In Gaza City, Israel is trying to ‘wipe out all means of sustaining life’
The Palestinians fleeing Gaza City are telling us how relentless and intense the bombing is there.
Israeli forces are targeting houses. Yesterday, a high-rise housing dozens of families displaced from areas around Gaza was hit. The surrounding area was full of tents of displaced people.
The Israeli military is trying to wipe out all means of sustaining life – infrastructure, water tanks, solar panels. Anything that might help Palestinians survive this ground operation is being destroyed.
They’re using remote-operated vehicles that are laden with two tonnes of explosives, and sending them into residential neighbourhoods. We hear these explosions from far away – from Deir el-Balah, az-Zawayda.
That’s why Palestinian families are on the move, fleeing from Gaza City into the unknown.
Displaced Palestinians fleeing northern Gaza due to an Israeli military operation move southwards through the central Gaza Strip
‘We no longer appeal to the world. We gave up on that’: Gaza resident
Displaced Palestinians enduring constant Israeli bombardment in Gaza have expressed their despair at their suffering.
In the wake of another deadly attack, Abu Mohammed Samour said: “Who permitted this? What kind of death and unjust world is this?” He continued: “We no longer appeal to the world. We gave up on that.”
Another man, Abu Ammar Khudier, said children, the elderly and women “were all targets”. “There’s no safe place,” he concluded.
Heavy gunfire reported around Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital
Footage circulating on social media shows heavy gunfire in the vicinity of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital. In the video, posted to Instagram and verified by Al Jazeera, an extended barrage of gunshots is heard.
Al-Shifa, the largest medical facility still functioning in northern Gaza, has been attacked and raided numerous times by Israeli forces since the war began, with much of the building destroyed.
In recent days, the hospital’s director Muhammad Abu Salmiya told Al Jazeera that his team was committed to keeping the facility running as long as possible amid the escalating Israeli offensive, saying “thousands will die” if it went out of service.
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