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Kuwait Times
12-07-2025
- Health
- Kuwait Times
Zionists kill Gaza children with no ceasefire in sight
GAZA: A Zionist airstrike hit Palestinians near a medical center in Gaza on Thursday, killing 10 children and six adults, local health authorities said, as ceasefire talks dragged on with no immediate deal expected after Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Netanyahu said Gaza demilitarization was a condition of permanent ceasefire and Hamas said disagreements over the free flow of aid into Gaza and the Zionist military withdrawal were sticking points. 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
Irish Independent
12-07-2025
- Health
- Irish Independent
Ten children queuing for food among 16 killed in Israeli strike in Gaza
Olivia le Poidevin ©Reuters Sixteen Palestinians, including ten children and six adults, were killed in an Israeli airstrike while queuing for nutritional supplements in front of a clinic in central Gaza, a hospital says. Verified video footage from the strike in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip showed the bodies of women and children lying in pools of blood amid dust and screaming. The strike happened just outside the Altayara health clinic run by US-based Project Hope.
The National
11-07-2025
- Health
- The National
One-year-old boy who had just uttered first words among dozens killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza
A one-year-old boy who was killed by an Israeli strike near a medical centre in Gaza had uttered his first words 'just hours earlier', said his grieving mother. At least 15 Palestinians, including nine children, were killed while queuing for nutritional supplies outside a clinic in Deir Al Balah, according to Unicef. Among the victims was Mohammed, one, who spoke his first words to his mother, Donia, just hours earlier. The mother was critically injured in the strike, and lies in a hospital bed 'clutching Mohammed's tiny shoe', the UN agency said. 'The killing of families trying to access life-saving aid is unconscionable,' Unicef chief Catherine Russell said in a statement issued after the attack on Thursday. 'No parent should have to face such tragedy.' The Israeli strike occurred as patients gathered to receive treatment for malnutrition, infections and chronic illnesses from a medical centre operated by a Unicef partner organisation, Project Hope. The clinics are a 'place of refuge in Gaza where people bring their small children, women access pregnancy and post-partum care, people receive treatment for malnutrition, and more,' Project Hope's president, Rabih Torbay, said in a statement. 'Yet, this morning, innocent families were mercilessly attacked as they stood in line waiting for the doors to open. 'Horrified and heart-broken cannot properly communicate how we feel any more,' he said. The Israeli military said the incident was under review, claiming it had targeted a Hamas militant who took part in the October 7 attacks. At least 66 people were killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza on Thursday, according to the enclave's civil defence agency. The killing of families trying to access life-saving aid is unconscionable Unicef chief Catherine Russell Three were killed by Israeli gunfire while waiting for aid in north-western Gaza city, adding to the high death toll from attacks near aid sites since the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began operating in late may. At least 798 people have been killed while trying to receive food aid in Gaza since May 27, of whom 615 were killed near GHF sites, the UN Human Rights Office said on Friday. UN chief Antonio Guterres has condemned the food delivery system as ' a death sentence ', saying 'people are being killed simply trying to feed themselves and their families'. Journalist Ahmed Abu Aisha was killed in a strike west of Nuseirat in central Gaza on Thursday, according to medical sources, and at least five people were killed in Israeli bombing of tents sheltering displaced families in Al Qarara village in the city, official news agency Wafa reported. On Friday morning, Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed at least six people in the north of the strip, including five at a school-turned-shelter. The strikes come amid negotiations for a truce between Israel and Hamas that are being held in Doha, Qatar. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he is hopeful a Gaza ceasefire will be realised in the 'near future'.
Daily Tribune
11-07-2025
- Politics
- Daily Tribune
Hamas says Israeli troops stickingpoint in truce asGaza pounded
Hamas yesterday said it opposes any ceasefire deal that includes a large Israeli military presence in Gaza, after offering to release some hostages and as the civil defence agency reported scores killed across the Palestinian territory. The group said late Wednesday that it had agreed to release 10 people seized in its October 7, 2023 attack on Israel that sparked the war. Both sides have been holding indirect talks in Qatar since Sunday to agree a temporary truce and the United States says it is hopeful that a 60-day halt can be secured in the coming days. But Hamas said disagreements over the free flow of aid into Gaza and Israel's military withdrawal were sticking points, as were its demands for 'real guarantees' for a lasting peace. 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 (Israel). '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 Israeli control over Rafah, on the border with Egypt, and the so-called Morag Corridor between the southern city and Khan Yunis, he added. Israel 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 Israel-backed group, a system which has seen scores killed while seeking handouts. On Thursday, eight children were among 17 killed in an Israeli strike outside a medical clinic in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, the civil defence agency said. Rabih Torbay, the head of US medical charity Project Hope,which runs the facility, called it 'ablatant violation of humanitarianlaw, and a stark reminder that noone and no place is safe in Gaza,even as ceasefire talks continue'. Hamas called it 'an atrociouscrime'. Israel's military said it hadstruck a Hamas man in the citywho had infiltrated Israel during the 2023 attack and that it'regrets any harm to uninvolvedindividuals'. UN brings fuel into Gaza for first time in 130 days: spokesman The United Nations managedto bring 75,000 liters of fuel intoGaza, the first in 130 days, thesecretary-general's spokesmansaid yesterday, noting it wasstill far from enough to alleviate shortages in the war-tornterritory. 'We and our humanitarianpartners need hundreds of thousands of liters of fuel each dayto keep essential life-saving andlife-sustaining operations going,meaning that the amount enteredyesterday isn't sufficient to covereven one day of energy requirement,' said Stephane Dujarric,warning that crucial services willshut down if more fuel does notenter Gaza immediately.
UPI
11-07-2025
- Health
- UPI
Israeli strike on U.S. non-profit clinic kills at least 15 in Gaza
July 11 (UPI) -- At least 15 Palestinians were killed, including 10 children and two women, in an Israeli airstrike as they waited in line outside the clinic of a U.S.-health non-profit in central Gaza. The attack on Thursday came as families gathered awaiting the opening of the facility in Deir Al Balah to access treatment for malnutrition, infections, chronic illnesses and other conditions, Project HOPE said in a post on X. "Project HOPE's health clinics are a place of refuge in Gaza where people bring their small children, women access pregnancy and postpartum care, people receive treatment for malnutrition, and more. Yet, innocent families were mercilessly attacked as they stood in line waiting for the doors to open," said Project HOPE President and CEO Rabih Torbay. "This is a blatant violation of international humanitarian law, and a stark reminder that no one and no place is safe in Gaza, even as cease-fire talks continue. This cannot continue." No Project Hope staff were on site, but the group said it had suspended the operation of its Altayara clinic until further notice as a precautionary measure. The facility, which was closed at the time, sustained damage to the front of the building and the entrance Footage circulating online, which the BBC said had checked out as genuine, shows several adults and small children on the ground outside, some apparently dead and others with severe injuries. The nearby al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital confirmed 10 children had died, but gave the total number killed as 17. Al Aqsa director Eyad Amawi said the hospital had received at least 30 injured people, but that there were more who had been taken to field hospitals. The Israel Defense Forces said it had been targeting an unnamed Hamas fighter who had participated in the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel but had launched a review of the incident following reports that a number of people had been injured. "The IDF regrets any harm to uninvolved individuals and operates to minimize harm as much as possible," it added. The Washington Post said that it had seen CCTV footage that appeared to show the strike comprised a single missile aimed at two men who were walking near the people gathered outside the clinic, who were also caught in the blast. "They used a munition with high fragmentation, optimized to kill squad-sized elements of troops in the open, and not ideal for targeting in a crowded street with civilians, including women and children, adjacent," former U.S. Air Force Special Operations targeting expert and former Pentagon chief of civilian harm assessments told the paper. At least 51 other people died in Israeli strikes Thursday, including five killed when tents in the southern al-Mawasi area of the strip were hit by a drone, the Hamas-run Civil Defence agency said. The deadly attacks came as three days of talks in Washington between Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration and leaders on Capitol Hill on a cease-fire in Gaza wrapped up without a breakthrough and Netanyahu flew back to Israel. However, Netanyahu did not close the door on a possible deal coming out of indirect negotiations with Hamas in Qatar that began Sunday, telling Newsmax that he was hopeful of getting a 60-day cease-fire agreement that would see 10 living hostages released within days.
