Displaced Palestinians use a dry path in an inundated camp, following heavy rainfall north of Deir el-Balah within the central Gaza Strip on November 24, 2024, amid the continued battle between Israel and Hamas militants. Agence France-Presse
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories — Gazans on Thursday described a “actual life horror film” within the Gaza Strip’s north as Israeli air strikes continued throughout the Palestinian territory, a day after a ceasefire started in neighboring Lebanon.
Vowing to cease Hamas from regrouping in northern Gaza, Israel on October 6 started an intensive air and floor operation in Jabalia after which expanded it to Beit Lahia.
“We live in an actual life horror film, the state of affairs is indescribable, the Israeli bombing doesn’t cease from the air or on the bottom,” stated Umm Ahmad Lubbad, 52, from Beit Lahia.
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She advised AFP by telephone thay she was scared to depart her home, however that she would go if the Israeli military requested individuals to evacuate their properties.
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“We don’t know the place we are going to go precisely,” she added.
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Abu Muhammad Al-Madhoun, displaced from Jabalia camp to the central Gaza Strip, stated stated the state of affairs was “catastrophic”.
“It’s getting worse on daily basis,” he stated, including: “The bombing doesn’t cease.”
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu introduced a truce with Hezbollah in Lebanon on Tuesday, he vowed to “intensify” stress on Islamist motion Hamas in Gaza.
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The well being ministry within the Hamas-run territory stated at the very least 37 individuals have been killed on Thursday throughout the territory by Israeli air strikes.
Hossam Abu Safiyeh, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital within the north, described the state of affairs there as a “tragic and really tough”.
“The occupation (Israel) doesn’t permit something to be introduced into the world. The concentrating on has not stopped across the hospital,” he stated.
The hospital is certainly one of solely two nonetheless functioning, and solely partially, within the area north of Gaza Metropolis.
Hospitals within the Palestinian territory have been hit a number of instances because the outbreak of battle between Israel and Hamas, triggered by the militant group’s unprecedented assault on Israel on October 7, 2023.
The Israeli military says Hamas makes use of buildings comparable to hospitals as bases, hiding its actions amongst civilians, a declare Hamas and medical employees deny.
The navy stated on Thursday that 34 sufferers from Kamal Adwan and Al-Awda hospitals had been transferred to protected amenities in Gaza.
The pinnacle of the UN company for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, stated on X that “the continued navy operation in northern Gaza has uprooted 130,000 individuals”.
The company, UNRWA, stated in a separate submit that “the situations for survival (in northern Gaza) are diminishing for the 65,000-75,000 individuals estimated to stay there”.
Hamas’s October 7, 2023 assault resulted within the deaths of 1,207 individuals, most of them civilians, based on an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
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Israel’s retaliatory marketing campaign has killed 44,330 individuals in Gaza, based on figures from the Hamas-run territory’s well being ministry that the United Nations considers dependable.
