UK lawmaker says Israeli drones targeting children in Gaza like a ‘warped video game’

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Israel attacks Gaza’s Kamal Adwan, kills three soldiers in Lebanon

By Lyndal Rowlands and Zaheena Rasheed

Published On 20 Nov 202420 Nov 2024

• The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza says the facility is experiencing an “extreme catastrophe” with Israeli forces firing on the building as children and elderly patients suffering from malnutrition seek treatment there.
• Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking from Gaza, says Hamas will no longer govern the enclave and announces $5m rewards for the return of Israeli captives held in the territory.
• Israeli forces kill three Lebanese soldiers in southern Lebanon, while the UN’s peacekeeping mission in the country (UNIFIL) says four Ghanaian peacekeepers were wounded by a rocket, most likely fired by “non-state actors”.
• Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 43,972 Palestinians and wounded 104,008 since October 7, 2023. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day, and more than 200 were taken captive.
• In Lebanon, at least 3,544 people have been killed and 15,036 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began.

• UK lawmaker says Israeli drones targeting children in Gaza like a ‘warped video game’

  British MP Patricia Ferguson has told the UK parliament that hearing the testimony of British surgeon Nizam Mamode on his experiences volunteering in a hospital in Gaza “was something that I do not think any of us who were present will ever forget”.

  “For me, it was the cold calculation of using machines to kill children, as though it was some kind of warped video game, that was the most disturbing aspect of Professor Mamode’s presentation,” Ferguson said.

  He “demonstrated the symmetrical puncture wounds on a dead child’s body – wounds in the region of the body’s major arteries that were too precise to have been the work of a human sniper. They were the work of drones targeted at innocent civilians, and in this case, a child”.

  Ferguson, a member of the UK’s governing Labour Party, went on to say she hoped her country would support an upcoming UN Security Council vote for a ceasefire.
• Israeli settlers torch Palestinian vehicles in West Bank: Report

  The Palestinian Information Center is reporting that Israeli settlers set fire to the cars in the village of al-Mazraa al-Gharbiya in the occupied West Bank. It also published footage of the burning vehicles on Twitter.

  There has been a rise in Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since Israel’s war on Gaza.

  And as we’ve been reporting, the latest attack came as Israeli soldiers raided the cities of Jenin, Hebron, Ramallah and several refugee camps across the occupied territory.