‘Explosions every minute’ in central Gaza - dozens of corpses on the streets of people killed by the Israeli army

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Israel’s war on Gaza live: ‘Explosions every minute’ in central Gaza

By Mersiha Gadzo and Edna Mohamed

Published On 8 Jun 20248 Jun 2024

• Israeli forces have launched air raids in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, leaving a number of killed and wounded.
• Director of Kuwaiti Specialized Hospital in Rafah says there are dozens of corpses on the streets of people killed by the Israeli army with rescue workers unable to reach the injured people.
• UN to add Israeli army to blacklist of those who harm children in conflict, a move human rights leaders say is “thoroughly justified”.
• Gaza’s Health Ministry says 77 people killed, 221 wounded in the latest 24-hour reporting period.
• Egyptian and Qatari mediators reportedly say they expect Hamas to submit its response to the latest ceasefire proposal.
• At least 36,731 people killed and 83,530 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza

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Adding Israel to UN blacklist could ‘increase the vision among the Israeli society’

Tamer Qarmout, associate professor of public policy at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, says the UN adding the Israeli army to a blacklist of those who harm children in conflict could “increase the vision among the Israeli society and among the Jewish people as well”.

“We have seen this great movement in the US where so many Jewish Americans have demonstrated carrying the slogans ‘Not in Our Name’,” Qarmout told Al Jazeera. “They want to see an end of this genocidal war.”

He added that even “Zionist or the pro-occupation camp” could have difficulty ignoring the implications of the blacklisting.

“The fact now that Israel has to stand – less than 90 years after its establishment that Israel is a state – from a nation that has suffered from the Holocaust to a nation that is facing now so many cases standing ahead of international justice, and they have to answer for all these crimes.”

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  ‘Chaos inside the hospital’ after intense Israeli attacks

  We can now bring you more on the intense Israeli attacks on central Gaza.

  Journalist Hind Khoudary shares this update from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza:

  “There are explosions happening every minute. Ambulances are transferring the wounded to the hospital where we are trapped. It’s a chaos inside the hospital. There are children among the wounded.

  “We can hear artillery shelling. No one knows what’s happening outside but we know that over a million people have evacuated Rafah for central Gaza and there are hundreds of thousands on the streets, terrified and horrified. They don’t know where to go.”

  

  The bodies of Palestinians killed in the Israeli attack are brought to the morgue of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Saturday [Ashraf Amra/Anadolu]
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  Deadly Israeli air raids in Deir el-Balah

  Israeli forces have launched air raids in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, leaving a number of killed and wounded.

  Israeli air strikes and artillery shelling also targeted areas east of the Maghazi camp in central Gaza and homes west of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza.

  The attacks have also affected communication networks in the area. We’ll bring you more on these attacks as soon as we can.

  

  Palestinians react during the funeral of relatives killed in Israeli strikes in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza, Friday [Doaa Rouqa/Reuters
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  Foreign journalists must get access to Gaza, says UNRWA chief

  UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said international reporters must be given access to the Gaza Strip “to support the heroic work” of Palestinian journalists.

  Foreign journalists need access to the war-torn Palestinian territory “so that independent, factual and courageous reporting continues”, Lazzarini said.

  The UNRWA chief made the call in a post on social media in which he said it was time for “independent investigations + accountability” in Gaza as “no one is being held accountable”.

  And “UN premises damaged, destroyed, targeted or used for military purposes almost on a daily basis” and “humanitarian convoys attacked, looted or denied access”, he added.

  As disinformation against UNRWA also continues to “rage”, it “puts the lives of my colleagues in Gaza and elsewhere at risk”, Lazzarini added.

   
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