Zionists kill Gaza children with no ceasefire in sight
Verified video footage from the strike in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip showed the bodies of women and children lying in pools of blood amid dust and screaming. Rabih Torbay, the head of US medical charity Project Hope, which runs the facility, called it 'a blatant violation of humanitarian law, and a stark reminder that no one and no place is safe in Gaza, even as ceasefire talks continue'. Hamas called it 'an atrocious crime'.
One clip showed several motionless children lying on a donkey cart. 'She didn't do anything, she was innocent, I swear. Her dream was for the war to end and that they announce it today, to go back to school,' said Samah Al-Nouri, sitting by the body of her daughter who was killed in the blast. 'She was only getting treatment in a medical facility. Why did they kill them?' she said, with other bodies laid out around her at a nearby hospital. Yousef Al-Aydi, said those in the queue for nutritional supplements heard a drone approaching, then an explosion. 'The ground shook beneath our feet and everything around us turned into blood and deafening screams,' he added.
The Deir el-Balah missile strike came as Zionist and Hamas negotiators hold talks with mediators in Qatar over a proposed 60-day ceasefire and hostage release deal aimed at building agreement on a lasting truce. A senior Zionist official said on Wednesday that an agreement was not likely to be secured for another one or two weeks, however US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday he was hopeful of a deal. 'I think we're closer, and I think perhaps we're closer than we've been in quite a while,' Rubio told reporters at the ASEAN summit in Malaysia.
Repeated attacks by Zionist forces in recent weeks have killed hundreds of Gazans, many of them civilians, and injured thousands, according to local health authorities, putting an enormous strain on the enclave's few remaining hospitals. Dwindling fuel supplies risk further disruption in the semi-functioning hospitals, including to incubators at the neonatal unit of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, doctors there said. 'We are forced to place four, five or sometimes three premature babies in one incubator,' said Dr Mohammed Abu Selmia, the hospital director, adding that premature babies were now in a critical condition.
US President Donald Trump met Netanyahu this week to discuss the situation in Gaza amid reports that the Zionist entity and Hamas were nearing agreement on a US-brokered ceasefire proposal after 21 months of war. The Zionist official who was in Washington with Netanyahu said that if the two sides agree to the ceasefire plan, the Zionist entity would use that time to offer a permanent truce requiring Hamas to disarm. If Hamas refuses, 'we'll proceed' with military operations in Gaza, the official said on condition of anonymity.
A Palestinian official said the talks in Qatar were in crisis and that issues under dispute, including whether the Zionist entity would continue to occupy parts of Gaza after a ceasefire, had yet to be resolved. Senior Hamas official Bassem Naim told AFP on Thursday: 'We cannot accept the perpetuation of the occupation of our land and the surrender of our people to isolated enclaves under the control of the occupation army. This is what the negotiating delegation is presenting to the occupation so far in the current round of negotiations in Doha.'
Hamas was particularly opposed to Zionist control over Rafah, on the border with Egypt, and the so-called Morag Corridor between the southern city and Khan Yunis, he added. The Zionist announced earlier this year that the army was seizing large areas in Gaza and incorporating them into buffer zones cleared of their inhabitants. Naim also said the group wanted an end to the current delivery of aid by a US- and Zionist-backed group, a system which has seen scores killed while seeking handouts.
In Gaza itself, there was no let-up in casualties on Thursday, with the civil defense agency reporting at least 52 people killed in Zionist strikes and shootings. Overall, the health ministry in Gaza said at least 57,762 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed since the start of the conflict. There has also been repeated violence in the Zionist-occupied West Bank. A Zionist man was killed at a shopping center in the territory on Thursday by two Palestinians, who were then shot dead, police said. In a separate incident, a Palestinian man was shot dead after he stabbed and injured a soldier, the army said. – Agencies
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