Israel continued bombing the Gaza Strip on Saturday, when his deadly campaign against the leaders of Hamas in the Palestinian enclave was approaching the 100 days with no end in sight.
In RafahIn the south, an Israeli airstrike on a house housing two displaced families killed ten people, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Bassem Arafeha relative of the families of Rafahshowed a photo of a dead girl with a piece of bread in her hand and explained that the families were having dinner when the house was attacked on Friday night.
“This girl died while she was hungry, while she was eating a piece of bread without anything. Where is the International Criminal Court to see how children die?” he said Arafeh. “Where are the Muslims (…) and the world leaders?”
Israel claims to attack militants and do everything possible to minimize damage to non-combatants in its urban war against Hamas in the densely populated Palestinian enclave, but the magnitude of the carnage in Loop and the serious humanitarian situation shocked world public opinion and multiplied calls for a ceasefire.
The Israeli military said on Saturday that its forces had killed numerous militants in the southern Khan Younis area and the central Gaza Strip, and that it was investigating the attack in Rafah.
Hamas claimed that its fighters had fired at an Israeli helicopter in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
In the central Gaza Strip, residents reported heavy gunfire and tank shelling, as well as Israeli airstrikes in Al-Bureij, Al-Nusseirat and Al-Maghazi, areas where refugees and descendants of the 1948 war live. .
The Israeli army said it attacked militants and a Hamas command center in those areas. Israeli forces were also seen on the outskirts of Deir Al-Balah, a town to the west, where Israel had been urging residents to take shelter.
Witnesses said a bus was hit nearby by an Israeli missile. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
More than 20 fatalities were reported in northern Gaza, Beit Lahiya and the Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City.
Israel has announced a new phase of the war, saying it will begin withdrawing its forces from the northern Gaza Strip, where they were deployed three weeks after militants swept through southern Israel on October 7.
Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qidra said Israeli strikes killed 135 Palestinians and wounded 312 in the past 24 hours. In total, he said, 23,843 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed since October 7.
Israel says it has killed at least 8,000 fighters to date and has no choice but to end the Hamas government in Gaza after the militants, who have sworn Israel’s destruction, killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 240 hostages.
Since then, most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been displaced and much of the territory has been devastated.
“Sheikh Zayed City was one of the most beautiful cities in Gaza before the war, it was home to thousands of people, but now it is destroyed,” said Mahmoud Salama, an independent Palestinian journalist who toured the northern city after Israeli tanks withdrew . “Reality is more difficult than images.”
By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Bassam Masoud.-
Source: Ambito
