The Israeli army has once again hit the town of Khan Younis in southern Gaza with incessant artillery bombardments and airstrikes on residential areas.
The headquarters of the Palestinian Red Crescent was targeted for the third time in less than a week. Several people were killed and injured.
The mainstay of Gaza’s health system, damage to medical equipment inside will only worsen human suffering here and the miserable situation of hospitals.
To the south, in the city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have fled, incessant bombardments continued on Wednesday morning. Meanwhile, Israeli bulldozers were on farmland, creating a “buffer zone” and trapping people in an even smaller area of the Gaza Strip.
United Nations agencies have expressed concern over the spiraling humanitarian crisis. Most of the enclave’s population of 2.4 million remains besieged and bombed, displaced and huddled in shelters and tents, and short of food.
“The living conditions… are just desperate,” said Mostafa Shennar, 43, who fled Gaza City, now a largely devastated urban combat zone, and lives in Rafah.
Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas and warned that the war, which has raged since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, could continue “throughout 2024.” Efforts for a ceasefire have so far yielded no results.
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