The Israeli army stepped up its bombing of the southern Gaza Strip on the second day after the ceasefire expired – now also in the south. A large part of the civilian population has fled there from the initially disputed north. Aid organizations are shocked: “People don’t know where to go!”
“Hundreds and hundreds of explosions. In a place so densely populated with civilians, everything has to impact something… someone,” UNICEF spokesperson James Elder of the UN Children’s Fund wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday.
UNICEF spokesman Elder described the night on Saturday, in which the Israeli army said it had bombed more than fifty targets in the area of the town of Khan Younis in the south of the closed Gaza Strip alone, as “relentless”. Hiba Tibi, director of aid organization Care, told the American news channel CNN about the situation of the citizens: “They don’t know where to go.” There are not enough places to house people.
Care: “The fight must stop”
“We must protect the civilian population and the vital infrastructure on which they depend,” Tibi demanded. The Muslim Hamas hostages remaining in the Gaza Strip must be released immediately and unconditionally. “We need a humanitarian ceasefire,” Tibi said. “The fighting must stop.”
But the chance of this happening is extremely small. Because now Israel has also broken a new ceasefire in Qatar. The Israeli government announced that the Mossad secret service delegation had been withdrawn. Hamas has not fulfilled its part of the agreement and has not released all the children and women who were on the agreed list.
Hamas: More than 6,000 children killed since the war began
According to Hamas figures, which cannot be independently verified, more than 15,000 people have been killed in Palestinian territory since the fighting began, including more than 6,000 children and young people. After fighting resumed, emergency sirens sounded in Israeli areas near the Gaza Strip. In one city a rocket hit a van.
About 1.7 million people have been displaced in the Gaza Strip since the war began eight weeks ago, according to UN figures. According to the United Nations, the humanitarian situation in the coastal area is catastrophic. Following the interruption of aid deliveries due to the resumption of fighting, several trucks carrying aid entered the Gaza Strip via the Rafah border crossing on Saturday, according to the Red Crescent.
Source: Krone
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