looking at the available data.
Man’s inhumanity, unto itself, boggles the mind…
As far as Israel is concerned, what goes around IS coming around. Every death that it inflicts is just one more nail in its coffin! The community of mankind has one big cancer, and that cancer is called USA/Israel!
Well, not exactly.
First of all, you are sitting in the comfort of the Western world. That comfort, affluence, and security is based on a long, long history of violence. Wars, Inquisitions, massacres, and colonialism created the foundation from which you can be "morally superior."
However, the Middle East is a violent place. More than 450,000 people died in Syria during their ongoing civil war on Israel's border.
Meanwhile, Israel (naively) thought they could live with Hamas like a civilized European country; they even had a music festival on the border with Hamas-occupied Gaza. Hamas showed how the real world works, and slaughtered 364 people at the Nova Music Festival on Oct. 7. Some (women and men) were gang raped.
But, you want Israel to play nice and play by European rules that are based on centuries of oppression, slaughter, torture, and brutality. Tell the people of Algeria or the Congo how nice and fair Europeans are; in the Congo, Belgium tortured, killed, and mutilated 10 million people. And the Turks killed 1.5 million Armenians. Germany started a war that killed 7o million people. But now these countries are morally superior to Israel, which is involved in a war with a group dedicated to the slaughter of every last Israeli man, woman, child, and baby.
So, sorry if it offends your conscience, but Israel will do what it needs to do to survive, including attacking enemies using their own people as human shields. You can wag your finger and clutch your pearls, but some wars continue until they end.
And the quickest way to end the war and suffering? Hamas surrenders, gives up its weapons, and releases all hostages (alive and dead). But somehow, that never occurs to you, even though Hamas is not a legal government and does not legally occupy Gaza (no, the elections do not apply, after they were revoked by the Palestinian Authority).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_music_festival_massacre
A lot of truth's, however the principal means of implements of destruction which the Zionist State of Israel utilizes are made in America and removing that stream ends the GENOCIDE and maybe the Zionist State of Israel. When conscious Christians and Muslims of wealth understand they are the counter weight to the Israel Lobby and start supporting candidates who are for equality specifically in American Foreign Policy with regards to The Zionist State of Israel the mayhem ends. Now sitting in your comfort zone of blood, mangled arms, splattered brains, exploded hearts, mutilated legs and guts you think that won’t happen, now how long did the USSR last? They are now in the garbage bin of history.
Whenever the US does step down, another (or multiple) will just replace it.
https://x.com/RealCandaceO/status/1860129272083702247