2024-10-10 20:24:00
At least 28 people were killed this Thursday in a new Israeli attack on a school housing displaced Palestinians in Deir al Balah, in the center of Gaza StripWhile At least 12 people have died in new Israeli bombings in Lebanon and the Shiite group Hezbollah claimed responsibility for four rocket attacks on northern Israel.
Bombing in Gaza
As for the attack on the school In Gaza, both the Palestinian Red Crescent and the Gaza Ministry of Health reported the transfer of at least 54 injured people to hospitals, although local authorities reported that in total approximately 92 people were injuredespecially women and children. In a statement, the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas described the event as a horrific and brutal massacre.
The center, like the vast majority of Gaza since the war began, had become a refuge for those displaced by the conflict and was located near the Palestinian Red Crescent headquarters in Deir al Balah. Palestinian sources referred to the news school EFE What The school hosted around 3,000 people, many of them from northern Gazawhere the Israeli army launched its third ground offensive against the Jabalia refugee camp and ordered the further displacement of its inhabitants. “The shelling of an Israeli F16, which passed through the three layers of concrete of the school, transformed the school into a butcher’s shop where meat and body parts were scattered everywhere and covered the courtyard,” the sources said.
Gaza authorities have accused Israel of being fully aware that the center is being used as a refuge by thousands of displaced civilians. The Al Aqsa Martyrs’ hospital, one of the most important in the city, has received at least 50 wounded, he said EFE Bassem al Najjar, nursing supervisor of the center. “The majority of cases involve head and chest injuries, lower limb amputations and fractures”Al Najjar said, adding that the center’s emergencies are overwhelmed.
Videos recorded at the scene show how some patients had to be treated on the ground due to a lack of space to care for them. The Israeli army confirmed the attack. Because it almost always bombs the enclave’s civilian infrastructure, he said the school was used by Hamas militants as a command center and that it took measures to mitigate harm to civilians.
In recent weeks the armed forces have acknowledged numerous attacks against schools where, according to the armed forces, Hamas fighters were hiding. On Wednesday, an Israeli attack on a hospital in the Jabalia refugee camp left at least 17 dead.
According to the latest budgets of the Gaza Ministry of Health, More than 42,000 people have died since the war began in the continuing Israeli attacks against the devastated enclave. The attacks take place against Hamas, in retaliation for the attack that the Islamist group carried out on Israeli territory, in which around 1,200 people died and more than 200 were kidnapped.
UN complaint
The United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Palestinian Territories has accused Israel of waging a campaign of deliberate attacks against Gaza’s health systemwhich constitutes war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination.
The report of the commission chaired by the prestigious South African jurist Navi Pillay, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, assures that Israeli forces have committed incessant and intentional attacks against the staff of medical facilities over the last year.
“Israel must immediately stop this senseless destruction of health facilities that violates the right to health, something that could have long-term harmful effects on the civilian population.”Pillay said this in a statement on the occasion of the publication of the report, which will be presented to the UN General Assembly on 30 October. “Israeli forces killed, detained and tortured medical personnel, targeted medical vehicles in some attacks during the siege of Gaza, and restricted patients from leaving the Strip for treatment,” the document adds.
The report dedicates a separate chapter to the treatment of detainees and hostages in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, where the two warring parties are accused of torture, sexual abuse, captive killings and other serious human rights violations.
Criticize Netanyahu
For his part, Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and former Palestinian Foreign Minister Nasser al Kidwa agreed that as long as Benjamin Netanyahu remains in power there will be no progress towards peace in the region. and they blamed the international community for not having committed sooner.
Both leaders participated in a debate organized by the Real Institut Elcano in Madrid to analyze the situation in the Middle East, one year after the Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent response of the Israeli army. “As long as Netanyahu is in power and prime minister there will be no progress,” said Al Kidwa (2005-2006), to which Olmert (2006-2009) added that there is no disagreement between them on this aspect.
According to the former Palestinian ministeronly a change in leadership will allow progress towards a future of conflict resolution. “More war, more blood, more tears, more pain, more agony will lead nowhere. We must change this situation”he underlined.
Olmert, a staunch critic of Netanyahu, insisted on the need to immediately stop the war in the Gaza Strip and hoped that it would not turn into a wider war with Iran because, if so, it would involve the United States and shake everyone up. .
The situation in Lebanon
Meanwhile in Lebanon Israeli bombings that killed at least 12 people They occurred in the early hours of the day against cities in the south and in the Beká Valley in the east. In the western part of the Beka city of Baalbek, four people were killed and another was injured in an attack by Israeli fighters on a building, according to the Lebanese National News Agency. NNA.
There were also deaths in the southern Tyre city of Dardaghiya. “Five operational employees of the Regional Shooting Center were martyred (dead) in an Israeli shelling of the Civil Defense Center, where they were present inside waiting to receive distress calls,” a Civil Defense statement said.
For his part, Hezbollah said in separate statements that it fired several projectiles simultaneously at groups of Israeli soldiers. in Beir Halal, Al Marj and Miyan, in support of the Palestinian people and in defense of Lebanon and its people. In another statement, the Shiite formation states: “In response to the barbaric Israeli invasion of civilian cities and towns, the mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance bombed the Kiryat Shmona colony with a large number of missiles.”
ANDThe Israeli army has reported the death of two Hezbollah commanders in airstrikes in southern Lebanon, which he identified as Ahmad Mustafa al Haj Ali and Mohamed Ali Hamdan, and said they were responsible for firing anti-tank shells into northern Israel from the Lebanese towns of Hula and Mis al Jabal, respectively.
On Wednesday, two Israelis in their 40s died in the town of Kiryat Shmona after Hezbollah fired around 20 shells in the area, the first civilian casualties since Israel stepped up its attacks against the Lebanese group two weeks ago. Israel and Hezbollah have been clashing over division for a year, a confrontation that has risen to another level in the last two weeks with an intense Israeli bombing campaign against Lebanon, including Beirut, that has left more than 2,020 dead and hundreds of thousands of people. displaced people.
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