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Jinan Killed by Two Bullets From an Israeli Tank

CrossFireArabia
July 10, 2024

Her father’s friend writes: “She was martyred as a result of a minor injury, as they say. She was martyred as a result of two bullets from a tank in Mawasi, Khan Yunis.

الشهيـ ـدة جنان حسام أبو شمالة، ١٣ عامًا

يكتب صديق والدها:
"استشهـ ـدت متأثرة بإصابة طفيفة كما يقولون، استشهـ ـدت متأثرة برصاصتين من دبـ ــابة في مواصي خانيونس، إصابة الساق قد تبدو طفيفة لكنها في النهاية أودت بحياة هذه البريئة! وهل أثر دبـ ــابةٍ تزن أطنان الحديد وتقذف حممًا… pic.twitter.com/0eVSJtAYAo
— شهداء غزّة Gaza martyrs (@Gaza_Shaheed) July 10, 2024

The leg injury may seem minor, but in the end it claimed the life of this innocent person who was only 13-years-old.

I ask would the impact of a tank weighing tons of iron and spewing explosive lava on a child like Janan be considered minor?

Is the horror and witness the death, this sweet little girl faced minor?

Is the pain of a bullet wound on a child as young as Janan be considered minor?

Is the bleeding wound without taking medications and treatments minor?

Jinan is one of the twins of a beautiful brother named Qais. They are two delicate, polite children. You can hardly hear their voices because of their shyness.

You see in Jinan’s eyes a sparkle of intelligence that makes adore her. I always saw her as older than her age. That child who loved life, her school, and her family, knows nothing about life except its simplicity.

Her heart only had room for a a rosy life and a natural dream for a quiet life. Jinan loves life, as soon as you start a conversation with her, she takes hold, but tactful in the most attractive way.”

13-year-old Jinan Hussam Abu Shamala was martyred on 3 July, 2024

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Israel Kills 29 Players in Football Game Strike

CrossFireArabia
July 10, 2024

They were killed by an Israeli strike whilst playing football in Al Awda School in Abassan town near Khan Younis towards the south of the Gaza Strip, Tuesday.

Watch the moment Israeli Terror Forces (ITF) attack the Abasan School in Khan Yunis with Biden-supplied baby buster bombs

The US-backed terrorists bombed Palestinian civilians as they enjoyed a soccer match pic.twitter.com/JhqRnkODRC
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) July 9, 2024

Videoclips on the social media show the attack live and which resulted in at least 30 being killed and 53 injured. Most of the dead are women and children.

Harsh scenes 💔

The remains of the martyrs after committing the horrific massacre in the vicinity of Al Awda School, which houses displaced people in Abasan Al Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, Gaza. pic.twitter.com/n4iogotjTi
— Muhammad in Gaza🇵🇸 (@7MohammedKhaled) July 9, 2024

This is the fourth Israeli strike on a school building in four days. These buildings are used by displaced Palestinians as shelters. The Israeli army wants the Palestinians to keep move but nobody knows where!

🚨BREAKING: First moments of an israeli strike on the entrance to a school housing displaced people in Abasan, east of Khan Yunis. The video shows civilians playing football inside the school before the strike.

More than 35 killed in this strike today

THEIR SCREAMS!!💔 pic.twitter.com/Xu8mhPQJkj
— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws) July 9, 2024

Exclusive footage from the school, obtained by Al Jazeera, shows young Palestinians playing football in the building’s yard as dozens of people watch on. Then, a loud explosion is heard, sending people running for cover.

⚡️The moment the occupation aircraft committed the Khan Yunis massacre and bombed the entrance to Al-Awda School in the town of Abasan Al-Kabira. pic.twitter.com/xG3owwfhAu
— War Monitor (@WarMonitors) July 9, 2024

“We were sitting and a missile fell and destroyed everything,” he said, sobbing. “I lost my uncle, my cousins and my relatives,” one Palestinian boy said.

The Israeli attack is trending on the social media with much images and videoclips and its just the last of thousands of massacres committed by the Israeli army in its genocide against Gaza.

The extent of horrors is conveyed by one report that simply says “You are looking at the remains of what was previously a human being!” This is “from the US-Israeli strike on Al-Awda school in Khan Younis.

Their body parts are collected from the ground and placed into boxes and buckets.”

One lady said “My father was mutilated, I collected his meat with my hands.”

He was holding my grandfathers hand, but everything else was unrecognizable, they completely mutilated him! He was completely mutilated and my grandfather was half mutilated”

Earth-shattering testimony of a woman who found her father a pile of meat after being trampled by Israeli tanks,” she said.

European Union’s foreign policy chief condemned the latest deadly Israeli attack. “For how long are innocent civilians going to bear the brunt of this conflict?” Josep Borrell said on X.

Condemning the attack as a violation of international law, he said “those responsible must be held accountable.”

“It is imperative to immediately reach a cease-fire to bring respite to hundreds of stranded civilians, free all the hostages, deliver the needed humanitarian aid,” he said.

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Israeli Soldiers Blow up a Mosque Second Time

CrossFireArabia
June 30, 2024

A video clip is currently circulating of Israeli soldiers preparing to blow up a mosque that has already been blown up back in February 2024.

Israeli soldiers recorded themselves planting explosives on an already destroyed mosque in Gaza, celebrating their plan to blow it up completely. pic.twitter.com/rtZrp8GPG0
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) June 30, 2024

The clip shows Israeli soldiers frolicking in the mosque with one saying “as you can see, guys, a neighborhood in Gaza, I am going to blow the shit out of it! Guys, this is what it looks after its going to blow up! Truth, truth.”

The mosque that was already destroyed was in Khan Younis, the second largest city in Gaza which Israel occupied and bombed beginning last December till April.

Israeli soldier from Bismalach Brigade blowing up an already destroyed mosque in Khan Younis and showing the aftermath of the blowing up. The caption: “ 🍒Khan Yunis» (4/X) pic.twitter.com/yGB38GLIvt
— Younis Tirawi | يونس (@ytirawi) April 4, 2024

The Israeli army has already blown up more that 800 mosques since their war on the Gaza Strip according to the government Media Office in Gaza City. It stated that 600 of these mosques are now fully destroyed.

Attacking mosques and then vandalizing them, destroying and desecrating them has become a favorite past-time for Israeli soldiers in this Israeli war on Gaza.

Israeli soldiers recorded themselves using a destroyed mosque in #Rafah as a kitchen after invading the southern city of #Gaza.
The footage shows the mosque walls vandalised with graffiti, including insults at Prophet Muhammad and the area surrounded by Israeli tanks and trucks. pic.twitter.com/qXTztTPLz3
— Palestine Info Center (@palinfoen) June 15, 2024

In one case Israeli soldiers recorded themselves using a destroyed mosque in Rafah as a kitchen after invading the southern city. The footage shows the mosque wall were vandalized with graffiti including insults at Prophet Muhammad whilst the area surrounded by Israeli tanks and trucks according to the Palestine Information Center.

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Khan Younis: ‘We Will Work Amidst The Rubble’

CrossFireArabia
June 11, 2024

Families are returning to live amidst the rubble of their destroyed homes in Khan Yunis. Despite the realities of their wrecked homes they are determined to make do and eventually rebuild their destroyed homes and livelihood.

Their homes were completely destroyed by the Israeli army who sorrounded the second largest city in the Gaza Strip in early December, 2023 and continued to bomb it.

https://x.com/philippa_bear/status/1798449294833492286

Despite much battles, Israeli army entered the city a month later and by early March 2024, they begun to leave the city under intense fighting from the Palestinian resistance. The battle of Khan Younis will be returned because of the number of Israeli soldiers who lost their lives.

https://x.com/Rachael_Swindon/status/1800576489642983565

Returnees started to comeback after the Israelis pulled out; they came mostly on foot, the odd downtrodden truck and bicycles. But they were shocked by the state of callous and raw destruction.

They couldn’t believe what happened to their homes, shops and businesses, the scale of devastation, debris and wreckage.

However, the urge to return was exhilarating and continues today. This what defines Palestinians to their land, identity, culture and belonging.

https://t.me/s/QudsNen/109655

Palestinians are determined to stay even on the top of their wrecked houses. If they could find a tent to sleep in, all well and good but if not, they would sleep in the outside air, under the sun and skies and during the day, they would use their skills, toil and labour.

https://x.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1800480702573809814

The returnees would rather come back to a Khan Younis even if is in rubble form and wreckage.

They say everywhere is the same in Gaza; they are determined to rebuild their lives even in the ruins of their shops and homes because they have the “economic niche” to continue as one watch repairman told Al Jazeera English, adding “we need to start earning a wage to be able to live.”

Khan Younis, a city of 200,000 people was completely destroyed, its homes, schools, universities and colleges and its 1387 AD Barquq Castle all completely gone thanks to Israeli bombs, missiles and guns. It graves were dug up and at least 700 people were killed by Israeli troops and thrown in hastily made mass graves out side Al Nasser Hospital.

As of late however, The Times of Gaza documents the people who are still returning to their now destroyed homes. This is “home sweet home” even in a wrecked state.