At least 40 people killed by Israeli raids, especially on displaced tents – Liberation
Always further in horror. Israeli air strikes targeted tents on Thursday, April 17, housing Palestinian displays in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, April 17, killing at least 40 people, including children, local civil defense said. The Israeli army, which has not immediately commented on these strikes, intensified its air bombings and has expanded its land operations in the besieged Gaza Strip, since it broke up on March 18, the truce started on January 19, and which it resumed bombardments and land assaults.
Israeli Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahubelieves that an increased military pressure will force Hamas to make the hostages removed during the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement on October 7, 2023 in Israel. This attack sparked war in Palestinian territory, where Israel launched a reprisals offensive which made tens of thousands of dead, moved the majority of around 2.4 million inhabitants and caused a humanitarian disaster.
« At least 16 martyrs, most women and children, and 23 injured in the shooting of two Israeli missiles on several tents housing families in the Al-Mawassi area, in Khan Younès (South) », The Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal told AFP this Thursday morning. A father and child were killed in a strike against a tent to move near the Al-Mawasi area, he said. And a strike on a tent to move to Beit Lahia (North) left seven dead, « Most of women and children ». In Jabalia, a strike hit a makeshift shelter, killing at least seven members of the same family and a raid on a school housing displaced has cost the six people, added the civil defense. Two other Palestinians died in Israeli fire in Gaza-City.
AFP images have shown fire tents in the Al-Mawasi area after strikes and civil defense members to turn them off. Bodies are then transported in an ambulance, while civilians recover the remains of bodies in the light of their mobile phone in blankets. “We were in our tent and suddenly we see a red light. Then the tents exploded and caught fire. Everything exploded. We ran to the sea and from there we saw the fire spread from one tent to another. Children have been shredded! What humanity do they speak of? ” Exclaimed Israa Aboulouss, a displaced.
Israel has sworn to destroy Hamas which took power in 2007 in the Gaza Strip, bordering on southern Israel. He wants the movement to disarm and that his fighters leave the territory, which the movement refuses. Seeking to tighten the noose, the Israeli army announced on Wednesday that it has transformed 30 % of the Palestinian territory « In safety perimeter » and reports more than 100 « Targeted eliminations » Since March 18.
Despite the convictions of many countries and organizations, Israel also maintains the ban on the entry of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip that he has been beating since the start of the war. At the same time, Hamas, considered a terrorist organization by Israel, the United States and the European Union, said an Israeli truce proposal, transmitted by the Egyptian mediator. Discussions within the movement on the response to be given should be concluded soon « Maybe even during the day », they said.
Wednesday, the office of the Israeli Prime Minister said that Benyamin Netanyahu had held « An evaluation meeting on the question of hostages with the negotiation team and senior officials of the security apparatus ». « He gave instructions to continue the steps to advance the release of our hostages », According to his office. The attack on October 7 led to the death of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official data. Of the 251 people kidnapped that day, 58 are still retained in Gaza, 34 of whom died, according to the Israeli army.
According to the Hamas Ministry of Health, at least 1,691 Palestinians have been killed since March 18, bringing to 51,065 the number of deaths in Gaza since the start of the Israeli reprisals offensive 18 months ago. « Gaza has become a common pit for the Palestinians and those who help them », The NGO Médecins Sans Frontières denounced Wednesday. « We are witnessing in real time the destruction and forced displacement of the entire population of Gaza », declared Amande Bazerolle, MSF emergency coordinator in Gaza, who considers that the humanitarian response is « Gravely hampered by constant insecurity and critical shortages ». Gazaouis survive today with the stocks accumulated during the last truce, but these are annoyed. The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas accused Israel on Thursday, which has been blocking humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip on Thursday March 2, of using « Famine as a weapon ».
Update at 6.55 p.m. With the updated assessment
