{"id":251398,"date":"2024-01-01T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=251398"},"modified":"2023-12-27T07:53:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T07:53:05","slug":"israeli-airstrikes-kill-76-members-of-one-gaza-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/01\/israeli-airstrikes-kill-76-members-of-one-gaza-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Airstrikes Kill 76 Members of One Gaza Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_251401\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gaza-israel-genocide-palestine.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251401\" class=\"wp-image-251401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gaza-israel-genocide-palestine-1024x341.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gaza-israel-genocide-palestine-1024x341.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gaza-israel-genocide-palestine-300x100.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gaza-israel-genocide-palestine-768x256.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gaza-israel-genocide-palestine.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-251401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gazans mourn as they collect the bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli airstrike on 24 Dec 2023 in Khan Yunis.\u00a0 (Photo: Ahmad Hasaballah\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;This war must end,&#8221; <\/em>said the head of the United Nations agency where one of the victims worked.<em> &#8220;No more families should endure the pain and suffering that Issam&#8217;s family and countless others are experiencing.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>24 Dec 2023 &#8211; <\/em>Gaza officials said yesterday that Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City killed 76 members of an extended family in one of the deadliest attacks of a war one expert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/bombing-gaza\" class=\"rm-stats-tracked\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> &#8220;one of the most intense civilian punishment campaigns in history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2666798899\" data-headline=\"Israeli Airstrikes Kill 76 Members of One Gaza Family\">\n<div class=\"body-description\">\n<p>Health and civil defense officials said 90 people were killed when Israeli airstrikes flattened two homes in Gaza City on Friday. Seventy-six of the dead were members of the al-Mughrabi family.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-hamas-war-news-12-23-2023-982fae4d0802b20d2a90423445c9f64b\" class=\"rm-stats-tracked\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that victims included longtime United Nations Development Program (UNDP) official Issam al-Mughrabi, his wife, and five of their children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For almost 30 years, Issam has worked with UNDP through our Program of Assistance to the Palestinian People. He will be remembered as a beloved member of the PAPP team,&#8221; UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.undp.org\/speeches\/statement-killing-undp-staff-member-and-family-gaza\" class=\"rm-stats-tracked\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>. &#8220;The loss of Issam and his family has deeply affected us all. The U.N. and civilians in Gaza are not a target.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Israeli airstrikes killed 76 Palestinians from the al-Mughrabi family in Gaza City on Friday &#8212; one of the deadliest attacks during a genocidal war <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nZrTrhCLiD\" >https:\/\/t.co\/nZrTrhCLiD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Electronic Intifada (@intifada) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intifada\/status\/1738961417644986772?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >December 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This war must end,&#8221; Steiner added. &#8220;No more families should endure the pain and suffering that Issam&#8217;s family and countless others are experiencing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During a lengthy Saturday call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Joe Biden &#8220;emphasized the critical need to protect the civilian population including those supporting the humanitarian aid operation, and the importance of allowing civilians to move safely away from areas of ongoing fighting,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2023\/12\/23\/readout-of-president-joe-bidens-call-with-prime-minister-netanyahu-of-israel\/\" class=\"rm-stats-tracked\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> the White House.<\/p>\n<p>This, after the United States wielded the threat of a veto to water down a proposed U.N. Security Council resolution so that the word &#8220;cease-fire&#8221; was removed in favor of language urging the creation of &#8220;conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/united-nation-resolution-gaza\" class=\"rm-stats-tracked\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abstained<\/a> from the vote anyway.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden claims he&#39;s pushing Israel to be more sensitive to civilian casualties while sending Israel 2,000lb bombs that Israel drops on residential buildings that kill scores of civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, one such bomb killed 76 members of the same family. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7fefHsqQwm\" >https:\/\/t.co\/7fefHsqQwm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Trita Parsi (@tparsi) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tparsi\/status\/1738596258363642303?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >December 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Israeli bombs and bullets have killed hundreds of Palestinians since Friday, when Palestinian officials said that more than 10 weeks of Israel&#8217;s near-relentless assault on Gaza had claimed more than 20,000 lives\u2014around 70% of them women and children\u2014while wounding more than 53,000 others, leaving thousands more missing and feared buried beneath rubble, and displacing around 1.9 million of the besieged enclave&#8217;s 2.3 million people.<\/p>\n<p><em>Common Dreams<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/elderly-gaza-victims\" class=\"rm-stats-tracked\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Saturday that more than 1,000 Palestinian elders have also killed by Israeli attacks during the 10-week Gaza onslaught, with dozens of men and women over age 60 &#8220;executed&#8221; by Israel Defense Forces troops, according to the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.<\/p>\n<p>Gaza health officials said last month that at least 312 families had lost more than 10 members to Israeli attacks, while aid workers have been using a new acronym, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/22\/the-plight-of-gazas-wcnsfs-wounded-child-no-surviving-family\" class=\"rm-stats-tracked\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WCNSF<\/a>\u2014which stands for &#8220;wounded child, no surviving family&#8221;\u2014to describe a record number of orphaned minors.<\/p>\n<p>One such child, 12-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/israel-killing-children-in-gaza\" class=\"rm-stats-tracked\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dunia Abu Mohsen<\/a>, was killed last week in an Israeli aistrike on al-Nasser Hospital after surviving a previous bombing that took her parents, siblings, and one of her legs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This beautiful princess Donia 12 years old is a Wounded Child with no Surviving Family WCNSF, she only wished to be a pediatrician \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Israeli occupation forces killed the WCNSF Donia Abu Mahsen in an Israeli airstrike targeting the pediatric and maternity wing at Nasser Medical\u2026 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qqXFh9uBJl\" >pic.twitter.com\/qqXFh9uBJl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hala Hanina (@HalaHanina) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HalaHanina\/status\/1736529878508327022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >December 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Public health and human rights groups are also sounding the alarm about the spread of communicable diseases and, increasingly, starvation, as Gazans\u2014almost all of whom are trapped in the strip\u2014reel from Israel&#8217;s cutoff of most food, safe water, medicine, and hygiene staples. Experts warn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/israel-gaza-water\" class=\"rm-stats-tracked\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">children<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/elderly-gaza-victims\" class=\"rm-stats-tracked\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">elders<\/a> are particularly at risk.<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/brett-wilkins-200x200-1-e1665030373963.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-221407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/brett-wilkins-200x200-1-e1665030373963.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a>Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for<\/em> Common Dreams.\u00a0\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/brett-wilkins\" ><em>Full Bio &gt;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/gaza-civilian-casualties-2666798899\" >Go to Original &#8211; commondreams.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 Dec 2023 &#8211; Israeli airstrikes killed 76 members of an extended family in &#8220;one of the most intense civilian punishment campaigns in history. 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