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Israeli onslaught on Gaza

Another day of deadly Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip as the regime wages its campaign of bombing the coastal territory. Gaza’s health ministry says 250 Palestinians have been killed in 24 hours. That brings the Palestinian death toll since October 7 to more than 23,000. Some of the latest Israeli attacks have hit residential buildings in Khan Yunis and Deir al Balah as well as locations in Rafah, killing dozens of people. Israel has been bombing hospitals, schools, supply vehicles, and even UN-run facilities indiscriminately. According to Gaza Health officials, Israeli drones bombed the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital on Sunday, in an attack that targeted quote anything that moved. Some 59,000 Palestinians have been injured since the start of the Israeli onslaught.

Gaza child amputees

Every day in Gaza, more than ten children on an average lose one or both of their legs as a result of Israeli air and artillery strikes. That’s according to the International charity organization “Save the Children”. The organization has cited statistics released by UNICEF, saying over 1000 children have had one or both legs amputated since October 7th. Many of them lost their limbs during operations carried out without anesthesia. That’s because Gaza’s healthcare system has been grappling with major shortages of medical supplies and staff over the past three months. The report by “Save the Children” illustrates one of the impacts of the Israeli onslaught on children’s lives in Gaza. A British-Palestinian plastic surgeon, who has been in the Palestinian territory, describes the onslaught as a war on children. 

Resistance Reprisal

Iraq’s Islamic resistance has staged fresh attacks against US and Israeli interests amid boiling anger at US-Israeli genocidal onslaught in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Resistance, an umbrella group of Iraqi resistance groups, says it has performed a drone attack on the US Rmelan military base in northeastern Syria. That follows another attack by al-Nujaba resistance group against an Israeli site in the city of Haifa. The Iraqi resistance faction says the raid shows the resistance axis would never give up on its strategic goals in the region. A spokesman for the group said the objective of the resistance is to disrupt the US plans in the region and to neutralize the efforts of the Israeli regime in Gaza. Resistance groups have carried out attacks against US bases in Iraq and Syria as well as Israeli cities over the past weeks in response to the genocide in Gaza.