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July 11 - 8, 2024 <<Israel orders evacuation of Gaza City: 'People don't know where to head anymore', says Ahmed Bayram... and <<At least 29 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrike on school in Khan Younis... and <<'Famine has spread from northern Gaza into central and southern Gaza'... and <<Palestinians mourn relatives killed in strikes on Gaza... and <<Israeli air strike on Gaza school kills at least 16... and <<CPJ:108 journalists and media workers killed since October 2023 and more news but most with a 'give way or go away' yell!

July 9 - 6, 2024 <<Israeli arrests daunt Palestinian journalists in West Bank... and <<'The war in Gaza is also an environmental catastrophe'... and <<Thousands of Palestinians flee fighting in Gaza City, mediators push for truce deal... and <<Israeli forces bombard Gaza City as tanks re-enter central areas... and <<Gaza death toll rises to 38,193... and <<Alain Dieckhoff, sociologist: 'Netanyahu offers no political prospects for Gaza'... and <<Protesters rally in Israel to call for Gaza ceasefire and Netanyahu's resignation... and <<Hamas drops key demand to accept phased US deal on ceasefire, hostages... and more news but most with a 'give way or go away' yell!

July 5 - 4, 2024 Food for thought: Truce or not the Palestinians are not going anywhere.  Read all the actual news here.    Click here to go throughout July and earler, 2024

June 14, 2024 Palestinian-Jordanian journalist Hiba Abu Taha sentenced to one year in prison

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May 23, 2024 In commemoration of Roshdi Sarraj and tribute to Shrouq Al Aila

 
When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.

BBC - July 11, 2024 - By Tom Bennett and Rushdi Abualouf, BBC News in London and Istanbul
<<Israel tells 'everyone in Gaza City' to leave
The Israeli military has told all residents of Gaza City to evacuate south to the central Gaza Strip, amid intensified operations in the north.
Leaflets dropped by aircraft instruct <everyone in Gaza City> to leave what is described as a <dangerous combat zone> via designated safe routes - marked as two roads that lead to shelters in Deir al-Balah and al-Zawaida. The UN has said it is deeply concerned about evacuation orders being given. It is the second time since the war began that Gaza City as a whole has been asked to evacuate. Over the past two weeks, Israeli forces have re-entered several districts where the military believes Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters have regrouped since the start of the year.
Hamas has said Israel's renewed activity in the city is threatening to derail negotiations over a potential ceasefire and hostage release deal, which resumed on Wednesday in Qatar. The talks are being attended by the intelligence chiefs of Egypt, the US and Israel, as well as the prime minister of Qatar. Top Hamas official Hossam Badran told AFP that Israel <is trying to pressure negotiations by intensifying bombing operations, displacement, and committing massacres>. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emphasised Israel's commitment to a deal as long as its <red lines are preserved>.
'I will not leave'
There are estimated to be more than a quarter-of-a-million people still living in Gaza City. Some were observed evacuating to the south after the Israeli military dropped leaflets there urging them to leave, which an Israel official later told the BBC was a recommendation rather than an instruction. Others, though, were not willing to leave. <I will not leave Gaza [City]. I will not make the stupid mistake that others have made. Israeli missiles do not differentiate between north and south,> resident Ibrahim al-Barbari, 47, told the BBC. <If death is my fate and the fate of my children, we will die with honour and dignity in our homes,> he said. The Palestinian Red Crescent said it had received calls from some residents who were unable to leave their homes because of the intensity of the bombing. <The information coming from Gaza City shows residents are living through tragic conditions. [Israeli] occupation forces continue to hit residential districts, and displace people from their homes and refuge shelters,> it said.
'A slow death': Gazans live alongside rotting rubbish and rodents
In a statement issued earlier on Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its troops had <conducted a counterterrorism operation> overnight against Hamas and PIJ fighters who were operating inside a headquarters of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) in Gaza City. The troops had opened a <defined corridor to facilitate the evacuation of civilians> from the area before they entered the structure and <eliminated terrorists in close-quarters combat>, it added.
There was no immediate comment from Unrwa.
The IDF also said it had killed dozens of fighters in Gaza City's eastern Shejaiya district and dismantled an underground tunnel route over the past day. Speaking in the Israeli parliament on Wednesday, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said that 60% of Hamas fighters had been killed or wounded since Israel's offensive began. The BBC could not independently verify these figures. On Tuesday, the UN Human Rights Office said it was <appalled> by IDF orders for residents to evacuate to <areas where Israeli military operations are ongoing and where civilians continue to be killed and injured>. It also warned that the Deir al-Balah area was already seriously overcrowded with Palestinians displaced from other areas of Gaza and that there was little infrastructure and limited access to humanitarian assistance. The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza to destroy the Hamas group in response to an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on 7 October, during which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage. More than 38,295 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry. Its figures do not differentiate between civilians and combatants, but it had reportedly identified 14,680 children, women and elderly people among the dead by the end of April.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy08nl4plvzo

France 25 - July 11, 2024 - by
<<Israel orders evacuation of Gaza City: 'People don't know where to head anymore', says Ahmed Bayram
Israel's army dropped thousands of leaflets over Gaza City on Wednesday (July 10) urging all residents to flee a heavy offensive through the main city of the besieged Palestinian territory. For more, FRANCE 24's Carys Garland is joined by Ahmed Bayram, media advisor for the Norwegian Refugee Council in the Middle East. <We have run out of options a long time ago. Now people have to be squeezed into tiny areas, camps, that are so overcrowded that now people are sleeping in the open. People don't know where to head anymore>, he said.>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240711-israeli-army-orders-evacuation-of-gaza-city-people-don-t-know-where-to-head-anymore-says-ahmed-bayram

France 25 - July 11, 2024
<<Commercial goods trucked into Gaza after aid logjams
Kerem Shalom (Israel) (AFP) - As bombs thunder in Gaza, just across the border in southern Israel truck driver Itzik waits in a barbed-wire protected parking lot for his delivery to clear inspection into the hunger-stricken territory. He lists a lorry loaded with Gaza-bound eggs, chicken, sesame, spices, tea and coffee, all destined for private markets that Palestinians and humanitarian workers describe as unaffordable. Aid meanwhile languishes on the other side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, with Israel and the United Nations trading blame for the logjam, and Gazans suffering the resulting shortages. Itzik, who declined to give his last name, said lately his cargo <mostly comes from the private sector>. He described a booming industry that keeps him running the route despite being branded a <traitor> to the Israeli war effort, efforts by right-wing activists to disrupt truck shipments to Gaza. Israel maintains it lets in enough food to feed the entire Gazan population of 2.4 million. It accuses the United Nations of not effectively distributing aid stacked up on the other side of the checkpoint. The UN, however, cites <insecurity, damaged roads, the breakdown of law and order, and access limitations> that hamper aid movement from Kerem Shalom to central Gaza. Philippe Lazzarini, who heads the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, in May regretted that the private sector, though welcome, was <being prioritised> at Kerem Shalom. The crossing has become the primary conduit for goods into Rafah since early May when Israeli troops seized the nearby Rafah crossing as they began ground operations against Hamas militants in the area. Now Kerem Shalom is mostly being used to pump commercial supplies into the territory.
<Right now, the private sector is working better than the aid organisations,> said Shimi Zuaretz, a spokesperson for COGAT, the Israeli defence ministry body overseeing Palestinian civilian affairs. COGAT took journalists on a tour of the checkpoint on Wednesday, displaying crates stuffed with watermelons, cherries, tomatoes, oranges, potatoes and pulses. Heaving open the gates of the remote desert compound, they allowed a parade of a dozen or so lorries to enter and load up the goods before departing for Gaza. AFP was prevented from speaking to the Palestinian drivers by the Israeli soldiers leading the tour.
Profiteering
Funnelling supplies into Gaza was difficult even before the war, which began with Hamas's October 7 attacks on nearby Israeli communities and resulted in the deaths of more than 1,170 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures. Militants also took 251 hostages, 116 of whom remain in Gaza, including 42 the military says are dead. Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed at least 38,295 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to data from the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory. After initially blocking all deliveries into Gaza, Israel reopened Kerem Shalom in December under international pressure. An average of 250 trucks now cross the checkpoint daily according to COGAT, still well below UN figure of 500 aid and commercial trucks before the war. Independent UN rights experts accused Israel on Tuesday of a <targeted starvation campaign> in the Gaza, where they said 34 Palestinians have died of malnutrition since October. Israel denied the charge, and Elad Goren, of COGAT, countered that <the UN are not doing their job> distributing aid. In the meantime, he said <the private sector continues to work.> Earlier in the war, the commercial pipelines dried up, leaving markets bare and a population dependent on aid, according to Juliette Touma, director of communications for UNRWA. Now, she said the prioritisation of the private sector over the humanitarian has sown <chaos> between Palestinians with and without cash. In Gaza, where everything is in short supply, profiteering is rife. Eggs now cost 120 shekels ($33), a box of baby formula 70 shekels and a packet of shampoo $26, the Norwegian Refugee Council said this week. Those without money give what they have. In a territory where nearly the entire population has been displaced, that can mean the clothes or the jewellery they wear. <To pump commercial supplies into Gaza this late in the war is a terrible idea,> said Touma. <Gaza needs both commercial and humanitarian supplies, as it had before the war.>
Desperation has fuelled a steady trade, with drivers to Kerem Shalom kept busy. <I have worked as a driver here for more than 20 years,> Itzik said. <I know my Gazan colleagues. I feel sorry for what is happening there.>
AFP>>
Source:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240711-commercial-goods-trucked-into-gaza-after-aid-logjams


29 Palestinians killed in airstrike at school in Khan Younis
Jinha - Womens News Agency - July 10, 2024
<<At least 29 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrike on school in Khan Younis
At least 29 Palestinians, including children and women, have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in southern Gaza.
News Center- Israel has waged a war on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023. Israeli Air Force targeted a school sheltering displaced Palestinians again. At least 29 Palestinians have been killed and 50 others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in southern Gaza, according to the Gaza's health ministry. The strike hit next to the gate of al-Awda school in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of the city of Khan Younis, the ministry said. Medical teams make efforts to transfer the injured to the Nasser and Al Amal hospitals in Khan Younis, said the Palestine Red Crescent Society. On July 1, the Israeli military issued new evacuation orders on Monday for areas in southern Gaza, including eastern Khan Younis. Displaced Palestinians have faced forced displacement again. At least 38,243 Palestinians have been killed and 88,033 others injured in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, the Gaza’s health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/at-least-29-palestinians-killed-in-israeli-airstrike-on-school-in-khan-younis-35354?page=1


Famine is spreading in Gaza
Jinha - Womens News Agency - July 10, 2024
<<'Famine has spread from northern Gaza into central and southern Gaza'
Famine has spread from northern Gaza into central and southern Gaza, UN experts said in a statement on Tuesday.
News Center- Israel's intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people is a form of genocidal violence and has resulted in famine across all of Gaza, a group of UN experts said in a statement on Tuesday. The experts cited the recent deaths of three Palestinian children: 6-month-old , 13-year-old and 9-year-old. <All three children died from malnutrition and lack of access to adequate health care,>, the statement said. <With the death of these children from starvation despite medical treatment in central Gaza, there is no doubt that famine has spread from northern Gaza into central and southern Gaza.> <When the first child dies from malnutrition and dehydration, it becomes irrefutable that famine has taken hold,> the experts said, calling upon the international community to prioritize the delivery of humanitarian aid by land by any means necessary, end Israel's siege, and establish a ceasefire. At least 34 children have already died of malnutrition in Gaza, the government media office in Gaza reported on June 22. <Half the population of Gaza, almost one million people, is expected to face death and starvation by the middle of July,> UN Humanitarian Chief Martin Griffiths said in a statement on June 12, 2024.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/famine-has-spread-from-northern-gaza-into-central-and-southern-gaza-35355?page=1

Le Monde - July 10, 2024
<<Israeli army urges all Gaza City residents to leave
Israel dropped thousands of leaflets urging all residents to leave amid an intensified military offensive on the Palestinian territory's main city, an AFP journalist said. The Israeli army on Wednesday, July 10, dropped thousands of leaflets on Gaza City urging all residents to leave amid an intensified military offensive on the Palestinian territory's main city, an Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalist said. The leaflets, addressed to <everyone in Gaza City,> set out routes out of the city to designated safe areas further south and warned the urban area would <remain a dangerous combat zone> as the army hits Hamas targets. Israel issued its first formal evacuation order for part of the city on June 27, and two more in the following days. In the leaflet drop, the army said residents would be able to take two safe roads <quickly and without inspection from Gaza City to shelters in Deir Al-Balah and Al-Zawiya.>
Gfround battles
Following the October 7 Hamas attacks, Israel said in January that it had <dismantled> the militant group's <military structure> in the northern city. Tens of thousands more residents have already fled Gaza City since troops launched the latest offensive in the city's eastern Shujaiya neighborhood and ground battles have since raged. The two latest orders covered central and western areas where tanks and troops have moved in this week.
The army also said its forces had attacked militants inside Gaza City's vacated headquarters of the UN agency for Palestinians, UNRWA. Strikes have also hit Deir Al-Balah, an area where Palestinians have been urged to move to for safety. The United Nations on Tuesday expressed alarm at Israel's evacuation orders, saying they tell Palestinians to go to zones where there is fighting. The October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,195 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures. The militants also seized 251 hostages, 116 of whom remain in Gaza, including 42 the military says are dead. Israel's military offensive has killed at least 38,243 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to figures released Tuesday by the Hamas-run territory's health ministry.
Le Monde with AFP>>
Source:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/07/10/israeli-army-urges-all-gaza-city-residents-to-leave_6680113_4.html

France 25 - July 10, 2024
<<Palestinians mourn relatives killed in strikes on Gaza
Palestinian officials say an Israeli airstrike in Gaza Strip has killed dozens whilst advancing tanks in Gaza City have forced residents to flee under fire. Israel stepping up its offensive that Hamas warns could jeopardise ceasfire talks.>>
Source incl. video here:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240710-palestinians-mourn-relatives-killed-in-strikes-on-gaza

BBC - July 9, 2024 - By David Gritten
<<Israeli air strike kills 29 people at Gaza camp for displaced
Casualties from the strike have been brought to Nasser hospital in Khan Younis
At least 29 Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli air strike on a camp for displaced people outside a school in southern Gaza, hospital officials say. Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said the strike had hit next to the gate of al-Awda school in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of the city of Khan Younis. The Israeli military said it had used <precise munition> to target a <terrorist from Hamas' military wing> who, it said, had taken part in the 7 October attack on Israel. It said it was <looking into the reports that civilians were harmed> adjacent to al-Awda school, which houses displaced people from the eastern villages of Khan Younis. The incident comes a week after the Israeli military ordered civilians to evacuate Abasan al-Kabira and other areas of eastern Khan Younis, prompting tens of thousands to flee. The BBC has spoken to witnesses who said the area was teeming with displaced people at the time, and who recounted the bloody aftermath in graphic detail. The attack resulted in widespread destruction and the deaths of women and children, according to the witnesses. Body parts were scattered across the site and many people staying in tents outside the school were also injured. Ayman Al-Dahma, 21, told the BBC there had been as many as 3,000 people packed into the area at the time, which he said housed a market and residential buildings. Describing the number of casualties as <unimaginable>, he said he had seen people whose limbs had been severed by the blast. He continued: <They said it was a safe place - that there were water and food, there were schools and everything... Suddenly a rocket comes down on you and all the people around you.>
The attack resulted in the deaths of women and children, witnesses said
Mohamed Awadeh Anzeh told the BBC the area had been busy with people and market traders <going about their normal lives> when the strike hit.
He continued: <Suddenly, while we were sitting, there was a sound. It went dark... I was feeding my little child. <I don't know what happened. Suddenly, I took him and started running... and while I was running, I saw blood coming down from my leg.> He described a <terrifying> scene and said he had witnessed body parts strewn across the street. Iqram Sallout said there had been no prior warning a strike could be imminent in the area, which he told the BBC had been filled with people forced from their homes by the conflict. <There are many displaced people - you couldn't even walk in the streets, there were many tents and people, including young people>. He added: <The injuries we saw were severe, even among young children.> One video showed more than a dozen dead and seriously wounded people, including several children, on the floor of a local hospital. One source at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, where the injured from Abasan al-Kabira were taken, said they expected the number of dead to increase. This is the fourth attack on or near to schools sheltering displaced people in the past four days. The Israeli military said it had carried out the first three strikes because Hamas politicians, police officers and fighters were using them as bases:
On Saturday, 16 people were killed in a strike on a UN-run school in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza, which was home to about 2,000 displaced people, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. On Sunday, a strike on a church-run school in Gaza City killed a senior Hamas government official and three other people, local sources said. On Monday night, several people were reportedly wounded in a strike on another UN-run school in Nuseirat. The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza to destroy the Hamas group in response to an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on 7 October, during which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.
More than 38,240 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c880k3930rmo

BBC - July 9, 2024 - By Tom Bennett
<<Hamas critic beaten by masked men in Gaza
Amin Abed is a long-term critic of Hamas rule in Gaza
A Palestinian activist known for organising anti-Hamas protests in Gaza has been taken to hospital after an attack by a group of masked men.
Amin Abed, 35, was admitted in critical condition after being kidnapped near his home by five assailants on Monday afternoon. A well-known activist, Mr Abed told the BBC: <I will not stop using my right to express my rejection of the 7 October attack.> Public dissent against Hamas has grown in recent months as residents of Gaza grow angry at the huge toll inflicted on the enclave since the start of the war. More than 38,240 people have been killed, including 50 in the past day, in Gaza, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry, since Israel began its offensive following Hamas's unprecedented 7 October attack.
'Armed with machetes'
Mr Abed described being kidnapped near his house by a group of five men who were armed with guns and machetes. He was taken to a semi-demolished house, beaten, and called <an agent for Israel> and <a traitor>. The leader of the group told Mr Abed's assailants to break his fingers so he could not again write criticism of Hamas or <the heroic events of 7 October>. After a group of passers-by attempted to intervene, the attackers fired shots into the air and told them to stay away, claiming they were from Hamas security forces. Eventually, the assailants left and bystanders were able to take Mr Abed to a hospital. Mr Abed is considered a popular figure. Before the war, had been arrested multiple times for speaking out against Hamas rule. On Monday morning, Mr Abed wrote a long criticism of Hamas on Facebook, accusing the group of <dividing the Palestinian people> and <quashing their dream of a state>. <We are tired, world,> he wrote, <we are really tired.> Last week, in an interview with the BBC, he said: <[Hamas] has a lot of support among those outside Gaza's border, who are sitting under air conditioners in their comfortable homes, who have not lost a child, a home, a future, a leg.> Days earlier, he criticised Hamas in an interview with Saudi TV channel Al Arabiya. A clip from the interview was picked up on TikTok. In 2019, Mr Abed helped organise protests over the state of Gaza's economy. Fatah, the ruling party in the West Bank and political rival of Hamas, released a statement on Monday condemning <the blatant assault on activist Amin Abed in Gaza>. It did not name Hamas, but said the <de facto authorities in Gaza> had allowed <criminality> to spread in the enclave and held them fully responsible for Abed's well-being.
Hamas violently ousted Fatah from the Gaza Strip in 2007, a year after winning national elections, reinforcing its power there and deepening a schism between the two dominant Palestinian groups. Gaza's Hamas-run police force has largely disappeared from the streets since the start of the war because of being targeted in Israeli air strikes, though the group remains the official authority in the territory. The BBC has approached Hamas for comment. The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza to destroy Hamas in response to its attack on southern Israel on 7 October, during which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx82xx9pj5do

BBC - July 8, 2024 - By Rushdi Aboualouf and Tom McArthur
<<Israeli air strike on Gaza school kills at least 16
Shock and horror at scene of Gaza blast
At least 16 people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a UN-run school in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials have said. Dozens more have been injured. The building was sheltering thousands of displaced people at Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. Israel said it had struck several Hamas <terrorists operating in structures located in the area of Al-Jaouni School>. A local source said the target was a room allegedly used by Hamas police. A spokeswoman for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said the claims were <very, very serious> and should be investigated. The attack comes as hopes rise that a deal between Israel and Hamas is on the horizon, following months of false starts. Israel has announced it will send a team of negotiators next week to discuss a hostage release deal with Hamas. It comes after a senior US administration official said Hamas had agreed to <pretty significant adjustments> to its position regarding a potential ceasefire. A senior Hamas source told the Reuters news agency on Saturday that the group had agreed to begin talks on releasing Israeli hostages 16 days after the proposed first phase of an agreement aimed at ending the Gaza war. Video from the scene of the Nuseirat school strike shows adults and children screaming in a smoke-filled street covered in dust and rubble, as they run to help the wounded. Eyewitnesses told the BBC that the attack targeted the upper floors of the school, which is located near a busy market. The BBC understands that up to 7,000 people were using the building as shelter.
One woman told the AFP news agency how some children were killed as they were reading the Koran when the building was hit. <This is the fourth time they have targeted the school without warning,> she said. Hamas said five local journalists were among those killed in Israeli attacks on Saturday. Members of their family were also reportedly targeted. More than 100 journalists have lost their lives in Gaza since the 7 October attacks, according to Reporters Without Borders. Hamas said the five latest fatalities brings the number to 158.
A dusty and bloodied young girl is carried from an ambulance with a heavily bandaged leg. At least 50 people were injured in the strike, Gaza officials say. In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed it had hit the school buildings, saying it had taken <numerous steps> to <mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise aerial surveillance and additional intelligence>. Hamas militants were using the location as a <hideout> to carry out attacks against IDF troops, it said. <Hamas continues to systematically violate international law by exploiting civilian structures and the civilian population as human shields for its terrorist attacks against the State of Israel,> it added. Hamas called the attack a <massacre> on <defenceless displaced civilians>. Many of the dead and wounded were women, children and the elderly, the group claimed via its English language Telegram channel. Reuters People walk through the ruins of a school that was hit by an airstrike, killing at least 16 people.Reuters
The IDF said it was <looking into the details> of the incident. Many schools and other UN facilities have been used as shelters by the 1.7 million people who have fled their homes during the war, which has lasted almost eight months. <We don't have all the information yet. Since the war began, we have had more than half of our facilities hit,> Juliette Touma, Unrwa's communications director, told the BBC regarding the latest attack.
<Many of them were shelters, and as a result at least 500 people sheltering in those facilities have been killed. Many were women and children.>
She added it was not the first time Israel had made such claims, and that they should be investigated. A previous attack in June on another packed UN -run school in Nuseirat killed at least 35 people. Local journalists told the BBC at the time that a warplane fired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of the school. After that attack, Israel's military said it had <conducted a precise strike on a Hamas compound> in the school and killed many of the 20 to 30 fighters it believed were inside. The head of the Unrwa described the June incident as <horrific> and said the claim that armed groups might have been inside a shelter was <shocking> but could not be confirmed.
Israel's war was triggered by Hamas's unprecedented attack on Israel on 7 October in which Hamas-led gunmen killed about 1,200 people and took 251 others back to Gaza as hostages. At least 38,098 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza as a result of Israel's offensive, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry. Israel has regularly accused Unrwa of supporting Hamas, which is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by Israel, the UK, US and other countries. The organisation has rejected this. In April, a UN investigation found Israel had failed to back up a claim that many of the agency's staff belonged militant groups, but also said it could improve its neutrality, staff vetting and transparency.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ng04kpv2do


journalists and media workers killed
Jinha - Womens News Agency - July 8 , 2024
<<CPJ:108 journalists and media workers killed since October 2023
108 journalists and media workers have been killed since October 7, 2023, said the report published by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Sunday.
News Center- At least 108 journalists and media workers have been killed since Israel declared war on Hamas following its attack against Israel on October 7, 2023, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said in a report on Sunday. As of July 7, 2024, the preliminary investigations of the CPJ showed at least 108 journalists and media workers were among the more than 39,000 killed since the war began, making it the deadliest period for journalists since CPJ began gathering data in 1992. <Since the war in Gaza started, journalists have been paying the highest price-their lives-for their reporting. Without protection, equipment, international presence, communications, or food and water, they are still doing their crucial jobs to tell the world the truth,> said CPJ Program Director Carlos Martinez de la Serna in New York. <Every time a journalist is killed, injured, arrested, or forced to go to exile, we lose fragments of the truth. Those responsible for these casualties face dual trials: one under international law and another before history's unforgiving gaze.> According to the CPJ, 32 journalists have been injured, two journalists have been missing and 51 journalists have been arrested since October 7, 2023.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/cpj-108-journalists-and-media-workers-killed-since-october-2023-35334

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