Currently Online 
Israel providing ‘insufficient information’ on Gaza hospital attacks
A UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) report says Israel’s claims that Gaza hospitals are being improperly used for military purposes by Palestinian groups were “vague” amid ongoing Israeli attacks on health facilities protected under international law.
“Insufficient information has so far been made publicly available to substantiate these allegations, which have remained vague and broad, and in some cases appear contradicted by publicly available information,” the report says.
The study graphically details the destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system between October 12, 2023 and June 30, 2024. During that time, there were at least 136 attacks on 27 hospitals and 12 other medical facilities, resulting in the killing of doctors, nurses, medics and other civilians.
It noted that the deliberate destruction of healthcare facilities “may amount to a form of collective punishment, which would also constitute a war crime”.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said, “The one sanctuary where Palestinians should have felt safe in fact became a death trap. The protection of hospitals during warfare is paramount and must be respected by all sides, at all times.”
No domestic pressure on Israel to provide evidence of Hamas presence at Kamal Adwan Hospital
Former Israeli diplomat Alon Pinkas says that even if his country did provide evidence to back up claims that Hamas has used medical facilities for military operations, it would not justify attacking hospitals.
“There is a discrepancy between the big headlines … and the failure to come up with the evidence to support this,” he told Al Jazeera, adding that the Israeli military claimed that more than 250 Hamas fighters were arrested at Kamal Adawan Hospital in northern Gaza.
“Even if that’s the case, this does not justify rendering the hospital inoperative,” as it happened with several medical facilities in Gaza, he said.
Within Israeli society, the siege and military attack waged against Kamal Adwan “is justified because Israel says it’s justified, and no one is pressuring to provide that incriminating evidence”.
Gaza has lost about 6 percent of its population: Report
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics has said in a report that Israel killed 45,484 Palestinians in Gaza and about 100,000 Palestinians left the Strip since Israel started its offensive on October 7, 2023.
According to the report, this data corresponds to about six percent of the enclave’s population.
Six killed in Israeli raid on Beit Lahiya
At least six people have been killed in an Israeli raid on Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza. The victims are a couple and their daughters, our correspondents are reporting.
Israel had demanded the evacuation of civilians from large swaths, including Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoon, as it steps up a military campaign in northern Gaza.
Kamal Adwan Hospital, the last remaining in the area, has been raided and cleared of staff and patients by the Israeli army.
Essay Pro