Israel’s war on Gaza: 13 killed as Israel attacks school, refugee camp
- Israel said it attacked the Halimah al-Saadiyah school in northern Gaza, where eight Palestinians were reported killed in tent shelters. Five people were also killed in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
- At least 33 Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip on Friday, medical sources say.
- Witness says Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was “murdered” by Israel’s military at a protest against illegal Israeli settlements near Beita in the occupied West Bank.
- Bana Amjad Bakr, a 13-year-old girl, was among dozens of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank over the past week, the Wafa news agency reports.
- At least 40,878 people have been killed and 94,454 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza.
Not the first US citizen killed by Israeli forces
Here are some of the US citizens killed in Gaza and the occupied West Bank by Israeli forces in recent years:
- Turkish-American Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, killed on Friday, in the occupied West Bank.
- Canadian-American Jacob Flickinger, 33, killed along with six colleagues from the US-based aid organisation World Central Kitchen, in Gaza, in April.
- Palestinian-American Tawfiq Ajaq, 17, killed in January, in the occupied West Bank.
- Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, shot in the head while covering an Israeli military raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank in May 2022.
- American citizen Omar Assad, 80, suffered an stress-induced heart attack after he was arbitrarily detained, bound, blindfolded and gagged by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, in January 2022.
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Family statement on killing of ‘beloved’ Aysenur Ezgi Eygi by Israeli military
Here’s the statement:
- Today our family and our community are in shock and grief, as we wrestle with the reality that our beloved Aysenur Ezgi Eygi is gone.
- Like the olive tree she lay beneath where she took her last breaths, Aysenur was strong, beautiful and nourishing.
- Her presence in our lives was taken needlessly, unlawfully and violently by the Israeli military.
- Aysenur was a loving daughter, sister, partner and aunt. She was gentle, brave, silly, supportive and a ray of sunshine. She wore her heart on her sleeves.
- She felt a deep responsibility to serve others and lived a life of caring for those in need with action.
- A US citizen, Aysenur was peacefully standing for justice when she was killed by a bullet that video shows came from an Israeli military shooter.
- We welcome the White House’s statement of condolences, but given the circumstances of Aysenur’s killing, an Israeli investigation is not adequate.
- We call on President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Secretary of State Blinken to order an independent investigation into the unlawful killing of a US citizen and to ensure full accountability for the guilty parties.
- We ask the public for privacy as we grieve and try to make sense of the unimaginable tragedy that is Aysenur’s killing.
- 16m ago(04:00 GMT)
Palestinian rights group slams mutilation of Palestinian child’s body dragged by Israeli bulldozer
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has vehemently condemned Israel’s military assault on the occupied West Bank, including the “brutal” mutilation and killing of Majed Fida Abu Zina, 17, from the Far’a refugee camp.
In a statement, PCHR described how Israeli forces left Abu Zina to bleed out for approximately 1.5 hours after shooting him in the leg, neck and chest during a raid on Far’a late on Wednesday night.
“At around 2:30am [23:30 GMT], [the Israeli army] brought in a bulldozer and began desecrating the boy’s body … before dragging and throwing him,” PCHR added.
It was not until around 6:45am (03:45 GMT) that Palestinians were able to retrieve Abu Zina’s “disfigured and unrecognisable” body after Israeli forces withdrew, the statement added.
Israeli forces have weaponised armoured military bulldozers during their assaults on the occupied West Bank [File: Zain Jaafar/AFP] Senator says US ‘cannot turn a blind eye’ as Israeli forces kill Americans in West Bank
US Senator Chris Van Hollen has decried Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank and called for “justice and accountability” for three US citizens killed there in the past 11 months.
In a statement, Van Hollen said the Netanyahu government, “including racist extremists like [Finance Minister Bezalel] Smotrich and [National Security Minister Itamar] Ben-Gvir”, had fuelled settler violence while announcing “new illegal settlements”.
The senator from Maryland said he had met with the families of two other Americans killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank in recent months and that the “Biden Administration has not been doing enough to pursue justice and accountability on their behalf”.
“If the Netanyahu Government will not pursue justice for Americans, the US Department of Justice must,” the senator said.
He chose to be on the other side of the front line in a very dangerous situation.
ReplyDeleteSekf- inflicted Death by misadventure, not murder.
Wakakakaka…
DeleteSelf inflicted death!
Mfer, u do give Zionist atrocities a new excuse!
In both British and Malaysian law, there is a legal cause of death called "death by misadventure".
ReplyDeleteIt means the person knowingly, without any other person or party's coercion, put themselves in a dangerous situation, leading to their death.
The direct cause of death may be they got knocked down by a vehicle, or they got shot by someone, but nobody else can be legally blamed for the death.
Families of the deceased often object strongly to such a finding, but a coroner may, after reviewing the evidence, hand down such a verdict.
Wakakakaka…
DeleteKeep twisting it know nothing fart of "death by misadventure"!
Of course CCP troll wouldn't understand Fuck about the Common Law legal system.
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