▲ A baby suffering from polio sleeps in a tent in Deir Balah. EU Foreign Minister Josep Borrell yesterday called for a three-day ceasefire in Gaza to facilitate vaccination against the disease, the spread of which threatens Palestinian children, already hard hit by hunger.Photo Ap
▲ Kaid Farhan Alkadi, 52, was rescued yesterday by the Israel Defense Forces after being held captive since October 7, when he was taken hostage by Hamas militants.Photo Ap
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The newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, August 28, 2024, p. 28
Gaza Strip. At least 41 Palestinians were killed – including eight children – and 113 wounded yesterday in fresh Israeli airstrikes against the Gaza Strip, on a day when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) rescued an Israeli Arab taken hostage during the Hamas incursion on October 7, and launched the largest offensive against the reoccupied West Bank in recent years.
Rescue teams were working to recover bodies, wounded and survivors from various parts of the territory bombed yesterday. We found dead and mutilated children and womensaid Mohamed Yusef, who witnessed the attack in the Al Maghazi refugee camp.
Israel says it is trying to avoid harming civilians and accuses Hamas of endangering them by fighting in residential areas.
Displaced families gathered on the seashore as fighting continued.
Every day they say that talks are moving forward, that an agreement is close, and then everything falls to dust. Does the world understand that every day more lives are being cost to us?asks Aya, a 30-year-old Palestinian.
The death toll since the start of the war has risen to 40,476 and the number of wounded or maimed to 93,647. Meanwhile, an unknown number of victims remain under the rubble, whose bodies cannot be recovered due to the presence of Israeli troops.
In the reoccupied West Bank, 10 people were killed in a massive operation in Tel Aviv; the number of wounded was not reported and at the time of going to press, fighting was still ongoing in the refugee camps of Al Faraa, Jenin and Nur Sham.
Israeli news site Ynet reported that the IDF surrounded hospitals to prevent the arrival of wounded Palestinian militants.
Meanwhile, EU Foreign Minister Josep Borrell called for a three-day ceasefire in Gaza to facilitate vaccination against polio, the spread of which threatens Palestinian children, already hard hit by hunger.
Children in Gaza are doing what they can to survive. They have forgotten what it means to play, AFP reported. Every morning, Ahmed, 12, picks up the remains of destroyed houses from the ruins of Khan Yunis: We crush the stones and sell the bucket of gravel for a shekel (five pesos) to families who build steles with it on the graves of their loved ones. What they earn is not enough not even for a packet of biscuitshe lamented, a kilo of tomatoes costs 25 shekels.
Jamis, 16, and his brother Sami, 13, sell juice boxes. From walking barefoot through the rubble, my brother’s leg became infected with a shell fragment.says Jamis. He had a fever, pimples all over and we didn’t have any medicine to cure him..
Moatasem, 13, sells coffee. “We forget what it is to play or buy things we like (…) I would like to come home and find my life before, when we could easily find water to drink.”
Two wives and 11 children were waiting for him
The release of former hostage Kaid Farhan Alkadi, 52, brings to eight the number of those rescued by the army and is the first to be found in a tunnel.
Alkadi belongs to Israel’s Bedouin Arab minority and was a guard at the Magen Kibbutz (agricultural commune). He has two wives and 11 children.
Unshaven and wearing a white T-shirt, he is seen in a video smiling alongside Israeli soldiers. He appeared emaciated, but doctors said his condition was stable. His large family, originally from a town in the Negev desert, met him at the hospital.
Of the 251 abducted, 105 remain in Gaza, including 34 who the Israeli military declared dead.
Hamas wants to exchange the hostages for a lasting truce, an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the release of a large number of Palestinian prisoners, including high-profile militants.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would continue rescue missions and negotiations to secure the hostages’ freedom. Both require our military presence on the ground, and relentless military pressure on Hamas.he added.
Meanwhile, negotiations continue in Doha, driven by mediators Qatar, Egypt and the United States. The exchange of attacks between Israel and Hezbollah over the weekend has not affected the conversationssaid White House spokesman John Kirby.
The United Nations and Russia have separately called for the safety of ships sailing in the Red Sea, as those representing Israeli interests are attacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who support the Hamas struggle.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Such actions pose serious threats to navigation safety.However, Moscow does not approve of the warlike response led by Washington and London either. According to Lavrov, such actions only aggravate the situation.
Likewise, UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric condemned these attacks that endanger the crews and warned about the environmental risk of oil spills, regarding the oil tanker. Sounion, which is anchored and on fire off the coast of Yemen.