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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">One child killed every 15 minutes in Gaza</h1>
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<span class="gmail-field gmail-field-author"><a href="https://electronicintifada.net/people/maureen-clare-murphy">Maureen Clare Murphy</a></span> -
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<p>Members of the Palestinian civil defense mourn over the body of one
of their colleagues killed in an Israeli strike early Monday, Gaza City,
16 October.</p><small>
<span>APA images</span></small>
<p>Israel’s bombardment by air, sea and land against 2.3 million
Palestinians in Gaza “continued almost uninterrupted” for a 10th day on
Monday, the UN <a href="https://ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-flash-update-10">said</a>.</p>
<p>While a threatened Israeli ground invasion has not yet begun, not
even a temporary ceasefire appears to be anywhere on the horizon.</p>
<p>A UN Security Council resolution drafted by Russia calling for an
immediate ceasefire the and release of captives held in Gaza was <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/un-vote-rival-resolutions-israel-gaza-2023-10-16/">voted down</a>
on Monday. A vote on a draft resolution from Brazil that, unlike the
Russian text, specifically condemns Hamas, has been delayed until late
Tuesday.</p>
<p>In the meantime, Gaza’s morgues and hospitals continue to overflow with casualties.</p>
<p>The Gaza health ministry recorded 108 Palestinian fatalities over the
past 24 hours as of 6pm local time on Monday, bringing the death toll
in the territory since 7 October to 2,778 people. More than 1,000 of
those killed were children, accounting for more than a third of the
fatalities.</p>
<p>Forty-seven Palestinian families have been killed and wiped from the civil registry, according to the health ministry.</p>
<p>Hundreds of people “are missing and believed to be trapped under the rubble,” according to the UN.
</p>
Defense for Children International-Palestine <a href="https://www.dci-palestine.org/one_palestinian_child_in_gaza_killed_every_15_minutes_by_israeli_forces">said on Monday</a> that Israeli forces have been killing “a Palestinian child approximately every 15 minutes in Gaza” since 7 October.
<p>Mohammad Abu Rukbah, a field researcher for the children’s rights
group in Gaza, said that the psychological repercussions of Israel’s war
“will be catastrophic.”
</p>
The rights group said that “the trauma experienced by Palestinian children in Gaza extends beyond personal suffering.”
<p>“Witnessing the deaths of other children compounds their distress,
leaving indelible scars on their mental well-being,” Defense for
Children International-Palestine added.</p>
<p>“Entire families are being wiped out in the blink of an eye, shattering the very foundations of these households.”</p>
<p>Children have been left orphaned and will now “grapple not only with
the pain of the current situation in their city but also with the
daunting challenge of navigating life without the foundational support
of their families.”
</p>
The number of fatalities in Gaza may grow not only from more Israeli
bombing but also as a result of the comprehensive siege imposed on the
territory, where almost no food, water, fuel, electricity or
humanitarian supplies has been allowed in for more than a week.
<p>Hospitals are about to run out of fuel to power generators,
“endangering the lives of thousands of patients,” according to the UN.
Meanwhile, there is an “imminent risk of death or infectious disease
outbreak” with the collapse of “virtually all water and sanitation
services in Gaza.”</p>
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<p>Palestinians injured in Israeli airstrikes receive treatment at a
tent set up on the grounds of al-Aqsa Martyrs Hostpial in Deir al-Balah,
central Gaza, 16 October.</p><small>
<span>APA images</span></small>
<p>As many as one million people – around half the population of Gaza,
one of the most densely populated areas on the planet – are internally
displaced, with many people moving from northern Gaza to the south after
Israel ordered its evacuation ahead of a threatened ground invasion.
</p>
At least two Palestinians were reported killed in the West Bank late
Sunday and Monday. Muin Damu, 21, was shot in the head from point-blank
range during confrontations in Aqbat Jabr refugee camp near Jericho, <a href="https://www.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/81832">according to</a> the official Palestinian news agency WAFA. Anas Raed Manasra, 19, <a href="https://www.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/81892">died after being shot</a> west of Jenin on Monday.
<p>More than 50 Palestinians, including 16 children, have been <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israel-kills-children-west-bank-while-eyes-gaza">killed in the West Bank</a> since 7 October.</p>
<p>The Committee to Protect Journalists <a href="https://cpj.org/2023/10/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/">said</a> on Monday that at least 15 journalists “were among the more than 4,000 dead on both sides since the war began” on 7 October.</p>
<p>The press freedom watchdog said that freelance journalist Salam Mema
is among the 11 Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza during that
period. Her body was recovered from the rubble three days after her home
was hit in an Israeli airstrike in Jabaliya refugee camp in northern
Gaza on 10 October.</p>
<p>“Mema held the position of head of the Women Journalists Committee at
the Palestinian Media Assembly, an organization committed to advancing
media work for Palestinian journalists,” the Committee to Protect
Journalists said.</p>
<p>The New York-based group said that three Israeli journalists were killed on 7 October: Shai Regev, an editor for <em>Maariv</em>; Ayelet Arnin, a news editor with Israel’s public broadcaster; and Yaniv Zohar, a photojournalist for <em>Israel Hayom</em>, who was killed along with his wife and two daughters.</p>
<p>Issam Abdallah, a videographer for Reuters, was killed when Israeli
shelling targeted a group of journalists marked as press near the
Lebanese border on 13 October.</p>
<p>Israel says that 1,300 people were killed in the 7 October surprise
attack led by the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas. However,
evidence is emerging that a significant number died not at the hands of
Palestinians, but from <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-forces-shot-their-own-civilians-kibbutz-survivor-says/38861">Israeli police and military fire</a>.</p>
<p>Israel says that 199 people were captured and taken into Gaza on 7
October, though Hamas officials gave higher figures on Monday.</p>
<p>Israel says that it is holding the bodies of 1,500 Palestinian
fighters killed during the 7 October attack. An unknown number of those
who Israel claims were militants may have actually been unarmed
civilians from Gaza.</p>
<p>Israel <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-forensic-teams-describe-signs-torture-abuse-2023-10-15/">said</a>
on Monday that military forensic teams examining the bodies of people
killed in the 7 October attack “found multiple signs of torture, rape
and other atrocities.”</p>
<p>Israeli military officers repeated thus far unsubstantiated claims that children were beheaded.</p>
<p>In its report on the new claims on Monday, Reuters said “the military
personnel overseeing the identification process didn’t present any
forensic evidence in the form of pictures or medical records.”</p>
<h2>Call for international investigation</h2>
<p>While serious abuses surely did occur during the 7 October attack,
sensational claims made by the Israeli military on Monday may be another
attempt to justify atrocity crimes in Gaza.</p>
<p>Shawan Jabarin, the director of the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq, <a href="https://twitter.com/alhaq_org/status/1713999701500936541">called for</a> an international independent investigation on Monday.</p>
<p>Speaking from Ramallah, Jabarin condemned the EU and US for
facilitating Israel’s “aggression on the civilian population in Gaza,”
which he said “reached the threshold for the crime of genocide.”</p>
<p>Jabarin urged third states to pressure Israel to “allow the UN
Independent Commission of Inquiry to enter and investigate all crimes
committed regardless of the perpetrators.”</p>
<p>Israel continued to target residential buildings in its nonstop bombardment of Gaza between late Sunday and Monday.</p>
<p>The UN said that 10 Palestinians were killed in a strike targeting a
residential building in Jabaliya; at least 11 Palestinians, including
women and children, were killed in the Musabah area of Rafah in Gaza’s
south; and 11 Palestinians were killed when a charity organization’s
building was hit in Rafah.</p>
<p>On Monday morning, 22 Palestinians were killed when Israel targeted a residential building in Khan Younis.</p>
<p>The UN said that “several attacks occurred in close proximity to a
hospital and main roads, creating significant access challenges.”
</p>
Seven members of the civil defense were <a href="https://www.aljazeera.net/news/2023/10/16/7-%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%8A-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9">killed</a> when they were targeted in Israeli strikes east of Gaza City and in the Tel al-Hawa area south of Gaza City early Monday.
<p>Palestinians are meanwhile rationing whatever food, water and cooking gas they still have.
</p>
Mohammed Ghounim, a doctor at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, said that the
current aggression in Gaza is like none other that people there had gone
through before, and that the overwhelming number of casualties being
received at the hospital are civilians.
He said that the most difficult aspect is writing a number on the body
of an injured child because their identity is not known.
<p>He warned of additional casualties if hospitals, which are being
powered by emergency generators, run out of fuel. Meanwhile, 2,500
people were sheltering at al-Shifa hospital, the largest health facility
in Gaza.</p>
<p>“This is an urgent appeal. Please, if you are a human … please stop this. Save Gaza, please support Gaza.”</p>
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<p>Palestinians queue in front of a bakery in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, 16 October.</p><small>
<span>Atia Darwish</span>
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<p>On Monday, UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, <a href="https://twitter.com/UNRWA/status/1713950199876399310">denied reports</a> that one of its Gaza warehouses had been looted.</p>
<p>Israeli media <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2023-10-16/ty-article/unrwa-nixes-statement-accusing-hamas-of-stealing-humanitarian-fuel-from-gaza-compound/0000018b-38fa-d0ac-a39f-b9fa2f1c0000">reported</a>
that UNRWA had tweeted that fuel and medical equipment had been removed
by the Gaza health ministry without authorization before deleting the
tweets.</p>
<p>In an “urgent clarification,” UNRWA said that the images circulating
on social media showed a routine transfer of medical supplies to its
health partners.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, footage showed an UNRWA warehouse that was said to have been hit in an Israeli strike overnight Sunday:
</p>
Gisha, an Israeli human rights group that monitors the Gaza siege, <a href="https://twitter.com/Gisha_Access/status/1713931193501024499">said on Monday</a>
that it was not yet clear “how much water, if any, Israel is allowing
into Gaza” after it was reported on Sunday that Israel had resumed
delivery of water to the southern Gaza Strip.
<p>Water cannot be pumped and distributed without electricity and damage
to water infrastructure from Israeli bombardment “will make it
difficult to access water even if the electricity and fuel is restored,”
Gisha said.</p>
<p>The group noted that “the last of Gaza’s water desalination facilities shut down yesterday for lack of electricity.”</p>
<h2>Rafah crossing still closed</h2>
<p>Israeli warplanes bombed Rafah crossing along the Egypt-Gaza boundary
for the fourth time while US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was
meeting with Israel’s emergency cabinet in Tel Aviv on Monday.</p>
<p>On Sunday, Blinken <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/10/15/1206006186/israel-defense-forces-says-its-in-formation-to-strike-gaza-city">said</a>
that an agreement had been reached to open Rafah crossing on Monday
morning to let foreign passport-holders out of Gaza and let desperately
needed humanitarian aid into the territory.</p>
<p>The Egyptian group Sinai for Human Rights <a href="https://twitter.com/Sinaifhr/status/1713959342582411435">said on Monday</a>
that Israel targeted the barriers on the Egyptian side. Those barriers
were put there by Egypt last week to prevent a feared mass exodus of
Palestinians from Gaza to the Sinai.
</p>
A video shows the explosion at the wall:
<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/egypt-us-israel-agree-ceasefire-southern-gaza-opening-rafah-crossing-0600-gmt-2023-10-16/">Hundreds of tons</a>
of supplies are stuck on the Egypt side of the border. Egyptian
authorities blamed Israel for refusing to allow the movement of goods
and foreign nationals through Rafah.
Fears that Israel intends to expel Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt have
been reinforced by Israeli military leaders who say that their goal is
to render Gaza uninhabitable for its population of 2.3 million, half of
whom are children.
<p>Giora Eiland, a reservist major general, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/opinion/israel-united-states-gaza.html">stated</a> that “creating a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza is a necessary means to achieve the goal.”</p>
<p>“Gaza will become a place where no human being can exist,” he added.
</p>
Israeli President Isaac Herzog and other political and military figures –
echoed by some politicians in the US – have held all Palestinians in
Gaza collectively responsible for the 7 October attack.
Meanwhile, Tzipi Hotovely, Israel’s ambassador to the UK, denied that
there was a humanitarian crisis in Gaza in an interview with Sky News
and then became defensive when pressed on the issue.
“Your children come as priority to your prime minister,” she said, even
though Israel’s revenge campaign in Gaza will only delay the return of
captured Israelis – if it doesn’t end up killing them along with
thousands of Palestinians.
<h2>Israel evacuates settlements near Lebanon</h2>
<p>Israel <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-16/ty-article/israelis-in-28-communities-near-lebanon-border-to-be-evacuated-by-army/0000018b-3734-d051-a1cb-3fff81450000">announced</a> on Monday that residents of 28 settlements in close proximity to the border with Lebanon would be evacuated.</p>
<p>Cross-border fire between the Israeli military and Hizballah in
Lebanon have raised fears of a regional escalation. Some two dozen
communities in the south of Israel near the Gaza boundary have already
been evacuated, including the city of Sderot.</p>
<p>“A large proportion of Ashkelon’s residents have also reportedly left,” the UN said.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the Biden administration in Washington was “deploying more
offensive forces into the Middle East, to back Israel and attempt to
deter Iran and Hizballah from opening a second front on Israel’s north,”
the Tel Aviv newspaper <em>Haaretz</em> <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-10-16/ty-article/airlift-to-israel-bombers-in-jordan-two-carriers-u-s-deploying-more-forces-to-mideast/0000018b-385d-d450-a3af-795de1010000">reported</a> on Monday. CNN meanwhile <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/16/politics/us-marines-pentagon-israel/index.html">reported</a> that the US was sending 2,000 Marines and sailors to join the warships it has already sent to the eastern Mediterranean.</p>
<p>The Biden administration has put on a big show of seemingly
unconditional solidarity for Israel and has demonized Palestinians and
parroted <a href="https://www.newarab.com/investigations/israel-misinformation-behind-hamas-beheading-babies-claim">Israeli propaganda</a> to manufacture consent for the genocidal campaign underway in Gaza.
</p>
On Monday, Blinken <a href="https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-and-israeli-defense-minister-yoav-gallant-after-their-meeting/">made</a>
a joint appearance with Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant, who
called Palestinians in Gaza “human animals” when declaring a complete
siege on the territory last week.
<p>Gallant said that “this will be a long war; the price will be high.
But we are going to win for Israel and the Jewish people, and for the
values that both countries believe in.”</p>
<p>US President Joe Biden is <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-17/ty-article/.premium/biden-to-make-unprecedented-visit-to-israel-on-wednesday-to-show-unshakable-support/0000018b-3afb-d101-a9ab-baff72200000">traveling to Israel</a> to make a display of support on Wednesday.</p>
<p>But behind the scenes, US officials are reportedly pressing Israel to
determine an endgame. The Biden administration is surely aware that the
situation could rapidly escalate and “embroil the United States in a
broader regional war that will cost more American lives,” as Sam Heller
and Thanassis Cambanis state in an <a href="https://tcf.org/content/commentary/america-needs-to-prevent-a-regional-war-in-the-middle-east/">analysis</a> for The Century Foundation.
</p>
Biden <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-joe-biden-2023-60-minutes-transcript/">said</a>
in an interview broadcast on Sunday that Israel taking full control of
Gaza again would be a “mistake.” Citing American and Israeli officials,
Washington is concerned with who will run the territory “if and when
Hamas is removed,” <em>The Times of Israel</em> <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/us-pressing-israel-to-devise-strategy-for-scenario-of-hamass-rule-being-toppled/">reported</a> on Monday.
<h2>Hamas releases video of captive</h2>
<p>Abu Obeida, the spokesperson for the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.net/news/2023/10/16/%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%88-%D8%B9%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7-%D9%85%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86-200-%D9%88250-%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7">said on Monday</a> that more than 200 people captured in the 7 October attack are being held in Gaza.</p>
<p>He said that Hamas was holding 200 of the captives and that as many
as 50 additional captives were being held by other factions. Islamic
Jihad has previously said that it is holding 30 captives.</p>
<p>He said that the captives were being treated humanely and that “they eat what we eat, and they drink what we drink.”</p>
<p>Israeli airstrikes had killed 22 captives, Abu Obeida said, most recently a 26-year-old artist from Tel Aviv.</p>
<p>He said that foreign nationals being held captive in Gaza “are our
guests” and that they would be protected and released “when
circumstances allow.”</p>
<p>But the Qassam spokesperson said that foreign nationals who had
joined the Israeli army to fight against the Palestinian people would be
treated like Israeli soldiers regardless of any other nationality they
hold.</p>
<p>The Qassam Brigades also released its first video of one of the
captives. The video shows a woman who identifies herself as Maya Sham
and who says in Hebrew that she was captured in the Sderot area.</p>
<p>The video shows Sham being treated for an injury to her hand.</p>
<p>“They’ve been taking care of me, providing medication,” she says and asks “please get me out of here as quickly as possible.”</p>
<p>Khaled Meshaal, the head of Hamas’ diaspora office, said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/AlarabyTV/status/1713979534192582801">lengthy interview</a> with AlAraby TV on Monday that the captives include high-ranking officers from the Israeli military’s Gaza Division.</p>
<p>He said that the resistance has enough captives to free all 6,000 Palestinians being held in Israeli jails and prisons.</p>
<p>Both Meshaal and Abu Obeida reaffirmed that Palestinians in Gaza
would not be uprooted. The Qassam spokesperson said that a threatened
ground invasion “does not intimidate us” and would provide the
resistance with an opportunity to punish the enemy for its crimes.</p>
<p>Meshaal said that an expulsion of Palestinians to Egypt was not only
contrary to the interests of that country, but also to Jordan, implying
that an ethnic cleansing of the West Bank would come next.</p>
<p>Meshaal indicated that resistance was now the only path to liberation
since all attempts at a peace process have failed for decades. He
expressed confidence that Israel’s vows to destroy Hamas would fail,
asserting that it had tried numerous times to destroy the resistance and
had emerged defeated.</p>
<p>Underlining that Hamas did not stand alone, he said that Hizballah
“thankfully took steps” since the current confrontation began, but said
that “the battle requires more.”</p>
<p>That may soon come, as Iran’s foreign minister <a href="https://www.aljazeera.net/news/2023/10/16/%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%84-%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7-%D8%B9%D9%86-%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A9">said</a> on Monday that “preventive action” by the resistance axis may happen in a matter of hours.</p>
<h2>Calls for Hamas to release captives</h2>
<p>Echoing the UN secretary-general, the world body’s humanitarian aid
chief Martin Griffiths called on Monday for the immediate release of
Israelis and foreign nationals being held in Gaza.
</p>
EU leaders also called for the immediate release of captives without preconditions.
<p>The International Committee of the Red Cross told Israeli media that
it was “speaking directly with senior Hamas officials to demand access
to Israeli hostages,” <em>The Times of Israel</em> <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/red-cross-demands-hamas-grant-immediate-access-to-hostages-held-in-gaza/">reported</a>.</p>
<p>Israeli media, citing foreign diplomatic sources, <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-16/ty-article/.premium/foreign-diplomats-talks-on-humanitarian-deal-for-release-of-some-israeli-hostages-ongoing/0000018b-3753-da5e-abef-bf775eb30000">reported</a> on Monday that talks have been underway to secure the release of some of the captive.</p>
<p>The Israeli military says that 199 civilians and soldiers captured on
7 October are being held in Gaza. The Israeli government has
prioritized exacting revenge in Gaza and reestablishing deterrence over
the release of the captives, saying that negotiations would take place
only after the war.</p>
<p>Supporters of Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to have crashed a meeting
between the prime minister and families whose relatives are being held
in Gaza.</p>
<p>Netanyahu has come under fierce criticism in Israel for not taking
responsibility for the government’s failure to prevent the 7 October
attack. He did not meet with the families of captives held in Gaza for
more than a week.</p>
<p>Representatives of five families were present at the meeting that was
coordinated with the prime minister’s office at short notice. <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-16/ty-article/.premium/hostage-relatives-suspected-to-have-been-planted-in-meeting-with-pm-to-bolster-his-policy/0000018b-37af-dc99-a1db-3fefa6ed0000">According to Israeli media</a>, members of a family unknown to the organization representing the families of captives and missing persons joined the meeting.</p>
<p>One of the members of the family unknown to the organization that
coordinated the meeting said that he loves his daughter as much as the
others love their family members. “But at the end we have to look at the
people of Israel and the future of our existence here” – suggesting
that he would rather that Israel pound Gaza than negotiate the release
of the captives.</p>
<p>An Israeli journalist whose family members were being held in Gaza
accused Netanyahu of deliberately drawing divisions between the families
of captives.</p>
<p>Netanyahu’s office denied planting people in the meeting.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, parents of Israelis being held in Gaza who are camped
outside of the Israeli defense ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv,
demanding that Netanyahu prioritize their release, are being attacked
and threatened by Israelis who want to see the continued annihilation of
Gaza.</p>
<p>The father of a captive was even told “I hope your daughter dies” by
an apparently right-wing activist, according to Israeli media <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/man-arrested-for-assault-at-hostage-rally-telling-man-he-wishes-his-daughter-will-die/">reports</a>.</p>
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