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On Monday Israel attacked Gaza killing at least 60 people, despite Israeli strategic affairs minister Ron Dermer being expected to meet White House officials on Tuesday to discuss a Trump-backed ceasefire which The President and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to following the U.S. strike on Iranian nuclear sites.
“But on the ground in the Palestinian enclave, there was no sign of fighting letting up. The Israeli military issued evacuation orders on Monday to residents in large districts in the northern Gaza Strip, forcing a new wave of displacement,” Reuters said Monday.
“Explosions never stopped; they bombed schools and homes. It felt like earthquakes,” said Salah, 60, a father of five children, from Gaza City. “In the news we hear a ceasefire is near, on the ground we see death and we hear explosions.”
“Look at us, we are not just numbers and not just pictures. Every day martyrs like this,” said displaced woman Amani Swalha, standing in the rubble of a Gaza city school hit in a strike. “It is our right to live, and to live with dignity, not like this in humiliation.”
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According to Reuters, Israel targeted schools for bombing and killed civilians before an imminent ceasefire would end the opportunity for violence.
“Israeli tanks pushed into the eastern areas of Zeitoun suburb in Gaza City and shelled several areas in the north, while aircraft bombed at least four schools after ordering hundreds of families sheltering inside to leave, residents said. At least 58 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Monday, health authorities said, including 10 people killed in Zeitoun and at least 13 killed southwest of Gaza City. Medics said most of the 13 were hit by gunfire, but residents also reported an airstrike,” Reuters said. “Twenty-two people, including women, children and a local journalist were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a beachfront cafe in Gaza City, medics said. The Palestinian Journalist Syndicate said more than 220 journalists had been killed in Gaza since the war began in October 2023.”
Israel’s military chief said Friday that this current ground operation was close to achieved its goals. Netanyahu said on Sunday that new opportunities had opened up for recovering the Israeli hostages, 20 of them are believed to be alive.
The move to end Israel’s genocide in Gaza comes following diplomatic work of President Trump.
On the night of June 23 Trump and Netanyahu spoke over the phone following the U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear sites. On Thursday the results of that call were revealed – Netanyahu agreed to end Israeli hostilities against Gaza within two weeks, along with a number of other developments which indicate Trump successfully planted his agenda of peace (and Washington as a whole) in a dominate position against Israel’s quest for war.
