Summary: This Week for Children of Gaza

News Desk, The Cradle. (2024-08-01). 'Entire Resistance Axis' Will Respond To Haniyeh Assassination. popularresistance.org Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) condemned Israel's assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh on 31 July, vowing that the Resistance Axis as a whole will respond to the attack. | "This crime demonstrated that the criminal, murderous, and terrorist Zionist gang, disregarding international rules and regulations, spares no criminal action to cover up its humiliating defeats in the nine-month war in Gaza, which has resulted in the massacre of tens of thousands of Palestinian women, men, and children," the IRGC said on Wednesday, hours after Haniyeh's assassination in Tehran. | "Undou…

bwitanek (2024-08-01). Sahar Aziz: Netanyahu's interest to continue and widen the war. fightbackbetter.com The following is Sahar Aziz's Facebook response to the Israeli assassination of a Hamas leader in Iran: | Ten months into the war on Gaza, there is no end in sight. The Israeli military's failure is made all the more evident when the result of its campaign is setting records for killing civilians and maiming children with the use of American weapons and support, and the amount of bombs dropped equivalent to five Hiroshimas. | Beyond Gaza, Netanyahu is also unable to contain the other fronts in the war, which have caused tens of thousands of Israelis to evacuate in both the north and the south. He has been unab…

Contributing Writers (2024-08-01). New Testimonies Detail Torture and Abuse of Gazan Detainees in Israeli Jails, Detention Centres/By Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. marktanliano.net By Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor Global Research, July 31, 2024 Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor 6 February 2024 New testimonies received by Euro-Med Human Right Monitor from recently-released Palestinian detainees from the Gaza Strip, including women and children, detail their subjection to torture and ill-treatment by Israeli authorities. The rights organisation cited revelations of crimes such as forced nudity, …

JANET (2024-08-01). Yemen's solidarity with Palestine. iacenter.org By G. Dunkel July 30, 2024 The bourgeois press is filled with a constant drum beat of Israeli destruction of the infrastructure of Gaza, killing tens of thousands of Palestinians — many of them children — inflicting great economic hardship on the Palestinians living in Jerusalem and the West Bank and of Israel's ability to conduct a major air raid against the Yemeni port of Hodeida, 1,600 miles away from Israel. Demonstration for Palestine in Sana'a, Yemen, Jan. 5, 2024. All this and more is with the diplomatic and financial blessing of the United States, which just gave Israeli Prime Minister Benjami…

WSWS (2024-08-01). WHO warns Gaza children facing immediate threat of polio. wsws.org The World Health Organization has joined the Gaza Health Ministry in raising the alarm over an impending polio outbreak.

IMEMC News (2024-08-03). Day 302: Israeli Missiles Kill, Injure, Dozens In Gaza. imemc.org On Saturday, Day 302 of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in the besieged, destroyed, and starved Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, including children and women, in various parts of the coastal enclave. The Israeli army struck many areas in Gaza, especially in several neighborhoods in Gaza …

Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. (2024-08-03). Even In Palestine, The Birds Shall Return. popularresistance.org On 26 July, senior United Nations (UN) officials briefed the UN Security Council about the terrible situation in Gaza. 'More than two million people in Gaza remain trapped in an endless nightmare of death and destruction on a staggering scale', said Deputy Commissioner-General Antonia De Meo of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Within Gaza, the UN officials wrote, 625,000 children are trapped, 'their futures at risk'. The World Health Organisation has recorded 'outbreaks of hepatitis A and myriad other preventable diseases' and warns that it is 'just a matter of time' before a polio o…

newarab (2024-08-04). Israel kills 25 in attack on school; 2 dead in Tel Aviv stabbing. newarab.com Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli bombardment of two schools in "The bodies of 25 martyrs, mostly children and women, and 50 other wounded, also mostly children and women, were taken to Baptist hospital after an Israeli strike targeted Hassan Salameh and Al-Nasr schools in Gaza City," agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told news agency AFP. | The strike followed a similar bombardment of the Al-Hamama School in Gaza which killed 17 displaced people | Earlier on Sunday an…

Linda Pentz Gunter (2024-08-05). Former IDF Sniper Says Dehumanization of Palestinians and a Rhetoric of Hate is Driving Israel's Forever War in Gaza. counterpunch.org IDF soldiers continue to slaughter Palestinians with an apparent absence of remorse or empathy. That, says Nadav Weiman, is driven in large part by the rhetoric constantly fed to them, and in particular, the use of the term 'Amalek'. It refers to an Old Testament commandment to wipe out all Amalekians for attacking Jews as they left Egypt, and not to spare their children or livestock while destroying everything they owned.

Jaclynn Ashly (2024-08-05). Trauma of Palestinians Who Fled Gaza for Egypt Is Compounded by Legal Woes. truthout.org Sometimes Afnan al-Hashim finds herself feeling envious of her 36-year-old sister Fida, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in February, along with her husband and four small children — one of whom was just six months old. Israel had carpet-bombed the densely packed Jabalia refugee camp in the north of Gaza City, which has now been left in ruins from Israel's unprecedented nine-month long… |

newarab (2024-08-05). Israel kills 25 in attack on school; 2 dead in Tel Aviv stabbing. newarab.com Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli bombardment of two schools in "The bodies of 25 martyrs, mostly children and women, and 50 other wounded, also mostly children and women, were taken to Baptist hospital after an Israeli strike targeted Hassan Salameh and Al-Nasr schools in Gaza City," agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told news agency AFP. | The strike followed a similar bombardment of the Al-Hamama School in Gaza which killed 17 displaced people | Earlier on Sunday an…

Jordan Atwood (2024-08-05). Israeli strikes on schools kill dozens, mostly children. nationofchange.org Israeli airstrikes on UN-run schools in Gaza kill at least 30, mostly children, as the humanitarian crisis deepens and cease-fire efforts stall.

Mark Lesseraux (2024-08-06). Blood on the Leaves, Blood at the Root: Einstein's NIghtmare. pressenza.com Amok Time: | 66% of Israel's population wants Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu out of office.(1) Meanwhile, close to 90% of the same population is in agreement with the amount of force Netanyahu and the IDF are using in Gaza against its' buildings and its' inhabitants.(2) 39,000 Palestinians have been confirmed dead by direct violence in Gaza since late October of 2023. 800,000 Gazans are missing in the rubble and/or in the Sinai desert and/or elsewhere. The estimated total of dead Palestinians in the massacre so far is, conservatively, 180,000.(3) Notably, 70% of the dead have been women and children.

WSWS (2024-08-06). Israel-Iran conflict on hair trigger as military and diplomatic preparations for war proceed. wsws.org On the ground in Gaza, criminal attacks by the Israel Defense Forces against civilians continue. Simultaneous strikes on the Hassan Salama and Nassr schools and al Aqsa hospital in Gaza City killed at least 30 people, including children and the elderly.

newarab (2024-08-06). 80% of casualties in Gaza school strikes were children: report. newarab.com

tn.ai (2024-08-06). UN Reports 300% Increase in Child Malnutrition Cases in Gaza. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — The United Nations has reported a significant surge in child malnutrition cases in the Gaza Strip, with a nearly 50% rise in July compared to June, bringing the total to over 650 Palestinian children suffering from acute malnutrition.

Ciudong Ng (2024-08-07). Decades of US Arms Deals With Israel Paved the Way to Genocide in Gaza. truthout.org On June 8, Israel rescued four hostages held by Hamas at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Yet the operation left a trail of destruction, killing at least 274 Palestinians and injuring 698, according to local authorities. Corpses lined the pavement because the morgues were full, while film footage captured civilians rushing children caked with blood through hospital corridors. |

Ciudong Ng (2024-08-07). Decades of US Arms Deals With Israel Paved the Way to Genocide in Gaza. truthout.org On June 8, Israel rescued four hostages held by Hamas at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Yet the operation left a trail of destruction, killing at least 274 Palestinians and injuring 698, according to local authorities. Corpses lined the pavement because the morgues were full, while film footage captured civilians rushing children caked with blood through hospital corridors. |