In Gaza, the week marked 1,000 days since Israel’s genocidal war began. Gaza’s Government Media Office said that more than 90 percent of the Strip had been destroyed.By July 6, Gaza’s Ministry of Health put the toll since the October “ceasefire” at 1,072 killed, with the cumulative figure since October 2023 reaching 73,098.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe killing did not pause for the anniversary. Israeli forces killed at least three Palestinians in a drone strike near al-Hilu station on July 1 and at least seven more over the following 48 hours, among them a child killed by a quadcopter-dropped bomb at the Shujayea junction and 10-year-old Tareq Sabah, killed near Khan Younis, according to local field reports. Strikes on tents sheltering the displaced in the designated al-Mawasi humanitarian zone recurred throughout the week.The enclave’s sick and wounded – deprived still of critical medical supplies in the decimated Strip – protested outside Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital to demand that Israel lift travel restrictions on medical evacuations, with Gaza health authorities saying more than 20,000 people are awaiting exit through a throttled Rafah crossing.Separately, Elyas Abu Safiya, the son of the director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, said his father’s health was deteriorating sharply after more than 555 days in Israeli prison.Elyas Abu Safiya said on Sunday that his father’s lawyer had returned from a recent visit and said that Hussam Abu Safiya was having difficulties breathing and speaking. Advertisement “His face was disfigured from the marks of torture and pain, and the blood he endured inside the prison, especially after the last court session held in Jerusalem,” Elyas Abu Safiya said.The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention …
