Dozens killed in Israel attack on displacement camp in Gaza
Sanders: US complicit in Israeli crimes
Gaza’s health ministry said dozens were killed Saturday in an Israeli strike on a displacement camp in an area where Israel claimed it targeted Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif.
It is the latest mass-casualty incident in the Al-Mawasi area, where many Palestinians had fled, and came as international mediators pushed on with efforts to halt the nine-month war between Israel and Hamas, according to AFP.
A statement from the Gaza health ministry said there were more than “71 martyrs” and 289 people wounded in what it called a “brutal massacre by the occupation”, a reference to Israel, at Al-Mawasi camp.
The Israeli military claimed it had targeted Deif and Rafa Salama, a brigade commander, calling them two of the masterminds of the October 7 operation which sparked the Gaza war. A Hamas statement called the claim that Deif had been targeted “false allegations” intended “to cover up the magnitude of the horrific massacre”.
The US Senator Bernie Sanders said the US is complicit in the Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip.
“Yet, in the midst of this horror and violations of international law, the United States continues to send billions of dollars and thousands of bombs and other weapons to support this war. We, as Americans, are complicit.”
“We must end our support for Netanyahu’s war. Not another nickel to make this horrific situation even worse. I intend to do everything I can to block further arms transfers to Israel, including through joint resolutions of disapproval of any arms sales. The United States must not help a right-wing extremist and war criminal continue this atrocity,” Sanders said in a
statement.