Lack of equipment, fuel hampering rescue operations in north Gaza
I’m right now standing above the rubble of one of the houses that have been targeted by the Israeli fighters in the az-Zarqa area very close to Jabalia City. We’re talking about many killed and tens still under the rubble. Civil Defence forces are trying to get the trapped civilians out from beneath this destroyed building.
Civil Defence forces are lacking the basic equipment to get these civilians out. They have nothing to work with. Civil Defence crews also continue to be targeted by Israeli forces and there is an ongoing ban on the entry of fuel into the northern Gaza Strip, making the search and rescue process extremely difficult.
It’s become very difficult to save lives.
We are now in the fourth week of Israel’s ground invasion of the Jabalia refugee camp, so the situation is getting much more dire.
People carry the dead body of a Palestinian recovered from a house hit in an Israeli strike in Gaza City, October 26
Israeli bombardment continues across the Gaza Strip
Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues in Gaza have reported Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip overnight including in the following locations:
- The al-Mawasi area, near Rafah, in the south of Gaza
- The Jabalia and Bureij refugee camps in the north
- The Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Child and woman rescued from under rubble in Gaza
The footage below, which has been confirmed by Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification agency, shows emergency responders in the enclave’s battered north working with limited tools and their hands to rescue survivors of Israeli attacks.
إنقاذ الدفاع المدني امرأة وطفلا من منزل قصفه الاحتلال الإسرائيلي شمالي مدينة غزة #حرب_غزة #فيديو pic.twitter.com/an1UBIBCla
— الجزيرة فلسطين (@AJA_Palestine) October 27, 2024
Two Palestinians killed east of Jabalia refugee camp
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that two Palestinians have been killed in Israeli shelling in Tel al-Zaatar east of the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Earlier, we reported that two Israeli attacks on Beit Lahiya killed at least 45 Palestinians.
Israeli air strike on Gaza City school kills 8 Palestinians
An Israeli air strike on a school in the northern part of the Gaza Strip has killed at least eight Palestinians and injured more. The school housing displaced families is Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City, according to an Al Jazeera correspondent in the enclave.
Three journalists among those killed in Gaza’s Shati refugee camp
We reported earlier that eight Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike on a school in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City. Three journalists were among those killed, according to an Al Jazeera correspondent in the enclave.
The deaths of Hamza Abu Selmeyeh, Saed Redwan and Haneen Baroud bring the total number of journalists killed in Gaza since October 7 last year to 180, according to our team.
Death toll from Israeli attacks on al-Shati refugee camp rises
The Palestinian Civil Defence says the number of people killed in an Israeli air raid on a school in northern Gaza has risen to nine.
