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GAZA. – Israeli forces continued deadly assaults across Gaza yesterday, killing many others amid calls for a ceasefire with Hamas.

Israeli forces killed at least five people at a bakery in al-Mawasi, 10 people in Nuseirat camp as well as targeting Gaza City’s Zeitoun and Sheikh Radwan neighbourhoods where another 10 people, including children, were killed.

The Israeli military, after months of denials, admitted there was a “high probability” that three Israeli captives who died in Gaza last November were killed in its own air attacks.

At least 41 226 people have been killed and 95 413 wounded in Israel’s cruel war on Palestine.

Mr George Katrougalos, the UN special rapporteur on the promotion of democratic and equitable international order, stressed that Israel be held to the same standards as all countries, and condemned its repeated attacks on critical UN officials or agencies.

“We cannot anymore stand this kind of double standards and hypocrisy.

“I hope that it is not going to continue… I trust that the progressive and democratic citizens of Israel would not let their country become a pariah like South Africa had become during the times of apartheid,” he told reporters.

Meanwhile, 42 years ago yesterday, the Israeli military facilitated the killing of as many as 3 500 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians in the Sabra neighbourhood and Shatila refugee camp in Beirut.

Israeli troops had laid siege to the camp and allowed allied right-wing Christian fighters to enter it and commit atrocities against defenceless people there.

The slaughter went on for three days and most of the victims were Palestinian.

The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement said the Sabra and Shatila anniversary is a “stark reminder of Israel’s ongoing violent massacres, displacement of Indigenous Palestinians, and its denial of our refugees’ right of return”.

“Today, as we approach a year since the start of the live-streamed US-Israeli genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip, our people, fragmented by colonialism, stands united in resisting the genocide and Israel’s 76-year-old regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid,” the BDS National Committee said in a statement. – AlJazeera.com