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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 that 11 people, including four children and three women, were killed in an overnight Israeli strike on a house sheltering displaced Palestinians. Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said the strike took place 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 Israeli army confirmed that it had carried out a night strike against the « commandant » from a Hamas cell, it said in a statement.
The spokesman for the Palestinian enclave’s civil defense also said that five other people were killed in Gaza City by an Israeli strike that hit a school that had been turned into a shelter. The Israeli army said it had targeted Hamas fighters. Also in Gaza City, an Israeli strike killed five people near another school, according to the civil defense. In the south of the territory, three people were killed in a strike on the Al-Mawassi area of Khan Younis, according to the same source.
Missile fired from Yemen lands in central Israel
The Israeli military said a missile fired from Yemen passed through central Israel on Sunday before falling on its territory.
“A surface-to-surface missile was identified crossing central Israel from the east and then falling in an open area”the Israeli army said in a statement, adding that“No injuries were reported”. In a subsequent statement, she clarified that the “missile was fired from Yemen”.
The Houthi rebels, who control large swathes of Yemen, have launched several attacks on Israel, claiming to act in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. Last July, they carried out a drone attack on Tel Aviv that killed an Israeli civilian.
In retaliation, the Israeli army bombed the Yemeni port of Hodeida, controlled by the Houthis, on July 20. In early August, the rebel leader had judged ” inevitable “ a response to this attack in early August.
All-out war on Israeli-Lebanese border will displace more Israelis, Hezbollah threatens
The Islamist movement Hezbollah has warned Israel of the consequences of an all-out war between the two sides. “If Israel starts a war, we will face it”assured the number two of the pro-Iranian movement, Naïm Qassem, during a speech in Beirut. “And if they think that this war in the North will bring back the 100,000 displaced people” Israelis, “We are warning you now, prepare to welcome hundreds of thousands more displaced people”he added.
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The statement comes after Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant reiterated on Monday that Israel was determined to restore calm on the northern front, “either through an agreement that will eliminate the presence of Hezbollah on our border, or through military action”. Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Islamist movement Hamas, the Israeli army and Hezbollah, which claims to be acting in support of its Palestinian ally, have been exchanging fire. Since October 2023, the violence has left 623 dead in Lebanon, according to an AFP count, and 50 dead on the Israeli side, according to the army.
On Saturday evening, the Israeli army reported that its air force had struck deep into Lebanon. “Hezbollah weapons storage facilities in the Bekaa and Baalbeck regions” (East). Four people, including three children, were injured by an Israeli strike in the Hermel region in northern Bekaa, the Lebanese health ministry later reported. For its part, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for several attacks on military positions in northern Israel on Saturday.
Protests in Israel demand the release of Gaza hostages
Thousands of Israelis demonstrated Saturday in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to keep up pressure on the government to free hostages held in the Gaza Strip. Organizers said the number of protesters at the weekly rallies has increased since Israeli authorities announced in early September that six hostages had been shot dead by Hamas.
One of the six hostages was Alexander Lobanov, whose wife addressed a crowd in Tel Aviv on Saturday, questioning why Benjamin Netanyahu’s government had failed to ” All “ made to bring him back alive. “It was possible to save them (…) through an agreement”she said, according to excerpts of her remarks provided by the Hostage Families Forum, which represents the majority of hostage families.
Israeli minister calls Josep Borrell ‘anti-Semitic’ after Gaza strike comments
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Saturday called it a“anti-semitic” the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, who had said “scandalized” after the death of UN employees in an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip. “Josep Borrell is an anti-Semite and a critic of Israel who constantly tries to pass resolutions and sanctions against Israel within the EU”the minister castigated in a press release.
On Thursday, Mr Borrell had criticised “contempt for the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law” after 18 people were killed on Wednesday in an Israeli strike on a school converted into a shelter in the centre of the territory, according to the civil defence. Among the victims were six members of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). The Israeli army said its air force had “carried out a precision strike on terrorists who were operating” in the school and have taken steps to reduce the risks to civilians.
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, in the presence of hundreds of 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 “put pressure on the Israeli authorities to obtain answers”.
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.
Ankara has called on the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions to establish an independent commission of inquiry and to draft a report on the death of Mme 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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