1,799 Palestinians martyred, 7,000 wounded in war on Gaza:
The Health Ministry in Gaza announced on Friday that at least 1,799 Palestinians, including 583 children, and 351 women have been martyred in six days of incessant Israeli bombardment of the blockaded territory, media reported on Friday afternoon.
More than 7,000 Palestinians have also been wounded in the bombardment.
The regime’s air raids claimed at least two dozen lives in the densely populated Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza on Thursday.
Hundreds of thousands of Gazans have also been displaced as a result of the regime’s relentless and indiscriminate attacks.
WHO Warns Israel’s Evacuation Order for Gaza ‘Death Sentence’ for Patients:
Israel’s evacuation order for Gaza amounts to a “death sentence” for vulnerable hospital patients, the World Health Organization warned.
WHO Spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic said health authorities in Gaza have advised that it is impossible to evacuate vulnerable hospital patients within 24 hours as ordered by Israel’s military, Al-Jazeera reported.
“There are severely ill people whose injuries mean their only chances of survival is being on life support, such as mechanical ventilators,” Jasarevic said on Thursday.
“So moving those people is a death sentence. Asking health workers to do so is beyond cruel,” he added.
Israel’s military on Thursday ordered 1.1 million Palestinains trapped in Gaza to move South within 24 hours ahead of an expected ground offensive on the enclave.
The United Nations has warned that the relocation of so many people is “impossible” and could have devastating consequences.
The European Union’s top diplomat Josep Borrell has described Israel’s directive as “utterly unrealistic”.
Hamas, which runs the Gaza Stip, has told residents to ignore Israel’s order, describing it as “fake propaganda”.
UN Rapporteur Slams EU Support for Israeli Aggression on Gaza:
A United Nations special rapporteur slammed the European Union’s unwavering support for Israel in its aggression on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and its double standards regarding Palestine and Ukraine.
Speaking to Middle East Eye, Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, said “Political action is lacking and double standards tarnish the values and the rule of law principle upon which our international order is premised”.
Albanese made the remarks after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen confirmed the EU’s unwavering support for Israel in recent days, saying that “Israel has the right to defend itself – today and in the days to come. The European Union stands with Israel.”
Israeli forces, settlers kill, injure more than one hundred Palestinian marchers in WB:
The Zionist regime forces and armed settlers shot at Palestinian demonstrators who held rallies in support of Palestine resistance in Gaza on Frida across the occupied West Bank cities and town.
According to Al-Jazeera reports, at least 4 demonstrators were martyres and 124 others were wounded when the Zionist regime’s troops and armed settlers opened fire on the Palestinian protests in Ramallah and other West Bank districts.
‘US security assistance to Israel will flow in at the speed of war’: Lloyd Austin
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said at a press briefing in Tel Aviv alongside with Israeli War Minister Yoav Gallant that “the US will make sure that Israel has what it needs to defend itself”, as Israeli forces prepare for new assaults on Gaza.
“We will stand with Israel even as we stand with Ukraine… US security assistance to Israel will flow in at the speed of war,” Austin said.
He said munitions, air defence capabilities and other equipment and resources was coming into Israel.
Massive rocket barrage fired at Ashkelon after Israel tells Gazans to flee south:
The Zionist Israeli regime media said that a barrage of rockets was fired toward Ashkelon and other areas near the Gaza border, setting off a string of sirens.
According to the Times of Israel, the launches end some 14 hours in which nearly no rockets were fired.
Hamas said in a short statement that its fighters launched a barrage of 150 rockets at Ashkelon.
13 Zionist abductees killed in Israeli airstrikes: Qassam Brigades
The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced that 13 Zionist prisoners who were kept in different areas of the Gaza Strip were killed in the attacks of the occupiers in the last 24 hours.
Hamas calls Israeli warning “fake propaganda”:
A Hamas official has described the Israeli regime’s threats to evacuate Gazans as “fake propaganda”, calling on residents to ignore it.
Israel orders 1.1m trapped Palestinians to move to southern Gaza in 24 hours:
As the Zionist regime’s ground invasion looms, its military says all Palestinians must vacate northern Gaza within 24 hours – a forced relocation of some 1.1 million people, Al-Jazeera reported.
Israel says all Palestinians must vacate northern Gaza within 24 hours – a forced relocation of some 1.1 million people.
Gaza has a population of about 2.3 million people living in five governorates: North Gaza, Gaza City, Deir el-Balah, Khan Younis, and Rafah.
Veteran Egyptian politician Mustafa Bakri has accused Israel of trying to drive Palestinians into Egypt, Al-Jazeera reported.
“It seems that this warning foretells the imminent ground aggression and forced displacement of the people of the Gaza Strip towards the border with Egypt, so that they can eliminate the dream of establishing a Palestinian state,” Bakri said on X.
Israeli warplanes carry out 750 attacks on Gaza overnight:
Israeli regime military says its warplanes attacked 750 “military targets” overnight in the densely-populated Gaza Strip, including 12 high-rise buildings.
Releasing video footage of the purported attacks, which showed myriad buildings being hit with missiles and reduced to rubble, Israel’s military said their aircraft hit all 12 high-rise buildings with missiles within a minute.
There was no mention of deaths or injuries or the possible number of civilian casualties from the overnight raids in a war on the besieged Palestinian enclave that has killed more than 1,500 people so far.
Over 1,500 Palestinians martyred in Zionist regime airstrikes: Gaza health ministry
The Health Ministry in Gaza announced on Thursday that at least 1,537 Palestinians, including 500 children, and 276 women have been killed in six days of incessant Israeli bombardment of the blockaded territory.
More than 6,612 Palestinians have also been wounded in the bombardment.
The regime’s latest air raids claimed at least two dozen lives in the densely populated Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza on Thursday.
Hundreds of thousands of Gazans have also been displaced as a result of the regime’s relentless and indiscriminate attacks.
The Zionist regime’s war on Gaza came shortly after Gaza’s resistance movements launched their biggest operation against the usurping regime in years in response to its decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.
Codenamed the al-Aqsa Storm Operation, the campaign killed at least 1,000 Israeli forces and settlers and injured thousands more. Nearly 150 others were also captured by the resistance forces.
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