AFP, Europa Press and Reuters
The newspaper La Jornada
Monday, September 23, 2024, p. 26
Gaza. The Israeli army carried out a new bombing yesterday against a school located in the north of the Gaza Strip, an attack that left several victims, including Mayed Saleh, a senior official of the Ministry of Public Works and Housing of the Palestinian enclave.
Air Force planes have carried out a precision strike against Hamas terrorists who were in a compound that was formerly used by the Kfar Qasem schoolthe Israeli army said through its account on the social network X.
He stated that Many steps were taken before the attack to reduce the chances of harm to those not involved.amid international denunciations of the high number of civilian casualties and the enormous destruction caused by its offensive against Gaza.
Saleh was killed in the attack, but the Islamist group has not yet commented on the bombing, the Palestinian newspaper reported. Filastinlinked to Hamas.
At least seven Palestinians were killed yesterday in a series of attacks on various points in the strip, as part of the offensive unleashed more than 11 months ago following the attacks carried out on October 7, 2023 by Hamas and other Palestinian factions.
On the other hand, the Qatari channel Al Jazeera yesterday rejected the raid and closure for 45 days imposed by the Israeli army, in addition to describing the raid as criminal actwhile holding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government responsible for the safety of its journalists.
During the raid on his office, the channel broadcast live footage of Tel Aviv troops delivering a military order to the head of the office in Ramallah, in the reoccupied West Bank, ordering the closure of the office, before the broadcast was interrupted.
The military added that the document was signed after an intelligence assessment determined that the offices were used to incite terror.
Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi confirmed the closure, calling Al Jazeera a spokesman of Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The Palestinian Journalists’ Union condemned the measure in a statement, because This arbitrary military decision is considered a new violation of the work of journalists and the media, which have been denouncing the crimes of the occupation..
The Palestinian government stressed that such actions underscore the need for the international community apply urgently the resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (UN) on ending the occupation.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he is clear that neither Israel nor Hamas are interested in a ceasefire. That is a tragedy, because this is a war that must end.he told the American network CNN.
