‘Another Night of Killing and Massacres’ in Gaza

 

Entire families are being annihilated one airstrike at a time

by Daniel Larison 

Posted onDecember 28, 2023

The Associated Press reports that dozens more civilians were killed in last night’s airstrikes in northern Gaza:

“It was another night of killing and massacres,” said Saeed Moustafa, a resident of the Nuseirat camp. He said people were still crying out from the rubble of a house hit by an airstrike on Wednesday.

“We are unable to get them out. We hear their screams but we don’t have equipment,” he said.

Among those killed in these strikes were 12 members of a journalist’s family. Entire families are being annihilated one airstrike at a time. In one such strike over the weekend, a UN Development Program staff member and over 70 members of his extended family were all killed. Many extended families have suffered comparable losses. The Financial Times reported earlier this month:

The tradition of extended families living together in multistorey buildings, compounded by relatives moving in together for safety in wartime, has meant that hundreds of multigenerational families have suffered the same fate as the Aghas, all but wiped out in single or multiple strikes.

About 1,550 families have lost multiple members, according to health officials in the Hamas-controlled territory. At least 312 families had each lost more than 10 people by November 23, the officials said.

Those numbers keep growing every day that this war is allowed to continue.

Israel’s military campaign has only intensified in the last few weeks. The Netanyahu government continues to ignore the Biden administration’s empty warnings about complying with international law because they know that they face no consequences for anything that they do in this war. Biden sends one top official after another to Israel to make it look as if he is doing something, and each time the official reaffirms unwavering U.S. support for a campaign of mass killing that Washington pretends is something else.

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Daniel Larison is a contributing editor for Antiwar.com and maintains his own site at Eunomia. He is former senior editor at The American Conservative. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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