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Israel Kills 1,200 Civilians in 27 Days

CrossFireArabia
November 1, 2024

Director-General of the Gaza Health Ministry Dr. Munir Al-Barash said “the Israeli occupation army killed more than 1,200 Palestinians in the North Gaza Governorate” in the last 27 days.

Al-Barash added the occupation army continues to commit massacres and target shelters and civilians in Beit Lahia and Jabalia, leaving dozens of martyrs and injured with an exhausted health system.

Al-Barash pointed out Israeli soldiers are carrying out all forms of killing and destruction because of the absence of any monitoring and/or the holding of any Israelis to account for these crimes.

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“The occupation army is preventing the entry of medical supplies into northern Gaza and imposing a siege on the Kamal Adwan, Al-Awda, and Indonesian hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip.”

On 5 October, the Israeli occupation army began unprecedented bombing of the Jabalia camp and town and large areas in the northern Gaza Strip, before invading them the next day under the pretext of “preventing Hamas from regaining its strength,” while Palestinians say that Israel wants to occupy the area and displace its residents.

Since 7 October, 2023, Israel, with full American support, has been waging a war on Gaza, resulting in more than 144,000 Palestinian being killed and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world according to Jordan24.

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US, Germany Complicit in Israel’s Gaza Genocide

CrossFireArabia
October 30, 2024

The Israeli army’s massacre in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, has already claimed a horrifying number of lives. Along with the occupying state, those nations who provide the Israeli army with weapons or keep quiet about its crime of genocide must also be held accountable.

The Euro-Med Monitor field team documented the bombing by Israeli aircraft of a five-storey residential building in Beit Lahia this morning (Tuesday 29 October). Owned by the Nasr family, the building housed approximately 200 displaced civilians, and was totally destroyed over the heads of its residents.

According to one of the survivors of the massacre, the building was completely destroyed by Israeli aircraft at five in the morning. The 200 people living there had been displaced from the Jabalia refugee camp and other neighbourhoods in northern Gaza after their homes and shelters were targeted by Israeli forces, and all of them were civilians with no ties to any militant groups.

Germany's Holocaust guilt cannot be a perpetual green light for the Zionist entity to commit genocide. It is complicit in Gaza Genocide. When will it end?https://t.co/08B4cnb6Qh pic.twitter.com/NXcSGpD8LY
— Media Review Network (@MRN1SA) October 30, 2024

While the man who spoke with Euro-Med Monitor survived after being pushed into a neighbour’s home dozens of metres away by the force of the explosion, his wife and four children were killed. He also suffered injuries all over his body. Dozens of victims remain trapped beneath the debris, he said, but some of the other residents managed to move him to Kamal Adwan Hospital, where he has been waiting for hours to be moved to Al-Awda Hospital for surgery, without success.

According to preliminary reports, the occupation army used a 908-kilogram American MK-84 bomb to target the residential building, crushing it on top of the occupants. The approximately 200 people in the building had sought shelter there following Israel’s illegal evacuation orders and destruction and burning of shelters in the Beit Lahia project, Jabalia, and Jabalia’s camp, and he noted that many victims of today’s attack were crudely recovered by the local population due to the suspension of ambulance and civil defence services in northern Gaza because of repeated Israeli attacks. The bodies of about 93 victims were recovered by the area’s residents, and dozens more are still missing and stuck under the rubble.

Israeli aircraft also conducted a raid on the area around Beit Lahia’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, where the occupation forces arrested the majority of the medical staff during last Friday’s hospital storming, leaving only the director working with the assistance of a single doctor.

In addition to using German mines in the northern Gaza Strip, the Israeli army has regularly used the German “Matador” weapon to bomb and burn homes and kill Palestinians.

According to international law, particularly the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Israel has been committing genocide in the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023, and the United States and Germany have been complicit in this crime by repeatedly sending Israel their weapons to massacre Palestinian civilians in large numbers and demolish their homes.

One of the most repulsive examples of racism and moral and political corruption on a worldwide scale is the disregard displaced by the international community and international justice systems over the course of the past year. The death toll has climbed from dozens to hundreds and then thousands without a single serious position being issued, and with many governments—particularly powerful Western allies of Israel—normalising the daily killings and massacres.

Since civilians do not endanger the lives of occupying forces, they are protected by international humanitarian law if they choose to stay in their homes or neighbourhoods during armed conflicts. According to Euro-Med Monitor’s investigations, the purpose of Israel’s killings and destruction is to eradicate the Palestinian people through massacre and forced relocation, not for any military purpose.

Euro-Med Monitor reiterates that, according to international humanitarian law, civilians who are unable or unwilling to leave a particular area are still entitled to the special protection that the law provides for them as civilians; their presence in any area does not absolve Israel of its obligation to provide and uphold this protection.

The international community and the United Nations must act right away to save hundreds of thousands of people living in the northern Gaza Strip; put an end to Israel’s second consecutive year of genocide across the entire Strip; impose a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel; hold it responsible and punish it for all of its crimes; and take all necessary steps to protect Palestinian civilians in the region.

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Israel Kills 1000 Palestinians in North Gaza

CrossFireArabia
October 28, 2024

The Israeli army has killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in northern Gaza, forced half of the population to flee from bombardments, and left the other half trapped without water or food for nearly three weeks, the Palestinian Civil Defense announced on Sunday.

Mahmoud Bassal, a spokesman for Palestinian Civil Defense, said in a video shared on social media that the Israeli army has killed over 1,000 Palestinians during its three-week-long military offensives in northern Gaza, which are still ongoing.

'Beyond catastrophic1: Israel ‘strangles’ north #Gaza, kills 640 in 17 days.
At least 33 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks throughout Gaza since dawn, including 18 in Jabalia refugee camp as the forced expulsion by troops in the north continues.#Israel is a wild beast. pic.twitter.com/G0UQSv9MMK
— "Solidarity is a verb" (@SaveSJarrah) October 21, 2024

“More than 100,000 Palestinians in the areas of Jabalia, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahia are suffering from an Israeli siege and bombardment, while the other half of the population, which numbered around 200,000, has been forcibly displaced towards Gaza City, the closest governorate to the north,” Bassal told Anadolu.

He continued: “The Israeli army is killing anyone who tries to provide aid to the Palestinians trapped in the northern Gaza Strip, who are suffering from a lack of water, medicine, and food.”

“The Israeli occupation is practicing a policy of ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza amid international silence,” Bassal lamented according to Anadolu.

He urged international and humanitarian organizations “to work immediately and urgently to save the Palestinians in northern Gaza.”

The Israeli army has continued a devastating offensive on the Gaza Strip since a Hamas attack last year, despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire.

Nearly 43,000 people have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 100,000 others injured, according to local health authorities.

The Israeli onslaught has displaced almost the territory’s entire population amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food, clean water, and medicine.

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Israel Kills, Bombs Shelters, Hospitals to Evacuate North Gaza

CrossFireArabia
October 23, 2024

Israel is systematically and extensively working to drive out the Palestinian population and forcibly displace them from their residential areas in the northern Gaza Strip, using massacres, mass killings, bombings of hospitals and shelters, and the destruction of basic necessities of life. Euro-Med Monitor notes that the basic necessities of life across the Strip, particularly in the north, have already been deteriorating for 12 months.

On-the-ground Massacres

The Israeli army’s on-the-ground massacres show that the plan to rid the land of its people and eradicate the Palestinian presence is moving forward at an unprecedented pace. Locals who are unable or unwilling to leave their homes are viewed as “terrorists” and are subject to direct targeting and killing.

Along with the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip, where Israeli aircraft dropped leaflets on Tuesday morning, October 22, urging residents of Beit Lahia, including those in shelters and hospitals, to forcibly evacuate and head towards the Indonesian Hospital in Jabalia, where the occupation forces set up a checkpoint before forcing the residents to leave northern Gaza, as happened over the past two days with thousands of people in the shelters surrounding the Indonesian Hospital, the Israeli occupation army also increased the scope and intensity of its military operations to include the Beit Lahia project.

The Israeli army ordered the evacuation of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Beit Lahia project, which houses the greatest number of victims of the Israeli aggression, after the medical staff refused to evacuate it during the initial days of the previous aggression. Israel’s latest forced displacement order includes the hospital.

No Medical Supplies

The hospital’s operations are severely hampered by a shortage of medical supplies and blood units, ongoing shelling in the area, and the exhaustion of medical personnel from treating hundreds of dying and injured people over the course of 18 days.

The majority of the shelter centres in the Jabalia and Jabalia camps have been bombed by Israeli forces, who also targeted the displaced people while they were responding to the displacement orders and evacuation plans. This targeting was repeated yesterday (Monday 21 October), when the Al-Fawqa schools were targeted, resulting in the killing of 17 Palestinians and the injury of numerous others.

The Israeli occupation army tightened the noose around the Beit Lahia project after many Jabalia residents who were unwilling to leave the area sought refuge there. The occupation army enforced a siege on the Beit Lahia project with fire and demanded that its residents and the displaced people sheltering there leave.

Systematic Destruction

The Israeli occupation army is also systematically destroying water stations, bakeries, streets, and agricultural lands—some of which were replanted to accommodate the population’s needs after the entry of any vegetables was prohibited in recent months—in the northern Gaza Strip.

In Beit Lahia’s Al-Shimaa neighbourhood, the Israeli occupation army killed three farmers, including agricultural engineer Youssef Saqr Abu Rabie. Months ago, Abu Rabie started an agricultural project in the northern Gaza Strip to combat the Israeli-imposed famine.

Over the course of the last 18 days, the Israeli army has destroyed and burned hundreds of homes in northern Gaza, particularly in the Jabalia camp. Nearly 700 people have been killed and over a thousand have been injured, and many more are still trapped under the debris of their homes and in shelters that have been targeted. Because of the Israeli siege and the imposition of a travel ban, it is impossible to recover these victims and evacuate them to safety.

Given that the Israeli army is carrying out systematic and widespread mass and individual killings; a deliberate starvation campaign; mass forced displacements; and the complete destruction of what remains of the most basic necessities of life, the United Nations must declare the northern Gaza Strip a disaster area that requires immediate interventions. It should also compel Israel to stop the genocide and protect civilians in the north and across the entire Gaza Strip. Euro-Med Monitor emphasises that the international community, including the UN, is complicit in the most heinous of crimes—genocide—because the vast majority of its members have not moved to actually put a stop to what is happening.

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Famine Rocks Gaza to The Bone

CrossFireArabia
October 23, 2024

Severe famine is spreading in southern Gaza due to the intensified Israeli blockade and attacks, preventing the entry of essential food supplies.

Severe famine is spreading in southern Gaza due to the intensified Israeli blockade and attacks, preventing the entry of essential food supplies. pic.twitter.com/Uui4cMkyQr
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) October 23, 2024

Israel has permitted only four out of 66 planned humanitarian aid missions to northern Gaza during the first 20 days of October, with no food aid allowed for 14 days, the UN humanitarian office (OCHA) said.

OCHA spokesman Jens Laerke detailed a severe deterioration in humanitarian access, revealing that Israeli authorities rejected 28 requests and blocked seven others for coordinated aid movements to Beit Hanoun, Jabalia, and Beit Lahiya regions in northern Gaza.

“For the first two weeks of October, 85% of the movements (aid attempts) were denied,” Laerke told Anadolu in a written response, highlighting the increasingly dire situation in northern Gaza.

During a visit on Oct. 19, an OCHA team found extreme overcrowding in northern Gaza, with some displaced persons forced to live in restrooms due to severe shelter shortages, Laerke said.

Israel blocks humanitarian aid to northern Gaza: UN https://t.co/3BQ2nvWTXb
— Joe Catron (@jncatron) October 23, 2024

Laerke described a particularly challenging incident where a joint team from the UN, an international NGO, and the Palestine Red Crescent Society made nine attempts before finally reaching Kamal Adwan and Al-Sahaba Maternity hospitals on Oct. 12, facing multiple rejections and obstacles from Israeli forces.

The humanitarian crisis has deepened following Israel’s ground operations in Rafah, with aid deliveries dropping dramatically. “For all entry points, the daily average of humanitarian truckloads in September (54) was only a third of what it was in April (165),” Laerke noted.

Distribution of the limited aid faces multiple obstacles, including damaged roads, forced displacement blocking main supply routes, rejected coordination requests, overcrowding, and lack of public order.

“Gaza is also the world’s most dangerous place for the UN and its partners to operate,” Laerke emphasized, citing the deaths of 300 colleagues and the bombing of warehouses. He added that roads are damaged and littered with unexploded ordnance.

Despite these challenging conditions, humanitarian workers continue their efforts to deliver life-saving assistance to Palestinians in Gaza wherever possible, though the situation remains critically undersupplied and increasingly dangerous for aid workers, Laerke said.

The Israeli army has continued a devastating offensive on the Gaza Strip since a Hamas attack last year, despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire.

More than 42,700 people have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 100,300 others injured, according to local health authorities.

The Israeli onslaught on Gaza has displaced almost the territory’s entire population amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food, clean water, and medicine.

Israel faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its actions in Gaza.