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The Health Ministry of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip announced on Saturday, September 14, a new death toll of 41,182 in the Palestinian territory since the start of the war with Israel, which has entered its twelfth month. At least 64 people have been killed in the past forty-eight hours, it said in a statement, adding that 95,280 people have been injured in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war on October 7, 2023.
The war was triggered by a Hamas attack that killed 1,205 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to a count by Agence France-Presse (AFP) based on official Israeli data. Of the 251 people kidnapped in Israel on October 7, 2023, 97 are still being held in the Gaza Strip, including 33 who have been declared dead by the Israeli army.
Gaza Civil Defense Blames Israel for Killing Eleven in House Strike
The Gaza Civil Defense reported on Saturday the death of eleven people, including four children and three women, in an overnight Israeli strike on a house sheltering displaced Palestinians. Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said the strike took place near the Shujaiya school in the Al-Touffah neighborhood in eastern Gaza City. He explained that “Several families had taken refuge in the house, which was targeted by a single missile without any prior warning.”and reported many injuries. “The search continues to find the missing persons”he added. The Israeli military had no immediate comment.
The spokesman for the civil defense in the Gaza Strip also reported that at least 10 people were killed in overnight airstrikes carried out by Israel across the besieged Palestinian territory. Five of them were killed in northwest Gaza City, when a strike hit a group of people near the Dar Al-Arqam school, he said. Three others were killed in a strike on the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, in the south of the territory where tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have sought refuge, the spokesman added.
Killed in West Bank, Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi buried in Türkiye
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, the young Turkish-American activist killed in the West Bank on September 6, was buried as a martyr on Saturday in western Turkey. The coffin was escorted to the small cemetery in Didim, on the Aegean coast, by a crowd of several hundred people. As soon as her death was announced, Ankara, which opened an investigation, had denounced this “arbitrary assassination” attributed to the Israeli army: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan assured that his country will do everything to prevent this death “do not go unpunished”On Saturday, his top adviser, Farhettin Altun, urged the United States to open an investigation of its own and to “to put pressure on the Israeli authorities to obtain answers and full accountability”.
International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activist Aysenur Eygi was killed while participating in an anti-settlement protest in the northern occupied West Bank, near Nablus. The Israeli military has ruled that “very likely” that shots from his ranks killed “indirectly and unintentionally” the young woman.
Turkey is considering issuing international arrest warrants based on the results of its investigation. Ankara has also called on the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions to establish an independent commission of inquiry and prepare a report on Ms.me Eygi, with the intention of joining him in the ongoing “genocide” proceedings against Israel before the International Court of Justice and in the ongoing investigation before the International Criminal Court.
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