Israeli siege on al-Shifa Hospital leaves 21 patients dead: WHO
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that 21 patients have died since the start of the Israeli military operation inside and around the al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza on March 18.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the 107 patients who remained inside the hospital include four children and 28 critical patients, many of whom suffer from infection and have been moved multiple times within the hospital compound. Dozens of medical staff are also stuck inside.
“Since yesterday only one bottle of water remains for every 15 people. Contagious diseases are spreading due to extremely unsanitary conditions, and a lack of water,” he wrote in a post on X, saying food is also extremely limited and a humanitarian corridor to evacuate patients as well as a ceasefire were needed.
The Israeli military has rejected multiple WHO missions to the hospital in Gaza City over the past weeks.
WHO team witnesses Israeli strike on journalists’ tent at Al-Aqsa Hospital
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says a team with the United Nations organisation was at the Al-Aqsa Hospital compound when the Israeli military targeted a journalists’ tent in the courtyard.
The official said in a post on X that four people were killed and 17 injured, but WHO personnel – who were at the hospital assessing medical needs and collecting incubators to send to northern Gaza – are accounted for.
“We again call for protection of patients, health personnel and humanitarian missions. The ongoing attacks and militarisation of hospitals must stop. International humanitarian law must be respected,” Tedros said.
“We urge parties to comply with the UN Security Council resolution and ceasefire!”
Classic projection, it's ignorance that let Israel get away with apartheid and brutal oppression for 75 years.
Netanyahu: ‘Whole world ganging up on us’ in ignorance and anti-Semitism
The Israeli leader delved into why he believes there is so much international pressure against Israel today and why “the whole world is ganging up on us”.
He acknowledged there are people inside and outside Israel who believe there might be some truth behind rising anti-Israeli sentiment and those who believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Netanyahu said, “It must be ignorance”, but then through recounting how his historian father Benzion Netanyahu talked about the rise of “anti-Semitic allegations” throughout history, the Israeli leader cited this as another reason for the current state of affairs.
He said Israelis must “unite in physical and moral defence against accusers” who are armed with lies, hypocrisy and falsehood.
It's Israel that's armed with lies, hypocrisy and falsehood for many decades. The world is finally starting to see through it all.
Israel announces Jordan Valley settlement expansion in ‘appropriate Zionist response’
Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has published this video of himself in Wadi Auja in the occupied West Bank to announce an “unprecedented investment” into the development of more illegal settlements.
He called this “a fitting Zionist response” to a Palestinian attack last week in the Jordan Valley that wounded two Israelis. Smotrich said the Israeli government is surveying the area for expansion, evaluating everything including water resources.
This is coming days after Israel was internationally criticised for declaring 800 hectares (1,977 acres) of land in the occupied West Bank as territory belonging to the Israeli state in its biggest illegal land grab in three decades.
As Israel tries to recover from the financial burden of its deadly war on Gaza and reassure citizens, Smotrich also announced today that businesses in Eilat and Tamar in southern Israel could be entitled to compensation for damages suffered as a result of the war from the state.
Translation: An appropriate Zionist answer: expansion and development of Nahal Yitav (Auja). We arrived at the site in Jordan Valley and announced an unprecedented investment in the site and its development. This is a fitting Zionist response to the attack that took place last week in the Jordan Valley in which two Jews were wounded by gunfire from a terrorist caught this morning.
If that's your reasoning for land grabs, then Israel owes the Palestinians 100x as much land...
Palestinian entangled in aid bundle parachute by Gaza coast
This video verified by Al Jazeera shows Palestinians struggling to free a dead body entangled in the parachute of an aid package dropped from the air near Gaza’s coastline.
This week, at least a dozen Palestinians trying to reach aid packages that had dropped into the sea drowned. The US military confirmed earlier that some of the packages it airdropped over Gaza fell into the sea, but said there were no casualties.
Several other people have also been killed after packages crushed them when failed parachutes made the boxes fall straight from the sky.
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