Israeli attack near UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City
Things are moving quickly here in the Gaza Strip. Israeli fighter jets have targeted a place very close to the gates of UNRWA’s main headquarters in Gaza City. Earlier in the war, the Israeli military stormed these headquarters, even setting the building on fire.
After Israeli forces withdrew, the building was turned into an aid warehouse, where families used to wait for long hours in order to get parcels of food. Today it has been targeted again. Casualties are still being reported. We are working on verifying more information about this.
In other parts of the territory, more attacks have been carried out by the Israeli army. At least eight Palestinians have been killed in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood after a residential building was completely destroyed.
Palestinians inspect the damages in front of the building of UNRWA, after Israeli forces withdrew from a part of Jabalia refugee camp, following a raid, in the northern Gaza Strip
Four killed in Israeli attack on UNRWA headquarters
As we reported, an Israeli strike has hit the vicinity of the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City. The attack has killed four Palestinians, report our colleagues on the ground. It comes after a series of strikes throughout the city, including on the Shati and Tufah camps, killed dozens yesterday.
People dismembered in attack on UNRWA headquarters: Report
According to the Wafa news agency, Israeli shelling struck the building’s eastern gate, located in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood.
Five people have been confirmed killed in the attack, with some individuals dismembered, Wafa said. Seven others, including women and children, are injured and have been rushed to al-Ahli Arab Hospital for treatment, it added.
Death toll in UNRWA distribution centre attack rises to eight
Earlier we reported on a deadly Israeli air strike that targeted civilians at a training college near Gaza City being used to distribute aid.
The strike hit part of a vocational college run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which is now providing aid to displaced families.
The death toll has risen to eight in the attack with 10 wounded, Reuters news agency cited witnesses as saying.
“Some people were coming to receive coupons and others had been displaced from their houses and they were sheltering here. Some were filling up water, others were receiving coupons, and suddenly we heard something falling,” said Mohammed Tafesh, one of the witnesses.
After fleeing the strike, Tafesh said he and others returned to pull the dead and wounded from the debris.
‘We are running from death towards death’
A survivor of the deadly Israeli attack on the UNRWA facility in Gaza City described the scene to Al Jazeera.
“I found my eldest son injured, the youngest trapped under the debris, and dead bodies lying there,” the unnamed woman said in a video interview at the bombed building.
“What wrong did those innocent children do? We are running from death towards death. Young men and women are slaughtered by the Israelis. There is no safe inch in the entire Gaza Strip. This is our life – nothing but fear and destruction.”
Another man at the scene added that all the people there are “displaced civilians – some trying to get their hands on food, others searching for clean water”.
“Without warning, Israeli warplanes fired missiles on us. This is an UNRWA centre and is supposed to be safe, but the Israelis have no regard to any limit,” he said.
