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  • Palestinian health authority: Over 6,500 dead in Israeli airstrikes

    Palestinian health authority: Over 6,500 dead in Israeli airstrikes

     

     

    Tel Aviv/Gaza:.  The number of Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip has risen to 6,547, according to the Hamas-controlled Gaza health authority.

    The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) , further reported on Thursday morning that 68 per cent of the fatalities were children and women.

    It cited figures from the Hamas-controlled agency.

    Around 1,600 people in Gaza had been considered missing.

    These figures cannot be independently verified.

    Israel’s army said it is preparing a ground offensive in Gaza.

    Terrorists acting on behalf of Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, massacred civilians in Israel on Oct. 7.

    More than 1,400 people were killed when armed Hamas militants staged cross-border attacks.

    According to Israel’s army, at least 222 other people were forcibly taken into the Gaza Strip.

    Four hostages have been released.

    Hamas says it will not release more hostages until Israel allows fuel and medicine to be delivered to the Gaza Strip. (dpa/NAN)(www.nannews.ng) / Flowerbudnews

  • Qatari emir tells Israel “enough is enough

    Qatari emir tells Israel “enough is enough

     

     

    Doha:   Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has urged Israel to end its
    heavy bombardments of the Gaza Strip, a response to the attack by armed Hamas militants in Israel more than two weeks ago.

    “Enough is enough,” the emir said, addressing Israel at the opening session of the Shura Council in Doha on Tuesday.

    It is unacceptable that Israel be given an “unconditional green light and a free licence to kill,” the emir said, Qatar local media reported.

    The Israeli “occupation, siege and settlement” could not be ignored, he said.

    “In our time, cutting off access to water and withholding medicines and food as a weapon against an entire population should also not be allowed.”

    Qatar and Israel do not have diplomatic relations but Qatar has close ties with the organisation that controls the Gaza Strip.

    More than 200 people were abducted during the Hamas attack on October 7, including citizens of several nations.

    Qatar has helped broker the release of four of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.

    Israel opened a trade mission in Qatar in 1996, but the emirate later closed it.

    During the Football World Cup, however, Qatar allowed direct flights from Israel.

    The Emir said the bloodshed must stop and civilians must be spared the consequences of military
    confrontations. (dpa/NAN)(www.nannews.ng)/ Flowerbudnews

     

  • Gaza health ministry says women, children make up 60% of injured in Gaza Strip

    Gaza health ministry says women, children make up 60% of injured in Gaza Strip

    By Flowerbud News

    Oct. 11, 2023

    Around 60 per cent of people injured in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip are women and children, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Wednesday.

    “About 60 per cent of those wounded in the Gaza Strip are women and children,” the health ministry said in a statement.

    Earlier on Wednesday, the health ministry said that the death toll in the Gaza Strip from Israeli attacks had reached 1,055 and another 5,184 people had been injured.

    At the same time, media reported that the number of those killed among Israeli citizens as a result of the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict had surpassed 1,200 people and nearly 3,000 had been wounded.

    The fate of the 150 people brought to the Gaza Strip as hostages by the Palestinian movement Hamas reportedly remains unknown.

    On Saturday, Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise large-scale rocket attack against Israel from the Gaza Strip, prompting Israel to declare a state of war the following day and launch retaliatory strikes.

    On Monday, Israel ordered a full blockade of the Gaza Strip, home to more than 2 million people, stopping supplies of water, food, and fuel. Both Israel and Palestine have so far reported hundreds of dead and thousands of injured as a result of the escalation.

    Sputnik/NAN