Israeli strikes on a house and a school in the Nuseirat refugee camp have killed 20 Palestinians.
A relative of Palestinians who were killed after an overnight Israeli air strike on Nuseirat refugee camp mourns near their wrapped bodies outside al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah [Haitham Imad/EPA-EFE]
All four of the Palestinians killed in an Israeli shelling in al-Zuwaida in the central Gaza Strip were children, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).
Dozens of people have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza, including journalist Bahaa Okasha, who died with his wife and son in an attack in the Jabalia refugee camp.
A further 109 Palestinians were killed and 296 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza between Monday and Wednesday afternoon, with many women and children killed in attacks on residential homes in Rafah, according to the UN.
An injured child is brought to the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on May 8, 2024, following an Israeli attack [Haitham Imad/EPA]
"While casualty counting during modern conflicts is deficient due to organizational, political or strategic reasons, the international organizations responsible for collecting such data […] face difficulties to access the conflict scene, resulting in under-reported, unreliable or no-reported data."
The terrible human toll in Gaza has many causes.
A chilling investigation by +972 highlights efficiency:
An engineer: “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed.”
An AI outputs "100 targets a day". Like a factory with murder delivery:
"According to the investigation, another reason for the large number of targets, and the extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza, is the widespread use of a system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”), which is largely built on artificial intelligence and can “generate” targets almost automatically at a rate that far exceeds what was previously possible. This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a “mass assassination factory.”"
"The third is “power targets,” which includes high-rises and residential towers in the heart of cities, and public buildings such as universities, banks, and government offices."
A person who took part in previous Israeli offensives in Gaza said:
“If they would tell the whole world that the [Islamic Jihad] offices on the 10th floor are not important as a target, but that its existence is a justification to bring down the entire high-rise with the aim of pressuring civilian families who live in it in order to put pressure on terrorist organizations, this would itself be seen as terrorism. So they do not say it.”
Behind any aircraft that takes off for an attack, there are thousands of soldiers, men and women, who make the information accessible to the pilot. "They produce the targets and make the targets accessible. To set a target, it’s a process with lots of factors that need to be approved. The achievement, the collateral damage and the level of accuracy. For that, you have to interconnect intelligence, (weapon) fire, C4I [an integrated military communications system, including the interaction of troops, intelligence and communication equipment] and more," said Nati Cohen, currently a reservist in the Exercises Division of the C4I Division of the army.
It was easier to locate the individuals in their private houses.
“We were not interested in killing operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity. On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.”
In 31 days, the death toll in #Israel–#Gaza war blew past the genocidal massacre in Srebrenica, civilian deaths in the invasion of Ukraine, and all prior Israeli–Palestinian conflict deaths since 1987.
Palestinian man Mohammed al-Akhras reacts next to the bodies of his daughter Jana and his wife who were killed by Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 26. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
@palestine At least 6,546 Palestinians, including 2,704 children, have been killed and 17,439 wounded by Israeli attacks in Gaza since October 7 as of October 26.
@appassionato@palestine I was born in Hong Kong. I used to live in a public housing project. My family of 5 lived in a 150 sq ft apartment in the 70s. Do you know how many floors a building in Gaza has? Palestinians have big families all cramped in small apartments. There are many residents who can't go anywhere and are hiding at schools. A school houses hundreds of refugees. Go on youtube and see all the dead bodies. #Holocaust#Gaza#deaths#casualties#Biden@palestine
Some time today, the Palestinian death toll in Gaza (at 5,087 yesterday) will exceed the number of Palestinians killed in the First and Second Intifadas combined (high estimates 3,354 and 1,962 respectively. This month has been worse than 10 years. #Gaza#Palestine#casualties
"It's hard to find the right words. It's beyond what anyone would ever want to imagine, much less, God forbid, experience; A #baby, an #infant, riddled with #bullets. #Soldiers#beheaded. Young people #burned alive. I could go on, but it's simply #depravity in the worst imaginable way."
#Hamas is #slaughtering#children—babies—not as the unfortunate consequence of #war, or as unintended #casualties, but because that's who they're targeting. They're going after children.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded 292 civilian casualties in Ukraine from Sept. 1 through Sept. 10, with 55 killed and 237 injured.
The Russian sabotage and reconnaissance group Rusich has said Russian forces were not evacuating their wounded and dead personnel from frontline areas, and as a result, some Russian soldiers have refused to perform combat missions.
A Green & Red commentary on the continued brutal and bloody war in Ukraine. There are now over 500,000 casualties in the war and the U.S. is sending billions of dollars there (but not to East Palestine, Flint, Jackson, Hawaii, etc).
Negotiations are imperative, as the JCS Chair Mark Milley has been saying, and the NATO Left has to stop supporting this bloody war.
UN: 292 civilian casualties recorded in first 10 days of September (kyivindependent.com)
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded 292 civilian casualties in Ukraine from Sept. 1 through Sept. 10, with 55 killed and 237 injured.
Russia is not evacuating its casualties - ISW (www.pravda.com.ua)
The Russian sabotage and reconnaissance group Rusich has said Russian forces were not evacuating their wounded and dead personnel from frontline areas, and as a result, some Russian soldiers have refused to perform combat missions.
Memorial Day of children-victims of the war in Donbass (twitter.com)