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Israel violating Gaza ceasefire

Israel continues to violate the Gaza ceasefire agreement with Hamas more than a week after the implementation of a long-awaited truce started. In one of their latest attacks, the regime’s forces killed a Palestinian citizen in the town of al-Shawka, near Rafah, in southern Gaza. A Palestinian girl also succumbed to injuries she had suffered in Rafah. Her parents and unborn brother had already been killed in the Israeli bombing of their home. Earlier, Israeli forces targeted a vehicle near the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing a child and injuring several others. They also raided Palestinian homes in the al-Bureij refugee camp. Gaza’s Health Ministry says it received eleven bodies, including nine retrieved from under the rubble, during 24 hours. That brings the overall death toll from Israeli genocide to nearly 47,500. Almost 111,600 others have been injured.

Israel attacking women

A UN special rapporteur has raised a serious alarm about the situation in Gaza, saying it has reached unprecedented proportions not seen in modern history. The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls said attacks on Palestinian women and girls account for a major part of the regime’s systematic strategy of genocide. Reem Alsalem stressed that killing Palestinian women simply because of their gender constitutes a war crime and a crime against humanity. She noted that deliberate targeting of women and destruction of Gaza’s reproductive health services have been used as weapons in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians. Alsalem added that about 800,000 women in Gaza have been forcibly displaced from their homes, and nearly one million women and girls are suffering from severe food insecurity.

Plight of Palestinian prisoners

The Hamas resistance movement has strongly condemned physical abuse and torture of Palestinian abductees in Israeli jails as a full-fledged war crime. The movement said Palestinian abductees are regularly exposed to physical and psychological torture, medical neglect, starvation, and thirst. Hamas noted that a number of the newly-released abductees were transferred to hospitals and received medical treatment as a result of being systematically tortured. The movement stressed that such abuses by Israeli prison officials are blatant violations of international laws concerning prisoners, including the Geneva Conventions. It called on the United Nations and other international organizations to hold Israel accountable. Earlier, the Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor had confirmed that Palestinian abductees endure torture and systematic malnutrition in Israel’s prisons.

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