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  • 80 more Palestinians killed in Bombing by Israel

    80 more Palestinians killed in Bombing by Israel

     

    At least 89,097 Palestinians injured in Israeli onslaught since Oct. 7, 2023, Health Ministry says

    Iyad Nabolsi

    ISTANBUL:    At least 80 more Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, pushing up the overall death toll to 38,664 since last Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the battered territory said on Monday.

    A ministry statement added that some 89,097 other people have been injured in the onslaught.

    “Israeli forces killed 80 people and injured 216 others in three ‘massacres’ against families in the last 24 hours,” the ministry said.

    “Many people are still trapped under rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.

    Flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire, Israel has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since an Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Palestinian group Hamas.

    Over nine months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

    Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, whose latest ruling ordered Tel Aviv to immediately halt its military operation in the southern city of Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.

    *Writing by Mohammad Sio

  • At least 71 Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Khan Younis: health authorities

    At least 71 Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Khan Younis: health authorities

     

     

    GAZA:  (Xinhua)/Flowerbudnews:  — At least 71 Palestinians were killed and 289 others injured on Saturday by an Israeli airstrike that attacked tents of displaced people in the Mawasi area of the Khan Younis city in the south of Gaza, the Gaza health authorities said.

     

    With three missiles, Israeli jets bombed the tents housing displaced people in Khan Younis, and then a civil defense vehicle was targeted, local and security sources told Xinhua.

    Dozens of bodies of the killed and wounded people were lying on the ground, locals told Xinhua.

    The Israeli raid targeted a large gathering of displaced people in Mawasi, the Gaza Civil Defense Service reported in a brief statement.

     

    Meanwhile, Israeli state-owned Kan TV news said that the target of the Israeli attack on the Mawasi area was Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif, noting that the army was awaiting the results of the raid.

    Hamas rejected the claim, saying it comes in the context of covering up Israel’s crimes.

  • At least 42 Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza City: sources

    At least 42 Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza City: sources

     

     

    GAZA:   (Xinhua)/Flowerbudnews :– At least 42 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on residential houses in two areas of Gaza City, according to Palestinian security and medical sources.

    “About 18 were killed and dozens of others wounded in al-Shati refugee camp after the Israeli warplanes attacked a residential square,” Palestinian medical sources told Xinhua.

    The medical sources noted that the number of victims is likely to increase as the civil defense teams were still trying to pull out the victims from the rubble, adding that the residential square had become “a huge amount of ruins.”

    Palestinian security sources said that Israeli warplanes launched several raids on al-Shati refugee camp, destroying seven inhabited homes.

    Also on Saturday, at least 24 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed during Israeli airstrikes on houses in the al-Tuffah neighborhood in the northeast of Gaza City, the Hamas-run government media office said in a press statement.

    The Israeli army said on Saturday in a press statement that its warplanes had attacked two Hamas military infrastructure sites in Gaza City.

    According to the Times of Israel, the Israeli army targeted Raed Saad, a senior commander of Hamas in Gaza. So far, there has been no official Palestinian confirmation of his death.

    Saad, identified as a chief of Hamas operations, was reportedly believed to have been at Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital during an Israeli raid in March, although he was not found there at the time.

    Israel launched a large-scale war on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, after Hamas carried out a military attack on Israeli towns near the Strip, killing about 1,200 and capturing around 250 others.

    The health authorities in Gaza said in a press statement that as of Thursday, the Palestinian death toll from Israeli military operations has risen to 37,431 people, with 85,653 others wounded.

  • 2 hostages killed in Israeli bombing in Rafah: Hamas

    2 hostages killed in Israeli bombing in Rafah: Hamas

     

    GAZA, (Xinhua) /Flowerbudnews,:  – Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, announced on Friday that two Israeli hostages were killed in Israeli bombing in Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip.

    In a video released on Telegram, Al-Qassam Brigades said the two hostages were killed in an airstrike “a few days ago.”There has been no immediate response from the Israeli army regarding these developments.

    On June 8, Al-Qassam Brigades said the Israeli army killed several hostages during its operation to release four hostages in the central Gaza Strip.

    As of Friday, the Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict has risen to 37,266, with 85,102 others wounded, Hamas-run health authorities said in a press statement.

    The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement on Friday that it continued its operations across the Gaza Strip.

    Israeli troops are continuing intelligence-based, targeted operations in Rafah, having eliminated a number of “terrorists” and located large quantities of weapons and underground tunnel shafts over the past day, the statement said, adding that military operations are also underway in the central Gaza Strip.

    Israel launched a large-scale offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip to retaliate against a Hamas rampage through the southern Israeli border on Oct. 7, 2023, during which about 1,200 people were killed and around 250 taken hostage.

  • Palestinians getting life back on track in N. Gaza’s Jabalia amid truce hopes

    Palestinians getting life back on track in N. Gaza’s Jabalia amid truce hopes

     

    GAZA, (Xinhua)/Flowerbudnews:  — Finally in June, Mohammed Adel, a Jabalia-based Palestinian man, could reopen his stall on the rubble of his house flattened by Israeli warplanes in nearly three weeks of military operation.

    “A month ago, I used to set up my stall in front of my house, but today I set up my stall on its ruins,” the 25-year-old young man told Xinhua.

    The stall became possible after the Israeli army withdrew from the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip at the end of May after its military operation that left dozens dead and widespread destruction to homes, facilities, and infrastructure.

    On May 31, the Israel Defense Forces said that during its mission in eastern Jabalia, it retrieved seven bodies of hostages, eliminated hundreds of “terrorists” and destroyed 10 km of a subterranean tunnel network.

    It did not take long for Adel to get his life back on track. The Israeli forces “may kill dozens of us and destroy our houses, but we insist on continuing our lives and rebuilding our houses as soon as possible,” he said. “We will never give up our hopes for life.”

    Not far from Adel’s place, 50-year-old Sobhi Hassan installed a swing on the remains of his destroyed house for children to have some fun.

    “I returned to put the small swing on the ruins of my house so that the children can play and relieve what they have experienced in the past days,” the father of six told Xinhua while trying hard to crack a smile on his sad-looking face.

    In fact, the middle-aged man is earning some money from the swing to help keep his family afloat amid the dire situation due to the war.

    “When I see the children laughing, I feel that life is worth fighting for even when we are mired in a war,” the man said.

    Adel and Hassan both expressed their hopes that the war will end and a ceasefire deal be reached in Gaza as soon as possible.

    Jabalia camp is the largest of the eight refugee camps in Gaza. Since the beginning of the Israeli war on Gaza, Jabalia camp has seen deadly confrontations between the Israeli army and armed Palestinian factions, led by Gaza-ruling Hamas.

    After the latest Israeli military operation, a lot of waste was left behind, including wooden ammunition boxes. This encouraged Samir Ahmed, a Jabalia-based Palestinian man, to collect and sell them as firewood in local markets.

    “Such boxes included dozens of bombs that killed our people, but I used them to help people prepare food to stay alive. This is the difference between Israelis and us. They (Israelis) brought death and destruction while we spread life and hope all the time,” the young man told Xinhua.

    “The war will end, no doubt, but hopefully it will end today before tomorrow,” he said.

     

  • Several Israeli soldiers killed in southern Gaza’s Rafah: Hamas

    Several Israeli soldiers killed in southern Gaza’s Rafah: Hamas

     

    GAZA:  (Xinhua)/Flowerbudnews:  — Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said on Monday that it killed several Israeli soldiers and wounded some others in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah.

    Al-Qassam said in a statement that its members blew up a booby-trapped house in the city’s Shaboura camp, where an Israeli force was holed up, leaving some Israeli soldiers dead and wounded.

    It added that its fighters also targeted the Israeli reinforcements with mortar shells as they arrived to assist.

    An Israeli helicopter landed to evacuate the dead and wounded as the artillery shelling continued, local sources and eyewitnesses told Xinhua.

    There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army on this incident.

    Also on Monday, Israeli media reported that a “difficult event” occurred in Rafah because of the collapse of a multi-story building with Israeli soldiers inside it, without revealing further details.

    Israel launched a large-scale offensive against Hamas in Gaza to retaliate against a Hamas rampage through the southern Israeli border on Oct. 7, 2023, during which about 1,200 people were killed and around 250 were taken hostage.

  • Palestinians recall horrors “not even in nightmares” after Nuseirat refugee camp attacks

    Palestinians recall horrors “not even in nightmares” after Nuseirat refugee camp attacks

     

    Xinhua

    GAZA,  (Xinhua)/Flowerbudnews: — Pedestrians can hardly walk through the streets of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on Sunday, which has been transformed overnight into a devastated area with the smell of death.

    Burned cars, destroyed houses, and bloodstains from the victims are found on the camp’s roads and in its alleys after Israeli special forces launched a military operation in the camp to free four Israeli hostages on Saturday.

    As Israeli troops entered the camp, warplanes launched a series of violent raids on dozens of targets inside the camp, mostly civilian houses, according to the media office of the Hamas-run government.

    At least 274 Palestinians were killed and more than 698 others injured during the Israeli military operation, according to figures released by the Hamas-run health authorities on Sunday.

    “I was drinking a cup of coffee on the balcony of my house overlooking the street. Everything was normal: passers-by and vendors in the street, children playing in the sun, but everything changed in an instant,” recalled Othman Zaki, a resident of the Nuseirat camp.

    “Suddenly, Israeli planes started bombing violently everywhere. No one understood anything. Everyone started running without knowing where to go safely,” said the 27-year-old man.

    “The continuous bombing, the rapid events, and the bodies of the victims lying everywhere — no one can describe it,” said Ahmed Shaaban, a displaced Palestinian man.

    “We couldn’t save anyone. The situation was catastrophic and crazy. No one could have imagined it, not even in their nightmares,” he added.

    Since early Sunday morning, the 42-year-old father of six has been trying in vain to identify landmarks in his neighborhood. The street where he once lived with his family has been reduced to rubble.

    “We can only see the rubble of houses destroyed by Israeli airstrikes. The dead and wounded were lying on the sides of the road. No one could save them due to the violent and continuous bombing,” he said with teary eyes.

    When the bombing, which lasted for more than half an hour, finally subsided, Shaaban and his neighbors started to leave and seek safety. “We were shocked by what we saw. The victims were everywhere,” he recalled.

    In a desperate attempt to rescue the injured people, they used anything that could move — vehicles, bicycles, even donkey carts — to transport them to hospitals.

    Yahya Ayoub from the city of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip described how the bombing forced many displaced people and dozens of residents of Nuseirat camp to flee their homes.

    “Destruction is everywhere here. Houses were burned, some destroyed. Victims were killed inside their homes without understanding what was happening or what their fault was,” Ayoub said.

    With a tone of sadness, Ayoub said he could not believe he had survived the bombing. He recounted carrying an injured, unconscious child from the street, running a long distance until he found a car to take the child to the hospital.

    “I still do not know the condition of the child, but I hope he is fine and that the doctors succeed in saving his life,” he said.

  • Death Toll From Israeli Attack on Central Gaza Jumps to 210

    Death Toll From Israeli Attack on Central Gaza Jumps to 210

     

    Israeli forces target Deir al-Balah, Al-Bureij, Al-Maghazi, Nuseirat camps and Zaytoun, Tel Al-Hawa neighborhoods in Gaza City, according to Palestinian sources

    By Anadolu staff

    ANKARA:  The death toll from the Israeli bombing on Saturday of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza has risen to 210, the Government Media Office in the besieged Palestinian enclave said.

    “Some 210 martyrs and more than 400 injured were brought to Al-Aqsa Hospital due to the brutal Israeli massacre in the Nuseirat camp,” the office said in a statement.

    The office further voiced “an urgent appeal to the international community and international organizations to save Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital and supply it with medical necessities and generators to ensure its continued operation.

    “Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital is unable to accommodate the number of martyrs and injured due to the Israeli bombardment,” warned the Gaza media office.

    Earlier in the day, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital spokesman, Khalil Al-Dakran, said in a press conference that “55 Palestinian fatalities arrived at the hospital as a result of the Israeli raids on the Nuseirat camp in the Central Governorate.”

    He added that the hospital is “suffering from severe overcrowding and there is no room for more patients.”

    Israel conducted violent and unprecedented raids targeting areas in central Gaza Strip coinciding with a sudden incursion of military vehicles to the east and northwest of Nuseirat camp in central Gaza.

    Eyewitnesses told Anadolu that Israeli artillery and warplanes have been conducting violent and intense raids for hours on areas east of Deir al-Balah, al-Bureij and al-Maghazi camps, as well as various locations in the center, west, and east of the Nuseirat camp.

    Eyewitnesses added that columns of black smoke were rising from all parts of the central Gaza Strip due to the unprecedented air and artillery bombardment targeting these areas.

    According to eyewitnesses, Israeli military vehicles suddenly entered the areas east and northwest of the Nuseirat camp, coinciding with intense artillery shelling targeting large portions of the camp.

    Witnesses also reported that Israeli vehicles also advanced near the Gaza Valley on Salah al-Din Road in the central Gaza Strip.

    “Israeli drones are densely flying over the Nuseirat camp, firing on anyone moving on the camp’s roads, resulting in numerous deaths and injuries,” paramedics told Anadolu.

    Medical sources told Anadolu that dozens of casualties arrived at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah due to Israeli air strikes and shelling.

    Also, eyewitnesses told Anadolu that violent clashes erupted between Palestinian resistance groups and Israeli forces in the eastern part of Deir al-Balah, the Al-Bureij and Al-Maghazi camps, and north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

    They added that Israeli military vehicles expanded their incursion east of the city under heavy fire cover.

    Official Palestinian news agency Wafa also reported that “occupation aircraft launched violent missile and artillery bombardment on the Zaytoun and Tel Al-Hawa neighborhoods in Gaza City, and the Nuseirat, Al-Maghazi and Al-Bureij camps in the central Gaza Strip.”

    Medical sources at the Baptist Hospital reported receiving four bodies of Palestinians due to Israeli aircraft bombing a house in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

    Meanwhile, the Israeli army confirmed on Saturday launching a “large-scale and unprecedented attack” on the Nuseirat camp and other areas in the central Gaza Strip.

    In a statement, the army said that its forces are attacking “infrastructure” in the Nuseirat area.

    The daily Yedioth Ahronoth described the massive attack on the Nuseirat camp as “unprecedented.”

    The Israeli Walla website also said that the Israeli Air Force is bombing Deir al-Balah and the Nuseirat camp, while naval boats are bombing the outskirts of Gaza City.

    Israel has continued its brutal offensive on Gaza since a Hamas attack last Oct. 7 despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire.

    More than 36,800 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, most of them women and children, and nearly 83,700 others injured, according to local health authorities.

    Eight months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lay in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water, and medicine.

    Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, whose latest ruling ordered Tel Aviv to immediately halt its operation in the southern city of Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.

    *Writing by Ikram Kouachi and Rania Abu Shamala

  • UN Official Calls Out Double Standard, Bias in Israeli Offensive in Gaza

    UN Official Calls Out Double Standard, Bias in Israeli Offensive in Gaza

    Celebrating hostage release while ignoring Palestinian suffering shows moral failure, says UN Rapporteur Balakrishnan Rajagopal

    By Gizem Nisa Cebi

    ISTANBUL:  The UN’s special rapporteur on the right to housing has rebuked countries he accused of bias on Israel’s offensive on Gaza following a deadly attack by Tel Aviv on the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza.

    “Countries that celebrate the release of four Israeli hostages without saying a word about the hundreds of Palestinians killed and thousands held in arbitrary detention by Israel, have lost moral credibility for generations and don’t deserve to be on any UN human rights body,” Balakrishnan Rajagopal said on X about the attack that took place on Saturday.

    Earlier, the Israeli army announced that it had launched attacks on various locations in the central part of the Gaza Strip and had successfully rescued four captives alive from two different areas.

    Citing a US official, CNN reported that an American unit in Israel aided the efforts to rescue the hostages.

    The Gaza-based Government Media Office said that at least 210 Palestinians were killed and more than 400 injured on Saturday in severe Israeli airstrikes targeting Nuseirat refugee camp, areas east of Deir al-Balah, and al-Bureij and al-Maghazi camps in central Gaza, coinciding with a sudden incursion of vehicles east and northwest of Nuseirat.

    Israel has continued its brutal offensive on Gaza since a Hamas attack last Oct. 7 despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire.

    More than 36,800 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, most of them women and children, and over 83,500 others injured, according to local health authorities.

    Eight months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lay in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water, and medicine.

    Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, whose latest ruling ordered Tel Aviv to immediately halt its operation in the southern city of Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.