Overnight Israeli air raids target Rafah, Khan Younis
Overnight Israeli attacks have targeted Rafah and Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting.
Israeli air raids were reported in:
- Rafah’s western Saudi neighbourhood
- The Oreiba area, north of Rafah
- Areas in the vicinity of the European Hospital in Khan Younis
Nothing left to sustain human life as Israeli forces turn North Gaza into wasteland
People who are able to get back to North Gaza are describing a very dire situation there right now. There’s nothing left for them to sustain life. We are talking about an area that was quite densely populated with all the necessary needs of life turning into a wasteland.
Israeli forces have destroyed water wells, public facilities and infrastructure, while health facilities are now completely out of service. Whatever is remaining of these health facilities is nothing more than a skeleton, nothing more than a morgue to receive bodies that are collected from the streets or removed from under the rubble.
Maybe the hardest part of what we’ve seen from the north are the bodies that have been removed from under the rubble – many of them completely decomposed, skeletons and skulls of the children, women and elderly.
The paramedics and Civil Defence crew members initially found it very difficult to reach these sites. But they have been able to now and have collected at least 70 of these bodies, although the lack of equipment is making their job quite difficult. More effort is still needed, more time is needed to clear the rubble and remove more bodies, especially with reports of entire families that have gone missing.
Israeli forces raid Nablus, settlers storm Joseph’s Tomb
Israeli forces have raided Nablus city in the occupied West Bank, reportedly accompanying dozens of Israeli settlers to the shrine known as Joseph’s Tomb, the Wafa news agency reports.
Israeli snipers were stationed on top of buildings near the shrine as an Israeli military bulldozer dug up a nearby road to create a barrier, Wafa reported.
The raid comes after dozens of Israelis again stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam’s third-holiest site, last week.
Joseph’s Tomb, also known as Yusuf’s Tomb, is a significant site to followers of the Abrahamic faiths, including Christians, Jews, Muslims and Samaritans.
