2023-11-01 10:41:00
Palestinian citizens wait at the Rafah border crossing STAFF | REUTERS
The UN denounces that the attack yesterday on a refugee camp destroyed an entire neighborhood and caused at least 50 deaths
01 nov 2023 . Updated at 10:03 a.m.
A group of Palestinians with dual nationality managed to cross the crossing this morning. Rafah from Gaza heading to Egyptin parallel with the entry into the Palestinian side of dozens of ambulances to transfer wounded Gazans to Egyptian hospitals, according to witnesses and Egyptian media.
The exact number or nationalities of the people Egypt allowed to cross the border, and who have been waiting on the Palestinian side since the start of the conflict three weeks ago, are still unknown. The Egyptian television channels ExtraNews and Cairo News confirmed the departure from Gaza of the first group of Palestinians with dual nationality and did not rule out that the number of those allowed to cross the crossing could reach one hundred.
Dozens of Egyptian ambulances wait to cross the Rafah border crossing, which separates their country from Gaza
Yabalia Bombing
Also this morning, the United Nations has denounced that the yesterday bombing of the Yabalia refugee campin the north of Gaza, caused the destruction of an entire neighborhood with 30 residential buildings and at least 50 deaths, according to the conflict situation report published this morning by the international organization, which also reported other attacks on residential areas. .
Along with the attack on Jabalia, which according to other hospital sources in Gaza caused at least 145 deaths, the UN reported as particularly lethal in the last 24 hours two attacks on family homes in the central area of the strip and the capital that caused 18, respectively. and 15 dead, reports Efe.
The one in the central zone, an area where according to the UN the bombings have been particularly intense In the last 48 hours, it killed three generations of the same family, noted the daily report of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
The UN notes, citing data from the Gaza Ministry of Health, that two-thirds of the victims in the conflict have died in attacks on their own homes, and that almost 2,000 people are still buried in rubble, of which it is feared that more than a thousand are children. In total, the deaths since October 7 in Gaza, according to Palestinian sources, rise to 8,525, of which 3,542 are children and 2,187 women.
A total of 67 United Nations workers (specifically from its aid agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA) have died in the 25 days of conflict, the highest number that the UN has suffered in such a short period of time, the report highlights. This also cites for the first time figures from the Committee to Protect Journalists according to which 31 reporters have died in the wave of hostilities: 26 Palestinians, four Israelis and one Lebanese.
The report recalls that the attacks on Gaza have caused some two-thirds of the inhabitants of that densely populated strip, 1.4 million, to be internally displaced.
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11,000 Hams objectives attacked
The Israeli Army has also reported today its report on the armed conflict, in which it claims to have attacked more than 11,000 Hams goals since the war against the Islamist militias in the Gaza Strip began on October 7. Overnight, combined Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops attacked several terrorist targets throughout the Gaza Strip, including operational command centers and Hams terrorist cells, a military spokesman said.
The Army also referred to the attack on Jabalia Palestinian refugee camp, in the north of the Strip, where at least 145 people died, according to hospital sources, after the launch of several one-ton missiles in one of the deadliest attacks committed by Israel. During the battles yesterday (Tuesday), troops identified several Hamas terrorists who barricaded themselves in a multi-story building, located near a school, a medical center and government offices, in the Jabalia area. The air force was ordered to attack the terrorists, a military spokesman said today.
The Army already confirmed yesterday this attack, committed by the elite Givati brigade on Jabalia, which according to Israel, is the Hams military bastion in the north of the Gaza Strip, used for training and carrying out terrorist activities, and where there were shooting positions, tunnels used by terrorist agents as a passage to the coast and a large arsenal of weapons.
The Army claimed to have killed more than fifty terrorists in the attack on Jabalia, including Ibrahim Biari, the commander of the Jabalia Battalion, who according to Israel, was another of the Hamas commanders responsible for sending elite militiamen to Israel to carry out the attacks. on October 7.
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Communications and Internet cutoff
In addition, the Palestinian telecommunications company Paltel has announced during the early hours of the morning the interruption of all communications and Internet services in the Gaza Strip. We regret to announce a complete disruption of all communications and Internet services with the Gaza Strip, as previously reconnected international routes were once again disconnected. May God protect them and protect our country, Paltel reported on his social network account X, formerly Twitter, information collected by Europa Press.
The announcement comes a few days after magnate Elon Musk stated that his Starlink satellite communication system will assist in connecting aid NGOs recognized by the international community that are currently incommunicado in the Gaza Strip.
For his part, Israel’s Minister of Communications, Shlomo Karhi, rejected these actions of the magnate because the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hams) could use him for terrorist activities.
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