Palestinians say Israel has largely unleashed its fury on civilians — a population that has lived for 16 years under a crippling blockade imposed by Israel and through four devastating wars.
By Isabel Debre and Fatima Shbeir, Associated PressRelatives mourn people killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. As Israeli warplanes pummel Gaza to avenge the Hamas attack, Palestinians say the military's fury has largely unleashed its fury on civilians.
“This is an unprecedented scope of destruction,” said Miriam Marmur, a spokeswoman for Gisha, an Israeli human rights group. “Israeli decisions to cut electricity, fuel, food and medicine supplies severely compound the risks to Palestinians and threaten to greatly increase the toll in human life.” During past wars, news of a single shattered neighborhood could shake the international community. This time, Israeli airstrikes are rapidly laying waste to vast swaths of Gaza, and casualties are mounting too fast for anyone to keep up.
An airstrike hit one of the territory’s biggest hospitals, in northern Beit Hanoun, rendering it inoperable. Shrapnel has flown into seven other hospitals and 10 U.N. emergency shelters, according to the World Health Organization and United Nations.Under heavy bombing, Palestinians in Gaza move from place to place, only to discover nowhere is safeAt Shifa Hospital, doctors battled to keep the place running. Fuel supplies ran low, and panic ensued outside.
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