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Shafaq News
6 days ago
- Politics
- Shafaq News
Gaza death toll climbs as pressure builds to end Israeli war
Shafaq News – Gaza At least 77 Palestinians were killed and 376 injured in the past 24 hours, Gaza's Health Ministry reported on Tuesday, as local and international pressure intensifies to stop Israeli airstrikes and ground operations across the enclave. The ministry said the overall death toll since the war began on October 7, 2023, has reached 59,106, with more than 142,500 wounded, including 1,026 people killed and 6,563 injured while attempting to access humanitarian aid. UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk condemned the latest Israeli bombings and forced evacuations in Deir al-Balah, warning they are crippling essential infrastructure and accelerating Gaza's humanitarian collapse. #Gaza: Israel's latest displacement orders & intensive attacks on Deir El Balah add more misery to the suffering of hungry seemed the nightmare couldn't possibly get worse. And yet it must be an immediate end to the killings & destruction.… — UN Human Rights (@UNHumanRights) July 22, 2025 He stressed that as the occupying power, Israel is legally bound to guarantee access to food, medicine, and services, not obstruct them, while cautioning that mass displacement under occupation could amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity. Meanwhile, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen described the situation in Gaza as 'unbearable,' demanding unimpeded humanitarian access and full compliance with international law. Civilians cannot be targets. images from Gaza are EU reiterates its call for the free, safe and swift flow of humanitarian for the full respect of international and humanitarian in Gaza have suffered too much, for too long.… — Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) July 22, 2025 She urged Israel to remove all restrictions on aid delivery, asserting that civilians must never be targeted and that the suffering in Gaza must end immediately. At the regional level, the Arab League, meeting under Jordan's chairmanship, denounced Israel's use of starvation as a weapon, labeling it 'genocide' and calling for urgent international action to stop the assault and lift the blockade. The League also demanded legal accountability for Israel's actions, rejecting unofficial aid mechanisms like the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. القرارات الصادرة عن مجلس جامعة الدول العربية الذي اجتمع اليوم لمناقشة التحرك السياسي والدبلوماسي لمواجهة سياسية التجويع والحصار للشعب الفلسطيني في #غزة كسلاح إبادة جماعية، ومخططات حكومة الاحتلال بسحب صلاحيات بلدية الخليل في المسجد الإبراهيمي ومحيطه. — جامعة الدول العربية (@arableague_gs) July 22, 2025
BBC News
03-03-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Israeli police say one killed, others hurt in rare attack by Druze man
An elderly man has been killed and four other people have been wounded in what police say was a terrorist stabbing attack in the northern Israeli city of happened at the HaMifratz Central train and bus station, and the attacker was shot dead at the scene by security guards, police victim who died was aged around 70, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said. A 15-year-old boy and a man and a woman in their 30s were in a serious condition, while a 70-year-old woman was moderate hurt, it police said the attacker was an Israeli Druze man from the town of Shfaram who had recently returned from abroad. Such an attack by a member of Israel's Druze community is rare. The Druze are an ethnic and religious group whose faith is an offshoot of Shia Islam. About 150,000 live in Israel and the occupied Golan Heights, comprising about 1.5% of the population.A witness told Israel's Walla news website that the attacker travelled to Haifa on a bus from Shfaram, which is about 10km (6 miles) east of began stabbing passengers when the bus arrived at the station, then got off and attacked others on the concourse, the witness Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: "My wife Sara and I send our deepest condolences to the family of the man who was murdered in the shocking terrorist attack in Haifa."We will continue to fight everywhere against those who seek to murder us and we will defeat them."There was no immediate claim from any armed groups, but Hamas described the attack as "heroic" and a "natural response" to what it called Israeli crimes against comes amid deadlock between Hamas and Israel over moving forward with the six-week-old Gaza ceasefire stopped aid from entering Gaza after Hamas rejected what Netanyahu's office said was a US proposal for an extension to the first phase, which ended on Saturday night. Hamas accused Israel of reneging on the deal and said the second phase should go ahead as agreed.
