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07-08-2024
GAZA CITY: Gaza’s Health Ministry reports that at least 40 people were killed and 71 injured in Israeli attack over the past 24 hours.
The “decomposed” bodies of almost 90 unidentified Palestinians who were killed and taken by Israeli forces have been returned to Gaza and buried in a mass grave, Gaza’s Civil Defence agency says.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has called for urgent de-escalation in the Middle East over fears that the Gaza war could spread.
Russia’s Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu has met his Iranian counterpart in Tehran; he is also scheduled to hold talks with Iran’s new president Masoud Pezeshkian.
At least 39,623 people were killed and 91,469 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 and more than 200 were taken captive.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Russia’s RIA news agency that Haniyeh’s assassination was intended to “prolong” the war on Gaza and “expand its scope”.
Abbas called the killing “a dangerous development in Israeli politics” and said the incident will have “a negative impact on the ongoing negotiations to end the aggression”.
He urged Israel to “abandon their ambitions and stop their aggressive actions against our people and our cause” and to commit to “an immediate and lasting ceasefire and withdrawal from the Gaza Strip”.
American journalist Jeremy Scahill speaks to The Bottom Line on the growing tensions in the Middle East following Israel’s latest string of assassinations, including Hamas’s Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut.
Scahill says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be considered the “chief arsonist in the Middle East” and that he “smells blood right now because [US President] Joe Biden is a lame duck president”.
Watch the latest episode of The Bottom Line below;
Once again, the Ain al-Assad military base in western Iraq was attacked by rockets.
The Pentagon says that a number of US military individuals were injured in the attack and they were transferred to a field hospital to receive medical treatment.
Iraqi security forces have been deployed in the area in a search for the suspects. They say they found a pick-up truck with a rocket launcher mounted on top of it. They also found a number of unexploded rockets in the truck.
This is the second time the Ain al-Assad military base has been attacked by rockets within 10 days. And it comes as tension is rising in the region between Iran and Israel following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas in Tehran on Wednesday, and as the United States is deploying more troops, warships and carriers in the region.
Iranian officials have been threatening to attack Israel in retaliation for the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh and any attack by Iran is expected to be coordinated with its allies in the region. Especially the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon and what is so-called the Islamic resistance in Iraq, which includes Iran-aligned armed groups.
We’ve been covering Israel returning the decomposed bodies of 89 unidentified Palestinians to officials at the Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip.
A Palestinian woman who went to the hospital in the hopes of finding her missing son and father spoke to media about her search for her family members. (Int’l News Desk)
