Israeli strikes in Jabalia, northern Gaza, killed over 50 children in just 48 hours, the UN’s child relief agency, UNICEF, said in a statement on Saturday.
“This has already been a deadly weekend of attacks in North Gaza. In the past 48 hours alone, over 50 children have reportedly been killed in Jabalia, where strikes leveled two residential buildings sheltering hundreds of people,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell.
Jabalia has been the focus of an Israeli ethnic cleansing campaign in northern Gaza that began in early October. The campaign has involved a starvation blockade and massive strikes on civilians, and Israeli troops are preventing the approximately 50,000 Palestinians who have been forced out of Jabalia from returning.
Russell said Israeli strikes included an attack on UNICEF staff working on a polio vaccination campaign for children and an attack on a vaccination center. The World Health Organization said at least six people, including four children, were wounded in the Israeli strike on the vaccination center.
“The attacks on Jabalia, the vaccination clinic, and the UNICEF staff member are yet further examples of the grave consequences of the indiscriminate strikes on civilians in the Gaza strip,” Russell said. “Taken alongside the horrific level of child deaths in North Gaza from other attacks, these most recent events combine to write yet another dark chapter in one of the darkest periods of this terrible war.”
Israeli strikes continued to pound northern, central, and southern Gaza on Sunday. Medical sources told Al Jazeera that at least 35 Palestinians were killed, including 16 in the north. An Israeli attack on a residential building in the southern city of Khan Younis killed seven members of the same family, including four children.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said in its death toll update on Sunday that at least 27 Palestinians were killed and 86 were injured in the previous 24-hour period. The latest violence brought the ministry’s death toll since October 2023 to 43,341 and the number of wounded to 102,105.
The Health Ministry’s numbers are considered an undercount since they don’t account for Palestinians missing and presumed dead under the rubble or indirect deaths caused by the Israeli siege. A group of American healthcare workers who volunteered in Gaza have estimated the US-backed Israeli bombing campaign and siege has killed at least 118,908 Palestinians, including over 60,000 who have starved to death.
The genocidal slaughter would not be possible without US military aid, as Israeli officials have acknowledged they couldn’t sustain operations in Gaza for more than a few months without US support. The Israeli news site Calcalist has estimated the US has funded about 70% of Israel’s military operations over the past year.
Aaron Bushnell, the U.S. airman who burned himself to death to protest the Gaza genocide, was awarded the 2024 Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence in memoriam on Saturday.
Notice from the Sam Adams Associates:
The Sam Adams Associates are pleased to announce United States Air Force Senior Airman Aaron Bushnell as the recipient of the 2024 Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence.
Bushnell was a cyber defense operations specialist with the 531st Intelligence Squadron at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. He was assigned to the 70th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing at Fort Meade in Maryland.
Senior Airman (SRA) Bushnell martyred himself when he walked up to the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 25, 2024, while streaming himself as he approached, and then self-immolated in protest of what Israel is doing to Palestinians, the most extreme form of protest. He was 25 years old and had been on active duty since May 2020, according to the service.
He had stated as he approached the embassy:
In advance of his burning, Bushnell posted this message on his Facebook page:
As he was consumed by flames, SRA Bushnell’s last words were, “Free Palestine,” said repeatedly.
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/03/watch-soldier-who-self-immolated-wins-adams-award/
I'll bet Netanyahoo wishes every one of his critics would follow Aaron Bushnell's example and self-immolate.
”Where do the children play?”…
“Every junkie’s like a setting sun to me!”…
One of Neil Young's best.
We do indeed live in SCARY times. The people who banned Donald Trump from Twitter and Facebook want you to vote for Kamala so that they can protect you from "misinformation":
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1853303465637818447
I am voting for neither.
You do remember Mr. Trump saying that he would suspend the Constitution,don't you?
It was in the same vein as Mr. G.W. Bush holding up a piece of paper and saying that the Constitution was a "GD piece of paper".
Both parties yap about the Constitution, but would use it as toilet paper.
Either Trump or Kamala is going to be the next President of the US. Kamala has said flat out she can’t think of a single thing she would do differently from Biden. If you vote for neither Trump or Kamala you are deciding to sit out this Presidential election.
You've reminded me of a visit by Ken Kesey (with Hells Angels escort, of course) to speak at an anti-Vietnam rally at Sproul Plaza in Berkeley:
In answer to the question re how to stop the Vietnam war, Kesey replied: "Just say fuck it and go home". Then he left.
What is Israel going to do now, bomb UNICEF?
Yes, of course.
Heartbreaking, and completely avoidable. When you have an entire society with most who have participated in apartheid via the military and brainwashed to think that everyone is dispensable, but themselves via religious voodoo you get genocide. Israel is a sick and broken state.
If this kind of slaughter was happening to stray dogs in Azerbaijan or Tibet it would be getting more coverage from Fake News and liberal Hollywood than what the slaughter of human beings in Gaza is getting.
ISRAEL IS CONTINUING TO DEMOLISH PEOPLE'S HOMES AND ENTIRE VILLAGES IN LEBANON. What have these people done to Israel to deserve this??
Israel has metastasized from a parasite to a malignant tumor on both the middle east and in the USA. And, why isn't the MSM calling Bibi 'THE NEW HITLER, like they do to everyone else they don't like? No need to reply.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=israel+demolition+of+villages+in+Lebanon&ia=web
”It’s every man’s war that keeps us apart, with stalwart convictions and affairs of the heart… To struggle for victory until we’re all free?…There isn’t enough time to list the debris!…”
There is no poetry that I know of to capture the essence of Gaza. It is yet to be written. Very likely not in English language.
Wake up Jordan, wake up Egypt, wake up Iraq, wake up every Arab, Muslim, Asian, African Nations doing nothing to STOP this slaughter, your citizens are watching you and don't like what they see. The Nazis were stopped, now is the time to STOP the Zionist.
Did the Israelis really kill these kids, or is it the cowards who hide behind skirts and diapers? Putting military targets in homes, schools, hospitals, shops, etc., is the hallmark of Hamas and Hezbollah. And even when the Israelis inform the civilians that the military targets are going to be attacked and they need to evacuate, the Muslim thugs threaten kill the civilians if they do vacate the area.
The Israelis are then left with the cruel choice of collateral damage including the deaths of innocent civilians to protect their own people, or suffer another October 7 attack. Already they realized Hezbollah was going to commit another October 7 type attack in northern Israel when they went in there, with perhaps 5x or more the number of Israeli casualties as a result.
Blame Hezbollah. Blame Hamas. Blame the useful idiots in the news media who only tell you that the Israelis kill innocent civilians without telling you that they intentionally set up military targets with the deliberate goal of forcing the Israelis to kill civilians to protect their own people. They are the ones who are really to blame for the civilian deaths, and that includes the author of this article.