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So much for the 'outrage' of the killing of foreign aid workers leading to anything. Aid hasn't increased, Israel just switched to counting half full trucks for screening, aid missions to the North are still denied and attacks are going up again.

‘Clear surge’ in Israeli attacks on central areas in Gaza: AJ correspondent

The middle areas [of Gaza]… have been generally targeted by the Israeli military in the last few hours.

One of the latest attacks was carried out on the Nuseirat refugee camp. This area is very densely populated with not only city dwellers, but also with evacuees who have been… displaced from their houses.

Civil defence crews are until now operating and trying to search among the debris of the building that was directly hit without any prior warning, just to find victims or injured people to be transferred to Al-Aqsa [Martyrs] Hospital.

This is the reality there. There is ongoing, upscaling of military strikes on areas in the Gaza Strip. Within the past few days, we’ve been observing a clear surge in military attacks on the middle areas.

Death toll in strike on Nuseirat climbs to 14

Gaza Civil Defense reports that its crews recovered 14 bodies from a house belonging to the Abu Youssef family, which was bombed by the Israeli army, in the al-Zawaida area of the refugee camp in central Gaza.


While still trying to recover bodies from Khan Younis and Al Shifa

Gaza Civil Defence recovers bodies after Israeli army leaves Khan Younis


The group has published photos on its official Telegram channel showing recovery operations in the western and eastern Satar area of the Khan Younis Governate of the Gaza Strip, saying they found 13 bodies.

In some photos shared by the Civil Defence, deemed too graphic to share on this live page, bones are all that remains of some of the recovered bodies.



Forensic experts needed to help identify the dead at al-Shifa Hospital

Motasem Salah, director of the hospital’s Gaza Emergency Operations Centre, has told AFP that Gaza lacked the forensic experts needed to help identify the dead or determine what had happened to them. So they are relying on “the expertise of the WHO and OCHA [UN humanitarian office] delegation.”

They are trying “to identify the decomposed bodies and the body parts that were crushed” from wallets and documents, he said, as a digger went through the rubble and rescue workers pulled decomposed bodies from the sand and ruins.

Relatives were also there “to ascertain the fate of their sons, whether they have been killed, are missing, or have been displaced to the south,” said Amjad Aliwa, the head of al-Shifa’s emergency department.

He said they wanted to identify “their sons and ensure they receive a proper burial. However, we lack the necessary equipment, and time is not on our side. We must complete the job before the bodies decompose,” Aliwa said.




Dozens arrested for protesting Israeli war on Gaza in Senate cafeteria

A big crowd of Christians for a Free Palestine are protesting in the US Senate cafeteria – pushing Congress to back a ceasefire, restore aid to UNRWA and end US military aid to Israel.

“Congress and their staff will not eat today”, they chanted, “until Gaza eats”.

“I want to loudly proclaim that my Christian faith calls me to challenge Christian Zionism and stand in solidarity with Palestine,” reverent Naomi Washington-Leapheart, a national leader with Christians for a Free Palestine, said in a news release.

About 50 activists were arrested, according to Capitol Police spokeswoman Brianna Burch

Amnesty responds to UK decision not to block arms sales to Israel

Kristyan Benedict, Amnesty International UK’s crisis response manager, said it was “predictable that David Cameron still insists that there are no grounds for the UK to suspend arms transfers to Israel even after Israeli forces have killed thousands of civilians, including aid workers in Gaza.”

Earlier, we reported that Foreign Minister David Cameron said the UK will not halt arms sales to Israel by British companies.

“The foreign secretary ought to have told his counterparts in the US administration that the UK will immediately suspend arms transfers to Israel, including the supply of components for US-made F-35 bombers which are being used by Israeli forces in Gaza with such horrendous consequences for Palestinians,” Benedict said.

“This was yet another missed opportunity from David Cameron to move himself and other UK officials away from their current complicity in Israeli war crimes, apartheid and possible genocide.”