Gaza’s Health Ministry said Monday that Israeli attacks killed at least 58 Palestinians and wounded 86 over the previous 24-hour period as the daily US-backed slaughter continues.
The ministry only counts dead and wounded Palestinians who arrive at hospitals and morgues and doesn’t account for people missing under the rubble or those trapped in besieged areas rescuers cannot access.
“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 wrote on Telegram.
Israeli strikes on Monday included overnight attacks on the al-Mawasi camp, an area the Israeli military designated a so-called “safe zone” that has come under frequent attacks. According to Al Jazeera, a total of three strikes on al-Mawasi killed at least 11 Palestinians, including one that hit tents and killed seven people.
Israeli strikes also pounded the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least four Palestinians, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. In southern Gaza, at least three Palestinians were killed by Israeli bombing east of Rafah and Khan Younis.
In northern Gaza, Israel continued its near-daily attacks on the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, a city that’s been under a total siege since early October as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign.
“The bombing continues from all directions, affecting the building, the departments, and the staff. This is a serious and extremely horrifying situation,” said Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, the director of the hospital.
“The world must understand that our hospital is being targeted with the intent to kill and forcibly displace us. We urge the international community to intervene quickly and stop this fierce assault on us, to protect the healthcare system, the workers, and the patients within it,” Abu Safia added.
In Gaza City, WAFA reported at least four Palestinians were killed by an Israeli attack on a gathering of civilians.
The Health Ministry said the latest violence brought its death toll since October 2023 to 58 and the number of wounded to 86.
In October, a group of American healthcare workers who volunteered in Gaza estimated in an open letter to President Biden 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.
Does any life matter to these Christ-less people?!?! Meaning Israel?!….
Yes, their lives, and the animals that they treat better than human beings. The engagement rules the genocide army has for encountering stray dogs is more stringent than the ones involving Palestinian life.
Hopefully Trump changes things for the better somehow.
How is he going to do that? If he sides with the Palestinians he loses his entire base. If he sides with Israel the slaughter continues.
His son in law is already planning to create a vacation paradise in Gaza on top of the dead bodies.
Expulsion is better than genocide. Trump has complained about the optics.
Expulsion is ethnic cleansing. Period. Neither are acceptable.
The strong do as they will; the weak suffer what they must.
I don’t want anyone to suffer…
Then become strong.
You got to be kidding. Have you listen to what Trump has said?
The chaos candidate couldn’t be worse. He could at worst be the same.
Israel wants expulsion, and that would be preferable to starvation and death by thirst.
One being less bad shouldn't make you think one should be acceptable. Especially with the amount of leverage the US has. You keep making it sound like these are our two choices.
I want those kids to have a future.
Me too. And Trump could ensure that by actually doing something BETTER instead of just being worried about the "optics". Expulsion being "better" than genocide would be something I could choke down if there weren't other alternatives. Like Trump getting on the phone and not asking but demanding that the slaughter stop immediately or there will be another slaughter forthcoming starting with Tel Aviv.
Israel wants that land, wants water resources, energy resources, etc too.
There’s too little to go around in the region. Overpopulation, and more settlers want to move in, plus some groups having many births in Israel.
Zerohedge recently published an article by amren about India, and by extension the “third world,” being cruel and lacking empathy. I strongly doubt the article, but it probably has some truth in that people are mean when struggling for limited resources. We in the US have plenty and so are kind. We then delude ourselves into believing in our superiority for that kindness.
Anyway, my point is just that people need to move out of the region to somewhere that isn’t overfull. I also wanted to mention the article, because it really bothers me.
For most of human history we’ve formed groups and have been mean to one another in competition over limited resources. But that doesn’t make it acceptable.
" Like Trump getting on the phone and not asking but demanding that the slaughter stop immediately or there will be another slaughter forthcoming starting with Tel Aviv.' That is a pure fantasy in your mind. That will never happen.
No shit. And you thought because I said that, that I must think Trump would do that.
"chaos candidate couldn’t be worse" Yes he can be worst. And yes it can get worst for the Palestinians.
The problem with Trump is he changes his mind mind the way the wind blows – what in the end is better for himself of the USA empire.
He already more or less changed his mind on the Ukraine, now he wants to send more weapons.
Don't forget Israel does it with our bombs, money and support. Gaza is already forgotten in American universities and in general. We are busy with drones now and taking over Greenland, Canada, Mexico and the Panama Canal.
In other words we have a new President and he and the nation don't care about Gaza. Seems like the Gaza protests were aim at unseating the Democrats as opposed to helping Gaza.
While the Gaza protests might not have primarily focused on Gaza, they were funded by Soros and other “leftists,” perhaps just as an attempt at controlling the inevitable energy.
Regardless, people still are talking about Gaza.
Yes, because our nation, and you're a perfect example, is propagandized so heavily that they wouldn't know the truth if it bit them on the ass.
And you are not propagandized? LOL. You are certainly more vulnerable to emotional propaganda than most.
No, I am not. I don't read, watch or listen to corporate owned media.
It might benefit them to engender hatred in the Palestinians. They then seek revenge in the “West” at a later date to further justify intervention.
The US similarly seems to intentionally create Muslim terrorists via collateral damage. It might all be intentional, sometimes anyway.
"Seems to . . ."? The USA and Israel "sow" terrorism with their "collateral damage" claims! Ever notice how the media ALWAYS calls Israel's enemies "terrorists"? While Israel kills countless people EVERY DAY, the victims are referred to as "terrorists" for trying to defend their lands and lives. And not a word how Israel ALLOWED O7 to happen!
Menachem Begin once said "Palestinians are beasts walking on two legs," while former IDF Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan referred to them as "drugged roaches in a bottle" and also said that a good Arab is a dead Arab." Another former chief of staff, Moshe Ya'alon referred to the Palestinian threat as like a "cancer" on which he was performing "chemotherapy." (The Israel Lobby, John Mearsheimer and Stephen M.Walt, P-89, #46)
1947: Rabbi Yehuda Leib Fischmann a member of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, in his testimony before a UN special committee, "The Promised Land extends from the River of Egypt up to the Euphrates, it includes part of Syria and Lebanon."
Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich said Israel would expand "little by little" to eventually encompass the whole of the Palestinian territory, in addition to Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and other countries. (counterpunch, Israel's Biblical Wars of 'Self Defense', Ramzy Baroud, October 25, 2024)