Yesterday, more than 60 people died due to Israeli bombings against the Gaza Strip
▲ Mahmoud Mikdad holds the body of his 21-month-old son Yaman, who was killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in the morgue of a hospital in Deir al-Balah.Photo Ap
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The newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, July 17, 2024, p. 27
Deir Al Balah. Israeli airstrikes yesterday killed more than 60 Palestinians in the south, center and north of the Gaza Strip, including a bombing that hit a safe zonedeclared as such by Israel and which was full of thousands of displaced people.
Mohamed al Mughair, a Gazan Civil Defense official, described what happened as Three massacres in less than an hour.
The bombings took place near the Al Mawasi refugee camp in Khan Younis, at a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Nuseirat refugee camp, and near the Beit Lahia roundabout.
The Israeli military said the targets were Terrorists active in a UNRWA school and a company boss of Islamic Jihad.
According to Israel, Hamas Take advantage of civilian structures and use the population as a human shield.
Meanwhile, in the reoccupied West Bank, Israeli forces killed a 19-year-old Palestinian who allegedly tried to stab an officer during a raid near Ramallah.
The incident is part of a wave of violence that has erupted since the start of the Gaza war. More than 500 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since then, according to the Health Ministry, most of them in clashes with Israeli forces; others while throwing stones or protesting against the army. According to the AP news agency, some of the dead were not involved in clashes with soldiers.
Meanwhile, in Gaza the death toll rose to 38,713 dead and 89,166 wounded. Authorities in the enclave also reported that there are still bodies under the rubble and on the roadsand that around 10 thousand people are missing, so the death toll could be much higher than officially announced.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the number of civilian casualties from the Israeli operation in Gaza is unacceptably highduring a meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Ron Dermer and national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi. Blinken conveyed to Tel Aviv officials his grave concern over recent civilian casualties on the fringe.
However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the army must further increase the pressure Hamas, saying that half of the Islamic organization’s leadership had been eliminated and that nearly 14,000 fighters had been killed or arrested since the war began last October.
