Death toll from Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn rises to 140
Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that 140 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Sunday. The sources said that 69 people have been killed in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip.
Hospital officials said earlier that one Israeli attack hit a camp sheltering displaced people in al-Mawasi in southern Gaza, killing dozens of people – including children – as they slept in their tents.
No sign of Trump pressuring Israel to halt Gaza attack
Despite skipping Israel on his Middle East tour last week, Trump and his administration have voiced full support for Israel’s actions in Gaza, and the president has shown no public sign of pressuring Netanyahu’s government over the aid cut-off or the mass deaths of civilians.
Hamas released an Israeli-American soldier before Trump’s visit to Gulf Arab countries last week in what it said was a goodwill gesture aimed at getting the long-stalled ceasefire talks back on track.
Trump has said he wants to get the rest of the captives out but hasn’t called on Israel to end the war.
Instead, he has proposed resettling much of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million Palestinians in other countries and redeveloping the territory for others.
Israel has embraced the proposal, which has been condemned by Palestinians, Arab countries and much of the international community. Legal experts said it would violate international law.
Western governments unwilling to stop Israel’s attack on Gaza
Since the two-month ceasefire, Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in particular have intensified the bombing and plans for dividing Gaza, taking it over, and ethnically cleansing it. So this is an ongoing process.
Because of Arab impotence and Western indifference and hypocrisy, what we have today is Israel bombing like there’s no tomorrow. It’s impunity on steroids. It’s racism on steroids. They can bomb whatever moves in Gaza – the children, the hospitals, the tents, and the “safe zone” areas.
Western societies that have leverage over Israel have moved to cautiously understand that this is a war crime happening in Gaza, and it needs to stop. The continuation of more of the same is an unraveling genocide.
There is more and more consciousness of that, and governments seem to understand that, too. There are shy and timid calls for Israel to stop. But none of the Western governments with leverage over Israel are willing to apply the pressure necessary to do so.
