Israel-Gaza Conflict: Nearly 200 Killed in Single Day of Israeli Attacks
The World Health Organisation, (WHO), has noted that the whereabouts of 600 patients and health workers from Gaza’s al-Aqsa Hospital is “unknown”, while the Health Ministry disclosed that Seventy-three Palestinians have been killed and 99 wounded in attacks by Israel in Gaza in the last 24 hours.
According to the reports, number of Israeli soldiers killed in an attack on the Nahal Oz kibbutz near Gaza on October 7 is considerably higher than reported.
Tasnim published the names and images of the soldiers it claims were killed, which included 15 women and nine men. The Israeli military, which has yet to respond to the Tasnim story, previously said 14 people were killed at the kibbutz.
Palestinian fighters began their attack on the kibbutz, and a Hamas clip from October 7 shows a quadcopter dropping explosives on the infrastructure.
British surgeon fights for ‘justice’ over Gaza attack
Meanwhile, a British-Palestinian doctor who worked in Gaza’s hospitals wants his testimony to lead to prosecutions for war crimes of Israeli officials.
54 year-old plastic surgeon, Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta, who specialises in conflict injuries, spent 43 days volunteering in the besieged Palestinian territory, mostly at the al-Ahli and al-Shifa hospitals in the north.
He has testified to the UK’s biggest police force about the injuries he saw and weapons used as part of evidence being gathered for an International Criminal Court (ICC) probe into alleged war crimes committed by both sides.
Abu Sitta noted that he treated burn wounds caused by white phosphorus – a chemical weapon prohibited under international law. “It has a very distinctive injury. The phosphorus continues to burn until the very deepest part of the body, until you reach bone,”
“Eventually justice will catch up with these individuals, if not in five years, 10 years, when they’re 80 years old – whenever the balance of power in the world allows for justice for Palestinians.”
