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SvennoJ on 14 July 2024
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Hamas commander Mohammed Deif ‘fine’ after Israeli attack: Report

A Hamas official says the group’s military leader, Mohammed Deif, is “fine” despite an apparent Israeli attempt to kill him in an attack.

“Commander Mohammed Deif is well and directly overseeing” military operations against Israeli forces, the unnamed Hamas official told AFP.

On Saturday, an Israeli air raid killed at least 90 Palestinians in a designated “humanitarian” zone in Gaza, the Health Ministry said. The attack was the deadliest in Gaza for weeks.

Israel said the strike attempted to kill Deif. Hamas said Israel’s claims it targeted its leaders are false and aimed at justifying the attack.


People carry a wounded person at the tent camp in al-Mawasi on Saturday


Cities in West Bank hold general strike after attacks

Cities in the occupied West Bank are holding a general strike to denounce Israeli attacks on Gaza, the most recent of which hit al-Mawasi, near Khan Younis, and the Shati refugee camp.

Local Palestinian social media accounts shared videos of shops closing their doors this morning in Jenin, the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem, and in Tulkarem in response to calls for a general strike.


Doctor: ‘What will it take to stop these atrocities?’

Dr Mohammad Subeh, an emergency room physician working in central Gaza, relayed victim accounts of the Israeli attack on al-Mawasi that killed at least 90 Palestinians and wounded 300 others.

“People are describing how the ground essentially turned upside down on individuals. They’re digging people out of the ground. Hospitals have ceased operations except for those victims they’ve received,” Subeh told Al Jazeera.

“This is just one of the cruel ways this population is being systematically targeted and killed off. People are living in such poor conditions that you cannot even imagine. You wonder to yourself how the world is still silent and standing idle and not doing anything to stop these atrocities. What will it take?”


Children are evacuated from the site hit by Israeli bombardment near Khan Younis, southern Gaza


Al-Mawasi attack a ‘complex crime’, says rights monitor

Maha Hussaini, from the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, says the Israeli attack that killed at least 90 people and wounded 300 others at the al-Mawasi camp “is nothing new”.

“Areas where displaced Palestinians were forced to go have been under continuous bombardment. This has been ongoing for nine months straight,” she told Al Jazeera from central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah.

Hussaini described the Israeli strikes as a “complex crime” that involved preventing ambulances from reaching the many injured.

“Drones opened fire on anyone or anything trying to evacuate the wounded. Only a few hours after this, another massacre was committed in the west of Gaza City. This genocide in Gaza is systematic. We’ve witnessed that Israel is intensifying these attacks on displacement centres,” she said.