Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli finance minister, called on the IDF to either kill or starve out the remaining Palestinians still in Gaza City after a clash with the country’s military chief who warned that it could take some time to move the civilian population from the shelled-out city.
There is no truth allowed to detail the brutality of Israeli Genocide. The Israeli government military carried out deadly strikes on the Nasser Hospital in Gaza’s Khan Yunis that killed at least 20—including five journalists and medical staffers attempting to save casualties in the first strike.
Israel killed at least 62,744 Palestinians since the start of the genocide, and more than 158,259 have been wounded.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which is a panel that provides information about hunger to the UN and other international bodies, reported last week that Gaza City and the surrounding areas were in the throes of famine, caused directly by Israel’s humanitarian blockade, the destruction of hospitals, and the forced displacement of the population.
An Israeli database managed by the country’s Military Intelligence Directorate indicates that at least 83 percent of the Palestinians killed in Gaza in the nearly two-year-long genocide have been civilians, according to a joint report by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and The Guardian.
Israel gave its final approval of the controversial settlement block that essentially splits the West Bank in half and is seen as a significant blow to any future prospect of a Palestinian State.
A group of over 80 Orthodox rabbis signed a petition last week demanding that Israel address the worsening conditions inside Gaza, which they identified as “one of the most severe” crises in recent history.
Matthew Miller, the former State Department spokesman, confirmed a report that blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government for impeding any ceasefire agreement with Hamas to bring an end to the massacres in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s extremist coalition rejected a partial ceasefire deal with Hamas that would return some of the 50 or so remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza in exchange for a temporary truce.
The IDF on Sunday carried out a bombing campaign across Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, just days after the Houthis took credit for a missile launch against Israel, prompting the group to vow continued attacks on Israel as long as it carries out its genocide campaign in Gaza.