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Kuwait Times
03-07-2025
- Health
- Kuwait Times
Zionist military kills 41 in Gaza
GAZA: Women mourn by the body of a person who was killed following reported Zionist attacks on aid queues in the Sudaniya area in northwestern Gaza, at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on June 14, 2025. – AFP GAZA: Gaza's civil defense agency reported 41 people killed in military operations in the Palestinian territory Saturday, more than half of whom it said were killed while waiting for aid. "Forty-one people were martyred due to the ongoing bombardment of the Gaza Strip, 23 of whom were waiting for aid," Mohammad Al-Mughayyir, an official from the agency, told AFP. The Zionist military did not respond to AFP's request for comment. Zionist restrictions on media in Gaza and the difficulties of access on the ground mean AFP is unable to independently verify the casualty tolls provided by the civil defense agency. Central Gaza's Al-Awda hospital received eight bodies and 125 wounded after drone strikes targeted people gathering near an aid distribution centre near the Netzarim corridor, Mughayyir said. Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital received 11 bodies after an attack on people seeking aid on Saturday, he added, while four others were taken to the Al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza and Nasser hospital in the south. Dozens of Palestinians have been killed while trying to reach Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) distribution points since the US- and Zionist-backed organization began operating in late May, according to the civil defense agency. An officially private effort with opaque funding, the GHF began operating on May 26 after Zionists cut off supplies into Gaza for more than two months, sparking international condemnation and warnings of imminent famine. Mughayyir said that 18 people were killed in the north and south of the territory during various attacks by the Zionist army, including seven in Gaza City. The Gaza Strip has been ravaged by more than 20 months of war between Zionist and Palestinian militant group Hamas, with the situation continuing to deteriorate on the ground. Nasser Hospital, one of the last partly functioning health facilities, has been targeted by airstrikes in recent days, according to medical sources who spoke to AFP. AFP journalists on the ground reported that internet and fixed line communications were down in Gaza for the third consecutive day. The Palestinian Authority's telecommunications ministry said Thursday that Zionist forces targeted a fibre optic cable, triggering the outage.- AFP
Kuwait Times
29-06-2025
- Politics
- Kuwait Times
Zionists kill dozens in Gaza amid war crimes, truce talks
GAZA: Gaza's civil defense agency said Zionist forces killed 37 people in the devastated territory on Saturday, including at least nine children who died in strikes. Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP 35 people were killed in seven Zionist drone and air strikes in various locations, and two others by Zionist fire while waiting for food aid in the Netzarim zone in central Gaza. He said the dead included three children who were killed in an air strike on a home in Jabalia, in northern Gaza. Bassal said at least six more children died in a neighborhood in the northeast of Gaza City, including some in an air strike near a school where displaced people were sheltering. AFP images showed mourners weeping over the bodies of seven people, including at least two children, wrapped in white shrouds and blankets at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Video footage filmed from the Zionist entity showed smoke rising over northern Gaza after blasts. Other AFP footage filmed in Gaza City showed a cloud of smoke rising from buildings after a strike. In Jabalia, an AFP photographer saw civil defense rescuers aiding a man with blood on his back. After claiming victory in a 12-day war against Iran that ended with a ceasefire on June 24, the Zionist military said it would refocus on its offensive in Gaza, where Palestinian fighters still hold Zionist captives. Qatar said on Saturday that it and fellow mediators the United States and Egypt were engaging with the Zionist entity and Hamas to build on momentum from the ceasefire with Iran and work towards a Gaza truce. 'If we don't utilize this window of opportunity and this momentum, it's an opportunity lost amongst many in the near past. We don't want to see that again,' said Qatar's foreign ministry spokesman Majed Al-Ansari. The Zionist military campaign in Gaza has killed at least 56,412 people, mostly civilians. US President Donald Trump voiced optimism Friday about a new ceasefire in Gaza, as criticism grew over mounting civilian deaths at Zionist-backed food distribution centers in the territory. Asked by reporters how close a ceasefire was between the Zionist entity and Hamas, Trump said: 'We think within the next week, we're going to get a ceasefire.' The Zionist entity broke a ceasefire in March, launching new devastating attacks on Hamas. The Zionist entity also stopped all food and other supplies from entering Gaza for more than two months, drawing warnings of famine. The Zionist entity has since allowed a resumption of food through the controversial US- and Zionist-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which involves US security contractors with Zionist troops at the periphery. United Nations officials on Friday said the GHF system was leading to mass killings of people seeking aid. Eyewitnesses and local officials have reported repeated killings of Palestinians at distribution centers over recent weeks in the war-stricken territory. The Zionist military advocate general has ordered an investigation into possible war crimes over allegations that Zionist forces deliberately fired at Palestinian civilians near Gaza aid distribution sites, Haaretz newspaper reported on Friday. Haaretz quoted unnamed Zionist soldiers as saying they were told to fire at the crowds to keep them back, using unnecessary lethal force against people who appeared to pose no threat. Haaretz quoted unnamed sources as saying that the army unit established to review incidents that may involve breaches of international law had been tasked with examining soldiers' actions near aid locations over the past month. The unnamed Zionist soldiers told Haaretz that military commanders had ordered troops to shoot at the crowds of Palestinians to disperse them and clear the area. UN officials and other aid providers on Friday denounced what they said was a wave of killings of hungry people seeking aid. 'The new aid distribution system has become a killing field,' with people 'shot at while trying to access food for themselves and their families,' said Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian affairs (UNWRA). 'This abomination must end through a return to humanitarian deliveries from the UN including @UNRWA,' he wrote on X. The health ministry in the Hamas-controlled territory says that since late May, more than 500 people have been killed near aid centers while seeking scarce supplies. The country's civil defense agency has also repeatedly reported people being killed while seeking aid. 'People are being killed simply trying to feed themselves and their families,' said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. 'The search for food must never be a death sentence.' Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) branded the GHF relief effort 'slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid.' – Agencies
Kuwait Times
25-06-2025
- Health
- Kuwait Times
Gazans hope for truce as Zionists keep up genocide
GAZA: Zionist forces killed at least 79 Palestinians and injured more than 289 others in Gaza and ordered new evacuations on Tuesday, local medics and residents said, in further bloodshed shortly after the Zionist entity and Iran agreed to a ceasefire in their air war. The Zionist-Iran deal announced by US President Donald Trump raised hopes among Palestinians of an end to over 20 months of war in Gaza that has widely demolished the territory and displaced most residents, with malnutrition widespread. 'Enough! The whole universe has let us down. (Lebanese group) Hezbollah reached a deal without Gaza, and now Iran has done the same,' said Adel Farouk, 62, from Gaza City. 'We hope Gaza is next,' he told Reuters. In Gaza, deadly violence continued with little respite. Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that 21 people were killed and around 150 wounded by Zionist fire near an aid point in central Gaza early Tuesday, and that another 25 were killed in a separate incident in south Gaza. 'Every day we face this scenario: Martyrs, injuries, in unbearable numbers,' paramedic Ziad Farhat told AFP at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza. 'Hospitals cannot accommodate the number of casualties arriving,' he said. Marwan Abu Naser, of the Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat in central Gaza, said it had received 19 dead and 146 injured from crowds who tried to reach a nearby aid distribution center of the US and Zionist-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Abu Naser told Reuters the casualties resulted from gunfire. UN aid trucks entering Gaza also use area roads and Palestinians have in the past few days reported killings of people by Israeli fire as they waited at roadsides to grab bags of flour from the trucks. The United Nations rejects the GHF delivery system as inadequate, dangerous, and a violation of humanitarian impartiality rules. Philippe Lazzarini, head of the United Nations' Palestinian aid agency UNRWA, told reporters in Berlin on Tuesday that the new mechanism was an 'abomination' and 'a death trap', while a spokesman for the UN human rights office, Thameen Al-Kheetan, condemned the 'weaponization of food' in Gaza. On Monday, more than a dozen human rights organizations called on GHF to cease its operations, warning of possible complicity in war crimes. Separately, 10 other people were killed by a Zionist airstrike on a house in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, while 11 were killed by Zionist gunfire in the southern city of Khan Yunis, medics said. Palestinians said they wished the Zionist-Iran ceasefire announced by Trump had applied to Gaza. Adding to their frustration, the Zionist military dropped leaflets over several areas in north Gaza ordering residents to leave their homes and head towards the south, in what appeared to herald renewed Zionist military strikes against Hamas. 'Coming back to combat areas represents a risk to your lives,' the army statement said. Bassal reported a first deadly shooting 'with bullets and tank shells' near the Netzarim corridor in central Gaza where thousands of Palestinians gather each night for rations from a nearby GHF distribution point. Witness Ribhi Al-Qassas told AFP that troops had 'opened fire randomly' at a crowd he estimated at 50,000 people. The second incident took place in south Gaza about two kilometers from another GHF center in Rafah governorate, Bassal said. '(Zionist) forces targeted civilian gatherings near Al-Alam and Al-Shakoush areas with bullets and tank shells', he told AFP. – Agencies
Kuwait Times
24-06-2025
- Politics
- Kuwait Times
103 killed in Gaza Zionist bloodbath, ‘Hunger Games'
GAZA: The Gaza health authority on Thursday said 103 Palestinians were killed by Zionist fire and 400 wounded in the past 24 hours across the battered enclave — including 21 people killed near the US- and Zionist-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites. The Zionist offensive has killed at least 55,207 people, the majority of them civilians. Separately, at least eight Palestinians who worked for the organization died in an ambush, the GHF said on Thursday, blaming Hamas for the killings that rocked the troubled food distribution operation. A bus carrying about two dozen GHF workers was raked with gunfire on Wednesday night as it headed to an aid center in southern Gaza, the foundation said, adding that many of its staff were injured and some might have been kidnapped. Social media channels in Gaza said Hamas had targeted the bus because it was allegedly carrying GHF workers tied to Yasser Abu Shabab, the leader of a large clan that has challenged Hamas' supremacy in the enclave and is being armed by the Zionist entity. The Zionist foreign ministry alleged 'Hamas is weaponizing suffering in Gaza – denying food, targeting lifesavers and forsaking its own people.' When contacted by AFP to respond to the GHF accusation, the Hamas government media office in Gaza told AFP that GHF was a 'filthy tool' of Zionist forces and was being used to 'lure civilians into death traps'. Abu Shabab released a statement on his Facebook page denouncing images posted on social media showing Gazans allegedly killed by Hamas and as it seeks to maintain power. 'Rumors of executions and killings are being spread by the corrupt, mercenaries and criminals of Hamas in an attempt to sow fear in the hearts of those who seek change and liberation from terrorism, oppression, and its unjust rule,' he said. The Zionist military said it was continuing to target Hamas fighters in Gaza, killing three fighters who fired an anti-tank missile towards its soldiers, and hitting a building near a medical center that it said was being used to make weapons. It also said it had arrested several Hamas members in Syria overnight, accusing them of planning to attack Zionists. Despite the bus attack, GHF said it handed out 2.6 million meals on Thursday — a daily record since it started operations in Gaza at the end of May, overseeing a new model of food distribution that the United Nations says is deeply flawed. 'This model will not address the deepening hunger. The dystopian 'Hunger Games' cannot become the new reality,' Philippe Lazzarini, the chief of the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), wrote on X. 'The UN including @UNRWA has the knowledge, expertise & community trust to provide dignified & safe assistance. Just let the humanitarians do their jobs,' he added. The Zionist entity has repeatedly called for UNRWA to be disbanded, accusing it of having ties with Hamas. UNRWA has denied this. Gaza's health ministry says more than 180 people have been killed by Zionist fire near the aid centers over the past three weeks, as the aid effort repeatedly degenerated into chaos and terror with locals scrabbling for limited supplies. Gaza medics have said hospitals are being inundated with people wounded while trying to obtain food. At Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital on Wednesday, the emergency department said it had received dozens of people who had been killed or wounded while waiting for aid in recent days, including 200 in a single day. 'Many Gazans went to the Nabulsi and Netzarim areas to receive aid and were shot at and shelled with tanks,' said Mutaz Harara, head of Al-Shifa's emergency department. But with few medical supplies and no operating theatres, 'many patients died while waiting for their turn', he said. The war has caused major damage to infrastructure across Gaza, including water mains, telecommunication cables, power lines and roads. The Palestinian Authority said Internet and fixed-line communication services were down in Gaza on Thursday following an attack on the territory's last fiber optic cable, which it blamed on the Zionist entity. The Palestinian Red Crescent said the outage was affecting its emergency response by impeding communication with first responders. Meanwhile, an NGO representing activists detained aboard a boat attempting to breach the Zionist blockade of Gaza said six were en route to the airport for deportation. Egyptian authorities meanwhile detained more than 200 pro-Palestinian activists in Cairo ahead of a planned march to the Gaza border, the organizers said. – Agencies
Kuwait Times
21-06-2025
- Health
- Kuwait Times
72 martyred as Zionists keep up Gaza genocide
GAZA: Palestinian men injured in Zionist attacks receive medical attention at Khan Yunis' Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip on June 19, 2025. - AFP GAZA: Gaza's civil defense agency said Zionist forces killed at least 72 people on Thursday, including 21 who had gathered near aid distribution sites as famine looms after more than 20 months of war. Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that six people were killed while waiting for aid in the southern Gaza Strip and 15 others in a central area known as the Netzarim corridor, where thousands of Palestinians have gathered daily in the hope of receiving food rations. In northern Gaza, Bassal said that nine separate Zionist strikes killed another 51 people, updating earlier tolls provided by his agency. Bassam Abu Shaar, who witnessed the shooting incident in the Netzarim area, said thousands of people had gathered there overnight in the hope of receiving aid at the US- and Zionist-backed distribution site when it opened in the morning. 'Around 1:00 am (2200 GMT Wednesday), they started shooting at us,' he told AFP by phone, reporting gunfire, tank shelling and bombs dropped by drones. Abu Shaar said that the size of the crowd had made it impossible for people to escape, with casualties left lying on the ground within walking distance of the distribution point, which is run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. 'We couldn't help them or even escape ourselves,' he said. At least 300 Palestinians have been killed in recent weeks while trying to reach aid distribution points in Gaza, which is suffering from famine-like conditions, the territory's health ministry has said. In early March, the Zionist entity imposed an aid blockade on Gaza amid a deadlock in truce negotiations, only partially easing restrictions in late May. After the Zionist entity loosened its blockade, the privately run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began distributing aid, but its operations have been marred by chaotic scenes. UN agencies and major aid groups have refused to cooperate with the foundation — which has the support of Israel and its ally the United States — over concerns it was designed to cater to Zionist military objectives. – AFP
