NEW ATTACKS: The image, which the AP news agency has taken from a video, is supposed to show explosions over Gaza as seen from Israel on Saturday. Photo: AP
Early Sunday morning, internet coverage is gradually returning in the Gaza Strip. The International Committee of the Red Cross calls for an end to the suffering of the civilian population.
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In an update from the UN, the attacks on the Gaza Strip on Saturday are referred to as “the most intense Israeli bomb attacks” since the war began three weeks ago. According to the health authorities in the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by Hamas, more than 8,000 people have been killed since the start of the war. Early on Sunday, Palestinian media reports that internet and telephone coverage is gradually returning in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Red Crescent describes a hopeless situation for emergency workers, while the International Committee of the Red Cross demands that the violence be scaled back. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that the war on the Gaza Strip will be “difficult and long”. Show more
On Friday evening, Israel stepped up its attacks in Gaza, and on Saturday and night into Sunday powerful explosions are reported both east and north of the Gaza Strip.
While the attacks are ongoing, have the internet and phone lines been down. This means that there has been very little information about what is happening on the ground.
Early on Sunday morning, however, several Palestinian media reported that internet and telephone coverage is gradually returning, writes NTB. This is confirmed by independent NetBlocks.
In an update on the night of Sunday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) writes that the information they have been able to gather over the past 24 hours indicates that Gaza has been through “the most intense Israeli bomb attacks and the most intense shelling’ since the war started three weeks ago.
– In addition, Israeli infantry and armored vehicles have entered various areas in Gaza, where there have been clashes with Palestinian armed groups, they write.
According to the health authorities in the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by Hamas, the number of people killed has now exceeded 8,000.
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– Empty of fuel
The Palestinian Red Crescent announced late on Saturday evening that they had managed to obtain two audio messages from their team inside the Gaza Strip, sent to the organisation’s staff in Egypt.
Here are the little drops of reality for emergency aid workers inside Gaza now:
– Due to communication being down, we have had to distribute ambulances geographically across all areas, despite the fact that this is more dangerous for our teams, says one coordinator in one of the messages.
– Three ambulances have been stopped because we are running out of fuel, says the second message.
Doctors in Gaza also tell of a hopeless situation, writes the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
– The hospitals are overflowing with patients. Amputations and operations take place without proper anesthesia. The morgues are also flooded with dead bodies, says surgeon Mohammed Obeid, who works for Doctors Without Borders in Gaza.
The UN office OCHA writes that the blackout of Gaza has meant that ambulances are no longer able to find those who are injured, and that citizens no longer have access to information about where it is safest to stay.
Red Cross president: – Shocked
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called late on Saturday for the violence in the Gaza Strip to be stepped down immediately.
– I am shocked by the level of unsustainable human suffering, says President Mirjana Spoljaric in a statement.
She further says that it is unacceptable that Gaza’s more than two million civilians have nowhere to flee to during the violent attacks.
– This is a catastrophic failure that the world must not tolerate, she continues.
On Friday evening, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it would expand its attacks against Gaza. both on the ground and in the air. The statements were followed up with intense bomb attacks – according to Al Jazeera the bloodiest since the war began three weeks ago.
On Saturday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu followed up by saying that the war inside Gaza will be “difficult and long”. He confirmed that Israeli soldiers are fighting inside the Gaza Strip in what he refers to as “step two” of the war.
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Published: 29.10.23 at 02:53
Updated: 29.10.23 at 04:27
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