Death toll rises to 313 in Gaza, with close to 2,000 wounded, as tensions continue to escalate on the second day.
At least 313 Palestinians have been killed as Israel struck 426 targets in Gaza, its military said, flattening residential buildings in giant explosions.
Among those killed in Gaza were 20 children. About 2,000 others are wounded, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said more than 20,000 Palestinians left Gaza’s border region to head further inside the territory and take refuge in UN schools.
Nebal Farsakh, the spokesperson of the NGO Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRC), told Al Jazeera that their medical teams were facing “great challenges” in Gaza, adding that they had called on the international humanitarian community to open humanitarian corridors so that NGOs like them could safely carry out their work of helping people in the Gaza Strip.
On Saturday night, Energy Minister Israel Katz said Israel would halt the electricity supply to the besieged territory. The Palestinian enclave – home to some two million people – has been under an Israeli air, land and sea blockade.
Al Jazeera’s Youmna ElSayed said humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip were in “constant deterioration”.
What used to be 120 megawatts of electricity has now decreased to only 20MW, provided by power plants that are paid for by the Palestinian Authority, ElSayed said.
Meanwhile, healthcare institutions had to rely on spare generators to continue operating through the night due to Israel’s decision to halt the electricity supply while residents were left to endure the darkness with the unsettling backdrop of explosions not far away.
Flattening places that are used to bomb them? I'd say just about any country is guilty of that. If Russia starts launching missiles from hospitals will we then be angry at Ukraine for taking out that hospital? Or is this a lifehack that all generals should take note of?
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Israel generally targets buildings that it's identified as having military operations within them.
If Israel wanted to just destroy every mosque in Palestine, it could do it in a day. Hamas routinely runs operations out of civilian building precisely so that, when Israel retaliates, the news will run stories about how Israel is destroying mosques and schools and hospitals, while ignoring the context that those buildings are firing rockets and stockpiling weapons.
I've read news for years about horrible things done to Palestinian civilians. Even their children. By Israeli police and military. I'm not defending Palestine. But Israel also deserves no defense.
This plus Ukraine, plus India and Canada, plus China and several things, plus the US being in chaos and deeply divided. This is gonna turn out great for everyone I’m sure
Western media is full of it. Check a news aggregate and put US as your country and you'll see news media orgs across the map today talking about the evils of hammas and how the poor isrealutes were attacked. Conservative and liberal news alike sticking their noses so far up Israel's grundle without shame or remorse.
They didn't huh? Ignorant huh? So wait, when the area was partitioned by the British, and the Zionists said "yep, we'll take it." But the Palestinians said no, because all these surrounding countries have said they'll drive all the Jews in the sea to kill them all, and those countries did attempt that, twice, and failed, and then in all of the peace talks, the Palestinians said no to any plan that required Israel also be recognized as a state, that was Israel starting it? Stfu. You know nothing. Go look up the three days war and the Yom kippur war. See why the "disputed" territories are under Israeli control. Go read about which side walked out on the peace talks. Or read about the many years those territories were controlled by Egypt and Jordan and could have easily been formed as independent countries then by Jordan and Egypt. But they wouldn't permit it.
The truth is, Israel has had to fight for survival from the moment of its inception.
Then, ask yourself what would happen if Mexico fired rockets into California at civilians on a regular basis. Or if Albania fired rockets into Italy or Greece.
And let us not ignore that Gaza is the territory that Israel demobilized from and left entirely in the hands of the Palestinian people. And look at how that worked out.
hamas is an arm of Iran. the Palestinians getting killer don't deserve this. it's a proxy war by a terrorist state using militants against a people's who of course are going to fucking retailiate
At the end it is all politics and state media propaganda on both sides.
Both sides feel morally right and as a result more damage is done and more civilian population is killed. And it is the regular people who suffer the most.
I am just afraid that there would be a prolonged offensive from Israel deepening the humanitarian crisis and there would be a lot of pain inflicted on regular people. This won't really help de-escalation of the tension in the region, and perhaps would strengthen the resolve.