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Palestinian media, citing the spokesman of the Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip, said that Israeli aircraft targeted a residential square in the Jabalia refugee camp, resulting in the killing or wounding of 150 people.
A Civil Defense spokesman said: “Massacre is now taking place in the area of Al-Hoja Street, Block 7, in Jabalia Camp, where initial reports indicate that more than 150 martyrs and wounded have occurred , and that there is no intervention to save. on them as a result of the continuous bombing.”
Palestinian sources said there are distress calls for dozens of injured and missing people as a result of targeting the homes of the Abu Rashid and Aqal families in the camp, where medical teams cannot reach them due to the blockade. medical services. as a result of Israel’s continued bombing of northern Gaza.
The sources explained that the bombed homes belonged to the families of Al-Najjar, Abu Al-Awf, Salman, Hijazi, Abu Al-Qumsan, Aqal, Abu Rashid, Abu Al-Tarabish, Zaqul, and Shaalan.
The Civil Defense confirmed that Israeli forces “bombed 11 houses in Block 7 in the Hoja district, causing a large number of casualties, including dead and wounded.”
He said citizens sent distress calls to help transport the wounded, amid major difficulties in working “due to Israel’s disruption of civil defense operations and medical services in the area.” “
Civil Defence: We can no longer provide services
A spokesman for the Gaza Civil Defense said on Thursday that the relief agency cannot continue to provide its services in the besieged northern Gaza Strip due to “death and bombing threats to the teams” led by the Israeli army.
The spokesman for Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip, Mahmoud Basal, told Agence France-Presse, “We regret that we did not provide a humanitarian service to citizens in the northern Gaza Strip government due to the threat of death and bombing of the Israeli occupation forces to the teams if they stay. inside the camp of Yabalia.”
Basal said, “The teams were targeted and several of them were injured. Others are on the roads bleeding and no one can save them.”
Basal posted on social media a photo of a burning truck, with the caption, “The only civil defense vehicle in the northern Gaza Strip government that was targeted by the Israeli army and its burned completely.”
According to Basal, the incident took place in the area of the Beit Lahia project in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
For its part, the Israeli army said on Thursday that they were continuing their operations in the Jabalia area and that they had “killed dozens of terrorists”.
In a separate statement on Thursday, the Civil Defense confirmed that the death toll from the Israeli military campaign, which has been ongoing for 19 days, had risen to at least 770 people.
In Beit Lahia, the Israeli army forced residents to move, as happened to Ragheb Hamouda (30 years old).
Hamouda told AFP by phone that he, his wife, and his three children fled to Gaza City after the Israeli order to evacuate the school, which was full of displaced people.
According to Hamouda, “spies armed the school after evacuating all the people who left the place.”
Hamouda pointed out that there were “checkpoints and shootings on the road” he took before reaching a shelter in the Sheikh Radwan area, northwest of Gaza City.
He said, “The danger of death lurks in every inch of the Gaza Strip.”
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2024-10-25 00:02:00
