US-Israeli genocide raging
More than three months into the Israeli genocide in Gaza; the regime continues with its carpet-bombing campaign across the besieged territory. In the southern Gaza strip, 15 members of a family were killed in the regime’s latest airstrikes in Rafah. The city of Khan Yunis, Which hosts thousands of displaced Palestinians, also remains the main target of the regime’s relentless attacks. Several Gazans were injured at a UN-run school, when the Israeli drones opened live fire on Palestinians taking shelter there. The city’s Nasser hospital and its vicinity have also come under heavy Israeli fire. To the central Gaza, Israeli warplanes shelled civilian areas near al-Maghazi and Nusairat refugee camps, resulting in a number of casualties. In the North, rescue teams are racing against time in Deir al-Balah and Jabalia as Israeli strikes pound the residential areas there. The overall death toll from the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza has now reached 23-thousand-210, most of them women and children.
‘Year of genocide’ for Gaza kids
An international advocacy group for children has described 2023 as the Year of Genocide for children in Palestine where at least eight thousand kids have been killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip. Defense for Children International has called unprecedented, the rate of the children killed by the Israeli regime in Gaza. It says the number of casualties among Gaza children is expected to rise significantly due to the non-stop Israeli bombardment of civilian infrastructure and the high number of children who are still unaccounted for. According to the group, in the occupied West Bank, at least 121 Palestinian children were killed in attacks by Israeli forces last year. Meanwhile, the Palestinian ministry of education has said that the number of slaughtered Palestinian students has surpassed four thousand and two hundred. The ministry added 84 students have been killed and hundreds more injured in the West Bank since the onset of the Israeli genocide on October 7.
Condemning Israeli crimes
UN experts have condemned the Israeli regime over its assassination of Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri on Lebanese soil. They say such killings amount to the crimes of extrajudicial killing and murder. Two UN special rapporteurs have, in a statement, deplored killing of resistance fighters in foreign territory. They emphasized that there was NO legal basis for geographically unlimited attacks targeting the members of an armed resistance group wherever they are. The UN experts argued that Israel’s assassination of the Hamas official was not an act of self-defense, and that the Israeli regime did not provide any evidence al-Arouri was conducting armed attacks against Israel. Saleh al-Arouri was killed last week in an Israeli drone attack in southern Beirut. Hamas has vowed revenge for the assassination, saying the crime will not break the resolve of the Palestinians in their battle against the Zionist enemy.
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