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Israel waged a genocidal war on the besieged Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian Hamas Resistance group carried out a historic operation against the occupying entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
Israel has imposed a complete siege on the densely populated territory, cutting off fuel, electricity, food, and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman says the publication of the horrifying news of the massacre and mass burial of hundreds of people in the vicinity of Nasser Hospital has caused shock among people around the world.
In reaction to the mass burial of hundreds of people in the vicinity of Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, Nasser Kan'ani said on April 21, 2024, that the publication of the horrifying and heartbreaking news of the massacre and mass burial of hundreds of patients, wounded, and medical staff in the vicinity of Nasser Hospital caused the astonishment and sadness among people around the world.
Emphasising the support of international humanitarian law, especially the 1949 Geneva Conventions for hospitals and medical centers, the spokesman said that not only the Israeli regime but states supporting it are responsible for such crimes as well.
Repeated, organised, and extensive crimes of the Zionist regime against the people of Gaza are clear examples of genocide and war crimes. All these highlight that it is the responsibility of the international community and international organisations to deal with the perpetrators and leaders of such crimes.
The UN has become a toothless tiger because of America, which needs dental surgery tout de suite.
If the American establishment stops its massive unremitting crimes in other independent and sovereign countries at their own free-will, the writer of this piece strongly believes 95% of violence, war, drone attacks, destruction, killing, … across the world will dramatically come to an end. The rest 5% discommodes from the whole world will then automatically diminish. The whole world will then be a peaceful and livable place for people of all religions to live together.
While strongly condemning such a tragedy in Gaza Hospital, we urge the UN secretary general, the rotating president of the Security Council, and all responsible countries and members of the international community to condemn the horrific incident in Khan Yunis and use national, regional, and international capacities to prosecute the crimes and punish the perpetrators.
In a statement released on April 20, 2024, Gaza's civil defense agency said the bodies of 50 Palestinians, who had been killed by the Israeli occupation forces, were retrieved from a mass grave at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. Our teams continue their search and retrieval operations for the remaining martyrs in the coming days as there are still a significant number of them,” it added.
They attacked Khan Yunis, the Gaza Strip’s second-largest city, in early December, forcing residents to flee their homes. On April 7, 2024, the Israeli military said that it had withdrawn its ground forces from Khan Yunis. Since then, displaced Palestinians have been returning to their homes after months of Israeli attacks, which left much of the city in ruins.
Israel waged a genocidal war on the besieged Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian Hamas Resistance group carried out a historic operation against the occupying entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
The Tel Aviv regime has so far killed at least 34,049 Palestinians, mostly women, and children, and injured 76,901 others.
The Deputy Secretary General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement, Mohammed Al-Hindi, said on April 22, 2024, that the occupiers will not be able to free a single Israeli captive from Gaza except through negotiations, despite they have been pounding the Gaza Strip relentlessly for over the last six months.
The official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that Israeli artillery shelling struck the eastern part of Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip, while a raid targeted the southeastern area of Khan Yunis in the southern region.
Several Palestinian civilians were killed and others were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on Al-Taqwa Mosque in Bureij Camp, central Gaza Strip. Further raids hit the northern part of Nuseirat Camp and the entrance to Bureij Camp, both in central Gaza.
Additional casualties occurred as a result of bombings near Al-Sawarha cemetery in Nuseirat camp and a house in Al-Brook area, Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza Strip.
Israeli airstrikes also struck the Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood, south of Gaza City, and the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Yunis city, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Local sources reported that Israeli aircraft conducted two raids targeting southern areas of Gaza City and the Al-Tuffah neighborhood. The ministry confirmed that the death toll from Israeli raids on two homes in Rafah has reached 26, including 16 children and 6 women.
More civilians, mainly children, were killed and wounded in an Israeli raid on a house west of Nuseirat camp in central Gaza. Local reports indicated that an Israeli airstrike targeted a house belonging to the Al-Nuwairi family in Nuseirat camp, resulting in the deaths of seven civilians.
Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7, 2023.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 34,151 Palestinians have been killed, and 77,084 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
Moreover, at least 7,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
Palestinian and international organisations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
The Israeli war has resulted in an acute famine, mostly in northern Gaza, resulting in the deaths of many Palestinians, mostly children.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt—in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7, 2023. Israeli media published reports suggesting that many Israelis were killed on that day by ‘friendly fire.’
Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killed 18 people, including 14 children, health officials said Sunday, as the warlord United States was on track to approve billions of dollars of additional military aid to its close ally, AP reported.
The first strike killed a man, his wife and their 3-year-old child, according to the nearby Kuwaiti Hospital, which received the bodies. The woman was pregnant and the doctors managed to save the baby, the hospital said.
Israel has carried out near-daily air raids on Rafah, where more than half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million has sought refuge from fighting elsewhere. It has also vowed to expand its ground offensive to the city on the border with Egypt despite international calls for restraint, including from the US bugaboo.
The second Israeli strike killed 13 children and two women, all from the same family, according to hospital records. An airstrike in Rafah the night before killed nine people, including six children.
The conflict, now in its seventh month, has sparked regional unrest pitting Israel and the US against Iran and allied militant groups across the Middle East. Israel and Iran traded fire directly earlier this month, raising fears of all-out war between the longtime foes.
World powers have been watching nervously since Israel vowed to retaliate against Iran for its unprecedented weekend assault on its arch-enemy, with fears soaring that escalating tit-for-tat attacks could push the region towards broader conflict.
Israel’s top ally and military supplier, the United States, and Britain unveiled sweeping sanctions against Iran’s military drone programme as governments kept up calls for restraint from all sides. In the latest in a series of threats between the two foes, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian warned that Tehran would make Israel “regret” any attack on the Islamic republic.
While the world’s attention has been focused on the Iran tensions, Israel has continued carrying out its offensive on besieged Gaza. The Israeli army said it had bombed dozens of targets in the territory. “The Middle East is on a precipice,” the UN’s Guterres said, according to AFP. “One miscalculation, one miscommunication, one mistake, could lead to the unthinkable—aa full-scale regional conflict that would be devastating for all involved.”
The UN chief again called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, calling for Israel to do more to allow aid into the territory. “In Gaza, six and a half months of Israeli military operations have created a humanitarian hellscape,” Guterres told the UN Security Council.
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