On Wednesday, Day 411 of the ongoing genocide, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, including many children and women, across the devastated, starved and besieged Gaza Strip.
On Wednesday evening, Israeli airstrikes resulted in the deaths of 29 Palestinians in Gaza and Khan Younis, raising the death toll in the Gaza Strip to at least 60 since dawn, medical sources have confirmed.
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Twenty-two Palestinians, including ten children, were killed and others injured when Israeli aircraft bombed six-story residential buildings belonging to the Al-Arouqi family in the Abu Iskandar area of Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, northwest of Gaza City.
Locals, medics, and rescue teams continued the search for Palestinians under the rubble of the bombarded building.
In southern Gaza, seven Palestinians were killed and others injured when Israeli aircraft bombed a tent housing displaced members of the Al-Mahmoum family in the Mawasi Khan Younis area.
Additionally, five Palestinians were killed and fifteen others injured in an Israeli airstrike on Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.
In Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, one Palestinian was killed and others injured in an Israeli strike on a group of displaced individuals, while three Palestinians, including two children, were killed in an Israeli artillery strike on the Awni Al-Harathani School in the city.
Another citizen was injured when a drone fired a missile at a home in the Tel Al-Zaatar area, in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza.
In central Gaza, six Palestinians were killed and many others injured in an Israeli airstrike on Khaled Bin Al-Waleed School, which shelters displaced persons in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
Medical sources reported that three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike on a group of citizens in Khirbet Al-Adas in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip’s southernmost area, and were taken to the European Gaza Hospital in nearby Khan Younis.
On the international political level, the United States used, Wednesday, its veto power in the UN Security Council to block a proposed resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. All other members of the Council voted in favor of the resolution, leaving the U.S. as the sole opponent.
The resolution, put forth by ten non-permanent members of the Security Council, sought an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative, stated that the Biden Administration’s use of the veto to block the UN Security Council resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza “confirms its complicity in the genocide and ethnic cleansing committed by Israel in Gaza.”
Barghouti said that the fact that the U.S. was the only country to vote against the resolution, in opposition to all other Security Council members, including its traditional allies, underscores its political isolation alongside Israel.
“This isolation was also evident in the recent UN General Assembly vote, where the U.S. stood alone with Israel and four insignificant islands against 175 countries worldwide,” Dr. Barghouti added.
He pointed out that the Biden administration insists, even in its final days, on its hostile approach towards the Palestinian people, international law, and international humanitarian law.
In related news, Israeli army spokesperson said a soldier, Roy Sasson, 21, was killed, and another soldier was seriously injured in a close-range exchange of fire in the outskirts of Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, bringing the total number of soldiers killed since October 7, 2023, to 802, including 377 who were killed since the ground invasion of Gaza on October 27, 2023.
Israel has now killed at least 43,985 Palestinians, including more than 17.492 children and 11.979 women, and injured 104,092 others, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, with ambulance and rescue crews unable to reach them.
