Killings, destruction continue on large scale in Gaza
The killings and destruction continue at a large level here in Gaza.
Just a while ago, an evacuation centre – a school – was attacked. Private schools and UNRWA schools are serving as evacuation centres across Gaza. They have been accommodating the many hundreds of families displaced across the Strip.
People would come here for safety and security but we’ve seen how that notion has been consistently toppled by Israeli attacks. They come here because they don’t have their homes any more. They have been destroyed by Israeli attacks.
About nine shelter schools have been bombed by Israel this month. This is the fourth such incident in less than a week. People also come to these shelters because they provide minimal levels of food and other necessities that are hard to find in Gaza.
This school is in western Beit Lahiya. Four people have been reported killed but this place was sheltering up to 300 families so the figure may rise. A number of Palestinians are also critically wounded.
In Gaza, the situation is deteriorating by the day
In tandem with the Israeli destruction in Lebanon, the Israeli operations in Gaza continue.
Israeli forces attacked a school today that serves as a UN shelter. In the attack, at least four displaced Palestinians were killed and 15 wounded. Israeli forces have repeatedly attacked UN shelters or schools. At least 10 schools have been hit this month alone.
Palestinians who are wounded in these attacks do not have any source of medical treatment. Since the Israeli army took over the Philadelphi Corridor, no medical supplies have entered Gaza. Here at al-Aqsa Hospital, a very small number of medical supplies have come in. But in the north there have been none, and the situation is more disastrous there.
This was not the only attack on Gaza today. There were others in Rafah and the central areas. The situation is deteriorating by the day.
Mountains of rubbish piling up in Gaza: UNRWA
The UN agency said Gaza’s central areas are plagued with heaps of rubbish while sewage leaks onto the streets.
“Families have no choice but to live beside the accumulated waste, exposed to the reek and the threat of a looming health disaster,” UNRWA said in a post on X. “Sanitary and living conditions across Gaza are inhumane.”
Mountains of garbage are piling up in #Gaza middle areas as sewage leaks onto streets.
Families have no choice but to live beside the accumulated waste, exposed to the reek and the threat of a looming health disaster.
Sanitary and living conditions across Gaza are inhumane.… pic.twitter.com/iPyybtaY4b
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) September 29, 2024
