96 killed this morning across the Strip: Media office
Israeli attacks on residential buildings in Beit Lahiya, Nuseirat and Bureij in Gaza have killed 96 Palestinians since this morning, the Gaza media office has said in a statement that condemned the attacks.
“The occupation army knew that these houses and residential buildings contained dozens of displaced civilians, most of whom were children and women,” the statement said.
The media office said it holds Israel, as well as the US administration, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and other “countries participating in the genocide” fully responsible for the “continuation of the ethnic cleansing war”.
At least 300,000 tonnes of ‘solid waste’ on the roads in Gaza: Report
The damage to transportation and communications infrastructure across the Palestinian territory has reached $4.8bn as a result of direct Israeli attacks, Wafa news agency reported Palestine’s Minister of Transport and Communications Tariq Zourob as saying.
At least 300,000 tonnes of “solid waste” are reportedly on the roads across the Gaza Strip, Zourob said during a meeting with private sector representatives from the Strip at the Palestinian embassy in Cairo.
In June, UNRWA reported waste of an estimated 100,000 tonnes building up near people’s tents in central Gaza alone.
‘An unfolding of horrific events’ in northern Gaza
Devastation keeps evolving in a much more difficult, much more challenging situation for those who remain in the northern part of the Strip.
What we’re seeing is an unfolding of horrific events echoing some of the worst events happening in history. We’re seeing a systematic destruction of every means of life in the northern part of the Strip.
This includes not only residential buildings, but many public facilities, infrastructure, roads – anything that supports people’s existence in the part of the Gaza Strip being destroyed.
Attacks in the early hours of this morning hit a group of residential buildings. Close to 70 people have been killed, and again, with the exact same pattern of civilians being the target of these attacks inside their homes where they were taking shelter.
Many of them are displaced people who moved to north Gaza from other areas and ended up with their relatives, in-laws or friends who decided to host them until the aggression ends. But it doesn’t seem likely to end anytime soon.
Displacement from Beit Lahiya continues
Dozens of Palestinians are being forced to leave their homes in Beit Lahiya as Israeli attacks on northern Gaza intensify, Reuters reports.
The Israeli army sent tanks into Beit Lahiya and the nearby towns of Beit Hanoon and Jabalia, the largest of the Gaza Strip’s eight historic refugee camps, last month after isolating all three areas from Gaza City.
Hamas wants a deal that ends the war, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is stalling, despite near-daily demonstrations protesting his stance and calling for a deal to end the war and bring back the captives.
