Another Israeli airstrike leaves a residential building in Gaza in ruins. This time in Nuseirat, central to the Gaza Strip. On Saturday, fighting raged across the entire area, writes Reuters. In Rafah in the south, Israeli soldiers are fighting Hamas fighters. In the north, journalist Mohammad Abu Jasser was killed along with his wife and their two children. Dozens of Palestinians have lost their lives on Saturday, according to the health authorities in Gaza, which is ruled by Hamas. Nuseirat was also bombed on Thursday. Among those killed was the heavily pregnant 25-year-old Ola Al-Kurd. In a desperate attempt to save the unborn child, she was taken to the Al-Awda hospital in northern Gaza. A few hours later, doctors told the AP news agency that the baby survived. The doctors at al-Awda hospital in Gaza succeeded in saving the baby of a pregnant Palestinian woman who was killed in an Israeli attack. Civilian casualties and human shields Israel is relentless in its pursuit of Hamas. They bomb schools, residential buildings and tent camps where civilian Palestinian refugees have sought refuge. Last weekend, at least 90 Palestinians were killed in an air strike against a refugee camp in Al-Mawasi near Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip, according to the Gaza authorities. Al-Mawasi was supposed to be a “green zone”, a safe place for civilians, according to the Israeli army. The attack was among the deadliest of the war. Israel’s defense claims that Hamas fighters are hiding among refugees and using civilians as human shields. They defended the attack on Al-Mawasi by saying they were going to kill Hamas leaders Mohammed Deif and Rafa Salama. The latter died, according to Israel. Deif’s status is unclear. International law allows attacks on civilians as long as they are “collateral damage”. The main objective must be military. People killed since October 7, 2023 Close Sources: Hamas-controlled health authorities in Gaza / UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) / Israeli authorities Disclaimer: Figures from Hamas-controlled health authorities in Gaza do not distinguish between civilians and combatants, and may periodically be late. Figures from Israeli authorities show that around 1,200 civilians and soldiers were killed in connection with the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. 287 Israeli soldiers have been killed since October 27, 2023. None of the figures have been confirmed by independent sources. The Palestinian figures are updated daily. Figures from Israel are updated at least twice a week. Close More information about the figures At the same time, international law prohibits the use of human shields. Hamas has repeatedly denied that it is a strategy they use. Not everyone believes that claim. – I have a message – Hamas and other fighters are using civilians as human shields, said UN Secretary-General António Guterres in November, one month into the Gaza war. Now Palestinians in Gaza are also coming out against the practice. – I have a message for our resistance movement: Do not hide among civilians and displaced persons. Don’t use us as human shields, says Momen Jaber to news. Momen Jaber repairs his tent after in the Al-Mawasi camp after the Israeli attack. He says it is not okay for militant fighters to hide among civilians. news’s local team in Gaza met him in the Al-Mawasi camp a few days after the attack on the refugee camp. Jaber says that for every Hamas leader Israel tries to kill, dozens of Palestinian civilians may die. – If there are one or two fighters there, the Israelis kill between 10 and 20 civilians, he emphasizes. news also meets Fayez Salha in the camp. He is also critical. – We do not accept that fighters are hiding among us. We fear for our children. There is nothing that justifies children being killed, he says. Fayez Salha says he fears the consequences for the children when fighters mix with civilians. Interested in foreign affairs? Listen to the foreign editor’s podcast. Published 20.07.2024, at 21.19 Updated 20.07.2024, at 22.23
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