A six-year-old Palestinian child was martyred and his mother was injured in a hate crime committed in the US state of Illinois on Sunday.
The authorities in the US state of Illinois confirmed that “a six-year-old Palestinian child was killed by 26 stab wounds, and his mother was injured in a hate crime.”
She pointed out that "the attacker killed the Palestinian child and targeted his family because of their religion and the events in the Middle East."
The Council on American-Islamic Relations stated, “The attacker committed his crime while repeating anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian statements.”
The council said, "The anti-Islamic and anti-Palestinian rhetoric of politicians and the media must be stopped."
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced on Sunday that about one million people were displaced in the Gaza Strip during the first week since the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
Agence France-Presse quoted the agency's communications director, Juliette Touma, as saying, "An estimated one million people were displaced in the first seven days."
According to UNRWA, this number is likely to increase as residents continue to leave their homes, for fear of Israeli bombing.
This comes as the death toll in Gaza rose to 2,670, while the wounded rose to 9,600, while the Israeli deaths rose to more than 1,400, at a time when the Gaza Strip is witnessing an intense and continuous aggression for the second week in a row, targeting populated areas and homes, while the occupation is exerting pressure through its aggression or in other ways. Other indirect activities, including partially resupplying the southern Gaza Strip with water in order to displace Gazans from the north to the south.
