Child among three killed in latest Israeli attack on Nuseirat
Three people, including a child, have been killed in an Israeli attack on Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting. The attack comes after 17 members of one family, including 14 women and children, were killed in an earlier Israeli strike on a home in Nuseirat on Tuesday, the Gaza Government Media Office said.
‘Destroyed everything’: Palestinian boy survives Israeli school attack that killed uncle, cousins
There were scenes of chaos and anguish as the dying and wounded from the Israeli attack on the al-Awda school in Abassan, near the southern city of Khan Younis, flooded Nasser Hospital on Tuesday evening.
Dozens injured in the Israeli missile attack on tents sheltering displaced people at the school received emergency treatment on the floor of the hospital.
“We were sitting and a missile fell and destroyed everything. I lost my uncle, my cousins and my relatives,” a distraught Palestinian boy who survived the attack said at the hospital.
A Palestinian boy, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, grieves next to the bodies of his relatives killed in the Israeli air strike on the al-Awda school on Tuesday
‘This is genocide’: US lawmaker Rashida Tlaib decries Israeli strike on school
US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has responded to video footage showing the moments a deadly Israeli strike hit the al-Awda school near Khan Younis as young Palestinians played football.
“It’s sick how the government of Israel intentionally targets Palestinian civilians over and over again while world leaders watch and say absolutely nothing [and] some even fund it proudly,” said Tlaib, in a post on X.
“This is genocide. Targeting civilians like this is a war crime. ICC, where are the arrest warrants?” she added.
It's sick how the government of Israel intentionally targets Palestinian civilians over & over again while world leaders watch and say absolutely nothing. Some even fund it proudly.
This is genocide.
Targeting civilians like this is a war crime. ICC, where are the arrest… https://t.co/25gtXCJRpP
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) July 9, 2024
