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Israel, Nazism and The Murder of 20 Palestinians

CrossFireArabia
August 27, 2025

The Israeli army’s double-tap strike at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis today shows blatant disregard for international humanitarian law and epitomises the ongoing genocide in Gaza since October 2023.

At around 10:00 a.m. on Monday, 25 August, an Israeli airstrike on the fourth floor of Building C (Emergency) at Nasser Medical Complex killed Reuters cameraman Hussam al-Masri and at least one other civilian. Several minutes later, as citizens and civil defence workers searched for survivors and journalists covered the incident, the army struck again with a direct bomb, killing and wounding rescue crews and journalists.

According to preliminary data, the attack killed 20 people, including Dr Mohammed al-Habibi and five journalists: Hussam al-Masri, a Reuters cameraman; Mohammed Salama, an Al Jazeera photographer; Mariam Abu Daqa, a journalist working with The Independent Arabic and Associated Press; Moaz Abu Taha, a freelance journalist; and Ahmed Abu Aziz, a local journalist. Civil Defence firefighter Abdullah al-Shaer and other civilians were also killed. At least ten others, including journalists and Civil Defence workers, were injured.

Euro-Med Monitor’s field team reported seeing an Israeli surveillance drone flying at low altitude over Nasser Medical Complex before the attack, providing further evidence that it was deliberate and intelligence-guided, with precise information collected about the site and the victims.

Israel killed a doctor, a firefighter, five journalists, and other civilians in a single attack, underscoring its intent to eradicate Palestinian society in Gaza by targeting its foundations and components as part of the genocide ongoing for over 22 months.

This attack is not an isolated incident, but part of a recurring and documented policy carried out in several locations during the genocide. Euro-Med Monitor’s field team has recorded dozens of cases where Israeli forces deliberately used double-tap strikes, a tactic designed not only to maximise civilian casualties but also to target civil defence teams, paramedics, and journalists responding to the initial attack. This practice turns rescue sites and media coverage into deadly traps, clearly reflecting a premeditated intent to paralyse relief efforts, silence witnesses, destroy evidence, and strip civilians of protection, even in medical facilities meant to be safeguarded under international law.

The attack constitutes a complex, full-fledged crime, involving the targeting of a protected medical facility, the killing of a doctor and journalists on duty, the targeting of patients during rescue efforts, and the killing and injuring of civil defense personnel while performing search and rescue duties. It represents a deliberate assault on persons and objects afforded special protection under international humanitarian law and, in itself, amounts to a war crime and a crime against humanity.

This crime is part of a broader systematic policy targeting Palestinians’ basic necessities and means of protection, including the killing of doctors and patients, the destruction of health facilities, the silencing of journalists, and the obstruction of rescue efforts. It demonstrates a deliberate intent to inflict collective harm and deprive society of its means of survival, placing these practices at the core of genocide.

Enforcing international humanitarian law is essential to protect Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, guaranteeing special and effective protection for medical personnel, rescue teams, and journalists, enabling them to perform their duties without threat, and safeguarding health facilities from military attacks.

The international community’s silence on Israel’s genocide has provided cover for the continued commission of crimes against Palestinian civilians and has effectively denied protection to persons and objects explicitly safeguarded under international humanitarian law, including hospitals, medical facilities, humanitarian personnel, and journalists.

The UN General Assembly must urgently act under Resolution 377 (V) “Uniting for Peace” to establish and deploy an international peacekeeping force in the Gaza Strip. This step is necessary to end crimes against civilians, guarantee their protection, secure unhindered access to humanitarian aid, safeguard medical and relief facilities, and stop the systematic targeting of such facilities. Activating this mechanism is both a legal and moral duty of the international community to protect over two million people in Gaza from ongoing genocide and grave violations.

All states, individually and collectively, must fulfil their legal obligations and act urgently to stop this genocide in Gaza, taking every feasible measure to protect Palestinian civilians there. They must enforce Israel’s adherence to international law and the rulings of the International Court of Justice and hold Israel accountable for its crimes against Palestinians.

This includes, without waiver, enforcing the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court for the Israeli Prime Minister and former Minister of Defence at the earliest opportunity and surrendering them to international justice, upholding the principle that no one is immune from prosecution for international crimes.

The international community must also impose economic, diplomatic, and military sanctions on Israel in response to its systematic and grave violations of international law. This includes banning weapons exports to Israel and halting arms purchases from it; suspending all forms of political, financial, and military support and cooperation; freezing the assets of officials involved in crimes against Palestinians or inciting such acts; and imposing travel bans on them. Moreover, trade privileges and bilateral agreements that grant Israel economic advantages, enabling it to commit crimes, must be suspended.

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Israel Kills 4 Journalists as It Bombs Gaza Hospital

CrossFireArabia
August 25, 2025

Israeli warplanes killed four journalists, Monday morning as they targeted the Nasser Medical Hospital in Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli bombing killed Al Jazeera cameraman Mohammed Salama, photo-journalist Hossam al-Masry, journalist Mariam Abu Daqqa, and journalist Moaz Abu Taha.

The targeting also killed 11 other Palestinians and wounded dozens of others according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

The bombing directly targeted the fourth floor of the Nasser Hospital, with a second attack on the Yassin building inside the Nasser complex through an Israeli a suicide drone.

3 journalists have been just killed in Gaza.

Including Mariam Abu Daqqa. pic.twitter.com/dq299Y99Dw
— Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 (@MuhammadSmiry) August 25, 2025

The Gaza Civil Defense added one of its personnel was killed and seven others wounded while attempting to rescue the injured and retrieve the bodies of the victims in the bombing of the hospital.

The deadly attack comes amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since 7 October, amid UN warnings of the complete collapse of the health system.

According to Government Media Office statistics Israel killed 244 Palestinian journalists in Gaza, the latest of whom were the four journalists killed, Monday, in the bombing of Nasser Medical Complex.

The government media office called on “the international community, international organizations, and organizations involved in journalism and media in all countries of the world to condemn the crimes of the occupation, deter it, prosecute it in international courts for its ongoing crimes, and bring the occupation’s criminals to justice.”

It also called for serious and effective pressure to stop the crime of genocide, protect journalists and media professionals in the Gaza Strip, and halt their killing and assassination, according to a statement from the Government Media Office.

With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international appeals and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.

The Israeli genocide left more than 62,000 Palestinians dead, approximately 158,000 wounded—mostly children and women—more than 9,000 missing, and hundreds of thousands displaced.

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Obliterating Al Zeitoun – Israel’s Appetite For Destruction Boundless

CrossFireArabia
August 17, 2025

“The situation was terrifying. I clutched my daughter as we walked over shattered glass and rubble, surrounded by smoke, flames, and explosions everywhere. I ran without knowing where to go. God help us. Enough, world, enough.”

For six days, Israeli occupation forces have been razing the Zeitoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City, flattening approximately 400 homes with explosive-laden robots and aerial bombardment.

This wide-scale military operation mirrors similar assaults in Rafah, Khan Younis, and northern Gaza, aimed at obliterating entire communities and forcibly displacing all who remain. These actions form part of the genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Launched on 11 August, the operation represents Israel’s ongoing push to assume total and unlawful control over Gaza City. The intent is to evacuate long-standing residents and up to one million displaced individuals, most having fled northern Gaza, and confine them to isolated, small areas in the south.

Drones, specifically quadcopters, are being deployed to encircle residential blocks and coerce civilians into fleeing under armed threat. Meanwhile, ground forces advance under heavy cover fire from positions near Street 8, the Dola junction, the Barasi land and the Illiyin areas. This operation has already displaced over 90,000 residents.

Field data from Euro-Med Monitor documents targeted bombings of homes belonging to the Lubbad, al-Aidi, Dader, and Irhayyem families, resulting in nine deaths within the Irhayyem household.

Air raids also hit houses near the Bilal Bin Rabah Mosque, striking the homes of the Dalloul and al-Nassan families, the Bashir Siksik Company premises, and the Kuhail, Shahd, and Siyam residential towers. An attack near Al-Farouq Mosque destroyed the home of the al-Husari family, claiming four lives.

The Israeli forces demolished dozens of homes along Street 8 and at the start of the Hassan al-Banna area. Tents housing displaced members of the Hunaideq family were also bombarded, resulting in seven deaths. Additional structures impacted include those near the University College of Applied Sciences (UCAS), the Al-Falah and Ain Jalut schools, and a charity-run shelter on Albasateen Street, killing eight more civilians. A strike on the Abu Daff family home resulted in 12 fatalities.

Artillery and air strikes continue to pound the areas of Hassan al-Banna, Al-Musalaba, UCAS, Al-Nadeem, and Almadaris Street. Civilians killed near Ain Jalut School and Badr Mosque (not to be confused with the one in Rafah) remain unrecovered due to ongoing bombardment. An airstrike also struck the Al-Huwaiti building in the Old City near Katib al-Wilaya Mosque, killing a mother and her young daughter, and even targeting nearby open ground.

In her testimony to the Euro-Med Monitor, 45-year-old Um Raid said: “We fled before dawn with the children, carrying nothing, as bullets whistled above our heads and bombs shook the ground, leaving behind what remained of our home and all we owned.”

Meanwhile, 33-year-old Mohammad D. described how he had no choice but to flee with his family after a “quadcopter drone” began firing randomly. He said, “I couldn’t even grab my children’s birth certificates. Aircraft roared overhead, armoured vehicles closed in, and I felt we would die if we stayed a minute longer.”

Another resident, 29-year-old Sahar L., who lived near the Bilal Bin Rabah Mosque, recounted, “The situation was terrifying. I clutched my daughter as we walked over shattered glass and rubble, surrounded by smoke, flames, and explosions everywhere. I ran without knowing where to go. God help us. Enough, world, enough.”

Almost half the homes in the Zeitoun neighbourhood were demolished without any documented military necessity, as no fighting had recently taken place there. The destruction was caused by the systematic use of automatic explosives and explosive-laden robots after residents had been forcibly displaced. This pattern shows the intent was not military but to erase infrastructure and force Palestinians into displacement.

The widespread destruction in Zeitoun, the largest neighbourhood in Gaza, is part of a deliberate Israeli policy: completing a campaign of genocide and erasing Palestinian urban life through the total destruction of homes, infrastructure, and access to basic livelihoods.

The international community, including the United Nations and global legal bodies, must intervene urgently to halt the massacres, protect civilians, and hold Israeli leaders accountable for these heinous crimes against the civilian population.

Israel’s ongoing attacks and territorial expansion threaten to unleash unprecedented mass slaughter in Gaza, destroying the already fragile humanitarian response and cementing a new chapter of systemic Israeli genocide. These attacks are not sudden battlefield escalations but calculated policies, and the international community, through its silence, financial backing, and political cover, bears full responsibility for the resulting crimes and tragedies.

States and organisations must exert maximum pressure on Israel to halt the crime of starvation and immediately push for the resumption of humanitarian access by ending the illegal siege of the Gaza Strip. This is the only way to stem the fast-deteriorating humanitarian crisis and ensure the entry of essential aid and supplies amid the looming threat of famine.

Safe humanitarian corridors, under UN supervision, must be established to guarantee the delivery of food, medicine, and fuel to all parts of the Strip, with independent international monitors deployed to ensure compliance. At the same time, rapid rehabilitation of Gaza’s agricultural and livestock sectors must begin as part of both emergency relief and long-term recovery efforts.

All States, individually and collectively, must fulfil their legal obligations and act urgently to stop this genocide in Gaza, taking every feasible measure to protect Palestinian civilians there. They must enforce Israel’s adherence to international law and the rulings of the International Court of Justice and hold Israel accountable for its crimes against Palestinians.

Euromed Human Rights Monitor

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Airdrop Box Kills Boy in Gaza

CrossFireArabia
August 9, 2025

This is the fourth reported killed in as many days as large boxes came crushing down, including that of an 11-year-old boy and a nurse

A 14-year-old Palestinian boy was killed and several people were injured Saturday when an aid box dropped by air fell on them in central Gaza, marking the fourth such fatal accident in recent days, medical sources said.

The sources told Anadolu that Muhannad Eid died after being struck in the head by a box in the Al-Nuwairi Hill area, west of the Nuseirat refugee camp. He was taken to Al-Awda Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The exact number of injured was not immediately available.

Saturday’s tragedy follows three similar incidents since multiple countries began parachuting aid into Gaza on July 16, amid an Israeli blockade that has pushed the enclave into famine.

In the early hours of the same day, another Palestinian died from injuries sustained a day earlier when a box hit him in Gaza City’s Al-Yarmouk area. On Monday, a nurse was killed when a box crashed onto his tent in Al-Zawaida, while an 11-year-old boy died Wednesday in Khan Younis in the same way.

Palestinian officials and humanitarian groups say air-drops are far less effective than land deliveries and have caused chaos, damage, and deaths.

Israel has kept all Gaza crossings closed since March 2, blocking aid convoys despite hundreds of trucks waiting at the border. Only small amounts have been allowed in, far below the level needed to avert famine.

The World Food Program says one-third of Gaza’s population has gone several days without eating, calling the situation “unprecedented” in its levels of hunger and desperation. The UN estimates hundreds of aid trucks must enter daily to end the famine caused by the Israeli blockade and war.

Israel has been facing mounting outrage over its deadly war on Gaza, where more than 61,300 people have been killed since October 2023. The military campaign has devastated the enclave and brought it to the verge of famine.

Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.

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Starvation in The Gaza Genocide

CrossFireArabia
July 20, 2025

Gaza is starving. There has never been like it in this Israeli-induced and enforced genocide that has now been going on for about 19 months and counting.

People are literally falling in the streets and in front of the television cameras because of the biting hunger that doesn’t seem to end at the hands of a merciless Israeli enemy.

Of the people who manage to get to the dilapidated and destroyed hospitals they are dropping off on the doors of these institutions with many losing consciousness and even shrieking the last breath of death. And people die while the people in the world looks on with lavish feasts.

UNRWA says Israeli is systematically and willfully starving the Palestinian population into submission; they want them either dead or expel from their ancestral homes in the Gaza Strip. The UN refugee organization says that up to 1 million children are threatened with death through starvation. These figures are given as they are the most natural thing in the world.

This is one of the worst periods of the genocide as Arab and Israeli makers meet in Doha and elsewhere try to end this nightmare but to no avail as politics over-rides common sense and decency.

Dr Mohammad Abu Salmiyah, director of the Al Shifa Hospital says that neither patients nor medical staff nor ancillary personnel in the whole of the Gaza hospitals, which number 36 in total, have had anything to eat in the last 24 hours.

Al Jazeera correspondent Anis Alsharif says neither him nor the other anchors have had a bite to eat since Saturday afternoon because there isn’t any. People around here walk aimless until their last breath of death. Yet people, except for the frail seems to go on, as if their is an ordained hand telling, forcing them to go on.

The Israelis have refused to let anything into Gaza since last March when they realized that there was a possibility that Palestinians would flourish again; and this is after they threw on them around 100,000 tons of bombs, facilitated by their American benefactors – a situation that begun soon after, 7 October, 2023.

There is simply no food into the strip thanks to Israel. Even animal fodder, which Gazans had been reduced to eating in order to survive in the first period of starvation in 2024 and early 2025, has run out. Then fodder like wheat and barely was eaten to survive, but this appears to be the end game.

In this brave new world of starvation and famine, food has become a scarce, nay, non-existent commodity because of Israeli policies to beat the Palestinians with but they will not win despite the evil intentions.

UNRWA continues to appeal to the international community to force Israel to lift its tight and claustrophobic siege on Gaza and let the aid, food and medicine into the strip. Meanwhile, it says it has its cargoes lying in the Sinai Peninsula waiting to be delivered to the starving people of Gaza. It says in its storehouses, it has three months of supplies but it’s waiting for the might of Israel to upon up the borders.

Meanwhile people are continuing to die starting from Rafah, in Khan Younis in the center of the Strip to the far-northern areas in Jabalia, Biet Lahia and Biet Hanoon where fighting is still going on between Palestinian resistance fighters and the Israeli army.

In comes the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation which has since last May tried to provide food parcels at distribution centers run by US and Israeli personnel and which is today turning into a “free-shooting killing field” of starving Palestinian that has young been denounced by the United Nations as “weaponizing food” with very sinister connotations that include depopulating Gaza of its original inhabitants.

Seeing is believing. Palestinians, and on a daily basis, and under the eyes of the world are shot fatally on a daily basis. Take Sunday for example, the number of those that have killed is already in the 60s. As they run to get their food parcels they are shot by Israeli soldiers guarding the distribution centers. They are shot with no compunctions but with a sense of hellish deliverance.

And it is the social media who are narrating, nay “dancing” on the graves of the Palestinians. This war is probably the most documented set of atrocities, but people, the international community, gaze on with a sense of helpless, frustration and complicity. Professor Amos Goldberg, who teaches Holocaust Studies at the Hebrew University, doesn’t mince words. He says this is a “disgusting genocide”.