The Civil Defense of Gaza reported at least 29 people killed for night in Thursday in Israeli bombings On the Palestinian territory, where Israel has been blocking any humanitarian aid entry for almost two months.
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahou For his part declared that the “supreme objective” of the army in the Gaza Strip was to defeat Hamas. The Israeli army ended on March 18 to two months of truce with the Palestinian Islamist movement and resumed its offensive in Gaza, launched on October 7, 2023 in retaliation for the attack on Hamas on Israeli soil.
Since the night, eight people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on the Abu Sahloul family in the Khan Younès refugee camp in the south of the territory, a Civil Defense Head of the Civil Defense. Four other people have succumbed to an aerial bombardment in the Al-Tuffah district of the city of Gaza (North), he added.
At least 17 other people were killed in other attacks across the territory, one of which touched a tent for people displaced in the city of Deir El-Balah (Center), according to Civil Defense.
“Let them drop a nuclear bomb”
“We found all these destroyed houses, children, women and young people shredded by bombing (…) We are tired, enough! “Said Ahmed Abou Zarqa after the murderous strike at Khan Younès. “We prefer to die rather than live this kind of life.”
Images of AFP showed Palestinians excavating the rubble of the buildings destroyed in search of body, which were extracted and taken on stretchers. At the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younès, rescuers came out a injured and screaming child of an ambulance.
“What did children hurt?” What have we hurt? That’s enough. Let them drop us a nuclear bomb, “said Ghada Abu Sahloul crying the death of a loved one.
Hostages always retained in Gaza
In its latest assessment, the Hamas Ministry of Health in Gaza has at least 2,326 people killed since March 18, which brings the total number of deaths to the Palestinian territory devastated in almost 19 months of war to 52,418.
The attack on Hamas on October 7 led to the death of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, for most civilians, according to an AFP count based on official figures. Among the 251 people kidnapped that day, 58 are still retained in Gaza, including 34 dead, according to the Israeli army.
Israel claims to have resumed his offensive – after blocked any humanitarian assistance in Gaza on March 2 – officially for Force Hamas to release these captives. “We want to bring back to the house the living and the dead, it is a very important mission,” said Benyamin Netanyahu during a ceremony in Jerusalem to commemorate the proclamation of the independence of Israel in 1948.
“But in wartime, there is only one supreme objective: the victory over our enemies, and we will succeed,” added the Prime Minister, who swore after the attack on October 7 “to destroy” Hamas.
Growing criticism
Israel is faced with increasing international criticisms To block vital aid for Gazanis, which plunges the territory into a “humanitarian disaster” according to the UN.
What is happening in Gaza is “an abomination”, denounced Mike Ryan, the deputy director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), who said his anger at the help of the population on Thursday. “(…) If we do not act, we will be accomplices of what is happening before our eyes,” he insisted. Friday will mark two months of total blockade of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army.
