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Arab Leaders Condemn Attempt on Trump’s Life

CrossFireArabia
July 15, 2024

Arab countries on Sunday condemned the attempt to assassinate former US President Donald Trump while speaking at a campaign rally in the state of Pennsylvania.

The Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it “expresses its condemnation and denunciation of the attempt on the life of former US President Donald Trump and its complete solidarity with the US, the former President, and his family, and affirms its rejection of all forms of violence,” according to Anadolu.

"Europe's far right may need to reconsider its extreme stance as it reflects on the Trump assassination attempt. Insights on the Italian general's impact. #Europe #FarRight #Trump #AssassinationAttempt"https://t.co/scAPh2rbuo
— Benjamin Schott (@SchottBenni) July 15, 2024

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI expressed his solidarity with Trump on Sunday, according to the official Moroccan news agency.

Mohammed said he was “deeply moved and saddened by the horrific assassination attempt that took place at an election rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.”

He strongly condemned political violence and wished Trump “a speedy recovery so that he can continue to serve his nation.”

The overwhelming majority of Lebanese and Arab Americans will support Donald Trump in the upcoming elections
During the Trump era, Congress passed the “Pig Hunting” law, according to which the assassination of Qassem Soleimani and the leaders of ISIS and Al-Qaeda was carried out https://t.co/xug1YQ4k5x
— BigWolf (@GreyWol08482159) July 14, 2024

King Abdullah II of Jordan said of the assassination attempt on X: “Deeply shocked and outraged by the heinous attempt on former US President Donald Trump’s life during a political rally. Jordan condemns this vicious attack and all kinds of political violence.”

Trump was shot in the right ear but is fine, with the FBI issuing a statement identifying Thomas Matthew Crooks as the suspected shooter.

King Felipe of Spain and King Abdullah of Jordan are two royals who have condemned the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump: https://t.co/IWyhbRuIyT
— Brittani Barger (@bbargerRC) July 15, 2024

The Secret Service, which handles security for past and current presidents, said the shooter fired multiple shots toward the stage from an elevated position from outside the venue. In addition to the shooter, one spectator is dead and two others were critically injured.

The incident occurred just days before Trump is to be nominated as the Republican Party candidate for the 2024 presidential election, the Turkish news agency concluded.

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UNRWA Chief: ‘…Air Filled With The Smell of Blood’

CrossFireArabia
July 14, 2024

CROOSFIREARABIA – “The air was filled with the smell of blood,” Scott Anderson, deputy humanitarian Coordinator, UNRWA Affairs Director in Gaza said during his visit to the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis.

UN official on aftermath of Mawasi attack: 'the air was filled with the smell of blood'

Scott Anderson, Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator and Director of Unrwa Affairs in Gaza has described a visit to Nasser hospital in the aftermath of the Mawasi attack, as "some of the most…
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) July 14, 2024

“Visiting the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis yesterday, I witnessed some of the most horrific scenes I have seen in my nine months in Gaza,” he added.

Shame on humanity!!!
Where are you, Security Council? Where are you, United Nations?
Director of UNRWA Gaza, Scott Anderson.
I witnessed the most horrific scenes and brutal crimes that no human being has ever seen. Corpses of children. Amputated limbs, the smell of blood.. pic.twitter.com/kdOasuLmSe
— أبو هشام (@bl66r) July 14, 2024

“This overstretched health facility admitted well over 100 of yesterday’s severe injuries. With not enough beds, hygiene equipment, sheeting, or scrubs, many patients were treated on the ground without disinfectants,” he pointed ot.

“Ventilation systems were switched off due to a lack of electricity and fuel, and the air was filled with the smell of blood,” he said according to the Palestine News Agency WAFA.

“I saw toddlers who are double amputees, children paralyzed and unable to receive treatment and others separated from their parents. I also saw mothers and fathers who were unsure if their children were alive. Parents told me in despair that they had moved into the ‘so-called humanitarian zone’ in the hope that their children would be safe there,” he said.

“Nowhere is safe in #Gaza. There have been operations & strikes across all of Gaza. One of the challenges people have is trying to find somewhere safe for them & their families.”

Scott Anderson, Director of #UNRWA Affairs in Gaza#GazaGenocide pic.twitter.com/ebSMdMFA6L
— Nourdin (@AbuJamal64741) July 11, 2024

“My colleagues from the humanitarian community are doing everything possible to increase medical capacity in Gaza, where the health system has long been on the ropes. Yesterday, we provided referral services, as well as additional tents, beds, stretchers, disposables, and medications. But impediments to humanitarian operations prevent us from supporting people anywhere near the scale necessary,” Anderson added.

“Civilians must be protected at all times. We urgently need a ceasefire, the release of all remaining hostages, respite for the people of Gaza, and a meaningful opportunity for healing to begin,” he concluded.

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Israel’s Another School Massacre in Nuseirat

CrossFireArabia
July 14, 2024

CROSSFIREARABIA – Blood everywhere, torn limbs, mutilated bodies, people screaming. This is Israel’s latest massacre in the Abu Oreiban school in the Nuseirat Camp.

According to the massare survivors the Israeli occupation aircraft first targeted the UNRWA school with a missile. As Palestinians rushed to aid the injured, a second missile struck their gathering, killing over 19 people and injuring dozens.

The total dead was later put at 21 with 70 injured with 70 percent of those injured being women and children.

https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1812522277189079289

UNRWA’s Media Advisor Adnan Abu Hasna told Al Jazeera and as stated by Palestine Chronicle that the UN agency always provides the Israeli army with the coordinates of the schools but to no avail.

This was supposed to be a “safe area” as designated by the Israeli army but it continues to be bombed just the same.

The school, located in Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, provides shelter for thousands of displaced families who have come hear from all around Gaza and clearly bears UNRWA markings.

The faces of horror ensues amidst the dozens of casualties at the Al-Nuseirat UNRWA school following the deliberate sraeli occupation bombing that repeated the massacres of displaced Palestinians happening elsewhere in the Gaza Strip.

Horror ensues amid dozens of casualties at Al-Nuseirat UNRWA school following an Israeli occupation bombing, which has resulted in the massacre of displaced Palestinians sheltering inside. pic.twitter.com/1wckw3qX7w
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) July 14, 2024

“All of the school is a mass of different human pieces, legs, arms, heads, and children cut to pieces and martyrs which you can’t count,” one displaced shouts on top of his head.

"Human remains, all of them children, are scattered everywhere"

A Palestinian man is devastated by the harrowing scenes at the UNRWA school in Al-Nuseirat refugee camp, where Israeli occupation aircraft bombarded tents housing displaced Palestinians in its yards, resulting in… pic.twitter.com/SHTT2PVcOq
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) July 14, 2024

He is repeating what everybody else is saying. All you hear is screams and endless wailing seconds after the Israeli missile landed in the middle of the school.

Graphic | Children's bodies lay scattered at the UNRWA school in Al-Nuseirat refugee camp after an Israeli bombing struck its grounds, killing and wounding dozens of displaced Palestinians seeking shelter in their tents. pic.twitter.com/2dft6YuLpn
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) July 14, 2024

The school has become chaos with people running around shouting about the other men, women and children who were just killed and murdered. “Look, look around you,” one says. “Look at the bodies, cut to pieces.”

A child was buried alive in the latest attack. After frantic digging inside the school, ordinary people and civil defense brought out the child alive amidst the caked rubble and cement that surrounded his body.

https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1812475173531955357

As a blink of an eye, many were killed and injured. “We were sitting down here, when we heard a loud thud and there were shrapnel everywhere with broken glass all around and martyrs scattered everywhere,” said one displaced lady.

It one more massacre daily committed by the Israeli army and warplanes. Nobody knows when will this stop but they keep hoping and praying.

Analyses

Senseless Massacre in Al Mawasi – UN Reports

CrossFireArabia
July 14, 2024

The UN health agency and partners are helping treat many of those injured during Saturday’s deadly airstrikes by Israeli forces on Gaza’s Al Mawasi area which have reportedly left at least 90 dead and around 300 injured, according to figures from the war-torn enclave’s health ministry.

The UN Secretary-General António Guterres said via his Spokesperson late on Saturday that he was “shocked and saddened by the loss of lives”.

Israeli officials said the attack had been a “precision” strike targeting top Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif and his deputy Rafa Salama.

Z!0 sniper drones killed ALL the medics trying to reach the site

Almawasi Massacre
Khanyounis 13.7.2024 pic.twitter.com/E4VNBAjDqu
— Dr. Mustafa Elmasri (@Gaza_Psych) July 14, 2024

The strike took place close to the city of Khan Younis in an area reportedly designated by the Israeli military as a safe zone for civilians.

‘Nowhere is safe in Gaza’

UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said that reports indicated the attack had taken place in a densely populated area “designated as a humanitarian zone sheltering displaced people.”

“This underscores that nowhere is safe in Gaza”, he stressed. “The Secretary-General condemns the killing of civilians, including women and children.”

Look at what Butcher Biden did to innocent worshippers in Al Shati Camp today… Not to mention the U.S. bombs dropped on Al Mawasi area slaughtering 71 Palestinian civilians… Let’s “rather” talk about that. pic.twitter.com/gfibR7rl8v
— Suribelle (@Syribelle) July 13, 2024

The Secretary-General underlined once again that there must be an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, with all hostages released “immediately and unconditionally.”

In a post on X, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that 134 “severely injured people” had been admitted to the nearby Nasser Medical Complex “which is extremely overwhelmed by the influx”.

Multiple hospitals treating the injured

WHO staffers are at the hospital along with two emergency medical teams helping to treat the injured, he continued.

“We have dispatched 50 foldable beds and 50 stretchers to increase the hospital’s capacity while our prepositioned medicines and trauma supplies are being used to save lives.”

Some of the injured have also been taken to a field hospital run by the International Medical Corps in Deir Al Balah where WHO supplies have been provided to meet the urgent needs of around 120 others. Other NGO field hospitals have also received patients in need of urgent treatment, he said.

Senior Communications Officer for the UN refugee agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) Louise Wateridge, tweeted harrowing video from Al Nasser hospital on Saturday afternoon local time where workers were “mopping up pools of blood with water alone.”

She described children lying on blood stained matresses “traumatised from losing siblings. Some had lost limbs. Many had life changing injuries.”

Dropping a 2000Ib bomb on a so called safe zone in Al Mawasi RC is a war crime: pic.twitter.com/aa1q8aal3U
— PalMedia (@PalBint) July 14, 2024

‘Senseless massacre’

The independent UN expert who monitors human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese, said in a post on X that she was “horrified” at the deaths and injuries sustained during the strikes on what an Israeli military official said was an operational Hamas compound, in an “open area”.

Hamas said it was “false” that Israel had targeted it’s two top military commanders.

Of the Israeli attack which she said was “yet another senseless massacre” of civilians, Special Rapporteur Albanese tweeted “The justification is always the same: ‘targeting Palestinian militants’.”

Officials from Gaza’s civil defence authority also reported that at least 20 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on a prayer centre inside the Shati camp for the displaced, to the west of Gaza City on Saturday.

UN News

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Shot 355 Times! Israel Fears Little Hind

CrossFireArabia
July 14, 2024

Her name is Hind Rajab, a six-year-old girl who was killed by the Israelis while hiding in a car.

@MohsinnaqviC42 #عہد_نبھاؤ_غزہ_بچاؤ #GazaGenocide‌
This is Hind Rajab her car was shot 355 times. pic.twitter.com/KLM0fyZrHi
— Raheem Ahmed (@RW9846) July 13, 2024

Unbelievable is the fact car was riddled with 355 bullets from an Israeli tank that kept pounding at the car with no mercy.

The 3hr conversation between Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) dispatcher, Rana al-Faqeh, & 6 yr old Hind Rajab.

“I’m so scared, please come,” were some of her last words. pic.twitter.com/WF4wKGgCf9
— F I R A S (@firasshams1) February 11, 2024

She was finally shot while surrounded by her unarmed dead relatives, an uncle, an aunt, three cousins who were fleeing Gaza city’s Tal Al Hawa at the end of January 2024.

Hind Rajab was shot 355 times
Hind Rajab was shot 355 times
Hind Rajab was shot 355 times
Hind Rajab was shot 355 times
Hind Rajab was shot 355 times
Hind Rajab was shot 355 times
Hind Rajab was shot 355 times
Hind Rajab was shot 355 times https://t.co/wvJfOO9Yht
— FMS Studio (@FMSStudio87) July 11, 2024

The bodies of Hind and two paramedics who were sent to rescue her were found on 10 February, 2024. The story of the Killing of Hind Rajab is recounted at length on Wikipedia and many others have investigated the terrible incident in the following months.

The 6 year old Palestinian child Hind Rajab became the Palestinian Anne Frank. Her body was found after missing for 12 days in the same car where 6 of her family members were killed by Israeli army. She begged for hours for help while stuck with the dead bodies of her family. pic.twitter.com/XtWP2OQZRg
— Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti (@MustafaBarghou1) February 10, 2024

Her name and images have continued to make headlines on the social media with a #HindRajab tag since then, and because of the horrific nature of the killing as her body was found 12 days after she was killed with shocking audiotapes recalling her final moments, all alone, as she was killed with Israeli bullets.

Imagined: While the Israeli tank was shooting at them, one-cousin remained with her, 15-year-old Layan Hamdeh. When she was killed by more bullets, she was talking to officers in the Palestine Red Crescent Society. Then Hind picked up the phone and was told to keep hiding in the car.

'Hind Rajab'

The car was shot 355 times by the Israeli Defence forces in which a family was driving with this 6 years girl.

355 times.

'And people are still discussing about whom Isreal actually is fighting?' pic.twitter.com/D1q7nPwksX
— Gabbar (@Gabbar0099) July 8, 2024

Israel denied responsibility but all the evidence suggest it was their bullets. Today the “shot 355 times” continues to dominate the social media with the “6-year-old hiding in a car annihilated by an Israeli tank”.