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Le Monde - July 15, 2024 - By Laure Stephan (Amman, special correspondent)
<<Israel-Hamas war: Philippe Lazzarini, a UN official in Israel's sights
PROFILE - Since the start of the war in Gaza, the head of the UN agency in charge of Palestinian refugees has been the target of virulent attacks from the Israeli state. When he arrives at the Allenby Bridge, the crossing point between Jordan and the occupied West Bank, Philippe Lazzarini, head of UNRWA, the UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees, no longer enjoys diplomatic immunity. He no longer has the <yellow card,> the document conferring this protection on senior UN officials in Israel, which controls the Palestinian side of the border. The luggage of Lazzarini, who lives in Amman but is accustomed to visiting Jerusalem, is searched. Before the war in Gaza, he had a one-year residence permit in Israel; since then, the Israeli state has only granted him a one-month visa. <This is unheard of for a UNRWA commissioner general,> said the 60-year-old Swiss citizen. Since the fall 2023 outbreak, of the war between Israel and Hamas, which has caused the death of over 38,000 Palestinians according to local authorities, the agency has been the target of an unprecedented Israeli destabilization campaign. After trying to discredit it with its backers, by accusing some of its employees of being involved in the attack perpetrated by Hamas on October 7 (1,200 deaths on the Israeli side), Israel is considering having it classified as a <terrorist organization> by its parliament. In the meantime, it is blocking the entry of its aid convoys into the Gaza Strip and hindering the movement of its teachers and doctors in the West Bank. For the ultranationalist coalition in power in Jerusalem, UNRWA, guardian of Palestinian refugees' right of return and ultimate bulwark against the total collapse of Gaza, is the agency to destroy. And its head, Lazzarini, is a nuisance who must be ousted. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz called on him to resign. Lazzarini can no longer visit the Palestinian enclave, which is under a deluge of fire. During his four visits between October and January, he made it his <duty> to show its inhabitants that they had <not been forgotten.> He was vilified on social media by a cohort of pro-Israeli internet users, called a Hamas collaborator, a liar or naive. Faced with this barrage, the commissioner general - the <CG,> as his teams call him - grew in stature and decided to fight back.>>
Read more here:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/07/15/israel-hamas-war-philippe-lazzarini-a-un-official-in-israel-s-sights_6684819_4.html

France 25 - July 15, 2024
<<ProPalestinian activists held after protest at UK war memorial
London (AFP) - UK police on Monday arrested two pro-Palestinian demonstrators after a protest at Britain's Cenotaph war memorial in central London.
A Palestinian flag was laid in front of the Cenotaph and <180,000 killed> spray-painted on the ground in front of the monument, photos and video footage showed. The Cenotaph is the focus every year of of national events to commemorate Britain's war dead. <Two women were quickly arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and are in custody,> the Metropolitan Police said on X, adding that damage was caused to the road and not to the monument itself. In a statement, the Youth Demand group said its supporters had taken action to <commemorate the thousands killed in Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza>. It said Youth Demand was calling for a two-way arms embargo on Israel and for the new UK government to halt all new oil and gas licences granted since 2021. Supporters planned to disrupt the State Opening of Parliament by head of state King Charles III on Wednesday, it added. Youth Demand last month staged a protest at the constituency home of former prime minister Rishi Sunak. The war in Gaza was sparked by Hamas's surprise October 7 attack on southern Israel, which 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 are still in Gaza including 42 the Israeli military says are dead. Israel responded with a military offensive that has killed at least 38,584 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to data provided by the Gaza health ministry.
© 2024 AFP>>
Source:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240715-pro-palestinian-activists-held-after-protest-at-uk-war-memorial

Le Monde - July 15, 2024 - Column auteur Jean-Pierre Filiu
Historian and professor at Sciences Po Paris
<<Benjamin Netanyahu's financial war against the Palestinian Authority
The Israeli government is financially crippling the Palestinian Authority by withholding revenues that should be automatically transferred to it.Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich gives a speech at a rally in the Israeli West Bank outpost of Eviatar on April 10, 2023. Benjamin Netanyahu still has no clear plan for the <day after> in Gaza. It is also obvious that he has every interest in prolonging hostilities as long as possible, with the prospect of the November re-election of Donald Trump, who supported him unconditionally during his four years in the White House. But the Israeli prime minister also knows that prolonging the conflict protects him both from the triple legal proceedings against him (for corruption, fraud and breach of trust) and from the commission of inquiry that will be imposed on the collapse of Israel's security on October 7, 2023. Netanyahu is also opposed to the return of Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority (PA) to Gaza, while assigning Israel the illusory goal of a <total victory> against Hamas. The head of the Israeli government refuses to reopen the bridges between the West Bank and Gaza, for fear of encouraging the emergence, even in the long term, of a Palestinian state. And too bad if the PA maintains a <security cooperation> from which Israel derives the greatest benefit in its fight against Palestinian Islamists. Israel's military campaign against Hamas in Gaza, which has already claimed more than 38,000 lives in nine months, has been accompanied by intensified repression in the occupied West Bank, where almost 600 Palestinians have been killed in the same period. But the intensity of this violence, in which settlers play a decisive role, with the active or passive complicity of the Israeli army, is compounded by intense financial pressure on the PA. The pressure exerted by Netanyahu himself is heightened by his decision to entrust the finance portfolio to supremacist Bezalel Smotrich, who makes no secret of his desire to completely colonize the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Paradoxically, it was in the peace agreements signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1993-1995 that Netanyahu and Smotrich found the weapon to bring the PA to its financial knees.
The 'Paris Protocol'
The <Oslo Accords,> as they are commonly known, established the <Palestinian Authority,> the fruit of an agreement between Israel and the PLO, with which it came to be identified. The PA's funding rules were defined by the <Paris Protocol,> signed in 1994 between the Israeli finance minister and the PLO's development officer. These rules provide for the automatic transfer from Israel to the PA of all taxes due to it, even if they are collected in Israel (VAT on Palestinian imports, fuel taxes, or taxes on Palestinian workers in Israel), within the framework of an Israeli-Palestinian customs union. This arrangement highlights, if proof were needed, the PA's lack of sovereignty over the territories, which it merely administers, with powers and resources delegated by Israel.>>
Read more here:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/07/15/benjamin-netanyahu-s-financial-war-against-the-palestinian-authority_6684274_4.html

France 25 - July 15, 2024 - By News Wires
<<Israel hits Gaza from land, sea and air as Hamas pulls out of truce talks
Israel struck the southern and central Gaza Strip on Monday and carried out raids that killed <a number of> militants, the Israeli military said, as hopes faded for a truce and hostage release deal being secured any time soon. Hamas announced on Sunday it was pulling out of truce talks after an Israeli strike targeting the head of the group's military wing, Mohammed Deif, killed scores of Palestinians. Israel hammered the Gaza Strip from the air, sea and land Monday as the war in the Palestinian territory showed no sign of abating, with Hamas saying it was pulling out of truce talks.
Shells rained down on the neighbourhoods of Tal Al-Hawa, Sheikh Ajlin and Al-Sabra in Gaza City, AFP correspondents reported, while eyewitnesses said the Israeli army had shelled the Al-Mughraqa area and the northern outskirts of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. Paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent said they had retrieved the bodies of five people, including three children, after Israeli air strikes in the Al-Maghazi camp, also in the central Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, eyewitnesses reported Israeli gunship fire east of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, and shelling and Apache helicopter attacks in western areas of the southernmost city of Rafah. The Israeli military said in a statement that it was continuing its activity throughout the coastal territory, and said it had conducted raids in Rafah and central Gaza that killed <a number of> militants, as well as air strikes throughout the strip over the past day. It also said its naval forces had been firing at targets in Gaza.
Talks on hold
The school in Nuseirat was the fifth UN-run school being used as a shelter to be hit by Israel in just over a week. The relentless bombardments came as prospects dwindled for a truce and hostage release deal being secured any time soon. Hamas, the Iran-backed Islamist group that Israel has been fighting in Gaza for over nine months, said on Sunday it was withdrawing from ceasefire talks. The decision followed an Israeli strike targeting the head of Hamas's military wing, Mohammed Deif, which the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said killed 92 people. Deif's fate remains unknown, with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu saying there was <no certainty> he was dead while a senior Hamas official told AFP that Deif was <well and directly overseeing> operations. Speaking after the strike on Al-Mawasi, a second senior official from the militant group cited Israeli <massacres> and its attitude to negotiations as a reason for suspending negotiations. But according to the official, Haniyeh told international mediators Hamas was <ready to resume negotiations> when Israel's government <demonstrates seriousness in reaching a ceasefire agreement and a prisoner exchange deal>. Last week, US President Joe Biden had suggested a deal might be close, saying at a NATO summit that both sides had agreed to a framework he had set out in late May. Hamas on Monday lashed out at the US, accusing it of supporting "genocide" by supplying Israel with <internationally banned> weapons. <We condemn in the strongest terms the... American disdain for the blood of the children and women of our Palestinian people... by providing all types of prohibited weapons to the 'Israeli' occupation,> a statement from the Hamas government media office said. Talks between the warring parties have been mediated by Qatar and Egypt, with US support, but months of negotiations have failed to bring a breakthrough.
School hit
The war was sparked by Hamas's surprise October 7 attack on southern Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,195 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures. The strike that hit a displacement camp in Al-Mawasi killed at least 92 people, according to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza. Militants also seized 251 hostages, 116 of whom are still in Gaza including 42 the Israeli military says are dead.
Israel responded with a military offensive that has killed at least 38,664 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to data provided by the Gaza health ministry. The war and accompanying siege have devastated the Palestinian territory, destroying much of its infrastructure, leaving the majority of its 2.4 million residents displaced and causing a dire shortage of food, medicines and other basic goods. Among the devastated facilities have been multiple schools. On Sunday, Israeli forces struck a UN-run school in Nuseirat camp that was being used as a shelter for displaced people but which the military said <served as a hideout> for militants. The civil defence agency in Gaza said 15 people were killed in the strike, the fifth attack in just over a week to hit a school used as shelter by displaced Palestinians.
(AFP)>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240715-israel-hits-gaza-from-land-sea-and-air-as-hamas-halts-talks

France 25 - July 15, 2024
<<Hamas says ceasefire talks still ongoing, military chief Deif alive
Hamas said Sunday that Gaza ceasefire talks were ongoing and the group's military commander was in good health, a day after the Israeli military targeted Mohammed Deif with a massive airstrike that local health officials said killed at least 90 people, including children. Hamas representatives gave no evidence to back up their assertion about the health of a chief architect of the Oct. 7 attack that sparked the war. His killing would mark the highest profile assassination of any Hamas leader by Israel since the war began.>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240715-hamas-says-ceasefire-talks-still-ongoing-military-chief-deif-alive


141 Palestinians killed
Jinha - Womens News Agency - July 15, 2024
<<141 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes on 'safe zone'
141 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on IDPs camps designated a <safe zone> by the Israeli military in the al-Mawasi area near Khan Younis on Saturday, the Gaza’s health ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
News Center- At least 141 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds injured in Israeli airstrikes on camps sheltering displaced people in the al-Mawasi area near Khan Younis, previously designated by Israel as a <safe zone>, on Saturday. At least 141 Palestinians have been killed, 400 others injured in Israeli airstrikes on camps sheltering displaced people, the Gaza's health ministry said in a statement on Sunday. Defining that attack as a <brutal massacre>, the ministry said that the dead bodies had been taken to the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. The Israeli military claimed in a statement that it acted based on <precise intelligence> to hit an area where <two senior Hamas terrorists> and additional fighters hid among civilians.
Call for immediate ceasefire in Gaza
Britain's new foreign secretary, David Lammy called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories on Sunday. During talks with Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, he said he would push for the release of all hostages as well as an increase in aid into Gaza. <The death and destruction in Gaza is intolerable. This war must end now, with an immediate ceasefire, complied with by both sides.> >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/141-palestinians-killed-in-israeli-airstrikes-on-safe-zone-35375

Al Jazeera - July 14, 2024
<<Will there be an end to Israel's killing of civilians in Gaza?
Palestinians are describing the latest Israeli attack on Gaza as a 'horrific massacre'.>>
Watch video, 28 min., here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/7/14/will-there-be-an-end-to-israels-killing-of-civilians-in-gaza

Al Jazeera - July 14, 2024
<<In Pictures Gallery|Israel-Palestine conflict
‘We've a funeral every 15 minutes’: Aftermath of Israeli 'massacre' in Gaza
Israeli air strikes on the al-Mawasi camp in southern Gaza have killed at least 90 people and wounded 300 others. An Israeli strike has killed at least 90 Palestinians in the al-Mawasi camp in southern Gaza, the enclave’s Ministry of Health said, an attack that has drawn global condemnation.
Displaced people sheltering in the area, which was designated as a <safe zone> by Israel, described the attack as a <horrific massacre>, adding that their tents were torn down by the force of the strike and bodies and body parts strewn on the ground. The Medical Aid for Palestinians charity published a video of Palestinians digging by hand to recover those buried in the sand following the Israeli attack. <I don't know what to say, the situation is a tragedy. I am not exaggerating, we have a funeral every 15 minutes leaving the hospital. This has been ongoing since the incident. One by one, people are getting killed,> said Mohammed Aghaalkurdi, a member of the charity at Nasser Hospital. The al-Mawasi attack comes days after Israel killed dozens in Gaza City and its surrounding areas after ordering the entire population in the northern city to leave. Witnesses have told Al Jazeera that the Shujayea neighbourhood of Gaza City has been <wiped out> in the Israeli strikes. The Israeli army has repeatedly attacked so-called safe zones such as al-Mawasi, where Palestinians were ordered to go from other areas of the enclave. Nearly the entire population of Gaza's 2.3 million people has been forcibly displaced since Israel launched its devastating offensive in October. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that it remained unclear whether Mohammed Deif, the leader of Hamas's military wing, and another commander had been killed. Israel justified the massacre saying it targeted Hamas commanders. Hamas has denied Deif had been killed and said Israeli claims it had targeted leaders of the group were false and aimed at justifying the attack, which was the deadliest Israeli attack in Gaza in weeks. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres, in a statement, said he was <shocked and saddened> by the civilian deaths, which underscored <nowhere is safe in Gaza>, and said international humanitarian law must be upheld. Campaigners say it is a violation of wars of law as civilian areas ought to be protected from attacks. The International Court of Justice said in January that Israel's onslaught in Gaza <plausibly> amounted to genocide. The Gaza Health Ministry said at least 91 Palestinians were killed in the strike and 300 injured, the deadliest toll in weeks in the conflict-shattered enclave. Josep Borrell, the European Union's foreign affairs and security policy representative, called for an independent probe and condemned any potential violation of international law, posting on social media site X that the <end can't justify all means>. Also on Saturday, at least 20 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on a prayer hall at a Gaza camp for displaced people in west Gaza City, Palestinian health and civil emergency officials said.>>
View photos here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/7/14/weve-a-funeral-every-15-minutes-aftermath-of-israeli-massacre-in-gaza

France 25 - July 14, 2024
<<Israeli strike on Khan Younis refugee camp kills more than 90
The health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said at least 92 people had been killed, more than half of them women and children, and 300 wounded in an Israeli strike on the Al-Mawasi camp. Israel said it was targeting Hamas commander Mohammed Deif, who was reportedly survived despite the attack according to another Hamas figure.>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240714-israeli-strike-on-khan-younis-refugee-camp-kills-more-than-90

Le Monde - July 14, 2024
<<Hamas says it will pull out of Gaza truce talks after Israeli strike targeting Deif
Israel said it targeted Hamas' military commander in a massive strike Saturday in the crowded southern Gaza Strip that killed at least 92 Palestinians, according to local health officials. A Hamas official said the group is pulling out of Gaza truce talks, following an Israeli strike that targeted the militants' commander Mohammed Deif, who was <fine> despite the attack according to another Hamas figure. <Commander Mohammed Deif is well and directly overseeing> the operations of the Hamas military wing, the official told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Sunday, July 14. Israel staged a huge bombing raid on a camp for displaced people in southern Gaza on Saturday that it said was an attempt to kill Deif. Another senior official from the Iran-backed Islamist group, which has been fighting a nine-month-long war with Israel in the Gaza Strip, said Hamas was withdrawing from ceasefire talks because of Israeli <massacres> and the country's attitude in negotiations. The health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said at least 92 people had been killed, more than half of them women and children, and 300 wounded in a strike on the Al-Mawasi camp.
Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas's Qatar-based political chief, told international mediators of the <decision to halt negotiations due to the occupation's (Israel) lack of seriousness, continued policy of procrastination and obstruction, and the ongoing massacres against unarmed civilians,> the official said. Talks mediated by Qatar and Egypt, with US support, have for months tried but failed to bring a halt to the war in the Gaza Strip.
'No certainty'
Al-Mawasi, where the health ministry said dozens had been killed, had in May been declared a safe humanitarian zone by the Israeli military and civilians ordered to evacuate to it. However, there have been multiple deadly incidents there blamed on Israeli strikes. Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, described the area as <a sandy 14-square-kilometer (5.4-square-mile) agricultural land, where people are left out in the open with little to no buildings or roads.> <The claim that people in Gaza can move to 'safe' or 'humanitarian' zones is false,> said Lazzarini on social media site X. Israel said it had targeted Deif, the head of the Al-Qassam Brigades, as well as Rafa Salama, a brigade commander, in a strike on Saturday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said late Saturday there was <no certainty> either man had been killed in the strike. Deif has been among Israel's most wanted men for decades and is blamed by Israeli authorities for the killings of multiple civilians and soldiers. There have been at least six previous attempts on his life. He announced in an audio message the start of Hamas's surprise October 7 attack on southern Israel, which sparked the Gaza war, and the military has labeled him and Salama <two of the masterminds> of the attack.
'Horrific massacre'
The deaths in the camp in Al-Mawasi drew condemnation from governments across the region, with Egypt's foreign ministry saying such <crimes (...) cannot be accepted under any justification whatsoever.> The Israeli military said of its attack targeting Deif that <the area that was struck is an open area, surrounded by trees, several buildings and sheds. It was not a tent complex, but an operational compound.> A Hamas statement rejected Israel's claim it had targeted Deif, saying it was intended <to cover up the magnitude of the horrific massacre.> Earlier this week, US President Joe Biden had said that a framework for a truce and hostage deal he had set out earlier in the war was <now agreed on by both Israel and Hamas.> <There are still gaps to close, but we're making progress,> he added. Separately on Sunday, rescuers said at least eight people were killed in three separate strikes on different parts of Gaza City. The Israeli military meanwhile said operations were continuing throughout the territory, including in Gaza City and Rafah.
Le Monde with AFP>>
Source:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/07/14/hamas-says-it-will-pull-out-of-gaza-truce-talks-after-israeli-strike-targeting-deif_6683916_4.html

BBC - July 14, 2024 - Lucy Clarke-Billings and Tom McArthur
<<Hamas-run health ministry says 141 killed in Israeli strikes
Chaos as people flee after an Israeli airstrike hits Khan Younis
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says 141 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes since Saturday. About 400 people have been injured, according to the health ministry's statement. One of the air strikes hit a designated humanitarian zone in the al-Mawasi area near Khan Younis. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attack was targeting senior Hamas leader Mohammed Deif, but there was <no certainty> that he had been killed. An eyewitness in al-Mawasi told the BBC that it looked like an <earthquake> had hit. Videos from the area show smouldering wreckage and bloodied casualties being loaded on to stretchers. BBC Verify has analysed footage of the aftermath of the strike, confirming that it took place within an area shown on the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) website as a humanitarian zone. Gaza's Hamas-run civil defence agency said that 17 people had been killed in a second Israeli strike on Saturday. The attack is said to have targeted a prayer hall in the Shati refugee camp to the west of Gaza City. The Israeli military has not yet commented on the claim. A Hamas official, cited by Reuters, called the attacks a <grave escalation> that showed Israel was not interested in reaching a ceasefire agreement. The ceasefire negotiations being held in Qatar and Egypt ended on Friday without success, the BBC understands. Mohammed Deif has been operating in the shadows of Gaza for decades
Who are Mohammed Deif and the other top Hamas leaders?
In a news conference on Saturday, Mr Netanyahu said he gave the order for the al-Mawasi operation to go ahead after being briefed by his general security forces. He said he wanted to know there were no hostages nearby, the extent of the collateral damage and what kinds of weapons would be used. He said the two Hamas leaders targeted had not been confirmed dead before promising to eradicate all of the group's senior members.
<Either way, we will get to the whole of the leadership of Hamas,> Mr Netanyahu added. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, quoted by the AFP news agency, later accused Mr Netanyahu of seeking to block a ceasefire in the Gaza war with <heinous massacres>. Hamas said the claim that their leaders were targets was <false>. <It is not the first time Israel claims to target Palestinian leaders, only to be proven false later,> the group said in a statement. An Israeli military official said the strike took place in an <open area> where there were <no civilians>. He refused to say whether it was inside a designated safe zone, but said Hamas leaders had <cynically> set up in a civilian area. The official also said he was unaware of any hostages taken during the 7 October attack on Israel being in the area. He added that <accurate intelligence> was gathered before the <precision strike>. Speaking to Newshour on the BBC World Service, Dr Mohammed Abu Rayya, who is at a hospital dealing with the aftermath of the attack, said the majority of those injured were suffering from multiple shrapnel wounds. He said it was like being in <hell>, adding that many of the casualties were civilians, notably women and children. Footage from the nearby Kuwait field hospital showed scenes of chaos with patients being treated on the floor. The Nasser medical complex in Khan Younis is <overwhelmed> and no longer able to function, British charity Medical Aid for Palestinians said.
Who is Mohammed Deif?>>
Read it here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyx0qdkn45eo

Le Monde - July 14, 2024 - By Louis Imbert (Jerusalem correspondent)
<<Israeli strike targetting Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif causes carnage in Gaza
The Israeli army was unable to determine on Saturday whether the mastermind of the October 7 attack had been hit. The bombings, carried out in the heart of a 'safe zone,' left 90 people dead, according to Gazan health officials. The Israeli army conducted major strikes in the Khan Yunis region of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, July 13, claiming to have targetted Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif and a Khan Yunis brigade leader, Rafa Salama, who was with him. Nonetheless, it has so far been unable to determine whether these men, who have eluded Israeli forces during 10 months of war, had been killed. It maintained that it had spotted them when they were out in the open, moving from one hideout to another. The army quickly presented aerial photographs of a walled enclosure dotted with a few low buildings, from which Deif had emerged, it said, under the cover of trees, to the west of Khan Yunis. Such an extensive area, walled in and with few structures, is uncommon in this zone defined by the army as a safe haven for displaced Gazans, whom it has encouraged to settle there, even though it has continued to carry out bombings in the area. According to the United Nations, around 1.5 million people have been living crammed together in this region in huge, dusty, overcrowded tent cities, forced to endure unsanitary conditions, hunger and thirst. Hamas has dismissed Israel's claims, saying that <allegations about targeting leaders are false> and designed <merely to cover up the scale of the horrific massacre.> In Gaza, few people would recognize the face of this shadowy figure even if he were standing right in front of them.
One of the deadliest attacks
The Ministry of Health in Hamas-administered Gaza reported at least 90 dead and 300 wounded, making this attack one of the conflict's deadliest. It decried the <heinous massacre by the occupation [Israel] of citizens and displaced persons in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis.> The attack took place near a drinking water and food distribution point. Witnesses told the Associated Press of bombardments after the initial attack. Several amateur videos released in the ensuing hours showed one of these strikes, conducted close to firetrucks and ambulances parked near a wooded enclosure. Other images showed a vast crater and burned-out cars. Victims were transported on the roofs of cars and in donkey-drawn carts. <A number of victims are still under the rubble and in the streets, and ambulances and civil defense teams are unable to reach them,> the Ministry of Health said in a statement. The director of the Kuwaiti field hospital in Rafah, Suhaib Al-Hams, reported that most of the wounded transferred to his facility were seriously injured, with some undergoing amputations. <A real disaster is happening now amid the collapse of the healthcare system,> he said in a statement. This week, four schools housing displaced persons were targeted by strikes, killing at least 49 people, according to sources in Gaza, including Hamas.>>
Read more here:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/07/14/israel-claims-to-have-targeted-hamas-military-chief-mohammed-deif-in-gaza_6683520_4.html

Al Jazeera - July 13, 2024
<<'Shocking and brutal massacre': World reacts to Israel's al-Mawasi attacks
Outrage after 90 killed in designated 'safe zone' attack that Israel says targeted Hamas military leader. The United Nations and countries across the Middle East have denounced Israel after its military attacked a designated humanitarian safe zone in Gaza, killing at least 90 Palestinians and wounding 300 others. Israel said the target of Saturday's attack in al-Mawasi was Hamas commander Mohammed Deif, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was not certain if the fighter had been killed. Hamas rejected the premise of the assault as <false>, saying <defenceless civilians' were killed in the attack. Photos and videos verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency showed Palestinians sifting through debris and what appeared to be remnants of tents at the location of the attacks.
Here's how countries have responded:
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/13/shocking-and-brutal-massacre-world-reacts-to-israels-al-mawasi-attack

France 25 - July 13, 2024 - Video by: Philip TURLE
<<Israeli strike on Khan Younis: Civilians were 'told to go there'
The Israeli army said it targeted Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif and Rafa Salama, the commander of Hamas' Khan Yunis Brigade, on Saturday in a strike on Gaza, after the Hamas-run territory's health ministry said over 70 were killed in an Israeli attack on a displacement camp. <The civilians were in an area called Al-Mawasi, a humanitarian zone, they've been told to go there", FRANCE 24's Philip Turle said in an analysis.>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240713-israeli-strike-on-khan-younis-civilians-were-told-to-go-there

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