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17-09-2024
GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces pounded Gaza City’s Zeitoun and Sheikh Radwan neighborhoods, killing 10 Palestinians, including several children. The attacks followed a day of assaults that killed more than a dozen people across the enclave.
The Israeli military, reversing months of denials, admitted there was a “high probability” that three Israeli captives who died in Gaza last November were killed in its air attacks.
Yemen’s Houthis fired a missile that reached deep inside Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to exact a “heavy price” from the rebel group.
At least 41,206 people have been killed and 95,337 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. In Israel, the number of those killed in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 is at least 1,139, while more than 200 people were taken captive.
Akiva Eldar, an Israeli political analyst and author, said the Israeli military’s findings that its air attacks were responsible for the death of three captives last year was not likely to change Netanyahu’s approach to the war on Gaza.
“For him, this is a kind of, I’m sorry to say, collateral damage, as well as the 40,000 Palestinians that were killed, as well as the price that Israel is paying in the international arena,” Eldar told media from Le Havre, France.
“He knows that as long as the Israeli soldiers are in the combat field in Gaza, there will be Israeli fatalities. As long as the Israeli Air Force is bombing Gaza, the bombs cannot tell who is a captive and who Hamas is,” he added.
Nik Beizer’s mother has hit out at the Israeli military’s claim that it was not aware of her son’s presence in the underground tunnel network it attacked in November last year.
As we’ve been reporting, the 19-year-old soldier was among three Israeli captives who were killed in the bombing that the military said targeted Hamas commander Ahmed Ghandour.
“It’s incredible that they didn’t have that intelligence, that they didn’t think that next to Ghandour there would be captives,” Katy Beizer said, according to the Times of Israel.
“It’s hard for me to understand and believe this.”
The Institute for Palestine Studies has issued a statement honoring the late Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury for his contributions to the Palestinian people.
Khoury died in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Sunday. He was 76.
“Elias Khoury was a staunch advocate for Palestine, contributing to the struggle nationally and intellectually,” the institute said in a post on X. Even while hospitalized due to illness, Khoury continued to work on the publication of the institute’s Majallat al-Dirasat al-Filastiniyya journal, “especially during the genocide in the Gaza Strip”, the institute said.
He “paid exceptional attention to the plight of prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons, devoting pages of the journal to this crucial cause”, the statement added.
On Sunday, media reported that at least five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid on Salah al-Din Street in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City.
The media is now reporting that the five people were all from the Alborno family, who were returning to the neighborhood to check on their home after Israeli forces withdrew from the area.
Another member of their family, Dr Najwa Alborno, was working at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital when the bodies of her relatives were brought there.
The Wafa news agency is reporting that Israeli forces shot an 18-year-old Palestinian man in the thigh as they withdrew from the Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. (Int’l News Desk)
