Services, livelihoods destroyed as further Gaza City high-rises bombed
Smoke and flames rise as a residential building collapses after an Israeli air strike in Gaza City
It’s heartbreaking to watch these high-rise towers in Gaza City falling one after another due to the systematic tactics of the Israeli military. Today, there have been two so far.
It starts with a phone call, causing panic to people inside these towers, who are pushed out into the streets. They watch from a distance as everything they’ve built over the past years collapses … through the use of massive explosions.
They happened one after another. The explosions shook the surrounding area. We could feel it and smell it from a distance. We saw a dark cloud of smoke, gunpowder and concrete dust rising from the buildings.
This time it was commercial buildings – the backbone of services across Gaza City. A building that housed clinics, study centres, beauty salons, coffee shops and restaurants, office space has been levelled completely to the ground.
It’s not just a building that’s been destroyed – it’s the services that come with it, services that are crucial for people trying to live their lives after nearly two years of war.
The 17-storey commercial tower was located across the street from a university complex and housed clinics, beauty salons, educational centres, a gym and offices
Israel uses same justification as it continues to destroy Gaza City high-rises
The Israeli military has issued a statement claiming the latest high-rise building it has levelled in Gaza City was being used by Hamas operatives. The post provided no evidence to support the claims, as was the case with all of the buildings it has destroyed over the last days and weeks.
Israeli ‘suicide drone’ attacks Gaza mosque and blows up minaret
Video shows the moment an Israeli drone laden with explosives was flown into the minaret of a mosque in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HPffZKBsQQc
Gaza journalist Osama Balousha among 40 killed in latest Israeli attacks
Among at least 40 Palestinians reported killed in Israeli strikes and gunfire across Gaza today was Osama Balousha, a journalist for Palestinian media, medics said. Nearly 250 journalists have been killed in the Gaza Strip during the war, according to Palestinian authorities, making it by far the world’s deadliest war for news media in living memory.
