World snoozes as Zionists massacre 100+ daily in Gaza
Many have sought shelter in school buildings, but these have repeatedly come under Zionist attacks. Umm Yassin Abu Awda, who was among mourners who gathered at the city's Al-Shifa Hospital after the strike, said: 'This isn't a life. We've suffered enough.' 'For two years, we've been fighting just to get a piece of bread,' she told AFP. 'Either you (Zionists) strike us with a nuclear bomb and end it all, or people's conscience needs to finally wake up.' In an updated toll on Thursday afternoon, civil defense spokesman
Mahmud Bassal said 118 people were killed and 581 injured by Zionist strikes, artillery or gunfire across the territory. They included 38 people waiting for humanitarian aid at three separate locations in central and southern Gaza and a child killed by a drone in Jabalia in the north. Bassal said 17 people, 'the majority of them children and women', were killed and several others wounded in a Zionist air strike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City.
Pressure has risen for a ceasefire to allow sorely needed humanitarian aid into Gaza at scale and permit the release of captives seized by Palestinian fighters. US President Donald Trump earlier this week declared a new ceasefire push, aiming for an initial 60-day truce, which he said had Israel's backing. But Zionist leaders held firm to their aim of crushing Hamas, even as the group said Tuesday it was discussing new proposals for a ceasefire from mediators.
At the Gaza City school compound hit on Thursday, AFP footage showed young children wandering through the charred, bombed out building, as piles of burnt debris smoldered. Groups of Palestinians picked through the rubble and damaged furniture that littered the floor. 'Suddenly, we found the tent collapsing over us and a fire burning. We don't know what happened,' one witness, Wafaa Al-Arqan, who was among the people sheltering there, told Reuters. 'What can we do? Is it fair that all these children burned?'
Bassal of the civil defense agency reported 25 people killed while seeking aid near the Netzarim area in central Gaza, six others at another location nearby and seven in Rafah, southern Gaza, with scores of people injured. They were the latest in a string of deadly incidents that have hit people trying to receive scarce supplies. Across Gaza on Thursday, Bassal said artillery shelling in the northern town of Beit Lahia killed three people. Further south, he said three people were killed in a strike that hit tents housing displaced people in the coastal Al-Mawasi area.
Despite mounting calls at home and globally for a ceasefire, the Zionist entity's hardline National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir called on Wednesday to push the offensive harder. 'Let's finish the job in Gaza. We must bring down Hamas, occupy the Gaza Strip, encourage the transfer' of Palestinians out of the territory, Ben Gvir said in a television interview.
To the minister, the Zionist entity was now 'in a position to achieve' victory over Hamas, which he said would help free the remaining captives still held in Gaza from the 2023 attacks. 'We must bring them back, but the way to bring them back is to bring down Hamas,' he said. The Zionist military campaign has killed at least 57,130 people in Gaza, mostly civilians. – Agencies
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