She is yet another small innocent victim of the war in the Middle East, among the thousands of children who have lost their lives: a Palestinian girl aged just 4 was shot to death “accidentally” by Israeli agents during a failed attack on a checkpoint near Jerusalem. A man driving a car attempted to run over the policemen who opened fire, killing the little girl who was sitting in another vehicle.
Yet another drama, as Israel continues to pound the south of the Strip after having achieved its objectives in the North: exactly three months after the Hamas attack, planes zoomed past last night between Khan Younis and Rafah, causing death. Dozens of civilians were killed, including newborns and children: at least 113 Palestinians were killed and another 250 injured in the last 24 hours – the Strip's Ministry of Health said – raising the toll to 22,835 deaths since 7 October.
Among them two reporters: Hamza Wael Al-Dahdouh of Al Jazeera and Mustafa Thuria who also worked for the AFP, torn apart while traveling by car by a missile near Rafah. To make the news even more dramatic, the fact that the first was the son of Wael Al-Dahdouh, a journalist from Al Jazeera whose story went around the world: while he was in a hospital filming a report on Israeli attacks he learned that a raid had wiped out most of his family. “An unimaginable tragedy”, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken defined it from Doha, while 102 reporters have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the conflict.
Ali Salem Abu Ajwa, nephew of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who founded Hamas in Gaza in 1987 and was its spiritual leader until he was killed by Israel in 2004, also died under the bombs last night. According to some sources, he also worked as a journalist in Gaza.
Israel continues to strike while US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is arriving, engaged in a new tour in the region to seek a solution for Gaza and avoid escalation with Lebanon, from which new rockets arrived yesterday too. «The situation for men, women and children in Gaza remains dire. Too many Palestinians have been killed, especially children, ”Blinken wrote today on X about him during his mission in the Middle East. “Too many face incredibly difficult challenges in terms of access to food, water, medicine, the essentials of life.” As he testifies Save the Children announcing that 10 children a day (one thousand in three months) have lost their legs, often subjected to amputations without anesthesia.
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, politically increasingly under siege at home and internationally, also with pressure from the USA, does not, however, seem willing to retreat from his very hard line. And he also issues a warning to Hezbollah: «They should learn what Hamas has already learned in recent months. No terrorist is immune”, he thundered after Nasrallah's threats in recent days.
Blinken also said in Doha that it was “imperative” that Israel does more to protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza who “must be able to return home as soon as conditions allow.” A signal to the hawks in the Netanyahu government who have been speculating for days about a movement of Palestinians out of the Strip. An eventuality excluded, however, even by Israeli President Isaac Herzog himself in an interview with NBC: this “is absolutely not” Israel's position but “in a society in which freedom of speech is the basis of our DNA, the people can say what they want.” The ministers «spoke about the voluntary abandonment of the Strip. I say openly, officially and unequivocally that this is not the Israeli position,” he reiterated.
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