Monitor: Israel Now Waging War of Starvation

Date: 07 November 2023 - 22:03

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GAZA CITY (Dispatches) -- The Zionist military martyred “dozens” of civilians in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah on Tuesday in what the Palestinian health ministry described as a “new massacre”, as Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will maintain “indefinite” control over the coastal enclave.
The strike on Deir al-Balah, a heavily populated town in an area that the Zionist regime told residents of northern Gaza to move to if they wanted to stay alive, came exactly a month after the Israel-Palestine war broke out.
According to Palestinian media, the victims of the raid were mostly women and children.
Israeli airstrikes martyred 548 Palestinians in the past 24 hours, the Palestinian health ministry said on Tuesday afternoon.
This takes the death toll to 10,328 people killed since October 7, including 4,237 children, 2,719 women and 631 elderly people. At least 25,956 people have been wounded.
Around 2,450 people are still missing in Gaza, including 1,350 children. The vast majority of these people are believed to be dead and buried under rubble.
On average, a Palestinian child was martyred every 10 minutes over the past month, according to the health ministry.
The shelling has intensified during the nights and in communication blackouts, residents say, causing an unprecedented scale of destruction.
As well as a full siege imposed by Israel on October 9, which resulted in the cutting off of all water, electricity, food, aid, fuel and electricity supplies, Israeli bombing is now targeting bakeries, supermarkets, water tanks and solar panels.
On the ground, people are complaining about kidney pain, dehydration and hunger due to the lack of supplies, while surgery is still being performed without any form of anesthetic.
The non-profit Euro-Med Monitor says that the occupying regime of Israel is now “waging an extensive war of starvation against Gaza’s civilian population,” and that it has “taken very dangerous turns”.
The monitor said: “Israel has deliberately focused its attacks over the past few hours on targeting electrical generators and solar energy units, on which commercial facilities and restaurants depend to maintain the minimum possible level of their work.”
Conditions have been bleak all across the strip, with the UN agency UNRWA saying that at least 600 people are using one toilet. Elsewhere, 50,000 pregnant women need assistance as 16 out of 35 hospitals have stopped working.
The past month has also been deadly for journalists. At least 48 journalists have been killed in Gaza by the occupying regime of Israel since the start of the war, which the Committee to Protect Journalists has declared to be the deadliest period for journalists worldwide since 1992.
International media offices have also been caught up in the bombings. A photo shared by an AFP journalist on Tuesday showed the

extent of damage done to the news agency’s Gaza office following an Israeli airstrike.

In the occupied West Bank, the situation has also intensified, with explosions reported in the Tulkarm refugee camp, where armed vehicles were spotted moving through the camp.

Drone strikes also rained down, killing two young men as a result of missile fragments.

The Wafa news agency said that violent confrontations took place between young men and Zionist troops, while an Israeli bulldozer destroyed parts of the main streets in the camp.

At least 160 people have been martyred in the West Bank since the start of the October hostilities.

Across the world, Amnesty International branded as “illegitimate” calls by the British government to ban a pro-Palestinian rally in London.

A number of politicians, including Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, have condemned a planned demonstration against the genocide in Gaza on Saturday as it coincides with the Armistice Day commemorations of the end of World War One - with suggestions from some ministers that police ban the march.

“Government pressure on police to ban peaceful protests is illegitimate. The Home Secretary describing overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations as ‘hate marches’ and ‘extremist’ is a dystopian distortion,” Amnesty International tweeted on Tuesday:

Meanwhile, pro-Palestine groups vowed to continue marching for Gaza in central London on Saturday as the police join government calls to cancel a planned demonstration.

For the last four weeks, tens of thousands of pro-Palestine protestors have flooded central London to join protests against the Israeli atrocities.

A group of academics and experts on state crime said that the Zionist regime’s past actions and its current action in Gaza fit the “legal and criminological definitions” of genocide.

The letter, initiated by the International State Crime Initiative and currently featuring 11 signatures, said Palestine was seeing a “second Nakba”.

“Israel’s actions in Gaza and historic actions against the Palestinian people fit both legal and criminological definitions of the crime,” reads the letter.

“As Raphael Lemkin, the author of the term genocide wrote, genocide is not limited to spectacularized acts of mass killings but includes ‘a coordinated plan aimed at the destruction of the essential foundations of the life of national groups.’”

Russia’s foreign ministry suggested on Tuesday that international nuclear inspectors should be sent to Occupied Palestine after a Zionist minister said using a nuclear bomb in Gaza was an option.

Maria Zakharova, Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman, said the remark by Amihay Ben-Eliyahu “raised a huge number of questions”.

“Question number one - it turns out that we are hearing official statements about the presence of nuclear weapons?” Zakharova was quoted as saying by state RIA news agency.