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2-month-old baby dies of malnutrition
…as Gaza death toll surpasses 66,000
(AL-JAZEERA) Two-and-a-half-month-old Eid Mahmoud Abu Jamma has died due to malnutrition and inadequate medical treatment.
He was among dozens of children to die of malnutrition this year in Gaza, as Israel severely restricts food and medical aid from entering.
Last week, the enclave’s health ministry reported that 440 people, including 147 children, had died of starvation or malnutrition during the war.
A Palestinian child holds a toy car he recovered from the rubble of a house heavily damaged by an Israeli attack in the Nuseirat refugee camp [Eyad Baba/AFP]
Israel’s assault on Gaza has seen at least 66,005 people killed and 168,162 wounded since October 2023. Thousands more are believed to be buried under the rubble. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks, and about 200 were taken captive.
At least 40 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza on Sunday, including at least 10 displaced Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp and 15 in Gaza City.
Israeli forces are destroying “infrastructure, residential houses, buildings, neighbourhoods, which is making it difficult for medical teams to reach injured people and those trapped under the rubble”, according to our team on the ground.
Settler attacks have become a near-daily occurrence for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Often protected by the Israeli army, settlers attack Palestinians’ property, set houses on fire, steal livestock and vandalise olive trees.
The Wafa news agency is reporting that today, settlers attacked Palestinian-registered vehicles south of Nablus, while other settlers established an illegal outpost on Palestinian-owned lands west of the town of Deir Istiya, northwest of Salfit. The settlers stormed an area west of Deir Istiya at dawn and set up tents, after they were seen carrying out work and preparations at the site during the day. The outpost is in an area densely planted with olive trees, putting the lives of olive harvesters at risk.
Israeli settlers have sharply increased the number of outposts across the occupied West Bank. Last year, they set up more than 60.
This compares with a yearly average of 11 during the previous decade, according to Peace Now. The establishment of settlements is aimed at fragmenting the contiguity of Palestinian territory.
Meanwhile, Hamas has issued what it calls a “warning” that the lives of two captives held in Gaza City are in danger as Israeli tanks push deeper inside several neighbourhoods of the besieged urban centre, where tens of thousands of Palestinians are trapped by Israel’s ground invasion and bombardment.
The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian group, said on Sunday that contact has been lost with fighters holding Omri Miran and Matan Angrest after “brutal military operations and violent targeting in the Sabra and Tal al-Hawa neighbourhoods during the last 48 hours.”
“The lives of the two captives are in real danger, and the occupation forces must immediately withdraw to the south of Road 8 and halt aerial sorties for 24 hours starting from 18:00 this evening (15:00 GMT), until an attempt is made to extract the two prisoners,” it said.
Hamas released a “farewell picture” of captives in Gaza this month in another attempt to stop the Israeli army as it systematically destroys Gaza City and displaces hundreds of thousands of starving Palestinians once again.
Israel said 48 captives remain in Gaza, 20 of whom are alive. But the country has refused to stop the war despite being increasingly accused of committing genocide and as Israeli families call and protest for a comprehensive deal to end the war and bring back all captives.
Their pleas have not been heeded by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government, and relatives and supporters are blaming the government for their prolonged captivity.
The political wing of Hamas said in a statement earlier on Sunday that the group has not received any new ceasefire or peace proposals from mediators Qatar and Egypt, even as United States President Donald Trump continues to predict an imminent ceasefire, which he has done several times in recent weeks.
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A killer on the loose who is allowed to travel freely to some countries and
not arrested on an international arrest warrant by the ICCJ… even to the
United Nations. only 66,000 and counting so far, he has murdered.
And the world sits idly and just talk in futility.