IDF Kills Seven Children Getting Water In A "Safe Zone"
Pure evil. It's not just Netanyahu.
Statehood For Peace and Freedom
9/4/20258 min read
TYT Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian blast Israel for non-stop murdering of children.
TYT Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian strongly criticize Israel, Netanyahu and the IDF for non-stop war crimes.
I wish Ana Kasparian and other US media pundits would stop referring to Palestinians as "innocent Palestinians" because Kasparian is inadvertently implying the existence of "guilty Palestinians" as Netanyahu and Israeli officials also bloviate about "innocent Palestinians."
There are no "innocent Palestinians," nor are there any "guilty Palestinians."
What are "guilty Palestinians" guilty of? Exercising their legal, lawful right to form and maintain armed resistance groups to evict the illegal Occupying Power Israel?
There's only Palestinians seeking freedom from US-backed Israeli occupation, terror, mass imprisonment.
Israel directed Palestinians to a safe zone, promising access to water and food for a population left starving and thirsty by its military assault.
The same day, bloodied children lay next to water jugs near a fountain. Others sprawled out on stretchers at a nearby hospital, their families wailing.
Palestinian health authorities said at least 13 people were killed, including seven children, in an Israeli strike Tuesday as they tried to collect drinking water in Al-Mawasi — the part of the Gaza Strip the Israeli military told Palestinians to head to.
Video shared with NBC News showed two young girls lying side by side on a steel stretcher at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis as their loved ones wailed and wrapped their arms around them, touching their faces one last time following the incident.
Nearby, four young boys lay lifeless on the floor, their faces spattered with blood as a pool of crimson red formed around one of their heads. Screams rang out around them as more children were rushed into the hospital, some crying out and covered in blood.
The Israeli military initially told NBC News on Tuesday that it had no record of strikes in the area of Al-Mawasi that day. Asked for an update Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces said it was looking into the matter.
Hours later, it said a strike targeting a “key” Hamas member had been conducted in western Khan Younis, but did not provide further details. It said it was aware of reports of casualties as a result of the strike, adding that the incident was under review.
Al-Mawasi, just west of Khan Younis, is sometime referred to as being in western Khan Younis, including by Israeli media. Asked for the coordinates of the strike and for clarity on whether it occurred in Al-Mawasi, the IDF declined to expand.
In separate video captured by a witness and shared with NBC News, several people, including children, lie bloodied by water jugs near a fountain as others race to help them. At least one of the victims seen dead in the video can also be seen being taken to Nasser Hospital in subsequent video verified by NBC News.
Children had been “running for the most basic right — water — only to be killed in cold blood,” said Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, director-general of the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza. He said Tuesday's strike unfolded in the Attar area of Al-Mawasi.
He initially said five children were killed, but Dr. Mohammad Saqr, director of nursing at Nasser Hospital, told NBC News on Wednesday that 13 people were killed, including seven children.
The deadly attack in an area considered a humanitarian zone unfolded as Israel began to mobilize tens of thousands of reservists to launch an expanded assault on Gaza City, forcing thousands of people to flee south.
The incident unfolded within hours of a statement from the Israeli military's Arabic language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, telling Palestinians in Gaza that "enhanced services" were being provided in Al-Mawasi, "with an emphasis on access to medical care, water and food."
He said the Israeli military was issuing the reminder ahead of its looming assault on Gaza City in the enclave's north. Israel has said Gaza City is a Hamas stronghold.
Satellite imagery has shown an increase in the build-up of tents in the Al-Mawasi area in recent months, with more tents appearing to crop up in recent days.
Hamas condemned Tuesday's deadly incident in a statement as it called for international intervention.
Israel, a U.S. ally, has faced growing international outrage over its assault in Gaza, where a dire hunger crisis continues under its offensive and crippling aid restrictions.
The world's leading body on hunger declared famine in the enclave for the first time last month. Israeli had denied reports of growing starvation in Gaza.
United Nations experts have also accused Israel of using "thirst as a weapon" and deliberately withholding access to safe drinking water.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said Wednesday that at least six people had died as a result of malnutrition within the span of 24 hours, including a child, bringing the total number of deaths from starvation to 367, including 131 children.
Israel launched its offensive in Gaza following the Hamas-led attacks in 2023, when 1,200 people were killed and around 250 were taken hostage, marking a major escalation in a decadeslong conflict.
Since then, Palestinian health officials say, more than 63,000 people have been killed in Gaza, including thousands of children, while much of the enclave has been reduced to rubble.
A leading genocide scholars' association passed a resolution this week saying the legal criteria had been met to establish that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Israel has denied allegations of genocide, including in an ongoing case at the U.N.’s top court.
Israel says they're invading Gaza City to "root out Hamas" and rescue the 20 Israeli soldiers being held hostage.
Netanyahu could have gained the release of the Israeli hostages a very long time ago, as Hamas has been offering to release all the Israeli hostages in exchange for the end of the war and the release of some Palestinian hostages for about two years now.
The problem is Netanyahu doesn't care about getting the hostages back as much as he cares about prolonging his date with the courts, justice and his fate.
Netanyahu will never "root out Hamas" but will continue to kill Palestinian men, women, children and babies night and day for the rest of the Trump administration.
Netanyahu is executing a war of attrition against the Palestinian people with the aid and assistance of Donald Trump and the U.S. government.
Despite Trump's rhetoric, Trump already gave Netanyahu the greenlight to continue his war on Hamas until the end of 2026.
Many people believe Netanyahu has already murdered about 10% of the entire Palestinian population and may eradicate nearly half the population by the year 2035, considering the sickening, disgusting fact that the Democratic Party will not stop sending bombs to Israel as long as Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and AIPAC are still around, enforcing AIPAC doctrine and policy on DNC candidates and officials.
Israel has been doing this for the past two years. This was from June of 2024.
The cuts on her feet from a strike she survived two weeks earlier had yet to heal, Asma Al-Sarafendi said, before more shrapnel embedded itself into the flesh of her leg during a strike this week on a designated humanitarian zone in southern Gaza.
The Wednesday strike on Al-Mawasi began just after midnight, Al-Sarafendi said, as she was sleeping with her husband and five children — Mouna, Shorouq, Layla, Asaad and Mhamad. They were awoken by aircraft overhead before flames engulfed the area around their tent, she told an NBC News crew in Gaza.
“People screaming, people on fire, men taking the children outside,” Al-Sarafendi said, describing the moments that followed. “We were all injured.”
She and one daughter suffered shrapnel wounds, while another’s scarf melted onto her skin, Al-Sarafendi said. Her husband, Abu Mustapha Al-Sarafendi, took their son and another daughter to the hospital with burns and shrapnel wounds, she added.
“I don’t have any news about them,” Al-Sarafendi said.
The Israel Defense Forces have repeatedly struck Al-Mawasi — an inhospitable patch of land north of Rafah that has expanded into a crowded tent city — despite having designated it a safe humanitarian zone. An investigation by NBC News into seven deadly airstrikes found Palestinians were killed in areas of southern Gaza that the Israeli military had explicitly designated as safe zones, including Al-Mawasi. In May, 21 people were killed in a strike on the camp, according to Reuters, an attack the Israeli military denied.
The IDF did not respond to a request for comment from NBC News to confirm it had attacked the area in Al-Mawasi on Wednesday.
RecommendedOn Friday, another round of blasts at Al-Mawasi killed at least 25 and injured 50, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
The International Committee of the Red Cross, a humanitarian organization, said strikes hit within yards of its offices and residences, which are surrounded by hundreds of displaced people in tents. “Firing so dangerously close to humanitarian structures puts the lives of civilians and humanitarians at risk,” the ICRC said on X.
The Israeli military said that “there is no indication that a strike was carried out by the IDF” inside the humanitarian zone, referring to Friday’s incident, adding that it was under review. According to The Associated Press, the locations of the blasts provided by the Civil Defense in Gaza and the Red Cross hospital appear to be just outside Al-Mawasi’s designated humanitarian zone.
A charred bicycle frame sits on the ground after an Israeli strike on Al-Mawasi early Wednesday.NBC News
Witnesses interviewed by NBC News’ crew in Gaza after the attack on Wednesday said shots were fired from an aircraft into the camp between 12:30 a.m and 1:00 a.m. Then, about five minutes later, came a missile or bomb, which sent shrapnel scattering and ignited fires in the camp.
For Al-Sarafendi, her accounting of the damage and injuries stretched from the chaos of Wednesday night back to the attacks that had pushed her family into Al-Mawasi in the first place, as the grinding regularity of one violent assault bled into the other.
On June 8, Al-Sarafendi, who is originally from Rafah, was sheltering in Nuseirat, in central Gaza, when Israeli forces conducted an operation to rescue four hostages, killing at least 270 people, according to Palestinian health authorities. Hundreds more were injured, including Al-Sarafendi. While Palestinian officials do not distinguish between civilians and fighters when reporting casualty figures, 64 children were reported to have died in the attack.
The family then walked from Nuseirat to Al-Mawasi, where her brother had carved out a space for her family.
“This is the humanitarian region they asked us to take refuge in,” Al-Sarafendi said in tears. “My brother saw me, he couldn’t believe I am alive. ... He kissed my feet, hugging me and saying, ‘Thanks to Allah you’re safe.’”
Before the war, Al-Mawasi was a tiny fishing village on Gaza’s Mediterranean coast. The village has grown into a densely populated tent city since the start of the war, becoming more crowded as some of the more than 1 million people who were sheltering in nearby Rafah fled the ground invasion that began there last month.
According to WAFA, the Palestinian news agency, at least seven people were killed in Wednesday’s strike and dozens more injured. Video filmed by rescuers and obtained by NBC News showed several people, apparently dead, blood pouring from their mouths, being pulled from a warehouse as it was engulfed in flames.
At a makeshift morgue, Amu Mhamed Abu Amara mourned over her relatives, including her niece Mariam Mhamed Slimane Abu Amra, whose unborn child, Abu Amara told the NBC News crew, had died with her in the attack.
Amu Amara mourns the death of her pregnant niece following airstrikes in Al-Mawasi.
“She had a baby in her belly, she was pregnant,” Abu Amara said. “We were safe in Rafah, and here we are displaced and our houses are gone, our children are gone, there’s no safe place in Gaza.”
Another woman assessed the charred remains of her tent.
“Kill us in one hit and let’s end it,” she told NBC News.
