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Special report: July 12, 2024: Scorched Hospitals - Schools -  Housing - Bodies -- fake or fact? 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

Related news: July 2 2024: Arrests of Palestinian journalists since start of Israel-Gaza war June 25 - 23, 2024: Press' vests do not protect them and related stories   Click here for earlier stories/news

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.

July 12, 2024 - "Scorched Hospitals/Schools/Housing/Bodies: fake or fact?"
Opinion by Gino d'Artali: Indeed the 'million-dollar' question: Fake or facts. Read below and judge for yourself. However, fact is that the NATO, with the USA factually, having a desisive vote, is in lead is providing israel with millions of dollars in weaponry to aid and carry out its genocidal operations against the Gazanans. And now imagine: the USA is in the midst of an electoral campaign for the next president-elect and with the forefront-runners blinken, a I daresay a senile, and trump, I daresay a womens' perpetrator and financer of anti-democracy miitias.
So the overall question is: where do the 'spectators' of the genocide of the Palestinians that is at present unfolding stand? And is it not about time to form a fact-finding commission of the UN?
Read and decide for yourself:

France 25 - July 11, 2024 - by NEWS WIRES
<<Dozens of bodies found in rubble of Gaza City district, says Civil Defence Agency
Rescue and ambulance crews have retrieved more than 60 bodies from under the rubble in the Shejaiya neighborhood in Gaza City after Israeli troops withdrew from the area, the Civil Defense Agency said on Thursday. Just hours after the two-week offensive on Gaza City's Shujaiya district ended, Palestinians had already found 60 bodies as they picked through the piles of concrete and dust left behind, officials in Hamas-run Gaza said Thursday. Families of missing residents and civil defence agency crews moved in for the grim search after Israel announced late Wednesday that it had ended its operation there against Hamas. <Once the Israeli occupation forces withdrew from the Shujaiya neighbourhood, civil defence crews, with local residents, managed to recover about 60 martyrs up to now,> agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said. Some 85 percent of buildings are now <uninhabitable> and Shujaiya has been turned into a <disaster zone>, he added, estimating that 120,000 people had been left homeless.
Residents who returned found a ghost town. Sabrin Abu Asr said the district was <in ruins> as she went back to see the debris of her home. Like most buildings, only a skeletal frame remained after two weeks of clashes between the Israeli army and Palestinian militants that forced tens of thousands of people to flee. The rest lay collapsed in piles of crushed concrete, cinder blocks and twisted rebar. Israeli troops launched a ground offensive at the beginning of May in the southern city of Rafah, which was then presented by Israel as the last Hamas stronghold. But since then, clashes have increased between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters in the north and centre of the Gaza Strip. A full evacuation order was issued for Shujaiya on June 27. Since then, Israel has warned that all of Gaza City will remain a <dangerous> combat zone. Former residents could only bundle whatever they could salvage and seek shelter elsewhere, carrying possessions on a bike, a donkey-drawn cart or on their backs. <Shujaiya district lies in ruins... we are devastated,> said Abu Asr, who left by foot with a single can of food. <Our plight must be felt by others. Someone needs to empathise with the people of Gaza,> she added.
'Defies description'
The Israeli military said it dismantled eight tunnels and killed dozens of militants during the operation in Shujaiya. Israeli forces left behind a destroyed armoured vehicle, now standing between two buildings nearly flattened in the fighting. It has since been scrapped it for parts, its door and roof already gone. Nearby, Mohamad Nairi, his hands and t-shirt covered in dust, struggled to come to terms with what happened. <When we returned to Shujaiya district, we found immense destruction that defies description. All the houses were demolished,> he said. The fighting has now moved to the rest of Gaza City, which the Israeli army has urged residents to evacuate. Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel that sparked the war 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 responded with a military offensive that has killed at least 38,345 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to figures from the territory's health ministry.
(AFP)>>
Source:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240711-60-bodies-found-in-rubble-of-gaza-city-district-says-civil-defence-agency

France 25 - July 11, 2024 - by Marc DAOU
<<'More than 186,000 dead' in Gaza: How credible are the estimates published on The Lancet?
According to a <letter> published on the website of the British medical journal The Lancet, <186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza>. This is a significantly higher death toll than the 38,345 announced by the Hamas-run territory's health ministry on Thursday. FRANCE 24 takes a look at how the authors arrived at this estimate and whether their figure is credible. According to a <letter> published on July 5 on the website of the renowned British medical journal The Lancet entitled <Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential>, <it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza>. Based on <the 2022 Gaza Strip population estimate of 2,375,259, this would translate to 7.9% of the total population in the Gaza Strip>, write the co-authors of this letter published in the <correspondence> section of the website. These figures are significantly higher than the death toll of 38,345 announced on Thursday July 11 by the Gaza Health Ministry, which has been publishing daily figures since the start of Israel's offensive against Hamas in the besieged Palestinian territory, in response to the Islamist militant group’s October 7 attack on Israeli soil.
Direct and indirect deaths
This letter was co-written by Rasha Khatib, researcher at the US-based Advocate Aurora Research Institute and the Institute of Community and Public Health at Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, Martin McKee, professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and member of the International Advisory Committee of the Israel National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research, and Salim Yusuf, distinguished professor of medicine at McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences in Canada. Despite it not being either a report or scientific study, this letter, which includes an estimated number of direct and indirect deaths as a result of this conflict, has made global headlines. The Lancet explains that correspondence or <letters> are <reflections> from readers on <content published in The Lancet or on other topics of interest to our readers> that are <not usually peer reviewed>. Peer review is the standard method for validating the results of scientific research, carried out by qualified experts. In concrete terms, the co-authors write that they started from the principle that <armed conflicts have indirect health implications beyond the direct harm from violence> to arrive at the death toll of 186,000. They therefore applied a <conservative estimate> of four indirect deaths per one direct death, basing their calculation on the figure of 37,396 deaths recorded on June 19 by the Gaza Health Ministry - the Palestinian territory has been run by the militant group Hamas since its June 2007 coup. It is difficult to gather accurate figures, write the co-authors, due to the difficulties encountered in carrying out daily assessments on the ground. To arrive at their estimate of <four indirect deaths per one direct death>, the co-authors relied on a report published by the Secretariat of the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development in 2008. The document states that in areas where there is armed conflict <studies show that between three and 15 times as many people die indirectly for every person who dies violently>. However, the letter's signatories did not say why they chose four for their <conservative estimate>. In line with the controversy surrounding the death toll in Gaza, the letter provoked a flood of reactions online. On the one hand, the letter has been widely accused of being biased, as it relies on a questionable calculation method and hypothetical estimates. The Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post reported that <the platform provided by the respected magazine>, The Lancet, gave the letter <a reliable atmosphere. This led anti-Israel users on social media to propagate the new libel en masse>. However, the letter, which was picked up by several international media, was welcomed by others and widely shared to express support for the Gazan population and call for an end to Israeli military operations in Gaza. For instance, Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories, shared it on her X account as evidence of what she described as <9 months of genocide> taking place in Gaza.
A 'credible' estimate, according to Doctors of the World
Some NGOs active in the Palestinian territory certainly feel that the estimate put forward in this letter is credible. <The death toll of 186,000 mentioned in The Lancet is consistent with the health, military and geopolitical situation due to the sea, air and land blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip,> says Jean-François Corty, a humanitarian doctor and president of the NGO Doctors of the World. <This estimate is a true reflection of the absolute tragedy being experienced on the ground by the population.> <I have been saying as recently as November/December that the figures being put forward are underestimated in relation to reality, in a context where there is a lot of propaganda surrounding the death toll, as is the case in many conflicts and not exclusively in Gaza. Since the beginning of the controversy over the Hamas Ministry of Health's figures, which are probably wrong, I have said that they are probably wrong, but because they are underestimated.> Corty asserts that the Gaza Health Ministry's figures take into account the identified dead, <without taking into account all the dead left under the rubble of the bombardments, or the indirect victims who died because of a lack of care or access to care, or from being transported to a health centre>. The president of Doctors of the World - which currently has a team of around 50 people in Deir Al-Balah, in the centre of the Gaza Strip - points out that there were 35 hospitals operating in Gaza before October 7, <with a good level of medical care and dozens, if not hundreds, of local health centres>. <But today, most of these hospitals are no longer functional, there are only between 5 and 10 left, and they are saturated with patients,> says Corty. <They don't just take in patients, they also house families of displaced people, and they're running out of everything - fuel for their generators, medicines and medical and surgical equipment.> Corty concludes: <If you add those who are likely to die of malnutrition or as a result of wounds inflicted by Israeli bombardments in the weeks and months to come, because of the risks of superinfection and because their pathology will be treated late, then yes, the figure of 186,000 deaths mentioned in The Lancet is credible.>
This article has been translated from the original in French.>>
Source:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240711-more-than-186-000-dead-in-gaza-how-credible-are-the-estimates-published-on-the-lancet

France 25 - July 11, 2024
<<Gaza City's Shujaiya 'in ruins' after latest Israeli operation
Gaza Strip (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Just hours after the two-week offensive on Gaza City's Shujaiya district ended, Palestinians had already found 60 bodies as they picked through the piles of concrete and dust left behind, officials in Hamas-run Gaza said Thursday. Families of missing residents and civil defence agency crews moved in for the grim search after Israel announced late Wednesday that it had ended its operation there against Hamas. <Once the Israeli occupation forces withdrew from the Shujaiya neighbourhood, civil defence crews, with local residents, managed to recover about 60 martyrs up to now,> agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said. Some 85 percent of buildings are now <uninhabitable> and Shujaiya has been turned into a <disaster zone>, he added, estimating that 120,000 people had been left homeless.
Residents who returned found a ghost town.
Sabrin Abu Asr said the district was <in ruins> as she went back to see the debris of her home. Like most buildings, only a skeletal frame remained after two weeks of clashes between the Israeli army and Palestinian militants that forced tens of thousands of people to flee. The rest lay collapsed in piles of crushed concrete, cinder blocks and twisted rebar. Israeli troops launched a ground offensive at the beginning of May in the southern city of Rafah, which was then presented by Israel as the last Hamas stronghold. But since then, clashes have increased between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters in the north and centre of the Gaza Strip. A full evacuation order was issued for Shujaiya on June 27. Since then, Israel has warned that all of Gaza City will remain a <dangerous> combat zone. Former residents could only bundle whatever they could salvage and seek shelter elsewhere, carrying possessions on a bike, a donkey-drawn cart or on their backs. <Shujaiya district lies in ruins... we are devastated,> said Abu Asr, who left by foot with a single can of food. <Our plight must be felt by others. Someone needs to empathise with the people of Gaza,> she added.
'Defies description'
The Israeli military said it dismantled eight tunnels and killed dozens of militants during the operation in Shujaiya. Israeli forces left behind a destroyed armoured vehicle, now standing between two buildings nearly flattened in the fighting. It has since been scrapped it for parts, its door and roof already gone. Nearby, Mohamad Nairi, his hands and t-shirt covered in dust, struggled to come to terms with what happened. Former residents of Shujaiya had no choice but to bundle whatever they could salvage and seek shelter elsewhere. <When we returned to Shujaiya district, we found immense destruction that defies description. All the houses were demolished,> he said. The fighting has now moved to the rest of Gaza City, which the Israeli army has urged residents to evacuate. Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel that sparked the war 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 responded with a military offensive that has killed at least 38,345 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to figures from the territory's health ministry.
AFP>>
Source:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240711-gaza-city-s-shujaiya-in-ruins-after-latest-israeli-operation

Jinha - Womens News Agency - July 11, 2024
<<Gaza death toll rises to 38,345
At least 38,345 Palestinians have been killed and 88,295 others injured in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, the Gaza's health ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
News Center- At least 38,345 Palestinians have been killed and 88,295 others injured in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, the Gaza's health ministry said in a statement on Thursday. At least 50 Palestinians were killed and 54 others injured in Israeli attacks in the last 24 hours, the ministry added. There are many bodies under rubble and the civil defense crews cannot reach them due to ongoing Israeli attacks, the statement said.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/gaza-death-toll-rises-to-38-345-35365?page=1

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