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Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israeli far-right minister of national security, celebrated the Israeli military’s destruction of Mushtaha Tower, a tall residential building in Gaza City, sharing a video of the strike on social media with an Israeli flag and a flexed bicep emoji. The tower was hit by two missile strikes from F-16 jets and was sheltering Palestinians forcibly displaced by Israel’s evacuation orders. This attack has raised fears of a new, intensified phase of ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza.

Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz captioned the destruction of a residential building in Gaza with the words: “we continue” - this comes after he declared yesterday that the “bolt has now been removed from the gates of hell in Gaza,” bringing in a new phase of escalation on the city. The Government Media Office condemned this escalation as nothing more than “to terrorize the population and force them to flee, as part of a systematic crime of forced displacement that amounts to a crime against humanity”.

This escalation comes on the 700th consecutive day of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. According to the Government Media Office, more than 73,731 Palestinians have been killed or gone missing since October 7, 2023. This includes 20,000+ children and 12,500+ women. At least 162,000 have been injured, many with amputations, paralysis, or permanent disabilities. Entire families — 2,700 of them — have been wiped from the civil registry. The Government Media Office reports that 90% of Gaza’s infrastructure has been destroyed, with initial damages exceeding $68 billion. Israel has deliberately targeted hospitals, schools, mosques, and civilian shelters, imposing starvation through a near-total blockade and preventing hundreds of thousands of aid trucks from entering.

Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israeli far-right minister of national security, celebrated the Israeli military’s destruction of Mushtaha Tower, a tall residential building in Gaza City, sharing a video of the strike on social media with an Israeli flag and a flexed bicep emoji. The tower was hit by two missile strikes from F-16 jets and was sheltering Palestinians forcibly displaced by Israel’s evacuation orders. This attack has raised fears of a new, intensified phase of ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza.