05/19/2021
Gaza update as of Monday afternoon:
• 213 dead, inc. 61 children, 36 women, 18 elderly persons, 2 top medical surgeons, 2 psychologists. 1400+ injured, inc. 670 women and children.
• Israel rejects ceasefire with Hamas, continues to pound Gaza with artillery-, air-strikes: ‘end of our operation not yet in sight’
• Overnight strikes killed 11 children; 3 Palestinian children ‘injured every hour’ in Gaza: reports
• As escalation enters 7/8th day, world calls for ceasefire, as UN General Assembly set to convene Thursday. US: diplomacy ‘in progress’ to end fighting.
• Doctors Without Borders said strikes damaged their clinic. Amnesty Internal calls for war crimes probe into destruction of Al-Jalaa media tower.
• Israel refuses to open borders: pedestrian crossing still closed, barring journalists; goods crossing closed, causing fuel shortages, biting electricity supply, causing blackouts in many areas and threatening hospitals’ operations
• Israel did hit access roads to main ‘Al-Shifa’ hospital in Gaza city
• Gaza rocket firings continue, Israeli centres on lockdown as sirens sound
• 1,450 Israeli airstrikes in last week, inc. 241 last night: Gaza authorities; targeted assassination of 2 of PIJ’s Gaza commanders confirmed
• Gaza fighters launched homemade Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) (‘naval mine’) at Israeli battleship in the Med
• IDF boasts of destroying Gaza fighters’ bases, training camps and 100km of subterranean infrastructure
• IDF warned Monday it'll hit 2 schools next, the al-Aqsa and al-Buraq UN-run schools; possible deliberate mis-communique