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14-05-2024
RAFAH/ GAZA CITY: At least 300,000 Palestinians have fled Gaza’s Rafah, according to the United Nations, as Israel expands its offensive in the southern city and confronts Hamas fighters there.
Israeli tanks are moving deeper into the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, witnesses said, after launching a series of intense air raids in the area.
Egypt says it will formally join the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice, which accuses Israel of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention in the Gaza Strip.
At least 35,034 people have been killed and 78,755 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attacks stands at 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive.
Israeli forces have struck a medical clinic in Al Bureij camp in central Gaza, killing at least one person, according to witnesses.
Videos from the scene shows residents searching for survivors in the rubble using their cellphones as there is no electricity in the area.
Talal Abu Zarifa, a senior member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), has been killed in an Israeli attack on the Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City, according to media reports.
The Wafa news agency and Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen television channel announced his death late on Sunday night.
The DFLP, a leftist group formed in 1969, was one of the first factions in the Palestine Liberation Organization to support a two state solution. Its armed wing has fought Israeli forces in Gaza and previously claimed several rocket attacks on Israel.
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting the death of three Palestinians after Israeli forces shelled an apartment building in the Sabra neighborhood in northern Gaza City.
The attack also wounded eight others.
It comes as Israeli forces intensify air and ground attacks on northern Gaza, with witnesses reporting that Israeli tanks are pushing deeper into the Jabalia refugee camp.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been forcibly displaced once again as Israeli forces push further into areas in both the north and south of the Gaza Strip.
“What do they want from us?” Umm Ali, a displaced Palestinian, said.
“They are killing us and our children, shame on them. What can we do? We are staying on the street. We are being slaughtered.”
The Wafa news agency is reporting that several people were seriously wounded as Israeli jets bombed a home in the Brazil neighborhood in east Rafah.
All four of the Palestinians killed in an Israeli shelling in al-Zuwaida in the central Gaza Strip were children, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry says it will formally join South Africa’s case accusing Israel of violating the Genocide Convention at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the United States and Europe are not doing enough to pressure Israel to agree to a ceasefire in Gaza after Hamas accepted a truce proposal last week.
US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said Washington was right to end World War II by dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and said Israel should be given “the bombs they need”.
The comments come as US Secretary of State Blinken said Washington is considering withholding some weapons sales to Israel due to its lack of a “credible plan” to protect civilians in Gaza’s southern Rafah. (Int’l News Desk)
