Israel has imposed a total communications blackout on Gaza, hitting cell towers and telecommunications infrastructure as it continues to pummel the strip at unprecedented levels amid widespread international condemnation.
Following comments by President Biden that he does not trust the death toll reported by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, the ministry released a report with the names, ages and ID numbers of close to 7,000 victims of Israel’s war on Gaza.
As Israel’s Gaza assault enters day 20, food, clean water, and fuel are running out. Oxfam warns “millions of civilians are being collectively punished in full view of the world, there can be no justification for using starvation as a weapon of war.”
The number of Palestinians killed in Israel’s deadly bombardment of Gaza Strip surpassed 6,000 people as Gaza’s Ministry of Health announced the death of 700 people in just 24 hours.
Dozens of hospitals are forced out of service as the situation in the West Bank and the northern front escalate. Meanwhile, Macron arrives in Israel to show support, and Hamas releases two captives on humanitarian grounds
In the deadliest night of bombardment since the beginning of the war, Israel kills 400 people in 24 hours as hospitals reach breaking point amid shortages of fuel and medicine. Popular calls for ceasefire continue to be ignored internationally.
Israel’s indiscriminate airstrikes continue in Gaza, while extending them to the West Bank in an airstrike on Jenin. Meanwhile, humanitarian aid stalls, fuel shortages put newborns’ lives in peril, and clashes with Hezbollah intensify.
The meager aid convoy of 20 trucks carrying food and medicine will offer Gazans little reprieve. Meanwhile, Israel continues its genocidal bombing campaign while stepping up its arrests in the West Bank and skirmishes with Hezbollah.
Israel bombed a church in Gaza, killing 17 people sheltering inside it. Meanwhile, UN aid through the Rafah crossing stalls, and the Israeli army launched a deadly raid on Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem.
Due to the destruction Israel wrought at the Rafah crossing and to roads, moving humanitarian aid into Gaza is currently impossible. Meanwhile, Israel has renewed its indiscriminate airstrikes with U.S. diplomatic cover.