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SvennoJ on 16 August 2024
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Witnesses describe carnage of Israeli attack on Jabalia

At least 46 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in the last 24 hours, including at least seven killed by Israeli air attacks that hit residential buildings in Gaza’s largest refugee camp in Jabalia.

A medic who responded to the attacks found that his family members had been killed in their building. “I came to see the upper three floors toppled over my family. My father, mother and sister were killed; a second sister and uncle are still missing and we are still searching for them,” he told Al Jazeera Arabic’s Anas al-Sharif.

Al-Sharif reported that the attack had strewn body parts around the area and that rescuers had been unable to retrieve the body of a dead man dangling from the wreckage of the building.

“This is a residential building, as you can see. It was hit by missiles without any warning. Dozens were killed and injured. We hurriedly came over to see those appalling images,” one man told Al Jazeera. “Look at that body hanging from the wall. This defies humanity. May God punish all those responsible.”

A member of Gaza’s civil defence told Al Jazeera that Israeli forces hit residential buildings with a wave of missiles. “As a result, large numbers of women and children were killed or injured. Many are still buried under the debris,” he said.

“Our teams are finding it difficult to recover the dead; as you can see some of the victims’ bodies are stuck and remain hanging on the walls.”


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In their latest humanitarian update on Gaza, the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says more than 170,000 Palestinians in Gaza living in internally displaced person sites, shelters and centres have been affected by the evacuation order announced by Israel earlier today.

The evacuation order for south Gaza extends to several areas of Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah that were previously part of Gaza’s “humanitarian zone”, further tightening the area deemed “safe” in the Strip.

Additionally, OCHA reported that stock reserves crucial for “disinfecting drinking and domestic water” would only last for one month.