2023-11-04 12:49:15
At least 15 people have died and several dozen have been injured in an attack perpetrated this Saturday on a school located in the Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. This is the same settlement that Israel has bombed twice in recent days, causing 145 victims, most of them Palestinian women and children.
At the time of the last attack, people who had to abandon their homes due to the Israeli military offensive on Gaza were taking refuge in the Al Fajura school, linked to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). UNRWA has reported successive attacks on its facilities, theoretically protected by International Law and where some 700,000 displaced people are now taking refuge. Since the start of the current wave of violence, at least 72 agency workers have lost their lives and 47 facilities have been damaged.
The Israeli Army maintains its offensive in the Gaza Strip despite international calls for a humanitarian ceasefire in the war against the Islamist group Hamas, and this Saturday reported that it has already entered the south of the Palestinian enclave, where they gather some 1.5 million displaced civilians.
Las Israel Defense Forces (FDI) have reported this Saturday of a “selective raid” carried out in the south of the Strip with the objective of preparing upcoming ground actions. Armored and engineering forces have participated in this operation and have achieved “map buildings and neutralize explosives”as well as eliminating a squad of militiamen “coming out of a tunnel”, as explained by Israeli military sources.
This operation adds to the siege that the 460th Brigade of the Israeli Army has maintained during the last hours on the northern strip. As the IDF explained on its X account (formerly Twitter), in this area “they detected numerous attempts to attack the forces of Fish through tunnels and military complexes”.
???? IDF troops discovered Hamas terrorist tunnels and neutralized them during special operations inside Gaza. pic.twitter.com/oBsZTxmG1d
— FDI (@FDIonline) November 3, 2023
The Israeli military authorities assure that in this operation they have been able to eliminate several soldiers, they have discovered tunnels “used for terrorist purposes” and have located numerous Hamas weapons.
The UN, horrified by the ambulance
The Secretary General of the UN, António Guterres, has confessed to being “horrified” by the attack perpetrated on Friday on a convoy of ambulances in the vicinity of the Al Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip and has once again called for international law to be respected. .
“The images of bodies lying in the street next to the hospital are heartbreaking,” said the head of the United Nations, after a bombing whose responsibility has been claimed by Israel, but under the premise that a “terrorist cell” linked to Hamas was traveling on board one of the ambulances.
Although Guterres has indicated that he “does not forget” the attacks carried out on October 7 by Hamas and has called for the “immediate and unconditional” release of all the hostages, he has also pointed out that for almost a month now “civilians in Gaza have been under siege.” , have been left without help, have died and have been expelled from their homes” by the Israeli military offensive.
The humanitarian situation is already “horrible“, with UN schools overcrowded by the displaced and affected by bombing, hospitals and water plants without fuel and empty stores. “The entire population is traumatized. Nowhere is safe” in the Gaza Strip, she warned in a statement.
Palestinians expelled from Israel
The dramatic situation that exists in the Gaza Strip The more than ones have just discovered it in person. 3,000 gas who were in Israel with a work permit and that this Friday they were expelled by Israeli authorities and sent to the Strip in the middle of the war between the Islamist group Hamas, according to the UN this Saturday.
Israel expels hundreds of employees from the Strip who had work permits to Gaza
“On November 3, 3,026 Palestinian workers who had been stranded in Israel and the West Bank Since the beginning of hostilities they were returned to Gaza through the crossing of Kerem Shalom“says a statement from OCHAthe United Nations humanitarian agency.
“Israeli authorities kept them in custody for most of the period, allegedly interrogating and ill-treating them“, the agency has denounced.
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