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SvennoJ on 07 October 2024
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‘Destruction and misery’: About 50% of Gaza uninhabitable

Even after the fighting stops, hundreds of thousands of people could be stuck living in squalid tent camps for years. Analysts say reconstruction could take decades.

“This war is destruction and misery. It would make the stones cry out,” said Shifaa Hejjo, a 60-year-old housewife living in a tent pitched on land where her home once stood. “Whoever sees Gaza, … it will make them cry.”

Alison Ely – a Gaza-based coordinator with the Shelter Cluster, an international coalition of aid providers led by the Norwegian Refugee Council – said even if the war stops, there’s nothing left for many of the displaced to return to.

If there’s a ceasefire, about half of all families “have nowhere to go back to”, she said.



UNRWA chief says region ‘sinking deeper into conflict’

In a post on X, Philippe Lazzarini has said a year of “brutal war” has made Gaza unrecognisable and “a graveyard for tens of thousands of people, among them far too many children”.

“One year has passed and not a day goes by without families in Gaza being subjected to unspeakable suffering, as forced displacement, disease, hunger, and death have become the daily norm for two million people trapped in a bombed-out and besieged enclave,” said Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

He added that “more than 220 UNRWA team members” have been killed.

“It is time for courage: a deal that would finally bring a ceasefire and respite to people in Gaza, Lebanon, Israel and the wider region,” he urged, warning of the danger of “sinking deeper into conflict, killing and sheer horrors”.


One year of fighting an unbalanced battle: Qassam Brigades spokesman

In a televised statement, the spokesman for Hamas’s armed wing has said the group waged a “pre-emptive strike” on October 7 against what he claimed was a “major attack” planned by Israel “against the resistance in Gaza”.

He also said the attack came “after the occupier’s aggression against Al-Aqsa [Mosque] reached an unprecedented dangerous stage”. “And now, for a year, fighters have been waging an unequal battle with a criminal enemy,” Abu Obeida said.

The spokesman for Hamas’s armed wing has vowed that the group will keep fighting a “long war of attrition”. “We choose to keep up the fight in a long war of attrition, one that is painful and costly for the enemy,” said Abu Obeida, in a video broadcast on Al Jazeera.


Pre-emptive strike? How did that work out for you... That's nonsense and counter to what Hamas stated before.

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-the-record-with-hamas/


Proof taking out the leaders is counter productive, only more radical idiots see their chance to spew hatred.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hamas-spokesman-abu-obeida-hails-oct-7-attack-and-unity-of-fronts/

Abu Obeida boasts that October 7 was “the most professional and successful commando operation in the modern era,” and adds that it inflicted a “humiliating defeat” on the IDF. He makes the baseless allegation that it was a “preemptive strike” to avert a major operation planned by Israel against Hamas in Gaza.

It was clearly unprofessional and quickly devolved into chaos, wanton murder and other war crimes.