Israel’s attacks continue! Bad balance in Gaza…

Israel continued its attacks on Gaza on the 12th day of clashes between Palestinian groups and Israel, after Hamas’s armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, launched a comprehensive attack called “Aqsa Flood” in the morning of October 7th. .

United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths, in his statement on Israel’s attack on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza, noted that the hospital was attacked just one day after Israeli authorities called for “evacuation.”

An emergency session was held at the UN Security Council on the situation in Gaza. Griffiths, who joined the meeting by video conference from Cairo, said: “I am focusing not only on the brutality of the last 11 days, but also on the anxiety about what we will face in the coming days.” saying.

Griffiths said that, according to information provided by the World Health Organization, al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza was one of 20 hospitals that Israeli authorities requested evacuation.

UN INVESTIGATION SIGNAL

UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq, at the daily press briefing, told the AA correspondent: “Griffiths noted at today’s UN Security Council meeting that the attack on al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza had place a day after Israeli authorities ordered the evacuation of the hospital. Israel claims it did not carry out the attack. Will the UN be involved in investigations into this horrific attack that caused hundreds of victims? “What is the number of victims in Gaza after this attack?” answered their questions.

Stating that it is “too early” to answer whether the UN will participate in the investigation, Haq said the UN should look at the steps to be taken in the context of the investigation.

Haq said: “It is important to carry out an investigation into the attack.” he made the assessment of it.

When it was recalled that the UN investigated the attack on a school of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA) in 2014, “without the consent” of anyone, and asked if there was an intention to carry out such an investigation. Haq said, “We do not want to act hastily. What is clear is that an investigation needs to be carried out. “We will act taking into account the regulations,” he said.

THE PENTAGON DEFENDED ISRAEL

The US Department of Defense (Pentagon) reported that President Joe Biden’s statement that “Israel is not responsible” for the attack on the al-Ahli Baptist hospital in Gaza was based on “open sources.”

AA asked the Pentagon for a detailed assessment of the source of the information provided to Biden about the Gaza hospital attack, where approximately 500 civilians lost their lives.

In a written statement from the Pentagon to AA, “While we continue to gather information, our current assessment, based on analysis of aerial imagery, interventions and open source information, is that Israel is not responsible for the explosion that occurred at the Gaza hospital. yesterday.” The statement was shared.

HIZBALLAH ATTACKED ISRAEL

Hezbollah announced that it launched an attack on the Israeli settlement of Metula on Lebanon’s southern border.

Hezbollah’s statement states that an attack was carried out against the Israeli settlement of Metula with appropriate weapons. No other details were shared in the statement.

The Israeli army had previously declared Metula a military zone and all Israelis there had been evacuated.

Hezbollah announced yesterday that it shot down an Israeli Merkava-type tank with an anti-tank missile in the same settlement.

CONTRADICTION IN ISRAEL’S CLAIMS

The Israeli military released “phone tapes” of conversations it claimed took place between two Hamas members on social media account X.

The publication contains the dialogue of two people alleged to be members of Hamas, not the speeches of members of Islamic Jihad, whom the Israeli army accuses of organizing the attack.

In the conversations, one “Hamas member” tells another “Hamas member”: “…These rockets are said to belong to the Islamic Jihad group.” In the following dialogue the same person continues speaking in the form of “it is said.”

On the telephone tapes, a written translation of which was distributed by Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari at his morning press conference with members of the Western media, the phrase “He was thrown from the cemetery behind the hospital” can be heard.

Based on this, spokesman Hagari stated that the attack in which hundreds of Palestinians lost their lives was carried out by Islamic Jihad from the cemetery right next to the hospital.

CALL TO THE UN FOR AN ‘IMMEDIATE HUMANITARIAN CESS’

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Middle East” to reduce terrible human suffering.

Guterres, who visited Beijing, shared a message on his social media account.

Guterres warned that the fate of the entire region and people’s lives are in danger.

“I call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire to reduce the terrible human suffering in the Middle East,” said the Secretary-General. he said.

ICC STATEMENT

The International Criminal Court (ICC) stated that it is conducting an investigation into the situation in Palestine, and in this context, those with information about current events in Israel and Palestine can notify the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the ICC.

ICC, in its publication on the social media platform “can”. he said.

ISRAEL-HAMAS CONFLICT

Hamas’s armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, launched a comprehensive attack against Israel on the morning of October 7, dubbed the “Aqsa Flood.”

As thousands of rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel, Palestinian armed groups attacked and seized the Beit Hanun-Erez border gate on the Gaza-Israel border.

Armed groups then entered settlements inside Israel from here and the Israeli army launched an attack on the Gaza Strip with dozens of fighter jets.

It was reported that 1,405 Israelis, including 304 soldiers, were killed and 3,968 Israelis were wounded in the attacks carried out from Gaza.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that 3,478 people were killed and more than 12,000 injured in Gaza due to Israeli attacks.

It was claimed that 64 Palestinians were killed and approximately 1,300 people were injured in attacks by Israeli forces and Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank.

13 journalists lost their lives in Israeli attacks.

In the clashes that began between the Israeli army and Hezbollah on the Lebanese border on October 8, 10 members of Hezbollah, 2 members of Islamic Jihad, 1 journalist and 2 civilians lost their lives.

In the attacks carried out by Lebanon, 2 Israeli soldiers and 1 Israeli civilian were killed.

Finally, in Israel’s attack on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza on October 17, 471 people were killed and 342 were injured, 28 of them seriously.