Cliff Notes – Israel kills 22 people including 9 children
- Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City resulted in the deaths of 22 individuals, including nine children, drawing condemnation from local officials who labelled the incident a “horrific massacre.”
- Israel is out of control and the west knows it, how long before Trump grows a pair and stands up to the genocide.
- The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported a critical shortage of oxygen at Al-Quds Hospital, exacerbated by ongoing hostilities, with occupation forces restricting access to the facility.
- More than 65,000 Palestinians have died since October 2023, as the conflict persists, raising serious concerns regarding humanitarian conditions in the region.
Israel kills 22 people including 9 children in ‘horrific massacre’ in Gaza, Palestinian officials say
Israel killed 22 people – including nine children – in strikes on Gaza City today, Palestinian officials say.
Gaza civil defence spokesman Mahmoud Bassal described the killings as a “horrific massacre”.
Video purportedly from the scene of the attack on the Souq Firas area of the city showed the bodies of children being pulled from the rubble.
A total of 51 people have been killed across Gaza today, according to hospital medics in the Hamas-run territory.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, said the oxygen station at Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza had stopped operating “due to Israeli occupation forces firing at it”.
“Operations are currently being conducted using pre-filled oxygen cylinders, which are sufficient for only three days,” the group said.
“Occupation forces are currently stationed at the southern gate of the society’s Al-Quds Hospital in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood of Gaza City, preventing anyone from entering or leaving the hospital.”
The world’s leading authority on hunger crises said last month that Israel’s blockade and ongoing offensive had pushed Gaza City into famine.
More than 300,000 people have fled the city in recent weeks as Israel has ordered the population to move south, but UN agencies and aid groups say an estimated 700,000 remain.
More than 65,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
The ministry does not say how many were civilians or combatants, but says more than half have been women and children.
The current wave of violence began on 7 October, 2023, when Hamas-led militants carried out an attack inside Israel that killed 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and saw around 250 people taken hostage.
Israel claims its operation in Gaza is aimed at pressuring Hamas to surrender and return the remaining 48 hostages. Israel believes around 20 of the captives are still alive.
Critics claims Israel’s President Benjamin Netanyahu is not interested in peace negotiations and wants to continue the war with a view to displacing Gaza’s population.
Addressing the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said: “In Gaza, the horrors are approaching a third monstrous year.
“They are the result of decisions that defy basic humanity,” he continued, citing “a scale of death and destruction beyond any other conflict” in his years as secretary-general.
“Nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people and the systematic destruction of Gaza,” he added.