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At least 201 Palestinians have been killed over the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 20,258 during the 11-week conflict, the Palestinian health ministry said today, with thousands more bodies believed trapped under rubble.
Almost all of Gaza's 2.3 million people have been displaced.
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Israel battled Hamas militants in pursuit of its elusive goal of full control of northern Gaza after the UN Security Council appealed for more aid for the Palestinian enclave but stopped short of demanding a ceasefire.
Thick smoke hung over the northern town of Jabalia - which is also home to Gaza's largest refugee camp - and residents reported persistent aerial bombardment and shelling from Israeli tanks, which they said had moved further into the town.
Hamas' armed wing Al Qassam Brigades said it had destroyed five Israeli tanks in the area, killing and injuring their crews, after reusing two undetonated missiles launched earlier by Israel. The report could not be independently verified.
Israel's chief military spokesperson said yesterday that its forces had achieved almost complete operational control of northern Gaza and were preparing to expand the ground offensive to other areas, with a focus on the south.
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- Westerners Have An Absolutely Psychotic View Of Airstrikes
- Caitlin Johnstone
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Canadian online outlet The Breach has published a letter by CBC’s senior manager of journalistic standards Nancy Waugh which highlights perfectly the bizarre psychological relationship that westerners have with bombs and airstrikes in foreign countries.
In response to multiple complaints from a retired Humber College professor about the wildly biased language that Canada’s state broadcaster has been using to describe Israel’s war on Gaza, Waugh acknowledged that the CBC routinely uses words like “murderous,” “vicious,” “brutal,” “massacre,” and “slaughter” to refer to the October 7 Hamas attack while using far less emotionally charged words like “intensive,” “unrelenting,” and “punishing” to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza over the last three months.
Waugh defended this extreme discrepancy by saying that Israel’s attacks in Gaza differ from the Hamas attack on Israelis in that Israel’s killings are done “remotely”.
“Different words are used because although both result in death and injury, the events they describe are very different,” Waugh wrote. “The raid saw Hamas gunmen stream through the border fence and attack Israelis directly with firearms, knives and explosives. Gunmen chased down festival goers, assaulted kibbutzniks then shot them, fought hand to hand, and threw grenades. The attack was brutal, often vicious, and certainly murderous.”
“Bombs dropped from thousands of feet and artillery shells lofted into Gaza from kilometers away result in death and destruction on a massive scale, but it is carried out remotely,” Waugh continued. “The deadly results are unseen by those who caused them and the source unseen by those [who] suffer and die.”
CBC actually believes its sanitized descriptions of Israeli violence against Palestinians are justified.
In an email obtained by The Breach, CBC justifies its weak language because Israel kills Palestinians "remotely" instead of face-to-face.https://t.co/
— The Breach (@TheBreachMedia) January 8, 2024
The belief that these attacks should be considered less vicious and brutal because they are launched from a distance by people who won’t see their effects is as psychologically immature as a little girl who believes you can’t see her because she has covered her own eyes. An attack which kills and maims and tortures doesn’t cease to be brutal and vicious just because it looks like a blip on a screen to you. Human suffering isn’t made less acute or less significant by being far away.
But this is how most westerners see the use of military explosives these days. We’re so used to hearing about our government and its allies raining bombs upon the middle east and Africa that we’ve developed a kind of immunity to the psychological impact of exactly what that means in reality. The typical western mind has come to view bombings more like a weather event that simply occurs in those places, like how south Asian countries experience monsoons.
In reality, bombings are no less savage than attacks by guns, grenades, knives or machetes. In fact they actually allow for more savagery to take place, because they kill so much more efficiently, and because the troops who use them can keep killing and killing without losing morale and accumulating mental trauma from the horrors they have been inflicting upon their fellow human beings.
Dead is dead. Dismembered is dismembered. Pain is pain. Anguish is anguish. The unexamined assumption that the western empire’s prefered methods of killing are less brutal and murderous than those of an impoverished militant group is a psychological defense mechanism we have put in place to shelter ourselves from knowledge of our own brutality and murderousness.
In truth if you look at all the death, destruction, suffering and pain that Israel has inflicted on Gaza since October 7, there is no question that Israel is vastly more vicious, brutal and murderous than Hamas has ever been, and so are its allies who are supporting its actions. The only way to believe otherwise would be to psychologically hide away from the reality of what’s actually happening, which is as truth-based and mature as the kid with her hands over her eyes saying “Now you can’t see me!”
Fighting rages in Gaza
Israel battled Hamas militants in pursuit of its elusive goal of full control of northern Gaza after the UN Security Council appealed for more aid for the Palestinian enclave but stopped short of demanding a ceasefire.
Thick smoke hung over the northern town of Jabalia - which is also home to Gaza's largest refugee camp - and residents reported persistent aerial bombardment and shelling from Israeli tanks, which they said had moved further into the town.
Hamas' armed wing Al Qassam Brigades said it had destroyed five Israeli tanks in the area, killing and injuring their crews, after reusing two undetonated missiles launched earlier by Israel. The report could not be independently verified.
Israel's chief military spokesperson said yesterday that its forces had achieved almost complete operational control of northern Gaza and were preparing to expand the ground offensive to other areas, with a focus on the south.
US President Joe Biden discussed the situation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today, the White House said.
Israel's main ally has kept up its support while expressing concern over the growing casualty toll and humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Mr Biden declined to detail his conversation with Mr Netanyahu, telling reporters it was a "private conversation".
But, he added: "I did not ask for a ceasefire."
After days of wrangling to avert a threatened US veto, the UN Security Council yesterday passed a resolution urging steps to allow "safe, unhindered, and expanded humanitarian access" to Gaza and "conditions for a sustainable cessation" of fighting.
The resolution was toned down from earlier drafts that called for an immediate end to 11 weeks of war and diluting Israeli control over aid deliveries, clearing the way for the vote in which the United States, Israel's main ally, abstained.
The United States and Israel oppose a ceasefire, contending it would allow the Islamist militant group to regroup and rearm.
The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said they had fired decoy shots in the area of Issa in Gaza City that lured dozens of militants from a building that served as a Hamas headquarters in the north of the enclave.
"During the joint operational activity, IDF ground and intelligence troops directed an IAF fighter jet to strike the building, eliminating the terrorists," it said.
The army also released a video it said showed Hamas tunnels in the Issa area. Neither the location or the date could be independently verified.
Israel accuses the militant group of placing tunnels and other military infrastructure among civilians to use them as human shields, something Hamas denies.
Today, residents and Palestinian media reported that Israeli tanks shelled the town of Juhr ad-Deek in central Gaza. There was no immediate word on casualties.
At least 201 Palestinians have been killed over the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 20,258 during the 11-week conflict, the Palestinian health ministry said today, with thousands more bodies believed trapped under rubble.
Almost all of Gaza's 2.3 million people have been displaced.
Israel says 140 of its soldiers have been killed since it launched its ground incursion on 20 October, in response to the 7 October rampage into Israel by Gaza's ruling Hamas militants, who killed 1,200 people and took 240 hostages back into the enclave.
Hamas said it had lost contact with a group it said was responsible for five of the Israeli hostages due to Israeli bombardment. More than 100 hostages in total are still believed to be in Gaza.
Health officials and Hamas media said an Israeli air strike on a house in Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza killed three people including a journalist of Hamas' Aqsa TV channel and two relatives.
The reporter's death brings to at least 69 the number of journalists killed in the conflict, according to a tally by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
The Israeli military has expressed regret for civilian deaths and blames Iran-backed Hamas for operating in densely populated areas, arguing that Israel will never be safe until the group is eliminated.
Hamas' Aqsa radio later said Israeli planes had bombed and destroyed the headquarters of Aqsa TV and radio station in Gaza City.
An IDF spokesperson declined to comment on Palestinian reports that Israeli forces had begun a ground offensive near Kerem Shalom, east of the Rafah Crossing into Egypt.
'Where should we go?'
Israel has long urged residents to leave northern areas of Gaza but its forces have also been bombarding targets in central and southern parts of the tiny coastal enclave.
"Where should we go to? There is no place safe," Ziad, a medic and father of six, told Reuters by phone. "They ask people to head to (the central Gaza city of) Deir Al-Balah, where they bomb day and night."
Palestinian mourners attended the burial of a family of four killed in an Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
"International law has collapsed... If Israel were in the Palestinians' position, the world would not stand still and would act," said Ramzy Aidy, a Gaza resident with a doctorate in law.
The conflict has spread beyond Gaza, including into the Red Sea where Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi forces have been attacking vessels with missiles and drones in retaliation for Israel's assault on the enclave, whose Hamas rulers are backed by Iran.
An Israel-affiliated merchant vessel in the Arabian Sea off India's west coast was struck by an unmanned aerial vehicle, causing a fire, British maritime security firm Ambrey said on Saturday.
An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said the Mediterranean Sea could be closed if the United States and its allies continued to commit "crimes" in Gaza, Iranian media reported today, without explaining how that would happen.
The presidents of Iran and Egypt discussed the latest Gaza developments and the prospect of restoring bilateral diplomatic ties in what Iranian state television said was their first phone call. Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi said Tehran would offer all necessary help "to stop the genocide by the Zionist regime".
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Israel-Hamas latest: At least 68 'killed by Israeli strike at Gaza refugee camp'; Archbishop to use Christmas sermon to highlight Gaza suffering
At least 68 people were killed by an Israeli strike at the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry has said. Meanwhile, the Archbishop of Canterbury will use his Christmas Day sermon to highlight the suffering of children caught up in the Israel-Hamas war.
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76 members of extended family killed in Gaza City strike
An Israeli attack on a Gaza City building killed 76 members of the same extended family, a spokesperson for Gaza's Civil Defence Department has said.
The strike on Friday is believed to be among the deadliest of the war so far, according to Mahmoud Bassal.
He said 16 heads of households from the al Mughrabi family were killed, as well as women and children.
Among them was Issam al Mughrabi, a longstanding employee for the UN Development Programme, his wife, and their five children.
In a statement from the agency, they confirmed that the 56-year-old died alongside his wife Lamya'a, 53, and children Mohammad, 32, Saud, 30, Lama, 27, Luai, 23, and Obaideh, 13.
"For almost 30 years, Issam has worked with UNDP through our Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People. He will be remembered as a beloved member of the PAPP team," it said.
"The loss of Issam and his family has deeply affected us all. The UN and civilians in Gaza are not a target. "
A separate strike on Friday killed more people in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
More than 20,000 people in Gaza are now reported to have died since 7 October. Around 1,200 people have died in Israel.
Archbishop of Canterbury to use Christmas Day sermon to highlight Gaza suffering
The Archbishop of Canterbury will use his Christmas Day sermon to highlight the suffering of children caught up in the Israel-Hamas war.
Referring to Jesus Christ's birthplace, which is now in the Israeli occupied West Bank, the Most Rev Justin Welby will say "the skies of Bethlehem are full of fear rather than angels and glory".
And he will compare the turbulent conditions of Jesus's birth with the modern-day plight of children in the troubled region.
In his sermon at Canterbury Cathedral he will say: "Today a crying child is in a manger somewhere in the world, nobody willing or able to help his parents who desperately need shelter. Or in an incubator, in a hospital low on electricity, like Al-Ahli [hospital] in Gaza, surrounded by conflict.
"Maybe he lies in a house that still bears the marks of the horrors of 7 October, with family members killed, and a mother who feared for her life."
Also referring to Ukraine and Sudan, the Archbishop will say: "So many parts of the world seem beset with violence."
He will say that a commitment to "serving, not in being served" was needed to resolve problems of climate change, terrorism, economic inequality and "the desperation and ambitions that drive more and more to migration".
