16 December 2024
- The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in north Gaza says the Israeli army fired at staff in the intensive care unit, targeting the hospital power generators
- Palestinian NGOs Network head Amjad Shawa says the death toll from Israeli attacks on Gaza is likely much higher than the more than 45,000 reported today by the territory’s Ministry of Health.
- Israeli forces bombed a UNRWA-run school in Khan Younis, killing at least 20 people, after an assault on another school in Beit Hanoon that killed 43 and another on a Palestinian Civil Defence post that killed Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed al-Louh and five rescue workers.
- Israel’s government also announced plans to double the population of Israeli settlers in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights after its military seized more land in the territory following the toppling of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 45,028 Palestinians and wounded 106,962 since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Family of American-Turkish killed by Israeli forces express frustration after Blinken meeting
The family of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old activist shot and killed in the occupied West Bank by Israeli military forces in September, has expressed frustration after meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The US secretary “was attentive in listening to us, and unfortunately repeated a lot of the same things that we’ve been hearing for the past 20 years, particularly since Rachel Corrie’s killing, who is also a Washington State resident, like my wife” her husband Hamid Ali told reporters after the meeting at the State Department.
Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American woman, was killed in 2003 by an Israeli bulldozer while protesting the demolition of Palestinian homes in Rafah, Gaza Strip.“It’s frustrating to hear the same things again,” Ali said.
The meeting comes as the family continues to urge the Biden administration to launch an independent investigation into her killing, saying that she was killed in a deliberate attack during a peaceful protest.
Ozden Bennet, Eygi’s sister, said the US is still awaiting an Israeli investigation, which she said the family does not find “credible”.