Israeli attacks kill 22 in Gaza today, activist ship bombed off Malta

A Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship carrying 30 pro-Palestinian activists bombed, with the group blaming Israel or one of its allies. There were no casualties.
Medical sources say at least 22 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza today alone, with one strike on Bureij killing nine members of the same family.Israel’s ongoing seige of Gaza is ‘genocide in action’, says Amnesty
Amnesty International is calling on Israel to end its “war crime of using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare”, the organisation has said in a statement.

“Harrowing new testimonies gathered by Amnesty International throughout April reveal the catastrophic human cost of Israel’s two-month long total siege, where starvation and denial of life-saving essentials are being used as weapons of war in flagrant violation of international law,” the statement read.

According to Erika Guevara Rosas, Senior Director for Research, Advocacy, Policy, and Campaigns at Amnesty International, Gaza is “an inferno of death and destruction” due to the seige and fighting.

“For the past two months, Israel has completely cut off the supply of humanitarian aid and other items indispensable to the survival of civilians in a clear and calculated effort to collectively punish over two million civilians and to make Gaza unlivable,” Rosas said.