(Gaza) The civil defense of the Gaza Strip made 42 people killed in new Israeli strikes on small Palestinian territory devastated by war on Friday and which Israel has been subjecting a total blockade.
Posted at 3:05 p.m.
Nine of these victims were killed in a house in the Al-Bureij refugee camp (center), said Mohammed al-Moughayir, an official of this first aid organization.
On the scene, Images of AFP show Gazaouis exciting the ruins of the building affected in search of victims.
“There was no warning, no call. We woke up at midnight in smoke, the rubble, with stones and bursts of shells that were raining over us, “said Mohammed Al-Sheikh, surrounded by collapsed concrete slabs.
“We released martyrs, bodies shredded from under the rubble. ».
Six other people were killed in a strike targeting the Al-Masri family house in the city of Beit Lahia (north), according to Mr. Moughayir.
-In the city of Gaza (North), a bombing on community cuisine cost the lives of six other people, the civil defense reported.
In the entire Gaza Strip, at least 21 other deaths have been reported in similar attacks, she said.
Israel has cut the entry of all humanitarian aid since March 2 into the Gaza Strip, accusing Hamas of diverting it. Israel says that this total blockade is intended to put pressure on the Islamist movement so that it releases all the hostages it holds, alive or dead.
Since then, the UN has been unlikely Israel to reopen the territory with humanitarian aid, vital for the population faced with a catastrophic humanitarian situation, and exposed to famine according to UN officials.
Humanitarian operations in Gaza are “on the verge of total collapse”, warned the International Committee of the Red Cross (CICR) on Friday.
The Director of Emergencies of the World Health Organization, Mike Ryan, qualified the situation in the territory in Gaza as “abomination”.
The Israeli military reprisal campaign for the attack on October 7 left at least 52,418 dead in the Gaza Strip, mostly civilians, according to figures from the Hamas Ministry of Health, deemed reliable by the UN.
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