This week, Israel marked the occasion of Antony Blinken’s visit with a new wave of horrific violence in Gaza. On Thursday night, Israeli forces bombed and leveled thirteen houses in Jabalia refugee camp, killing over 150 Palestinians, while hundreds more have been reported wounded, missing, or trapped under rubble. No one is able to reach or help the victims — access for civil defense, rescuers, medics, hospitals, ambulances, and even media is blocked, with concerns that restricting reporting may be aimed at preventing coverage of atrocities.
It was a night of unending horror in Gaza. Entire families were massacred. Most of the victims were children, including eleven children who were burned alive in al-Maghazi refugee camp after Israeli forces bombed a youth club sheltering children. Israel also bombed another school sheltering children in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least seventeen, most of them children. In Khan Younis, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) wiped out fifteen members of the Farra family, most of them children.
Laila el-Haddad, the Gaza-born author who once accompanied Anthony Bourdain in Gaza, wrote: “Many of you have seen the picture of these beautiful birds of heaven, massacred last night in Khan Younis by Israel with our American weapons and tax dollars. They were my cousins from my mother’s side. Don’t you dare talk to me about Kamala Harris or blame us for her loss.”
According to Save the Children, over twenty thousand children have been killed, buried under rubble or in mass graves, detained,…
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Auteur: Seraj Assi
