On Tuesday, an Israeli strike hit a UN school-turned-shelter for displaced Palestinians in central Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp, killing 22 people and wounding 52.
Footage of the aftermath of the attack shows many children among the casualties. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, at least seven children were killed by the strike.
“We condemn in the strongest terms the horrific massacre against civilians and the US administration’s alignment with the occupation,” Gaza’s Government Media Office said in a statement on the attack.
Schools sheltering displaced Palestinians have been a frequent target of Israeli strikes in Gaza. The Israeli military typically claims to target Hamas in the attacks, but never provides evidence for the claims. So far, there’s been no public comment from the Israeli military about the Bureij strike.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said in its daily update on Tuesday that Israeli strikes killed 48 Palestinians and injured 142 over the previous 24 hours. “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 said.
The relentless Israeli attacks come as Palestinian children are facing starvation due to the US-backed Israeli blockade that’s been imposed for over two months.
The Health Ministry said that since Israel resumed its genocidal war on March 18, at least 2,507 Palestinians have been killed, and 6,711 were injured. The numbers account for dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals and morgues.
Since October 7, 2023, the ministry’s death toll has reached 52,615, and the number of wounded has climbed to 118,752, figures that don’t account for thousands missing and presumed dead under the rubble or indirect deaths caused by the Israeli siege.
Does anyone of the Palestinians in the photo look like they are starving?
They're the lucky ones Sherlock! Now go play in the highway!
A cratered bomb site in a makeshift shelter that killed 22 human beings with at least 7 of them being children and you bring up the fact that you can't see any people starving amongst the survivors. You really are a special kind of piece of shit.
Hasbara Delusions: When Gaza's Hungry Children Are a 'PR Failure'
What does it say about a society when you can look at a child – sunken-eyed and silent with fear and grief – and decide the real injustice is that she's hogging the spotlight?
https://archive.ph/WKP4A
Same idiocy I hear again like years ago when Americans saw starving African children they said "how can the be starving, look at their fat bellies". they had no idea that fat bellies were a sign of starvation, not to be confused with American beer bellies.
They already said they were embarking on ethnic cleansing.
There is no excuse.
Law for thee, but none for me. Israel survives on double standards.
US too
I guess their god will be pleased with all the dead children they will present him with. Isn't that exactly what Netanyahu read from the bible to everyone some months back, that their god demanded of them to kill Palestinians for the "chosen people"?
Why would you worship an entity that evil?
Netanyahu was a secular Pole/Russian who grew up in Philadelphia. But he speaks to a god?
Netanyahu was born in Israel. He happens to have ancestors who were Polish/Russian.
He grew up in Philly.
Paul Graham @paulg
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“They should be ashamed of their silence." This is not a bunch of student protestors. This is the editorial board of the Financial Times.
https://x.com/paulg/status/1919875796690169867
Jeet Heer @HeerJeet
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The Financial Times, as its name indicates, is a old-fashioned conservative business newspaper — it is taking a more forthright stance against the slaughter in Gaza here than any liberal newspaper I can think of
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The west’s shameful silence on Gaza
After 19 months of conflict that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and drawn accusations of war crimes against Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu is once more preparing to escalate Israel’s offensive in Gaza. The latest plan puts Israel on course for full occupation of the Palestinian territory and would drive Gazans into ever-narrowing pockets of the shattered strip. It would lead to more intensive bombing and Israeli forces clearing and holding territory, while destroying what few structures remain in Gaza.
This would be a disaster for 2.2mn Gazans who have already endured unfathomable suffering. Each new offensive makes it harder not to suspect that the ultimate goal of Netanyahu’s far-right coalition is to ensure Gaza is uninhabitable and drive Palestinians from their land. For two months, Israel has blocked delivery of all aid into the strip. Child malnutrition rates are rising, the few functioning hospitals are running out of medicine, and warnings of starvation and disease are growing louder.
Yet the US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.
In brief remarks on Sunday, Donald Trump acknowledged Gazans were “starving”, and suggested Washington would help get food into the strip. But, so far, the US president has only emboldened Netanyahu.
Trump returned to the White House promising to end the war in Gaza after his team helped broker a January ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Under the deal, Hamas agreed to free hostages in phases, while Israel was to withdraw from Gaza and the foes were to reach a permanent ceasefire.
But within weeks of the truce taking hold, Trump announced an outlandish plan for Gaza to be emptied of Palestinians and taken over by the US. In March, Israel collapsed the ceasefire as it sought to change the terms of the deal, with Washington’s backing.
https://www.ft.com/content/f5fd6f8d-06a7-4d1f-b842-752e3aca9272
https://archive.ph/wFyBK