Gaza City ‘uninhabitable’
You won’t even recognise the streets, the buildings in Gaza City. It’s completely uninhabitable, unliveable. And Palestinians still living in the Gaza Strip are not only witnessing endless air strikes or artillery shelling and a ground invasion, but they’re also facing severe diseases and malnutrition.
Sewage is everywhere. Medical clinics are all destroyed. The infrastructure has been completely destroyed by the Israeli carpet bombing, including universities, schools, medical facilities.
When pictures emerge of Gaza City, people ask, “Where is this?” They do not recognise the streets due to the massive amount of destruction by the Israeli forces.
PRCS says teams unable to reach Gaza City, citing intense bombardment
The Palestinian Red Crescent (PRCS) says its teams are receiving “dozens of humanitarian distress calls” from residents in Gaza City, but said its ambulance vehicles and medics are unable to reach them.
The group cited the “danger of the targeted areas and the intensity of the bombardment”, and said reports it received indicate that the situation for residents in Gaza City is “extremely dire”.
“The occupation forces continue to target residential blocks and displace citizens from their homes and shelters,” PRCS said.
Palestine Red Crescent: Operations room teams are receiving dozens of humanitarian distress calls from #Gaza City, but our ambulance teams are unable to reach them due to the danger of the targeted areas and the intensity of the bombardment. #IHL
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) July 9, 2024
And still the fighting over rubble continues
Qassam Brigades claims killing Israeli soldiers in Gaza City
Hamas’s armed wing says its fighters attacked Israeli troops inside a house in the Shujayea neighbourhood of Gaza City, killing and wounding a number of them.
A statement on Telegram said the soldiers were targeted with a TBG (thermobaric) rocket before Hamas fighters clashed with them using machine guns. Withdrawing soldiers were targeted again by an anti-personnel explosive device, the statement said, without clarifying the number of soldiers killed or wounded.
There has been no immediate comment by the Israeli army.
