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The Age
10 hours ago
- Politics
- The Age
As bombs rain down on Israel and Iran, Gaza's carnage continues
Even as Israel carried out another wave of strikes on Iran on Tuesday, dozens of Palestinians were killed while trying to get aid, with witnesses reporting that Israeli tanks fired shells near a crowd gathered along a route used by aid trucks. It was the deadliest in a string of incidents to have taken place over the past month near aid distribution centres, as Israel looks to sideline the United Nations as the key aid provider in Gaza. Health officials in Gaza say almost 400 Palestinians have now been killed near humanitarian centres since aid deliveries resumed in late May. The latest incident took place near a World Food Program site in Khan Younis, but many of the deaths have occurred near centres operated by the controversial US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. The UN has labelled their aid hubs 'militarised distribution points'. Israeli gunfire and strikes killed at least 140 people across Gaza in the past 24 hours, local health officials said on Wednesday, as some Palestinians said their plight had been forgotten as attention shifted to Israel's campaign against Iran. 'People are being slaughtered in Gaza, day and night, but attention has shifted to the Iran-Israel war. There is little news about Gaza these days,' said Adel, a resident of Gaza City. 'Whoever doesn't die from Israeli bombs dies from hunger. People risk their lives every day to get food, and they also get killed and their blood smears the sacks of flour they thought they had won,' he told Reuters via a chat app. 'We are maybe happy to see Israel suffer from Iranian rockets, but at the end of the day, one more day in this war costs the lives of tens of innocent people,' said 47-year-old Shaban Abed, a father of five from northern Gaza. Medical staff said separate airstrikes on Wednesday on homes in the Maghazi refugee camp, the Zeitun neighbourhood and Gaza City killed at least 21 people, while five others were killed in an airstrike on an encampment in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. In the Khan Younis incident on Tuesday, medics said at least 59 people were killed by Israeli tank fire near a World Food Program site, in one of the deadliest single events since hostilities resumed after the March truce. The Israeli military said it was investigating the incident and regretted 'any harm to uninvolved individuals'. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, at least 531 people were killed and 2486 injured across the territory between June 11 and 18. The latest death tolls included the most recent killings of Palestinians seeking aid in the weeks since Israel partially lifted its total blockade and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began operating. Israel and the US say the GHF provides a means to deliver aid directly to Palestinians outside existing humanitarian lines of supply, which are vulnerable to being stolen or siphoned off by Hamas – a charge the group denies. But Palestinian officials, medics and witnesses say Israeli forces have repeatedly opened fire near the hubs, causing mass casualties among desperate crowds. The Israeli military has said its troops only fire in self-defence or at military targets, and that it always tries to minimise the loss of civilian life. The World Food Program on Wednesday warned that people's desperation for food was causing them to gather en masse along well-known transport routes in the hope of intercepting supplies. 'Any violence resulting in starving people being killed or injured while seeking life-saving assistance is completely unacceptable,' it said in a statement, which also called for a big increase in food distribution. The head of the UN's Palestinian refugee agency, Philippe Lazzarini, attacked the current aid system as 'a disgrace & a stain on our collective consciousness', in a post on X on Wednesday. Amid the violence, the UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) again warned of a looming famine and the World Food Program called for a big increase in food distribution, saying the 9000 tonnes it had sent recently was a 'tiny fraction' of what was needed. Gaza's hospitals are also overstretched and face critical shortages of essential medicines and supplies, OCHA says, while also dealing with mass casualty events and fuel shortages. Medical teams have reportedly suffered fainting episodes due to exhaustion and lack of food. An estimated 55,000 pregnant women in Gaza also face growing health risks, such as miscarriage, stillbirth, and undernourished newborns, OCHA warns, while other life-saving and critical care services are at imminent risk of shutting down, including 80 per cent of maternity units. In the three months since hostilities resumed, OCHA estimates that more than 680,000 people have been displaced from their homes, and less than 18 per cent of Gaza now remains outside Israeli militarised or evacuation zones. Since the ceasefire ended in March, Israeli forces have escalated their bombardment from the air, land and sea and expanded ground operations, destroying yet more civilian infrastructure and causing large-scale displacement. Many people have been forced to take refuge in any available space, including overcrowded refugee sites, makeshift shelters, bombed-out buildings, streets and open areas, OCHA reports. Fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups has also been reported. The death toll in Gaza since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, which triggered the war, is now at least 55,637, with 129,880 injured, according to the Hamas-run ministry. That figure includes some 5334 people killed and 17,839 injured since fighting resumed on March 18, according to health ministry figures. Hamas militants killed 1200 people in the 2023 attack on Israel and took 251 people hostage. Fifty-three hostages are still being held by Hamas in Gaza, at least 20 of whom are believed to be alive. As Israel and Iran continue to trade fire, on Wednesday, Amnesty International accused both sides of 'time and again' demonstrating 'utter disregard for international human rights' and 'committing grave international crimes with impunity'. 'The world must not allow Israel to use this military escalation to divert attention away from its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip', Amnesty secretary-general Agnès Callamard said.
Sydney Morning Herald
a day ago
- Politics
- Sydney Morning Herald
As the world watches Israel bomb Iran, Gaza's carnage continues
Even as Israel carried out another wave of strikes on Iran on Tuesday, dozens of Palestinians were killed while trying to get aid, with witnesses reporting that Israeli tanks fired shells near a crowd gathered along a route used by aid trucks. It was the deadliest in a string of incidents to have taken place over the past month near aid distribution centres, as Israel looks to sideline the United Nations as the key aid provider in Gaza. Health officials in Gaza say almost 400 Palestinians have now been killed near humanitarian centres since aid deliveries resumed in late May. The latest incident took place near a World Food Program site in Khan Younis, but many of the deaths have occurred near centres operated by the controversial US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. The UN has labelled their aid hubs 'militarised distribution points'. Israeli gunfire and strikes killed at least 140 people across Gaza in the past 24 hours, local health officials said on Wednesday, as some Palestinians said their plight had been forgotten as attention shifted to Israel's campaign against Iran. 'People are being slaughtered in Gaza, day and night, but attention has shifted to the Iran-Israel war. There is little news about Gaza these days,' said Adel, a resident of Gaza City. 'Whoever doesn't die from Israeli bombs dies from hunger. People risk their lives every day to get food, and they also get killed and their blood smears the sacks of flour they thought they had won,' he told Reuters via a chat app. 'We are maybe happy to see Israel suffer from Iranian rockets, but at the end of the day, one more day in this war costs the lives of tens of innocent people,' said 47-year-old Shaban Abed, a father of five from northern Gaza. Medical staff said separate airstrikes on Wednesday on homes in the Maghazi refugee camp, the Zeitun neighbourhood and Gaza City killed at least 21 people, while five others were killed in an airstrike on an encampment in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. In the Khan Younis incident on Tuesday, medics said at least 59 people were killed by Israeli tank fire near a World Food Programme site, in one of the deadliest single events since hostilities resumed after the March truce. The Israeli military said it was investigating the incident and regretted 'any harm to uninvolved individuals'. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, at least 531 people were killed and 2486 injured across the territory between June 11 and 18. The latest death tolls included the most recent killings of Palestinians seeking aid in the weeks since Israel partially lifted its total blockade and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began operating. Israel and the US say the GHF provides a means to deliver aid directly to Palestinians outside existing humanitarian lines of supply, which are vulnerable to being stolen or siphoned off by Hamas – a charge the group denies. But Palestinian officials, medics and witnesses say Israeli forces have repeatedly opened fire near the hubs, causing mass casualties among desperate crowds. The Israeli military has said its troops only fire in self-defence or at military targets, and that it always tries to minimise the loss of civilian life. The World Food Programme on Wednesday warned that people's desperation for food was causing them to gather en masse along well-known transport routes in the hope of intercepting supplies. 'Any violence resulting in starving people being killed or injured while seeking life-saving assistance is completely unacceptable,' it said in a statement, which also called for a big increase in food distribution. The head of the UN's Palestinian refugee agency, Philippe Lazzarini, attacked the current aid system as 'a disgrace & a stain on our collective consciousness', in a post on X on Wednesday. Amid the violence, the UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) again warned of a looming famine and the World Food Programme called for a big increase in food distribution, saying the 9000 tonnes it had sent recently was a 'tiny fraction' of what was needed. Gaza's hospitals are also overstretched and face critical shortages of essential medicines and supplies, OCHA says, while also dealing with mass casualty events and fuel shortages. Medical teams have reportedly suffered fainting episodes due to exhaustion and lack of food. An estimated 55,000 pregnant women in Gaza also face growing health risks, such as miscarriage, stillbirth, and undernourished newborns, OCHA warns, while other life-saving and critical care services are at imminent risk of shutting down, including 80 per cent of maternity units. In the three months since hostilities resumed, OCHA estimates that more than 680,000 people have been displaced from their homes, and less than 18 per cent of Gaza now remains outside Israeli militarised or evacuation zones. Since the ceasefire ended in March, Israeli forces have escalated their bombardment from the air, land and sea and expanded ground operations, destroying yet more civilian infrastructure and causing large-scale displacement. Many people have been forced to take refuge in any available space, including overcrowded refugee sites, makeshift shelters, bombed-out buildings, streets and open areas, OCHA reports. Fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups has also been reported. The death toll in Gaza since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, which triggered the war, is now at least 55,637, with 129,880 injured, according to the Hamas-run ministry. That figure includes some 5334 people killed and 17,839 injured since fighting resumed on March 18, according to health ministry figures. Hamas militants killed 1200 people in the 2023 attack on Israel and took 251 people hostage. Fifty-three hostages are still being held by Hamas in Gaza, at least 20 of whom are believed to be alive. As Israel and Iran continue to trade fire, on Wednesday, Amnesty International accused both sides of 'time and again' demonstrating 'utter disregard for international human rights' and 'committing grave international crimes with impunity'. 'The world must not allow Israel to use this military escalation to divert attention away from its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip', Amnesty secretary general Agnès Callamard said.
The Age
a day ago
- Politics
- The Age
As the world watches Israel bomb Iran, Gaza's carnage continues
Even as Israel carried out another wave of strikes on Iran on Tuesday, dozens of Palestinians were killed while trying to get aid, with witnesses reporting that Israeli tanks fired shells near a crowd gathered along a route used by aid trucks. It was the deadliest in a string of incidents to have taken place over the past month near aid distribution centres, as Israel looks to sideline the United Nations as the key aid provider in Gaza. Health officials in Gaza say almost 400 Palestinians have now been killed near humanitarian centres since aid deliveries resumed in late May. The latest incident took place near a World Food Program site in Khan Younis, but many of the deaths have occurred near centres operated by the controversial US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. The UN has labelled their aid hubs 'militarised distribution points'. Israeli gunfire and strikes killed at least 140 people across Gaza in the past 24 hours, local health officials said on Wednesday, as some Palestinians said their plight had been forgotten as attention shifted to Israel's campaign against Iran. 'People are being slaughtered in Gaza, day and night, but attention has shifted to the Iran-Israel war. There is little news about Gaza these days,' said Adel, a resident of Gaza City. 'Whoever doesn't die from Israeli bombs dies from hunger. People risk their lives every day to get food, and they also get killed and their blood smears the sacks of flour they thought they had won,' he told Reuters via a chat app. 'We are maybe happy to see Israel suffer from Iranian rockets, but at the end of the day, one more day in this war costs the lives of tens of innocent people,' said 47-year-old Shaban Abed, a father of five from northern Gaza. Medical staff said separate airstrikes on Wednesday on homes in the Maghazi refugee camp, the Zeitun neighbourhood and Gaza City killed at least 21 people, while five others were killed in an airstrike on an encampment in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. In the Khan Younis incident on Tuesday, medics said at least 59 people were killed by Israeli tank fire near a World Food Programme site, in one of the deadliest single events since hostilities resumed after the March truce. The Israeli military said it was investigating the incident and regretted 'any harm to uninvolved individuals'. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, at least 531 people were killed and 2486 injured across the territory between June 11 and 18. The latest death tolls included the most recent killings of Palestinians seeking aid in the weeks since Israel partially lifted its total blockade and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began operating. Israel and the US say the GHF provides a means to deliver aid directly to Palestinians outside existing humanitarian lines of supply, which are vulnerable to being stolen or siphoned off by Hamas – a charge the group denies. But Palestinian officials, medics and witnesses say Israeli forces have repeatedly opened fire near the hubs, causing mass casualties among desperate crowds. The Israeli military has said its troops only fire in self-defence or at military targets, and that it always tries to minimise the loss of civilian life. The World Food Programme on Wednesday warned that people's desperation for food was causing them to gather en masse along well-known transport routes in the hope of intercepting supplies. 'Any violence resulting in starving people being killed or injured while seeking life-saving assistance is completely unacceptable,' it said in a statement, which also called for a big increase in food distribution. The head of the UN's Palestinian refugee agency, Philippe Lazzarini, attacked the current aid system as 'a disgrace & a stain on our collective consciousness', in a post on X on Wednesday. Amid the violence, the UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) again warned of a looming famine and the World Food Programme called for a big increase in food distribution, saying the 9000 tonnes it had sent recently was a 'tiny fraction' of what was needed. Gaza's hospitals are also overstretched and face critical shortages of essential medicines and supplies, OCHA says, while also dealing with mass casualty events and fuel shortages. Medical teams have reportedly suffered fainting episodes due to exhaustion and lack of food. An estimated 55,000 pregnant women in Gaza also face growing health risks, such as miscarriage, stillbirth, and undernourished newborns, OCHA warns, while other life-saving and critical care services are at imminent risk of shutting down, including 80 per cent of maternity units. In the three months since hostilities resumed, OCHA estimates that more than 680,000 people have been displaced from their homes, and less than 18 per cent of Gaza now remains outside Israeli militarised or evacuation zones. Since the ceasefire ended in March, Israeli forces have escalated their bombardment from the air, land and sea and expanded ground operations, destroying yet more civilian infrastructure and causing large-scale displacement. Many people have been forced to take refuge in any available space, including overcrowded refugee sites, makeshift shelters, bombed-out buildings, streets and open areas, OCHA reports. Fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups has also been reported. The death toll in Gaza since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, which triggered the war, is now at least 55,637, with 129,880 injured, according to the Hamas-run ministry. That figure includes some 5334 people killed and 17,839 injured since fighting resumed on March 18, according to health ministry figures. Hamas militants killed 1200 people in the 2023 attack on Israel and took 251 people hostage. Fifty-three hostages are still being held by Hamas in Gaza, at least 20 of whom are believed to be alive. As Israel and Iran continue to trade fire, on Wednesday, Amnesty International accused both sides of 'time and again' demonstrating 'utter disregard for international human rights' and 'committing grave international crimes with impunity'. 'The world must not allow Israel to use this military escalation to divert attention away from its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip', Amnesty secretary general Agnès Callamard said.
The Advertiser
2 days ago
- Health
- The Advertiser
Israeli fire kills 30 in Gaza as focus shifts to Iran
Israeli gunfire and strikes have killed at least 30 people across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, local health authorities say, as some Palestinians there say their plight is being forgotten as attention shifted to the air war between Israel and Iran. The deaths included the latest in near daily killings of Palestinians seeking aid in the three weeks since Israel partially lifted a total blockade on Gaza that it had imposed for almost three months. Medics said separate air strikes on homes in the Maghazi refugee camp and Zeitoun neighbourhood in central and northern Gaza killed at least 14 people, while five others were killed in an air strike on a tent encampment in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Eleven others were killed in Israeli fire at crowds of displaced Palestinians awaiting aid trucks brought in by the United Nations along the Salahuddin road in central Gaza, medics said. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it was looking into the reported deaths of people waiting for food. Regarding the other strikes, it said it was "operating to dismantle Hamas military capabilities" and "feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm". On Tuesday, Gaza's health ministry said 397 Palestinians among those trying to get food aid had been killed and more than 3000 wounded since aid deliveries restarted in late May. Some in Gaza expressed concern that the latest escalations in the war between Israel and Hamas that began in October 2023 would be overlooked as the focus moved to Israel's five-day-old conflict with Iran. Israel has been channelling much of the aid it is now allowing into Gaza through a new US- and Israeli-backed group, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which operates a handful of distribution sites in areas guarded by Israeli forces. It has said it will continue to allow aid into Gaza, home to more than two million people, while ensuring aid does not get into the hands of Hamas. Hamas denies seizing aid, saying Israel uses hunger as a weapon against the population in Gaza. The Gaza war was triggered when Hamas-led militants attacked Israel in October 2023, killing 1200 and taking about 250 hostages, according to Israeli allies. US ally Israel's subsequent military assault on Gaza has killed almost 55,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's health ministry, displaced almost all the territory's residents, and caused a severe hunger crisis. The assault has led to accusations of genocide and war crimes, which Israel denies. Palestinians in Gaza have been closely following Israel's air war with Iran, long a major supporter of Hamas. "We are maybe happy to see Israel suffer from Iranian rockets, but at the end of the day, one more day in this war costs the lives of tens of innocent people," said 47-year-old Shaban Abed, a father of five from northern Gaza. "We just hope that a comprehensive solution could be reached to end the war in Gaza, too. We are being forgotten." Israeli gunfire and strikes have killed at least 30 people across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, local health authorities say, as some Palestinians there say their plight is being forgotten as attention shifted to the air war between Israel and Iran. The deaths included the latest in near daily killings of Palestinians seeking aid in the three weeks since Israel partially lifted a total blockade on Gaza that it had imposed for almost three months. Medics said separate air strikes on homes in the Maghazi refugee camp and Zeitoun neighbourhood in central and northern Gaza killed at least 14 people, while five others were killed in an air strike on a tent encampment in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Eleven others were killed in Israeli fire at crowds of displaced Palestinians awaiting aid trucks brought in by the United Nations along the Salahuddin road in central Gaza, medics said. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it was looking into the reported deaths of people waiting for food. Regarding the other strikes, it said it was "operating to dismantle Hamas military capabilities" and "feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm". On Tuesday, Gaza's health ministry said 397 Palestinians among those trying to get food aid had been killed and more than 3000 wounded since aid deliveries restarted in late May. Some in Gaza expressed concern that the latest escalations in the war between Israel and Hamas that began in October 2023 would be overlooked as the focus moved to Israel's five-day-old conflict with Iran. Israel has been channelling much of the aid it is now allowing into Gaza through a new US- and Israeli-backed group, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which operates a handful of distribution sites in areas guarded by Israeli forces. It has said it will continue to allow aid into Gaza, home to more than two million people, while ensuring aid does not get into the hands of Hamas. Hamas denies seizing aid, saying Israel uses hunger as a weapon against the population in Gaza. The Gaza war was triggered when Hamas-led militants attacked Israel in October 2023, killing 1200 and taking about 250 hostages, according to Israeli allies. US ally Israel's subsequent military assault on Gaza has killed almost 55,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's health ministry, displaced almost all the territory's residents, and caused a severe hunger crisis. The assault has led to accusations of genocide and war crimes, which Israel denies. Palestinians in Gaza have been closely following Israel's air war with Iran, long a major supporter of Hamas. "We are maybe happy to see Israel suffer from Iranian rockets, but at the end of the day, one more day in this war costs the lives of tens of innocent people," said 47-year-old Shaban Abed, a father of five from northern Gaza. "We just hope that a comprehensive solution could be reached to end the war in Gaza, too. We are being forgotten." Israeli gunfire and strikes have killed at least 30 people across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, local health authorities say, as some Palestinians there say their plight is being forgotten as attention shifted to the air war between Israel and Iran. The deaths included the latest in near daily killings of Palestinians seeking aid in the three weeks since Israel partially lifted a total blockade on Gaza that it had imposed for almost three months. Medics said separate air strikes on homes in the Maghazi refugee camp and Zeitoun neighbourhood in central and northern Gaza killed at least 14 people, while five others were killed in an air strike on a tent encampment in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Eleven others were killed in Israeli fire at crowds of displaced Palestinians awaiting aid trucks brought in by the United Nations along the Salahuddin road in central Gaza, medics said. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it was looking into the reported deaths of people waiting for food. Regarding the other strikes, it said it was "operating to dismantle Hamas military capabilities" and "feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm". On Tuesday, Gaza's health ministry said 397 Palestinians among those trying to get food aid had been killed and more than 3000 wounded since aid deliveries restarted in late May. Some in Gaza expressed concern that the latest escalations in the war between Israel and Hamas that began in October 2023 would be overlooked as the focus moved to Israel's five-day-old conflict with Iran. Israel has been channelling much of the aid it is now allowing into Gaza through a new US- and Israeli-backed group, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which operates a handful of distribution sites in areas guarded by Israeli forces. It has said it will continue to allow aid into Gaza, home to more than two million people, while ensuring aid does not get into the hands of Hamas. Hamas denies seizing aid, saying Israel uses hunger as a weapon against the population in Gaza. The Gaza war was triggered when Hamas-led militants attacked Israel in October 2023, killing 1200 and taking about 250 hostages, according to Israeli allies. US ally Israel's subsequent military assault on Gaza has killed almost 55,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's health ministry, displaced almost all the territory's residents, and caused a severe hunger crisis. The assault has led to accusations of genocide and war crimes, which Israel denies. Palestinians in Gaza have been closely following Israel's air war with Iran, long a major supporter of Hamas. "We are maybe happy to see Israel suffer from Iranian rockets, but at the end of the day, one more day in this war costs the lives of tens of innocent people," said 47-year-old Shaban Abed, a father of five from northern Gaza. "We just hope that a comprehensive solution could be reached to end the war in Gaza, too. We are being forgotten." Israeli gunfire and strikes have killed at least 30 people across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, local health authorities say, as some Palestinians there say their plight is being forgotten as attention shifted to the air war between Israel and Iran. The deaths included the latest in near daily killings of Palestinians seeking aid in the three weeks since Israel partially lifted a total blockade on Gaza that it had imposed for almost three months. Medics said separate air strikes on homes in the Maghazi refugee camp and Zeitoun neighbourhood in central and northern Gaza killed at least 14 people, while five others were killed in an air strike on a tent encampment in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Eleven others were killed in Israeli fire at crowds of displaced Palestinians awaiting aid trucks brought in by the United Nations along the Salahuddin road in central Gaza, medics said. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it was looking into the reported deaths of people waiting for food. Regarding the other strikes, it said it was "operating to dismantle Hamas military capabilities" and "feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm". On Tuesday, Gaza's health ministry said 397 Palestinians among those trying to get food aid had been killed and more than 3000 wounded since aid deliveries restarted in late May. Some in Gaza expressed concern that the latest escalations in the war between Israel and Hamas that began in October 2023 would be overlooked as the focus moved to Israel's five-day-old conflict with Iran. Israel has been channelling much of the aid it is now allowing into Gaza through a new US- and Israeli-backed group, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which operates a handful of distribution sites in areas guarded by Israeli forces. It has said it will continue to allow aid into Gaza, home to more than two million people, while ensuring aid does not get into the hands of Hamas. Hamas denies seizing aid, saying Israel uses hunger as a weapon against the population in Gaza. The Gaza war was triggered when Hamas-led militants attacked Israel in October 2023, killing 1200 and taking about 250 hostages, according to Israeli allies. US ally Israel's subsequent military assault on Gaza has killed almost 55,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's health ministry, displaced almost all the territory's residents, and caused a severe hunger crisis. The assault has led to accusations of genocide and war crimes, which Israel denies. Palestinians in Gaza have been closely following Israel's air war with Iran, long a major supporter of Hamas. "We are maybe happy to see Israel suffer from Iranian rockets, but at the end of the day, one more day in this war costs the lives of tens of innocent people," said 47-year-old Shaban Abed, a father of five from northern Gaza. "We just hope that a comprehensive solution could be reached to end the war in Gaza, too. We are being forgotten."
Canberra Times
2 days ago
- Canberra Times
Israeli fire kills 30 in Gaza as focus shifts to Iran
"We are maybe happy to see Israel suffer from Iranian rockets, but at the end of the day, one more day in this war costs the lives of tens of innocent people," said 47-year-old Shaban Abed, a father of five from northern Gaza.
