The essential information on the war between Hamas and Israel this Tuesday, September 3.
Death of Medo Halimy, young Palestinian who became a TikTok star
His name was Medo Halimy, he was 19 years old and he shared videos on social networks with several million views that testified to his daily life in the Gaza Strip, besieged and bombed by the Israeli army. The young Palestinian who became a TikTok star died on August 26, victim of a new Israeli strike. Hit in the head, he was taken to Nasser hospital in Khan Younes, in the south of the enclave, where he finally succumbed to his injuries. It was his friend Talal Murad who announced the news on Instagram at the beginning of the week.We did everything together, we laughed, we cried, we walked for hours without stopping, we ran a business together, but unfortunately we didn’t die together” wrote the young man. More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israeli offensive following the October 7 attacks, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-controlled enclave.
Hamas releases video of hostage whose body was found on Saturday
Hamas released a video Monday showing Eden Yerushalmi, one of the six hostages executed by the Islamist movement whose body was found Saturday by the Israeli army in a tunnel in the Gaza Strip. The deceased’s family gave the Forum for Hostages and Missing Families permission to broadcast the footage, which was filmed before the 24-year-old’s death.Mom, Dad, Shani and Mai, I love you and miss you“, he is heard saying. The Hostage Families Forum called the video an act of “psychological terror“Of the 251 people kidnapped in the October 7 attacks, 97 hostages are still being held in the Gaza Strip, including 33 declared dead by the army. The discovery of the ten bodies on Saturday triggered a general strike in Israel, intended to put pressure on the government to step up efforts to free the captives.
Polio vaccination campaign in Gaza going ‘well’
Anti-polio campaign in Gaza continuesGOOD” for now, and this first round of vaccination will take at least another 10 days, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. “We are actually running two campaigns. We have started the first round now and the second round will take place in four weeks,” said Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative in the occupied Palestinian territories, during a press briefing. The first vaccinations began on August 31, but the larger-scale campaign began on Sunday, the date announced by the UN for a “humanitarian pause“Vaccinations have been carried out so far in the central area of the Gaza Strip. The goal is to vaccinate 340,000 children in the southern area of the Gaza Strip, and another 150,000 in the northern area.
