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On August 18, the Israeli army continued its military operations in the Gaza Strip, bombing many areas of the Strip. Palestinian armed groups launched attacks on Israeli targets.

Faris, a civil defense officer: The Israeli army attacked a residential building in the Jabaliya refugee camp, killing and injuring people. Most of them were women and children. The Israeli army is still committing genocide against the Palestinians, and the massacre and revenge against the Palestinian people are still continuing.

Gaza mother and six children killed in bombing

Four of them are rare quadruplets

On the same day, a house in the central Gaza Strip city of Deir al-Balah was bombed by the Israeli army. According to the hospital, the bombing killed a mother and her six children.

On the evening of the 18th local time, the local health department of Deir el-Balah announced the latest statistics: 28 civilians were killed in the local hospital in the airstrike that started on the evening of the 17th and lasted until the 18th; and after a residential house was attacked in the early morning of the 18th, a woman and her six children were killed at the same time, four of whom were rare quadruplets. The woman's husband was hospitalized due to injuries.

Khattab, grandfather of 6 children: A whole family! The mother and her 6 children, the oldest is 15 years old and the youngest is one and a half years old. What did they do wrong?

The three-day-old newborn twins were also killed in the explosion.

Aysel and Asser are twins. On the 13th, their mother Jumana was killed along with the twins in the Israeli bombing of Deir al-Balah, a city in central Gaza. The twins were less than four days old at the time. Their father, Kumsun, was in the hospital getting the birth certificates of the children when he received a call informing him of the attack on his family. When Kumsun arrived, his wife and children were already lying in the freezer for storing bodies.

▲Kumsan burst into tears

Kumsun cried and said sadly, "What did my wife do to deserve to die with our children? The children are only three days old. I have not celebrated their birth into the world, and neither has my wife."

▲Kumsan shows the birth certificate he just received

According to statistics from the Gaza Ministry of Health, more than half of the civilians who died in the war were women and children, and Israel's indiscriminate bombing of the medical system has made pregnant women and infants the most vulnerable groups. Many pregnant women do not have the necessary conditions for childbirth, and some even have to give birth in parking lots, tents, or even in the ruins of buildings. The observation report of the United Nations agency pointed out that due to the lack of equipment such as ventilators and incubators, many babies in Gaza are in very dangerous physical conditions, "too weak to cry." Kumsang's wife was also too weak to get out of bed and walk because of her caesarean section.

According to reports, many newborn deaths in Gaza have made the public feel the cruelty of war more directly. After three years of efforts, a couple in Gaza finally gave birth to a baby through in vitro fertilization, but this "miracle child" was soon killed in an Israeli air strike. After witnessing her brother and two nephews being killed in the bombing, an English teacher wrote in her diary that she was "glad that she had a miscarriage that year" and thought it was a relief not to bring a child into the world.

Blinken visits the Middle East for the ninth time.

Ceasefire agreement a “decisive moment”?

On August 18, local time, US Secretary of State Blinken arrived in Israel. This was his ninth visit to the Middle East since the outbreak of a new round of conflict between Palestine and Israel. According to CCTV News, on the 19th local time, Blinken said during a meeting with Israeli President Herzog that now is the "decisive moment" to promote a ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

▲On August 19, Blinken met with Herzog According to Visual China

However, Blinken's trip to the Middle East was met with a "wake-up call" from both sides of the conflict: Netanyahu privately told Israeli officials that it was unlikely that Blinken would be able to successfully mediate; within a few hours after Blinken landed, Hamas issued a statement saying that there was no chance of a ceasefire agreement while Israel deliberately undermined peace.

According to China News Service, on the 18th local time, Hamas said it rejected the latest ceasefire and hostage release agreement proposal for the Gaza Strip put forward by the United States, and accused Netanyahu of still setting obstacles and putting forward new conditions and demands.

At the time when Blinken was trying to mediate, Israel still did not relax its bombing in Gaza. The recent attacks also caused many civilian casualties, and the casualties of children were even more shocking. According to statistics from the Gaza Ministry of Health, about 115 newborns have died in this round of conflict. Both the United Nations and the US government believe that the casualty data of this department is reliable. Some reports even say that Gaza has now become a "children's hell."

Source: Red Star News reporter Zheng Zhi, CCTV Global Information Broadcast (reporters Dong Jingjing and Chen Meng), CCTV News (Jiang Haoyu)