Nine members of the same family who evacuated Khan Younis were killed by an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday in an area of the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah that Israel declared a so-called “safe zone,” The Associated Press has reported.
Around a dozen members of the Hamdan family fled Khan Younis after Israel gave an evacuation order for the eastern portion of the city, which the UN said will impact about 250,000 Palestinians. The Hamdans found refuge with extended relatives in Deir al-Balah, only for most of them to be slaughtered.
According to AP, a total of 12 people were killed in the Israeli strike on the “safe zone,” including five children and three women. Israel has repeatedly bombed areas it declared safe in Gaza, including the al-Mawasi camp on the coast, which is where the Israeli military said Palestinians evacuating Khan Younis should go.
After Israel ordered the evacuation of Khan Younis, it launched airstrikes on the city that killed at least nine people, including three children and two women. The strikes were launched near the European Hospital, which is also in the area Israel said should be evacuated.
Patients and workers fled from the European Hospital, the largest operating medical facility in Gaza, after the Israeli evacuation order. “Some of the patients were dragged in hospital beds toward Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis by their families. Some of them were transported in ambulances and some of them went on foot,” Saleh al-Hams, who heads the hospital’s nursing department, told The Washington Post.
Israeli forces withdrew from Khan Younis back in April after a brutal assault that destroyed more than 80% of the city’s buildings. The evacuation order signals another invasion might be coming despite Israel claiming to have defeated Hamas in the city.
It's probably time to start adjusting the 200K number upwards. Don't you think?
”Slaughter”?…" Is an ugly word and action by those who are chosen but have lost their way. Heaven help them all and indeed ALL of humankind.
Are you telling me a "Safe Zone" is NOT a "Death Camp?"
Totally a coward act…!
This is a pattern followed each time Israel designate an area a safe place.
This is a pattern followed each time Israel designate an area a safe place.
It seems the safest place in Gaza, is in God’s hands.
So, there is no place safe.
That is correct commanda.
It's safe for the Israeli troops massacring the Gazans.
Not really. Israel has lost IDF members despite the overwhelming firepower and air support they have. But naturally the loss of life on one side is clearly tilted.
WikiLeaks
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Verified document from Israeli Ministry of Intelligence in October 2023 suggests forced displacement of Gaza civilians to Egypt would "yield positive and long term strategic results".
The advisory document envisions a three stage process including the establishment of tent cities in Sinai and opening of humanitarian corridor, followed by construction of cities in northern Sinai from which there would be no return.
Link to full doc [עברית]: rb.gy/g1k0d
What the fuck is Hezbollah waiting for? There is no hope. Just do it already. I am no longer antiwar.
Rooting for war? More deaths?
Death to all those responsible and their cheerleaders. We shoot rabid animals. So yes.
Israel backed Hezbollah into a corner, it has no choice but to fight back. It isn't good enough for Israel that it is destroying Gaza so it is using chemical weapons (white phosphorus) in Southern Lebanon to destroy it and it will eventually go to Northern Lebanon.
The Israelis are absolute monsters. This has widespread public support in Israel.
Thus, Israel has forfiet its right to exist, by failure to comply with the UN resolution 181 founding it:
Chapter 2: Religious and Minority Rights
Freedom of conscience and the free exercise of all forms of worship, subject only to the maintenance of public order and morals, shall be ensured to all.
No discrimination of any kind shall be made between the inhabitants on the ground of race, religion, language or sex.
All persons within the jurisdiction of the State shall be entitled to equal protection of the laws.
The family law and personal status of the various minorities and their religious interests, including endowments, shall be respected.
Except as may be required for the maintenance of public order and good government, no measure shall be taken to obstruct or interfere with the enterprise of religious or charitable bodies of all faiths or to discriminate against any representative or member of these bodies on the ground of his religion or nationality.
The State shall ensure adequate primary and secondary education for the Arab and Jewish minority, respectively, in its own language and its cultural traditions.
The right of each community to maintain its own schools for the education of its own members in its own language, while conforming to such educational requirements of a general nature as the State may impose, shall not be denied or impaired. Foreign educational establishments shall continue their activity on the basis of their existing rights.
No restriction shall be imposed on the free use by any citizen of the State of any language in private intercourse, in commerce, in religion, in the Press or in publications of any kind, or at public meetings.(3)
No expropriation of land owned by an Arab in the Jewish State (by a Jew in the Arab State)(4) shall be allowed except for public purposes. In all cases of expropriation full compensation as fixed by the Supreme Court shall be said previous to dispossession.
The Arabs rejected that resolution. And violates many of its terms. In fact Jordan annexed the West Bank in 1950 thus preventing the Palestinians from starting their own nation. So the resolution was never implemented and is now history.
"So the resolution was never implemented and is now history."
That translates to English as "Israel has no legitimate basis for its existence and is completely un-entitled to any recognition or support."
Do you really believe that?
PIGS!