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105 killed as Israel unleashes new wave of heavy air raids on Gaza
Smoke rises following Israeli strikes on buildings at Gaza’s Old City market on Wednesday [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]
(AL-JAZEERA) Israel intensified air attacks across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, hitting residential houses and other civilian areas.
At least 105 Palestinians, including seven aid seekers, have been killed and 530 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24-hour reporting period, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.
The Palestinian group Hamas said Israel is “continuing its dangerous policies and comprehensive war against the Palestinian presence in the West Bank” with the demolition of “more than a thousand homes” this year alone.
“These ongoing crimes against our people and their land, which contravene all international laws, require effective international action to halt them, work with all our might to end the occupation, and hold its war criminal leaders accountable for their ongoing violations,” Hamas said in a statement published on Telegram.
According to the Wafa news agency, Israeli forces carried out a wide-ranging demolition campaign earlier today and destroyed eight Palestinian homes and two agricultural structures in the occupied West Bank cities of Ramallah, Jerusalem, and Nablus.
Despite ongoing truce talks, Israel’s military continues to hammer Gaza including an overnight air strike on southern Gaza’s Khan Younis.
Umm Mohammed Shaaban, a Palestinian grandmother mourning the deaths of three of her grandchildren in the attack, questioned the timing of a proposed ceasefire.
“After they finished us, they say they’ll make a truce?” she said.
In northern Gaza City, people removed debris after another overnight air strike, searching through a three-story house for survivors – to no avail.
One resident, Ahmed al-Nahhal, said there was no fuel for trucks to help in rescue efforts. “From midnight till now, we have been looking for the children,” he said.
Nearby men carried bodies in shrouds while women wept. Some kissed bodies placed in the back of a vehicle.
US President Donald Trump and his Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff have said there could be a ceasefire deal announced by the end of the week.
There’s been no sign of it yet, but it’s only Wednesday, which gives them a few more days to get there. Netanyahu is not scheduled to leave until Thursday and often extends his trips. If there is progress, there’s a real possibility of seeing him stay.
As for whether there will be a third meeting between Trump and Netanyahu – well, we didn’t expect there would be a second one on Tuesday. Scheduling seems to be at the whim of the president, so we’ll have to watch and see.
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And, to think the gall of this mass killer, along with others are nominating
one for the Nobel Prize ?
I didn’t think, the Nobel Committee will approve, but, just sidestep this
as not worthy of even being looked at, for the las 20 plus months of
non stop relentless massacre in Gaza. We, the US supplies the bombs,
therefore, we are also the participators.