Gaza’s civil defense reported on Thursday, May 1, at least 29 people killed since the night in Israeli bombing in the Palestinian territory, where Israel has been blocking any entry of humanitarian aid for almost two months.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the “supreme objective” of the army in the Gaza Strip was to defeat Hamas.
The Israeli army ended on March 18 to two months from truce with the Palestinian Islamist movement and resumed its offensive in Gaza, launched on October 7, 2023 in retaliation for the attack against Hamas on the Israeli soil.
“We are tired, enough!”
From night, eight people have been killed in an Israeli air strike at the ABU Sahloul family’s house in the Khan Younès refugee camp in the south of the territory, a civil defense, said Mohammed al-Mouchayer.
Four other people have succumbed to an aerial bombing in the Al-Tuffah district of the city of Gaza (north), he added.
At least 17 other people were killed in other attacks throughout the territory, one of whom touched a tent for displaced people in the city of Deir El-Balah (center), according to civil defense.
“We find all these houses destroyed, children, women and young people shattered by bombing (…) We are tired, enough!”, Said Ahmed Abu Zarqa after the murderous strike in Khan Younès. “We prefer to die instead of living this kind of life.”
The images of the AFP show the Palestinians to excavate the debris of destroyed buildings in search of bodies, which were extracted and taken on stretchers.
In the Nasser hospital in Khan Younès, rescuers take out a child, wounded and screaming, an ambulance.
“What did children hurt? What have we hurt? That is enough. That they drop a nuclear bomb,” said Ghada Abu Sahloul crying the death of a loved one
More than 50,000 dead in Gaza
In its last evaluation, the Hamas Ministry of Health in Gaza has at least 2,326 people killed since March 18, which brings the total number of deaths to the Palestinian territory devastated in almost 19 months of war to the Palestinian territory.
The attack on Hamas on October 7 led to the death of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, for most civilians, according to an AFP count based on official figures.
Among the 251 people kidnapped that day, 58 are still preserved in Gaza, including 34 dead, according to the Israeli army.
Israel claims to have resumed its offensive, after blocking any humanitarian assistance in Gaza on March 2, officially to force Hamas to free these captives.
“We want to bring back to the camera of the living and the dead, it is a very important mission,” said Benjamin Netanyahu during a ceremony in Jerusalem to commemorate the proclamation of Israel’s independence in 1948.
“But in times of war, there is only one supreme objective: the victory over our enemies, and we will succeed,” added the prime minister, who swore after the October 7 attack “destroy” Hamas.
The UN denounces a “humanitarian disaster”
Israel faces the growing international criticisms to block vital aid for Gazanis, which immerses the territory in a “humanitarian disaster” according to the UN.
What is happening in Gaza is “an abomination,” said Mike Ryan, deputy general director of the World Health Organization (WHO), who said his anger in the population’s help on Thursday.
“(…) If we do not act, we will be complicit in what is happening before our eyes,” he insisted. On Friday it will mark two months of total blockade of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army.
Source: BFM TV
