United Nations vehicles protect a destroyed truck, reportedly used by United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) workers, which had earlier been fired upon by Israeli forces. , Photo courtesy: AFP
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday (October 24, 2024) Israel aims to “empty” the Gaza Strip of PalestiniansEspecially in the northern part where it has launched widespread attacks this month.
“It’s been a full year since the 1948 Nakba, the Israeli war in which crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing are being carried out in the Gaza Strip, the worst catastrophe the Palestinian people have seen,” Mr Abbas said in a statement. It is done.” Speech to the members of the BRICS group. “This is part of the plan to empty the area of its people, especially now in northern Gaza where the occupation forces are resorting to starving the population there.”
Israel attacked the school
Meanwhile, Palestinian medical officials said at least 17 people were killed Thursday in an Israeli attack on a school in the central Gaza Strip where displaced people were sheltering, almost all of them women and children. Another 42 people were injured in the attack on the newly constructed Nussirat refugee camp, according to Awda Hospital. According to hospital records, the dead included 13 children below 18 years of age and three women.
The Israeli military said, without providing evidence, that it targeted Hamas militants at a command and control center inside the school. Israel has carried out several attacks on shelters set up in schools in recent months, saying they target Hamas militants hiding among civilians.
Meanwhile, health workers have warned of dire conditions in besieged northern Gaza, where Israel has been carrying out air and ground attacks for more than two weeks. The director of one hospital said it had run out of supplies and first responders said they could no longer save people.
Hundreds of people have been killed in northern Gaza in recent days and thousands have fled their homes.
published – October 25, 2024 04:30 AM IST