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Gaza Civil Defence says lack of equipment hampering Shujayea search and rescue
Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza, said emergency crews are “doing their best” amid a lack of specialised tools needed to rescue trapped survivors after Israel’s destruction of a residential block in Gaza City’s Shujayea area.
“Dozens of people are still trapped under the rubble. We can’t reach them because we lack the necessary tools. They were destroyed by the Israeli forces,” Basal said.
“Israel doesn’t want to allow equipment arrive into Gaza. Our suffering will continue as long as this equipment is not allowed to come in,” he said.
At least 80 people are still missing and believed to be trapped under the debris of the block of residential homes in the Shujayea neighbourhood that was attacked by Israeli forces yesterday, killing at least 35 people, including children.
More than 55 people are being treated in hospital for injuries.
Rescue teams try to free a man trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings following an Israeli attack on residential areas in the Shujayea neighbourhood of Gaza City on Wednesday
North, south Gaza under predawn artillery attack by Israeli forces: Reports
Local Palestinian media report that Israeli forces have begun intense and continuous artillery shelling in northern areas of Rafah in southern Gaza. Heavy Israeli artillery fire has also started in areas to the west of the city of Beit Lahiya in the north of the Palestinian territory.
How Israeli bombing of Gaza today differs from before – Marwan Bishara
Al Jazeera’s senior analyst Marwan Bishara has said Israel’s latest bombing campaign in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood, which has killed dozens of Palestinians, is part of a broader strategy of “industrial-scale killing” aimed at ethnically cleansing Gaza.
Bishara argues that, unlike earlier phases of the war, current attacks are emotionless, calculated, and without military targets. Global public opinion, particularly in the US, is shifting against Israel, but governments remain inactive.
