Two more journalists killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza
Gaza officials say Israeli forces killed two more journalists in the besieged enclave, bringing the toll of reporters killed since the start of the war to 182. Gaza’s media office named the two journalists as Nadia Imad Al-Sayed and Abdul Rahman Samir al-Tanani.
Israel has come under great scrutiny for killing journalists in Gaza and Lebanon, as well as for restricting their access to the occupied West Bank. On Friday, an Israeli air strike killed three media workers in southern Lebanon after hitting a compound hosting 18 of them from different media outlets.
Advocates say the mounting death toll of journalists is a result of the failure of the international community – particularly the US, Israel’s top backer – to hold the country accountable.
Plight of Gaza civilians ‘unbearable’ as Israel kills over 50 in a day
Israeli attacks have killed more than 50 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip in less than a day, most of them in the north of the enclave which has been the scene of renewed Israeli ground offensive for the past three weeks, leading the UN chief to call the plight of civilians there “unbearable”.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said he is “shocked by harrowing levels of death, injury and destruction” in north Gaza.
At least 53 people killed across Gaza on Sunday
A reminder that at least 53 people were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza on Sunday. At least 46 of them were killed in the north as Israel tightened its siege with bombings on residential areas and mass arrests.
“Asmaa School has been targeted by Israeli warplanes. A large number of injured people have been transported to al-Ahli Hospital. Several injured people remain trapped. This school was sheltering people from Jabalia and western areas of Gaza City,” said Hussein al-Halabi, a Palestinian medic.
The Israeli siege is now in its fourth week. Some medical sources have told Al Jazeera that at least 1,000 Palestinians have been killed during that time.
Netanyahu’s Gaza strategy is to make it uninhabitable
Palestinian-American journalist Said Arikat says Netanyahu and his cabinet have no strategy on Gaza other than making it uninhabitable.
“Netanyahu never really had a strategy, and that is his strategy: to keep everybody guessing as to what the strategy is,” Arikat told Al Jazeera. “What we have seen is a strategy of killing, destruction, making life in Gaza unimaginable, or making Gaza uninhabitable and so on – these are the goals.”
Netanyahu knows that any criticism of Israel’s war conduct is not going to translate into tangible pressure to make him stop the war. And as long as the US provides him with military support, he will be empowered to go on in Gaza and Lebanon, Arikat said.
