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