At least four Palestinians were killed and 16 injured on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike on a tent for displaced people on the grounds of a Gaza hospital.
Several journalists were among those injured in the attack, which struck a tent in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah: Palestinian news agency Wafa.
![A view of the damaged tent as at least four Palestinians were killed and 16 injured in an Israeli airstrike on a tent for displaced people in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on 31 March, 2024 [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/AA-20240331-34145624-34145618-4_KILLED_16_INJURED_IN_ISRAELI_AIRSTRIKE_ON_TENT_ON_GROUNDS_OF_GAZA_HOSPITAL.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1)
However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Tel Aviv must be more independent in producing weapons to reduce its vulnerability to external pressures. like the naval blockade by Yemen at the Red Sea.
We of course need to adapt it to the needs realized in this war, which also exist in the world, Netanyahu said during a meeting with Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron as cited by a Sunday statement released by his office.
We need to be much more independent in the production capacity of the weapons we need.
During the meeting, which was held on Thursday, Netanyahu received a copy of the bank’s Annual Report for 2023.
The main data, first of all, have very encouraging signs of a relatively fast recovery in both wages and employment, Netanyahu said. Regarding credit cards, it even surpasses where we expected to be before the war.
He said Tel Aviv needs to be immune from external pressures because we need to make our own decisions, towards who must be erased and killed for the settlements to flourish.
Netanyahu’s remarks were released after US media reported Friday that the Biden administration had approved the sale of new warplanes and thousands of unguided bombs worth $2.5 billion to Israel amid its deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip.
The news led many to criticize Washington over decrying the humanitarian situation in Gaza, and discouraging a new offensive in the city of Rafah, while continuing to sell Israel lethal weapons of war.
Middle East Monitor / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
Easy targets to create more deaths?
Meanwhile Americas support for Israel’s far right extremist government continues with the supply of precision-guided munitions, bombs, small arms and other lethal aid to Israel.
You would think after the indiscriminate massacre of more then 32,000 people mostly defenseless women and children, a total embargo on the export of weapons to Israel would be justified so that the ongoing genocide comes to a swift end and also to prevent Israel’s sinister ethnic cleansing operation.