At least 21 people, including several children, were killed in Israeli attacks against the Gaza Strip since dawn in the middle of an Israeli blockade of several months which has deepened the humanitarian crisis in the coastal enclave torn by the war.
Four Palestinians were killed and others were injured on Saturday evening after an Israeli air strike targeted a tent hosted from displaced families in Deir Al-Balah, in the Gaza Central Strip.
Earlier, the Palestinian news agency Wafa said that Israeli war planes had bombed a tent in the Sabra district of Gaza City on Saturday morning, killing five members of the Tlaib family.
“Three children, their mother and her husband were sleeping inside a tent and were bombed by an occupation plane (Israeli),” said Omar Abu al-Kass, member of the Abu al-Kass family.
The strikes came “without warning and without having done anything wrong,” added Abu al-Kass, who said he was the maternal grandfather of children.
In parallel, a drone attack against the Tuffah district of Gaza City left six people dead and one more in the city’s Sheikh Radwan region where Israel has bombed an apartment belonging to the Zaqout family.
Further south, Wafa said the Israeli gunboats have opened “heavy shots” on the banks of Rafah, killing a man identified as Mohammed Saeed al-Bardawil. Two other civilians were injured in an attack on the Al-Mawasi humanitarian area, west of Rafah.
In the past 24 hours, at least 23 Palestinians have been killed and 124 others injured in Israeli attacks through the Gaza Strip, according to the Enclave Ministry of Health.
Israeli blockage
The attacks have occurred in the middle of the continuous refusal of Israel to authorize vital supplies in Gaza since March 2, leaving the 2.3 million residents of the enclave according to a decreasing number of charitable kitchens, which have closed in recent days while food is exhausted.
Reporting Deir El-Balah in the center of Gaza, the Hind Khoudary of Tel Aviv Tribune said: “There is barely food … We are talking about bakeries that do not work, we are talking about zero distribution points and we are talking about only a few hot meals kitchens.”
Khoudary said people who were line up for hours often left empty -handed hands, the remaining kitchens that extended foods that would have previously fed 100 to serve up to 2,000 people.
“We see more people die, we see more children die because of malnutrition and lack of food. But it is not only the lack of food, it is also the lack of medical supplies, it is the lack of fuel, the kitchen gas and it is the lack of everything, “she said.
Among the organizations of discovery of charitable organizations, the World Central Kitchen based in the United States said on Wednesday that it had been forced to close because it had no more supplies to cook bread or cook meals.
The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs Coordination called for the lifting of the blockade.
“The children are hungry and die. Community kitchens close.
“Humanity failure”
The blockade also has a devastating effect on people with chronic diseases, depriving Palestinians who suffer from diabetes, cancer and rare conditions, vital drugs.
Reporting Gaza City, Hani Mahmoud, Tel Aviv Tribune, said: “Doctors here say that tragedy is not in what’s going on, but in what is avoidable.”
“These diseases have a treatment, but the inhabitants of Gaza no longer have access to it, and they say that it is not only a failure of logistics, but of humanity,” he added.
Mahmoud spoke to the father of a 10 -year -old boy suffering from diabetes, who said that insulin was not available in northern Gaza.
“I spend whole days looking for pharmacies, hoping to find it. Sometimes we hear that individuals could have it, so I’m going to them to barter,” he said.
Alleady said Al-Soudy, head of emergency in the Oncology Department of the International Hospital of Al Helou de Gaza City, told Tel Aviv Tribune: “Much of patients find it difficult to find their essential drugs. Without them, their health problems deteriorate and can become deadly. ”
Pharmacist Rana Alsamak told Tel Aviv Tribune that the Palestinians were unable to obtain drugs for “multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, hepatitis, chronic diseases and … immune diseases”.
“These conditions are now largely untreated,” she said.
On Friday, the United States said it was creating the Gaza humanitarian foundation to coordinate Aid Deliveries to Gaza, Israel ensuring military security for operations. The United Nations rejected the move, claiming that it would arm aid, would violate the principles of neutrality and cause mass movement.
