With families too worn out to flee yet again, the death toll in recent strikes is nearing 300
Israel’s recent offensive in northern Gaza has killed more than 700 people in a little over three weeks, with nearly 300 of those deaths, mainly in the north, occurring in the past nine days alone. While it has attempted to justify its renewed focus on the north by claiming it is targeting regrouped Hamas fighters, the intensity of the fighting has caused heavy losses among the 100,000 civilians still living there.
Graphic footage afterwards showed the bodies of several children among the dead, while footage from the nearby Kamal Adwan hospital showed body bags.The UN special coordinator for the peace process in the Middle East, Tor Wennesland, said after the airstrike: “The nightmare in Gaza is intensifying … Horrifying scenes are unfolding in the northern strip amidconflict, relentless Israeli strikes and an ever-worsening humanitarian crisis.
Among the dead was a worker for the UN Palestinian refugee agency Unrwa, which said one of its staff members had been killed when an Unrwa vehicle was hit in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza.With Israel’s siege of northern Gaza in its 19th day, at least 31 Palestinians were killed in the Jabaliya refugee camp in a 24-hour period.Officials in Gaza said at least 45 Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli attacks. Many were in Jabaliya, which was hit by an airstrike.
Israeli forces withdrew from one of northern Gaza’s last functioning medical facilities, leaving a trail of destruction after a days-long siege.Scores of Palestinians, including many women and children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a crowded block of flats in Beit Lahiya.and 40 were missing, as emergency workers dug through the rubble on Tuesday looking for the dead and injured. Many of those in the block were members of the extended Abu Nasr family.
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