Deadly Israeli strikes rain down as IDF advances push to take Gaza City
Sayed Abu Tahoun kneels, tightening his daughter’s soft body, Dalia, killed by Israeli tanks outside their house in Gaza City.
His cry resonates in the crowded corridors of the hospital. He looks in his lifeless eyes, then groaned again, before bringing her closer to a desperate embrace on the ground of the Al-Shifa hospital.
This scene and others were captured in videos by journalists in Gaza and checked by NBC News on Saturday – 24 hours after Israel said it started the “initial steps” of its assault on Gaza City.
Israel has promised to take control of the largest city in famine, which houses hundreds of thousands of Palestinians,
The Israeli Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, said on August 22 that the FDI “would open the doors of hell” on the city of Gaza until Hamas accepts the conditions of Israel to put an end to the conflict, in particular by abandoning all the hostages and throwing arms.
On Saturday, the last assault of Israel had rained in a city already snuggled under famine, illness and displacement.
In images of western Gaza City, a boy covered with gray dust had died of another strike, the blood escapes from a crater in his skull.
During a bakery struck in a separate Israeli bombardment, another video showed rescuers taking a child after the carnage child.
Israeli strikes killed at least 70 people through the strip on Saturday, 47 of them from Gaza City, Dr. Khalil al-Daqran, spokesperson for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, told NBC News.
The Israeli army said that it had struck a “Key Hamas terrorist” during the strikes on Saturday in Gaza City and that “many measures were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians”.
When they put pressure on more details on the strike, Israeli defense forces did not answer questions from NBC News.
The assault against Gaza City, declared “dangerous combat zone” by Israel, is expected to move hundreds of thousands and has aroused global conviction in the midst of warnings that he could deepen the humanitarian disaster in the enclave struck with famine.
UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, said on Friday that around 1 million people could be moved by force. The international Red Cross warned on Saturday that the evacuation of the city under bombing would be “impossible”.
Israel told civilians to go for the south of the Palestinian enclave.
Seeking refuge, the Palestinians faced air strikes as well as an increasing deprivation, following a declaration of famine in northern Gaza earlier in August, notably Gaza City, by the main global authority on hunger.
Under these conditions, illness is also a threat.
A virus causing high fever, joint pain and diarrhea quickly spread to Gaza, Dr. Muhammad Abu Salmiya, director of the Al-Shifa medical complex on Thursday.
He said that immunodeficiency resulting from malnutrition, as well as overcrowding and lack of clean water and cleaning materials, caused the virus to spread.
After Israel made heavy strikes in the region the residents of Friday, many of whom were moved several times during the war, began to flee. While the tanks advanced in several areas, in the afternoon, the streets of Gaza City were crowded with newly moved families.
Suleiman al-Hissi, 55, transported the little he had when his eight children gathered around him. “Enough!” shouted. “Stop this war!” Where is mercy? Where is humanity? ”
On Sunday, an aid flotilla carrying activists – including Swedish activist from the Climate Greta Thunberg – was to sail from Barcelona, aimed at breaking the naval blockade of Israel and delivering humanitarian supplies.
The mission, the Flotilla Global Sumud, sought to “open a humanitarian corridor and end the genocide in the Palestinian people”.
Israel denies having committed a genocide.
He has already intercepted two fleets this summer, one with Thunberg, holding passengers in Israel before expelling them.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that the FDI had recovered the remains of two hostages from the Gaza Strip in a military operation this week.
He announced the recovery of the body of Ilan Weiss as well as the remains of another hostage, whose identity is now known to be that of Idan Shtivi but had not been disclosed at the time.
