In the already destroyed Gaza stripits residents woke up this Friday under the fire of intense Israeli bombardment after Islamist group Hamas and Israel broke its truce, reigniting painful déjà vu death and destruction in the Palestinian enclave.
The roar of explosions that shook Stripe From the very beginning, seeding it from north to south with colossal gray mushrooms of smoke and dust, it gave way to screams of terror.
“Juri, Yuri… Don’t go!”, she screamed inconsolably. Fatena Meqdadwhen he discovered that his five-year-old daughter was dead, a week before her birthday.
The girl, whose name means “flower”, died in the settlement of Rafah, very close by border with Egyptwhen a missile hit near where he was playing with his relatives.
“I was sleeping and suddenly an explosion woke me up, I didn’t understand what happened. Her uncle went to check and came back shouting my daughter’s name, he told me that she was killed and that my son was wounded,” he says EFE Ramadan MeqdadYuri’s father.
“She looked like flower. “The last two nights he came to sleep with me and said, ‘I love you dad,’ I didn’t even think he was saying goodbye to me,” he commented.
Fatena planned to bake her birthday cake in a few days, while Yuri’s sister says she doesn’t understand why Israeli army rage at the children. At least 6,000 minors died under the bombs in this war.
“Why are they killing children? We didn’t do anything to them,” he cries. “This is my worst day life“.
Tassels counts more than 15,000 dead since the beginning warOn October 7, next to some 7,000 people buried under the rubble.
This Friday alone, another 178 dead and 589 injured were added to the list, most of whom are children and women, they show
under the control of Hamas.
On the streets of Rafah, several women were hugging corpses of their babies or childrensome covered in dust and with their eyes still open, while the bodies of adults wrapped in white cloth were piled up.
Many others searched desperately among the rubble for signs of life in their homes. beloved.
No place to go
Thursday was the seventh and last day of the truce they agreed upon Qatar, Egypt and the United Statesthrough an agreement that included the release of 105 hostages kidnapped by Hamas, in exchange for the release of 240 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons and the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
Israel and Hamas They accused each other of violating the truce, and shortly before 7:00 a.m. local time (5:00 GMT), when a cease-fire that they did not renew expired, they began exchanging fire despite growing international opposition.
An Israeli government spokesman said: “Hamas will take the mother of all blows,” while the Islamist group promised to respond “firmly.”
NOW warned Israel against renewing the military offensive in Loop unless he had a concrete plan to avoid the death and mass displacement of Palestinian families, as happened before the ceasefire.
This Friday, Israel dropped thousands of leaflets from the air south of the Strip, inviting the city’s residents Jan Yuniswhich is now considered a “dangerous combat zone”, to move towards Rafah, today also bombed.
But according to the authorities in Gaza, thousands of refugees are in the Naser Hospital, Khan Yuniswhile Rafah “today is a disaster-stricken city, as the medical aid that arrived during the ceasefire is only enough for one day”.
Fatena Meqdad It is clear that no the site is secure.
“My family and I are from the north Loop, we evacuated to the south when Israel announced that it would be safe. I wish we hadn’t evacuated, maybe my daughter would be alive,” laments Rafa.
Humanitarian crisis
“After the ceasefire break and new bombings of civilians, medical teams are working with a large number of injured people. The wounded are lying on the floor of the emergency department and in front of the operating theaters, due to the accumulation of cases,” he condemned. the Ministry of Health.
“The health situation in the north Stripe It is extremely disastrous. “The three remaining hospitals are small and not ready to receive a large number of wounded,” he added, urging Gazans to donate blood.
Before the end of the armistice, the panorama in Stripe It was already apocalyptic.
The vast majority of buildings in the northern half of the enclave were reduced to ashes, while there are almost two million Gazans -almost the entire population- was displaced in the middle of winter, in the midst of a serious humanitarian crisis due to the collapse of hospitals and shortages of drinking water, food, medicine, electricity and fuel.
Source: Panama America
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