730 Palestinians killed since Israel resumed Gaza attacks
At least 730 people have been killed and 1,367 others wounded since Israel broke the ceasefire and restarted the war last Tuesday, Gaza’s Health Ministry says.
The Israeli army launched a surprise air campaign on the Gaza Strip on March 18 with hundreds of strikes. It is now moving ground troops into the northern and southern parts of the war-battered Palestinian enclave.
Israel says it’s trying to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz says the military is doing its best not to harm Palestinian civilians as it attacks Hamas in Gaza.
“Israel is not fighting the civilians in Gaza and is doing everything that international law requires to mitigate harm to civilians,” Katz said in a statement.
He went on to blame Hamas for civilian deaths, saying the group “fights in civilian dress, from civilian homes and from behind civilians”, putting them in danger.
Katz’s comments come nearly a week after Israel ended its ceasefire with Hamas by launching a wave of air strikes that killed at least 730 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
Israel is targeting civilian Hamas members, going after anyone with political association with the Hamas civil government. They are not fighters. Katz is complaining that your local council members are wearing civilian clothes and live in civilian homes...
Six Palestinian paramedics still missing as Israel attacks Rafah
Gaza’s Civil Defence Agency says it lost contact with six of its members who went on a rescue mission in the southern city of Rafah.
Its first responders and others from the Palestine Red Crescent Society went to Rafah on Sunday after receiving calls that Israeli troops entered the area of al-Hashaashin, in western Rafah, and there were casualties.
Since then, there’s been no word from the rescuers, the agency said in a statement.
Palestinian journalist killed in attack on Khan Younis
Palestinian journalist Mohammed Mansour has been killed in an Israeli air attack on a house in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
Mansour was a correspondent for the TV channel Palestine Today.
مراسل قناة فلسطين اليوم الصحفي محمد منصور الذي قتله الاحتلال باستهداف منزل جنوب مدينة خانيونس. pic.twitter.com/nQgueBhrrd
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Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat killed in Israeli strike in Gaza
Hossam Shabat, Palestinian journalist and contributor to Al Jazeera Mubasher, has been killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted his car in northern Gaza.
Witnesses said Hossam’s vehicle was hit in the eastern part of Beit Lahiya. Several bystanders pedestrians were wounded.
Shabat was the second journalist killed in Gaza today.
Since the war started at least 208 journalists have been killed in widespread Israeli attacks on the enclave.
