People and aid workers in the strip say ‘no one is talking about’ the bloodshed there and ceasefire hopes are receding
, the scenes of bloodshed and chaos were grimly familiar to the people of Gaza. Mai al-Afifa, 24, was teaching a workshop about how to identify unexploded ordnance in a school turned shelter in the central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah on Thursday when an Israeli missile hit the next building in the compound. Twenty-eight people were killed and 54 injured, according to medics at the scene.
Israel launched a ground invasion of Lebanon at the beginning of October after two weeks of heavy airstrikes and targeted assassinations aimed at destroying Hezbollah’s leadership and military capabilities. Badr Alzaharna, 25, from Gaza City, said he and his family wanted to leave after clinging on in their home for a year, but the fighting and Israeli snipers made it impossible. “Just walking in the street you see apocalyptic scenes … It is traumatising to be here. I am reminded of the hypocrisy of the world,” he said.
Rohan Talbot, the director of advocacy and campaigns for the UK-based charity Medical Aid for Palestinians, said: “We are running out of words to describe the horrors we are hearing from northern Gaza. Israel’s bombardment is relentless, terrified and starving people have been gunned down as they try to flee, and dozens of bodies are lying in the street. While Israel’s war on Palestinian survival escalates, the international community appears to have given up on Gaza.
But after Israel’s declaration of war on Hezbollah, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, vowed in a speech that Tehran and its proxies would keep up the fight against Israel. Gaza’s future is no longer clearly linked to the other fronts of the war.
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