Israeli Army indicated that he would even act in ‘a zone where he had never intervened before’ during his war against the terrorist group Hamas, and urged the inhabitants to abandon Deir al Balah
The Israeli army launched, on Monday (21), a terrestrial offensive at the center of, while 25 countries asked for the end of the war in Palestinian territory, devastated after more than 21 months of conflict. “The war in Gaza should stop immediately,” the foreign ministers of these countries, including the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Canada and France, were in a joint statement. The ministers pointed out that “the suffering of civilians in Gaza reached new levels” and denounced “the refusal of the Israeli government to provide essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population.”
The Gaza Civil Defense and witnesses reported gunfire in Deir Al Balah, where he announced on Monday that he would expand his military operations. The army indicated that he would even act in “an area where he had never intervened before” during his war against the terrorist group, and urged the inhabitants to abandon the site. According to the Coordination of United Nations Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), between 50,000 and 80,000 people were in this area.
Whole families began to travel by carrying their belongings in donkeys pulled by donkeys to the south, according to AFP correspondents. “At night we heard strong explosions,” said Abdallah Abu Slim, a 48 -year -old inhabitant in this area, on artillery shots. “We fear that the Israeli army prepare a terrestrial operation in Deir al Balah and the camps of the center of the Gaza range where hundreds of thousands of displaced people are,” he added.
Hamdi Abu Mughsib, 50, stated that he and his family fled north at dawn after a night of heavy bombing. “There is no safe place in the Gaza Strip. I don’t know where we can go,” he said. “We received calls from besieged families in the Baraka area in Deir Al Balah because of the fire of Israeli tanks,” said Gaza Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal.
“There are several injuries but no one can return to the scene to evacuate them,” he added. According to him, at least 15 people have died in different sectors of the track since dawn. Mai Elawawda, communication in Gaza for the British NGO Medical Aid for Palestinians, qualified the situation as “extremely critical.”
*With information from AFP
Posted by Fernando Dias
