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SvennoJ on 12 December 2024
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Israel kills 13 security guards tasked with securing aid: Gaza authorities

The Gaza Government Media Office says the Israeli military has committed a “massacre”, assassinating 13 officers who helped secure aid convoys “as part of the starvation policy against civilians”.

The office added that Israel has killed 722 members of the security forces since the start of the war.

“We condemn in the strongest terms the ongoing Israeli crimes against the police and security forces securing the aid … and we call on international organisations and all countries in the world to condemn these crimes that are considered crimes against humanity under international law,” the office said.

Gaza has been placed under a suffocating blockade by Israel that has sparked deadly hunger across the enclave.

Moreover, Israel has been accused of protecting criminal gangs looting the little humanitarian assistance entering the territory, deepening the starvation crisis.


Israel issues new forced displacement orders in Gaza City

Israel has told residents in the Remal and Sabra neighbourhoods of Gaza City to leave their homes or face attacks, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.

A Wafa correspondent reported that Israel issued the threat for six residential blocks in both neighbourhoods in preparation for air strikes.

Since the war began in October 2023, the Israeli army has forced people out of their homes across the Gaza Strip with such threats – many multiple times. It has pushed residents to move to “safe zones” and later attacked those same designated areas. Rights groups and residents have repeatedly stressed that there is nowhere safe in Gaza.


Israel claims killing Hamas commander in Gaza City

The Israeli army says it “eliminated” the head of Hamas’s manufacturing department during an attack on the Al-Hurriya School in Gaza City this week.

In a statement on Telegram, the army, alongside the internal security service, Shin Bet, said Ammar Daloul, who it said was a company commander in the Zeitoun Battalion, was killed alongside six other alleged Hamas members.

Israel has been bombing shelters for displaced people and “safe areas”, claiming that it is targeting Hamas operatives.