‘We just ran’: Witnesses describe Israeli attack on UN clinic-turned-shelter
We’ve spoken to Palestinians who fled the scene of Israel’s bombing of a clinic-turned-shelter, previously run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), near Gaza City.
As we’ve been reporting, the overnight Israeli attack targeted the Sheikh Radwan Health Centre, injuring dozens of people.
“Last night, we were sitting when suddenly everyone started running. People told us we had 10 minutes before the clinic would be bombed. I grabbed the kids and ran without taking anything,” Basma Zindah, a displaced Palestinian mother, told Al Jazeera.
“We moved about 200 metres away and waited. The strike hit the building. Around 1 or 2 am, when things calmed down, we went back but everything was gone. The tents were torn apart, everything destroyed,” she added.
Another displaced resident, Ghaleb Tafesh, said people previously relied on the clinic for treatment. “After it went out of service, it became a shelter for displaced families,” Tafesh told Al Jazeera.
“Last night, while we were having dinner, we suddenly heard people shouting, calling for evacuation. There was no time to take anything no food, no clothes, no bedding. We just ran.”
A Palestinian girl looks at the destruction after an overnight Israeli strike on the Sheikh Radwan Health Centre
Israeli settlers block Gaza-bound aid trucks
Israeli settlers have attacked an aid convoy for the second time in days, delaying 30 trucks seeking to reach Gaza from Jordan.
Footage shows settlers chanting, “May Palestine’s name be wiped out.” See more in our video below.
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Yazan Abu Ful, a 2-year-old malnourished child, sits with his father in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, July 23
Gaza civil defence says crews dispatched to al-Mawasi after Israeli attack
Emergency responders have rushed to the area west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza after a tent housing displaced Palestinians was targeted in an Israeli bombing.
The civil defence agency said the attack resulted in injuries, according to sources on the ground.
“Crews are currently working to evacuate the injured and secure the area amid difficult and extremely dangerous field conditions,” it said in a post shared on Telegram.
