Peter Beaumont – The Guardian Jan 2, 2025
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 43 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including 11 people in the sprawling al-Mawasi tent encampment designated as a humanitarian safe zone for civilians.
Among those killed in the al-Mawasi strike was the director general of Gaza’s police department, Mahmoud Salah, and his deputy, Hussam Shahwan, according to the Hamas-run Gaza interior ministry.
“By committing the crime of assassinating the director general of police in the Gaza Strip, the occupation is insisting on spreading chaos … and deepening the human suffering of citizens,” Hamas added in a statement.
The Israeli military said it had conducted the strike on the al-Mawasi encampment, just west of the city of Khan Younis, and eliminated Shahwan, calling him the head of Hamas security forces in southern Gaza, but made no mention of Salah’s death.
Medics said the 11 people killed included women and children.
The latest strikes in Israel’s 15-month war in Gaza, which has led to more than 45,500 Palestinian deaths, came as negotiations for a ceasefire-for-hostages deal appeared to have stalled again, despite pressure to conclude an agreement before Donald Trump is sworn in as US president on 20 January. The war was triggered by Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on southern Israel, in which 1,200 people were killed and another 251 taken hostage.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad said in a video message on Thursday that an Israeli hostage had tried to take his own life, without giving further details on the hostage’s identity or current condition. In a statement by the group on the Telegram messaging service, a spokesperson for al-Quds Brigades, the group’s armed wing, said one of the group’s medical teams had intervened and prevented him from dying.
Other Israeli airstrikes killed at least 26 Palestinians, including six in the interior ministry headquarters in Khan Younis and others in north Gaza’s Jabaliya refugee camp, the al-Shati beach camp and central Gaza’s Maghazi camp.
“As the year begins, we got reports of yet another attack on Al-Mawasi with dozens of people killed, another reminder that there is no humanitarian zone let alone a safe zone,” Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, said in a post on X. “Every day without a ceasefire will bring more tragedy.”
Later on Thursday, separate Israeli airstrikes killed at least four people in central Gaza City and two in its Zeitoun district, medics said.
The latest deaths in Gaza came as the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the occupied West Bank ordered the suspension of broadcasts by the Qatar-based Al Jazeera across the Palestinian territories, accusing the network of incitement, official media reported.
Al Jazeera is already banned from broadcasting from Israel amid a long-running feud with the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
In September, armed and masked Israeli forces raided the Al Jazeera office in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, saying it was “used to incite terror”.
The military issued an initial 45-day closure order, prompting the Palestinian foreign ministry to condemn “a flagrant violation” of press freedom.
On Wednesday, however, the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, said Al Jazeera’s “insistence on broadcasting inciting content and reports characterised by misinformation, incitement, sedition and interference in Palestinian internal affairs” had led to its suspension.
An Al Jazeera employee contacted by Agence France-Presse confirmed the network’s office in Ramallah had received a suspension order on Wednesday.
Wafa said: “The specialised ministerial committee, comprising the ministries of culture, interior and communications, has decided to suspend broadcasts and freeze all activities of Al Jazeera satellite channel and its office in Palestine.
“The decision also includes temporarily freezing the work of all journalists, employees, crews and affiliated channels until their legal status is rectified due to Al Jazeera’s violations of the laws and regulations in force in Palestine.”
Al Jazeera condemned the decision in a statement, saying it “aligns with Israeli occupation practices targeting its media teams”.
It accused the PA, which has partial administrative control in the West Bank, of “attempting to deter Al Jazeera from covering escalating events in the occupied Palestinian territories” including in Jenin and its refugee camp.
The PA’s security forces have been engaged in weeks of deadly clashes with armed militants in Jenin, in the northern West Bank.
Analysts have suggested the PA’s security clampdown in Jenin is being driven by a desire to reassert its frayed authority on the West Bank and also to send a signal to western countries, not least the incoming Trump administration.
the ugly paedo rabbis are the ones that need taking out
scragends of shite need erasing from all healthy human societies
it is very good that israhell shows its real
face to the world + the world will forever
despise jews ! KEEP AWAY FROM ANY JEWS
AND THEIR ASSLICKERS !
Only problem is, its all a hoax. Notice no video of attack nor any dead bodies to verify any of this.
Nice presentation by a very competent British journalist about the Israhelli occupation of Gaza:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=afo86v8ZfrJsnMrS&v=gEo813rYm8g&feature=youtu.be
Imagine a world without Jews. When Iran fired missiles on Isisrael we actually had a taste of it, at least on cyber space. A world without Jews is a wonderful world where peace, truth & justice have a chance. In a site such as ZeroHedge where comments are published the moment they are sent we could observe the complete disappearance of all Ziotrolls from the platform. The trolls went for their bunkers! The majority of trolls that we have to put up with, including here in TTS, are not normal people they are actually Israhellis that are paid to mud the waters. For a Jew that is ‘productive’ work. So refreshing when they were all gone, we can only hope….
Jews have all MSM but even all that power has limitations, it’s a phenomenon related to marketing. When a company is selling a new product associated with a well designed propaganda the product usually sells a lot. Then the product becomes trendy reflecting a successful marketing campaign. However professionals in the area know that doesn’t matter how good your propaganda is, with time it loses impact on the public. They can invest more money marketing the product but it doesn’t reflect on sales as before.
Jews marketing themselves have reached a dead end, a brick wall. Every day more people wake up for the evil nature of the Jewish collective. Once one sees it, one cannot unsee it. They can put all money they want to advertise the Jewish collective whilst incremental results gets smaller as time goes by. In the final days of the Soviet Union no one believed a single word from Pravda, except die hard useful idiots of course – you can’t fix stupid.
There is hope, the mask is falling, which means (((they))) are going to become more violent and authoritarian. Prep accordingly.
Weep for me white man, as we invade and take over your countries and women
somebody on here terms it ZWOG. thats a good term describing the jew-wog conspiracy against the white race.
JeWog
just another truman show skit
Another Expert Report Finds Israel Is Committing Genocide. the West Yawns
Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, and Medecins Sans Frontieres are all agreed. But the Gaza genocide is now just another routine news item, buried on the inside pages
Three separate reports published this month by leading international human rights and medical groups have detailed the same horrifying story: that Israel is well advanced in its genocide of the Palestinian population in Gaza.
https://www.unz.com/jcook/another-expert-report-finds-israel-is-committing-genocide-the-west-yawns/
Israeli Lawmakers Call to Cut Off Gaza’s Food, Water, Power – Day 453
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-lawmakers-call-to-cut-off-gazas-food-water-power-day-453/
Or, to be more accurate, they have confirmed what was already patently clear: that, for the past 14 months, Israel has been slaughtering tens of thousands of Palestinians with indiscriminate munitions, while at the same time gradually starving the survivors to death and denying them access to medical care.
this children are traumachocked for the rest of their
life + rarely will develope trust in any other people .
the natural trust of innocense is broken .
@ JEWOG CHRISTOF O´BRIEN
FENCESITTERS + SHILLS !
@O’Brien (+Nicolites)
do you have any evidence that “its all a hoax”?
you could well be right…if so, there should be a TON of credible evidence
which we would all love to see
It is timer Israel was bombed back to the stone age it came from to allow the Palestinians to rebuild it as it is THEIR LAND!! and the reptiles in the WEST that ”Think their STOLEN MONEY” controls us are sent back to the HELL they crawled from Via a noose in public with NO drop meaning a painful end for them and their entire living relatives!! We Need this VILE reptile sewer scum for all eternity
Dave
the burden of proof is on those who claim something has happened; not on those who question it. As I previously stated—no video of attack nor any dead bodies being exhibited…ergo hoax.
@ OBrian
& all the attacks that are filmed from many angles on many peoples phones…are all staged according to you?
Burden of Proof is on you to show how & where the staging was done with so many actors on so many occasions & locations, on such a massive scale, from so many angles
you have never presented any evidence, because I suspect you have none..