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Special reports: December: Seeing Gaza from Berlin & Redrawing the map & 'Entire days-without food' & Netanyahu, the ICC and the new world disorder Previous report: Who accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza? & Gazans displaced by war now face a new threat: winter   & There are no <humanitarian zones> or <evacuation orders> in Gaza   & Rooted in this land until death   Overview special reports

November 28 - 24 and earler stories, 2024 Is Netanyahu immune from ICC arrest warrant-NO!   TRIBUTES TO MOTHERS AND CHILDREN

Shireen Abu Akleh In commemoration of Shireen Abu Akleh, the 'voice of Al Jazeera' killed while revealing the true face of israel Updated: December 6, 2024: Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war   Click here for earlier stories/news

December 17 - 15, 2024 Food for thought I embedded one, among other, pictures which tears ones heart out. At least the immensely suffering Palestinian victims of this genocide hope for some tears. Gino d'Artali Read more and decide for yourself

December 14 - 12, 2024 Food for thought The evil in people are not caused by its enemies but by their own ghosts. That's why the zionists can't forget nor forgive because they are unforgiving about themselves when thinking they can get away with everything. Gino d'Artali Read more and decide for yourself

December 10 - 7, 2024 Food for thought: 'The next one' as seen by an Iranian activist cartoonnist and yes, with the fall of assad it most likely is a matter of time before the next ones, netanyahu, khamenei, erdogan and others, will follow. Gino d'Artali Read more and decide for yourself

 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.


UNRWA: Formula milk supplies not enough!
Jinha - Womens News Agency - Dec 17, 2024
<<UNRWA: Formula milk supplies in Gaza are nowhere near enough
UNRWA announced Monday on social media platform X that over 8,500 babies have received formula milk through UNRWA in Gaza, but supplies are nowhere near enough.
News Center- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced Monday on social media platform X that formula milk supplies are about to run out in the Gaza Strip. "In Gaza, over 8,500 babies have received formula milk through UNRWA, but supplies are nowhere near enough," UNRWA said in the post. "One of our only functioning health centers has just 6 boxes to distribute- the first delivery in 3 months."
'Dire shortages leave children at high risk'
Calling for immediate aid and a ceasefire, UNRWA said, "With over 200,000 people relying on this clinic for primary health care, dire shortages leave many, including babies and children, at high risk. Immediate aid and a ceasefire are vital to save lives."
In the past four months alone, nearly 19,000 children were hospitalized in the Gaza Strip due to acute malnutrition, nearly double the cases in the first half of year, the post said.>>
Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/unrwa-formula-milk-supplies-in-gaza-are-nowhere-near-enough-36174?page=1

Al Jazeera - Dec 17 2024
<<Family of US-Turkish activist killed by Israeli soldiers meet Blinken
The family of the US-Turkish activist, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, have met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, demanding a US investigation into her killing by Israeli forces. Aysenur was shot dead on September 6th in the occupied West Bank while protesting against illegal Israeli settlements.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/12/17/family-of-us-turkish-activist-killed-by-israeli-soldiers-meet-blinken

Al Jazeera - Dec 17 2024
<<Israel attacks Gaza City amid attempts to reach ceasefire deal
Ten killed in Israeli attack on a house in Gaza City as the US says negotiations on a ceasefire in Gaza are continuing.
At least 14 people have been killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza this morning, including 10 when Israeli fighter jets bombed a residential building in Gaza City, amid reports of ceasefire talks inching closer to an agreement. The attack in Gaza City targeted the Tabatibi family home in the Daraj neighbourhood. Footage showed fires burning in the aftermath of the attack as rescue workers searched for survivors amid the rubble. Local media reported that the family had fled the house, which was located in the eastern part of Gaza City. Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, said the house was targeted without any prior warning. "Civil Defence workers confirmed that the vast majority of bodies were shredded to pieces," Abu Azzoum said. This morning, Al Jazeera's correspondents on the ground also reported fighting in Rafah's al-Janina neighbourhood as well as Israeli helicopters shooting east of the southern Gaza city. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) called for a ceasefire as it warned of "appalling" conditions in one of northern Gaza's only functioning hospitals. "The conditions in the hospital are simply appalling," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, a city witnessing intense attacks by the Israeli military. "We urge for the protection of health care and for this hell to stop! Ceasefire!" WHO and partners reached the facility "two days ago, amid hostilities and explosions in the vicinity of the hospital during the mission", Tedros added in a post on X, after efforts to deliver needed supplies were repeatedly hampered by the Israeli army. The mission reached the hospital on November 30 after weeks of unsuccessful attempts, but days later it was forced to flee amid attacks and hostilities around the facility. Hussam Abu Safia, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, said Israeli snipers also attacked the hospital's intensive care unit. "This development is very serious and something new for us," he said. "We cannot stay in this place which is meant to provide ICU services. At the same time, we can't evacuate and move to another place." He added that power generators were hit again, causing a power outage. Bombs launched from quadcopters also kept targeting the hospital's premises.
Ceasefire deal close?
On Monday, Israel's Minister of Defence Israel Katz said negotiators had never been closer to a deal since the November 2023 agreement. Hamas said it would not accept anything less than a complete and permanent cessation of the war, a full withdrawal from the entire Gaza Strip, the return of the displaced and a prisoner exchange deal. In previous rounds, disagreements over new demands that Israel introduced about its future military presence in Gaza obstructed a deal, even after Hamas accepted a version of the proposal Biden introduced in May.
A round of talks in mid-October failed to produce a deal.
Late on Monday, Netanyahu's office said the PM held a meeting with Adam Boehler, Donald Trump's designated envoy, to reach a deal on the captives' release. Seven individuals with US citizenship remain in Gaza, with four confirmed dead, Israeli officials say. Netanyahu also spoke with Trump over the weekend regarding Israel's efforts to secure the release of the captives. On Monday, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller also said negotiations had been productive in recent days but that differences remained.>>
SOURCE/VIDEO: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/17/israel-attacks-gaza-city-amid-attempts-to-reach-ceasefire-deal

Al Jazeera - Dec 16 2024 - By Umut Uras and Maziar Motamedi
<<LIVE: Israel kills 10 in Gaza City, WHO chief calls ‘for this hell to stop’
More than 45,000 Palestinians killed in Israel’s war on Gaza
Israeli forces continue to pound Gaza, killing at least 10 people in Gaza City and knocking out the power generators at the Kamal Adwan Hospital.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus describes conditions at the besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital as "appalling" and called "for this hell to stop".>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/12/17/live-israel-again-targets-kamal-adwan-hospital-as-gaza-toll-passes-45000

Al Jazeera - Dec 17 2024 - by Al Jazeera Staff
<<Media freedom watchdog decries Israel's killing of journalists in Gaza
CPJ says the Israeli military 'continues to act with total impunity when it comes to the killing of journalists'.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has denounced Israel's killing of four Palestinian journalists in Gaza over the past week as the Israeli military intensifies its bombardment of the besieged territory. The United States-based watchdog said in a statement on Monday that the international community has failed to hold Israel accountable for its actions amid the growing death toll of journalists and civilians in Gaza. "At least 95 journalists and media workers have been killed worldwide in 2024," CPJ's CEO Jodie Ginsberg said. "Israel is responsible for two-thirds of those deaths and yet continues to act with total impunity when it comes to the killing of journalists and its attacks on the media." The remarks came a day after Israeli forces killed Ahmed al-Louh, a 39-year-old Palestinian journalist who worked for Al Jazeera as a cameraman, in the Nuseirat refugee camp. Over the previous days, Israel also killed journalists Mohammed Balousha, Mohammed Jabr al-Qrinawi and Eman Shanti. Hours before an Israeli air strike killed Shanti along with her husband and children in Gaza City on Wednesday, the Palestinian journalist wrote on social media: "Is it possible we're still alive until now?" According to local health authorities, Israel has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians in Gaza. It has also levelled large parts of the enclave and imposed a suffocating blockade, leading to deadly hunger across the territory. United Nations experts and rights groups have accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. With no foreign reporters allowed to work in Gaza, Palestinian journalists have been the only witnesses describing the atrocities to the outside world. And that, rights advocates argue, has put them in the crosshairs of an Israeli military operating without regard to legal and ethical norms. According to the Gaza Government Media Office, Israeli forces have killed 196 Palestinian media workers in Gaza since the start of the war last year. CPJ, which has not included some media workers in its tally, puts the death toll at 133. On Sunday, Al Jazeera condemned the killing of al-Louh, accusing Israel of carrying out a "systematic killing of journalists in cold blood". Al-Louh was the latest of several Al Jazeera-affiliated journalists killed by Israeli forces since the start of the war. He was killed on the first anniversary of the killing of another Al Jazeera cameraman, Samer Abudaqa, in an Israeli attack. Earlier this year, Israel also killed the network’s correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul and his companion cameraman Rami al-Rifi in a targeted attack. The Israeli military has not denied targeting al-Louh and other Al Jazeera journalists. Instead, it has tried to employ a familiar excuse to justify their killing - accusing them, without evidence, of being members of Palestinian armed groups, which the network has vehemently denied. On Sunday, the Israeli military claimed that al-Louh was a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, providing no proof to back the allegations. Israel had also said that al-Ghoul was a member of Hamas and later released an apparently fabricated document as supposed evidence, which claimed that al-Ghould received a Hamas military rank in 2007 - when he would have been 10 years old. Since the outbreak of the war on Gaza, Israel has alleged - mostly without evidence - that its attacks on Palestinians are part of its campaign against Hamas.
The Israeli military has also bombed schools, hospitals and displaced people's camps, claiming that it was targeting Hamas fighters.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/16/media-freedom-watchdog-decries-israels-killing-of-journalists-in-gaza

Al Jazeera - Dec 16 2024
<<Israeli airstrike targets another UN-run school in Gaza
Israeli forces have bombed the UN-run, Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz School, in southern Khan Younis. The attack continues Israel's repeated pattern of targeting former school buildings, with some sheltering up to 65,000 displaced Palestinians.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/12/16/israeli-airstrike-targets-another-un-run-school-in-gaza

Al Jazeera - Dec 16 2024
<<West Bank residents protest Palestinian Authority operations
Hundreds of protesters marched in the occupied West Bank to condemn the Palestinian Authority's security operations in the Jenin refugee camp and infighting with the camp's armed groups.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/12/16/west-bank-residents-protest-palestinian-authority-operations


Al Jazeera - Dec 16 2024
<<Death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza surpasses 45,000
As war approaches 15th month, Palestinians endure 'unbearable' loss, with 52 dead taken to hospitals in past day alone.
Israel's war on Gaza has now killed more than 45,000 people, the Ministry of Health in the besieged and battered Palestinian enclave has confirmed.
The revised death toll, which includes 17,000 children, was announced by officials on Monday, marking another grim milestone in the 14-month war.
It does not include the 11,000 missing Palestinians who are thought to be trapped under the rubble. "The amount of loss of life in Gaza is unbearable among the Palestinians who have been living through this war for more than 14 months," said Al Jazeera's Hind Khoudary. "Every single aspect of life, including schools, shelters, and hospitals, has been targeted by the Israeli forces," said Khoudary, reporting from Deir el-Balah in the centre of the Strip. In the north of Gaza, which has been under an even tighter siege, the situation was especially harrowing, said Khoudary. "Constant shelling and air attacks continue - quadcopters are chasing and killing Palestinians on the streets," she said, adding that rescuers were unable to reach people. "We have been seeing a lot of Palestinians on the ground and no one has been able to get to them," she said, alluding to a massacre at Khalil Oweida School in Beit Hanoon on Sunday. Monday morning was also "bloody", said Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from the centre of the Strip amid the sound of explosions as the Israeli military attacked civilians in the nearby Nuseirat refugee camp. Palestinian health officials reported that 52 dead people had arrived at hospitals across the bombed-out Strip over the past 24 hours. Medics say 10 of the arrivals - including two parents and their two children - were killed in an overnight Israeli strike on a house in Gaza City’s eastern Shujayea neighbourhood in Gaza City.
A separate strike on Ahmad Bin Abdul Aziz School in the southern city of Khan Younis on Sunday killed at least 20 displaced Palestinians. The Israeli military claimed it had <conducted a precise strike> on members of Hamas operating inside the school compound, but did not provide evidence.
On Monday, mourners gathered for the funeral of Al Jazeera TV journalist Ahmed al-Louh, killed along with five Palestinian civil defence workers in an attack on Nuseirat refugee camp the previous day.
The overall death toll now amounts to roughly 2 percent of Gaza's pre-war population of about 2.3 million.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/16/death-toll-from-israels-war-on-gaza-tops-45000

Al Jazeera - Dec 16 2024
<<Israeli attacks in Gaza kill dozens, including children and a journalist. Israeli air and ground attacks on homes and shelters in Gaza kill dozens of Palestinians, including women and children.Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed at least 69 Palestinians over the last 24 hours, including a journalist and rescue workers. An attack on a United Nations-run school in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis on Sunday killed at least 20 displaced Palestinians, including women and children. An earlier air attack hit the civil emergency centre in the Nuseirat market area in central Gaza, killing Ahmed al-Louh, a video journalist who worked for Al Jazeera, and five other people. Another strike on a house in the Nuseirat camp killed five people, including children. At least 11 people were killed in three Israeli air raids on Gaza City houses, nine were killed in the towns of Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoon and the Jabalia camp when clusters of houses were bombed or set ablaze, and two were killed in Rafah. The Israeli military said the three Gaza City houses belonged to <militants> planning imminent attacks. In Beit Hanoon, residents said Israeli forces besieged families sheltering in Khalil Aweida school before storming it and ordering them to head towards Gaza City. The spokesperson of the Government Media Office in Gaza said 43 people were killed in that attack, while others were wounded. As the official Palestinian death toll from the war on Gaza nears 45,000, Israel is accused of carrying out genocide and ethnic cleansing to depopulate Gaza's northern edge to create a buffer zone. Israel denies this and says the campaign targets Hamas.>>
View photos here: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/12/16/israeli-attacks-in-gaza-kill-dozens-including-children-and-a-journalist


Jinha - Womens News Agency - Dec 16, 2024
<<At least 43 Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on school in Beit Hanoun
An Israeli attack targeted a school sheltering displaced people in the city of Beit Hanoun on Sunday, killing at least 43 Palestinians.
News Center- An Israeli attack targeted a school sheltering displaced people in the city of Bit Hanoun on Sunday, killing at least 43 Palestinians, Ismail es-Sevabite, Director General of the Government Media Office in Gaza announced on Sunday. Israel has targeted more than 213 shelters in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, Ismail es-Sevabite added, stressing that four members of the Palestinian Civil Defense were killed in Israeli attacks on Sunday. At least 94 members of the Palestinian Civil Defense have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, Ismail es-Sevabite said.>>
Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/at-least-43-palestinians-killed-in-israeli-attack-on-school-in-beit-hanoun-36165?page=1


A Palestinian man reacts next to a body among debris
Al Jazeera - Dec 16 2024
<<Israel bombs another UN-run school in Gaza 'without warning', killing 20
Gaza's Health Ministry reports at least 69 people dead as a result of several Israeli attacks in the last 24 hours.
Israeli forces have bombed another United Nations-run school in southern Gaza, killing at least 20 displaced Palestinians sheltering in the building, witnesses told Al Jazeera, as the death toll from several attacks across the besieged territory, including in Beit Hanoon, Deir el-Balah and the Nuseirat refugee camp rises. According to the latest report from Gaza's Ministry of Health, published early on Monday, at least 69 people were confirmed dead as a result of Israeli attacks in the last 24 hours. Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah, said the attack on Sunday evening on the UNRWA-run school in Khan Younis came "without any warning". "Civilians were hit as they were sleeping, including women and children. They were not warned by the Israeli military before the attack," our correspondent said. The school, a three-storey building, is located next to the Nasser Medical Complex. The third floor was struck, "leaving behind a huge level of destruction", Abu Azzoum said. "Some of the bodies were shredded to pieces due to the scale of the attack in question," he added. "The school was estimated to be sheltering hundreds of Palestinian families and is located in a spot busy with civilian activity." Images posted on social media showed the chaos and frantic search for survivors following the attack. Those who were injured and killed were transported to the Nasser Medical Complex. UNRWA facilities in Gaza have been targeted frequently since the Israeli invasion began in October 2023. "Day in and day out, the Israeli military has been focused on pummelling these UN-run shelters that civilians have been taking refuge in, due to the lack of standing buildings and safe spaces," Abu Azzoum said.
'Condemn the crimes of the occupation'
There were more attacks in Khan Younis in the last 24 hours. According to the Palestinian Wafa news agency, Israeli aircraft bombed the village of Bani Suheila, killing four people and injuring others. Meanwhile, in northern Gaza's Beit Hanoon, where Israeli forces stormed and besieged the Khalil Oweida School on Sunday, the death toll has risen from 15 to 43, according to the spokesperson of the Government Media Office in Gaza. "We condemn the various complex crimes committed by the occupation army against our people. We call on the countries of the world to condemn the crimes of the occupation," Ismail al-Thwabta said. "We hold Israel and the United States legally responsible for the massacres of the occupation," he added. "We demand a quick and final end to the successive crises against our people before it is too late." In the Nuseirat refugee camp just north of Deir el-Balah, rescuers are still digging through the rubble after Israeli forces attacked the home belonging to the Abu Hajar family. At least five people were killed in the attack, including a child, according to Wafa. The camp was also targeted by Israeli forces on Friday, killing at least 30 people. At least four people were also reported killed in a separate attack on a tent sheltering dozens of displaced Palestinians, also in Deir el-Balah, on Sunday night. On Sunday, Israeli forces also bombed the Nuseirat camp, killing Palestinian journalist Ahmed Al-Louh and five Palestinian Civil Defence workers. Al-Louh worked as a cameraman for Al Jazeera alongside other media outlets. He was the third Gaza-based journalist killed in a span of 24 hours, bringing to 196 the number of Palestinian journalists killed by Israeli forces since October 7, 2023. In the Shujayea neighbourhood of Gaza City, 10 civilians were killed in a separate Israeli attack, most of them from the same family. An Israeli air attack was also reported by our colleagues from Al Jazeera Arabic in Rafah city in southern Gaza, but there was no immediate report on the number of casualties.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/16/israel-bombs-another-un-run-school-in-gaza-without-warning-killing-20

CPJ - Dec 15 2024
<<Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war
The Israel-Gaza war has taken an unprecedented toll on Gazan journalists since Israel declared war on Hamas following its attack against Israel on October 7, 2023. As of December 15, 2024, CPJ’s preliminary investigations showed at least 137 journalists and media workers were among the more than tens of thousands killed in Gaza, the West Bank, Israel, and Lebanon since the war began, making it the deadliest period for journalists since CPJ began gathering data in 1992. Journalists in Gaza face particularly high risks as they try to cover the conflict, including devastating Israeli airstrikes, famine, the displacement of 90% of Gaza’s population, and the destruction of 80% of its buildings. CPJ is investigating more than 130 additional cases of potential killings, arrests and injuries, but many are difficult to document amid these harsh conditions. "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." Journalists are civilians and are protected by International Law. Deliberately targeting civilians constitutes a war crime. In May, the International Criminal Court announced it was seeking arrest warrant applications for Hamas and Israeli leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity.>>
Source: https://cpj.org/2024/12/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/

Al Jazeera - Dec 15 2024 - by Al Jazeera Live By Maziar Motamedi and Umut Uras
<<LIVE: Israel bombs another UN-run school in Gaza, kills 20 Palestinians
This video may contain light patterns or images that could trigger seizures or cause discomfort for people with visual sensitivities.
Israeli forces bombed the UNRWA-run Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz School in southern Khan Younis, killing at least 20 people, including children.
The attack followed an assault on a school in northern Beit Hanoon that killed 43 people and another on a Civil Defence Post that killed Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Al-Louh and five rescue workers.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/12/16/live-israel-kills-50-in-gaza-plans-to-double-settlements-in-golan-heights

Al Jazeera - Dec 15 2024
<<Palestinian journalist, Gaza Civil Defence workers killed in Israeli strike
Ahmed Allouh is the third journalist killed in Gaza in the last 24 hours.
An Israeli air strike has killed Palestinian journalist Ahmed Al-Louh and five Palestinian Civil Defence workers in central Gaza's Nuseirat camp.
Al-Louh, who worked as a cameraman for Al Jazeera alongside other media outlets, was killed on Sunday in the strike on the Civil Defence post in the central Gaza camp, according to medics and local journalists. The attack occurred as Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 28 Palestinians on Sunday, medics said. Allouh is the third journalist killed in Gaza in the last 24 hours. Al Jazeera Arabic reported that Al-louh was working while killed, wearing a press vest and helmet. He was taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza’s city of Deir el-Balah. Al Jazeera Media Network condemned Al-Louh's killing, and called on human rights and media organisations "to condemn the Israeli Occupation's systematic killing of journalists in cold blood, the evasion of responsibilities under international humanitarian law, and to bring the perpetrators of this heinous crime to justice". "We urge relevant international legal institutions to take practical and urgent measures to hold the Israeli authorities and all those who are responsible accountable for their heinous crimes and to adopt mechanisms to put an end to the targeting and killing of journalists," the network added. Al-Louh had been covering Israel's war on Gaza when it first began in October 2023, embedded with the Gaza Strip’s Palestinian Civil Defence teams, Al Jazeera's Hind Khoudary said. "It's another heartbreaking day for Palestinians, Civil Defence teams, journalists. We [have been] wondering, how many times are we going to continue reporting on the killing[s] of our colleagues and beloved ones?" Khoudary said, reporting from Deir el-Balah. Gaza's media office said the head of the civil emergency service in Nuseirat, Nedal Abu Hjayyer, was also killed in Sunday's attack. "The civil emergency headquarters in Nuseirat camp was hit during the crews' presence. They work around the clock to serve the people," said Zaki Emadeldeen from the civil emergency service to reporters at the hospital. "The civil emergency service is a humanitarian service and not political. They work in war and peace times for the service of the people," he said, adding that the place was hit directly by an Israeli air strike. The Israeli military said they were looking into the attack.
Several other Palestinian journalists were killed this past week, with 195 killed in Gaza since Israel's war began, Khoudary said. Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud said earlier on Sunday that Palestinian journalist Mohammed Jabr al-Qrinawi was killed along with his wife and children in an Israeli air attack that targeted their home in Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza, late on Saturday. Earlier on Saturday, Al Mashhad Media said its journalist Mohammed Balousha was killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza. Several Al Jazeera journalists have been killed since the start of Israel's war on Gaza, including Ismail al-Ghoul, Rami al-Rifi, Samer Abudaqa and Hamza Dahdouh. Also on Sunday, an air strike hit people protecting aid trucks west of Gaza City. Medics said several were killed or wounded but exact figures were unavailable as of yet. Residents also said at least 11 people were killed in three separate Israeli air strikes in Gaza City. Nine were killed in the towns of Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoon and Jabalia camp when clusters of houses were bombed or set ablaze, and two were killed by drone fire in Rafah. Earlier on Sunday, at least 15 Palestinians were killed after Israeli forces stormed Khalil Oweida School in Beit Hanoon, sources told Al Jazeera. Several other Israeli attacks earlier on Sunday killed Palestinians near Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza; and in Shujayea, in Khan Younis.
According to Gaza's Health Ministry, at least 44,976 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since October 7, 2023.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/15/palestinian-journalist-gaza-civil-defense-workers-killed-in-israeli-strike

BBC - Dec 15, 2024
<<Last bone surgeon in northern Gaza killed, Palestinians say
Dr Sayeed Joudeh worked at the Kamal Adwan hospital, pictured here in October 2024 A doctor believed to be the last remaining orthopaedic surgeon in northern Gaza has been killed by Israeli tankfire, according to Palestinian officials. Dr Sayeed Joudeh died on Thursday while he was on his way to work. He was a surgeon at Kamal Adwan and al-Awda hospitals in northern Gaza. The Israeli military said it was unaware of the incident, but it was investigating. The grandfather had come out of retirement to help during the war. Last month speaking at a press conference at the Kamal Adwan Hospital, he held up a placard that read "Save US".
It didn't work.
"On his way to al-Awda Hospital to evaluate a patient, one of the tanks fired on him directly," according to Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital.
"Unfortunately, he was killed instantly."
But some eyewitnesses say Dr Joudeh was shot by a drone. Israel does not allow foreign journalists unrestricted access to Gaza. But from Jerusalem, I spoke to Louise Wateridge from the main United Nations aid agency in Gaza. "It's devastating for his family. It's devastating for people in the north who are relying on so few doctors," said Ms Wateridge.
"Hospitals in the Gaza Strip are not hospitals anymore," she said.
"There's no sanitation. There are hardly any doctors. There's no medical equipment. Patients are dying needlessly." Ms Wateridge described the humanitarian situation in Gaza as apocalyptic. For more than two months much of Northern Gaza has been under Israeli siege and bombardment.
Israel says it is targeting Hamas operatives who have been regrouping there. Much of Gaza is in ruins after air attacks which Israel says are targeting Hamas and Islamic Jihad On 7 October last year, Hamas launched an attack in southern Israel killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
In retaliation, Israel launched a massive operation inside the Gaza Strip with the stated aim of eliminating Hamas.
So far, at least 44,875 people have been killed and more than 100,000 injured - mostly civilians, the Hamas-run health ministry says. The UN regards these figures as reliable.
At least 30 of them were killed - and another 50 wounded - in an Israeli strike on a post office turned shelter for displaced people in central Gaza on Thursday night, according to local medics. Locals say Gazans displaced by the 14-month conflict were sheltering there and that many members of one extended family had been killed. The Israeli military said it was targeting a senior Islamic Jihad member behind attacks on Israeli civilians and troops. It accused the armed group of exploiting Gaza's civilians as human shields for its activities.>>
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyv3m71g1q0o

Al Jazeera - Dec 15 2024
<<Lazzarini: Can UNRWA survive Israel's campaign and funding cuts?
Philippe Lazzarini discusses UNRWA's future amid Israeli accusations, funding cuts, and Gaza’s deepening crisis.>>
Video & read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/talk-to-al-jazeera/2024/12/15/lazzarini-can-unrwa-survive-israels-campaign-and-funding-cuts

Al Jazeera - Dec 15 2024
<<Israeli forces storm Gaza school sheltering displaced, killing at least 15
Remaining displaced, including women and children, reportedly being forced out of Khalil Oweida School by Israeli forces.
At least 15 Palestinians have been killed after Israeli forces stormed a Gaza school sheltering displaced people, sources have told Al Jazeera, amid a wave of attacks across the besieged Palestinian territory killing dozens more, including two journalists overnight. Witnesses told Al Jazeera that several others were also injured in the Israeli attack on Khalil Oweida School in Beit Hanoon in northern Gaza on Sunday. Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud, reporting from central Gaza's Deir el-Balah, quoted witnesses as saying many of those hurt during the storming of the school sustained "severe injuries". "They have nowhere to go because the Israeli military forces are encircling the area with tanks and armoured vehicles, and hammering the school with heavy artillery," he said. Among those killed were a family of four, including two children, after the classroom where they were sheltering took a "direct hit" from artillery fire. "Many of the injured are in the courtyard of the school and inside the other classrooms. They can't get any treatment because none of the hospitals in Beit Hanoon are operational," he said, noting that the storming of the school happened "without prior warning". The Palestinian news agency WAFA also confirmed the 15 deaths. WAFA reported that those who remained at the besieged school, many of them women and children, were being forced to leave the area and move towards a military checkpoint set up at Salah al-Din Street. Several of the men were reportedly detained.
The siege of the school is still under way.
In all, at least 46 Palestinians were killed across Gaza in the last 24 hours, the besieged territory’s Ministry of Health said, adding that five "massacres" were committed by Israeli forces during the same period. Of total death toll, at least 14 were reported in the southern Gaza City, including in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, where an Israeli raid hit a residential building in the Abu Iskandar area. Our colleagues from Al Jazeera Arabic also reported that four of those deaths were from an Israeli raid on a house in al-Nafaq Street in the centre of Gaza City. Three other people were killed in a separate strike on a house in Zeitoun neighbourhood south of Gaza City. The Palestinian news agency WAFA confirmed that an Israeli air raid hit a tent sheltering displaced people in Beit Hanoon, killing several civilians and wounding many others. Two others were reported killed following a separate Israeli attack on the area surrounding Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, WAFA added. Four Palestinians were also killed in Shujayea, Khan Younis. At least 135 other people were reported injured in the Israeli attacks on Sunday. The deadly Israeli raids and bombings come just a day after Israeli forces killed several people after hitting a school in Gaza City, and just two days after a massacre in Nuseirat refugee camp. Meanwhile, Al Jazeera's Mahmoud confirmed on Sunday that Palestinian journalist Mohammed Jabr al-Qrinawi was killed along with his wife and children in an Israeli air attack that targeted their home in Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza, late on Saturday. The Egypt-based Al-Ahram reported that al-Qrinawi was affiliated with Sanad News Agency, a distinct entity from Al Jazeera's Sanad Verification Unit. Al-Qrinawi was the second journalist killed on Saturday. Earlier on Saturday, Al Mashhad Media said its journalist Mohammed Balousha was killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza. George Eid, director of news at Al Mashhad, confirmed Balousha's killing, saying it was a targeted attack. Balousha was the Palestinian journalist who broke the story on the decomposing bodies of premature babies in the ICU, who were left to die by Israeli forces at al-Nasr Hospital last year.
The separate killings of al-Qrinawi and Balousha raise the death toll of Palestinian journalists to 196. The Committee to Protect Journalists has compiled records of at least 137 Palestinian journalists killed.
On Tuesday, two separate reports from media freedom organisations said Israel carried out a "massacre" of journalists in Gaza.
The Israeli government denied the accusations.
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, at least 44,976 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces since October 7, 2023.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/15/israeli-forces-storm-gaza-school-sheltering-displaced-killing-at-least-15
 

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