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 continuing warfare 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,” mentioned Umm Ahmad Lubbad, 52, from Beit Lahia.
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She advised AFP by cellphone thay she was scared to go away her home, however that she would go if the Israeli military requested individuals to evacuate their houses.
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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, mentioned mentioned the state of affairs was “catastrophic”.
“It’s getting worse on daily basis,” he mentioned, 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 mentioned no less than 37 individuals had 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 troublesome”.
“The occupation (Israel) doesn’t permit something to be introduced into the world. The focusing on has not stopped across the hospital,” he mentioned.
The hospital is one in every 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 warfare 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 corresponding to hospitals as bases, hiding its actions amongst civilians, a declare Hamas and medical staff deny.
The army mentioned on Thursday that 34 sufferers from Kamal Adwan and Al-Awda hospitals had been transferred to protected amenities in Gaza.
The top of the UN company for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, mentioned on X that “the continuing army operation in northern Gaza has uprooted 130,000 individuals”.
The company, UNRWA, mentioned in a separate put up that “the circumstances 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, in response to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
Israel’s retaliatory marketing campaign has killed 44,330 individuals in Gaza, in response to figures from the Hamas-run territory’s well being ministry that the United Nations considers dependable.