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Gaza genocide raging

Nearly six months into the Israeli genocide in Gaza, the regime continues with its bombing and shelling campaign, causing more deaths and destruction across the besieged territory. Israeli warplanes have targeted three residential buildings in the vicinity of Al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza. Regime forces also set Palestinian homes on fire in the area. According to the Israeli military, its forces continue to lay siege to the hospital where over two dozen paramedics are still inside in the catastrophic condition. In al-Shuja’iyya, one of the largest neighborhoods in Gaza, the regime’s troopers killed 8 civilians. Meanwhile, the death toll from overnight strikes on Rafah climbed to 11. Elsewhere, two people were killed in the Israeli shelling of an area near the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. The overall death toll from the Israeli onslaught since early October is nearly 32,500, mostly women and children. 

Call to stop genocide

The United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory says Israel is committing unprecedented war crimes in Gaza. Francesca Albanese says Israel has destroyed Gaza by its relentless attacks since the beginning of the war in October. She added that Tel Aviv’s actions can only be interpreted as an intention to systematically destroy the Palestinians as a group. She emphasized that Israel tries to destroy everything in Gaza which is known as genocide. Albanese pointed out that the Zionist regime stated goal was to destroy Hamas but its actions have led to the death of a large number of civilians. She urged the world to confront the regime’s brutality and make it adhere to International law.

No arms for Israel

British parliamentarians are calling on their government to put an end to arms exports to Israel, calling the trend totally unacceptable. 130 MPs and the House of Lords members issued a letter to the British Foreign Secretary David Cameron. The letter urges Cameron to immediately halt selling weapons to the Israeli regime. It also says Israel is using UK-made weapons against Palestinians in Gaza. The letter also notes that London suspended arms sales to Israel during the two previous wars on Gaza. Global pressure has been rising on governments providing Israel with weapons. Canada, Denmark and Italy have already suspended their arms exports to the Israeli regime and a court in the Netherlands has ruled the government to do the same. 

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