‘We Are Being Massacred…’

Nine Palestinians were killed and more than 50 others injured on Friday in Israeli airstrikes targeting houses and a group of civilians in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, which has been under assault for 14 consecutive days.

In a statement, Al-Awda Hospital said that three Palestinians were killed and 50 others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a home in Jabalia Camp.

A medical source at Kamal Adwan Hospital confirmed that three Palestinians were killed in another Israeli strike on a gathering of civilians in the Al-Fakhura area of Jabalia.

The civil defense said its rescue teams removed the bodies of three more people killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home in Jabalia, adding that two more were also injured in the strike.

A fire erupted in the house as a result of the airstrike, the civil defense added.

For the 14th consecutive day, the Israeli army has continued its offensive in northern Gaza, focusing on Jabalia and its camp.

The area is under a suffocating siege and constant bombardment, with homes being demolished over their inhabitants.

This is the third ground operation the Israeli army has carried out in Jabalia camp since the start of the ongoing war on Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023 according to Anadolu.

Israel has continued a brutal offensive on Gaza following a cross-border attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7 last year, despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire.

At least 42,500 people have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 99,500 injured, according to local health authorities.

The Israeli onslaught has displaced almost the entire population of Gaza 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.

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Israel Starves North Gaza

For over two weeks, Israeli occupation forces have been implementing the “Generals’ Plan,” which involves imposing a severe siege on northern Gaza and isolating it from the rest of the Strip amidst a relentless assault on the area.

The Israeli occupation seeks to carry out ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians by blocking humanitarian supplies and food from entering, leaving over 200,000 Palestinians facing harsh conditions.

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When Will Massacres Stop in Gaza?

A massacre against displaced Palestinians has been reported due to Israeli airstrikes targeting Abu Hussein school in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip.

According to the latest toll, at least 20 civilians have been killed, and dozens more injured, including women and children.

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Pipedream: Israeli Settlements Not Likely in Gaza!

Top leaders from Israel’s Likud Party, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, are set to hold a conference next week aimed at promoting the re-establishment of Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip.

But Israel has to beat Hamas first: It has not yet eradicated the Islamist organization nor indeed any of the Palestinian resistance groups not only in the whole of the Gaza Strip but in north Gaza where they are involved in a genocidal campaign against Palestinians civilians deemed to over 400,000.

Despite Netanyahu’s previous dismissals of returning to Gaza settlements, key ministers, lawmakers, and prominent activists from the right-wing party are backing the initiative which says that they are deluded by Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant about their success in Gaza.

The event, scheduled for next Monday near the Gaza border, carries the slogan of the Likud Party along with the “Gaza is Ours, Forever” slogan and is centered on preparing for settlement efforts in the territory under the title of “Preparing to Resettle Gaza,” which Israel evacuated in 2005.

Right-wing Israelis need to get there first and establish a foothold in north Gaza however. Despite their bravado, there are still around 5000 Hamas fighters in Gaza and are continually being revitalized. Despite their encirclement of the Jabalia camp, the third time in a year, they have not been able to establish control with Israeli soldiers being killed on a daily basis with their tanks being blown up.

Among the key organizers is extremist Social Equality Minister May Golan, along with numerous Likud lawmakers and activists who hope Israel willl be able to establish control in the area. What they don’t realize however is that Israel has long moved its army divisions – four of them. – to the north to face Hezbollah on the Israeli-Lebanese border and have only one division left in Gaza.

The Joe Biden White House has consistently opposed the idea of returning Israeli settlements to Gaza, a stance reiterated throughout the ongoing war, particularly after Israel dismantled its Gaza settlements nearly two decades ago.

According to the Israeli news site Walla, such initiatives could complicate Israel’s defense in legal cases at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, given that international law deems settlements in occupied territories illegal.

South Africa has already filed a case against Israel at the ICJ in December 2023, accusing the country of violating the 1948 UN Genocide Convention. The court held hearings in January 2024 regarding protective measures for Gaza.

The Likud conference has also drawn support from other right-wing factions in the coalition government, including the far-right Otzma Yehudit party, led by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and the Religious Zionism party, led by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. Both parties have advocated for settlement expansion in Gaza, according to the report.

The plan has faced criticism from opposition figures, including former Defense Minister Gadi Eisenkot of the opposition National Unity party. Eisenkot, whose son was killed in the war in Gaza, expressed his opposition, stating: “Our sons and daughters did not sacrifice their lives for this.”

He added that the push for Gaza settlements undermines the broad national consensus over what he called a “just war.”

The conference is “totally against the goals of the war and the statements of the prime minister.”

Israel has launched a brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip following a Hamas attack last year, killing more than 42,400 people, mostly women and children, and injuring over 99,000 others.

The conflict has spread to Lebanon, with Israel launching deadly strikes across the country, which have killed more than 1,500 people and injured over 4,500 others since Sept. 23.

Despite international warnings that the Middle East was on the brink of a regional war amid Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, Tel Aviv expanded the conflict by launching a ground incursion into southern Lebanon on Oct. 1 according to Anadolu.

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Please Save Fadi Al Wahidi

This is an “Urgent Appeal” made by Anas Al Sharif on behalf of Al Jazeera cameraman Fadi Al Wahidi

“My friend and Al Jazeera cameraman, Fadi Al-Wahidi, has suffered a severe decline in health after being shot by an Israeli sniper while clearly identified as press.

We are trapped in northern Gaza under siege. Without immediate medical treatment abroad, his life is in grave danger. I urge all relevant organizations to assist in facilitating his urgent transfer for treatment.

Your support could save his life. #SaveFadiAl_Wahidi

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