On Thursday, almost 60 people lost their lives in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israeli attacks.
More than two dozen people were killed Thursday in an Israeli airstrike that hit a house full of displaced people in the Nusayrat refugee camp in central Gaza on Thursday night, the Palestinian Authority for Civil Defense said. TASR reports according to the AFP agency.
The spokesman of the office, Mahmúd Bassal, specified that the airstrike claimed at least 25 lives, while more than 50 other people were injured.
During Thursday, according to Palestinian civil defense sources, 58 people, including 12 members of the security forces, who were securing vehicles with humanitarian aid, were killed in Israeli air strikes. The Israeli government said the targets of its attacks were militants trying to hijack the vehicles.
UN humanitarian agencies have repeatedly drawn attention to the acute humanitarian crisis caused by the war between Israel and militants from the Palestinian radical movement Hamas, which has been ongoing for more than 14 months in the besieged Gaza Strip.
“The conditions for the people of the Gaza Strip are appalling and apocalyptic,” UNRWA spokeswoman Louise Waterigde told reporters during her visit to Nusayrat. Life-saving aid “to the besieged areas of northern Gaza has been largely blocked” since around the beginning of October, when the Israeli army launched a large-scale offensive in the area.
UNRWA said earlier this week that it had managed to deliver food aid to 200,000 people in the southern Gaza Strip, AFP adds.
