Israel kills 69 in Gaza, plans to expand settlements in Golan Heights
- Israeli forces killed at least 69 people in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, including in four attacks targeting schools where displaced Palestinians were sheltering, medics say.
- The victims included Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Al-Louh, two other Palestinian journalists and five members of the Palestinian Civil Defence.
- Israel’s government also announced plans to double the population of Israeli settlers in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights after its military seized land in the territory following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 44,976 Palestinians and wounded 106,759
Israel’s targeted killings of Palestinian journalists constitute war crimes, says CPJ
Jodie Ginsberg, the chief executive of Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), says Israel’s killing of Palestinian journalists is part of a “systematic attempt” to “censor information coming out” of Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
“We are reliant on [Palestinian journalists] for all the information we’re getting out about what’s happening inside Gaza,” Ginsberg said, noting that Al Jazeera is “one of the only international news organisations with staff still in Gaza”.
She said the CPJ, which has been documenting the killing of dozens of media workers in Gaza, believes that Israel had deliberately targeted “a number of journalists” in the Palestinian enclave.
That would make the killings a “war crime”, she added.
Ginsberg’s comments come as Al Jazeera condemned Israel over the “targeted killing” of its cameraman, Ahmad Baker Al-Louh, 39, in an attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp on Sunday.
Israeli forces have killed at least 196 Palestinian media workers in the course of its war on Gaza, according to the enclave’s government media office.
Nearly 19,000 children hospitalised for acute malnutrition in past four months
UNRWA says the number is nearly double the cases recorded in the first half of the year in the Gaza Strip.
The surge comes as Israel continues to restrict the entry of humanitarian aid into the war-torn enclave. It has also largely blocked all aid to besieged North Gaza since October 6.
Among the items in short supply is baby formula.
UNRWA says one of its only functioning health centres recently received its first delivery in three months, but has only just six boxes to distribute.
“Immediate aid and a ceasefire now are vital to save lives,” it says.
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