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Northern Gaza has witnessed a deadly night, Sunday, amid relentless Israeli bombardments and artillery shelling, with more than 40 Palestinians massacred by Israeli occupation forces.
Medical sources have Al Jazeera that Ahed Lemqayyad, head of UNRWA operations, has been killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza.
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The Government Media Office in Gaza says at least 27 homes and schools have been targeted and bombed by Israeli warplanes in Gaza over the last 48 hours.
The bombing of north Gaza started in earnest on Friday and is likely to continue as Israel refuses to ceasefire on the Gaza Strip.
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Palestinian journalist Hassan Hamad was killed along with his family in an Israeli tank’s shelling on his house in Jabalia refugee camp.
He is journalist number 175 to have been killed by deliberate, willful Israeli gunfire.
Israel threatened Hamad and when he didn’t comply they killed him!
“Listen, If you continue spreading lies about Israel, we’ll come for you next and turn your family into […] This is your last warning”.. Journalist Hassan Hamad received this message on WhatsApp, along with several calls from an Israeli officer ordering him to stop filming in Gaza.”
Israel targeted his home in Jabalia camp in North Gaza and he was killed. The video shows what remains of him.
This Israeli genocide on Gaza, started soon after 7 October, 2023 has been one of the deadliest for journalists in the world.
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More than 21 people were killed in a military Israeli airstrike targeting a mosque-turned-shelter for displaced Palestinians in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, early Sunday morning.
The news is trending on the social media with images and videoclips of the state of the devastation and which is seen as another massacre, another bloodbath.
Local sources reported that it took paramedics and civil defense crews close to three hours to remove the bodies because of the sheer level of damage and the scale of devastation that was caused, with many saying there are still bodies underground.
The targeted mosque is located across the street from Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital and was hit by the Israeli military at about 2am local time when many were fast asleep.
Israeli warplanes dropped bombs and severely damaged the facility and the properties in the surrounding area, including many department stores on the main road.
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French President Emmanuel Macron urged countries to stop providing weapons to Israel for its ongoing genocide war in the Gaza Strip and expressed concern that Lebanon should not be allowed to “become a new Gaza.”
“The priority is that we return to a political solution, that we stop delivering weapons to carry out fighting in Gaza,” Macron said in an interview with France Inter, a public radio station aired Saturday.
Macron added, “France is not delivering any” weapons to Israel.
He stated: “I think we are not being heard.”
“I think it is a mistake, including for the security of Israel,” he said, adding that the war was leading to “hatred”.
Macron’s call comes amid mounting public scrutiny of the high death toll in Gaza and Israel’s widening aggression in Lebanon.
Macron said Lebanon should not be allowed to “become a new Gaza,” referring to Israel’s ground and air offensive in the country. “The Lebanese people cannot, in turn, be sacrificed,” he added.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, while France did not export any major arms to Israel in recent years, it has supplied components for arms.
At a summit for French-speaking leaders in Paris, Saturday, according to the Washington Post, Macron said, “If we call for a cease-fire, consistency is to not provide weapons of war. And I think that those who provide them cannot every day call for a cease-fire alongside us and continue to supply them.”
Last month, Britain suspended some arms exports to Israel over concerns about potential violations of international humanitarian law, joining several other nations that have taken similar actions in the wake of the war in Gaza.
Speaking in Paris, Saturday, Macron said that while both the US and France had called for a ceasefire in Lebanon, he added: “I regret that Prime Minister Netanyahu has made another choice, has taken this responsibility, in particular, for ground operations on Lebanese soil.”
Netanyahu, in a video statement Saturday after Macron’s remarks, criticized the French president and other leaders who “call for an arms embargo on Israel.”
“Israel will win with or without their support, but their shame will continue long after the war is won,” he said.
In response to Netanyahu, Macron’s office said France remains a “steadfast friend of Israel,” describing Netanyahu’s reaction as “excessive and detached from the friendship between France and Israel,” according to Le Monde as reported in the Quds News Network.
