Israel’s war on Gaza: 26 killed as people in Beit Lahiya told to flee
- Israeli forces killed at least 26 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, according to rescue workers, including five at another school-turned-shelter for war-displaced civilians in Gaza City.
- Israel’s military ordered Palestinians to leave parts of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza as the Palestinian Foreign Ministry warned that the evacuations were a “prelude to the annexation of Gaza” for “settlement purposes”.
- Hundreds of thousands of Israeli protesters took to the streets of Tel Aviv, calling on their government to sign a deal with Hamas and free the remaining captives held in Gaza.
- At least 41,182 people have been killed and 95,280 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza.
Settlers fire live rounds in attack on West Bank village
The Wafa news agency is reporting that dozens of settlers have attacked the village of Umm Safa, northwest of the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, and fired live bullets at Palestinians’ homes.
Marwan Sabah, the head of the village council, told Wafa that the settler raid occurred under the protection of the Israeli military. He said two young Palestinian men were wounded while trying to escape the settlers and were transferred to the hospital.
The attack on Umm Safa came as dozens of Israeli settlers – escorted by Israeli troops – raided the Old City of Hebron as well as Khalayel al-Louz, west of Bethlehem, according to Wafa.
Israeli settler attacks have surged in the occupied West Bank since Israel’s war on Gaza began last October. And months before that, in June of last year, Israeli settlers raided Umm Safa and set fire to two homes in an attack the Israeli security services labelled as “nationalist terrorism”.
Photos: Armed Israeli settlers, soldiers march through Hebron
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