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Two people were killed in an Israeli attack on a car on Thursday, September 12, in the southern province of Qouneitra, in the part of the Golan controlled by Damascus, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported.
Israeli operations, which have caused a humanitarian and health disaster in the Gaza Strip, have left 41,118 people dead, according to the latest report published by the Hamas-run enclave’s health ministry. At least 34 people have been killed in the past 24 hours, it said in a statement, adding that 95,125 people have been injured in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war on October 7.
Israel has vowed to destroy the Palestinian Islamist movement following its unprecedented attack in southern Israel, which killed 1,205 people, most of them civilians, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) tally based on official Israeli data.
Drone launched at car kills two in Syria
“Two citizens were killed in an Israeli attack carried out by a drone that launched a missile at a civilian car” on the road linking Qouneitra to Damascus, SANA said. A local security source told AFP that “Two charred bodies had been removed from a vehicle targeted in an attack”.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based NGO with a wide network of sources in Syria, said the two people killed included a soldier.
This raid follows particularly violent attacks, attributed by Damascus to Israel, which targeted central Syria during the night from Sunday to Monday and left 18 dead, according to the authorities, 27 according to the OSDH. According to the NGO, the attacks in the Mesyaf region mainly targeted sensitive military sites.
The Israeli military initially had no comment on Thursday morning’s attack.
The international community condemns the Israeli attack on a school in the Gaza Strip
France on Thursday condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli attack on September 11 on the Al-Jouni school in the Nusseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing 18 people, according to the Gaza Civil Defense, including staff of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA).
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The German Foreign Ministry ruled on Thursday that “totally unacceptable” the death of six UN employees. “Aid workers must never be victims of rockets”The ministry said in X, adding that “The Israeli army has a responsibility to protect UN staff and humanitarian workers.”
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for the protection of humanitarian workers and said a U.S.-backed ceasefire was the best way to ensure their safety. “We must ensure the protection of humanitarian sites, and this is an issue we continue to raise with Israel.”Blinken said during a visit to Poland.
“A school transformed into a shelter for 12,000 people was again targeted by Israeli airstrikes today. Six of our UNRWA colleagues are among the dead”The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, regretted, for his part, on the X channel. “What is happening in Gaza is completely unacceptable”Guterres stressed, declaring that “These dramatic violations of international humanitarian law must cease immediately”.
WHO believes it has achieved its goal of polio vaccination in Gaza
The first round of polio vaccinations in Gaza, aimed at preventing an outbreak in the war-torn territory and beyond, has “probably achieved the stated objective”“The World Health Organization (WHO) representative in the occupied Palestinian territories, Richard Peeperkorn, told a news conference on Thursday. “We are satisfied” of this vaccination campaign, he said.
More than 552,000 children had already received the first dose as of Wednesday. The second dose should be administered in about four weeks, the UN agency said, on the last day of the first phase.
Richard Peeperkorn was pleased that so many parents came forward to vaccinate their children. He said, “We are very grateful that specific humanitarian pauses in certain areas have been respected during the campaign” vaccination by the belligerents.
