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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 thirty-four people have been killed in the last twenty-four 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, 2023.
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.
The Israeli army confirmed in a statement on Thursday that it had “eliminated Ahmad Al-Jabr”, a member of the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah, “in Syria, in the Quneitra area”adding that it also carried out a strike in another area in southern Syria.
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.
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International community condemns Israeli strike on school in Gaza Strip
France has condemned “with the greatest firmness”Thursday in a statement, 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 has ruled “totally unacceptable” the death of six UN employees, adding that “The Israeli army has a responsibility to protect UN staff and humanitarian workers.”
“We need to ensure the protection of humanitarian sites, and this is an issue that we continue to address with Israel.”declared, for his part, the American Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, during a visit to Poland.
“A school converted into a shelter for 12,000 people was again targeted by Israeli airstrikes today”deplored the Secretary General of the United Nations. “What is happening in Gaza is totally unacceptable”Antonio Guterres stressed on the X network, declaring that “These dramatic violations of international humanitarian law must cease immediately”.
The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said: “scandalized.” “The disregard for the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law, in particular the protection of civilians, cannot and must not be accepted by the international community.”
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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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War causes economic ‘devastation’ in Gaza and West Bank, UN says
Israel’s war against Hamas is causing a “devastation” economic of a “stunning magnitude” in Gaza and, by extension, in the West Bank, the UN denounced. In Gaza, “Production processes have been interrupted or destroyed, sources of income have disappeared, poverty has intensified and spread, neighborhoods have been eradicated and communities and cities have been ruined”said a report from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) published on Thursday.
In addition to the devastating human toll, the economic toll is catastrophic. The report’s authors estimate that Gaza’s gross domestic product “fell by 81% in the last quarter of 2023, leading to a contraction of 22% over the full year”By early 2024, between 80% and 96% of Gaza’s agricultural assets “were decimated”, UNCTAD clarified.
The Hamas attack and Israeli retaliation also exacerbated tensions in the neighboring West Bank and caused an economic decline. “as fast as it is alarming”. While the West Bank was forecast to grow by 4% in the first nine months of 2023, optimism was “suddenly wiped out by an unprecedented 19% contraction in the fourth quarter”leading “a substantial drop in the standard of living and household income”.
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Head of elite Israeli military intelligence unit resigns
“The commander of Unit 8200, Brigadier General Yossi Sariel, has informed his superiors of his intention to resign.”the Israeli army announced on Thursday. This unit is responsible for decoding and analyzing information obtained by the intelligence service.
Blamed for the October 7 failure, the Israeli military intelligence service (AMAN) has experienced an unprecedented crisis and its commander, General Aaron Haliva, was the first senior officer in the Israeli army to resign, in April 2024. In a copy of General Sariel’s letter released by Israeli media on Thursday, the officer asks “I apologize for not having fulfilled the mission assigned to me” October 7th.
Israel revokes press cards of Al-Jazeera journalists
The Israeli government announced on Thursday that it was revoking the press credentials of several journalists from the Qatari Al-Jazeera channel working in Israel, four months after banning its broadcast and closing its bureau in Israel. Al-Jazeera is a “media that disseminates false content, including incitement to hatred against Israelis and Jews, and which constitutes a threat to IDF soldiers”the Israeli army, explains the Government Press Office (GPO).
Contacted by AFP, Walid al-Omari, head of the Al-Jazeera bureau for Israel and the Palestinian Territories, explained that he had not been officially notified of the decision announced by the GPO. “We will see when that will be the case”he said. According to him, fourteen Al-Jazeera employees, all Israeli nationals, currently hold GPO cards.
