According to a spokesman for the local emergency agency, six dead were waiting to receive humanitarian aid
At least 17 people died on Thursday (14) due to Israeli bombing and shots at the Civil Defense of Palestinian territory. Among the dead, there are six people who were waiting to receive humanitarian aid, the local emergency agency spokesman Mahmud Basal told AFP. “Israeli occupation forces are intensifying their attacks on Zeitun,” a neighborhood in the southwest of Gaza, in the north of the territory, surrounded and devastated for more than 22 months of war, Basal said. “For the fourth consecutive day, the area is the target of a military operation that caused a large number of martyrs and injured. From dawn, we have received 28 calls from neighborhood families, some whose children have died. Many people cannot leave due to shots,” he said.
Maram Kashko, a Zeitun inhabitant, said “the bombings intensified four days ago.” “My nephew, his wife and his children died in a bombing,” he said. The Israeli Army announced on Wednesday (13) a new military plan in the Gaza Strip, where continues his offensive launched in response to the attack in the Israeli territory of the Palestinian Islamist Movement Hamas, on October 7, 2023. By order of the military office of Prime Minister Benjamin, the army is preparing to take control of the city of Gaza and the neighboring refugee camps, with the objective of defeating the defeat. Hamas and free the Israeli hostages.
Currently controls three quarters of Palestinian territory, where approximately two million inhabitants urgently need food, according to the UN. Humanitarian disaster are still added, a few days ago, high temperatures.
“The heat is unbearable. We live in a nylon tent, it’s like an oven. We can’t stay inside during the day, we have no ventilation,” said a 40 -year -old Khaled Abu Jazar, displaced from the southern Al Mawasi field.
The Hamas attack that triggered the war left 1,219 dead on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an official data. Of the 251 hostages captured on the day of the attack, 49 are still captive in Gaza, of which 27 died, according to the army.
The Israeli reprisals caused 61,776 mostly civilian Gaza deaths, according to data from the Hamas Ministry of Health, considered reliable by.
*With information from AFP
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