Israeli forces killed at least 10 Palestinians in Gaza on Thursday, according to reports from the Strip, as the IDF continues its daily violations of the US-backed ceasefire deal.
The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that Israeli strikes on two homes in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, killed at least six people, including a 16-year-old. Dozens of others were injured by the two Israeli bombings.
WAFA also reported that two Palestinians were killed by Israeli army gunfire near Rafah, southern Gaza. A WAFA correspondent said efforts to retrieve the two bodies were hindered, likely due to the danger of coming under Israeli fire.
Hamas said on Thursday that Muhammad al-Hawli, a senior commander in its armed wing, the Al Qassams Brigades, was killed by the Israeli attack on Deir el-Balah and called on the US to hold Israel to account for the truce violation.
Israeli airstrikes also hit the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza and to the north in Gaza City, killing at least two more people, bringing Thursday’s death toll to 10.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Thursday that since the ceasefire was supposed to go into effect back in early October, Israeli forces have killed at least 451 Palestinians. If the 10 deaths are confirmed by the ministry, which counts bodies that arrive at hospitals and morgues, it would bring the death toll up to at least 461.
“A number of victims are still under the rubble and in the streets, as ambulance and civil defense crews have been unable to reach them so far,” the Health Ministry wrote on Telegram.
The UN’s child relief agency, UNICEF, has said that at least 100 children are among those killed during the so-called ceasefire. “UNICEF has recorded reports of at least 60 boys and 40 girls killed in the Gaza Strip. The 100 figure only reflects incidents where sufficient details have been available to record, so the actual number of Palestinian children killed is expected to be higher,” UNICEF spokesman James Elder said on Tuesday.
Death comes brutally from EVIL. It comes with torture. The Ceasefire Genocide keeps going forward. Is life so worthless that we keep seeing it stabbed and snuffed out? Will the soul of justice ever rise to kill the killers? Philosophers are worthless if they can’t stop evil. Words are empty if they put up with the killing of innocents.
Mind-stretch: Philip K. Dick said:
“Reality is just a point of view.”
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.”
“In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.”
“Everything in life is just for a while.”
“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.”
“This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.”
“Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.”
“The most dangerous kind of person… is one who is afraid of his own shadow.”
“The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.”
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