2023-11-01 21:11:00
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Israel bombed again this Wednesday, for the second day in a row, a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, leaving “tens” of deaths, according to the Islamist movement Hamas, and which the UN described as “the latest atrocity to hit the people of Gaza.”
The Hamas Health Ministry said the new attack on the Jabaliya camp, the largest in the Palestinian enclave, hit residential buildings and left “dozens of martyrs and wounded”.
Images transmitted by AFP show enormous destruction in the place and the rescuers assured that “entire families” They died in the bombing, although at the moment there is no independent assessment of the number of victims.
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Earlier, the Palestinian Maan news agency said that at least eight people had died in just one of the homes hit.
The Al Jazeera television channel, one of the few media outlets still reporting from northern Gaza, broadcast images of the devastation left by the new attacks in the Jabaliya camp, near Gaza City.
There, several injured people were seen, including children, being taken to a nearby hospital, with scenes almost identical to those of the previous day, of dozens of men digging through the rubble of demolished multi-story buildings, searching for survivors.
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Hamas said about 50 people were killed in Tuesday’s attack.
Meanwhile, Israel said Tuesday’s bombings killed dozens of Hamas militants, including a senior commander who was involved in the bloody Oct. 7 attack in Israel that sparked the current escalation.
The Israeli military added that it also destroyed tunnels that run under buildings and that Hamas militants use to hide and carry out attacks.
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The head of humanitarian affairs of the UN, Martin Griffithsdescribed this Wednesday the bombings as “the latest atrocity to hit the people of Gaza.”
“This is simply the latest atrocity to hit the people of Gaza, where The fighting has entered an even more terrifying phasewith increasingly dire humanitarian consequences,” he said in a statement.
“In Gaza, women, children and men are starving, traumatized and killed in bombings. They have lost all faith in humanity and all hope in the future,” the diplomat insisted.
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“Meanwhile, the world seems unable or even unwilling to act. This cannot continue,” he added, calling “humanitarian breaks” in the fighting to allow more humanitarian aid to enter and for Hamas to release the hostages.
“Not acting now will have consequences far beyond the region, because this is a global crisis,” he warned.
For their part, the UN, the European Union (EU), Spain, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and other Arab and Islamic countries had already condemned the attack the day before.
The refugees who inhabit the camp are those Palestinians, and their descendants, who had to leave their properties in what is now Israel when the State of Israel was created in 1948.
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Israel launched a wave of bombings in Gaza after Hamas militants infiltrated its territory from Gaza on October 7 and killed more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, in addition to kidnapping more than 240 people.
The attacks against the Strip, meanwhile, left almost 8,800 Palestinians dead, including more than 3,600 minors, according to the authorities of the enclave.
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