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The newspaper La Jornada
Monday, September 9, 2024, p. 32
Cairo, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) — The death of Mohamed Morsi, deputy head of Gaza’s Civil Emergency Service, brought to 83 the number of members of that institution killed by Israeli fire since Oct. 7, after an airstrike by Tel Aviv forces on a house in Jabaliya killed four members of his family, health sources reported yesterday. Israeli authorities made no comment.
Israeli forces also attacked several houses in the suburb of Zeitoun, 5 kilometers from Jabaliya, Gaza residents reported on social media. We hear constant shelling in Zeitoun; we know that houses are being blown up there. We are not sleeping because of the sounds of explosions; the roar of tanks is nearby and drones are constantly circling.complained a Gazan who lives a kilometer away.
The Gaza health ministry said Israel’s military offensive had left 40,972 people dead and 94,761 wounded.
Meanwhile, the Qatar Red Crescent and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees signed an agreement for a $4.5 million fund to help more than 4,400 Gazan workers and patients stranded in the West Bank since October 7.
(The) cash assistance will represent vital support for those displaced people who have not been able to return to the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israeli aggression against the Strip last October.explained a statement from the state news agency of Qatar.
In the reoccupied West Bank, a truck driver shot dead three Israeli guards at a border crossing with Jordan yesterday, the Israeli army said.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said on social media that they received the first call at 9:55 a.m. (local time), but upon arrival in the area they found that there were three people with gunshot wounds, but they were unable to save their lives.
The Israeli military said a gunman approached the Allenby Bridge crossing from the Jordanian side in a truck and fired at Israeli security forces, killing the shooter, identified as Maher al-Jazi, a Jordanian soldier.
Prior to these events, Israel announced that it had closed the crossings with neighbouring Jordan “on the orders of security officials. All activities at the land border crossings from Eilat in the south to Beit She’an in the north have been suspended.”