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◾️More than 6,850 people have now been killed and over 17,000 injured since the start of the Israeli bombardment of Gaza on October 7, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Israel has fired over 12,000 tonnes of explosives on the enclave; the equivalent explosive force dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. At least 177,781 residential units have been destroyed and there have been more than 260 attacks on healthcare facilities.
◾️The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) claim that they have conducted raids into northern Gaza overnight using tanks in preparation for a widely expected full-scale ground invasion of the enclave. The IDF said the raids were conducted in “preparation for the next stages of combat.”
◾Israel is considering using nerve agents and chemical weapons to target the Gaza ruling group’s tunnels under the supervision of the US Delta Force before launching a ground invasion of the enclave, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist Seymour Hersh.
◾️ The family of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, was killed in an Israeli air strike on Wednesday. Dahdouh said that the killing of his family was a “targeted attack” due to his position as a journalist. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken asked the Qatari Prime Minister during a visit to Doha on October 13 to “turn down the volume on Al Jazeera’s coverage.”
◾️ Hospitals in Gaza only treat emergency cases as they run dangerously low on fuel due to the Israeli blockade. The Healthcare system in the enclave has completely collapsed, and as a result, doctors are having to decide who lives and who dies.
◾️In a press conference yesterday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made bizarre religious references as he promised to save his nation from Iran and the Gaza ruling group. “We are the people of light, they are the people of darkness—and light shall triumph over darkness,” he said.
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