Israel retaliates a year after expelling its population from northern Gaza
This morning, Israeli forces killed at least 16 Gazans, including a family of nine, in the north and center of the Gaza Strip, where there have been nearly 42,000 deaths since October 7, 2023.
The family was killed when two houses were bombed in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of the northern city of Gaza, near a local market, according to medics from Palestinian Red Crescent emergency teams.
Meanwhile, in another bombardment carried out by a fighter against a residence, in the central area of Nussirat refugee camp, doctors confirmed the recovery of three lifeless bodies, including that of a child. According to Wafa, the victims were taken to Al Awda Hospital in the area.
Additionally, in the early hours of the morning, four other people were killed, at least one of whom was a child, after an aviation strike on the Al Bureij camp (center), an area that Israeli forces had captured four days earlier due to increasing violence. Due to this, evacuation was ordered. flood.
According to reports, since Sunday the Israeli army has been carrying out heavy attacks in the far north of the Gaza Strip, where it alleges the Islamist group Hamas is rebuilding its military capabilities. Francesca Cicardi,
However, once again, the targets are civilian infrastructure – one of the few bakeries in the area was attacked last night – and the residents themselves who returned in recent months.
The UN Secretary-General has condemned that 400,000 people already in the area are being forced to move again to the south of Gaza, where most of its more than 2 million residents are crowded.
The population of the Northern Strip was already expelled by Israeli forces at the beginning of the war, which turns one this week. The army claimed several months ago that it had eliminated Hamas’ presence in the northernmost areas, where there has been widespread destruction.
The three main hospitals in the north received evacuation orders Tuesday night, and hundreds of patients are in danger because they cannot be transferred, according to local officials. The Gazan government has warned that the horrors experienced at Al Aqsa Hospital in Gaza City could be repeated in these hospitals.
Hospital director Hussam Abu Safieh told multiple media on Tuesday, “With threatening language (…) they officially informed us that we must take all the injured and sick and all medical staff out of the hospital within 24 hours.” Have to take it out.” The outlets have demanded that the center be completely empty on Wednesday before specifying this.
Local sources also reported the presence of dozens of bodies scattered on the streets in the Yabaliya camp (north), which is surrounded by an artillery bombardment and a tank infiltration that surrounds the town of the same name.
For its part, the Qatari channel Al Jazeera, which has been expelled from Israel by the government, assured that one of its cameramen in Gaza, Ali Al Attar, 27, was seriously injured after the Israeli bombardment of the Martyrs’ Hospital of Al It is done. Aqsa, in the middle of the strip.
The young cameraman was hit in the head by shrapnel while he was in the hospital where he worked because there was electricity. According to the Hamas-controlled Gaza government, 176 media workers have been killed since the war began a year ago.
With Francesca Cicardi reporting from Jerusalem