Israeli military carries out overnight attacks in ‘night of hell’ in Gaza City
As we have been reporting, the Israeli military has continued its assault on Gaza City overnight, carrying out several deadly attacks on the urban centre.
Al-Aqsa TV reported “another night of hell” in the city, as hospital sources told Al Jazeera Arabic that at least nine Palestinians, including four children, have been killed so far.
Confirmed attacks include:
- Two Palestinians were killed and another is missing following an Israeli strike on a house in the Sabra neighbourhood, south of Gaza City.
- Two people have been killed and others injured in an Israeli strike on a tent housing displaced people in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood, southwest of Gaza City.
- One person was killed and others were injured in an Israeli strike on tents housing displaced Palestinians in the Nassr neighbourhood, west of Gaza City.
- Israeli forces have carried out intense artillery shelling around the as-Saftawi neighbourhood in northern Gaza City.
- Israeli forces have detonated a booby-trapped robot among homes near the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, north of Gaza City.
- In southern Gaza, several Palestinians were injured when an Israeli drone bombed a tent housing displaced people west of Khan Younis, according to medical staff at the Nasser Medical Complex.
Footage shows tents ablaze in Gaza City following deadly Israeli attack
Palestinian activists have shared video clips independently verified by Sanad, Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency, showing fires breaking out overnight in tents of displaced people in Nassr, a neighbourhood in the west of Gaza City, after they were bombed by Israeli forces.
The attacks killed several Palestinians and wounded many others.
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My house ‘keeps dancing, going right and left like an earthquake’
With Israeli bulldozers razing buildings in Gaza City and Israeli leaders supporting the forced mass displacement of Palestinians, departing the city now could mean leaving for good.
“The Israeli forces, when they mark any area by red colour and they request the people to leave, they really will destroy it,” Mohammed al-Kurdi, who is sheltering in Gaza City along with hundreds of thousands of other Palestinians, told The Associated Press.
“So it’s like you decide whether to live or die. It’s very simple like that.”
Al-Kurdi, a project manager and consultant, said he can hear Israeli forces from the apartment where he’s sheltering as they “erase the area completely”. “It’s not something partial like before. It’s 100 percent,” he said. “The house, I’m telling my friends, it keeps dancing all day. It keeps dancing, going right and left like an earthquake.”
Amal Seyam, the general director of the Women’s Affairs Centre in Gaza, has been displaced five times since the war began. “Many people have started packing. Many have already left,” she told the AP.
“Do you know what displacement means? It means moving once again, building your life once again, buying new things, blankets, tents, all over again.”
Palestinians take shelter in coastal areas of Gaza City
Gaza City hospitals facing ‘huge pressure’ as casualties mount
Doctors say they are dealing with a huge influx of casualties that continue to arrive at hospitals.
There is huge pressure on medical teams operating in front-line hospitals in Gaza City, such as al-Ahli Arab Hospital and al-Shifa Hospital. Doctors there report a nonstop surge of air attacks and a large number of people who need life-saving treatment.
In the hospital we’re standing in front of in Deir el-Balah, there are not even enough stretchers to carry people, so volunteers often have to carry people in on their backs or shoulders.
This shows the growing state of emergency and how civilians on the ground are bearing the brunt of Israel’s deadly military campaign.
