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SvennoJ on 22 January 2024
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The ICJ needs to hurry up, daily atrocities continue

Israel targets 30,000 displaced people in 5 shelters: Gaza authorities

Gaza’s media office says Israeli forces bombed Al-Aqsa University Shelter, University College Accommodation, Khalidiya School Shelter, Al-Mawasi School Shelter and Khan Younis Industry Shelter where 30,000 displaced people were taking refuge.

“[Israelis] claimed they were safe centres and called on citizens to take refuge in them. Then committed a massacre that left many martyrs. This comes within the framework of a genocidal war launched by the occupation against civilians, children and women, in the Gaza Strip,” a statement on Telegram said.

Apart from Israel, the responsibility for “these ongoing crimes” falls on the international community, the US administration, and US President Joe Biden “personally”, it added. “They are the ones who gave the occupation the green light to commit these massacres, and they also refused to stop this brutal war on the Gaza Strip.”

Miscarriages surge in southern Rafah under ‘brutal’ war conditions

About 50,000 pregnant women in displacement camps in southern Rafah city suffer from a lack of food and medicine, threatening their unborn babies along with their own health. Dr Haider Abu Sunima, medical director of Tal al-Sultan Hospital for Women and Obstetrics in Rafah, says there’s an increased number of miscarriages because of the difficult war conditions.

In the past few days, Gaza’s Health Ministry said, it recorded hundreds of miscarriages and premature births as a result of “panic and forced flight under brutal bombardment in Gaza”.

‘Horrific crimes’: At least 40 killed in residence near Nasser Hospital

An Israeli raid targeted a house adjacent to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. At least 40 bodies were transferred to the medical complex, Al Jazeera Arabic reports. According to video published by Meem Magazine, people are digging graves inside the Nasser complex because of a large number of casualties during ongoing clashes in the area.

Dr Ashraf al-Qedra, spokesman for Gaza’s health ministry, said in a statement Israeli forces were commiting “horrific crimes west of Khan Yunis”. “Dozens of martyrs and wounded are still in the targeted places and roads. The Israeli occupation prevents the movement of ambulances to retrieve the martyrs and wounded west of Khan Yunis,” he said.

Israel ‘besieging ambulance centre’ in Khan Younis, preventing movement

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society says the Israeli military is attacking its ambulance centre, preventing first responders from reaching the wounded in Khan Younis as it intensifies its ground assault.

‘Bled for three days’: Palestinian writer loses brother

Celebrated UK-based Palestinian writer and director Ahmed Masoud lost his brother in Gaza after he was hit by an Israeli air strike. “I knew I was going to write a post like this, I knew I wouldn’t find the words,” Masoud, who grew up in Gaza and later moved to the United Kingdom, wrote on X.

He showed earlier this month how his brother Khalid’s home was almost entirely destroyed after being targeted by an Israeli air strike as drones buzzed in the background. Then, his brother was shot by an Israeli sniper in the leg. “A few days ago he went missing. A drone bombed, he lost his leg and bled for three days. My brother and friend is gone.”

Nasser hospital under attack just like other medical facilities

Nebal Farsakh, a spokesperson of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), tells Al Jazeera that Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, just like all the hospitals in southern Gaza, is under intense attack. “This is not the first time. [In the last few weeks], there were several attacks and bombings in the area of El Amal Hospital in Khan Younis. We got direct attacks at the Palestine Red Crescent headquarters with artillery shelling, which literally destroyed three floors and killed at least seven people inside the building,” she said from Ramallah.

Farsakh said both facilities were under siege and enduring a communications blackout. Ambulances were unable to respond to calls from the wounded in the area. “The situation there is extremely dangerous, they are hearing strong bombing in the area. Anyone who tries to move out or just walk in the street is being targeted.”

Israeli forces destroy entire neighbourhood in Khan Younis demolition

Much of Khan Younis has already been damaged or destroyed by Israeli air attacks, and now Israeli soldiers on the ground are blowing up residential buildings.

Troops continue to film themselves mocking Gaza and Palestinians amid the destruction, with the latest video coming from a soldier who proudly shows how the army destroyed 40 residential buildings at once. In Facebook posts, the soldier, Itamar Bello, shows multiple angles of the massive explosion that razed the buildings. He also took a picture of himself with dozens of mines used for the demolition.

Gaza death toll rises to 25,295

At least 25,295 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. Its latest update says at least 63,000 have been injured in attacks by the Israeli military. The ministry said at least 190 Palestinians were killed in the past 24 hours and 340 were injured.

Likely damage as of Jan 17

‘Very dark days ahead’ as Khan Younis attack intensifies

The most accurate way to describe what’s going on right now in Khan Younis is more death and destruction. For more than a month the southern city has been under heavy bombardment. Khan Younis was once designated a “safe zone” by Israel, and thousands of thousands of people fled here from the north. Now it’s just a scene of devastation and suffering as Israeli forces push deeper into the city.

There is an intense bombing campaign near the Nasser hospital and also El Amal City Hospital in the western part of the city. Attacks are also targeting Gaza’s largest university where thousands of people are sheltering. The area is being bombed by land, air and sea – there’s no safe corridor for them to escape. Attack drones are hovering everywhere over Khan Younis shooting at moving objects. So far 12 people have been killed overnight. Very dark days ahead as the situation gets worse by the hour.

Last edited by SvennoJ - on 22 January 2024