“It doesn’t stop: every minute, there are shells, rockets and shots at buildings and everything that moves,” Areej Nasr, 35, who fled the refugee camp, told AFP on Thursday. from Jabalia to Gaza City.
According to her, the victims of the strikes cannot be rescued.
“No ambulance is arriving and no one is helping the injured. Dozens are lying on the ground,” adds this Gazan.
On Wednesday, Gaza Civil Defense deplored the difficulties in accessing the wounded and dead in Jabalia, surrounded since Sunday by the Israeli army.
“Many calls (from injured people) reach our teams, but unfortunately we cannot reach them” due to the danger, its spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told AFP.
In Jabalia, huge piles of rubble are found where buildings once stood, the belongings of former residents mixed with concrete and twisted iron, according to an AFP photographer.
Due to a lack of ambulances, several residents took over to evacuate a woman from this refugee camp, her injured leg being immobilized by a makeshift splint made from a piece of furniture.
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On Tuesday, the Israeli military issued new evacuation orders, saying it was battling Hamas’s efforts to rebuild its capabilities, despite a year of strikes and fierce fighting.
The army said Thursday it had killed more than 50 Palestinian fighters and “located large quantities of weapons.”
According to Mr. Bassal, at least 140 people have died in Jabalia since the start of the operation. And “a large number” of civilians remain trapped under the rubble, he warns.
Gaza City was also targeted by intense artillery strikes, particularly in the Rimal neighborhood on Thursday, Civil Defense reported.
According to its spokesperson, the neighborhood clinic, which houses displaced Gazans, was hit in a strike that killed at least two people and left several injured.
Amjad Aliwa, an emergency doctor at Al-Shifa Hospital, once the largest medical complex in Gaza, has noticed a wave of injuries.
“The majority are children and women, with serious and serious injuries, including burns,” he told AFP, noting that the establishment’s resources are “limited” given the number of injured . .
The teams “do not have the most basic medical supplies and equipment”, he laments, recalling the shortages which have particularly hit northern Gaza since the start of the war.
Humanitarian organizations deplore that current operations limit their capacity to help the population.
“People have nowhere to go, and the humanitarian space in Gaza continues to shrink,” said Louise Wateridge, spokesperson for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
Between October 8 and 10, “118 attacks affected the area, compared to a total of 140 incidents recorded for the entire month of September”, she detailed, specifying that the Jabalia camp is by far “the most touch”.
The war in Gaza was triggered by the unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on October 7, 2023, which resulted in the deaths of 1,206 people, mainly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli figures. which include the hostages killed and those who died in captivity in Gaza.
Israel’s retaliatory military offensive has killed 42,065 people in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory’s Health Ministry deemed reliable by the UN.
