The Palestinian National Authority’s Public Works Minister said Thursday that about 200,000 homes have been partially or completely destroyed by Israeli bombing in Gaza since the start of the war between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas.
‘The bombings of the occupation [de Israel] they have eliminated entire families, obliterated neighborhoods, areas and residential communities,” in addition to causing the destruction of “facilities including hospitals, places of worship, bakeries, gas stations, markets and schools,” accused Mohamed Ziara, member of the Palestinian National Authority (ANP). , with limited power in the occupied West Bank and no control over Gaza.
In recent days, the Gaza government, controlled by Hamas, has caused approximately 50% of homes in the Gaza Strip to be damaged by Israeli attacks and at least 28,000 homes to have collapsed or become completely uninhabitable.
The bombings have taken place consecutively since October 7 – the date Hamas launched an attack on Israeli territory, killing more than 1,400 and taking 220 hostages – affecting and also destroying the Gaza Strip’s civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and mosques where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have taken refuge.
According to the Gaza government information office, more than 7,000 Gazans were killed by the Israeli offensive.
In recent hours, the Israeli army claimed to have attacked more than 250 Hamas military targets, again accusing the country of using Gaza’s civilian population as human shields.
The military also carried out a limited land invasion with tanks in the north of the enclave, a way to “test the waters” for a likely land invasion.
According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, today’s Israeli attacks killed at least 15 people in the town of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, and another five in Gaza City, in addition to dozens of injuries.
In addition to the bombings, Israeli retaliation for the Hamas attack also included a blockade of water, fuel and other goods in Gaza.
After several appeals, Tel Aviv allowed in some humanitarian aid. Another 12 trucks carrying water, food, medicine and medical supplies arrived today, the Palestinian Red Crescent Humanitarian Organization said.
The organization said a total of 74 trucks carrying humanitarian aid crossed the Rafah crossing, on the border with Egypt, although it warned that fuel deliveries were not allowed.
The Palestinian Red Crescent also said it was sheltering around 12,000 people at its hospital in Gaza, al-Quds Hospital.
These people “were searching for safety after losing their homes and loved ones and now desperately need to meet their most basic needs, amid an aggression that continues for the twentieth day in a row,” the organization said on social media.
The Egyptian Red Crescent also said it expected two planes carrying humanitarian aid from Kuwait to arrive today to “support the people of Gaza.”
Source: DN
