Israel’s war on Gaza live: Number of people killed by Israel tops 39,000
- At least 45 Palestinians have been killed and dozens of others injured following the launch of a new Israeli assault on eastern Khan Younis, according to the spokesman of Nasser Hospital where the victims are being delivered.
- The air attacks and artillery shelling come minutes after the military ordered the evacuation that Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza says affects more than 400,000 people.
Qassam Brigades claims hitting Israeli army bulldozer, tank in Rafah
The armed wing of Hamas has said its fighters targeted the two vehicles with Yasin 105 rockets in the Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood, on the western outskirts of southern Gaza’s Rafah city.
The group also said on Telegram that it struck the advancing Israeli forces in the northeast of the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza with mortar shells.
Khan Younis death toll rises to 45
Mohamed Saqer, the official spokesman of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, says that the Israeli attacks on eastern Khan Younis has so far killed at least 45 people.
The medical facility which is the last remaining hospital in southern Gaza, has been receiving the rising number of casualties, including children, since this morning when the Israeli forces started their air and ground attacks, giving the residents no time to follow their evacuation orders.
‘We are tired and fed up’: People in Khan Younis say they have nowhere to go
Displaced Palestinians say the area of al-Mawasi in southern Gaza is already full, after Israel ordered Palestinians in eastern Khan Younis to move there.
“Even the sidewalks are full of people and tents,” Youssef Abu Taimah, from the town of al-Qarara in Khan Younis, told AFP after his family found no space in al-Mawasi. “We are tired and fed up. Enough of this displacement and migration.”
Ahmed al-Bayouk, a 53-year-old from Khan Younis, also told the news agency: “We barely settle for a few days before the army comes, bombs, displaces us and destroys more.”
“Where should we go? Every place is at risk of bombing.”
The Israeli military earlier issued a notice ordering people in eastern Khan Younis to move to al-Mawasi, warning that its forces were “about to forcefully operate” in the area.
Israel begins issuing conscription notices for Ultra-Orthodox Jews
The Israeli military is drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish men for the first time in its history after the Supreme Court last month ended a decades-long exemption from compulsory service.
The ruling has been met with opposition and protests.
A glimpse of the Red Crescent Gaza team hard at work
The Palestine Red Crescent Society has shared a video showing members of its team recovering a body and assisting wounded survivors in Deir el-Balah after Israeli forces targeted a house in the city in central Gaza.
Stabbing attack in southern Israel ‘natural response’ to occupation: Hamas
Hamas has said a previously reported stabbing attack in the Netiv HaAsara area of southern Israel “is a natural response to the continued crimes and massacres of the occupation in the Gaza Strip, the continued attacks by settlers in the West Bank and the violations of the occupation army against our Islamic and Christian sanctities”.
The Israeli army earlier said “the terrorist was neutralised” without reporting any causalities.
Citing Israeli authorities, The Times of Israel reported that the English-speaking attacker approached soldiers saying that the Israeli army “is killing civilians in Gaza” and drew a knife, before troops shot him.
Palestinians are not shedding tears for Biden
It’s difficult to give an assessment as to whether Biden quitting the presidential race leaves any hope of a US-led peace process given the fact that there hasn’t been a peace process brokered by the US or anybody for many years.
Biden himself will go down in infamy among Palestinians, as someone who not only abandoned their right to freedom and ending the occupation and held on to what he said was his identity as a Zionist, but also as someone who allowed, enabled, funded and armed the ongoing genocidal war in Gaza.
There are not a lot of tears being shed or “thank you” being said to Biden exiting the scene, but eyes are on the Democratic party. Palestinians understand that Trump is not exactly Palestinian-friendly. In his previous term in office, he wrote off Jerusalem from the equation. He didn’t talk about Palestinian freedom or Palestinian rights.
There is maybe some hope that a different Democratic nominee would have a different perspective, would be closer to objectivity, not biased as far as Palestinian rights are concerned and help immediately end the war; that is the priority for Palestinians.
But maybe also charter a way for them forward via the political track which is non-existent at the moment.
