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13-05-2024
JABALIA/ GAZA CITY: Israeli forces are “carpet-bombing” Jabalia in northern Gaza, killing and wounding several Palestinians, media reports say. The attacks come as Israel launches a new ground assault there, months after announcing Hamas had been “dismantled” in the area.
Officials from the European Union and the United Nations warn against a major ground assault on Rafah after the Israeli military expands evacuation orders for the city sheltering 1.4 million Palestinians.
Tens of thousands of people take part in antigovernment protests in Israel as pressure intensifies on the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make a deal to bring captives in Gaza home.
At least 34,971 people have been killed and 78,641 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 media are reporting that the sirens warning of incoming rocket fire have been heard in four areas in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, the Times of Israel said.
The alerts came as Israeli forces and Lebanon’s Hezbollah group continued to exchange fire across their borders.
The Israeli military claimed an attack on a Hezbollah military structure in the Amra region of southern Lebanon and said it intercepted several drones launched by the armed group. Hezbollah meanwhile said it launched rockets at Israel’s Beit Hillel military base, near the city of Kiryat Shmona.
Gustavo Petro and the Israeli prime minister are continuing to trade insults over the war in Gaza. The Colombian president, posting on X, said: “Netanyahu, you will go down in history as a genocidaire. Dropping bombs on thousands of innocent children, women and elderly people does not make you a hero.”
He compared Netanyahu with the Nazis who killed millions of Jews in Europe and said that “a genocide is a genocide”, regardless of the religion of those killed.
Earlier, Netanyahu had called Petro “an anti-sematic supporter of Hamas” after the Colombian leader called for the Israeli prime minister’s arrest over the killing of Palestinians in Gaza.
Imad Abu Zayda, an emergency doctor in Jabalia, said intensified Israeli attacks on northern Gaza had put hospitals out of service even as the number of women and child casualties increase.
“Most of the injuries we see today are children and women,” he told media. “There are no facilities here… We have no electricity in the hospital. Our solar panel system, batteries have shut down. Now we have no light in the hospital and there is no oxygen to give patients.” A total of 143 UN member states have voted in favor of Palestine’s path to full UN membership but what does sweeping support for Palestine in the UN General Assembly mean, when the United States continues to block Palestine from full UN membership in the UN Security Council?
On the other side, The US’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said its forces destroyed three drones launched by Houthis over the Red Sea on Saturday and that the attack by the Yemeni rebels caused no injuries or damage.
CENTCOM also said its forces “successfully engaged” another drone launched by the Houthis over the Gulf of Aden on Friday.
The reported drone launches came as the CENTCOM commander, Michael Erik Krill, travelled to Saudi Arabia to meet the country’s military leaders to discuss Israel’s war on Gaza as well as Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
