Death toll from Israeli attacks on Gaza rises to 91
Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that the death toll from Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza has risen to 91 with women and children again making up the vast majority of those victims..
At least 42 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in central Gaza, 31 were killed in northern Gaza, and 18 were killed in southern Gaza. Of the 42 people killed in central Gaza, 18 were from one family … three generations killed in a single attack on their home – children, their parents and their grandparents.
Here in Gaza City as the attacks started, the explosions echoed throughout the night, shocking entire residential neighbourhoods, lighting up the skies, casting more fear. The hospitals are really struggling. We’ve seen the corridors of a hospital filled with stretchers, with grieving families, those who survived the attacks soaked with blood.
The transition from feeling hopeful that this ceasefire was going to continue and bring more peace of mind has turned into despair. If a ceasefire looks like this, there is a huge question mark over its sustainability and ability to hold.
Civil defence workers carry out search and rescue operations in buildings collapsed by Israeli strikes on Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, violating a ceasefire agreement
Debate in Israel on escalation vs return to truce in Gaza
There is debate in Israel on whether all of that bombing is, in fact, enough. There are calls to escalate assassinations, to target Hamas where it hurts, to further limit the number of humanitarian aid trucks going into Gaza although, in the past few minutes, we’ve seen reports that maybe the Israeli government will announce a return to the ceasefire in the coming hours.
This is in line with the mentality informing all of this, which is that Israel is judge, jury and executioner.
Israel has granted itself, and has been granted that right by the US, to judge the extent of Hamas’s compliance with the ceasefire and to act accordingly in coordination with the Trump administration.
So all of this is seen as a slight blip in the ceasefire and that things will return to normal.
Normal being, continuation of the genocide in the form of blocking aid, blocking Palestinians from fishing, blocking shelter equipment, blocking clearing equipment, blocking fuel, blocking medical personnel, press, blocking UNWRA, blocking experts for bomb disposal, blocking reconstruction, keep demolishing civilian homes and infrastructure behind the yellow line, keep killing Palestinians out of self-defense while watching them starve and die of infectious diseases.
Israeli attack on house in central Gaza kills 2 Palestinians
A medical source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital tells Al Jazeera Arabic that two Palestinians have been killed and two injured in an Israeli bombing that hit a house in southern Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
