“As you can see, everything is in ruins. There are many dead still under the rubble of the demolished buildings, and they have not been recovered yet due to the limited means of the civil defence .”
from thefreeonline on July 13th ’24 By Alastair McCready at Al Jazeera ( on Telegram: t.me/thefreeonline )
A Palestinian injured child cries as she is brought to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on July 12, 2024. Photojournalist:Ashraf Amra
“As you can see, there is widespread bloodshed, and we have nothing left. We are sleeping on the street without any shelter. All we can say is may God help us and bring justice.”
Residents who returned home said that the industrial area which has been “completely destroyed” is considered the area of the UN agency.
They said Israeli forces attacked at 4am, forcing them seek refuge in the Daraj neighbourhood.
When they returned to gather some of their belongings, they found everything had been stolen including their money and clothes.
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Israeli forces kill dozens in Gaza City
Israeli forces are accused of deliberately targeting displaced Palestinians in Gaza City where dozens of bodies have been recovered after attacks in the city’s Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood.
Director-General of the Gaza Government Media Office Ismail al-Thawabta has accused Israeli forces of carrying out a “planned massacre” in Gaza City.
‘Everything is in ruins’ in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa
Speaking from Tal al-Hawa in Gaza City, a Palestinian has told Al Jazeera that Israeli forces shot at children in the industrial area and their families have been killed.
“The focus is on children and women, rather than targeting the resistance,” they said.
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video. Israel and Egypt are discussing an electronic surveillance system along the Gaza-Egypt border. Reuters reported citing sources that a potential Israeli withdrawal is part of the truce talks. Israeli presence along Egyptian border on Gaza side has become a key obstacle in ceasefire negotiations.
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60 more bodies found after new Israeli massacre in Gaza City
Palestinian residents return to Gaza City’s Shujaiya neighbourhood, flattened by a two-week Israeli offensive – Omar AL-QATTAA
Local official says Israeli forces deliberately targeted displaced Palestinians in Gaza City, adding that the bodies of 70 people have recovered from the attacks in the Tal al-Hawa area. Earlier, the Gaza civil defence said it found 60 bodies in the same neighbourhood.
Gaza’s civil defence agency said around 60 bodies had been found under the rubble in Shujaiya, after some of Gaza City’s heaviest combat in months.
Hamas said Israel’s operation there had left “more than 300 residential units and more than 100 businesses destroyed”.
Palestinians make their way through the decimated Shejaiya neighborhood to inspect the damage and look for belongings after Israeli forces withdrew from the eastern Gaza City neighborhood amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, July 10, 2024.
Mohammed Nairi, a Shujaiya resident, said he and others returning to the neighbourhood had seen “immense destruction that defies description. All the houses were demolished.”
Israel’s military said on Wednesday it had completed its mission in Shujaiya after two weeks, but bombardments and fighting continued to shake Gaza City.
Witnesses said tanks and troops had moved on to other parts of the city.
An AFP correspondent reported air strikes on the Sabra neighbourhood while militants engaged in heavy clashes with Israeli forces in Tel al-Hawa.
Hamas reported 45 air strikes in the Gaza City area, as well as in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, where Netanyahu had said the intense phase of the war was nearing its conclusion.
U.N. experts say Gaza children dying in Israeli “targeted starvation campaign”
The UN’s health agency meanwhile said that only five trucks carrying medical supplies were allowed into Gaza last week.
“More than 34 of our trucks are waiting at the Al Arish crossing, and 850 pallets of medical supplies are awaiting collection. A further 40 trucks are waiting at Ismailiya in Egypt,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday on social media platform X.
The Israeli army dropped leaflets on Wednesday warning “everyone in Gaza City” that it would “remain a dangerous combat zone”.
The leaflets urged residents to flee, and set out designated escape routes from the area where the UN humanitarian office said up to 350,000 people had been sheltering.
The UN said the latest evacuations “will only fuel mass suffering for Palestinian families, many of whom have been displaced many times”, and who face “critical levels of need”.
Hamas official Hossam Badran told AFP that Israel was “hoping that the resistance will relinquish its legitimate demands” in truce negotiations.
But “the continuation of massacres compels us to adhere to our demands”, he said.
Israel’s military said operations were also continuing in the Rafah area where “dozens” of militants were killed over the past day.
The military said it responded with air and ground strikes after five rockets were fired from the area towards Israel on Thursday.
The military separately acknowledged Thursday it had “failed” to protect Kibbutz Beeri, where more than 100 people died during Hamas’s October 7 attacks.
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