Israel has intensified on Wednesday its bombings over Gaza, where more than 80 people have died during the past morning, according to the Ministry of Health of the Strip. The attacks have been taught, in the north, and the refugee camp in that town, where at least 50 of those victims have died. That camp of just over a square kilometer of surface is one of the most razed areas of the occupied Palestinian territory. There are practically only ruins, but the Israeli army continues to bombard them. The high number of deaths has already turned this day into one of the deadliest since Israel unilaterally broke the high fire with Hamas on March 18. Since that day, almost 2,800 Palestinians have died in Gaza.
The images disseminated by Palestinian media show some of the survivors of the attacks in this morning in the middle of an absolute desolation panorama, with destroyed buildings and helps that some of them removed to try to find people still alive. As has been happening from the beginning of Israeli bombings, 19 months ago, most of those victims were women and children, Palestinian sources have underlined.
According to sources from the Indonesian hospital, located in the north of the territory, around half a hundred dead only in Yabalia and his refugee camp, at least 22 were children and 15, women, who arrived at the hospital morgue. Several videos and photographs spread on the Internet show numerous corpses in the hospital floor, several of them. In one of the recordings, a child of a few months appears with an amputated leg at the height of the thigh, while a sanitary tries to calm him – he is aware – and stop the bleeding, aboard an ambulance.
From the strip in March they were, with name and surname, 876 children under one year killed by the Israeli offensive in Gaza. In that relationship, whose figures have increased since then until this Wednesday 52,900 dead, there were 15,613 minors.
The attacks in this morning have occurred only hours after those who hit both the north and southern the strip, and included the bombing of the European Hospital of Jan Yunis. That attack killed at least 16 people and wounded another 70.
According to different Israeli media, the objective of the bombs was the current leader of Hamas in Gaza:, brother of the former group leader, Yahia Sinwar, who died in October in an Israeli attack in the southern Rafah. The Israeli authorities argue that Sinwar was hiding in a bunker under the medical center, something that Hamas denies. Israel usually uses the supposed existence of underground facilities under hospitals to justify their bombings of these health centers, something that can constitute a war crime, according to international humanitarian law. It is not clear if Sinwar has managed to survive.
In the resumption of its onslaught on Wednesday, in addition to the attacks on Yabalia, the Israeli forces bombarded again, in the south of the territory, to which Israel no longer even defines as “humanitarian” after having spent months urging the Palestinians to take refuge there. An Israeli drone bombed several tents on that narrow coastal strip. At least two girls and a woman died, according to Wafa.
According to a video statement released on social networks of British surgeon Tom Potokar, of the, the explosions at the European Hospital of Gaza on Tuesday affected departments of the hospital where children were treated who were waiting for a medical evacuation. Also to minors with cancer.
This hospital is located in Jan Yunis, the same town where on Monday, Hamas released the only American hostage still alive in his possession. The delivery of soldier Edan Alexander was the fruit of “direct contacts” with the United States, according to Hamas, which defined that liberation as a “gesture of good will” towards the president of the United States, Donald Trump. This Tuesday, the president began a tour of.
The negotiation to free this hostage, behind the government of Benjamín Netanyahu, has been a “painful humiliation” for the Israeli prime minister, said the columnist of the newspaper on Tuesday Haaretz Yossi Pour, who related that affront to the decision of the Israeli Executive to send a delegation to Doha, the Qatari capital, to negotiate a new high fire with Hamas.
The mandate of that Israeli team is, however, limited. Netanyahu has already made it clear that even if Hamas frees the hostages, Israel will later resume the war until its declared goal: the total victory.
“Ethnic cleaning”
Meanwhile, the catastrophic situation of the population of the strip – something more than 2.2 million people who are close or already immersed in the famine – continues to deteriorate. The bombings that do not cease and the total blockade that Israel imposed at the beginning of March at the entrance of humanitarian aid – including food – have led to the organization Medical without Borders (MSF) to ensure that their teams are witnessing “for the eradication of Palestine life in Gaza,” says a statement from the organization.
That block threatens to hunger and thirst to Gazatis who survive attacks. According to the World Health Organization, at least 57 children have died in Gaza for malnutrition since March 18. MSF staff in the capital of Gaza has found “a 32% increase in the number of patients with malnutrition in just two weeks.”
This Wednesday, the Ministry of Health of the Strip has alerted in addition to 90% of the desalination plants and 80% of the water cleansing are out of service. Nine out of ten Palestinians from that territory do not have enough or acceptable quality to meet their needs.
The UN Humanitarian Affairs Chief Tom Fletcher had urged the United Nations Security Council countries on Tuesday to “prevent genocide and guarantee respect for international humanitarian law” in that occupied Palestinian territory. MSF accuses Israel of executing an “ethnic cleaning.”
