Intense fighting was under way both north and south Gaza, a day after the United Nations demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. U.S. President Joe Biden said Israel’s “indiscriminate” bombing of civilians was costing international support.
Warplanes again bombed the length of Gaza and aid officials said the arrival of winter rain worsened conditions for hundreds of thousands sleeping rough in makeshift tents. The vast majority of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been made homeless.
Israel had global sympathy when it launched a campaign to annihilate the Hamas militant group that controls Gaza after fighters stormed across the border fence on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians, and seizing 240 hostages.
But since then, Israel has besieged the enclave and laid much of it to waste. Gaza’s health ministry said on Wednesday at least 18,608 people have been killed and 50,594 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct. 7. Many thousands more are feared lost in the rubble or beyond the reach of ambulances.
In Rafah, in Gaza’s south where hundreds of thousands of people have sought shelter, the bodies of a family killed in an overnight air strike were being laid out in the rain in bloodied white shrouds, including several small children. One, the size of a newborn, was wrapped in a pink blanket.
Israel reported 10 of its soldiers killed in the past 24 hours, including a full colonel commanding a forward base and a lieutenant-colonel commanding a regiment. It was the worst one-day loss since 15 soldiers were killed on Oct. 31.
Omg 10
Did you expect more from the headline? Journalism at its best…
Wow Reuters blocking my adblocker is not cool. Fuck all these corpos man I have no respect for that shit
Reuters is a quality news source and as long as the ads are non intrusive I’ll allow them.
Downvoted for lowering standards.
You can either pay, or deal with ads. Your choice
Nowhere is it written that ads are required to lessen a user’s experience but here we are.
What solution would you like?
Everything for free?
Where did I say that? Are you actually not old enough to remember non intrusive banner ads?
I am older than the common era of the internet, like before 56k.
I remember them, I also remember never actually looking at them.
They just didn’t work.
If the marginal cost of reproducing a thing approaches zero, then obviously the appropriate price point is “free”. It costs almost nothing to serve a webpage, but if that page is filled with intrusive and potentially malicious adverts then the cost of viewing it is astronomical in comparison. You wouldnt go out in public naked, and nobody should be using the web without adblock.
It costs almost nothing to serve a webpage,
Wut? To one person maybe, but once you’re scaling to delivering that same webpage to hundreds of thousands to millions that cost rises dramatically lmao do you even know how powerful a system needs to be to serve a million requests for the same webpage at the same time?
Even a text only webpage is going to need some good power behind it just to handle the protocol overhead and that’s not even covering the infrastructure costs
I’ll continue doing neither like I have been for decades.
Reuters seems unable to detect my ad blocking, I’m using AdAway in root mode on Android and able to read the article without ads
Urban warfare increases casualties. Especially when it’s house to house.
You mean when it’s ruins to ruins
Or when dropping huge bombs from aircraft.
Fuck ‘em.
Israel is literally costing the war in Ukraine
Israel had global sympathy
No it didn’t.
Fuck Israel.
