Israel’s war on Gaza updates: 64 Palestinians killed in one day

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• The United Nations’ Palestinian refugee agency says six of its staffers were killed in two Israeli air raids on central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp – the “highest death toll among our staff in a single incident” during the war.
• Hamas reiterated its readiness to implement an “immediate” ceasefire with Israel in Gaza based on a previous US proposal without new conditions from any party.
• Gaza’s civil defence agency reports four people, including a woman and child, were killed in an Israeli bombing of a residential apartment in the Tuffah neighbourhood in northern Gaza City.
• The family of slain Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, criticised the Biden-Harris administration for a lack of communication and reiterated its demand for an independent investigation.
• The Palestine Red Crescent Society says two Palestinians were killed in an air raid in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.

William Deere, an UNRWA official based in Washington, DC, says Israel’s war on Gaza “has absolutely no bottom to it” after six UN workers were among 18 killed at a shelter for war-displaced Palestinians.

“Six colleagues lost today, that brings the death toll among UNRWA staff in this conflict to 220, which is the highest ever in United Nations history,” Deere told Al Jazeera. “Our staff are on the front lines, and they’re not going to back down, they’re not going to stop doing their job.”

He said a total of 190 UN-run facilities have been targeted by Israeli forces “many of them more than once”, despite the sharing of their GPS coordinates with the Israeli military. Deere also noted a UN convoy going to vaccinate Palestinian children against polio on Monday was stopped for eight hours by Israeli troops with vehicles damaged by bulldozers.

“The longer the impunity prevails over these incidents at displaced shelters, the more international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions become irrelevant,” he added.

The World Health Organization (WHO) removed 97 sick and severely injured patients and 155 health professionals from Gaza in what its chief says is the largest medical evacuation since October 2023.

Patients were transported via the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing to Ramon airport in Israel for onward travel to Abu Dhabi for specialised care, said WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus.

“Patients included 45 children and 52 adults with a wide range of diseases including cancer, cardiovascular disease, congenital anomalies, blood and liver diseases and trauma/injuries,” he said.

“Despite severe operational challenges and insecurity, WHO and partners ensured the transfer of the patients and set up a receiving facility at the European Gaza Hospital where patients were gathered before departure.”

Ghebreyesus said the WHO wants evacuation corridors to be established via all possible routes. “Ultimately, the best care for all patients is a ceasefire,” he said.

.@WHO, in collaboration with @mofauae and partners, today evacuated 97 sick and severely injured patients and 155 companions from #Gaza in the largest medical evacuation since October 2023.

Patients were transported via Kerem Shalom to Ramon Airport in Israel for onward travel… pic.twitter.com/GtsNX990g2

— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) September 11, 2024

The United Kingdom suspended 30 of 350 arms export licences to Israel, citing a “clear risk” of violating international law.

However, campaigners say it’s not enough. With massive protests and resignations over Gaza, does this signal a real shift in UK-Israel relations, or is it just a token gesture?

A pro-Palestine rally in the British capital protested Israel’s bloody war on Gaza, now in its 11th month.

Demonstrators gathered outside the prime minister’s office on Downing Street, carrying Palestinian flags and shouting “Stop the genocide” and “Stop arming Israel”.

The calls came after the recent Israeli air strike on a declared “humanitarian safe zone” in southern Gaza. Dozens of Palestinian civilians were killed and wounded in the attack.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry denounced the recent killing of US-Turkish activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who was fatally shot in the head by Israeli forces during a protest in the occupied West Bank.

“This is a tragic incident. This shows the need to reduce tension in the Gaza Strip and find a solution,” the ministry’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said, adding that “humanitarian aid must be urgently provided to the residents of Gaza who are suffering from the blockade”.

Israel’s military said it is “likely” that its soldiers fired the shot that killed Ezgi Eygi, but her death was unintentional.

The Israeli army bombed a car and raided homes in Tubas in the occupied West Bank as troops faced confrontations with Palestinian fighters.

Earlier on Wednesday, five Palestinians were killed by Israeli shelling in Tubas, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).

Tubas Governor Ahmad al-Asaad said Israel imposed a curfew in the city, sending troops into several neighbourhoods.

Tension has been running high across the occupied West Bank during Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed more than 41,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, since October 7. Nearly 700 people have since been killed and more than 5,700 injured by Israeli fire in the West Bank.

The US ambassador to the UN denounced Israel’s killing of a Turkish-American activist in the occupied West Bank last week.

Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper during a protest against illegal Israeli settlements in the town of Beita, outside of Nablus.

“The killing of American citizen Aysenur Eygi was unprovoked and unjustified. No one should lose their life for speaking out and attending a protest,” Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, adding “there must be full accountability”.

A lack of accountability for the killing of United Nations staff and humanitarian aid workers in the Gaza Strip is “totally unacceptable,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says.

Describing Israel’s war in Gaza, Guterres said there have been “very dramatic violations of the international humanitarian law and the total absence of an effective protection of civilians”.

“What’s happening in Gaza is totally unacceptable,” he said.

Nearly 300 humanitarian aid workers, more than two-thirds of them UN staff, have also been killed during the conflict, according to the UN. Guterres said there should be an effective investigation and accountability for their deaths.

“We have courts but we see that the decisions of courts are not respected, and it is this kind of limbo of accountability that is totally unacceptable and that requires also a serious a serious reflection.”

The group says negotiators reiterated readiness to implement an “immediate” ceasefire with Israel in Gaza based on a previous US proposal without new conditions from any party.

Hamas said in a statement its negotiation team – led by senior official Khalil al-Hayya – met mediators including Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and Egypt’s intelligence chief Abbas Kamel in Doha to discuss the latest in Israel’s bloody war on Gaza.

The previous proposal put forward by US President Joe Biden in June laid out a three-phase ceasefire in return for the release of Israeli captives. Talks have so far failed to reach a deal to end the 11-month-old war.

CIA Director William Burns, the chief US negotiator on Gaza, said on Saturday a more detailed ceasefire proposal would be made in the next several days.

Israel has targeted the education system as part of its devastating war on Gaza.

It is destroying schools and universities and has killed thousands of students and teachers. Yet learning and teaching still go on in tents and makeshift classrooms.

How and why does Gaza’s educational spirit remain so strong?

The United Nations condemned the deadly Israeli air raid on a UN school being used as a shelter in central Gaza.

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters it was the fifth bombing of the same school in the Nuseirat refugee camp since Israel’s war on Gaza began. “We condemn all air strikes that target civilians and those that also target UN facilities,” Dujarric said.

“Our policy is clear: UN premises should never be targeted, nor should UN premises be used by any groups or any force from which to launch military activities,” Dujarric added. “UN premises need to be protected. UN premises need to be respected, and that is by all parties to any conflict.”