Showing posts with label indiscriminate killing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label indiscriminate killing. Show all posts

Saturday, 13 July 2024

Israel adamant at erasing Gaza

A new report from the British medical journal, The Lancet, estimates that the death toll in Gaza could reach 186,000. The world may be shocked by this figure, but it seems harsh reality.

This new expert assessment is in line with the figures Ralph Nader has put forward earlier this year when he estimated as many as 200,000 have been killed by Israel in Gaza.

It must be kept in mind that bombs and bullets are not the only weapons that kill in war.

From the beginning, the Israeli occupation forces have weaponized hunger and disease by choking off food, electricity, and water. They have intentionally bombed and raided hospitals, set drones to take out ambulances trying to retrieve the wounded, and withheld or destroyed medical supplies.

Israeli forces have collapsed entire apartment buildings full of frightened families and continue to fire on schools.

When they forced the last Gazans into crowded, tent-city refugee camps in one tiny corner of the strip – they even bombed the tents.

It is known from the beginning that the death toll published by the Gaza Health Ministry (GHM) was lower than the real number.

The GHM numbers are simply the confirmed, recorded deaths documented in hospitals and morgues.

It is known that at every step, Israel has sought to decimate Gaza’s infrastructure and deny them the chance to survive by any means at all. We don’t have to guess at their intent – they’ve told us, repeatedly.

Monday, 4 December 2023

Ruthless Israeli killings in Gaza

Backed by the United States, the indiscriminate Israeli attacks against the civilian population across the entire Gaza Strip continue unabated. But the level of anxiety among the Israeli soldiers, especially in the northern part of the enclave is growing and they are shooting at anything that moves. 

The US administration claims it has pressured Israel to limit the number of civilian casualties in the next phase of the war on Gaza. 

The Israeli military, as instructed by the Israeli cabinet, has brushed the wider concerns of the international community on the rising civilian death toll. 

The regime is not taking into account any caution against the loss of civilian life amid Israeli military is attacking the densely populated southern Gaza Strip and in particular Khan Younis area where Palestinians had been forcefully displaced by the Israeli army. 

In a sign of the anxiety among Israeli ground forces operating in Gaza, they are shooting with lethal force at anything that moves, including the vehicles belonging to Doctors without Borders. 

In a post on social media, one of the passengers who survived the attack

"When we arrived at al-Wahida Street, which is close to our office and guesthouse and Gaza clinic, I saw tanks on the street and snipers on top of the buildings. I was terrified when I saw that the snipers and tanks are pointing at us.” 

The chances of committing massacres have increased as seen in the current war on Gaza, which has entered its 58th day with a civilian death toll surpassing 15,200, 70% being women and children. 

It allows airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an AI system, which has enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza.

"In one case discussed by the sources, the Israeli military command knowingly approved the killing of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in an attempt to assassinate a single top Hamas military commander," the probe revealed

As for the northern Gaza Strip, there was never any regard for civilian life in the first place.

The Palestinian higher education ministry has announced that an Israeli airstrike on Gaza has killed the prominent Palestinian scholar Sufyan Tayeh along with his entire family. 

Tayeh was president of the Islamic University of Gaza and was a leading researcher in physics and applied mathematics. 

In northern Gaza, an airstrike flattened a residential building hosting displaced families in the urban refugee camp of Jabaliya on the outskirts of Gaza City.

Also, in the north, the Palestinian health ministry said, "A violent Zionist bombing on Beit Lahia left dozens of martyrs and injured civilians."

According to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, many people have been injured in another indiscriminate Israeli missile attack that targeted the Jabalia refugee camp in the north of Gaza.

Numerous residential homes have been hit across Gaza, with multiple casualties reported in a strike that flattened a multi-story building near Gaza City.

Israel violated a seven-day truce on Friday morning by resuming its merciless attacks against Palestinian civilians. Hamas said there will be no further exchange of Israeli captives for Palestinians. 

Saleh al Arouri, the deputy Hamas chief, has said there will be no further exchanges until "the war on Gaza is over". 

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Arouri said the remaining hostages are Israeli soldiers and civilian men who served in the Israeli army.

He added that Israeli hostages will not be freed unless there is a ceasefire and all Palestinian prisoners are released.