Israel’s relentless attack has targeted hospitals, schools and refugee camps. [Picture: Anas al-Shareef/Reuters]
It is now the third week of occupying Israel’s aggression against Gaza, Palestine. Chief butcher of the Middle East, Benjamin Netanyahu, watches on as his troops bomb hospitals, schools – even refugee camps!
On Sunday, 30 bodies were recovered from under the ruins of the Jabalia refugee camp in the besieged Gaza Strip. Most of the victims were women and children, reports Al Jazeera.
A further 27 people were injured – with hospitals already under strain, medical care is hard to come by.
“We are suffering from an acute shortage of medicines and medical equipment,” said the director of the Indonesian Hospital in North Gaza.
Israel’s stated goal in its onslaught on Gaza has been the elimination of Hamas “terrorists”. It claimed that it specifically attacked military targets, despite an abundance of evidence to the contrary.
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Humanitarian aid
On the same day, a second convoy of humanitarian aid flowed via Africa. Seventeen trucks entered through the Egyptian border with Gaza, bringing much-needed medicinal supplies, food and water to the enclave.
Speaking from Khan Younis in Gaza, journalist Hani Abu Isheba reported that much of the aid consisted of medical supplies, but it appeared no fuel had made its way through.
“Doctors are telling us that the aid is meant for hospitals in the Gaza Strip which are in dire need of medical supplies. No fuel has been reported on these trucks,” he said.
Meanwhile, Martin Griffiths, the United Nations (UN) undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief expressed concern over attacks on hospitals, schools and refugee camps.
“Typically, civilian infrastructure, hospitals, schools, and so forth are actually exempt from any attack in war, by the rules of war by international humanitarian law,” he said.
The Jabalia refugee camp – the largest of eight in Gaza – also houses three schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
