Israel kills 118 Palestinians, diluting Trump's ceasefire proposal

BarcelonaAt least 118 Palestinians have been killed in several Israeli attacks since Wednesday night, according to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry. These attacks on the entire Gaza Strip coincide with US President Donald Trump's attempts to obtain a 60-day ceasefire, which the Israeli government has once again watered down, although, according to Washington, it allegedly accepted.

Just two days after Trump's announcement, Israeli government spokesman David Mencer asserted that "walking out, withdrawing, and then simply allowing Hamas to regroup (...) is simply not an option." The White House's response, far from criticizing the Netanyahu administration for rejecting the ceasefire, reinforces the offensive against Hamas. The US ambassador to Israel has stated that Hamas "has no future in Gaza," and Israel insists on demanding that it lay down its weapons and cede full control of the territory. Requirements that the Gaza government is not willing to accept.

Among the dead in today's attacks are 12 people who had gone to the humanitarian aid distribution points provided by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), implemented by Israel and the United States, and rejected by all international organizations on the ground. The total number of people who have died seeking humanitarian aid since May 27 has risen to 652, with more than 4,537 injured, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

Israel also bombed the Lebanese capital this afternoon, after weeks of failure. At least one person was killed and three others were injured when an Israeli drone struck a vehicle traveling in the Khalde area, about 10 kilometers south of Beirut. Al Jazeera also reported Israeli airstrikes in the hills overlooking the town of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon and in the villages of Jarmaq, Mahmoudiya, and Aaichiyeh.

For her part, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in occupied Palestine, Francesca Albanese, presented her latest report today in Geneva, which focuses on the economic dimension of an offensive that many international organizations consider a genocide. Albanese alleges that Israeli and international companies and individuals are benefiting financially from the conflict, which has increased profits on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 213% in the last twenty months. This profit is concentrated in the surveillance and security businesses, and in the production of weapons, "which are supplied by the West to Israel, which adapts them and then sells them" to other clients, Albanese stated.