Israeli Drone Kills Journalist Mahmood Abu Daqqa in Khan Yunis

CROSSFIREARABIA – Israel kills another Palestinian journalist, morning Tuesday, in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip with his name trending.

Mohammad Majed Abu Daqqa was killed in central Khan Younis near the Abu Hamid roundabout.

He was one of four other civilians including Seraj Munir Musa Asfour, Abdelatif Ghaemi Baraka, and Samir Shadi Al Jourani.

They had been sitting on the sidewalk, unarmed with nothing but a can of beans they got for their families.

This is what one blogger wrote about the slain journalist who was targeted for no apparent reason.

Another blogging said it was almost as he was waiting for the inevitability of his fate, writing:

Another wrote: “May God grant Mohammad Abu Daqqa and all the martyrs The Highest Paradise. Ameen. We must do something to stop the bloodshed in that country immediately. Stop Genocide. Free Palestine.”

He becomes journalist no 165 to be targeted and killed by Israel since 7 October, 2023

The Israeli army has killed 39,363 since last 7 October, the Gaza Health Ministry in the enclave said on Monday.

A ministry statement added that some 90,923 other people have been injured as well with over 11,000 still under the rubble.

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Israel Commits School Massacre While World Watches

“We are appalled at yet another deadly massacre at a school in central Gaza where desperate families have been ordered to shelter,” stated the Islamic Relief organization, Sunday.

Reports indicate that at least 30 people are killed and over 100 injured at the school in Deir al Balah, with infant children among the dead and hospitals swamped with casualties. Such atrocities against civilians have become almost daily occurrences in Gaza, the organization stated.

Israel’s policy of constantly forcing civilians to move from one place to another, and then attacking the schools and camps where they are told to go, is inhumane and causing unprecedented death and trauma, Islamic relief added.

It is making the humanitarian crisis even more catastrophic by the day. Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to move time and again over the past few weeks, with many families now displaced 9 or 10 times since the crisis escalated,” Islamic Relief pointed out.

Around 83% of Gaza is now subject to Israeli so-called ‘evacuation orders’ or no-go military zones, with over 2 million people forced into ever smaller areas where they cannot access food, clean water or sanitation, and where they face the constant threat of further attack.

International governments must demand an immediate ceasefire and an end to the constant forced displacement and attacks on fleeing civilians, and ensure accountability for such actions, it ended its statement.

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Israeli Soldier Commits Suicide on Nahariya Beach

Israeli media revealed that an Israeli soldier committed suicide, Saturday, at the beach in Nahariya, north of Israel.

The Hebrew website Hadashot Bezman stated the soldier who took his life was from the reserve forces and he had been fighting in Gaza.

Earlier, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed that 10 occupation officers and soldiers committed suicide since 7 October, 2023. It said a number of them  committed suicide in  the battles in the settlements surrounding Gaza according to the Arabic Quds Press website.

The Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, had announced it rescued an Israeli prisoner from trying to take away his life at his place of captivity in the Gaza Strip.

In mid-March, the Israeli army acknowledged that it had been facing the biggest problem in mental health since 1973 because of the Israeli-waged war in Gaza  since the start of the Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa.

According to Israeli army figures, 688 soldiers and officers were killed since the beginning of the war on 7 October, including 328 in ground battles in Gaza. The army’s data also indicates that 2,147 soldiers were wounded in ground battles in the Strip.

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Erdogan Threatens to Invade Occupied Palestine

CEOSSFIREARABIA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey can use its force and enter into occupied Palestine to deter Israel from its aggression against the Palestinians.

Such a statement made by the Turkish president during a rally of his ruling Justice and Development Party, Sunday the Reza Province, north othe country.

It quickly became trending news on the social media.

“We must be very strong so that Israel can’t do these things to Palestine. Just as we entered Karabakh, just as we entered Libya, we might do the same to them. There is nothing we cannot do. Only we must be strong”, he said according to the Quds News Network.

Blogger Adham Abu Selmiya  says Erdogan’s speech is very, very important, quoting in translated form saying:

“This is the language the Zionist enemy understands… It is inconceivable for nations to let the Palestinian people be slaughtered from vein to vein without strong positions. We have been saying from day one that nations and its regimes can at least impose a no-fly zone to stop these massacres.”

Another  blogger simply posted “What is he waiting for”

His comments quickly irked the Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz who wrote: “Erdogan is following in Saddam Hussein’s footsteps and threatening to attack Israel. He just needs to remember what happened there and how it ended.”

One Palestinian website points out that Katz’s comments proves that the Iraq war was an Israel one and not an American initiated.

And “also ondicates a direct threat to use the Americans to fight for Israel in Turkey if Erdogna’s statement were to be implented.”

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Golan Heights: Who is Dragging Who Into War?

The UN mission in Lebanon warned on Sunday of a “wider conflagration” between Israel and Hezbollah following a deadly attack on the town of Majdal Shams in occupied Golan Heights, according to Anadolu.

In a joint statement, UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL) Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, and head of UN Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) Gen. Aroldo Lazaro Saenz, condemned “the death of civilians – young children and teenagers – in Majdal Shams.”

They urged “the parties to exercise maximum restraint and to put a stop to the ongoing intensified exchanges of fire.”

“It could ignite a wider conflagration that would engulf the entire region in a catastrophe beyond belief,” they added.

Israeli authorities say at least 12 people were killed and 35 injured as a rocket struck a football field in the town of Druze in Majdal Shams, northern part of Golan Heights.

Israel accused Hezbollah for the attack, but the Lebanese group has denied responsibility.

Israel and Hezbollah have traded cross-border fire since the Gaza conflict in October, leading to fears of an all-out war.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said they will ensure that Hezbollah “pays a price,” the Turkish news agency reports.

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