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The Ministry of Health of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip announced on Saturday, September 14, a new death toll of 41,182 in the Palestinian territory since the start of the war with Israel, which is entering its twelfth month. At least 64 people have died in the past forty-eight hours, it said in a statement, adding that 95,280 people have been injured in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war on October 7, 2023.
The war was triggered by a Hamas attack that killed 1,205 people on the Israeli side, most of them civilians, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) count based on official Israeli data. Of the 251 people kidnapped in Israel on 7 October 2023, 97 are still being held in the Gaza Strip, 33 of whom were declared dead by the Israeli army.
Gaza civil defense accuses Israel of killing 11 people in house attack
Gaza’s civil defense reported on Saturday that eleven people, including four children and three women, were killed in an overnight Israeli attack on a house sheltering displaced Palestinians. Civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said the attack took place near the Choujaiya school in the Al-Touffah neighborhood in eastern Gaza City. He explained that “Several families had taken refuge in the house, which was hit by a single missile without warning”and reports numerous injuries. “The search for the missing continues”he added. The Israeli military had no immediate comment.
The spokesman for the Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip also reported that at least ten people were killed in overnight airstrikes carried out by Israel in the besieged Palestinian territory. Five of them were killed in northwest Gaza City in an attack that hit a group of people near the Dar Al-Arqam school, he said. Three other people were killed in an attack in the Al-Mawasi sector of Khan Younes, in the south of the territory where tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have found refuge, the spokesman added.
Murdered in the West Bank, Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was buried in Türkiye
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, the young Turkish-American activist killed in the West Bank on September 6, was buried as a martyr on Saturday in western Turkey. Her coffin was escorted to the small cemetery in Didim, on the Aegean coast, by a crowd of several hundred people. As soon as her death was announced, Ankara, which launched an investigation, denounced it. “arbitrary murder” attributed to the Israeli army: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan assured that his country will do everything possible to ensure that this death “do not go unpunished”On Saturday, his top adviser, Farhettin Altun, urged the United States to open an investigation and “pressure Israeli authorities to provide answers and full accountability”.
Aysenur Eygi, an activist with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), was killed while taking part in an anti-settler demonstration in the northern occupied West Bank, near Nablus. The Israeli military ruled “very likely” that shots from their ranks killed “indirectly and involuntarily” the young woman.
Turkey plans to issue international arrest warrants based on the results of its investigation. Ankara also called on the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions to set up an independent commission of inquiry and draft a report on Ms.me Eygi, with the intention of accompanying him in the ongoing proceedings for “genocide” against Israel before the International Court of Justice and in the ongoing investigation before the International Criminal Court.
