Israeli bombs, which in the last three days have not given truce to the hungry and exhausted inhabitants of Gaza, have continued to fall this Friday over the razed Palestinian territory. New Israeli attacks have killed at least 100 people in the north of the Strip, according to civil defense services of the territory, a few hours before the president of the United States, Donald Trump, concluded a visit to the Middle East.
“We are looking at Gaza, we will take care of that. Many people are starving,” Trump said before leaving United Arab Emirates, according to Reuters. Then he concluded: “Many bad things are happening [en la Franja]. However, the president has not alluded to the bombings or mentioned to Israel.
“The bombings of tonight have been terrible, violent,” explains a Palestine from the Gazatí capital that is identified with its first name, Fidaa. “The bombs fell everywhere throughout the night,” he says. The woman confirms that the attacks have focused, as ensuring civil defense services, in the town of Beit Lahia, in the, already reduced to ruins, Yabalia refugee camp and northeast of the territory.
The air attack on Beit Lahia, near the northern border of the strip with Israel, has been accompanied by an incursion of Israeli terrestrial forces, according to the official Palestinian Wafa agency, which ensures that several civilians were kidnapped by the military in a reception center for displaced.
According to the Catarí television network to Araby, the Israeli tanks have advanced early this Friday in what the media defines as “limited incursions” in three points of the north of the Gaza Strip, East Yabalia, the north of Beit Lahiya and a third area in northwest Gaza.
Only in Beit Lahia, rescue teams and local volunteers have recovered 30 bodies, according to Wafa’s local correspondent. MORE DOORS FOLLOW Under the rubble, since ambulances cannot reach the bombardment areas due to the destruction of roads. Palestinian civilians try to evacuate the victims on foot or in cars thrown by animals, always according to that source. The Palestine agency ensures that other Gazati have died in bombing of other locations, such as the Southern Jan Yunis.
The resurgence of these attacks that, according to Palestinian media, include artillery fire, aerial bombing and from military ships could be the prelude to a new terrestrial offensive in Gaza that allows Israel as announced on day 5 Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamín Netanyahu.
That announcement has come when the situation of the Gazatis is so catastrophic that it has even begun to show a relative concern, two and a half months after the Benjamín Netanyahu government totally banned the entry of food, medicines and other basic supplies in the strip.
Before Trump’s statements, his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, had already said the eve that his country is “worried” about what happens in Gaza. Of course, without departing an apex of the official Israeli speech that Washington usually reproduces and that attributes all the responsibility of that situation to Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group whose militants killed 1,200 people in Israel and kidnapped 251 on October 7, 2023.
The Israeli response to that attack was to trigger Gaza’s offensive and military invasion that already lasts 19 months and that most of women and children. The International Court of Justice is investigating as possible genocide this Israeli offensive.
While the bombings did not cease this Friday, it has increased until reaching 136, according to the Ministry of Health of the Strip. Since last Tuesday, Israeli attacks have killed more than 300 people in Gaza, most women and children.
Isabel Grovas, Medical Coordinator in Gaza of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), explains by videoconference from the southern town of Jan Yunis, which only on Tuesday arrived at the Nasser Hospital of Jan Yunis 40 dead and 113 injured. They are data from the director of that center, where this medical organization works.
The signals that point to Netanyahu could launch in the next few days or hours that new land offensive over Gaza have multiplied in recent days. Three days before that announcement on day 5, the Israeli army, a necessary reinforcement to expand a possible land operation that, if produced, will entail a new massive displacement of Palestinians, this time to an area reduced to the south of Jan Yunis, one of the localities most punished by the bombings this week. Only more than 50 people died on Thursday, much again women and children.
“For three days, there are many more attacks, bombings and evacuation notices, many of them not very clear. People do not know if they have to leave or not,” says the MSF medical coordinator. Then he warns that, after two and a half months of locking in which no medical input or medicine has entered, and while Israel bombs the hospitals again, the health system of the strip is again is
Most Gazatis are now north of Jan Yunis. During the ephemeral high fire with Hamas, which Israel broke on March 18 so as not to have to negotiate the end of their aggression to Gaza, many Gazati had returned to their homes, especially to the capital, Ciudad de Gaza, where almost 600,000 of the more than 2.2 million gazaties resided before October 2023.
In that first month of the Israeli offensive, the army ordered the eviction of the northern half of the enclave, before launching its land campaign as these days, to the population. Then they have followed innumerable displacements.
Testimonies collected this Friday by Palestinian media indicate that a nth mass displacement of civilians has already begun. Tonight, thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes again and without food or water. Others, as a journalist from Associated Press has found, have fled from the Yabalia refugee camp and Beit Lahia, the scene of several of the morning bombings.
The difference between the first mass displacement of the population of Gaza in October 2023, which followed it and the one that could have begun is, however, abysmal. After 19 months of bombing, land invasion, successive flights, more than 53,000 dead and 120,000 injured, the Palestinians of the strip are exhausted.
And hungry. Families such as Fidaa only have “flour and rice” to eat, says this mother of six children. . Others do not even have those sources of carbohydrates – proteins are an inaccessible luxury. Since Israel imposed its total blockade of humanitarian aid, on March 2, 57 children have died from malnutrition, according to the Ministry of Health of the Strip.
The resurgence of the bombings also restless to the main forum that groups the families of the hostages in Gaza. In a statement this Friday they have accused Netanyahu of being losing “a historical opportunity” for the release of the kidnapped and shown their fear for the fate that they can run in the midst of the intensification of the bombing.
The forum has shown its concern in turn because, when Trump’s visit has already concluded to the Middle East, from which they expected the announcement of a new high fire that would allow the hostages to be released, the negotiations that take place in Doha (Qatar) have not borne fruit. Netanyahu has said that, even if Hamas releases all hostages, Israel will continue with the war until the “total victory” over the Palestinian movement.
