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Israeli airstrikes in Gaza and the West Bank kill 25 people

2024-09-11 19:16:36 / BOTA ALFA PRESS

Israeli airstrikes in Gaza and the West Bank kill 25 people
Israeli airstrikes in the Palestinian territories killed at least 20 Palestinians in Gaza and five in the West Bank on Wednesday, according to Palestinian authorities.

Among those killed in Gaza were 16 women and children, six of them from the same family, according to officials at the European Hospital in Gaza, where the bodies of the victims were taken.

Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden condemned on Wednesday the killing of an American activist by Israeli forces while she was protesting the construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. He said he is "outraged and deeply shocked", calling her killing "totally unacceptable".

"Full responsibility must be established," Mr. Biden said in a statement. "Israel must do more to ensure that such incidents never happen again."
Israel said Tuesday that 26-year-old activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi from the city of Seattle may have been shot "unintentionally and unintentionally" by Israeli soldiers.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday morning a fuel truck hit a bus stop in the West Bank, seriously injuring one person. Israeli officials said it was an attack and said the driver of the car had been shot dead at the scene, but did not provide further details.

The Israeli army announced that during the night two of its members lost their lives and seven others were injured when a helicopter crashed in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

The army said it was investigating the cause of the crash of the helicopter, which had taken off to evacuate wounded soldiers to Gaza, but ruled out the possibility that it had crashed as a result of fighting.

Meanwhile, in the first statement since he was appointed the main leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinuar congratulated Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on his re-election to the post of president and thanked Algeria for supporting, as he said, the "Palestinian cause".

Algeria, which is the Arab representative state on the UN Security Council, in May proposed a draft resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and a halt to the Israeli military operation in the southern city of Rafah.

A possible deal for a ceasefire and the release of hostages must be approved by militant leader Sinuar, who belongs to the fringes within Hamas. The United States, Qatar and Egypt have been trying for nearly a year to reach such an agreement, but negotiations to reach it have been repeatedly blocked.

Sinuari was one of the architects of the October 7 attack that triggered Israel's war in Gaza. He has not been seen in public since the start of the war and is believed to be alive and hiding in the Gaza Strip. Israel has vowed to kill him. /voa

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