Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed at least 61 Palestinians since dawn on Thursday, medical sources told Al Jazeera, amid Israel’s starvation blockade on the territory that has blocked food and aid shipments for more than two months.
According to Reuters, Israeli strikes that hit a restaurant and market in Gaza City killed at least 33 people, including women and children. “People come to the market to get what they need if they can find it … Neither the people nor the animals were safe. Neither the young nor the old,” Ahmed al-Saoudi, who witnessed the Israeli attack, told Reuters.
Hani Mahmoud, a reporter for Al Jazeera, said the Israeli strike targeted one of the few places where Palestinians could find a meal in the area. Drop Site News reported that the restaurant was the last one open in Gaza City.
According to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), among the victims was Yahya Subeih, a journalist who was killed hours after the birth of his daughter.
The other major Israeli attack in Gaza City hit a school-turned-shelter for displaced Palestinians in the Tuffah suburb, killing at least 15. The PJS said another journalist was killed in that strike, Nour al-Din Abdo.
The PJS said the attack has brought the total number of journalists killed by Israel in Gaza since October 7, 2023, to 212. According to WAFA, the PJS described the “upsurge in the number of slain journalists as deliberate targeting that amounts to a war crime under international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions.”
A day earlier, two separate Israeli attacks hit another school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Bureij central Gaza, killing 32 people, including at least nine children and four women. Haaretz reported that a nearby mosque was told to evacuate, but not the school. The Israeli strikes hit the school after Palestinians who were near the mosque went there to take shelter.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said Wednesday that since Israel resumed its genocidal war on March 18, at least 2,545 Palestinians have been killed, and 6,856 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 52,653, and the number of wounded has climbed to 118,897, figures that don’t account for thousands missing and presumed dead under the rubble or indirect deaths caused by the Israeli siege.
Hamas has had 19 months to lay down their arms and release all the hostages. They could have stopped this mess, that they initiated on Oct 7th, 2023, on any given day, but continue to vow that there will be more Oct 7's leaving Israel with no choice but to continue, or the cycle of violence will continue.
You know not what you say. You don't mention the hostages that were killed by Israeli bombs, Israeli guns and israeli blockade. Did you forget the three captives who begged for their lives in Hebrew, held up white flags and "mistaken" for Palestinians and were gunned down?
The cycle of violence has been going on for over seven decades since you stole other peoples' land, livelihood and dreams. The cycle of violence will stop when the root evil ceases.
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Every death is Gaza is on Hamas, as they are the prime cause of this whole mess that both sides are suffering from.
If not for Hamas, all the good people of Gaza would today be sleeping in the their own beds and eating at their own tables.
Goebbels would've called people like @peepsqueek:disqus "useful idiots. Out of desperation from falling into despair, he comes to this forum 1% to learn and 99% in the hopes of joining humanity.
Goebbels and Hitler grew up in very Catholic homes. The contradiction is that Hitler's superior race doctrine says that certain people were an inferior semitic race, but they worshipped the very semitic Jesus. Maybe you could learn something if you pay attention.
TThat'S just going to get you into trouble. I don't antagonize good Christians who are sincere and it shows in their actions. My beef is with Zionist Christians, hypocrites and ignorance. And you Zionists have done to Judaism what goebbels and Hitler did to Christianity. The ancient Hebrews and upright jews are like brothers to us. You like bad Muslims and hate good Muslims.
So you think Islamism is preferable to Judaism. What Country have to chosen to live and raise your family.
No one suffers more from Islamism than everyday good Muslims.
All Israeli apologists have the same "blinders" mentality when it comes to admitting the OBVIOUS!
@peepsqueek:disqus do you know why they bombed the restaurant and market? They are called reprisal attacks or collective punishment.
Under Nazi occupation, particularly in places like France, Poland, Yugoslavia, and Greece, the Germans often implemented a brutal policy where they would kill dozens or even hundreds of civilians in retaliation for the killing of a single German soldier by resistance fighters. This was meant to deter local populations from supporting or joining partisan movements.
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The target is Hamas and all military assets. A war is not over until the last combatant is either dead or lays down his arms, followed by terms of surrender, or the cycle of Hamas violence will visit Israel again. It has to stop once and for all, and Hamas could have made it stop at any point in the last 19 months.
You're either a liar or stupid. Unfortunately for humanity the fall out is the same. And when secular nationalist zionists established Israel by force against the people of the holy land they started the war that continues today and will be ended by Muslims and good people of conscience the world over.
The UN Partition was proposed by the 1947 UN Partition Resolution for the division of two stateless people in Palestine. One chose to build a viable nation, the other chose war and lost. Had Arabs accepted, they would be celebrating 77 years of independent statehood today with pre-1967 borders.
That's easy for you to say. Your family friends and land were not stolen by Israeli terrorists!
Every tribal people all over the world have been taken over by larger or more powers nations to form Countries. The has been the progression of mankind since we left the cave.
I am part indigenous American and a product of mixed marriages and happy to be alive and living in America.
UNR 181 was not, as such, contingent upon “acceptance,” although the state of Israel did later accept its borders as a condition of UN membership, said borders not since having been amended.
The UN Resolution was an opportunity for Palestinian Arabs to build a nation, they chose war instead.
UN Resolution 181 was General Assembly vote, but does not have the force of law, it was just a missed opportunity by Arabs who chose not to accept it.
Israel chose to accept and declared its independence in 1948 and were attacked by five Arab Countries. They lost and Israel was accepted into the United Nations in 1949.
“Israel chose to accept and declared its independence in 1948 and were attacked by five Arab Countries. They lost and Israel was accepted into the United Nations in 1949.”
Yes, they chose to accept it (their UN membership was conditional on said acceptance), and it set their borders, which have not since changed.
Israelis kill more adults and children in Gaza and American Christian Zionists cheer. Yes, they do, they see it as proof that god (their god) is on their side.