Posted on 10/23/2023 5:43:10 AM PDT by Red Badger
Health authorities in Gaza said over 5,000 people were killed since the Oct. 7 start of the war between Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel. More than 15,000 have been injured, the authorities said.
It is over two weeks since the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched its assault on Israel, killing at least 1,400 people and taking over 200 hostage.
CNBC could not independently verify these numbers.
A full surrender of Hamas and the return of Israeli hostages could end Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip, Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Jonathan Conricus told ABC Radio Melbourne.
“The aim here is to totally dismantle Hamas from its military capabilities. If that can be done from the air, and with standoff measures, with very limited exposure to our troops and less damage on the ground, that would be great,” he added.
Meanwhile, the European Union’s top diplomat Josep Borrell on Monday called for a pause in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas, to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
32 MIN AGO Gaza says more than 5,000 people killed Hamas-run health authorities in Gaza said over 5,000 people were killed since the Oct. 7 start of the war between Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel.
The figures, released by Health Ministry spokesperson Dr. Ashraf Al-Qudra, include 2,055 children. Some 15,273 people remain injured.
The enclosure has been under perpetual bombardment from Israeli forces, which are pursuing the forces of Hamas, following the Palestinian militant group’s multi-pronged terror attacks of early October. Israel has sealed off the Gaza Strip, depriving it of its water, fuel, food and electricity resources, and these shortages — combined with the absence of medical equipment — are bringing the Gaza health system near collapse, human rights group and the Palestinian health ministry have previously said.
At least 1,400 Israeli people have been killed since the start of the conflict, according to official figures out Friday. Roughly 222 hostages remain abducted by Hamas in Gaza, Israeli military says.
CNBC could not verify the figures supplied by either side of the conflict.
— Ruxandra Iordache
2 HOURS AGO Gaza Strip urgently needs fuel, UN relief agency says The blockaded Gaza Strip needs fuel supplies as urgently as it does water and food resources, an official for the U.N. Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said Monday.
“No fuel has come into Gaza for the last two weeks,” UNRWA Director of External Relations Tamara Alrifai told CNN in a TV interview, “And without fuel, it’s not going to be possible to go around Gaza in our trucks and distribute assistance or to power the water desalination plants and get clean drinking water or to power hospitals and their live-saving machines.”
She added that the convoys of humanitarian aid that have entered the Gaza Strip since the weekend represent a “trickle” of the volume of supplies needed to support the civilian population of the region.
“These trucks really only contain a fraction of what is needed, given the immense, immense humanitarian needs,” she said, noting that the Gaza Strip previously received roughly 100 trucks of humanitarian aid and fuel per day.
Israel cut off its own deliveries of water, fuel, food and electricity to the Gaza Strip and refuses to reinstate them, on the premise that they would support the forces of Palestinian militant group Hamas stationed within the territory.
— Ruxandra Iordache
2 HOURS AGO Israeli military says it fired on ‘aerial target’ from Lebanon The Israeli military said on Monday it had launched an interceptor missile at a “suspicious aerial target” that crossed in from Lebanon, and that sirens had been sounded in areas of the border as a precaution.
-Reuters
Ain’t that a shame
Video
A Palestinian man celebrates on the streets of Gaza as Hamas fires rockets over his head toward Israel.
Soon after, he posts a video of himself crying in a hospital after an Israeli airstrike
https://rumble.com/v3r1eta-a-palestinian-man-celebrates-hamas-rocket-fire-then-cries-at-hospital.html
YAWN
I don’t believe it.
Doubt those figures, which seem to ignore the 1500 or so deaths of Israelis, the majority women children and elderly civilians killed in terror raids
Some videos are showing crisis actors in multiple videos
Despicable that world media goes along with this
Hamas lies.
Now there's an oxymoron...
Why? Many of these people have died many times over the years. 1 person in the death toll has reportedly died over 20 times.
Gaza health ministry? Seriously? Media has no shame. The “health ministry” said all of the casualties came from South Gaza, which is where the Gazans moved to. I don’t believe that the IDF is targeting south, but the media lap dogs lick up whatever Hamas Vomit they can find.
AKA "Ministry of Truth".
If true, it’s a good start, but I don’t believe it either.
This world is sick.
It aligns with the most sick & depraved, and deny what happens to innocence!
“ Health authorities in Gaza said over 5,000 people were killed since the Oct. 7 start of the war between Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel.”
1. I don’t believe a single word from any “authority” in Gaza.
2. Don’t start wars and your people won’t be killed.
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“ “And without fuel, it’s not going to be possible to go around Gaza in our trucks and distribute assistance or to power the water desalination plants and get clean drinking water or to power hospitals and their live-saving machines.”
I’m not seeing a problem here.
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LOL - Does that include the 500 to 1,000 deaths they were claiming at that “bombed” hospital?
Just sayin’. And I’m claiming (correctly) that they are prone to vast overestimating and downright lies! It’s what Muslim doctrine calls for. And I’d be correct to say that the Ukrainian propaganda organs have copied the techniques.
Well, there are still Hamas alive, so it’s not over. They could do is offer unconditional surrender, and every resident of Gaza could step out in the street unarmed and sit down and wait to be processed.
SO MANY OLD SAYINGS COMES TO MIND.
They can dish it out, but they can’t take it!
If they don’t like Israel’s peaches don’t shake Israel’s trees.
Did he downgrade it from 50,000?
I don’t care.
Bomb them back to the stone age.
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