Gaza’s Health Ministry said Monday that Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip killed 49 Palestinians and wounded 75 over the previous 24-hour period as the daily US-backed slaughter continues.
The ministry’s figures only account for dead and wounded Palestinians who were brought to hospitals. “A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them,” the ministry wrote on Telegram.
Among those killed by Israeli strikes was Thabat Saleem, a 30-year-old neonatal doctor who volunteered at the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, according to Middle East Eye. She was killed by a strike on her home in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp.
“The management and staff at the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital mourn the death of our colleague proudly and with honor, Dr. Thabat Saleem, who was martyred as a result of [Israel’s] aggression, God bless her and accept her as a martyr,” the hospital said in a statement.
Other Israeli strikes on Monday included a bombing of a town east of the southern city of Rafah that killed at least two children, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
Al Jazeera reported a total of seven Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks on Rafah. An attack on the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza reportedly killed four Palestinians.
Israel also launched heavy strikes on Gaza City and other areas in the north overnight. According to Al Jazeera, at least six Palestinians were killed in strikes in Gaza City.
The Health Ministry said the latest violence brought its death toll since October 2023 to 45,854 and the number of wounded to 109,139.
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.
Here is a 1948 newspaper report on the formula Arabs wanted for Israel/Palestine. Perhaps that would have been the best solution.
ARAB AIMS IN PALESTINE
STATEMENT BY AZZAM PASHA EQUAL STATUS OFFERED TO JEWS (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, May 20 1948.
The purpose of the Arab armies in Palestine was clarified yesterday by the secretary-general of the Arab League (Azzam Pasha) in an exclusive statement to a special correspondent of “The Times” with the Arab Legion.
They were not merely defending the Palestinian Arabs, he declared, but were fighting Zionism, and their objective remained as before, namely, the prevention of the establishment of a Zionist State in Palestine.
Equally, the Arab attitude towards the Jews in Palestine was unchanged.
The Zionists were seeking to create a purely Jewish State, but the Arabs were fighting for a Palestinian State in which the Jews would have full and equal citizenship, every facility to develop their Jewish life, and every encouragement to play a full part in the building up of a United Palestine. There would be no differences and no discrimination between Arab and Jewish citizens.
The Arabs expected a long and hard struggle, but they were resolved to see it through.
When the Zionists decided to terrorise the Palestinian Arabs into accepting partition they had made a fatal mistake. They had put fear into the hearts of Palestinian Arabs, but they had also put anger into the hearts of the Arab countries and a determination to fight Zionism to the end.
"the prevention of the establishment of a Zionist State in Palestine." In other words they were out to destroy the new nation of Israel.
"but the Arabs were fighting for a Palestinian State" Well that was not objective of Jordon. Jordon was out to capture the West Bank and make it part of Jordon. Which they succeeded in doing.
"no discrimination between Arab and Jewish citizens." The events of the previous 30 years or so indicates that was not going to happen.
"The Arabs expected a long and hard struggle, but they were resolved to see it through." No the Arabs expected a quick victory and when Israel started to crush them, they quit. Except for Jordon, once they secured the West Bank, they simply went on defensive and waited to the end of war.
"they had made a fatal mistake" 76 years later, Israel is still around and is one world's nuclear armed nations.
For a nation that was allegedly "fooled" on October 7, Israel somehow can find "terrorists" within groups of women, children, doctors and other public service people? You "can't have your cake and eat it too", unless, of course, you are Israel!
Not allegedly… rather Completely…!