Sadly the atrocities will not stop
Boy loses limbs after ‘hidden explosive charge’ in food aid detonates
A teenage Palestinian boy is the latest to be severely wounded while opening “booby-trapped food”, according the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
“A 14-year-old boy was seriously injured and sustained limb amputations after opening a booby-trapped can of food found while looking for his belongings in his house that had been shelled by Israeli forces in Khan Younis,” OCHA said, citing Gaza authorities.
The boy, who was wounded in the blast on Monday, is just one of “many people recently injured” from aid supplies rigged with hidden explosive charges, the UN agency added.
Deadly attack on aid convoy in Gaza City
This is not the first time we’ve seen deliberate attacks on aid seekers or aid distribution centres.
What happened was a convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian relief approached an Israeli military checkpoint at the Kuwait traffic circle, and soldiers opened fire. One truck driver was killed instantly and several other people were wounded.
It was several hours before paramedics were allowed into the area, which has been designated a combat zone by the Israeli military. We’ve seen in the past that aid seekers who approached the traffic circle searching for food and water supplies were also killed.
Two Palestinian detainees from Gaza die in Israeli prisons: Prisoner’s Society
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says that one of the detainees who died was Dr Adnan al-Barash, the head of the orthopaedic department at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the largest medical complex in the besieged and bombarded territory.
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied territories, said she was “extremely alarmed” by the information and urged the diplomatic community to intervene with concrete measures to protect Palestinians.
“No Palestinian is safe under Israel’s occupation today,” she wrote on X.
Doctor killing takes medical sector death toll to 496
The killing of Dr Adnan al-Barash in an Israeli prison has taken the total death toll of medical personnel since the start of the war on Gaza to 496. Gaza’s health ministry said in a statement that about 1,500 medical workers have also been wounded, and 309 remain imprisoned in Israeli jails.
“The killing of Dr al-Barash would not be the last crime in light of the complete secrecy of the condition of prisoners in prisons, especially those arrested from the Gaza Strip,” said the ministry.
It also called on the international community and health and human rights organisations to intervene and protect prisoners held by Israel.
Al-Bursh, 50, was the head of the orthopedic department at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. He was arrested by the Israeli army last December as he treated patients at al-Adwa Hospital in northern Gaza.
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