Israel-Palestine War: 195 Killed And 120 Missing In Jabalia Strikes (Image:twitter/OmarSShakir)
At least 195 people were killed and around 120 termed missing as Jabalia’s refugee camp in Gaza hit with Israeli strikes on Wednesday. Following the release of two hostages by Hamas and the rescue of an Israeli soldier, several people including foreign nationals and severely injured Palestinians were allowed to leave Gaza through the Rafah crossing into Egypt. The border was opened as the Israeli forces advanced deeper into Gaza.
The Palestinian death toll reached 8,805, said the Hamas Health Ministry in Gaza. In the occupied West Bank, 130 Palestinians have been killed in violence and Israeli raids. More than 1,400 Israeli’s were also killed in the war. The Israel forces carried out a new series of bombardments and raids in the northern Gaza Strip.
As Al Jazeera reports, the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, Gaza’s only medical facility serving cancer patients, was forced to shut down after running out of fuel. Other hospitals are on the edge of power outages. Communication and internet services are not yet restored in Gaza. Health and humanitarian agencies have warned that the blackouts will cause severe disruption of their service. Gaza is already in a dreadful condition.
The now-former director of the New York office of the UN (United Nations) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Craig Mokhiber, submitted his resignation recently, citing UN’s failure to prevent the attacks of Israel on the Palestinian people. According to him, Israel is carrying out a ‘genocide’ of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. He also accused the western powers including the US and UK for encouraging Israel’s assault on Gaza and providing diplomatic cover for it. “The genocide we are witnessing in Palestine is the product of decades of Israeli impunity provided by the US and other western governments”, he said.
The #genocide we are witnessing in #Palestine is the product of decades of Israeli #impunity provided by the US & other western governments & decades of #dehumanization of the Palestinian people by western corporate media. Both must end now. Speak up for #HumanRights
— Craig Mokhiber (@CraigMokhiber) October 30, 2023
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said that the number of its workers killed in the ongoing conflict in Gaza reached 70. According to them, more than 690,000 displaced Palestinians were currently seeking shelter in 149 UNRWA facilities across the Gaza Strip.
🔺 It”s estimated that 1.4 million people are currently displaced in the📍#GazaStrip
🔺 Since 7 October, 70 @UNRWA colleagues have been killed and at least 22 injured. This is the highest number of @UN aid workers killed in a conflict in such a short timehttps://t.co/9QSqnxsMF4 pic.twitter.com/KdQcdoEreL
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) November 1, 2023
Japan successfully evacuated 10 of their citizens along with their eight Palestinian family members from Gaza. Australia evacuated 20 nationals along with three other people, who were either permanent residents or immediate family members of a citizen. The US President Joe Biden on Wednesday called for a humanitarian pause in the war in order to get the “prisoners” out. The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is also expected to visit Israel and Jordan this week.
Meanwhile, the government of Bolivia severed their diplomatic ties with Israel on Tuesday as a response to the alleged war crimes and human right violation taking place in the Gaza strip. As Reuters reports, the Latin American countries Chile and Colombia recalled their ambassadors to the West Asian countries for consultations.
