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28-03-2024
RAFAH/ GAZA CITY: Attacks continue and the situation on the ground remains dire despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during Ramadan.
Hamas says Israel is “losing political cover and protection even in the Security Council” and “the US is unable to impose its will on the international community”.
Israel’s military claims it killed Hamas commander Marwan Issa in an air strike earlier this month. A Hamas politburo official says it has no evidence of the death and accuses “the enemy” of “psychological warfare”.
At least 32,414 Palestinians have been killed and 74,787 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attack stands at 1,139 with dozens still held captive.
The Israeli military said about 30 rockets were launched from Lebanon towards northern Israel this morning.
Hezbollah took responsibility for the launches saying they were in response to an Israeli air strike on a paramedic centre in southern Lebanon overnight. Israel Rescue Services said a 25-year-old man was killed and two others lightly injured in the northern city of Kiryat Shmona.
The Israeli attack on the paramedic centre on the village of Hebbariye in southern Lebanon killed seven people in the early morning hours. The Islamic Emergency and Relief Corps said the victims were volunteers.
The Israeli military claimed the facility was “a military building” and that it had killed a member of Lebanon’s Sunni Muslim al-Jamaa al-Islamiya, or the Islamic Group, and several other fighters.
Hezbollah vowed to avenge the attack, saying it “will not pass without punishment”.
Israeli shelling has killed two Palestinians towards the east of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting.
The casualties come after Israeli forces killed at least one and wounded others west of Nuseirat refugee camp, also in the centre area of the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
In Gaza, 27 people, 23 of them children have starved to death as a result of what international bodies say is Israel’s use of hunger as a weapon of war.
Starvation is when the human body is deprived of food for so long that it suffers and, in many cases, stops functioning.
“It’s a very cruel, slow death,” said Dr Omar Abdel-Mannan, a British-Egyptian pediatrician and neurologist who has volunteered in Gaza. “You basically just waste away.”
Israel is not expected to comply with the UN Security Council’s recent call for a ceasefire in Gaza, according to an international law expert.
“Israel has a significant record of non-compliance with international law,” Lima Bastami, director of the law department at the Geneva-based civil society organization Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, told Anadolu Agency. (Int’l News Desk)
