Seventh day of Israeli military aggression on Ghaza

(this is a press information from the algerian newspaper EL WATAN)

Yesterday at dawn, F-16 fighter jets carried out the biggest massacre of this fierce military campaign, bombing 5 buildings containing dozens of apartments in the Elrimal district, in downtown Ghaza, no away from Al Shifa hospital.

37 martyrs, including 12 women and 11 children, in addition to about 50 wounded, mostly women and children, were pulled from under the rubble. But a large number of people are still buried and the hope of finding them alive is almost nil.

In this context, Civil Protection in the Palestinian enclave, which has been blockaded by the occupation for fifteen years, complains about the lack of adequate equipment that can help save more human lives. The Directorate of Civil Protection has appealed for help to neighboring countries to send teams with effective equipment that can help save more citizens.

Entire families were wiped out in this indiscriminate strike. Dr Ayman Abou Elaaouf, head of the internal medicine department at Al Shifa hospital, and Dr Mazen El Aloul, a 66-year-old psychiatrist, living in this area targeted by the Israeli raids, fell like martyrs, at the same time. time as their family members. It is a real war crime. All witnesses claim that there is no site related to the Palestinian resistance in this place.

This new massacre of civilians on which the Israeli army seems to be taking revenge, which fails to prevent Palestinian rockets and missiles from falling in the heart of cities such as Tel Aviv, Ashqelon and others, is the second in less than 24 hours. The first took place on Saturday in Chatty refugee camp, west of the town of Ghaza, where eight children and two women were killed in the bombing of the Abu Hatab family home.

Israeli fighter jets are not enough to raze homes, they also bomb roads. This is what they did in the Elrimal Quarter massacre. After their criminal passage, the roads, including the one leading to the nearby Al Shifa hospital, were smashed, which explains the difficulties experienced by the medical rescue teams and those of the Civil Protection to be able to access the perimeter. bombed.

Dr Youssef Abou Al Reesh, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in Ghaza, said yesterday that “the occupation has deliberately targeted and made impassable the roads leading to the Al Shifa medical complex and various hospitals, in order to to deprive the sick and injured of access to health services ”.

The Ghaza-based International Red Cross also said that "destruction of roads and buildings by bombing disrupts the ability of residents of Ghaza to reach hospitals."

Air raids, more than 100, and bombardments have targeted all areas of the Ghaza Strip in the past 24 hours. Single-family homes, apartment buildings, government sites, police stations, farmland and roads were the bulk of these targets.

Targeted drone attacks have also been reported. Two citizens whose identities have not been revealed were martyred on Saturday in such attacks. One was driving a car in the town of Ghaza and the other was on his motorcycle in Khan Younes, in the southern Palestinian enclave.

The houses of Yahiya Senouar, head of the Hamas movement in Ghaza, located in the city of Khan Younes, and that of Khalil Elhaya, senior leader of this movement, which is in the Tefah district, northeast of the city of Ghaza , have suffered the same fate as the hundreds destroyed since the start of this Israeli military campaign.

The heavy shelling was continuing as of this writing. In the afternoon, two 7-story buildings were demolished on El Yarmouk Street, northwest of Ghaza city.

The pacifist current in Israel does not have much influence, especially in times of war, and its voice calling for an immediate end to hostilities goes unheard.