Dr Adnan Al-Bursh, 50, who was the head of orthopaedics at al-Shifa Hospital, has died in an Israeli prison after more than four months in detention, Palestinian prisoner associations have said.
Colleagues have paid tribute to the late surgeon, describing him as "compassionate" and "heroic".
CW: There's some artful hypocrisy from a White House spokesperson in the article, along with the usual BBC bothsidesism.
He was not an islamophobic Nazi loving Russian opposition character like Navalny who died of heart failure, no one in the "civilized west" will care about him or even bother learning his name, much less making official statement about his murder.
"We must obliterate Rafah, Deir al-Balah, and Nuseirat. The memory of the Amalekites must be erased. No partial destruction will suffice; only absolute and complete devastation." ~ Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich
Gaza’s unexploded ordnance could take 14 years to clear (UN News, 2024-04-26)
"Pehr Lodhammar, a senior officer from the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), said that the war has left an estimated 37 million tonnes of debris.
"He said it was impossible to determine the exact amount of unexploded ordnance in the enclave..., after nearly seven months of intense Israeli bombardment.
"Every square metre in Gaza impacted by the conflict contains some 200 kilogrammes of rubble, the veteran UN demining expert told journalists in Geneva.
“'All I can say is that at least 10 per cent of the ammunition that is being fired potentially fails to function…with 100 trucks we’re talking about 14 years of work with 100 trucks, so that’s 14 years to remove with about 750,000 workdays - person workdays - to remove the debris.'”
Israeli occupation drones have opened fire on Palestinian civilians inside their homes, killing one and injuring two in the al-Mashahreh area in al-Tuffah neighborhood, #Gaza City.
Axios reports that members of the US #Congress in both parties warned the ICC that arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials will be met with US retaliation, and legislation to that effect is already in the works.
House Speaker Mike Johnson had issued a statement on Monday calling the reported warrants "disgraceful" and "lawless."