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Yahoo
36 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Baby girl killed with her parents in Gaza airstrike
An Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed a baby girl and her parents on Saturday, hospital officials and witnesses said, while families of hostages called for a 'nationwide day of stoppage' in Israel to express growing frustration over 22 months of war. The baby's body, wrapped in blue, was placed on those of her parents as Palestinians prayed over them. Motasem al-Batta, his wife and the child were believed to have been killed in their tent in the crowded Muwasi area. 'Two and a half months, what has she done?' neighbour Fathi Shubeir said. 'They are civilians in an area designated safe.' Israel's military said it is dismantling Hamas's military capabilities and takes precautions not to harm civilians. It said it could not comment on the strike without more details. Muwasi is one of the heavily populated areas in Gaza where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel plans to widen its coming military offensive. The mobilisation of forces is expected to take weeks, and Israel may be using the threat to pressure Hamas into releasing more hostages taken in its October 7 2023 attack that sparked the war. Families of hostages fear the coming offensive further endangers the 50 hostages remaining in Gaza, just 20 of them thought to be alive. They and other Israelis were horrified by the recent release of videos showing emaciated hostages, speaking under duress, pleading for help and food. A group representing the families has urged Israelis onto the streets on Sunday. 'Across the country, hundreds of citizen-led initiatives will pause daily life and join the most just and moral struggle: the struggle to bring all 50 hostages home,' it said in a statement. The United Nations is warning that levels of starvation and malnutrition in Gaza are at their highest since the war began. Palestinians are drinking contaminated water as diseases spread, while some Israeli leaders continue to talk openly about the mass relocation of people from Gaza. Another 11 malnutrition-related deaths occurred in Gaza over the past 24 hours, the territory's health ministry said on Saturday, with one child among them. That brings malnutrition-related deaths during the war to 251. The UN and partners say getting aid into the territory of more than two million people, and then on to distribution points, remains highly challenging with Israeli restrictions and pressure from crowds of hungry Palestinians. The UN human rights office says at least 1,760 people were killed while seeking aid between May 27 and Wednesday. It says 766 were killed along routes of supply convoys and 994 in the vicinity of 'non-UN militarised sites', a reference to the Israeli-backed and US-supported Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which since May has been the primary distributor of aid in Gaza. The Hamas-led attack in 2023 killed around 1,200 people in Israel. Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed 61,897 people in Gaza, according to the health ministry, which does not specify how many were fighters or civilians but says around half were women and children. The ministry is part of the Hamas-run government and staffed by medical professionals. The UN and independent experts consider it the most reliable source on casualties. Israel disputes its figures but has not provided its own.
Associated Press
an hour ago
- Associated Press
Baby girl killed with parents in Gaza airstrike as Israelis urge a mass protest over the war
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed a baby girl and her parents on Saturday, Nasser hospital officials and witnesses said, while families of hostages called for a 'nationwide day of stoppage' in Israel to express growing frustration over 22 months of war. The baby's body, wrapped in blue, was placed on those of her parents as Palestinians prayed over them. Motasem al-Batta, his wife and the girl were killed in their tent in the crowded Muwasi area. 'Two and a half months, what has she done?' neighbor Fathi Shubeir asked, sweating as temperatures in the shattered territory soared above 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius). 'They are civilians in an area designated safe.' Israel's military said it is dismantling Hamas' military capabilities and takes precautions not to harm civilians. It said it couldn't comment on the strike without more details. Muwasi is one of the heavily populated areas in Gaza where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel plans to widen its coming military offensive. The mobilization of forces is expected to take weeks, and Israel may be using the threat to pressure Hamas into releasing more hostages taken in its Oct. 7, 2023, attack that sparked the war. Families of hostages fear the coming offensive further endangers the 50 hostages remaining in Gaza, just 20 of them thought to remain alive. They and other Israelis were horrified by the recent release of videos showing emaciated hostages, speaking under duress, pleading for help and food. A group representing the families has urged Israelis into the streets on Sunday. 'Across the country, hundreds of citizen-led initiatives will pause daily life and join the most just and moral struggle: the struggle to bring all 50 hostages home,' it said in a statement. The United Nations is warning that levels of starvation and malnutrition in Gaza are at their highest since the war began. Palestinians are drinking contaminated water as diseases spread, while some Israeli leaders continue to talk openly about the mass relocation of people from Gaza. Another 11 malnutrition-related deaths occurred in Gaza over the past 24 hours, the territory's Health Ministry said Saturday, with one child was among them. That brings malnutrition-related deaths during the war to 251. The U.N. and partners say getting aid into the territory of over 2 million people, and then on to distribution points, remains highly challenging with Israeli restrictions and pressure from crowds of hungry Palestinians. The U.N. human rights office says at least 1,760 people were killed while seeking aid between May 27 and Wednesday. It says 766 were killed along routes of supply convoys and 994 in the vicinity of 'non-U.N. militarized sites,' a reference to the Israeli-backed and U.S.-supported Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which since May has been the primary distributor of aid in Gaza. The Hamas-led attack in 2023 killed around 1,200 people in Israel. Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed 61,897 people in Gaza, according to the Health Ministry, which does not specify how many were fighters or civilians but says around half were women and children. The ministry is part of the Hamas-run government and staffed by medical professionals. The U.N. and independent experts consider it the most reliable source on casualties. Israel disputes its figures but has not provided its own. ___ Follow AP's war coverage at
New York Times
6 hours ago
- New York Times
My Neighbor Gave My Injured Cat Morphine. Can I Blame Her for His Death?
I'm having trouble processing the death of my sweet 10-month-old cat. Yesterday he broke through the screen of our third-story apartment and fell off the fire escape. The super was taking out the trash and saw it happen. He landed on the sidewalk, meowing quietly and dragging his hind legs behind him. In a panic, our super asked a neighbor who was also outside for help. She ran off, returned a minute later and gave him some 'pain medicine.' Three minutes later, now with a small crowd on the sidewalk, our little guy died. The medicine he was given was morphine. I would be furious with her, but she is caring for a son with a terminal illness, and I can't imagine her pain. When I asked her via text how much morphine she gave my cat, she said: 'Just enough for a rat. I learned this in science class.' I'm hesitant to push this further, because I know that getting a straight answer out of her will be difficult and that nothing is going to bring my sweet furry friend back. My higher self wants to reflect on loss, joy, impermanence and gratitude. My regular self wants to barge into her apartment and ask her why the hell she didn't call me before taking matters into her hands. She has a husband who is easier to communicate with. Should I talk to him? Maybe I should talk to her. Perhaps if she was confronted she would see that she is not well and should join a support group for grieving parents. Nothing feels right. I know she's in pain. Now we are too. Saying something to her makes me feel as if I'm valuing the life of my cat over the life of her son. He was such a perfect little guy and provided so much joy and distraction from the hard things in life. — Name Withheld From the Ethicist: The death of a young animal companion is not a small loss, and the way your cat died is bound to leave you with a kind of moral agitation in addition to grief. You have my sympathies. It was plainly very wrong to give morphine to this cat without knowing the extent of his injuries, without medical training and without the consent of the person who loved and cared for him. That your cat would otherwise have survived the fall and recovered is not something we can know with certainty. But plenty of cats have survived, and recovered from, longer drops. The appropriate course was to get him to a vet: someone trained to assess and address the situation. At this point, the question is not what could have been done differently but what can be done now. And this brings us to the issue of acknowledgment. What you're grappling with isn't just the event itself; it's the absence of accountability. Your cat died in the care of someone who acted with misplaced confidence. What lingers is not only the loss but the sense that she hasn't owned what she did. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
