Israel ignores global outcry for ceasefire as Gaza death toll nears 10,000

Agencies | Gaza City                                                

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Death toll in Gaza moved closer to 10,000 yesterday as Israel continued with the bombings, without heeding to calls for a humanitarian truce not only from across the world but even from its closest allies.

By yesterday afternoon, the number of Palestinians who had died since October 7th reached 9,770, of whom over 4,800 were children, informed the health ministry in Gaza. At least 45 people were killed in Israeli strikes on a central Gaza refugee camp, the health ministry said yesterday in an updated toll.

The number of deaths was initially reported as 30. Further, the ministry said Israel had directly bombed civilian homes and that most of the dead were women and children. Mohammed Alaloul, a 37-year-old journalist with Turkish Anadolu Agency, told AFP that an Israeli air strike targeted his neighbour’s house in Al-Maghazhi refugee camp.

Alaloul said his 13-year-old son Ahmed and his four-year-old son Qais were killed in the attack, along with his brother while his wife, mother, and two other children were injured.

Intense bombings

Yesterday evening, the government in Gaza said Israel was carrying out intense bombings around several hospitals in the north of the Gaza Strip, shortly after telecommunications were cut, AFP reported.

Four Palestinians were killed yesterday during Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said. Two men aged 22 and 20 were killed in an attack by Israeli occupation forces on Abu Dis, a suburb of annexed east Jerusalem, the ministry stated. A third Palestinian, Nabil Halbiya, was shot dead by Israeli troops.

He was shot in the chest while six others were wounded, three seriously, when the Israeli army opened fire after a clash occurred when attempting to detain Nabil. A 22-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli occupation bullets in Nuba, northwest of Hebron, the ministry said.

In Al-Eizariya, also on the outskirts of Jerusalem, a 17-year-old succumbed to injuries on Sunday after being hit by Israeli army bullets several days ago.

Genocide

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas yesterday decried Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

“I have no words to describe the genocide and destruction suffered by our Palestinian people in Gaza at the hands of Israel’s war machine, with no regard for the principles of international law,” Abbas told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The US State Department said Blinken reaffirmed the US’s commitment to the delivery of life-saving humanitarian assistance and resumption of essential services in Gaza and that he made clear that Palestinians must not be forcibly displaced, reported AFP.

France’s Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna yesterday called for an immediate humanitarian pause in the war as casualties climb in the besieged Gaza Strip, whose population is living on dwindling supplies. “An immediate, durable and observed humanitarian truce is absolutely necessary and must be able to lead to a ceasefire,” she said in Doha.