According to medical sources, at least 59 people have died as a result of Israeli-related attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip.
At least 12 members of the same family were killed on Thursday when their home in northern Gaza’s Jabalia was targeted, according to rescue teams and medical personnel in the enclave.
A couple and their four children were among the six people killed when an airstrike levelled their home in Gaza City, according to a statement from the civil defense.
After the attack, first responder Ahmed Arar in Gaza City reported that there were “a large number of body parts and remains,” many of which were children.
“We have only hands, legs, and heads,” he said. They have all been severed and torn, according to Arar.
A statement from the Indonesian Hospital, where the casualties were taken, claimed that another 10 people were killed and several others were hurt in a bombing of a former police station in the Jabalia region of northern Gaza.
Abdel Qader Sabah, 23, from Jabalia, described the attack that hit the station near a market as “everyone started running and screaming, without knowing what to do from the horror and severity of the bombing.”
Without revealing whether it was aiming at the police station, Israel’s military said it attacked what it described as a Hamas “command and control center” in the Jabalia neighborhood. Similar justifications have previously been used by the army in attacks on hospitals and numerous shelters for Palestinian refugees.
According to the civil defense agency and the medical staff, at least 26 people have been killed in previous Israeli attacks on the same area.
According to Tareq Abu Azzoum of Al Jazeera, who is based out of Deir el-Balah, there is “an ongoing increase in the rate of Israeli attacks on the entire Gaza Strip.”
He claimed that civil defense personnel are still attempting to clear the debris from the most recent attack in Jabalia.
One rescuer, he cited, claimed that many of the victims had burned themselves.
Offensive to say “larger”?
On March 18, Israel resumed its military assault on the Gaza Strip, ending a two-month ceasefire that had temporarily put an end to fighting in the squablocked area.
In addition to bombardment, the military is still securing crucial border crossings for the eighth week in a row, worsening an already severe humanitarian crisis by preventing access to desperately needed humanitarian aid, including medical supplies and fuel.
If Israeli soldiers aren’t freed in the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, Israel’s army chief, who was visiting soldiers in Gaza on Thursday, threatened a “larger” offensive.
We will move our operations to a larger, more significant operation if we don’t see any progress in the hostages’ return in the near future, according to Eyal Zamir.
In the meantime, the Israeli military instructed the residents of Beit Hanoon and Sheikh Zeid, both in the north, to leave their homes.
The UN has warned that Israel’s expanding evacuation orders for Gaza are causing “forcible transfers” of people into ever-shrinking areas.
Since the start of the war, aid organizations have estimated that the majority of Gaza’s 2.4 million residents have been forced to move somewhere else.
The Durra Children’s Hospital in Gaza City was declared nonoperable on Thursday by the Gaza Health Ministry after an Israeli bomb struck the building’s upper part, causing damage to the intensive care unit and the destruction of the facility’s solar power system.
Israel’s 18-month-old military campaign has devastated Gaza’s healthcare system, putting many of its hospitals in jeopardy, killing doctors, and reducing essential supplies.
Important mediators Qatar and Egypt have so far failed to reach an effective ceasefire despite their best efforts being supported by the US.
At least 1, 978 people have died in Gaza since Israel resumed its assault, bringing the total to at least 51, 355 people dead since October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
According to the initial findings of an investigation, a UN worker was killed last month by an Israeli tank fire in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, on Thursday.
It had initially denied operating in the area where a UNOPS employee from Bulgaria was killed on March 19.
The findings follow a separate investigation into the killing of 15 Palestinian emergency workers in Gaza, which the military reported on Sunday.
A field commander would be fired, and it was finally stated that operational failures caused their deaths.
Source: Aljazeera
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