Amnesty International calls for investigation into the devastation of Gaza as a war crime
Israel refuses to coordinate vaccination teams, Health Ministry says // IDF attacks leave 18 dead
▲ A Palestinian refugee makes his way through the rubble of a building destroyed during the Israeli army operation in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the West Bank.Photo Ap
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The newspaper La Jornada
Friday, September 6, 2024, p. 26
Doha. The Israeli army is refusing to coordinate the entry of medical teams affiliated with the polio vaccination campaign into some areas of southern Gaza, the enclave’s Ministry of Health denounced yesterday, while Amnesty International (AI) demanded that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) campaign to create a polio vaccination campaign be investigated as war crimes of arbitrary destruction. buffer zone along the eastern perimeter of Gaza.
The Israeli occupation refuses to coordinate the entry of medical teams linked to the emergency polio vaccination campaign in areas east of Saladinreported the Ministry of Health of Gaza, which yesterday launched the second phase of the vaccination campaign in the south of the enclave. It asked all institutions and parties involved that urgently intervene to ensure that the immunization campaign is a success by reaching all childrenAl Jazeera reported.
Meanwhile, AI asserted that the IDF’s campaign to create a military base should be investigated as war crimes of wanton destruction and collective punishment. buffer zone significant along the eastern perimeter of the Gaza Strip.
Using bulldozers and hand-placed explosives, the IDF has unlawfully destroyed agricultural land and civilian buildings, as well as razing entire neighborhoods, including homes, schools and mosques.
By analyzing satellite images and videos posted on social media by Israeli soldiers between October 2023 and May 2024, the AI Crisis Response Program Test Lab detected the razing of land approximately 1 to 1.8 kilometers wide along Gaza’s eastern border. Some videos show Israeli soldiers posing for a photo or toasting in celebration as buildings are demolished in the background.
The relentless campaign of devastation in Gaza is wanton destruction. Our investigation shows that Israeli forces have razed residential buildings, forced thousands of families from their homes and rendered their land uninhabitable.said Erika Guevara Rosas, Director General of Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns at Amnesty International. More information at: https://tinyurl.com/yc48zpy4.
Tel Aviv has carried out new airstrikes on Gaza, killing at least 18 people, Al Jazeera reported. The IDF attacked the humanitarian zone designated in the Gaza Strip, justifying that the objective was terrorists in a building used by Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
In the reoccupied West Bank, the Israeli army killed six Palestinians in the town of Tubas, in addition to a 16-year-old teenager, who was killed in the Fara camp, near Tubas, the Wafa news agency reported. In the Gaza Strip, more than 40,878 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 94,000 have been wounded since the war began on October 7. In the reoccupied West Bank, 691 have been killed.
Posthumous hostage video
Hamas released a video last night of American hostage Hersh Goldberg Polin, whose remains were rescued last weekend by Israeli troops along with those of five other captives.
I can’t remember the last time I saw the sun or breathed fresh air, and the worst part of it all is that my own country, Israel, has been trying to bomb me non-stop so they don’t have to take responsibility and make a deal for their mistake and leaving me behind. I call on you, Mr. President (of the United States) Joe Biden, and (Secretary of State) Anthony Blinken, and all my fellow Americans to do everything you can to stop the war, stop this madness, and bring me home now.Polin said in the video.