Continued Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip; Hundreds of people were trapped under rubble
Farhan Haq, deputy UN spokesman, said hundreds of people, including children, were trapped under the rubble due to ongoing airstrikes by the Israeli regime. According to news agency ARN, Farhan Haq added on Friday: "Hospitals are full of patients and many are waiting for treatment." He said: “There has been a complete power cut in the Gaza Strip for 10 days.” Since October 7, at least 30% of all residential buildings in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed, uninhabitable or damaged, according to Gaza's Ministry of Housing. Earlier, UN Assistant Secretary-General Khalid Hayari said that the situation in the “occupied Palestinian territories is dangerous and deteriorating” and that there is an urgent need to end the “horrible violence” and “an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.” Also, Ravina Shamdasani, spokeswoman for the UN Human Rights Office, said on Friday that she was very concerned about the deteriorating human rights situation in the occupied West Bank. Stressing that settler violence against the Palestinian people in the area has “increased,” Shamdasani continued: “Six Palestinians were martyred by armed Zionist settlers, and a number of Palestinian families were also forced to flee their homes.”
For more than 7 decades, soldiers of the occupying Quds regime (Jerusalem) have daily attacked towns, villages and Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank, Quds and Gaza Strip, and deprived the oppressed Palestinian refugees of peace and security, causing the martyrdom and injury of thousands of Palestinians. , and more than 5 thousand Palestinians faced the worst conditions. The continued racist approach of the Zionist regime and the murder of the oppressed Palestinian people led the Palestinian resistance to deal heavy and irreparable blows to the regime in Operation Al-Aqsa Storm on October 7, 2023, which resulted in the deaths of at least 2,000 Zionists. Therefore, the Zionist regime resorted to killing civilians and the oppressed Palestinian people to compensate for its terrible defeat, as well as to destroy residential, medical, mosques and gathering places of Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip, resulting in more than 4 thousand Palestinian deaths, most of them children and women. As of Friday, the attacks had killed 4,137 Palestinians and injured more than 13,000, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
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