The Gaza Strip has dawned being another. On the fourth day of the war between Israel and Hamas, at least 830 Palestinians They have died from the continued bombing of Israeli planes and drones. Among them, there are nine journalists and more than 140 children. Some 4,250 people are being treated in the enclave’s battered hospitals. On the other side of the now more militarized border than ever, Israel begins to bury the more than a thousand fatalities of the attacks of Hamaswhile 4,250 are being treated for injuries.
With the war spreading throughout the region, the trail of blood reaches the Occupied West Bank where some 17 Palestinians have been murdered. The situation in the Palestinian enclave is already catastrophic with more than 187,518 Palestinians that they have fled from their homes according to the UN humanitarian agency. The Israeli military has advised Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip for Egypt in the middle of the war to close the pass hours later. Binyamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Ministerhas promised that retaliation on Hamas “will reverberate for generations.”
From the punished enclave, the only images that arrive are of pure and constant desolation. Entire residential buildings reduced to rubble, people running through the bombings looking for the impossible: a safe haven. The injured number in the thousands. In Gaza, medical services are trying to save the lives of more than 4,000 people amid continued bombardment. Furthermore, at night, the entire strip continues in the dark, only illuminated by the light of the bombs. Since Monday, there is no electricity or internet under the “total siege” imposed by the Israeli army. This Tuesday, the Israeli authorities also cut off the water supply to the enclave. More than 137,000 people have taken refuge in some 84 United Nations schools, although these, along with mosques and hospitals, are also being attacked. Hamas’s threats to execute an Israeli hostage for each Israeli bombing without prior warning have been of no use. The Israeli Army seems willing to crush the Palestinian resistance, whatever the cost.
The magnitude of the catastrophe is unfathomable, although the figures may begin to give indications of the emptiness of the future that awaits the inhabitants of the Strip. Some 168 residential buildings have been completely demolished, meaning that more than one thousands of homes They have ceased to exist since the start of the attack on Saturday. Additionally, another 12,630 homes have been partially destroyed, including 560 that have been left in uninhabitable conditions. “The closure of crossings, the prohibition of access to medical supplies and the paralysis of the power plant warn of a humanitarian, health and environmental crisis“said the Gaza government’s press office. The Palestinian Ministry of Health has called for a “safe corridor to ensure the entry of urgent medical aid” to Gaza hospitals.
At the gates of the land invasion
The Israeli Army claims that it has controlled the entire border with Gaza, where there are thousands of reservists ready to begin the ground invasion. According to Israel’s envoy to the UN, there are between 100 and 150 kidnapped in Gaza. Among the people murdered and kidnapped on Saturday were dozens of foreigners, according to several embassies. But the hateful speeches of Israeli leaders indicate that there is little room for solidarity with Gaza’s civilians. “The atrocities carried out by Hamas have not been seen since ISIS atrocities“, Netanyahu declared this Monday. This Tuesday the military Israelis have reported to foreign journalists the discovery of the bodies of at least 40 children and babies murdered while sleeping together in a communal dormitory in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, southern Israel. Some of them, according to the military, were decapitated.
On the grounds of the colony also lay the lifeless bodies of dozens of Israeli residents and militants of Hamas among burned houses, furniture destroyed and cars burned. The case has shocked the country, although, for now, only Israeli sources confirm the massacre. “We are in a operation for our homea war to ensure our existence, a war that we will win,” he added, while denouncing that the war “was imposed on them by a despicable enemy: savages who celebrate the murder of women, children and the elderly.” Many families organized to find the dozens of missing people. This Tuesday the discovery of 30 of them was announced, good news among so much darkness. In turn, the Army has confirmed having found 1,500 bodies of Hamas militants in its territory.
Cries for revenge
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During the day on Tuesday, the bells rang again mermaids in major Israeli cities. Ashkelon, the port city in southern Israel, has been the focus of a barrage of rockets by Hamas’s armed wing, the Ezedin al-Qassam Brigades. Israel’s governing coalition, the most right-wing in the country’s history, wants to form a emergency executive with the opposition to help the country overcome the crisis. Additionally, the Army has announced that it is building a base for thousands of soldiers in preparation for the next phase of its retaliation. “We will make sure that Israel has what it needs to respond to the attack,” declared the president of the United States, Joe Biden. “Hamas does not defend the right of the Palestinian people to dignity and self-determination; its stated objective in relation to the state of Israel is to kill the Jewish people,” he added during a speech at the White House.
Although occasional incursions by Hamas militiamen and fighting have still been reported, Israel claims to have regained control of all the towns bordering the Gaza border. In Sderot, the closest town, has not yet completely returned to calm. “There are almost no terrorists in Sderot, what we hear are sirens and rockets,” he explains to EL PERIÓDICO from there. Nayra Davidithe daughter of Mayor Alon Davidi. “We cannot grieve, we cannot mourn the people who were murdered or kidnapped, We do not have time For that; Now we need to survive and that is what we are doing,” says the 25-year-old. Anger and hatred for her enemies have dominated her since last Saturday. “How can I know that, as long as Hamas exists and the Gaza Strip exists, Can I live here and feel safe? I will never feel safe in my own home“, no matter how much I love Sderot, no matter how much I love Israel,” she implores. Moved by all the pain of an entire town, she repeats what everyone in Israel is saying lately: “I don’t want what happened in Israel to happen again.” the Holocaust.”