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SvennoJ on 06 June 2024
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Former US Congressman shares pictures of Israeli army ‘onslaught’ in Gaza

Former US Congressman Justin Amash has shared photos that he says show the devastation inflicted on his cousin’s neighbourhood in Gaza.

Amash, who represented a district in Michigan from 2011 to 2021 and was the second Palestinian-American to be elected to Congress, said his cousin had shared the pictures with him after months without communication.

“He sent me photos from his quarter of the Old City, where much of the Christian community resides. Their lives have been devastated by the [Israeli military] onslaught. The people here are descendants of Canaanites and Israelites, and they’re determined not to be uprooted from their ancestral home, but they live each day fearing it may be their last,” Amash said in a post on social media.

“Please continue to pray for the people of Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel. May the death and destruction, violence and hostage-taking come to an end. May they all live together in peace,” he said.

Amash was elected as a Republican before leaving the party to become an independent and then a member of the Libertarian Party.

Video captures Israeli forces ‘targeting’ two Palestinians on motorcycle

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic have obtained and verified video footage that shows Israeli forces pursuing two Palestinians travelling on a motorcycle in Jenin who were among three people killed during the military’s raid on the Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank.

The shocking footage shows the two victims being followed by Israeli forces travelling in an armoured jeep and then suddenly falling from their motorcycle as if being shot from behind.

After the victims crash to the ground, the Israeli military vehicle pulls up alongside the driver and passenger and pauses briefly before continuing on without checking on the wellbeing or providing first aid to the stricken pair.

Later video footage shows ambulance crews from the Palestine Red Crescent Society retrieve the bodies of the two victims and then come under fire from the Israeli military while doing so.



More dead, injured as Israel continues attacks on central Gaza refugee camps

As well as the attacks that were reported earlier on the Nuseirat refugee camp that killed five people, and the four people killed and six injured in the Maghazi refugee camp, Israeli forces have also carried out air, land and sea attacks on northern, central and southern Gaza.

According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, and Al Jazeera Arabic, the overnight attacks include:

  • Israeli strikes hit the Oreiba neighbourhood in the north of Rafah.
  • Artillery fire targeted the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
  • Air strikes have pounded the coastal areas of the al-Mawasi region, located to the northeast of Rafah.
  • Shelling from Israeli artillery has hit the Tal as-Sultan and Saudi neighbourhoods of Rafah.
  • Strikes by Israeli naval ships and attack helicopters have also been reported in Rafah, the southern city that Israeli ground forces invaded last month despite international warning not to do so due to the humanitarian catastrophe such a campaign would spark.