In addition to homes and hospitals, Israel has been bombing universities as well. In the case of Palestine University, Israel blew it up with 315 mines in a controlled demolition. All the universities in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed, not to mention mosques and some churches. The question is, if you could go into a building and put mines, this means there is no Hamas. Why blow it up?
Apparently, the IDF publicly acknowledged that its systematic destruction of whole areas of eastern Gaza are not entirely aimed at destroying tunnels or other Hamas infrastructure, but at depopulating territory in the name of security for nearby Israeli settlements. [The Intercept]
“Our political leaders are failing to forge a ceasefire… the only meaningful humanitarian response… Many within the international community, including Israel’s state supporters, are complicit in the mass deaths, starvation,” says Oxfam.8 Feb, 2024: At gunpoint, the Israeli army forced an elderly woman to evacuate from Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis while on her sickbed
The Great Omari Mosque, the largest and oldest in Gaza, reduced to rubble [Doaa Rouqa, Reuters]Just for the sake of destruction
Deliberate targeting and destruction of culture in GazaAt a refugee camp near Rafah, children attempting to have fun when the bombing started
8 Feb 24: UNCHR’s Volker Turk: Israeli Defence Forces are reportedly destroying all buildings in the Gaza Strip within a km of the Israel-Gaza fence Extensive destruction of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully
15 Feb, 2024 – UNRWA wrote: Shocking footage shows unimaginable destruction in Gaza city, including our health centre. +70% of civilian infrastructure- including homes, hospitals & schools- have been destroyed or severely damaged. 84% of health facilities have been affected by attacks. Nowhere is safe.
16 Feb, 2024: Fakhri Abu Diab from East Jerusalem campaigned against home demolitions so Israel demolished his home
Israel is not concerned with killing Hamas; Israel seeks to murder as many Palestinians as possible and make Gaza uninhabitable, leading to a slow death for the remaining Palestinians.
He lost everything
Targeting universities
20 Feb, 2024: Israeli occupation forces demolished a six-story building in Beit Hanina in occupied Jerusalem, this morning.
“Five out of six major universities in the Gaza Strip were completely destroyed by Israel, killing three university presidents and 95 deans and lecturers. This includes 68 professors.”25 Feb 2024: Orthodox Jews took over a Maqam in western Jerusalem, vandalized Muslim graves and declared it, without any historical basis of course, the “Tomb of Binyamin”. This is an Israeli tradition that goes back decades – Judaize Maqams and claiming they are tombs of Jewish forefathers.
27 Feb 2024: settlers came and smashed the Hajj Suleiman memorial monument. Hajj was a long-time activist from the village of Am al-Khair in Mesafar Yatta and about two years ago he was brutally run over by a police tow truck, which came to Am al-Khair to confiscate vehicles from the residents.
