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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Israel's killing campaign continues in Gaza</h1>
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<span class="gmail-field gmail-field-author"><a href="https://electronicintifada.net/people/tamara-nassar">Tamara Nassar</a></span> -
<span class="gmail-field gmail-field-publication-date"><span class="gmail-date-display-single">6 August 2022</span></span></p></div>
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<span><img src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2022-08/220806_-_gaza-city.jpg?itok=gp8tIHXf×tamp=1659820504" alt="People stand atop the ruins of a destroyed building" title="" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 25px;" width="392" height="261"></span><p>Palestinians examine the rubble of a destroyed building following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on 6 August 2022.</p><small>
<span>APA images</span></small><p>Israel’s
bombardment of the occupied Gaza Strip entered its second day on
Saturday with no sign of de-escalation as the United States, European
Union and other Western countries <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/us-europe-greenlight-israels-latest-gaza-massacre">gave Tel Aviv a green light</a> to continue its campaign of killing and destruction.</p>
<p>By late evening on Saturday, Israeli airstrikes in Gaza had killed at least five more people.</p>
<p>The health ministry in Gaza said that 24 had been killed in the territory, including six children, since Israel launched the <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-kills-10-surprise-attacks-gaza/36066">surprise attack</a> on Friday afternoon by assassinating a senior leader of the Islamic Jihad resistance group.</p>
<p>More than 200 Palestinians have been injured.</p>
<p>Israel claimed an air strike in Rafah on Saturday evening killed
Khalid Mansour, the commander of Islamic Jihad in southern Gaza. But the
group did not immediately confirm that.</p>
<p>There were reports of at least five people killed in an explosion
near a mosque in Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza on Saturday
night, among them several children.</p>
<p>But Israel <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-08-06/ty-article-live/israeli-army-strikes-the-gaza-strip/00000182-6e27-d2f5-a3e6-ef3ffc4d0000#1830954943">denied</a> bombing the area and claimed the deaths were caused by a misfired Palestinian rocket.</p>
<p>Throughout the day, Israeli warplanes continued to strike densely
populated residential areas, targeting civilians and their property. And
an Israeli military spokesperson warned the assault could last a week.</p>
<p>Islamic Jihad fired 350 rockets into Gaza by Saturday afternoon, including towards Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion airport.</p>
<p>While Hamas, which controls Gaza’s internal affairs, has backed
Islamic Jihad’s response, it has yet to launch a single rocket at Israel
since Israel launched its assault on Friday.</p>
<p>Hamas said on Friday that resistance factions were coordinating their
responses. Its restraint so far may be an indication that the
resistance groups are trying to contain the flare-up before it erupts
into a full-blown confrontation with Israel.</p>
<p>This may change on Sunday as Israelis plan to ascend to the al-Aqsa
mosque compound for the first day of the Jewish holiday of Tisha B’Av,
which in Jewish belief commemorates the destruction of the First and
Second Temples in Jerusalem.</p>
<p>Many of these Jewish extremists want to see the al-Aqsa mosque <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/these-are-israeli-leaders-who-want-destroy-al-aqsa/21166">replaced</a> with a new Jewish temple.</p>
<p>The Israeli police is permitting them to do so, with the expected participation of extreme-right lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir.</p>
<p>Similar provocations led to Israel’s May 2021 assault, when Hamas
responded to Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Jerusalem with barrages
of rockets into Israel.</p>
<h2>Toll rises</h2>
<p>A missile fired by Israeli warplanes struck a group of people east of
Khan Younis early Saturday, killing 24-year-old Tamim Ghassan Abdullah
Hijazi and 27-year-old Osama Abdulrahman Hussein al-Suri, <a href="https://www.mezan.org/post/33345">according</a> to the Gaza-based human rights group Al-Mezan.</p>
<p>Hours later, Israeli warplanes fired three missiles at the
three-story home of a family of 40 southwest of Gaza City, where mostly
women and children lived, destroying the building completely and
damaging other houses nearby.</p>
<p>On Saturday afternoon, Israeli warplanes destroyed another home
occupied by four families and caused severe damage to nearby residences.</p>
<p>In the northern Jabaliya area, Israeli warplanes struck a group of
Palestinians, killing 28-year-old Hasan Muhammad Yousef Mansour and
severely injuring another.</p>
<p>Israeli warplanes also hit a group of Palestinians, mainly women and
children, who were getting in a car to go to a family wedding.</p>
<p>Al-Mezan said the attack killed the groom’s mother, Naamah Talbat Muhammad Abu Qaidah.</p>
<p>Five children were injured.</p>
<h2>Power outages</h2>
<p>Greatly exacerbating the situation for Gaza’s 2.1 million
inhabitants, the territory’s only power plant said that it would shut
down on Saturday due to Israel’s continued closure of external
crossings, blocking fuel imports.</p>
<p>Gaza has just a quarter of the power it needs during the summer,
according to Gisha, an Israeli human rights group. This means residents
may now receive only four hours of electricity per day, followed by an
outage of 12 hours.
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<blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Israel is legally
obligated to allow the continued provision of necessities to residents
of Gaza and must do so immediately. The Strip's already insufficient
electricity supply depends on access to fuel. Further reductions put
more lives at even greater risk.</p>— Gisha גישה مسلك (@Gisha_Access) <a href="https://twitter.com/Gisha_Access/status/1555837750133276673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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This is a particularly dire threat to Gaza’s healthcare system, which
has already been battered by successive Israeli assaults and 15 years of
an ongoing siege.
<p>Pharmaceutical supplies in Gaza are at their “worst in years,” the Palestinian health ministry <a href="https://www.moh.gov.ps/portal/%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%b5%d8%ad%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%b5%d8%a7%d8%af%d8%b1-%d8%b9%d9%86-%d9%88%d8%b2%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%ad%d8%a9-%d8%ad%d9%88%d9%84-%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%ac/">stated</a>.</p>
<p>There are also severe shortages of supplies for labs and blood banks and other medical consumables.</p>
<p>Power outages pose a “serious threat” to vital hospital departments,
including emergency rooms, intensive care units and dialysis clinics,
the ministry said.</p>
<p>Desalination plants, sewage pumps and water supplies to homes will
also be disrupted, “which may cause a severe health and humanitarian
disaster,” the health ministry warned.</p>
<p>Israeli authorities continue to block the entry of two dozen x-ray
machines and spare parts to repair medical devices in essential
emergency departments.</p>
<p>All scheduled surgeries are being postponed to help hospitals cope with those injured in the ongoing Israeli attacks.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Israel’s continued closure of the Erez checkpoint is
preventing hundreds of Palestinian patients from leaving Gaza for
medical treatment, putting their lives at risk, according to Al-Mezan.</p>
<p>The health ministry announced that a shutdown of the power plant
would start a 72-hour countdown to health services coming to a
standstill.</p>
<p>Lynn Hastings, the UN humanitarian coordinator in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip, called for “an immediate de-escalation and halt to the
violence” on Saturday.</p> <h3>
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