Health ministry reports that 687 people have died as a result of the bombing of the Jabalia refugee camp. Tel Aviv is preparing a ground invasion and has called up 300,000 reserves.
- Mahmoud Abbas requests UN action, Hamas claims there is no hope for a prisoner swap
GAZA CITY: On Monday, Israel completely cut off the Gaza Strip’s food, water, and fuel supplies while continuing its ongoing bombing assault in the densely populated enclave. According to the Palestinian health ministry, 687 Palestinians have died as a result of Israeli bombing and airstrikes in the past three days.
The Israeli military called up 300,000 reservists amid indications it is preparing a ground invasion into the occupied Palestinian territory, and the Jabalia refugee camp was one of the sites attacked.
Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, urged the UN to act quickly to avert a humanitarian crisis brought on by “ongoing Israeli aggression, especially in Gaza.”
Two days after a raid that destroyed Israel’s image as invincible, Palestinian fighters were reportedly still holed up in multiple locations within Israel.
On Monday, Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed that they were protecting Israeli detainees in accordance with Islamic principles and urged Tel Aviv to stop attacking civilians if it cared about the wellbeing of Israelis under their control.
The former, however, disallowed an Israeli prisoner swap while hostilities were ongoing.
Lack of electricity prevents inhabitants from recharging phones, cutting them from each other’s and events’ news, and preventing them from pumping water into rooftop tanks.
The former, however, disallowed an Israeli prisoner swap while hostilities were ongoing.
Lack of electricity prevents inhabitants from recharging phones, cutting them from each other’s and events’ news, and preventing them from pumping water into rooftop tanks.
The enclave is completely dark at night, with the occasional air strike boom.
As night fell, the Israeli shelling intensified, and numerous Hamas security headquarters and ministries reportedly took damage, according to witnesses. Numerous roads and homes were also devastated by the strikes.
Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch said in a statement that depriving the populace of food and electricity constitutes collective punishment, which is a war crime.
Explosions, lightning, and thunder combined with the sound of the bombings as it rained.
The violence, according to mainstream Palestinian organizations, was inevitable given that the peace process had been on hold for almost ten years and that far-right Israeli politicians had advocated permanently annexing Palestinian territory.
Izzat Reshiq, a representative of Hamas, declared in a statement that “the military targeting and bombing of homes inhabited by women and children, mosques and schools in Gaza by the Zionist enemy amount to war crimes and terrorism.”