UN Calls Gaza ‘Human Chess Board’, Top Iran Commander Killed In Israeli Airstrike

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that the war in Gaza against militants of Hamas will not stop until the end but a United Nations worker in the coastal strip said that the safety of Palestinians cannot be guaranteed, as per a Reuters report.  

Netanyahu made the remark during his visit to Israeli troops in northern Gaza on Monday. He told the lawmakers from his Likud party that the war was far from over and dismissed what he cast as media speculation his government might call a halt to the fighting.

“We are not stopping. The war will continue until the end, until we finish it, no less,” said the Israeli PM during his Gaza visit, according to the report. 

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‘Human Chess Board’ 

Gemma Connell, a UN team leader deployed in Gaza for several weeks said that there is no guarantee that a destination will be safe for thousands of Palestinians, displaced many times already, describing the situation as a “human chess board”. 

“There’s so little space left here in Rafah that people just don’t know where they will go and it really feels like people are being moved around a human chessboard because there’s an evacuation order somewhere,” Connell, who on Monday visited the Deir al-Balah neighbourhood in central Gaza. 

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Top Iran Commander Killed In Israeli Airstrike  

A senior adviser in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Sayyed Razi Mousavi was killed in an Israeli airstrike outside Syrian capital Damascus on Monday, reported Iranian media and Reuters quoting three security forces. 

According to the Reuters report, quoting sources, Mousavi was responsible for coordinating the military alliance between Syria and Iran. 

Mousavi “was killed during an attack by the Zionist regime a few hours ago in Zeinabiyah district in the suburbs of Damascus,” Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported. 

In a statement read on state TV, the IRGC said that the “usurper and savage Zionist regime will pay for this crime”, as per an Al Jazeera report.