At least 13 Palestinians have been killed since dawn, and dozens more have been buried beneath the rubble of a building that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.
Residents in the city’s Sabra neighborhood were forced to dig the ground with their bare hands to people buried in the debris on Saturday when four people were struck and at least four people were killed.
According to Mahmoud Basal, a spokesman for Gaza’s civil defense agency, emergency personnel are unable to reach those buried beneath the collapsed building, which was bombed by Israel before dawn due to a lack of rescue equipment.
He told the AFP news agency, “Our crews cannot reach them because the necessary machinery is not present.”
40 engineering vehicles were being destroyed by Israeli aircraft earlier this week to remove significant debris from rescue missions.
As the besieged territory prepares for a genocide-like situation, Israeli airstrikes hit other areas of the Strip on Saturday, including al-Mawasi and Khan Younis, as well.
The situation in Gaza “is probably the worst” it has been, according to UN recommendations after 18 months of the Israeli military invasion, which has claimed the lives of more than 51, 000 Palestinians.
The entire Strip, which has a population of two million people, may be in danger of famine, according to the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday, and aid facilities are “expected to run out of food in the coming days.
Gaza has been without food, fuel, or medicine for two months as a result of Israel’s ongoing blockade. After Israeli forces razed nearly all food production facilities, many Palestinians in Gaza relied solely on community kitchens for nutrition.
More than 116, 000 metric tonnes of food aid, which is enough to feed one million people for up to four months, are already scheduled for delivery “as soon as borders reopen,” according to WFP.
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, who was reporting from Deir el-Balah on Saturday, claimed that the besieged territory’s humanitarian crisis has reached a “very unprecedented breaking point.”
He claimed that “civilians are really struggling to deal with this crisis.”
UNRWA’s UNRWA head, Philippe Lazzarini, called the crisis “man-made.”
UN rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri claimed that Israel is “running this hunger campaign without any effects.”
The World Health Organization reported that the situation mirrored that of medical supplies, with WHO’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus asking for an end to the aid embargo.
Source: Aljazeera
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