Israeli war on besieged Palestinians of Gaza — now in its 165th day — has killed at least 31,819 people and wounded 73,934 others, as Netanyahu plans next onslaught on southern Rafah.
72 percent of the victims were women and children, while 27 people also died of malnutrition as Israel prevents the entry of much-needed humanitarian aid into the blockaded territory. Source: AFPAt least 14,000 children are among the at least 31,810 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since last October, the media office in the Palestinian enclave has said.
Jean-Pierre said US President Joe Biden had asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to send a senior team of military, intelligence and humanitarian officials to Washington for meetings in coming days for comprehensive discussions. “Israeli forces detained 61 journalists since October 7, 2023, of which 21 were released,” the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a joint statement.
According to an Anadolu Agency reporter, the airstrikes targeted a number of houses where hundreds of displaced people have sheltered.The World Health Organization has said the effects of starvation in Gaza are getting heavier each day as doctors and medical staff are seeing"newborn babies simply dying because they're too low birth weight."
She added that the opening of new land routes and a maritime corridor from Greek-administered Southern Cyprus to Gaza, to ensure the safe delivery of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian enclave, was a priority.More than 250 Palestinians have been killed and injured in an ongoing Israeli raid on al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the government media office said.
The Israeli army said early Tuesday that its forces had killed 50 Palestinians and detained 180 others during its raid on the hospital.Netanyahu accuses Israeli officials of cooperating with US to prevent ground attack on Gaza’s Rafah "Within the next few days, the second ship is expected to depart for Gaza," government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis told reporters."The cargo has already been loaded onto the second ship, necessary checks have been carried out," the spokesman added.
In a brief statement, the Foreign Ministry said Ambassador Wang Kejian met the head of Hamas's political bureau in Doha.1116 GMT — Israeli airstrike leaves several dead in Gaza City "The extent of Israel's continued restrictions on entry of aid into Gaza, together with the manner in which he continues to conduct hostilities may amount to the use of starvation as a method of war, which is a war crime," UN rights office spokesman Jeremy Laurence told reporters in Geneva, adding that the final determination of whether"starvation is being used as a weapon of war" would be determined by a court of law.
The latest toll includes at least 93 deaths and 142 injuries in the past 24 hours, a ministry statement said, adding that 73,934 people have been wounded in Gaza since the war began. The motion, introduced in the House of Commons by the opposition New Democratic Party , originally called for Canada to recognise the “State of Palestine.”
"The findings from IPC’s report on famine risk in Gaza are of grave concern, and I will carefully review their analysis," he said.Fourteen Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, including women and children. "You mentioned several countries already starting refunding of UNRWA, and I understand that each country has their own situation and considerations," Yoko Kamikawa told reporters at UN headquarters in New York.
Six more people died in another air strike on a house in Al-Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, they added. Israel and Hamas have not confirmed Issa’s death, and White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan did not say how US intelligence had concluded he was killed. Its response came after South Africa asked the ICJ to issue emergency orders for Israel to step up humanitarian aid to Gaza to address looming starvation.
Mustafa was speaking at the opening of a panel discussion titled"The Israel-Palestine Conflict and the Middle East Impasse" organised by the Center for Asian Studies Practice and Research of Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University .
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