Israeli drone strike wounds many Palestinians near Gaza City hospital
An Israeli drone attack has hit the vicinity of al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood, medical sources tell Al Jazeera.
The attack has wounded numerous people. The Israeli army has subjected Gaza City to its most punishing attacks in two years of war, sending tens of thousands of residents fleeing under bombs and bullets.
Many of the estimated one million Palestinians there pledged to stay in the early days of Israel’s takeover plan in August. But the military has accelerated the pace of its deadly campaign, turning high-rises, homes and civilian infrastructure into rubble.
Israeli drone attack kills, wounds people in Gaza City’s Remal
Our colleagues on the ground are reporting another attack on Gaza City, this time hitting the western Remal neighbourhood. A drone attack in the area killed at least one person and wounded others, they report, citing a source at al-Shifa Hospital.
‘The kids have nothing around but garbage wherever they go’
Rachid Abdel Latif Shaaban, a displaced Palestinian, has described the terrible conditions his family is forced to endure in a makeshift encampment in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza.
“We were searching all over for a decent place where we can stay, but that costs money to rent a small piece of land. We can’t afford that. We kept looking around, but we didn’t find any other place,” he told Al Jazeera, adding that all around him is “nothing but garbage, sewage, all kinds of pollution, bacteria and germs”.
“I’m cooking my food in the midst of garbage. Where else can we go? We are trying to clean as much as we can until we figure out a way out of this misery,” Shaaban said.
Ayesha Abu Ghof, another displaced Palestinian, told Al Jazeera that she couldn’t find anywhere to stay except a landfill.
“All our children are sick and suffer from diseases, and there are no doctors around, no medicine. Even when we go to the hospital, they have no medication to treat these kids who are suffering from scabies … the kids have nothing around but garbage wherever they go,” she said.
