Zionists kill babies with impunity
Gazan mother mourns twins • 8 killed in Kuwait aid truck strike • GCC slams ethnic cleansing
GAZA:
As men searched for survivors beneath a Gaza home pummeled by an air strike, Rania Abu Anza gazed down on Sunday at two children who did not survive: Her infant twins. The Palestinian woman said she had gone through multiple rounds of fertility treatment to achieve her dream of becoming a mother, only to have it taken away by the carnage in the Gaza Strip. “Who will call me mother from now on? Who will call me mother?” she said through tears on Sunday as she clutched her lifeless babies, the face of one still spattered with blood.
The health ministry in Gaza said Wissam and Naeem, not yet six months old, were among 14 people killed in the overnight strike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah by the Zionist entity. All of the dead were members of the Abu Anza family. They joined the 30,410 fatalities, most of them women and children, killed by the Zionist entity since October. Another 90 Palestinians were killed within 24 hours, mostly women and children. Eight Palestinians were killed in a Zionist military strike on a truck carrying aid from the Kuwaiti Takween Society in Gaza on Sunday.
While Rania Abu Anza waited to bury her son and daughter, back at the rubble of the family home men shouted the names of those they hoped had survived: “Yasser! Ahmed! Sajjar!” The Zionist entity claims its campaign is intended to eliminate Hamas fighters, but Shehda Abu Anza, who said the home belonged to his uncle, said it housed only civilians. “They were sleeping at eleven o’clock at night. All of them children. Honestly there was no military presence in the house, only civilians,” he said. “No soldiers, only civilians.”
Another relative, Arafat Abu Anza, bemoaned the lack of equipment to extract possible survivors. “There are 15 people in the house... I’m cleaning the area. We are trying to extract people, to see where they are. Four floors fell.” Nearly 1.5 million Palestinians have sought refuge in Rafah, raising fears of mass casualties should the Zionist entity go ahead with a planned invasion of the city.
Mediators are trying to lock in a truce that would at least temporarily halt the fighting before the holy month of Ramadan. A senior Hamas official told AFP the group had sent a delegation to Cairo, and Egyptian state-linked media said envoys from the United States and Qatar had also arrived for talks on Sunday.
Any deal will come too late for Rania Abu Anza, who recounted the chaos of the strike and how she was told her children were gone. “I started shouting, ‘My children, my children,’” she said. “I asked the rescuers to search for my kids in the rubble. They pulled them. They told me, ‘Your children are dead.’”
The Gulf Cooperation Council supports a permanent, comprehensive solution that guarantees the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. GCC Secretary General Jasem Al-Budaiwi, addressing a joint ministerial-level talks in Riyadh, lamented the “catastrophic scenes” in the Gaza Strip, deploring the ongoing violence committed by Zionist forces against the Palestinian people, saying such moves are tantamount to ethnic cleansing and forced displacement.
The six-member bloc is unwavering in its support for the Palestinians, the GCC chief emphasized, vowing to ramp up diplomacy in efforts to halt the violence and protect the Palestinians, subsequently allowing the delivery of humanitarian aid into the Palestinian enclave.
Mediators in Cairo have made a renewed push for a Gaza ceasefire, but differences remained as fighting raged on in the Palestinian territory gripped by desperate food shortages. US, Qatari and Hamas envoys traveled to Cairo for the latest effort towards a six-week truce, stepped-up aid deliveries
and the exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners.
Despite the latest push to halt the fighting, Zionist bombing and urban combat again rocked Gaza, home to 2.4 million people, most of whom have been displaced. A Zionist siege on Gaza has sparked dire warnings from the United Nations of famine, leading the United States to start airdropping food rations into Gaza on Saturday. Jordan and some other countries have already done so. Screaming Palestinian children ran toward food parcels that drifted on black parachutes onto the Mediterranean beach.
At least 16 children have died of malnutrition in recent days as “famine spreads” in Gaza’s north, said health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra. Gaza’s desperation was grimly highlighted last Thursday when more than 100 people were killed in chaotic scenes around a convoy of aid trucks. Gaza health officials said Zionist forces opened fire into the crowd, causing a massacre. — Agencies