On Wednesday, Israeli strikes again targeted tents in the al-Mawasi camp in southern Gaza, which has been declared a so-called “safe zone” by the Israeli military but has come under repeated attacks.
The attack killed at least 20 Palestinians, with children among the dead, and the death toll is expected to rise. A spokesman for Gaza’s Civil Defense told Al Jazeera that the Israeli military is aware that only civilians are in the camp.
Israeli strikes also pounded central Gaza on Wednesday, with one attack targeting a UN school in the Bureij refugee camp. The strike burned down 15 nearby tents and killed at least one Palestinian.
In Nuseirat, central Gaza, an Israeli strike hit a street near a community kitchen as many were waiting for food, and at least five children were killed in the attack.
Israeli strikes also continued to pound northern Gaza, where Israeli forces are conducting an ethnic cleansing campaign focused on the cities of Beit Hanoun, Jabalia, and Beit Lahia. In Gaza City, at least 10 Palestinians were killed by an Israeli strike on a house.
Al Jazeera reported that Israeli strikes killed at least 50 people across Gaza on Wednesday. Gaza’s Health Ministry said in its daily update, which it releases about mid-day Gaza time, that Israeli attacks killed at least 30 Palestinians and injured 84 in the previous 24-hour period, bringing its death toll to 44,532 and the number of wounded to 105,538.
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.
It's a good thing that the experts at Amnesty International are on hand to declare that Israel is probably intent on genocide, leading from only 13 months to 70 years behind most of the rest of the world.
You know it's bad when you've been one-upped by the Pope.
“Onslaught” or slaughter…. Either, either or….
When (if) this world returns to sanity, Israel will have a BIG PRICE to pay! Every day I sign onto to antiwar.com and all I ever see are high casualty numbers for innocent defenseless people that the world has apparently forgotten about. Shame on Israel and shame on its enabler the USA!
Bombing tents, how courageous of the IDF. Can you imagine the outrage if Putin or any leader for that matter, bombed tents of all things?
Shame on the Biden-Harris administration and on the world for covering and tolerating the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
This is the first genocide of the 21st Century, but this is an ominous precedent and there will be more now that international humanitarian laws do not exist anymore.
Not even the obligatory excuse that a Hamas' official was targeted in each case? I guess they don't even have to bother with an explanation anymore since their benefactor won't do a damn thing anyway.