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By Brian Osgood and Ali HarbKhan Younis’ besiged
    Nasser Medical Complex has become “place of death”, says UN official after aid visit.
   Eight patients at Nasser Hospital have died after generators shut off due to lack of fuel, the Gaza Health Ministry says.
   A 15-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by Israel forces in the occupied West Bank town of Azzun, the Palestinian Health Ministry says.
   At least 29,313 Palestinians have been killed and 69,333 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, the Health Ministry says. The death toll in Israel from the October 7 Hamas-led attacks stands at 1,139.

    Hamas rebukes Knesset vote against Palestinian state

    In response to a Netanyahu-backed declaration by the Israeli parliament rejecting a Palestinian state, Hamas has called on the international community to recognise Palestine.

    “This vote puts the international community and the United Nations before a real test of rejecting the dictates of the Zionist occupation and its decisions that are fundamentally invalid and aimed at obliterating the Palestinian cause by continuing the war of extermination that is being sponsored and supported by the administration of President Biden,” the group said in a statement.

    ‘We should kill them all’ and other anti-Palestinian remarks by US politicians

    Republican Congressman Andy Ogles, who said “we should kill them all” when confronted about the growing casualties amongst Palestinian children, is only the latest US politician to make such comments.

    Since the outbreak of the war on October 7, several lawmakers and officials in Washington have used what activists say is dehumanising language against Palestinians and Gaza.

    Here are some of their comments:

    Senator Lindsey Graham: “We are in a religious war here. I am with Israel. Do whatever the hell you have to do to defend yourselves. Level the place.”
   Congressman Max Miller: “They [Palestine] are a territory that’s about to probably get eviscerated and go away here shortly, as we’re going to turn that into a parking lot.”
   Congressman Brian Mast: “There are very few innocent Palestinian civilians.”
   Presidential candidate Nikki Haley: “Finish them. Finish them.”
   Florida state legislator Michelle Salzman when asked how many Palestinians need to be killed: “All of them.”
   President Joe Biden: “I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed. I’m sure innocents have been killed, and it’s the price of waging a war.”