Israel is continuing its campaign to erase Gaza City by systematically bombing residential high-rise buildings, schools, homes and tent encampments. Targets struck on Sunday included the Islamic University and the Ro’ya Tower, which housed media and U.N. offices.
Israeli officials claim 250,000 Palestinians have left Gaza City in recent days, but residents of the city say there is no safe place to go as Israel moves to displace the city’s entire population.
Narges Ashour: “I wish someone would look at us, the Palestinian people, in a human way. In European countries, there are animal rights, taking care of the animals and the birds. No one is looking after us, the people of Gaza. They are not looking for these children. Our children either die from hunger or strikes, or either they’re displaced from the north to the south in harsh conditions. We are approaching winter, in tents. Tents don’t protect us in the summer during the heat; in the winter, nothing.”
Israel killed at least 53 Palestinians on Sunday and another 25 so far today, including 6-year-old twins. Meanwhile, the number of Palestinians who have starved to death has reached 422. We will go to Gaza after headlines.
Arab Leaders Hold Emergency Meeting in Qatar to Discuss Israel’s Strike in Doha
On the diplomatic front, Arab leaders are holding an emergency meeting in Qatar today to discuss Israel’s deadly strike last week targeting Hamas leaders in Doha. Ahead of the meeting, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani condemned what he called Israel’s barbaric attack.
Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani: “This Israeli aggression will not lead to anything but aborting deescalating efforts, and confirm the Israeli government’s intentions to reject peaceful paths to resolving the Palestinian issue and to continue defying international will and the U.N. Charter, as evidenced by repeated statements by Israeli officials regarding the annexation of Palestinian territories and the illusions of a Greater Israel. … Israel’s barbaric and demagogic practices will not deter us from continuing our sincere efforts with the Arab Republic of Egypt and the United States to stop this unjust war.”
Al-Thani’s comment came a day after he met with President Trump in New York. Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in Israel for a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Rubio will then travel to Doha.
