Israel intensifies its mad bombardment campaign in Gaza as US ‘supports genocide’

Shells rained down on the neighborhoods of Tal Al-Hawa, Sheikh Ajlin and Al-Sabra in Gaza City in northern Gaza.

Moreover, eyewitnesses said the Israeli army bombed the Al-Mughraqa area and the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza with warplanes and drones.

Meanwhile, paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent said they had retrieved the bodies of five people, including three children, after Israeli air strikes in the Al-Maghazi camp, also in the central Gaza Strip.

Eyewitnesses also reported Israeli gunship fire east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza and Apache helicopter attacks on western Rafah.

The Israeli army said it was continuing its operations in Gaza with raids in Rafah and central Gaza as well as air strikes across the strip. It also said its naval forces had been firing at targets in Gaza.

On Sunday, an Israeli airstrike on a UN-run school in the Nuseirat refugee camp, one of Gaza’s eight longstanding refugee camps, killed 15 Palestinians and injured dozens more, health officials said.  

It was the fifth UN-run school housing war-displaced to be bombed by Israel in the last 10 days.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 38,664 and wounded more than 89,097 Palestinians, most of them women and children.

An analysis published by The Lancet medical journal, says the actual Palestinian death toll in Gaza could exceed 186,000 people – roughly 10 percent of the 2.4 million population.

Meanwhile, an Israeli blockade has pushed more than half a million Gazans to the brink of starvation.

Hamas said Sunday that Gaza ceasefire talks in  Doha were ongoing despite recent Israeli massacres.

The group said its military commander, Mohammed Deif, was in good health, a day after the Israeli army claimed he may have been killed in a massive airstrike on Al-Mawasi.

That airstrike killed at least 90 Palestinians, including women and children.

“Supporting genocide”
 

On Monday, Hamas lashed out at the US, accusing it of “supporting genocide” by supplying Israel with “internationally banned” weapons.

“We condemn in the strongest terms the… American disdain for the blood of the children and women of our Palestinian people… by providing all types of prohibited weapons to the ‘Israeli’ occupation,” a statement from the government media office said.

Months of indirect talks between Israel and Hamas, mediated by Qatar, Egypt, and the US, have yet to reach a ceasefire.

Meanwhile, Britain’s new Foreign Secretary David Lammy reaffirmed his call for a ceasefire in Gaza during his first Middle East trip after his Labour Party landslide win in the British election.

On Sunday, Lammy called for a halt to hostilities in a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Also on Sunday, he met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and pressed the Western case for “reforming” the authority.

“I hope … that we see a ceasefire soon and we bring an alleviation to the suffering and the intolerable loss of life that we’re now seeing also in Gaza,” Lammy said during a meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday.

He has also called for the speeding up of aid deliveries into Gaza.

On Friday, US President Joe Biden said that representatives from both Hamas and Israel have agreed to a ceasefire framework. 

“There is still work to do and these are complex issues, but that framework is now agreed to by both Israel and Hamas.”

“Six weeks ago I laid out a comprehensive framework for how to achieve a ceasefire and bring the hostages home,” he wrote on X.  

“My team is making progress and I’m determined to get this done.”

President Biden first proposed his peace deal in May. The three-phase proposal starts with a six-week complete ceasefire that would see Israeli forces withdraw from all populated areas of Gaza.