According to the UN, now “no location is safe” in the Palestinian enclave
The Israeli Air Force bombings continue unabated today in the devastated Gaza Strip as Palestinian civilians flee for safety, especially from Rafah, where the threat of a large-scale ground operation is magnified.
In the early hours of the morning, eyewitnesses and AFP correspondents spoke of aerial bombardments in various sectors of the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Civil Protection counted at least eight dead only to one of them, which targeted property in the Nuseirat refugee camp (center).
Bombings “everywhere”
Fighting has been raging again for days in Jabalia and Gaza City (north), where the Israeli military said Hamas was trying to rebuild “military capabilities”.
There, too, emergency civilian evacuation orders issued forced civilians to flee, with the UN stressing that “no location is safe in the Gaza Strip.”
“We are shelling from one location to another, but the shelling continues everywhere,” said Mahmoud al-Bars, who traveled from Jabalia to Gaza City, largely flattened after more than seven months of shelling and fighting.
Mass exodus from Rafa
For another day, sectors of the Rafah (south) were bombed, where some 1.4 million Palestinians had taken refuge to escape the shelling and fighting.
More than 360,000 people, according to the latest UN estimates—are leaving the city en masse—on foot, in cars, by whatever means they can find—carrying their meager possessions.
Other residents, who remain in Rafa, are desperate. “Since morning I have been looking for bread for my children to eat, in vain. My children are on the road and I don’t know where to take them. Rafa has turned into a ghost town,” Mustafa Dib said.
“The bakeries are closed, all the shops are closed. We have no water, food, nothing,” said another resident, Ahmed at Tawil.
First death of a foreign UN worker in the enclave
A United Nations service member was killed in the Gaza Strip when a vehicle he was traveling in came under fire, a spokesman for the Secretary-General announced on Monday.
The white vehicle in which the staff members were riding had the UN logo prominently displayed and was heading to a hospital.
This is the first foreign UN service member to be killed in the Gaza Strip, Farhan Haq said. Another staff member—the UN Security Service (DSS)—was injured.
Around 200 UN service workers have been killed since the war broke out in the Gaza Strip on 7 October. Until this death, the victims were all Palestinians.
The Slovenian EU Commissioner in charge of Crisis Management, Janes Lenarcic, emphasized yesterday via X that he “condemns” the attack on a “humanitarian convoy on a mission to save lives in Gaza”, expressing “condolences to the family of the worker who was killed”.
Source :Skai
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