Israel bombed five houses in Gaza, killing dozens of people. international

Over the past 48 hours, Israeli forces have bombed suburbs of Beirut and ordered new evacuations in the historic city of Tyre, causing the largest massacre in Syria in a year (68 dead, according to a tally updated this Thursday. ) and killed nine Palestinians (all militiamen according to the military spokesman) in an attack in the city of Jenin in the West Bank. But, as has been the case over the past 13 months, the bloodiest mark is in Gaza, where five bombs exploded on houses packed with people, killing at least 88, with no ambulances to take the wounded to hospitals. and an unknown number beneath the debris. To health officials. Philippe, the head of the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), has indicated that 80% of the Strip is already a “high-risk area”, with people “looking for the basics” primarily to save their lives. Are forced to flee. Lazzarini.

Northern Gaza, which endured a brutal 40-day siege, has been the site of the largest massacre. This is the area where Israeli forces advanced, possibly demolishing hundreds of homes to create a buffer zone under their control. In Beit Lahiya, at least 66 people have lost their lives after a missile hit a residential building early in the morning, according to the Hamas government’s health ministry.

Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan (one of the three hospitals that are still barely functioning in the north of the enclave), assured that due to the lack of ambulances to take the victims to medical attention, on-site treatment would be possible. is being done. Centre. Given the shortage of medical supplies and specialized surgeons, the fate of those who reach the hospital is not much better. Israeli armed forces detained most of the personnel.

According to Abu Safiya, most died in their sleep. 200 people lived in the bombed district and many are still missing. The massacre brought the total number of Palestinians killed in the war to more than 44,000.

Hezbollah attack on southern Israel

Amid conflict in the Middle East, Hezbollah has announced its first missile attack against southern Israel since the shootings began (which escalated into a war in September). It was directed against Hatzor air base, about 150 kilometers from the border between the two countries, in response to a wish expressed by former Shia party-militia leader Hassan Nasrallah before his assassination in Dahiye in the south. From Beirut. The Israeli army has not confirmed this. A missile has also killed a young man in Israel’s coastal city of Nahariya.

All this comes as the United States envoy, Amos Hochstein, is preparing to meet with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to try to push for a ceasefire in Lebanon, which he talked about in his two-day interview Beirut has sent messages of optimism. As he said, this possibility is “within reach.”

The passing hours have further exposed the extraordinary nature of Wednesday’s Israeli bombardment of the Syrian city of Palmyra, northeast of Damascus. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, according to informants on the ground, it is the deadliest in Gaza since the start of the war, with 68 people killed and more than 40 injured. It is part of an expansion of the Netanyahu government’s operations against targets of Iran and its allied militias in Syria. This is the case for 64 of the dead, who were fighters from Syrian, Iraqi or Lebanese militias affiliated with Iran, according to the Observatory.

Taken by Islamic State in 2015 and recovered by regime troops about a year later, Palmyra is home to ruins declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Israeli attacks in Syria are now almost daily, given the inaction of the Bashar al-Assad regime, despite taking place on its national territory and killing dozens of soldiers.