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Israel hits Gaza 50 times overnight despite UN calls for truce

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Gaza City, Jan 9, IRNA – Israeli warplanes bombed Gaza 50 times overnight despite a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for “an immediate, durable and fully respected cease-fire.”

New dimensions of Israeli blatant genocide emerge as outcomes of its everyday indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza Strip by warplanes and tank and artillery cannons.

The U.N. said in a report that 30 Palestinians were killed earlier this week when the Israeli army moved 110 civilians into a house which was then shelled.

The United Nations Office for the Coordinator of Humanitarian Affairs said Israeli shelling killed 30 people who had been ordered along with 80 others to evacuate their homes and gather in a single apartment house.

“The next day the house was shelled,” Allegra Pacheco, a spokeswoman for the United Nations office said.

More than 18 Palestinians were killed across the Gaza Strip on Friday, medical workers said. They said some of the fatalities were civilians but gave no exact figures.

Palestinian medics said tanks shelled a house in Beit Lahiya in the north of the Gaza Strip, killing six Palestinians from the same family.

On Thursday, the United Nations declared a suspension of its aid operations after one of its drivers was killed and two others were wounded despite driving United Nations-flagged vehicles and coordinating their movements with the Israeli military.

The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, called for an investigation for a second time in a week of the more than 40 deaths at United Nations school from Israeli tank fire on Tuesday.

The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross also said it was restricting its operations on Friday after one of its trucks was hit by small arms fire.

Earlier this week, the committee reported finding what it called shocking scenes, including four emaciated children next to the corpses of their mothers.

In a sharply critical statement, it said it believed that “the Israeli military failed to meet its obligation under international humanitarian law to care for and evacuate the wounded.”

In Gaza, local ambulance crews and the Red Crescent, using a time slot coordinated with Israeli forces, said they collected rotting corpses in places that had been too risky to reach since Israeli forces began their ground attack six days ago.