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21-12-2024
GAZA STRIP: At least 77 Palestinians have been killed and 174 wounded in Israeli attacks across Gaza, according to the latest daily update by the besieged territory’s Health Ministry.
A new report titled “Gaza death trap” by Doctors Without Borders says there are “clear signs of ethnic cleansing” by Israeli forces in the Palestinian territory.
Israeli attacks on two school shelters in Gaza City killed at least 15 Palestinians who were forcibly displaced by the war.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 45,206 Palestinians and wounded 107,512 since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Reporters report that there are also injured people in the strike that targeted a house in the neighborhood in northeastern Gaza.
Media reported earlier today, Israeli settlers have stormed a village in the occupied West Bank, burning down a mosque and vandalizing it.
Now, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry has condemned the attack in Marda, north of Salfit, and called on the United Nations to “activate the international protection system”. The ministry said it considered the attack to be “racist par excellence” and a reflection of the Israeli far-right government’s policies of incitement campaigns against Palestinians.
Such actions are an “extension of a long series of violations and crimes by the armed and organized settler militias officially supported by the Netanyahu government”.
At least 45,206 Palestinians have been killed and 107,512 injured in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7, 2023, the Health Ministry in Gaza says.
In its latest daily update, the ministry said hospitals in the besieged and bombarded territory received a total of 77 killed people and 174 others who were wounded.
Former Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman has told the Israel Hayom newspaper that the government should also “close the crossings” from Israel to Gaza.
“Let them suffocate with Philadelphi,” he said, referring to the narrow territory located along the border between Gaza and Egypt.
“(The army) must remain with complete operational freedom [in Gaza],” the former minister said. “As soon as there is one rocket we go in. As soon as we detect an escalation, we go in,” he stressed. Abdullah Kamil, the governor of the occupied West Bank’s Salfit, holds the Israeli government fully responsible for the actions of Israeli settlers in Marda village near the city of Salfit, according to the Wafa news agency.
Earlier today, Israeli settlers stormed and set on fire the village’s mosque, writing vengeful and racist slogans against Arabs and Muslims as well as threatening villagers. Kamil said these acts are enabled by far-right Israeli ministers and are carried out under the protection of the Israeli army.
Israeli authorities claimed to have launched an investigation into the incident, according to a statement cited by Israeli media.
“We view the incident with severity and will work with determination to bring those responsible to justice,” a joint statement by Israel’s police and the Shin Bet internal security service reportedly said.
Human rights groups have long accused the Israeli government of inciting settlers and enabling their violent acts against Palestinians in the occupied territory. In a highly controversial move, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz last month announced an end to administrative detention orders for settlers reserving the practice of holding suspects without charge to be used against Palestinians only. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
