Gaza’s Health Ministry said Monday that Israeli forces killed 24 Palestinians and wounded 71 in the previous 24-hour period as Israeli strikes continued across the Strip.
According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, at least five Palestinians were killed by an Israeli strike in Jabalia, northern Gaza. Two more Palestinians were killed by strikes near the Indonesia Hospital in Beit Lahia.
Both Beith Lahia and Jabalia have been under a total Israeli siege since early October as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign to force Palestinian civilians out of northern Gaza.
WAFA also reported an Israeli strike on a house in the southern city of Rafah killed at least four Palestinians. In central Gaza, Israeli shelling near the Nuseirat refugee camp injured five Palestinians.
Heavy rains and flooding are also devastating Palestinian civilians sheltering in tents. Gaza’s Media Office said 10,000 tents were either washed away or damaged by floods on Monday.
The UN’s Palestinian relief agency, UNWRA, said 500,000 people in Gaza are threatened by sewage floods that can cause disease, and Palestinians are at a higher risk of getting sick due to dropping temperatures as winter approaches.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said the latest violence has brought its death toll since October 2023 to 44,235 and the number of wounded to 104,638. The ministry’s numbers do not account for Palestinians missing and presumed dead under the rubble, which was previously 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 onslaught has killed at least 118,908 Palestinians, a total that includes indirect deaths caused by the Israeli siege. 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.
I’m so sorry. I did not vote for this.
Ditto
Double Ditto!!
triple ditto
Dr. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa said the estimate of 119,000 was the bare minimum. Which makes using that 44,235 number an insult to all the rest of the 500,000 who died since. That's my estimate based on Norman Finkelstein's estimate that "500,000 just disappeared."
I can't imagine even laying on that uncomfortable metal bed, but I guess the big holes are to allow the blood to drain. My back would be killing me, but I guess I wouldn't be drowning in my own blood.
Apparently both sides prefer the continuing massacre.
Another one pretending the killing is equal from both sides.
Holding hostages is an international war crime and in this case the key to ending this horror.
Continuing to hold them is a deliberate decision that sustains the insanity.
Has nothing to do with who is doing the vast majority of the killing.
Has to do about, the aggressor sets the rules.
So, one side that killed 800 civilians set the rules that allowed the other side to kill 17,000 children displace 2 million people and create a man-made famine? Keep grasping and even you'll believe the killing is equal.
Not at all. Hamas killed 1189 unarmed citizens using the most fiendish acts in modern conflict and took 200 hostages. By continuing to hold those hostages they give Israel the excuse to turn Gaza into rubble. I'm say remove that excuse by freeing the hostages and bring maximum world pressure down on Israel to cease and desist.
Bullshit. There were 300 security personal at that music festival. And once more those "fiendish acts" were debunked long ago. The actual baby killers were the IDF. So, it turns out Israel was the real fiends and your contention that Israel has the right to turn Gaza into rubble males you just as fiendish as the IDF and Israeli government.
Reality check, no hostages, no peace.
I get it. You've got nothing.
I’ve got the key that brings a ceasefire and
while ignoring the hostages, you pretend to want an end to the conflict?
That = nothing.
Israel's actions aren't based on whether the hostages are released or not. Or haven't you been listening to Netanyahu, Smotrich, Ben Gvir et al? The only ceasefire Isreal will agree to is under the condition that they can commence the carnage as soon as the hostages are released. So, you're the one that's got nothing except your blessing that the collective punishment/ethnic cleansing/genocide (take your pick). continues on.