Two more Israeli captives reported killed in Gaza
Israeli campaign group Hostages and Missing Families Forum has announced that two more captives held in Gaza have been killed in Hamas custody.
The Israeli military said it was still investigating the deaths of Yagev Buchshtab, a 35-year-old sound technician and Alex Dancyg, 76, a historian, who were abducted from their homes in an Israeli settlement near the border with Gaza during Hamas’s October 7 attack.
“Yagev and Alex were taken alive and should have returned alive to their families and to their country,” the Forum said in a statement. “Their death in captivity is a tragic reflection of the consequences of foot-dragging in negotiations.”
Israeli authorities have so far pronounced dead in absentia about a third of the captives still held in Gaza.
A glimpse of the Red Crescent Gaza team at work
The Palestine Red Crescent Society has shared a video showing members of its team recovering a body and assisting wounded survivors in Deir el-Balah after Israeli forces targeted a house in the city in central Gaza.
Warning: Distressing images:
🚨Palestine Red Crescent teams have recovered the body of a martyr and assisted two injured individuals from Deir al-Balah city following the occupation’s targeting of a house there.
📷Filmed by: PRCS volunteer, Mohammad Suleiman pic.twitter.com/Lwxos4ra9Q
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) July 22, 2024
‘We are tired and fed up’: People in Khan Younis say they have nowhere to go
Displaced Palestinians say the area of al-Mawasi in southern Gaza is already full, after Israel ordered Palestinians in eastern Khan Younis to move there.
“Even the sidewalks are full of people and tents,” Youssef Abu Taimah, from the town of al-Qarara in Khan Younis, told AFP after his family found no space in al-Mawasi. “We are tired and fed up. Enough of this displacement and migration.”
Ahmed al-Bayouk, a 53-year-old from Khan Younis, also told the news agency: “We barely settle for a few days before the army comes, bombs, displaces us and destroys more.”
“Where should we go? Every place is at risk of bombing.”
The Israeli military earlier issued a notice ordering people in eastern Khan Younis to move to al-Mawasi, warning that its forces were “about to forcefully operate” in the area.
Khan Younis death toll rises to 45
Mohamed Saqer, the official spokesman of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, says that the Israeli attacks on eastern Khan Younis has so far killed at least 45 people.
The medical facility which is the last remaining hospital in southern Gaza, has been receiving the rising number of casualties, including children, since this morning when the Israeli forces started their air and ground attacks, giving the residents no time to follow their evacuation orders.
