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17-12-2024
JERUSALEM/ GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces killed at least 50 people in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, including in four attacks targeting schools where displaced Palestinians were sheltering, medics say.
The victims included Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Al-Louh, two other Palestinian journalists and five members of the Palestinian Civil Defence.
Israeli authorities also announced plans to double the population of Israeli settlers in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights after Israel’s military seized land in the territory following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 44,976 Palestinians and wounded 106,759 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.
Another bloody evening here in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military has targeted an UN-run school in Khan Younis, which was located next to the Nasser Medical Complex. It was a three-storey building and it was attacked without any warning.
The strike left behind a huge level of destruction and caused a huge fire to break out.
Civil Defence workers have banded together with civilians at the site of the attack and are looking for anyone who may be alive. Those who were injured and killed were transported to the Nasser Medical Complex.
It’s quite heartbreaking.
Especially because families were sleeping when the strike took place.
Day in and day out, the Israeli military has been focused on pummeling these UN-run shelters that civilians have been taking refuge in, due to the lack of standing buildings and safe spaces.
Israel says it will close its embassy in Ireland, citing Dublin’s recognition of a Palestinian state and support for South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
“The decision to close Israel’s embassy in Dublin was made in light of the extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government,” Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said in a statement on Sunday. Bobby McDonagh, a former Irish ambassador, told media that the Irish government’s condemnation of the “grotesque behavior of the Israeli government” in Gaza “is very much reflective of Irish public opinion”.
Israeli forces bombed a home in the Shujayea neighborhood of northern Gaza City, killing at least 6 people and wounding several others, Wafa reports.
The military also attacked a home near the Qassam Cemetery in the central Nuseirat refugee camp, killing at least five people, including a child.
Israeli forces stormed a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in northern Beit Hanoon, killing at least 15 people. The victims included a family of four, including two children. The military also bombed a Civil Defence Post in the central Nuseirat refugee camp, killing a cameraman Ahmed Al-Louh and five emergency workers.
Earlier in the day, an Israeli air attack killed Palestinian journalists Mohammed Jabr al-Qrinawi and Mohammed Balousa. Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 195 media workers.
Israel says it will close its embassy in Ireland, citing Dublin’s recognition of a Palestinian state and support for South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for its actions in Gaza.
Israel’s government says it has “unanimously approved” the “demographic development” of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and would seek to double the Israeli population there. The plan is for the portion of the Golan Heights that Israel has illegally occupied since 1967. (Int’l News Desk)
