Israeli attack on refugee camp kills 70 people
- December 24, 2023
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Palestinian health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Kidra said an Israeli airstrike on the Magazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip killed 70 people, although the number was likely
Palestinian health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Kidra said an Israeli airstrike on the Magazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip killed 70 people, although the number was likely to rise.
The Israeli military said it was studying the report.
Islamist group n.ToHamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, issued a statementTolaunched an air attack “horrible massacre”guaranteeing that this is a “new war crime”.
Christmas doesn’t stop the war in Gaza; Despite calls for peace, the number of dead and wounded in the Palestinian Strip, where the population no longer knows where to flee, is increasing every day, while the Israeli army also increased its losses on one of its deadliest days since the start of the war.
At least 166 Gazans have died in the coastal enclave in the past 24 hours and 384 have been injured in intense Israeli bombing, bringing the total death toll since the start of the armed conflict to 20,424 and 54,036 injured, according to Gaza’s health ministry. under the control of the Islamist group Hamas.
Israel ordered the evacuation of eight towns in the center of the strip so residents could move to the town of Deir al-Balah, where five massacres have been carried out in the past 48 hours.
“There is nowhere to go in Gaza,” lament many of those forced to flee their homes by the Israeli offensive, as even giving up on fleeing is not safe for those who have been doing so for more than two and a half months of war.
“There is no safe zone in the Gaza Strip,” Sabri Abdelrahim told EFE at the Bureij refugee camp, from which Israel has ordered more than 150,000 people to leave.
Many don’t want to leave, but the explosions make them consider it, and eventually most decide to flee, echoing images of cars and trucks full of people, others in donkey carts with everything they have left.
Children, old people, women along with mattresses, blankets, kitchen utensils and canned food, and Israeli planes fly over them.
Among the Israeli ranks, fourteen soldiers have died in the past 48 hours, one of their army’s deadliest days since the ground offensive began in the enclave.
A total of 153 Israeli soldiers have died in combat since the ground offensive began on Oct. 27, according to army officials, more than the 119 who died in the 2006 Lebanon war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lamented: “The war is taking a very heavy toll on us, but we have no choice but to keep fighting” until Hamas is “destroyed” because “that is the only way to get our kidnapped people back. “” although “it will take time” and “it has a very high price.”
The October 7 Hamas attack on Israel that sparked the war left more than 1,200 people dead and about 240 kidnapped and taken to the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army said it had attacked more than 200 Hamas “terrorist sites” in the past 24 hours and killed scores of militants in joint operations with Shin Bet, the country’s domestic intelligence service.
In addition to the arrest of more than 200 “terrorists” from both Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the past week, nearly 800 since the start of the war, many of them have been brought to Israel for questioning.
Sad Christmas in Gaza Strip
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for an end to the “river of blood” and the “immense sacrifices” of the Palestinian people in a message for Christmas, a holiday that takes on special significance in Bethlehem, where Christian tradition places the birth of Jesus.
“The hardships and heroic resilience of our people in their land are the path to freedom and dignity,” said the president of the Palestinian National Authority, which governs small areas of the occupied West Bank.
Every year on December 24, Bethlehem holds a traditional parade with marching bands before the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem arrives on foot to celebrate Mass at St. Catherine’s Church, the Catholic Basilica of the Nativity.
But this year, Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa – the Vatican’s religious envoy to the Holy Land – arrived in a solemn procession, without music or festivities, mourning the large number of Palestinians killed in the war.
No carols, no pilgrims, no typical Christmas in Bethlehem, as the war in Gaza has turned this Christmas Eve into a sad day in a place that honors the birth of Jesus.
“This is a very sad Christmas,” the patriarch lamented.
In front of the Nativity Basilica in Manger Square this year, Jesus appears amid rubble and barbed wire, like the children who die every day in the Gaza Strip.
EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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