‘A new unbearable loss for Palestinians’
Rescue operations are under way in the location of the strike on the Bureij refugee camp. The Israeli military targeted residential buildings in the same neighbourhood, leaving behind widespread destruction.
We’ve been hearing from Civil Defence crews who say they are absolutely struggling in order to recover victims.
They have managed so far to recover eight Palestinians who were found killed, the majority being young children. This is incredibly devastating, a new unbearable loss for Palestinians.
As one of the Civil Defence members confirmed, the scale of destruction there is beyond recognition. They are saying that there are at least 80 Palestinians beneath the rubble and the remnants of these destroyed buildings.
It’s worth noting that these Civil Defence teams are only relying on very primitive means in order to recover those who are under the rubble.
Several people killed in Israeli attack on Gaza City neighbourhood, Civil Defence says
Israeli attacks, meanwhile, continue on the besieged Gaza Strip.
The territory’s Civil Defence said its workers managed to retrieve the bodies of four Palestinians from the scene of an attack on the Daraj neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City while five others remain trapped under the rubble.
The attack, it said in a statement, targeted a home that belonged to the Hassouna family. The home was sheltering displaced people from the Hijazi and al-Riashi families. Several others have been wounded in the attack, the Civil Defence added, without providing an exact figure.
Two killed in attack on Gaza City neighbourhood
Gaza’s Civil Defence agency says its teams pulled the bodies of two Palestinians from the rubble of a home in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood after an Israeli attack. At least eight others were wounded, it added.
Israeli tanks fire on Gaza aid convoy: WHO boss
The World Health Organization chief says Israeli tanks fired on an aid convoy cleared to travel back from war-ravaged northern Gaza.
“Last Saturday, on the way back from a mission to the northern Gaza [Strip] and after a WHO-led convoy got clearance and crossed the coast road checkpoint, the convoy encountered two Israeli tanks,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
“Shots were fired from the tanks near the convoy. Luckily nobody was hurt. This is unacceptable.”
The incident came just a week after the United Nations said a convoy carrying workers for a polio vaccination campaign in Gaza had been held at gunpoint at an Israeli military checkpoint.
