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SvennoJ on 13 July 2024

Gaza genocide the ‘bitter fruit’ of Israeli impunity, say UN rapporteur

Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, has once again said that the international community’s failure to stop Israeli crimes had enabled it to commit genocide.

Genocide in Gaza is the result of “Israel’s decades-long impunity”, Albanese wrote in a post on social media, above footage of a speech in which she says it is Israel’s plan to “rid Palestine of Palestinians”.

“In this darkest hour, the international community cannot continue to ignore that it’s Israel’s project to rid Palestine of Palestinians in defiance of international law, and the world’s failure to call Israel to account has led to genocide laid bare in Gaza,” she says.


More than 70,000 people infected with hepatitis: Gaza government

Gaza’s Government Media Office says that 71,338 people have been infected with viral hepatitis due to displacement in various parts of the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war on October 7 last year.

It reported that more than 1.7 million Palestinians have been infected with infectious diseases as a result of the harsh displacement conditions.

It said that 350,000 people with chronic diseases in Gaza face great risks due to the Israeli army’s prevention of the entry of necessary medications.


Israeli air attacks intensify in central Gaza

The Israeli military is intensifying its air attacks on the central areas of Gaza, especially in Deir el-Balah where people have been told to seek refuge. At least five Palestinians have been killed here after a residential house was completely destroyed.

Meanwhile, as the bombardments escalate in the north of the Gaza Strip, the civil defence crews are scrambling to recover the dead and injured from under the rubble. But they lack the equipment to remove the debris and petrol for the vehicles to reach all of the bombarded areas, reflecting on the grim circumstances in the enclave.


Israeli forces destroyed water sources in Shujayea, Sabra: Municipality of Gaza

The Municipality of Gaza says Israeli forces have destroyed water sources and networks in Gaza City’s Shujayea and Sabra neighbourhoods.

Israeli bombing completely destroyed two wells in Shujayea and Sabra and severely damaged another two wells in Shujayea, it said on X. “This destruction increases the water crisis and the state of thirst that the city is experiencing, especially during the last two weeks,” the municipality said.

Since the start of the war in October, Israeli forces have completely destroyed 42 wells, partially destroyed 16 wells and destroyed about 70,000 linear metres of water networks, it added.

Clashes, arrests as the Israeli military storms Tulkarem city

The Israeli military has arrested three Palestinians in the Iktaba area of the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem, the Wafa news agency reports. A father and son were among three men arrested, according to Wafa, as the Israeli military stormed the area and raided homes.

Israeli reconnaissance aircraft and snipers have been deployed, while the Palestinian armed group the al-Quds Brigades have said they clashed with Israeli forces near the Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem.

Israeli troops also arrested a Palestinian man after storming his house in the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya.



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Hezbollah shelling damages buildings in Upper Galilee: Israeli army

The Israeli army says nine buildings were damaged yesterday in the town of Metula in the Upper Galilee region of northern Israel due to shelling from southern Lebanon.

Yesterday, Hezbollah announced it was carrying out a number of attacks against Israeli military sites.


Israeli drone targets car in Lebanon, two killed: Report

Two Lebanese citizens have been killed after an Israeli drone targeted their car in the town of Khardali while they were filling up with water, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reports.

It said the two killed were the father and uncle of a Hezbollah fighter who had been previously assassinated by the Israeli forces during an exchange of fire on the border. A correspondent added that drones were also seen circling over the villages of the Tyre district, especially over the villages of Naqoura, al-Habin and Tayr Harfa.


Hezbollah says Israel killed Lebanese politician from its allied Amal Movement

Lebanese armed group Hezbollah says Musa Muhammad Suleiman has been killed in “a treacherous Israeli air attack in the al-Khardali area” of the country.

The 60-year-old from Kafr Kila was a member of the Amal Movement, a Lebanese Shia political party allied with Hezbollah. Lebanese media also reported on the killing.

Translation: “Amal” announces the recovery of death .. Musa Muhammad Suleiman, born in Kafr Kila, who died as a result of an Israeli air force attack in the al-Khardali area.



SvennoJ on 13 July 2024

‘Abandon Biden’ protest greets US president on Detroit campaign stop


Longtime Democratic voter Abdul Bari, 57, from Detroit, Michigan, holds a Palestinian flag and a sign saying ‘Abandon Biden’ outside the A Phillip Randolph Vocational Technical Center in Detroit on Friday



 

Deal can be reached within two weeks, but Netanyahu obstructing talks: Official

Israel’s Channel 12 has quoted a security official as saying that a ceasefire deal for the release of captives could be reached within two weeks, but Netanyahu’s insistence on non-negotiable conditions will obstruct negotiations for weeks and may even halt them.

Netanyahu’s office described this claim as “false and baseless”, accusing Hamas of what it called “changing the plan”.

Israeli media reported yesterday that Netanyahu had set new principles for negotiations related to withdrawing from the Philadelphi Corridor near the Egyptian border, the possibility of returning to fighting to eliminate Hamas.



SvennoJ on 13 July 2024

It's Saturday, another large scale tent massacre

Israeli raid targets residential house in al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’

An Israeli raid has targeted a residential house in the al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, according to Al Jazeera’s team in Gaza.

Israeli forces declared al-Mawasi as a “safe area” after ordering the displaced in Rafah to move to Khan Younis following the start of their operation in the city by the Egyptian border on May 7.

Israeli warplanes fired five missiles at the tents of displaced people and water desalination unit near al-Nus roundabout, they reported. The injured are being transported to nearby hospitals, they added.


Nasser Hospital receives large number of dead and injured from al-Mawasi

Video footage verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency Sanad has documented the arrival of dead and injured from the al-Mawasi refugee camp to the Nasser Medical Complex in neighbouring Khan Younis.


Israeli air strikes on al-Mawasi kill over 50: Medical sources

More than 50 people have been killed and dozens others wounded by Israeli air strikes on the al-Mawasi area, in western Khan Younis, medical sources have told Al Jazeera.

The Gaza Government Media Office also issued a statement saying more than 100 people, including civil defence staff, were killed or wounded in the attack.

According to our colleagues on the ground, Israeli warplanes fired five missiles at displaced Palestinians near the al-Nus roundabout. The strikes hit near tents and a water distillation unit in al-Mawasi, leading to a large number of victims.


We cannot receive any more wounded people: Nasser Hospital official

An official at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis has told Al Jazeera that more than 20 bodies and dozens of wounded people have arrived at the hospital.

He stressed that medical teams do not have the capacity to receive any more wounded patients, which civil defence teams continue to recover from the site of the Israeli bombing in al-Mawasi.

Rafah hospitals have also received a number of wounded people, but they are also unable to provide the necessary treatment due to a shortage of medical supplies.


More than 90 injured in al-Mawasi attack have arrived at Nasser Hospital

The Palestinian Ministry of Health says in a statement that the wounded include “serious cases” that staff at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis are still working to treat.


Bloody and devastating scenes after al-Mawasi attack

It’s a new massacre committed by the Israeli military in one of the areas where people were told to seek refuge. Israeli fighter jets targeted al-Mawasi with five bombs and five missiles where displaced Palestinians have been residing.


According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, more than 100 Palestinians have been reported killed or injured. We’re hearing from civil defence crews that emergency workers were targeted while they were rushing to rescue the wounded.

The scenes that are emerging are incredibly bloody and devastating. The victims are young children, innocent civilians, women and elderly people. The Kuwaiti field hospital along with the Nasser medical facility are overwhelmed with wounded people.

People are incredibly panicked and terrified because this is where they were told to seek refuge and thousands of makeshift shelters have been established there.

Emergency workers are continuing to look for survivors in order to deliver them to field hospitals to get medical treatment.



SvennoJ on 13 July 2024

Senior Hamas commander targeted in al-Mawasi attack that killed dozens of civilians: Report

A report on Israeli Army Radio quoting military sources claims that at least one high-profile Hamas commander was targeted in the al-Mawasi attack that has killed and wounded dozens of civilians.

This has not yet been confirmed.


Hamas official dismisses Israeli media report on Deif as ‘nonsense’

Abu Zuhri, a senior Hamas official, has told Reuters that an Israeli Army Radio report that the attack on al-Mawasi had targeted Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif is “nonsense”. “All the martyrs are civilians and what happened was a grave escalation of the war of genocide, backed by the American support and world silence,” he said.

Zuhri also said that the attack showed Israel was not interested in reaching a ceasefire agreement.


Civil defence team, Health Ministry teams directly targeted: Journalist

Journalist Firas Abu Sharkh, who was wounded while covering the Israeli shelling in al-Mawasi, has said Israeli forces “directly targeted” the civil defence and the Ministry of Health teams.

“When we arrived at the scene, the civil defence teams and the Ministry of Health were directly targeted,” he said.

“The rockets fell on civilians violently and indiscriminately. We tried to save them. The place is crowded with civilians and the tents are full of displaced people, and this is supposed to be a safe place.”

Many women and children were among the killed and wounded who have arrived at the hospitals.


Israeli forces targeted rescue teams as soon as they arrived: Witnesses

Local media outlets in Gaza are quoting witnesses of the Israeli bombing in al-Mawasi as saying that a series of violent raids by Israeli fighter jets targeted the camp for displaced people.

They said this was followed by squadrons of quadcopter aircraft that waited for the ambulance and civil defence teams and opened fire with their machine guns on the cars as soon as they arrived.

As we’ve been reporting, dozens of civilians have so far been reported killed and wounded.


Civil defence says official killed, members wounded in central Khan Younis

The rescue organsation says in a statement that Colonel Muhammad Osama Hamad, deputy director of its fire and rescue department, was killed while trying to rescue wounded civilians after the Israeli army hit a residential building in the centre of the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

The director general of the civil defence said the Israeli army targeted the building a second time while rescue crews were working to save those inside, killing Hamad and wounding eight other crew members.

This attack is separate from Israel’s bombing of al-Mawasi, near Khan Younis, which killed at least 50 people.


Death toll in Israel’s attack on al-Mawasi rises to 71: Health Ministry

The Palestinian Ministry of Health says that more than 71 people have been killed in Israel’s attack, in which warplanes targeted an area where displaced Palestinians were sheltering in the Khan Younis governorate.

It added that the number of injuries that resulted from this attack rose to 289.



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Targeting of senior Hamas officials does not ‘justify killing civilians’

Analyst Hassan Barari says the reported justification for the al-Mawasi attack – the unconfirmed targeting of Mohammed Deif – is part of a “deliberate” strategy by Israel.

“This is a continuation of a deliberate strategy on the part of the Israeli government to kill as many Palestinians as possible, to put more pressure on Hamas, and also to perpetuate the war,” Barari, a professor at the Department of International Affairs at Qatar University, told Al Jazeera.

The targeting of senior Hamas officials does not “justify the killing civilians and innocent people in this way”, he said.

The attack is also a clear sign that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not interested in a ceasefire deal, Barari noted. “He’s not interested in any quietness, he’s not interested in any deal, short of submission of Hamas,” he added.


Hamas says Israeli claim it targeted leaders in al-Mawasi strikes was ‘false’

False allegations merely a way to cover up scale of ‘horrific massacre’: Hamas

“The Al-Mawasi massacre in Khan Yunis is a continuation of the Nazi genocide against our people. The American administration is an immediate direct partner in this crime.

“We condemn in the strongest terms this horrible al-Mawasi massacre in Khan Yunis, which is a dangerous escalation in the series of crimes and massacres being committed in the Gaza Strip by neo-Nazis. These massacre are unprecedented in the history of wars.

“This heinous massacre committed by the Zionist occupation army against al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Yunis city, which has been classified by the occupation army as safe areas and to which the Palestinian citizens were asked by the Israelis to move. The occupation warplanes, artillery and drones have intensively and successively targeted the displaced people tents with various types of weapons, killing hundreds. The martyrs and wounded are innocent and defenceless civilians.

“Israel’s allegations about targeting leaders are false and it is not the first time Israel has claimed to target Palestinian leaders, where their lies were proven false later. These false allegations are merely a way to cover up the big scale of the horrific massacre.

“The al-Mawasi massacre in Khan Yunis has been committed against an area that is crowded with more than eighty thousand displaced people. This is an obvious and clear confirmation from the Zionist government that it will continuing its war of extermination against our Palestinian people, through repeatedly and systematically targeting the defenceless displaced civilians in tents, shelters and residential neighbourhoods. This is a commitment of their ongoing heinous crimes against the civilians, without putting into consideration and paying attention to any of the laws of war that enforce the protection of civilians.

“The continuous disregard of the international laws and treaties, and these widespread violations against the defenseless civilians, wouldn’t have ever continued without the support provided by the American administration to the Zionist extremist government and its terrorist army, via covering up their crimes, and providing them with all means of political and military support, and paralyzing the hand of international justice from carrying out its role towards these crimes, which makes the US administration a full partner with Israel.”


Israeli forces on alert in occupied West Bank after al-Mawasi massacre: Report

Israeli forces are expecting violent disturbances and possible attacks on traffic routes, according to the Israeli media. The reports suggest the Israeli military is on alert in several areas of the occupied West Bank.

The development comes after a large-scale Israeli attack on Palestinian civilians in Gaza’s al-Mawasi area, which is designated by the army as a “safe zone”. At least 71 people have been killed in this attack.


Most victims ‘are kids’: Gaza civil defence member recounts attacks

Mohammed al-Mughair, a member of the Gaza rescue organisation, has told Al Jazeera the Israeli army attacked crews who were on their way to aid victims of the al-Mawasi attacks, which have killed at least 71 people and injured hundreds of others.

“While moving to the scene of the incident, [we] were targeted; two vehicles were targeted directly and this has led to the death of two of our colleagues. Six others were wounded, three of them were critically wounded,” he said in translated comments.

Describing the grisly scene of the attacks, which took place in an army-designated “safe zone”, he said that the civil defence has so far recovered 360 dead and wounded people. “Most of them are kids,” he added.

When asked if the killings of his colleagues would give him pause or cause him to be fearful as he continues his work, al-Mughair replied: “I am not scared, we don’t have any hesitation. We have been targeted more than once. We will continue our work, we will tell the Palestinian people that we are doing our best, and we tell our families when we go out for work that we might never come back again.”


PRCS says it attended to 102 people wounded in al-Mawasi attack

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says its ambulance crews have attended to 102 injured patients and recovered 23 bodies following Israeli forces’ targeting of tents sheltering internally displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi.

Seventy of the injured people and 21 bodies were transferred to the Red Crescent’s al-Quds Field Hospital, and 22 of the injured were transferred to al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis, it said on X.



SvennoJ on 13 July 2024

At least 15 Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Gaza City: Health officials

At least 15 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli attack on a small prayer hall in Shati refugee camp in western Gaza City, medical sources have told our colleagues on the ground.

People had gathered at the hall to perform their noon prayers. At least 10 bodies and 20 injured people have arrived at the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, according to Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the civil defence, who spoke to Al Jazeera by phone.

Death toll in attack on Gaza City prayer hall rises to 17

We’ve been reporting on an Israeli attack on a group of people gathered for noon prayers in Shati refugee camp in Gaza City’s west.

PIJ condemns Israel for ‘premeditated’ al-Mawasi massacre

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) has said in a statement that Israel’s claims of targeting senior Palestinian resistance figures “prove its premeditated intention to commit this crime” in Gaza’s al-Mawasi.

“The horrific massacre committed by the Zionist entity in al-Mawasi near Khan Younis is an insistence on continuing the war of extermination against our people,” the group added. “This crime confirms that the occupation has disregarded all international norms and covenants,” the PIJ said.

At least 71 people are confirmed dead and 289 others were injured in Israeli air attacks on the al-Mawasi refugee camp, west of Khan Younis, according to the Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip.

Translation: The first moments of the Israeli raids on al-Mawasi in the Khan Younis area.

 

Israeli army on al-Mawasi attack

The Israeli military has issued a statement about the al-Mawasi attack, claiming it carried out a strike in an area “where two senior Hamas commanders and other hid among civilians”.

“The location of the strike was an open area surrounded by trees, several buildings, and sheds,” it said on X.

Earlier, Hamas said the Israeli claim that the attack targeted leaders of the group was “false”, calling it just a way “to cover up the big scale of the horrific massacre”. In its statement, Hamas said Israeli fighter jets, artillery and drones targeted displaced people, describing the victims as “innocent and defenceless civilians”.


British charity calls for UK government to suspend arms sales to Israel

British charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has called for the UK government to “act urgently to suspend arms sales to Israel and prevent further atrocities”. It said in a statement that the charity has been forced to temporarily evacuate one of its medical points near the al-Mawasi area, which is intended to provide primary healthcare services.

Earlier, Israel bombed an area in al-Mawasi containing tents that sheltered displaced people. At least 71 people have been killed and more than 250 injured, according to the Health Ministry.

“Al-Mawasi is heavily crowded and has a big market where people move around to try and secure their basic needs,” MAP’s Mohammed al-Khatib said from Khan Younis.

MAP said it had been “warning for months that there is no safe place for anyone in Gaza amid Israel’s military bombardment that ICJ has concluded may amount to genocide”.


‘All of them came out in pieces’: Witness describes Israeli shelling of Shati refugee camp

Video footage of Shati refugee camp following an Israeli shelling that killed at least 15 people who had gathered for the noon prayer at a prayer hall, shows bodies inside the building and traces of blood.

A witness told Al Jazeera: “The people of the neighbourhood decided to perform prayers in congregation in the prayer hall, and we avoid [gathering for] Maghreb and Isha prayers (early evening and evening prayers) in the mosque so as not to be targeted.

“We were surprised today that an Israeli missile targeted the place. All of them came out in pieces, no less than 20 victims.”


Here is what we know so far about al-Mawasi massacre

  • At least 71 people have been killed and 289 injured in an Israeli air attack on central Gaza’s al-Mawasi area in the Khan Younis governorate, according to the Health Ministry.
  • The attack unfolded in several stages and involved fighter jets and drones, according to witnesses.
  • Rescue workers and health teams were also targeted by Israeli forces as they arrived at the scene, local sources said.
  • The Israeli military claimed it carried out a strike in an open area surrounded by trees, several buildings and sheds “where two senior Hamas commanders and other hid among civilians”.
  • Hamas dismissed the Israeli claim as “false”, saying it was a way “to cover up the big scale of the horrific massacre”.


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Israel spreading fake news to divert attention from its ‘horrific massacre’: Government Media Office

Gaza’s Government Media Office says Israel is spreading “fake news, lies and rumors” about targeting Palestinian leaders “in order to divert attention from the horrific crime in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis”.

Israel has claimed that this attack targeted Mohammed Deif, a senior Hamas military official.

In a statement, it called it a “failed attempt to justify the horrific massacre”. “The Israeli occupation has been practising a policy of deception repeatedly since the beginning of the war of genocide, in an attempt to cover up its failure and the crimes it commits against civilians and displaced persons, especially children and women,” the office said.


Palestinian Foreign Ministry calls on Israel’s allies ‘to awaken their conscience’

Palestinian Foreign Ministry has condemned Israeli “massacres” in Gaza’s al-Mawasi and Shati refugee camps.

In a statement issued on X, the ministry called on “the states supporting Israel to awaken their conscience and morals, and to stop obstructing international efforts to end the genocidal war” in the besieged Palestinian enclave.

At least 71 people are confirmed killed in south Gaza’s al-Mawasi area and at least 17 more in Shati near Gaza City in the north.




CNN's take

Israel targets Hamas military chief in strike Palestinian officials say killed at least 70 people

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/13/middleeast/khan-younis-strike-gaza-intl/index.html

Israel says it targeted Hamas’ military chief and an alleged mastermind of the October 7 attacks in an airstrike in southern Gaza which local authorities said killed at least 71 Palestinians.

Mohammed Deif – the leader of Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing – was targeted Saturday in Al-Mawasi, a displacement camp west of the city of Khan Younis, an Israeli security official told CNN.

The Israeli military said it in the process of verifying whether Deif was killed in the strike, who was targeted alongside the head of the Khan Younis brigade, Rafe Salama.

The strike left scenes of devastation in the area, where the Gaza Health Ministry reported at least 71 people killed and nearly 300 people injured.

The strikes hit an area where displaced people were sheltering, according to the ministry. Videos from the scene show locals and rescue teams trying to unearth several people still trapped.

Al-Mawasi has been designated by Israel as a safe zone for Palestinians fleeing the fighting raging in Gaza.

The Kuwait and Nasser Hospitals on the ground are now struggling to cope with the high numbers of dead and injured civilians coming in, the ministry said.

Hamas denied Israeli claims it had targeted Deif and Salama, calling the killings a “horrific massacre.”

“The occupation’s claims of targeting leaders are false claims, and this is not the first time the occupation has claimed to target Palestinian leaders, only for its lies to be exposed later,” a statement read.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received continuous updates on the Israeli strike on Deif, according to the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). Netanyahu will later on Saturday hold a situational assessment with Israeli security forces to discuss further steps, the PMO said.

Little is known about Deif. Thought to have been born in the 1960s, Deif is a bomb maker was behind a wave of four suicide attacks in 1996 that killed 65 people in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and other outrages intended to derail the peace process.

His full name is Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri, but he became known as El Deif (the Guest), because, for decades, he stayed in different houses every night to avoid being tracked, and killed, by Israel.

Deif has been the target of Israeli assassination attempts before. A 2014 Israel strike killed his wife, seven-month-old son and three-year-old daughter.

In May, the International Criminal Court said it was seeking arrest warrants for Deif and other senior Hamas figures, saying they had “reasonable grounds” to believe they bore responsibility for the October 7 attacks, which saw around 1,200 Israelis killed.


It's working as usual, more focus on the claim to target Deif than the horrific massacre of 70 civilians and another 300 wounded.

The BBC is so far ignoring this event as well. (Still ignoring the killings of 4 staffers from UK based charity Al-Khair)
https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cgv64vq5z82t



SvennoJ on 13 July 2024

‘This is a pattern from the Israeli military’

    Let’s begin with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. His office said he held a situational assessment on the phone with top security and military officials, and that he is going to convene a meeting later in the day. This comes after Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant had held his own situational assessment with Israel’s Shin Bet – that’s the internal security services – and as well as top defence and military officials.

    The prime minister’s office released a statement earlier saying that in the beginning of the war, there was a directive from Netanyahu to target and kill Hamas officials wherever they are – whether it’s inside or outside Gaza.

    It’s something that the Israeli military has used to justify the killing of thousands of civilians, saying they are doing these precise and targeted attacks, when in reality, Gaza is one of the most densely populated areas in the world – not to mention the areas that are designated as “safe zones”, like this area west of Khan Younis, al-Mawasi, that has hundreds of thousands of Palestinians there.

    The Israeli military is saying that these are strikes on Hamas officials and targets. But we see the reality on the ground constantly. We see the results of these attacks. This is a pattern from the Israeli military.

     

    Al-Mawasi ‘massacre’ shows failure of international community to ‘pressure Israel’

    Amjad al-Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGOs Network, says the “massacre” at al-Mawasi was “the message from Israel to the world that again and again and again they are targeting Palestinian civilians wherever they are.”

    “This area was attacked so many times; it’s full of shelters and these shelters contain thousands of tents where children, women, elders are staying under these tents as a place to be safe,” he told Al Jazeera in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.

    “So many families, displaced for the 10th time, seeking for safety and security,” he said, adding that the attack demonstrated “the failure of the international community to exert pressure on Israel to stop its war on Palestinian civilians”.

     

    Egypt says attacks against Palestinians complicate deal efforts

    “We condemn in the strongest terms the Israeli raids on the al-Mawasi area,” Egypt’s Foreign Ministry has said in a statement.

    The ministry emphasised that “ongoing violations against the rights of Palestinian citizens” add serious “complications” to achieving a ceasefire deal.



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    ‘Netanyahu wants permanent aggression’: Palestinian envoy to UK

    Husam Zomlot says Israel’s attack on al-Mawasi is its “response to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling four months ago, to the UN Security Council more than a month ago and to the ongoing ceasefire talks”.

    The Palestinian ambassador to the UK pointed out that the attack killed dozens of civilians in a densely populated area that was designated by Israel as a safe zone for tens of thousands of refugees who were forced out of their homes.

    “Netanyahu wants permanent aggression and permanent occupation,” he said in a post on X.

    US bears responsibility for continuation of massacres: PA

    Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for the Palestinian Authority (PA) presidency, has said, “The massacre in al-Mawasi is a continuation of the genocidal war against our people, and the US administration bears responsibility for the continuation of the massacres.”

    In a statement carried by the official Wafa news agency, Abu Rudeineh said, “Without blind and biased American support, this occupation would not have been able to continue its bloody crimes against out people, and to defy international laws and the decisions of international courts that have demanded an end to the onslaught and protection for out people.”

    Action Aid denounces Israeli attack on al-Mawasi

    “We are utterly horrified and appalled by the devastating attack on the al-Mawasi area near Khan Younis and extremely concerned about the safety of our staff and partners in the area, some of whom we have not yet been able to make contact with,” international NGO Action Aid said in a statement.

    “This is an area that had been designated a safe humanitarian zone, yet at least 71 people have been brutally slaughtered there today and hundreds injured, once again making it perfectly clear that absolutely nowhere is safe in Gaza.”

    “As yet more Palestinians mourn their loved ones or attempt to seek medical help from a health system that is overwhelmed and on its knees, we plea – yet again – for this nightmare to come to an end and for a permanent ceasefire, now,” the group also stated.


    US Muslim group to Biden: ‘Stop enabling these daily massacres’

    The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says Israel is acting with impunity, knowing that it will continue to receive US support despite its atrocities against Palestinians.

    “President Biden’s continuing support for and silence about the genocide gives a green light for more Israeli abuses and war crimes,” CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a statement.

    “President Biden must stop enabling these daily massacres and end our nation’s complicity in genocide. Administration officials must begin to treat Palestinians as human beings worthy of life, dignity and justice, not as animals only fit for slaughter.”

     

    ‘We must do more to stop this,’ US congresswoman says

    Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has decried Israeli attacks in Gaza, renewing her calls for a ceasefire to end the violence.

    “Israel is continuing a horrific assault on Gaza, forcing the closure of medical facilities & even restricting the entry of medical equipment,” Jayapal said in a social media post.

    “We must do more to stop this. We need an immediate & permanent ceasefire to release the hostages and save lives.”