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SvennoJ on 14 July 2024

Witnesses say emergency workers targeted after trying to help injured in al-Mawasi

Emergency workers and civil defence crews are among the hundreds of people injured in Israel’s attacks on al-Mawasi camp on Saturday.

Witnesses say rescuers were targeted by Israeli forces as they tried to help the wounded.

More bodies recovered from Sheikh Radwan

We have additional details from the Israeli attack on the Gaza City neighbourhood.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, citing Palestinian media, are reporting that emergency crews have recovered three bodies and rescued seven wounded people from the targeted residential building.

Israeli forces attacked the house in the Abu Iskandar area at dawn today.

 

Death toll from attack on Shati refugee camp rises to 22

Al Jazeera Arabic, citing Palestinian media, is reporting that the number of people killed in the Israeli attack on the Shati refugee camp has risen to 22. We reported earlier that the attack targeted a group of people who had gathered for noon prayers in the ruins of a mosque in the area.


‘Shujayea has been wiped out’

Palestinians in the war-battered northern district of Shujayea are struggling to survive after Israeli forces hammered the Gaza City neighbourhood during a two-week attack.

Resident Fares Amer Mushtaha said: “As you can see, Shujayea has been reduced to dust. It has been wiped out. They bombed us without warning, they did not drop leaflets or call. Missiles just started falling on civilians – women, children and elderly people. The occupation army told us to go to western Gaza, then they invaded and targeted it with their missiles.”

Another resident, Nael Alsousi, said Israeli forces attacked Shujayea’s water supplies and “one can say there is no water at all”.

“Wells were completely destroyed and so was the municipal water network. Even the tanker trucks that used to carry fresh water can no longer enter the neighbourhood because of the destruction of the infrastructure and the roads,” Alsousi told Al Jazeera.


Palestinians make their way past destroyed buildings after the Israeli military withdrew from Shujayea last week


Israeli attack on Gaza City kills 10, wounds 27

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces attacked a residential tower in Gaza City earlier in the morning, killing at least 10 Palestinians and wounding 27 others.

Earlier, an update from Reuters said at least 17 Palestinians were killed in Israel’s attacks on Gaza overnight.


Israeli bombing kills 2 near Rafah crossing

Israeli bombing killed at least two people after targeting the vicinity of the Rafah border crossing in southern Gaza, our colleagues on the ground report.


Civil defence workers recover 6 bodies west of Rafah: Reports

Civil defence crews recovered six bodies from an area west of Rafah city in southern Gaza, Palestinian media report.


‘Palestinians bombed at every corner of Gaza’

There’s been a clear escalation by the Israeli military in northern Gaza. What we know from local sources is at least 16 Palestinians have been killed in the urban areas of Gaza City.

A number of residential homes were targeted without any prior warning. At least 15 people were wounded. Israel’s military continues to target key civilian infrastructure such as water sources to make the north of the Strip uninhabitable.

Other areas were also hit this morning, including the Nuseirat refugee camp near the Netzarim Corridor. We’re getting initial information that at least six Palestinians were killed in Rafah district in southern Gaza.

There’s mounting pressure on civil defence rescuers with severe fuel shortages and repeated attacks on their crews. Desperate Palestinians are being bombed at every corner of Gaza.


Health Ministry: 38,584 Palestinians killed in Gaza

At least 38,584 Palestinians have been killed and 88,881 others wounded in Israel’s attack on Gaza since October 7, the Health Ministry says.

The latest death toll includes at least 141 people killed over the last 24 hours, it added.

The grim figures are likely much higher with thousands of bodies believed buried under the vast destruction of Gaza’s fallen buildings.



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Hamas commander Mohammed Deif ‘fine’ after Israeli attack: Report

A Hamas official says the group’s military leader, Mohammed Deif, is “fine” despite an apparent Israeli attempt to kill him in an attack.

“Commander Mohammed Deif is well and directly overseeing” military operations against Israeli forces, the unnamed Hamas official told AFP.

On Saturday, an Israeli air raid killed at least 90 Palestinians in a designated “humanitarian” zone in Gaza, the Health Ministry said. The attack was the deadliest in Gaza for weeks.

Israel said the strike attempted to kill Deif. Hamas said Israel’s claims it targeted its leaders are false and aimed at justifying the attack.


People carry a wounded person at the tent camp in al-Mawasi on Saturday


Cities in West Bank hold general strike after attacks

Cities in the occupied West Bank are holding a general strike to denounce Israeli attacks on Gaza, the most recent of which hit al-Mawasi, near Khan Younis, and the Shati refugee camp.

Local Palestinian social media accounts shared videos of shops closing their doors this morning in Jenin, the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem, and in Tulkarem in response to calls for a general strike.


Doctor: ‘What will it take to stop these atrocities?’

Dr Mohammad Subeh, an emergency room physician working in central Gaza, relayed victim accounts of the Israeli attack on al-Mawasi that killed at least 90 Palestinians and wounded 300 others.

“People are describing how the ground essentially turned upside down on individuals. They’re digging people out of the ground. Hospitals have ceased operations except for those victims they’ve received,” Subeh told Al Jazeera.

“This is just one of the cruel ways this population is being systematically targeted and killed off. People are living in such poor conditions that you cannot even imagine. You wonder to yourself how the world is still silent and standing idle and not doing anything to stop these atrocities. What will it take?”


Children are evacuated from the site hit by Israeli bombardment near Khan Younis, southern Gaza


Al-Mawasi attack a ‘complex crime’, says rights monitor

Maha Hussaini, from the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, says the Israeli attack that killed at least 90 people and wounded 300 others at the al-Mawasi camp “is nothing new”.

“Areas where displaced Palestinians were forced to go have been under continuous bombardment. This has been ongoing for nine months straight,” she told Al Jazeera from central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah.

Hussaini described the Israeli strikes as a “complex crime” that involved preventing ambulances from reaching the many injured.

“Drones opened fire on anyone or anything trying to evacuate the wounded. Only a few hours after this, another massacre was committed in the west of Gaza City. This genocide in Gaza is systematic. We’ve witnessed that Israel is intensifying these attacks on displacement centres,” she said.



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Israeli forces demolish Palestinian homes near Jericho

A Palestinian group and a photographer have posted videos of Israeli forces demolishing Palestinian homes in the town of al-Duyuk, west of the city of Jericho in the occupied West Bank.

The videos were verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency.

Sanad, citing local sources, said Israeli forces destroyed two houses and a fence after storming the town early in the morning.


Israeli forces arrest 30 Palestinians in West Bank in past 2 days

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says Israeli soldiers arrested 30 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank during the past two days.

They have arrested 9,655 people so far in the occupied West Bank since the start of the war on Gaza in October, it said in a statement.


Rights groups say arrested Palestinians ‘beaten, abused’

Israeli raids targeted the cities of Ramallah, Jerusalem, Hebron, Qalqilya, Tulkarem, Jenin, and Jericho, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said in a joint statement.

At least 30 Palestinians were rounded up by Israeli forces overnight in the occupied West Bank.

“The detainees were subjected to abuse, severe beatings, and threats against their families in addition to widespread acts of sabotage and destruction of citizens’ homes,” the statement said.



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At least 4 people injured in ramming attack in Israel

Four people were wounded when a car drove into pedestrians near Ramla in central Israel. One person is in critical condition, another seriously hurt, one moderately, and another lightly injured in the “attack”, according to police. Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports the suspect involved in the ramming attack in central Israel has been killed.

The attack took place at the Nir Zvi Junction, near the city of Ramla.

Haaretz newspaper quoted police commander Avi Bitton as saying the suspect hit several people at a bus stop, continued driving, made a U-turn and crashed into another bus stop where people were waiting.

“Our main task is to check that there are no additional hazards. As far as I understand, this is a single event,” Bitton told reporters at the scene. He said border patrol officers arrived at the scene and shot the driver dead.

Senior police officials confirmed the attacker was a resident of occupied East Jerusalem, Haaretz said.


Video emerges of car-ramming attack in Israel

Video footage widely shared on social media and broadcast on Israeli television shows a white car on the pavement next to a bus shelter and uniformed men firing shots at the vehicle. Traffic is halted on the main highway.

The four wounded Israelis were taken to a hospital. Paramedics said two of the injured were in serious condition, with police saying one of the victims was in a “critical” state.

In a statement released by a first aid group, paramedic Michelle Rashkovski says: “When we arrived at the scene, we saw a vehicle that had hit pedestrians stopped at a bus shelter. We immediately called additional forces to the scene.”

Israeli authorities cut power in Jerusalem before demolition: Report

Israeli forces raided a residential building in Wadi al-Joz, occupied East Jerusalem, and cut the electricity in preparation for its demolition, Wafa reports.

The West Jerusalem municipality decided to demolish the building, which has stood since the previous century, it said. Building owner Nader Jaber said he’s been “paying fines for 30 years, exceeding 1 million shekels [$275,300], yet they still want to destroy my home”.

The building has three apartments where his children and grandchildren live, one of which was constructed before East Jerusalem was occupied. “I have been forced to evacuate all three apartments and am now waiting for the demolition bulldozers to arrive at any moment,” Jaber said.



SvennoJ on 14 July 2024

Hezbollah targets Israeli soldiers at Hadab Yarin site

Hezbollah says its fighters targeted a deployment of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Hadab Yarin site with missiles.

An Al Jazeera correspondent reported earlier that sirens sounded in the towns of western Galilee near the border with Lebanon.

Tensions have risen between Israel and Hezbollah as the war has dragged on and the exchanges of fire across the Lebanon-Israel border have become more frequent and intense in recent weeks. Hezbollah has frequently said its attacks on northern Israel will cease once Israel ends its war on Gaza.


Syrian soldier killed in Israeli strike on Damascus

A Syrian soldier was killed and three others injured in Israeli strikes near Damascus, state media say.

The Israeli army said it targeted a Syrian military command centre as well as targets and infrastructure belonging to the Syrian army and air defence in response to two drones launched towards Israel from Syrian territory.

The statement is a rare acknowledgement by the Israeli military of action in Syria, where it has launched hundreds of strikes, mainly targeting army positions and Iran-backed fighters.

SANA reported defence systems intercepted and downed a number of missiles “despite their intensity”. The state news agency published a photo showing a fire in what appeared to be a crater caused by the blast.

Attacks on Israel from armed groups in solidarity with besieged Palestinians have been frequent since its war on Gaza began last October.


Hezbollah launches drone attack on new Israeli army base

Hezbollah says it deployed drones to attack the headquarters of the newly created Israeli 91st division in Illit, alleging it inflicted casualties.

It said in a statement it targeted a deployment of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Hadab Yarin site with missiles.

Fears have grown in recent weeks of a full-scale war between the Lebanese group and Israel after months of fighting largely confined to the border region. Israel has said it doesn’t want war with Lebanon but could send its neighbour “back to the Stone Age” if it breaks out.



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Defeating Hamas is ‘prerequisite to defeat axis of evil’: Netanyahu

The Israeli prime minister says his military will “one way or another” kill all Hamas leaders.

He added he’s still committed to President Biden’s proposal to end the war on Gaza.

But he spelled out his conditions to finalise an agreement, including the “right” to return to the battlefield until all objectives have been met; preventing weapons smuggling to Hamas through Egypt, “which means continuing our control over the Philadelphi Corridor”; and bringing back as many captives as possible alive in the first round of negotiations.

He's committed to ending Gaza is what he is.


Hamas denies reports of withdrawing from truce negotiations

Izzat al-Risheq, a member of Hamas’s political office, denies reports the group has pulled out of ceasefire talks.

“There is no truth to what was reported by the media about the movement stopping negotiations,” al-Risheq said in a statement.

The comments came after an unnamed “senior Hamas official” reportedly told AFP the group is withdrawing from truce discussions because of Israel’s “stalling” and ongoing “massacres” of civilians in Gaza.

Israeli broadcaster Kan, quoting a “diplomat familiar with the talks”, reported negotiations are still planned for this week in Doha, Qatar.



‘Death and destruction in Gaza is intolerable’

Britain’s new foreign secretary, David Lammy, will press for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of captives during a trip to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory.

Lammy will meet Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and make the case for a “credible and irreversible pathway towards a two-state solution”, the foreign office said in a statement.

“The death and destruction in Gaza is intolerable. This war must end now, with an immediate ceasefire, complied with by both sides,” Lammy said.



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Israeli forces bomb UNRWA school in Nuseirat refugee camp

Israeli forces bombed a UNRWA school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, our colleagues on the ground report.

Several Palestinians were killed or wounded in the attack, health officials said. The Gaza media office put the initial death toll at 12. The school has been housing hundreds of displaced people.


14 killed, 70 wounded in new UNRWA school attack

Video from the Abu Oraiban school shows injured children lying on the ground with body parts scattered about. At least 14 people were killed and 70 wounded in the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza, medical sources told Al Jazeera.


Scene after al-Mawasi strikes: ‘Toddlers who are double amputees’

An official from the UN described the carnage at a Gaza hospital treating hundreds of wounded after the Israeli attack on the al-Mawasi displacement camp.

“Visiting the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis yesterday, I witnessed some of the most horrific scenes I have seen in my nine months in Gaza,” UNRWA official Scott Anderson said in a statement.

“I saw toddlers who are double amputees, children paralyzed and unable to receive treatment, and others separated from their parents. I also saw mothers and fathers who were unsure if their children were alive. Parents told me in despair that they had moved into the ‘so-called humanitarian zone’ in the hope that their children would be safe there.”

Anderson called for the removal of restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid to civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip. “Civilians must be protected at all times. We urgently need a ceasefire, the release of all remaining hostages, respite for the people of Gaza, and a meaningful opportunity for healing to begin.”


Israel’s ‘overall policy of the war has a genocidal character’

Luigi Daniele, a senior lecturer in the law of armed conflict at Nottingham Trent University, says that after the latest civilian carnage in Gaza, prosecutors at the UN’s World Court will be compiling the evidence for their ongoing genocide case against Israel.

He noted the size of craters in the aftermath of attacks on Palestinian civilians indicates the continual use of 2,000-pound (907kg) bombs.

“When war is conducted so lawlessly against civilians, it means policies accepting the elimination of a protected group under the Genocide Convention, as if it was an incidental cost of warfare,” Daniele told Al Jazeera.

“Israel has for a long time tried to devise a distortion of the laws of war concept of proportionality, progressively de-humanising hundreds of Palestinian civilians killed in each attack as ‘collateral damage’. This has no legal basis,” he added.

“This is per se a war crime of disproportionate attacks – criminalised in the Rome Statute. The fact these crimes have been committed in the hundreds means the overall policy of the war has a genocidal character.”


‘Massacres every day in Gaza’: Palestine ambassador to UK

Husam Zomlot says: “Massacres every day everywhere in Gaza. Today Israel bombs yet another UN school sheltering families in Nuseirat refugee camp, dozens killed and wounded.”

In a post on X he added, “This is the result of Israel’s impunity and international inaction.”

Earlier today we reported at least 14 Palestinians died in the attack on Nuseirat, 16 were killed in northern Gaza City, and another six in southern Rafah as Israeli forces continue to bomb civilians – a day after the “massacre” in al-Mawasi.


The attention is all on Trump's assassination attempt now. Daily bombings of 'safe' zones will only continue to get worse.



SvennoJ on 14 July 2024

Death toll in Israeli attack on UNRWA school rises to 17

We have an update on the figures from the attack on the UNRWA school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. According to eye-witnesses who saw the bodies being taken to Al-Aqsa Hospital, at least 17 people have been killed.

Many of the people who were killed had arrived in recent days after Israel issued evacuation orders on several areas.

We walked into the Al-Aqsa Hospital and saw women and children on the floor who experienced severe burns crying out in pain and agony. This is the result of incinerating bombs packed with nails and causing severe burns and wounds.

The Government Media Office has said that the attack on internally displaced people in the Abu Oreiban School in Nuseirat refugee camp has also left 80 wounded.

“This massacre comes as a continuation of genocide being perpetrated by the occupation army against our Palestinian people for the tenth month in a row,” it said in a statement. “We hold the Israeli occupation and the US administration fully responsible for the continuation of these massacres against the displaced and civilians,” the office added.

Women and children the majority of victims in UN shelter attack

In a little over 24 hours, we’ve witnessed three atrocities committed in the Gaza Strip. The latest was at a UN-run school in Nuseirat refugee camp.

The vast majority of the critically injured arrived here at Al-Aqsa Hospital. We’ve seen some of the most horrific wounds on those who’ve been rushed into operating theatres to try and save their lives. We’re talking about 70 wounded people.

The tragedy of all this is the pattern of these attacks. Women and children make up the majority of victims brought to the hospital. This is not the first time we’ve seen facilities managed and operated by the United Nations being attacked deliberately.

There’s mayhem and chaos at the school. These facilities that have been turned into shelters have been sites of major attacks by the Israeli occupying forces.

Israeli attempts to ‘subjugate our people’ through violence will fail: Hamas

The group has said that Israel continues to attack displaced civilians in shelter centres, in reference to today’s strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp. Israel struck UNRWA’s Abu Oreiban School earlier today, killing at least 15 and injuring 80.

“This is an extension of the ongoing war of extermination against civilians and the targeting of women and children,” Hamas said in a statement. “The attempts by [Israeli PM Benjamin] Netanyahu and his government to subjugate our people through this level of unprecedented crime will fail. Our people are only becoming more defiant.”


Al-Quds Brigades claim series of attacks on Israeli targets

The armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad has said its fighters:

  • Shelled a group of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the destroyed airport east of Rafah.
  • Shelled an Israeli military command centre in the Netzarim Corridor, which was named after a Jewish settlement in Gaza that was dismantled in 2005, and set up during the war by the army to separate northern Gaza from the south.
  • Shelled a group of soldiers and military vehicles at the entrance to the destroyed Rafah border crossing and its vicinity.
  • Targeted positions of Israeli soldiers in the areas of al-Abd Jaber, al-Tu’ma, Burj al-Asi – all southwest of the Yibna refugee camp in the city of Rafah.
  • Killed and wounded an unspecified number of soldiers who had entered a house east of Rafah, using light and anti-personnel weapons.


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Britain to give $7m to UK-Med to support Gaza relief work

Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced $7m to the humanitarian medical NGO to “support their ongoing work to provide humanitarian assistance and medical treatment to those in Gaza”.

“The situation in Gaza remains desperate and the need for medical aid is crucial. That is why this money is so important. Helping to save lives and deliver emergency care to those most in need,” Lammy said in a statement.

“This funding will be used to support the ongoing work of their field hospitals and the emergency department at Nasser Hospital. It will allow medics, including those from the UK, to continue carrying out vital work to treat thousands more patients suffering from acute respiratory illnesses, infections, and explosive fragmentation trauma cases.”


UK foreign secretary stresses need for Gaza ceasefire

David Lammy has said that he met separately with his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts – Benjamin Netanyahu and Mohammed Mustafa.

In a post on X, he said: “Our message is clear: we need an immediate ceasefire, the immediate release of all hostages, the protection of civilians, unfettered access to aid in Gaza, and a pathway towards a two-state solution.”

Turkish foreign minister urges more pressure on Israel

Hakan Fidan has urged more pressure on Israel to end the war in Gaza at a joint news conference with Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud.

Israel’s attacks on Gaza on Saturday showed that the country has no intention of ending the conflict, he added.

“Hamas accepting conditions of the ceasefire terms is seen by Israel as weakness and surrender, which is highly dangerous,” Fidan said.



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Gallant says pursuit of Hamas to continue for many years

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has said that “the pursuit of Hamas terrorists will continue for many years”, including of those who took part in the October 7 attack.

Addressing Israeli fighter pilots at the Nevatim airbase, Gallant said all Hamas members “from the most senior, as you acted against yesterday, to those terrorists in the field,” would be chased down.

On Saturday, Israel conducted a strike on the al-Mawasi refugee camp near Khan Younis. It claimed to have targeted Mohammed Deif, the head of Qassam Brigades, a claim Hamas dismissed. Israel also said today that the strike, which killed at least 90 people, took the life of Rafi Salama, the commander of Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade.

Gallant told the pilots that Israel’s main objective was the return of captives held in Gaza by Hamas and other groups.

Not sure how bomber pilots are going to return captives...


Israel government votes to extend mandatory military service

Israel’s government has approved a plan to temporarily extend compulsory military service for men to 36 months, up from 32 as the war on Gaza strains manpower.

The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed the government had endorsed the measure, which will now go to parliament for approval. Should it pass, the 36-month service will be effective immediately, for a period of five years, according to a copy of the bill posted online.

Because of the military’s “current needs following the events of October 7”, the temporary provision proposes “the maximum duration of men’s service will be 36 months,” the bill said. The law would also apply to soldiers currently deployed, lengthening their rotations.