As it seeks to seize Gaza City’s largest urban center while an Israeli-induced famine grips the besieged enclave, the Israeli military is advancing further, destroying entire neighbourhoods and leaving Palestinian families with nowhere to go.
At least five Palestinians were killed and many others were hurt on Tuesday in an attack on a well-known market east of Gaza City. Two women were cited as among the dead, according to al-Ahli Arab Hospital’s sources.
As Israel attempts to impose its nearly 1 million residents southward into concentration zones, Palestinians were seen fleeing the as-Saftawi area, north of Gaza City, according to Al Jazeera’s verified videos.
Long lines of men, women, and children were spotted moving along filthy, ravaged streets, many of whom carried bags, blankets, and mattresses. As they moved westward on foot, some pushed carts full of things, while others held kids by the hand.
Since beginning its sustained assault on Gaza City on August 6th, Israel has completely destroyed more than 1, 000 structures in the Zeitoun and Sabra neighborhoods, according to estimates from the Palestinian Civil Defense.
Palestinian families had to choose between facing Israeli’s relentless bombardment at home and being forced to flee once more, according to Sara Awad, a resident of Gaza City.
Awad said, “Every time, I wonder why I have to flee and live in a tent while my [home] is here. She observes more Palestinian families moving their belongings every day despite having no where to go.
She said, “It makes no sense for me to leave my house if they treat us differently than they do as humans.” She continued to assert that she thought Palestinians were “living in] their] final days in Gaza City.”
According to hospital sources, 13 people were killed in Gaza’s Israeli attacks since dawn, including 13 who were killed in search of urgent aid.
More than 2,100 Palestinians have died seeking aid since the US- and Israeli-backed GHF, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
In its most recent update, the UNHCR warned of worsening starvation, rising casualties, and collapsed services in the Gaza Strip. The total number of people who have died from starvation since October 7, 2023, including 117 children, has increased to 303, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, up from 117 in the previous 24 hours.
The Palestinian National Initiative’s secretary-general, Mustafa Barghouti, claimed that Israel was attempting to “eliminate and annihilate the Palestinian people by engaging in ethnic cleansing as well as genocide.”
He claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was pushing for “remap” and “creating economic hegemony, political hegemony, and] intelligence hegemony over the Middle East.
Following the attack at Nasser Hospital, more accusations are being made.
Legal experts have been calling for an investigation into Israel’s “double-tap” attack on Monday, which left at least 21 people dead, including five journalists, at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital. Known as “double-tap,” attacks involve waiting for journalists and emergency personnel to arrive on the scene before bombing the target again.
Netanyahu claimed in a statement that Israel regrets what he described as a “tragic mishap” only in an English-language statement, without explaining how Israel twice struck the same hospital in an ostensible error.
Geoffrey Nice, a lawyer for human rights, described Israel’s admission of error as “very intriguing.”
According to Nice, “[This] means they now need to be thoroughly investigated in order to produce all the documents that would explain what they intended to do and how things went wrong,” he told Al Jazeera.
“They have committed a war crime if they can’t justify a mistake by hitting a proper target with an assessed level of collateral damage.”
Abd Raouf Shaat, a journalist in Gaza who works in photography and video, expressed his shock at the press’s assault and vowed to carry on his work.
He told Al Jazeera, “We are saying farewell to a journalist every day.” “But we’ll carry on their efforts and messages.”
Several of the injured in the attack are receiving medical attention for their severe wounds.
The Israeli military is accused of waging war crimes against civilians by bombing Gaza without any particular order by human rights organizations. One of the highest civilian casualties in contemporary conflicts has been recorded as civilians, accounting for 83 percent of all deaths since Israel started its war on the enclave.
Reuters and The Associated Press were among the international news outlets that employed several of the journalists killed in the Nasser Hospital bombing. Mohammad Salama, one of them, worked for Al Jazeera.
Since its occupation of Gaza in October 2023, Israel has killed more than 270 journalists and media workers, according to an Al Jazeera count.
The Israeli military claimed that a preliminary investigation into the incident suggested the target had been a camera used by Hamas to monitor Israeli troops in the area.
The army stated that in light of this, the force attempted to obliterate the camera. Israel frequently uses the claim that it is attacking Hamas to justify its deadly attacks across Gaza Strip.
Hamas claimed Israel lacked any proof and called the claim “baseless.” The claim was further stated that “the claim was merely intended to avoid accepting full responsibility for a massacre of a kind”
Source: Aljazeera
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