▲ The Palestinian family pictured here received news of the death of one of their members during the Israeli attack on the Amr Ibn school, which housed hundreds of displaced people from the war.Afp Photo
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The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, September 8, 2024, p. 20
Deir Al Balah., Eleven months of war have passed and Tel Aviv’s attacks on the Gaza enclave have not given any respite. More than 12 people have died and at least 15 have been injured during the day of army offensives on different areas of Gaza.
In the north of the strip, heavy shelling of a school converted into a shelter for displaced people in Jabalia caused at least four deaths and two dozen injuries, according to the Gaza Civil Defense. The Israeli army said it attacked a Hamas command post installed in a former school compound.
In the Nuseirat urban refugee camp in central Gaza, officials at Al Awda hospital reported receiving the bodies of nine people who were victims of two airstrikes, one of which hit a residential building in the early hours of the morning, killing four people and wounding at least 10 others. The other airstrike killed five people in a house in the western part of Nuseirat.
Meanwhile, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital, the largest in the central city of Deir al-Balah, reported that a woman and two children were killed in another attack on a house in the Bureij shelter in the early hours of the morning.
The death toll from the war, which began on October 7, has risen to more than 40,900 dead and nearly 94,600 wounded, the Gazan Ministry of Health reported. Meanwhile, Husam Badran, a senior official in Hamas’s political wing, said: Netanyahu obstructs any agreement and is responsible for the deaths of prisonersreferring to the discovery last week of the bodies of six hostages in a tunnel in Gaza by Israeli troops.
He reiterated that the Islamist group has not added new conditions to the proposal presented by the American president, Joe Biden, and stated that The main person responsible for the blockade is the Israeli political leader, something that everyone knows.
“The prime minister has refused and has not approved the issues related to the ceasefire, the situation in the Philadelphia and Netzarim corridors – where Israel insists on maintaining a military presence – and the entry of aid,” Badran criticized, insisting on Hamas’ willingness to reach an agreement. to put an end to the aggression.
He expressed that the group is open to apply what was agreed and stressed that the Palestinians They will exercise their natural right to resist and confront all plans for the liquidation of the Palestinian cause, whether in Gaza or the West Bank.reported the Palestinian daily Filastinlinked to Hamas.
Finally, the family of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, the 26-year-old activist murdered in the reoccupied West Bank, accused the Israeli army of killing her and demanded that Washington independent investigation.
Aysenur was peacefully defending justice when she died after being hit by a bullet that, according to the video, was fired by an Israeli soldier.the family stated, emphasizing that Given the circumstances of Aysenur’s murder, an Israeli investigation is not appropriate.NBC reported.
We call on President (Joe) Biden, Vice President (Kamala) Harris, and Secretary of State (Antony) Blinken to order an independent investigation into the murder of an American citizen and ensure that there is full accountability for those responsible.he said.
In this regard, the United Nations and the White House have called for a thorough investigation.
Stephan Dujaric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said: We would like to see a full investigation into the circumstances and who should be held accountable..
Meanwhile, the spokesman for the White House National Security Council, Sean Savett, said the day before yesterday that he was deeply shocked by the tragic death Eygi, of Turkish descent, while conveying his condolences to his family and loved ones.
Lead against stone
We have contacted the Israeli government for further information and an investigation into the incident.he said, after the Israeli army acknowledged that it used live fire to reply against a person who had thrown stones and represented a threat.
The Israeli army said it was investigating what happened, while the International Solidarity Movement denounced that Israeli troops they shot intentionally against Eygi during a protest in Beita, according to a statement posted on its website.