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Two people were killed in an Israeli strike that targeted a car on Thursday, September 12, in the southern province of Kuneitra, in the part of the Golan controlled by Damascus, the official Syrian news agency SANA said.
The Israeli operations, which have caused a humanitarian and health catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, have left 41,118 dead there, according to the latest report published by the health ministry of the enclave, administered by Hamas. At least 34 people have been killed in the last 24 hours, it said in a statement, adding that 95,125 people have been injured in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war on October 7.
Israel has vowed to destroy the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas after its unprecedented attack in southern Israel killed 1,205 people, mostly civilians, according to a tally by Agence France-Presse (AFP) based on official Israeli data.
Drone fired at car kills two in Syria
“Two citizens were killed in an Israeli attack by a drone that launched a missile at a civilian car” on the road linking Kuneitra to Damascus, SANA said. A local security source told AFP that “Two charred bodies were removed from a car targeted by a strike”.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based NGO with a wide network of sources in Syria, said a soldier was among the two people killed.
This raid comes after particularly violent strikes, attributed by Damascus to Israel, which targeted central Syria on the night of Sunday to Monday and left eighteen dead, according to the authorities, twenty-seven according to the OSDH. The strikes on the Masyaf region notably targeted sensitive military sites, according to the NGO.
The Israeli military has yet to comment on Thursday morning’s strike.
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International community condemns Israeli strike on school in Gaza Strip
France condemned, on Thursday, in the strongest terms the Israeli strike which targeted, on September 11, the Al-Jouni school in the Nusseirat refugee camp, in the center of the Gaza Strip, leaving eighteen dead, according to the Gaza Civil Defense, including employees of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA).
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The German Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that “totally unacceptable” the death of six UN employees. “Humanitarian workers must never be victims of rockets”the ministry said on X, adding that “The Israeli army has a responsibility to protect UN staff and humanitarian workers.”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for the protection of aid workers and said a US-backed ceasefire was the best way to ensure their safety. “We need to ensure the protection of humanitarian sites, and this is an issue that we continue to address with Israel.”Blinken said during a visit to Poland.
“A school converted into a shelter for 12,000 people was again targeted by Israeli airstrikes today. Six of our UNRWA colleagues are among the dead”deplored, for his part, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, on the X network. “What is happening in Gaza is totally unacceptable”Mr. Guterres stressed, stating that “These dramatic violations of international humanitarian law must cease immediately”.
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WHO believes it has met its polio vaccination target in Gaza
The first round of polio vaccinations in Gaza, aimed at preventing an outbreak in the war-torn territory and beyond, has “probably achieved the set objective”said Richard Peeperkorn, the World Health Organization (WHO) representative in the occupied Palestinian territories, during a press briefing on Thursday. “We are satisfied” of this vaccination campaign, he said.
More than 552,000 children had already received a first dose as of Wednesday. The second should be administered to them in about four weeks, the UN agency said on the last day of the first phase.
Richard Peeperkorn was pleased that parents had come out in large numbers to have their children vaccinated. And, he said, “We are very grateful that the humanitarian pauses specific to certain areas were respected during the campaign. [de vaccination] » by the belligerents.
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