Israeli Strikes Kill At Least 31 In Gaza As International Scholars Accuse Israel Of Genocide

DEIR AL-Balah, Gaza Strip (AP) -Israil started the strikes Gaza Strip On Monday, kill at least 31 people while pressing ahead A big attack According to health authorities, it is in the largest city of the region. Meanwhile, leading genocide academics Accusing Israel with genocideclaims that he strongly rejected.

Air attacks and artillery bombings echoed from the Gaza City, as Israel declared a war zone last week. At the foot of the city and in the Jabaliya refugee camp, the inhabitants observed explosively loaded robots that were destroying buildings.

Saeed Abu Elaish, a doctor born in Jabaliya on the northwest side of the city, said, “Another cruel night in Gaza,” he said.

Hospitals in Gaza said that at least 31 people were killed by Israeli fire on Monday, and more than half were killed. At least 13 people died in Gaza, where Israel carried out previously large -scale raids since the militants led by Hamas attacked Southern Israel to fire the war on October 7, 2023.

Israel says that it only targets militants and blames Hamas for civilian losses, because now a largely reduced militant group is operating in densely populated areas.

Gaza City residents, many of which are displaced by war, are now faced with threats of twin war and hunger. He said that the world’s leading authority for food crises was last month In the Straits of famine – Repeated mass displacement and collapse of food production is enlarged, ongoing fighting and Israel’s blockade.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, a total of 63,557 Palestinians were killed in the war that said that 160,660 people were injured. The Ministry does not distinguish between civilians and fighters, but says that women and children are about half of the dead.

The Ministry is a part of the government operated by Hamas, but it works by medical experts. UN agencies and many independent experts see their figures as the most reliable estimation of war losses. Israel objected to them, but did not pay for its own.

The militants led by Hamas killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians in the October 7 attack. 251 people took hostage. Forty -eight hostages are still in Gaza, about 20 of them are believed to be alive, the rest is released in fires or other agreements.

The biggest professional academician organization that reads genocide said on Monday that Israel has been genocide in Gaza.

Founded after the Holocaust, where 6 million European Jews and others were killed, Israel strongly rejects the claim. This says that it requires every precaution to avoid damaging civilians and that Israel is the genocide action of Hamas, who struggled with a self -defense war after the October 7 attack.

International Genocide Scholars Association, which has approximately 500 members worldwide, including a number of Holocaust experts, joined other major human rights organizations, Including two Israeli groupswhile applying the term to Israel’s war -time behavior.

“Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of the genocide ve and 86% of the voters accuses against humanity and war crimes according to the decision of the group. The organization did not publish the characteristics of the vote.

“People who are experts in the genocide study can see this because of what is,” Associated Press said, Melanie O’Brien, the president of the organization and the international law professor.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said to it, “shame on the legal profession and any academic standard”. He said that the decision was “completely based on Hamas’s lie campaign”.

An activist fleet to Gaza This returned to the harbor after Barcelona hit a storm on one night.

In a statement, the global Sumud Flotilla, which consists of approximately 20 boats with participants from 44 countries, chose to return and delay its departure to örnek a priority to security ”in a statement on Monday. Discovery trip includes the leading climate campaign Greta Thunbergwho joined A previous fleet This was stopped in July.

Organizers, 56 km / h (35 miles / h) winds, some of the small boats in office will be at risk, he said.

The fleet is an attempt to symbolically breaking Israel’s Gaza blockade. All of them were seized by Israeli forces at sea. Israel said that the blockade is necessary to prevent Hamas from importing weapons, and there are many other channels to send aid to Gaza.

Israel took steps to further restrict the delivery of food to Northern Gaza while pressing forward with its last attack in Gaza.

Sam Metz reported from Jerusalem and Samy Magdy from Cairo. Molly, The Hague, Renata Brito in Renata Brito in the Netherlands, Spain, in Barcelona, ​​contributed to this report.