The death toll from the ongoing Israeli military aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 73,032 Palestinians killed and 173,357 injured since October 7, 2023, medical sources in the territory said on Sunday.
Local health authorities reported that hospitals across Gaza received nine new fatalities and 41 injured people over the past 24 hours.
They added that the number of Palestinians killed since the start of the ceasefire on October 11 last year has risen to 1,021, while the number of injuries reached 3,249. A total of 784 bodies have been recovered during the same period.
The sources also said that a number of victims remain trapped under rubble and on roads, as ambulance and rescue teams have been unable to reach them so far. Wafa
Al Jazeera Media Network demanded Saturday that the international community and legal institutions punish Israeli officials for crimes committed against its correspondents and staff in the Gaza Strip, the latest of which was the killing of cameraman Ahmed Washah.
The network affirmed its intention to prosecute the perpetrators of the crimes.
It came in a statement by the network following the killing of the Al Jazeera Mubasher cameraman in an Israeli strike that targeted a house in the Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
The network said it condemns the killing of Washah, noting that his brother, Mohammed, a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher, was killed in an Israeli strike two months earlier.
It added that Ahmed’s killing brings the number of Al Jazeera Media Network staff killed in Gaza since October 2023 to 12.
The network denounced “the continuation of the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces against its correspondents and staff in Gaza.”
It renewed its demand that the international community and relevant legal institutions take urgent practical measures to punish the Israeli officials involved in the grave crimes, and to adopt deterrent mechanisms to stop the targeting of journalists.
Al Jazeera affirmed its determination to take all legal measures to prosecute the perpetrators of the crimes, while stressing its commitment to continuing to cover events in the enclave, despite the Israeli army’s attempts to silence the voice of truth and its continued targeting of journalists and photographers working with the network. Anadolu
According to the Government Media Office in Gaza, 262 journalists and media workers have been killed since the start of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza on Oct. 8, 2023, one of the highest recorded tolls worldwide for the targeting of journalists during conflicts.
In a statement on May 3, the office said the toll reflects, in its assessment, a systematic policy aimed at silencing the Palestinian voice and preventing facts from reaching the world.
It added that 50 journalists had been detained in harsh conditions, in violation of international laws guaranteeing the protection of journalists, while three journalists remain missing due to the Israeli army’s actions, raising serious concerns about their fate.
More than 420 journalists have also suffered varying injuries, including serious wounds that led to amputations and permanent disabilities, according to the office.
This article was written on 28 February, 2024 at the apex of the Israeli genocide in Gaza on countercurrents.org. Not content with their atrocities, Israeli soldiers posted their havoc online for all to see. The videos are revealing for their depravity.
Israeli army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, now fired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was so embarrassed with the videos shown on the social media posted by his soldiers in Gaza, he issued a communique instructing his men and women euphemistically not to “film revenge videos”.
These videos have shown soldiers in various situations as dehumanizing Palestinians, raiding their homes, rummaging their drawers, sitting on their tables and going through their underwear in front of the camera while laughing about the fact. They have displayed torture and humiliation not befitting a “professional army”, as they like to call themselves.
Halevi’s comments have been across the media, locally in Israel and internationally. Yet they don’t seem to be making much impact, for the videoclips that have already been posted are retweeted while new ones continue to be splashed across the social media.
The Gaza war has come to be a fascination for Israeli soldiers, a tough series of battleground in the 265-kilometer stretch they’ve never experienced first-hand as they do today. Most of their wars on Gaza have been from the air, this time it is on-ground.
Indeed, the videos show a disturbed Israeli mind. Are the soldiers fighting in Gaza or looking at negligees and bras of women who run aways from their homes and/or were killed by Israeli bombers?
The ground battle has been so hard on them as nearly 3000 soldiers needed to be examined by mental health officers since 7 October the Israeli army reveals and this figure is likely to go up as the conflict intensifies. This is while 2000 soldiers in the “combat zone” need psychiatric treatment says Yekhiel Levechhitz of the clinical department of mental illnesses in the Israeli army.
The heel thief
Imagine dangling a pair of heels in front of the camera? This is what an Israeli soldier did as he posted a video of himself with the shoes after he looted a house raided by the Israeli army.
In a state of excitement, he says these pair of heels, shining white, are for his fiancé for their upcoming engagement party.
Israeli soldiers are raiding houses as if they are their own and nobody can stop them.
An Israeli soldier gifts his wife a pair of heels he looted from a displaced Palestinian family in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/ea3VxmLDSC
Six Israeli soldiers play cards on a prayer mat in a building they took in Al Shati Camp east of Gaza.
It seems they are taking time off from their arrests and vandalism. With plastic cups around, they seem to be playing whilst gambling at the same time.
The prayer mat underneath maybe a strong signal of their distaste to the Palestinian owners and their religion.
🔴🔴عاجل و هاااام 🔴🔴
آخر ظهور للعقيد " نفيري " ومجموعته في احد منازل #غزة وهم يلتقطونسيلفي في غرفة نوم مع علاقي داخلي لسيدة فلسطينية.. بعدها تم نسف المنزل بهم ودفنوا تحت الانقاض🥴
الي حاب اعرف.. من منهم حيبعث يوم القيامة لابس العلاقي الاحمر.. العقيد والا الحراسة🥴🥴… pic.twitter.com/gahSuyCicn
Israel soldiers pose for a selfie in a bedroom of a Palestinian family that was forced to leave their home under Israeli gunfire.
Six soldiers with their guns pose whilst one holds a negligee as another points his finger to it. Is this supposed to mean something?
Their secret stays with them. Shortly after, it was reported the wrecked house was bombed by the Palestinian resistance and all of the soldiers were killed and presently lie under the wreckage like the thousands of Gazans that lie underneath the rubble of their bombed houses.
Although the last point might be doubted since according to Defense Ministry statistics, 17 percent of Israelis soldiers who are killed do so through friendly-fire.
‘Depravity’
Israeli soldiers whilst not fighting Izz Al Din Al Qassam and Saraya Al Quds fighters appear to like raiding Palestinian homes.
One blogger described these #Israeli soldiers as “depraved and degenerate”. He said these soldiers “expose their depravity” and make “fun of the injured” whilst dehumanizing the dead and displaced #Palestinians which they killed.
How does a “depraved” soldier hold balloons with a big smile whilst someone in the background lies tied, gagged and blindfolded on the floor?
In another post, the blogger asks: “How rotten must your entire (Israeli) society be for you to pose with such pride near underwear of women you murdered,” and adds “they don’t fear criticism because this sort of sexual intimidation is encouraged in Israel. Makes me feel sick.”
Expose, name & shame these #Israeli soldiers dehumanising #Palestinians : keep a record for when there’s a big legal case against all the crimes of @idf .. every single one of them pic.twitter.com/b91VehTtXG
The Israeli army may say they are playing with the souls of Palestinians in Gaza, but they are wrong.
In this image, five Israeli soldiers talk to a doll in a kufiyah they obviously stole from a house they just raided.
Its graphic: The contour of the soldiers, their facial expression, the surroundings; the image says it all, the soldiers appear to be happily playing with the plastic doll that was placed at the back of their military Jeep amidst an environ of destruction and mayhem.
These depraved degenerate #Israeli soldiers too. Expose their depravity. Making fun of injured, dehumanised & dead #Palestinians & holding lingerie of Palestinian women, either displaced or likely killed by them. @idf are devoid of any humanity pic.twitter.com/yw3um2YWVm
Not satisfied with the raids on people’s houses, Israeli soldiers, and this is coming from the so-called most moral army in the world, as if this not a great joke, a red negligee is displayed full-frontal on an armored vehicle.
One blogger expresses her disdain and western hypocrisy of what they see in front of them.
Why is this Israeli soldier sleeping in a baby’s crib for? This is a selfie; the soldier took of himself while pretending to sleep in the baby’s crib. It makes you ask: Where is the baby now, where is his family, are they still alive, displaced may, have they been killed?
The final image is taken in one of the houses in Khan Younis, the second largest city in the Gaza Strip. This is where the Israeli army have been held up for the last 2-3 months, unable to overcome the resistance despite their mighty airpower.
Khan Younis is below the center of Gaza, and the rest of the outskirts of the city to the east, is putting up stiff resistance to Israeli soldiers who are getting either killed or maimed and injured by the day and as testified to by the Israeli hospitals.
Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem said on Wednesday that “reciprocal security” is the “ceiling” of negotiations with Israel.
“The ceiling of negotiations with the Israeli enemy is reciprocal security, and there is no other ceiling,” he said in a televised speech.
He called for giving priority to halting the Israeli assaults, Israel’s withdrawal from all Lebanese territory, the return of prisoners, the return of the displaced to their areas and reconstruction.
“Israel’s project in Lebanon was to eliminate Hezbollah socially, militarily, and culturally, which means eliminating a large segment of the Lebanese people through killing, displacement, and relocation in order to facilitate the annexation of Lebanon,” Qassem said.
“We thwarted the Greater Israel project, and it has been unable to control and establish itself on our land,” he added.
The Hezbollah chief said his group carried out 3,185 operations against Israel since March 2, with a daily average of 30 attacks.
“Any project to disarm Hezbollah will not succeed, and this scheme has failed,” he said.
Tensions have continued to flare along the Lebanese-Israeli border despite a recent understanding between Washington and Tehran aimed at ending their military conflict that erupted after Israel and the US launched attacks against Iran on Feb. 28.
Iranian officials have repeatedly said that ending Israeli attacks across regional fronts, particularly in Lebanon, is among the main objectives of the memorandum of understanding expected to be signed between Tehran and Washington on Friday.
Israeli officials, however, have indicated that military operations in Lebanon will continue despite the agreement, raising doubts about prospects for a de-escalation on the Lebanese front.
Israel has been waging an offensive on Lebanon since March 2 that has left thousands killed and wounded and more than 1 million displaced, according to the latest official figures.
Israel occupies areas in southern Lebanon, some for decades and others since the previous war between 2023 and 2024. During the current campaign, Israeli forces pushed more than 10 kilometers into Lebanon. Anadolu
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday “strongly” condemned Israeli airstrikes on the Lebanese capital when the US and Iran are nearing an agreement to end hostilities.
“I strongly condemn today’s Israeli strikes on Beirut,” Guterres wrote on US social media company X. “The strikes took place despite the ceasefire & at a time when the US & Iran are expected to reach an agreement that will pave the way to a peaceful resolution of this conflict.”
He noted that the conflict has had a “devastating impact on the world’s economy.”
The secretary-general expressed hope for a “successful outcome” to the diplomatic efforts between Washington and Tehran, and urged all parties to show “maximum restraint at this crucial moment.”
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that a peace agreement with Iran remains on track for signing within a “few hours,” despite the Israeli strike on Beirut. He said the attack “should not have happened” and urged all sides to “stand down.”
Officials in Iran have disputed the timeline, with Iranian media saying Tehran has not yet taken a final decision.
At least seven people were killed and several others when the Israeli army launched airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut and areas in southern Lebanon on Sunday, Lebanese media said.
The Israeli army has continued targeting Lebanon since early March when Hezbollah retaliated to the Iran war, killing 3,800 people and displacing more than 1 million. Anadolu
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