Another deadly night. In parallel with the bombings carried out in Beirut, the Civil Defense of the Gaza Strip reported on Saturday, November 23, about Israeli attacks in Gaza City, Khan Younes and tank fire in Rafah.
“Nineteen Palestinians were killed and more than 40 injured in three massacres caused by Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip,” spokesman Mahmoud Bassal told AFP.
One of the attacks targeted a house in Zeitoun, a district of Gaza City, and left seven people dead, including three children, and ten wounded, according to Bassal. “What had these people done? They were sleeping in their homes, they are civilians who have nothing to do with Hamas or the resistance,” Abdallah Shaldan, a relative whose house was completely demolished, told AFP.
AFP images showed people inspecting the rubble by the light of torches and telephones, while at the Al Ahli hospital, where the injured were taken, a child desperately screamed for “daddy”.
“Let them kill us all”
Another attack in Khan Younes (south) killed six people, including three children, and wounded 26 displaced people living in tents near the attacked house, Bassal said.
“I immediately ran and saw the destruction, people pulling out body parts from under the rubble,” Oum Mohammad Abou Sabla, sister of one of the victims, told AFP.
“Our whole life is misery. Let them kill us all so that we can be relieved of this suffering,” said the 62-year-old woman.
In the Nusseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, four other people were killed in an attack on a family home, and in Rafah, tank fire killed two young men, he said.
Arrest warrants
On Monday and Tuesday, near Rome, G7 foreign ministers will discuss the arrest warrants issued Thursday by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. , and the head of Hamas’s armed wing, Mohammed. Deif.
Israeli officials are accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza.
Hamas seized power in Gaza in 2007, two years after Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from the territory it occupied for 38 years. Before laying siege to Gaza on October 9, Israel had imposed a blockade on the poor and overpopulated territory since 2007.
In response to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, Israel launched a devastating military offensive in Gaza that left at least 44,056 dead, mostly civilians, according to data from the Hamas Ministry of Health.
It has also caused a humanitarian catastrophe in this territory where the 2.4 million inhabitants are threatened with famine according to the UN.
Source: BFM TV
