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18-12-2023
GAZA CITY: Dozens of people martyred in Israeli strikes on central and southern Gaza.
Palestinian health officials call for “urgent probe” as witnesses say Israeli bulldozers crushed Palestinians in the yard of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.
One of the three Israeli captives killed in Gaza by Israeli forces was holding a white flag, an Israeli army official said.
A media network says it will refer the killing of its cameraman Samer Abudaqa in Gaza to the International Criminal Court.
At least 18,787 Palestinians have been martyred in Israeli attacks since October 7. The revised death toll in Israel stands at about 1,200.
Israeli army says it used an aircraft to target the Nur al-Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm, occupied West Bank.
It added that a number of Palestinian fighters, who shot and launched explosives at Israeli forces, were killed.
The Israeli Broadcasting Authority reported at least three people killed.
Almost 300 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank since October 7.
“In addition to the assassination of Abudaqa by the Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip, the legal file will also encompass recurrent attacks on the Network’s crews working and operating in the occupied Palestinian territories and instances of incitement against them.”
Targeting journalists is a war crime under Article 8 of the Rome Statute.
The media network said it has set up a working group comprising its international legal team and international legal experts to submit a file to the court’s prosecutor.
The Israeli military’s admission that it mistakenly killed three Israeli captives has raised questions about its rules of engagement and increased pressure on PM Netanyahu to bring an end to the fighting in Gaza.
Yotam Haim, Alon Shimriz and Samer Talalka were shot dead after Israeli forces misidentified them as threats, according to the military’s preliminary report.
Elijah Magnier, a military analyst based in Brussels, and Noureddine Miladi, a professor of media and communications at Qatar University.
A journalist Wael Dahdouh who lost his wife, son, daughter and grandson in a previous Israeli bombing was wounded in the same attack on Friday. He was hit by shrapnel on his upper arm and managed to reach the Nasser Hospital where he was treated for minor injuries but rescue teams were unable to immediately reach Abudaqa and others at the site as they needed approval from Israeli forces to bulldoze through the debris to get to the location. (Int’l News Desk)
