Fear of Israeli bomb attacks on Gaza

When Israeli bombs began to rain over Gaza, a Palestinian humanitarian worker, Najla Shawa (Najla Shawa) designed a game to distract her six and four-year-old frightened girls.

“We were huddled in the hallway, I hugged them, and we worked out loud explosions together,” she said at her home, as she was squeezed in the scarred zone between Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean. “During the first round of bombing, they screamed and screamed, and the boss began to complain of chest pain. Due to physical fear and tension, she could not sit down or eat.”

The Gaza Strip is trapped in a narrow coastal area and its borders are blocked. The civilian population of Gaza (approximately 2 million people, most of whom are refugees from the previous war) have nowhere to escape. Israel used fighter jets, warships and tanks to blast the enclaves, while the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched thousands of basic rockets into the Jewish state, although most were intercepted by Israel. Israeli Air Defense System.

Palestinian health officials said that as of Sunday, 192 people had been killed, including 92 women and children. The Israeli military said that at least 75 of them were Hamas militants, but did not provide evidence. So far, 10 people have been killed in Israel, including two children and a soldier.

The death toll in Gaza is expected to increase, and many people are still trapped in the rubble. On Sunday morning alone, Israeli air strikes killed 42 people and collapsed several buildings. A witness said that rescuers used their hands and rough crowbars to pull the injured out of the twisted metal and heavy concrete.

The lack of ambulances and airstrikes on nearby roads meant that some survivors had to bring their young children to get medical assistance. A resident who asked not to be named said that they had not received any warning to evacuate.

Israel insists it is a target of militants and accuses Hamas of hiding behind Palestinian civilians. However, under the new military strategy known as the “victory doctrine,” compared with previous campaigns, the military deployed a higher pace and intensity of air strikes against a larger range of targets. The Israeli Defense Forces Colonel Lon Col Jonathan Conricus said the one-hour operation on Thursday night involved 160 aircraft.

The IDF said that after air strikes destroyed the nearby Hamas tunnel network and damaged its foundations, the residential buildings destroyed on Sunday have collapsed.

Gaza is one of the most densely populated places in the world, and Hamas militants can retreat into tunnels-excavated by groups under Gaza’s major cities, towns and refugee camps to help evade air strikes and promote exchanges-civilians barely hide Place.

A Palestinian man described how the building where his 30-person family lived was swayed from side to side as Israeli artillery shells fell nearby. After being hit in a nearby house, they fled at dawn on Friday.

He said: “I later learned from my neighbor that the whole family, father, mother and four children were buried under the rubble.”

The school run by UNRWA, the United Nations Palestine Refugee Agency, accommodated more than 10,000 people. Among them was Ahmed Arafat, a farmer from Beit Hanoun in northeastern Gaza, who said he fled with his wife, mother and five children early Friday to escape Israeli tank shelling. During the 7-week 2014 war (the last major conflict between Israel and Hamas), his family spent a month in a similar shelter. He added: “I don’t know when this time will end.” “But I am worried that it will last a long time.”

Since 2007, Israel and Egypt have blocked the Gaza Strip (often compared to open-air prisons by human rights groups) when Hamas expelled Fata, a political faction headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas He. Due to severe restrictions on trade and contact with the outside world, before the start of the recent fighting, the tired and impoverished population of Gaza had seen its infrastructure collapse and the standard of living declined.

Tamara Rifi of UNRWA said: “Because of the blockade, Gaza has a huge conflict every two years, making it even more desperate and poorer than ever before.” “Now, the already weak medical infrastructure. Facilities must also deal with Covid-19.”

The supply of electricity and fresh water, which have been intermittent at normal times, is in crisis because fuel no longer enters.The only power plant in Gaza will run out of fuel by Monday unless Ceasefire Israeli officials said that after negotiations allowed to replenish.

Ashraf al-Qudra of the Gaza Ministry of Health said he expects the fuel used to run the hospital’s generators will be used up within a week, adding to the pressure on facilities that are already facing a large number of injured civilians. More than 1,200 people were injured.

He added: “We are treating people with second and third degree burns, people with broken limbs, and others suffocated by toxic fumes.” “Injuries range from dangerous to life-threatening and require surgical intervention that we cannot perform in Gaza. We are. The border crossings that need to enter Israel are open because they provide the generators with the necessary medicines, hospital supplies, food and fuel lifeline.”

The Islamic movement Hamas rules Gaza with an iron fist, but there is no evidence yet that Palestinians are accusing the organization of its latest suffering. Palestinian President Abbas cancelled the planned election last month, a move widely regarded as a motive for his fear that Hamas will win.

Shawa said her family was watching the black smoke on the Gaza skyline. Since the bomb began to obtain bread, her husband has left their house in just one spot on the seashore in western Gaza. Describing the territorial sentiment after years of blockade, she said: “People feel that they have nothing to lose and are tired of this huge injustice.”