Gaza’s Health Ministry said Wednesday that Israeli attacks killed at least 47 Palestinians and wounded another 182 over the previous 24-hour period as Israeli strikes continued to pound targets across the Strip.
Strikes were reported across the Gaza Strip, including an attack on a house in Jabalia in the north that killed at least 10, including children. Another Israeli strike targeted the so-called safe zone in al-Mawasi in the south, killing at least eight Palestinians.
An Israeli attack hit a tent camp in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, but the number of casualties is unclear. In the south, an Israeli strike hit a house in Khan Younis, killing eight, and an attack in Rafah killed at least one Palestinian.
Israeli forces in north Gaza continued to carry out an ethnic cleansing campaign, which is focused on the cities of Jabalia, Beit Lahia, and Beit Hanoun. An Israeli strike near the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia reportedly killed five Palestinians.
According to Reuters, Israeli forces in Beit Hanoun deepened their incursion and forced more Palestinian civilians to flee the area through an Israeli checkpoint. Residents said men were held and questioned while women and children were forced to travel to Gaza City.
“The scenes of the 1948 catastrophe are being repeated. Israel is repeating its massacres, displacement, and destruction,” a resident of Beit Lahia who arrived in Gaza City on Wednesday told Reuters. “North Gaza is being turned into a large buffer zone, Israel is carrying out ethnic cleansing under the sight and hearing of the impotent world.”
The Israeli ethnic cleansing campaign has involved a starvation blockade on the cities it’s currently focusing on cleansing. The US continues to provide military despite warning in a letter last month that there may be implications for US support if the aid situation doesn’t improve. The US gave Israel a 30-day deadline, which ended on Tuesday. In that time, the humanitarian situation has only gotten worse, but the State Department said Tuesday there would be no consequences.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said the latest violence has brought its death toll since October 2023 to 43,712 killed and 103,258 wounded. The ministry’s numbers are considered an undercount since they don’t account for Palestinians who are 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 estimated in an open letter to President Biden in October that the US-backed Israeli bombing campaign and siege have killed at least 118,908 Palestinians, including over 60,000 who have starved to death. 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.
Acclaimed British surgeon Nizam Mamode breaks down briefly while testifying to the UK Parliament about Israel's quadcopters picking off kids who had just been bombed. https://x.com/ASE/status/1856400123791835594
https://x.com/AssalRad/status/1856421706505900405
https://x.com/jeremyscahill/status/1856481140418183292
Maybe this obviously well-fed man should be dropped off in North Gaza for a spell to see what "significant action" looks like.
Who should be condemned more, the murderers who are "following orders" by killing everyone in sight, or the mainstream media/government officials who continue the coverup of this MONSTROUS crime?
Why not both?
Long live a free Palestine!
There is no other choice!
Therein lies the path of Peace!
Everyone complicit in the outright slaughter of Palestinians and Lebanese should be "Nuremburged"! No question!
The five Hamas leaders and several of Hezbollah leaders who started this war have been take down.
I see, so the war didn’t start with the forced displacement and massacres of Palestinian Arabs and Christians beginning in the months before May 1948?
Tom: Letter says enable minimum of 350 trucks per day and you’ve got 30 days to do it, UN says an average of 37 have entered. That’s 1/10 of what you asked for.
Which makes that ok in your sick mind?
What is your definition of a "free Palestine"?
Pretty straightforward. All the people living within the historic land of Palestine have the same rights.
After the 1948 Catastrophe: Menachem Begin message to his Irgun Zvai Leumi troops: "Accept my congratulations on this splendid act of conquest. Convey my regards to all the commanders and soldiers. We shake your hands. We are all proud of the excellent leadership and the fighting spirit in this great attack. We stand to attention in memory of the slain. We lovingly shake the hands of the wounded. Tell the soldiers: you have made history in Israel with your attack and your conquest. Continue thus until victory. As in Deir Yassin, so everywhere [today Gaza], we will attack and smite the enemy. God, God, Thou hast chosen us for conquest." (The Passionate Attachment, George W. Ball & Douglas B. Ball, W W Norton & Company, P-29, #38)