By Aljazeera Zaheena Rasheed and Stephen Quillen
Published On 14 Aug 202414 Aug 2024
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At least 39,929 people have been killed and 92,240 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 and more than 200 were taken captive.
Palestine’s UN envoy Riyad Mansour tells emergency meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) that “Israel does not care about your condemnations” over the mass killing of civilians and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.
The UN’s humanitarian agency tells UNSC that the recent attack on a Gaza City school, which killed at least 100 people, was “far from an isolated incident” and Israeli strikes on schools “occurring with increasing frequency”.
Israel’s military orders Palestinians to immediately leave more areas of war-battered Khan Younis as it prepares to “act forcefully”.
The US approved more than $20bn in new weapons sales to Israel despite calls to stop arms deliveries amid the huge Palestinian civilian death toll due to Israel’s war on Gaza.
