Following Israel’s three-day attack on the population of Gaza – and the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire – the United Nations offers this update on the situation and humanitarian needs left in the wake of the Israeli violence.
Women, children, and seniors are among the injured and dead in Gaza, as Israel continues its bombardment of the blockaded population.
Israel initiated airstrikes on Gaza residential neighborhoods Friday, with deadly results. This is a developing story.
Dirar al-Kafrini was killed when Israeli soldiers shot him with an expanding bullet, as part of a larger operation in the Jenin refugee camp.
Israel’s 1956 Sinai Campaign included the massacre of 50 residents of the Palestinian town of Kafr Qasem for violating a curfew that they had not been told about. Testimony indicates that Israeli soldiers were told to “leave a few dead in each village” in hopes they would frighten the rest of the residents to flee to Jordan.
Israeli soldiers shot Hussein Hasan Qawareeq, 60, at the Huwwara military checkpoint south of Nablus after the Israeli army claimed he did not heed their commands to stop. His family said Hussein had a mental illness.
As Palestinian villagers peacefully protested Israeli violations against their persons and property, Israeli soldiers and settlers shot at them; one shot Amjad Abu Alia,16, in the chest, killing him.
The Israeli army raided the the Old City of Nablus, surrounded a home where several Palestinian resistance fighters were located, and exchanged gunfire for several hours before shooting missiles at the house, killing two Palestinians. Many other Palestinians were injured in the invasion.
Israeli apartheid: the branding of an entire population as a security threat and the withholding of desperately needed medical care is a form of racism that results in a larger disease burden and unnecessary deaths in the restricted Palestinian population, and also collectively punishes entire families and threatens the basic rights, health, and dignity of individuals.
The Israeli soldiers carried out the orders they’d been given: To break both arms and both legs by clubbing the Arabs; To avoid clubbing them on the heads; To remove their bonds after breaking their arms & legs, to leave them at the site; & To leave one local with broken arms but without broken legs so he could make it back to the village…