‘Children torn to pieces’ in Israeli strike in central Gaza attack
Earlier, we reported Israeli air strikes on the Shuhadaa al-Nuseirat school in the central part of Gaza killed at least 17 people.
Palestinian woman Umm Muhammad says she was at the school at the time of the strike, and described a terrifying scene with “stones and glass” falling from above.
“I hugged my little girl. I couldn’t see anything through the thick plume of smoke. I ran and screamed for my sister and found her alive downstairs,” Umm Muhammad said. “But there were children torn to pieces.”
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, October 24
Israeli army threatened to ‘kill and bomb’ Gaza rescuers
Gaza’s Civil Defence agency says Israeli forces are deliberately attacking rescue teams in northern Gaza.
Mahmoud Basal, the agency’s spokesman, said first responders have been “targeted” on several occasions, leaving “several members injured, and others are left bleeding on the streets with no one able to rescue them”.
Bassal published a photograph of a burned truck on social media saying it was “the only civil defence vehicle in the northern Gaza Strip governorate”. The truck was “targeted by the Israeli army” in the northern city of Beit Lahiya, just north of Jabalia and near Gaza’s northern border with Israel.
“We are unable to provide humanitarian services to citizens in the northern governorate of the Gaza Strip due to threats from Israeli occupation forces, who have threatened to kill and bomb our teams if they remain inside Jabalia camp,” he said.
‘Everyone paying the price in northern Gaza’
At the besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, footage shows medical staff tending to premature babies and several older children in hospital beds, some with severe burns.
One child is seen attached to a breathing machine with bandages on her face and flies hovering over her.
“We are providing the bare minimum to patients. Everyone is paying the price of what is happening now in northern Gaza,” said hospital director Dr Hussam Abu Safia.
‘Major massacre’ in Jabalia refugee camp: Palestinian Civil Defence
Gaza’s Civil Defence agency says an Israeli army attack in the besieged camp killed a “large number of people” in what it described as a “major massacre”. In a statement on its Telegram channel, it said Israeli forces blew up 11 houses in the al-Hawaja residential area inside the Jabalia refugee camp.
“Citizens are sending distress calls to head to the place to help transport the wounded,” said the statement.
Israeli air strikes destroy block of flats in Gaza’s Jabalia camp
The Israeli military carried out a major attack on al-Hawaja Street, in the western part of Jabalia, causing a sheer level of destruction. At least a dozen residential buildings were blown up.
Based on an assessment the Civil Defence agency, an estimated 150 people were either killed or wounded. Rescue teams are unable to approach the bomb site to bring the injured to hospital.
These are people who refused to leave the Jabalia refugee camp simply because they are exhausted and the road to evacuate was not safe for them. They haven’t been eating or provided with water supplies. So they’re exhausted and decided to remain in their homes.
