Over 100 Palestinians killed as Israel escalates assaults on Gaza
Israel has intensified its deadly bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 101 Palestinians in pre-dawn attacks.
The Israeli airstrikes, which took place on Sunday, hit the Jabalia al-Balad, Jabalia al-Nazla, and Tal az-Zaatar areas in northern Gaza, as well as the town of az-Zawayda and the city of Deir al-Balah in the besieged territory’s central part, and the al-Mawasi neighborhood in the south.
Gaza media office urges international action
In a statement on Saturday, the Government Media Office in Gaza said the Israeli military has killed at least 200 Palestinians in the past two days.
Around 140 of the victims remain trapped under the rubble as the occupation army deliberately prevents rescue teams from reaching bombing sites in blatant violation of international humanitarian law, it added.
Over the same period, the media office noted, Israel completely or partially destroyed more than 1,000 housing units, and forcibly displaced over 300,000 civilians toward Gaza City, which lacks the infrastructure needed to shelter them.
It also called for “immediate and effective international intervention to stop the massacres, send international rescue teams to recover the bodies and treat the wounded, open the crossings immediately for the entry of humanitarian, relief, and medical aid, and hold Israeli leaders accountable before international courts.”
It further held Israel, the US, the UK, Germany, and France fully responsible for the ongoing ethnic cleansing in Gaza, saying the shameful international silence constitutes a green light for the regime’s mass killings.
Israel perpetrating ‘deliberate, systematic’ genocide
Meanwhile, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) said Israel has adopted a “scorched earth policy” while “committing massacres,” including “deliberate targeting of Palestinian civilians in their homes, shelters, and vital facilities.”
In a statement, the Geneva-based rights group said its field team had documented the killing of more than 115 Palestinians in northern Gaza alone in less than 12 hours on Friday, including those who were seeking shelter from the Israeli bombardment.
“In recent days, Israeli occupation forces have escalated their assault across various areas of the Gaza Strip, carrying out systematic destruction of what remains of homes and civilian infrastructure, and committing mass killings of the population,” it pointed out.
“The widespread destruction policy carried out by Israel cannot be classified as serving any legitimate military objective. Rather, it constitutes part of a deliberate and systematic approach to genocide, aimed at dismantling Palestinian society in Gaza, physically and demographically, by stripping it of the means to survive, eliminating it entirely, and preventing any future return.”
Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the Hamas resistance group carried out the historic Al-Aqsa Storm operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
The Tel Aviv regime failed to achieve its declared objectives in Gaza despite killing at least 53,272 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 120,673 others.
On Friday, the Israeli military announced that it had stepped up its attacks in Gaza, conducting a wave of aerial assaults and deploying additional troops to the Palestinian territory.
