Europa Press and AFP
The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, September 15, 2024, p. 22
Gaza. Israeli attacks left at least 20 dead during an offensive carried out yesterday by the Israeli army against areas in the north of the Gaza Strip; 11 of those killed, including four children, were in the same house, on a day in which the first phase of polio vaccination, carried out in the enclave by the World Health Organization, ended.
We have recovered the bodiesafter a Israeli warplane bombed a three-story house belonging to the Bustan familyCivil Defense spokesman Mahmud Basal told the AFP news agency.
Several families found refuge in the house, which was hit by a single missile without any military warning; five other people were killed in Gaza City in an Israeli airstrike that hit a school serving as a shelter. the official added. The Israeli army said it had bombed Hamas fighters there.
Israeli forces also attacked in the Daraj Tuffah sector commander from a cell of the Islamist armed group involved in the planning and execution of terrorist activitiesindicated a military statement, which alluded to the fact that they were aware of claims that several civilians were killed in said operation.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced yesterday its new death toll, which has reached 41,182 since the start of the war with Israel last October.
For releasing hostages
Thousands of Israelis demonstrated again yesterday in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to increase pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to accept a deal that would allow the release of hostages still held in the Gaza Strip.
One of the victims freed in November, Raz Ben Ami, said during the protests that he already knew that if the hostages They are not coming back now, they will come back in coffinsin addition to feeling fed up with Israeli military pressure, which has so far only resulted in deaths.
During the demonstration there were clashes with the police, resulting in at least seven arrests, who were caught with a possibly flammable substance and several tyres that could be used to build a barricade.
There were attempts at clashes between protesters and far-right counter-demonstrators who remained in the area even after normal traffic resumed.
Meanwhile, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz described anti-semite to the High Representative for Foreign Policy of the European Union (EU), Josep Borrell, who declared himself shocked over the deaths of United Nations (UN) employees in an Israeli bombing in Gaza on Wednesday.
There is a difference between legitimate criticism and political disagreements, normal between friends, and the anti-Semitic and hate campaign that Borrell is promoting against Israel, as it reminds us of the worst anti-Semites in history.the Israeli minister said.
Martyr’s funeral
In Turkey, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, the Turkish-American activist killed by Israeli gunfire in the West Bank last week, was buried as a martyr yesterday.
Down with Israel!was one of the slogans chanted by the crowd that gathered in front of his family’s home. After the prayers, the body was taken to the central mosque in Didim, although the ceremony took place in front of the temple, on Cumhurriyet Avenue, due to the large attendance.
The coffin, draped in the colours of the Turkish flag, was carried to the small cemetery in Didim on the Aegean coast, accompanied by hundreds of mourners and carried by riot police wearing white helmets, which are used for martyrs.
Yesterday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced the awarding of the Star of Jerusalem medal to Eygi, posthumously for his sacrifice in support of the Palestinian people and their right to freedom and independence.
Representatives of the Turkish government and opposition attended the funeral, including Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Interior Minister Ali Verlikyaya.