Jonah Valdez
September 20 2024, 12:51 p.m.

After 350 days of continuous bombardment, the central blood bank affiliated with Al-Shifa Hospital was destroyed, making it nearly impossible to meet the urgent blood needs of the wounded and ill Palestinians.

Compounding this crisis, the widespread hunger gripping the region means that even those willing to donate blood are unable to do so due to malnutrition.

According to the UN July report titled, “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024”, every resident of Gaza is suffering from severe food insecurity.

This crisis is most acute in the northern areas, where people are so under-nourished that they are unable to donate blood.

The destruction of Al-Shifa’s blood bank has led to severe shortages, leaving the wounded and those with chronic illness facing the risk of death due to a lack of blood.

Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem and agencies
Fri 20 Sep 2024 08.47 EDT

Patrick Wintour
Diplomatic editor
Fri 20 Sep 2024 03.48 EDT

Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem
Fri 20 Sep 2024 08.34 EDT

1st clip - Resistance member deploys a Yassin-105 tandem rocket on a Namer APC, scores a direct hit. Dated 9/19/24

2nd clip - Al-Qassam members wiring and detonating a Shawaz EFP near another Namer APC

Brett Wilkins
Sep 19, 2024

Jonah Valdez
September 17 2024, 1:35 p.m.

Jonah Valdez
September 19 2024, 8:44 a.m.

Morocco is set to try an Israeli soldier on charges of war crimes committed during military operations in Gaza, Morocco World News report.

The court in Rabat has agreed to review a lawsuit filed by a group of Moroccan lawyers after an Israeli soldier visited Marrakech after participating in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

Moche Avichzer is accused of involvement in human rights violations during the Israeli military campaigns in Gaza, where more than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed and 11,000 are missing.

Morocco normalised ties with Israel in 2020 and the trial could strain relations, which have included military deals, analysts have warned.

Human rights groups have long called for international actors to hold Israeli military personnel accountable for alleged war crimes, and Morocco’s move could set a precedent for such legal action.

The Israeli Supreme Court has rejected a request by civil society organisations to shut down the notorious Sde Teiman Prison, where aggravated human rights violations have been committed against Palestinian detainees.

Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights reports confirmed the existence of widespread cases of torture and violations against Palestinian detainees, all from Gaza, in the prison.

Summary by brave leo :

• An attack in Lebanon, targeting personal electronics of Hezbollah members, has resulted in significant casualties.

• The attack is widely believed to be carried out by Israel, but Western media such as The New York Times present it as a targeted operation with low risk to non-Hezbollah members.

• The attack is part of Israel's Dahiya Doctrine, which involves disproportionate force on any enemy village, causing significant damage and terror.

• This doctrine was applied in the 2008-9 Gaza onslaught and the 2006 war in Lebanon, leading to accusations of deliberate harm to civilians.

• The recent Gaza onslaught is seen as a full-blown implementation of this doctrine, leading to genocide.

• The international community has criticized Israel's use of booby-trapped objects, which is considered illegal and unacceptable under a global treaty.

Jeremy Scahill, Murtaza Hussain, and Sharif Abdel Kouddous

Sep 18, 2024

September 18, 2024

September 16, 2024

A Palestinian doctor abducted by Israeli forces from Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital has died in their custody, the Palestinian health ministry said on Wednesday.

Ziad Mohammed al-Dalou, an internal medicine physician, is the third doctor to die in Israeli jails, where widespread torture has killed at least 60 Palestinian prisoners over the past 11 months.

Dalou was detained on 18 March from al-Shifa Hospital, along with dozens of other health workers, when Israeli forces raided the facility in a two-week-long assault.

The deadly raid decimated the hospital, which had been the largest and most equipped medical facility in the Gaza Strip. After the Israeli forces withdrew, dozens of bodies were found buried in mass graves in the hospital’s courtyards.

According to the Palestinian health ministry, Dalou was detained while performing his duties at the hospital.

The Israeli military killed at least 710 Palestinian babies before they made it to their first birthday, the equivalent of two infants under one-year-old killed by Israel every day for nearly a year. That’s according to a 649-page document published by the Ministry of Health in Gaza on Sunday listing the names of tens of thousands Palestinians killed by Israel between October 7 and August 31.

A brief breakdown of the numbers killed:

Babies (Less that one year old): 710

Toddlers, 1-3: 1,793

Children, 4-12: 5,410

Children, 13-17: 3,442

Total number under 18 years old killed: 11,355

Men, 18-40: 10,396

Women, 18-40: 4,540

Men, 41-59: 3,341

Women, 41-59: 1,757

Men, 60 and over: 1,818

Women, 60 and over: 1,137

While the Biden administration, Israeli authorities, and others have repeatedly cast doubt on the health ministry’s figures, those numbers have proven accurate in past conflicts. Both the United Nations and even Israel’s intelligence services have accepted them.

Khaled Meshal, one of Hamas’s most senior officials, said in an interview that the militant group expects to play a decisive role in the enclave when the war is over. [also contains some quotes from Israeli military officers]

By Adam Rasgon
Reporting from Doha, Qatar
Sept. 17, 2024

Sept. 17, 2024Updated 9:31 p.m. ET

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