Third mass grave found at al-Shifa Hospital: Gaza’s media office
Medical teams have found a third mass grave inside Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, with 49 bodies so far recovered, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza. It said the team expects to find dozens more as the process of retrieving bodies continues.
The media office said there have been a total of seven mass graves found inside hospitals so far.
“We condemn in the strongest terms the crimes of genocide and the continuous killing committed by the occupation army against our Palestinian people,” it said in a Telegram post.
“We hold the US administration, the international community and the occupation fully responsible for these mass graves and this blatant aggression.”
No aid entering Gaza: UNRWA
“We’re not receiving any aid into the Gaza Strip,” says Scott Anderson, deputy director of UNRWA affairs in Gaza, in a post on X, talking about a situation proving “disastrous for the humanitarian response”.
While aid supplies are cut off, the area around the Rafah border crossing has come under “continued bombardment” today, Anderson added.
Senior UN officials have warned that if aid to Gaza remains blocked, critical diesel fuel supplies would run out by the end of the day, forcing the closure of a major water-production facility and cutting off drinking water supply in northern Gaza.
Florida’s representative in US Congress incites annihilation of Gaza
A video has been circulating on social media of Brian Mast, Florida’s representative in the US Congress, saying he believes, “Israel should go in there [in Gaza] and kick the s*** out of them.”
Mast was responding to a question by human rights activist Medea Benjamin on whether he thinks Israel should agree to a ceasefire following an agreement by Hamas.
“I think Israel should go in there and kick the s*** out of them. Just absolutely destroy them, their infrastructure, level anything that they touch.”
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