Israeli operations encouraged yet another night of violence under rather sad and extreme circumstances as they wreaked havoc on the already beleaguered refugee camps in Gaza, leaving behind nothing but horror and pain. Late Thursday evening, Nuseirat refugee camp, which is located in central Gaza, became the place of execution of a devastating bombardment that has further exposed the brutal truth of this protracted conflict.
Deliberate strikes were directed against a post office building and several residential houses with the appearance of being unavoidably concentrated to maximize suffering. At least 35 Palestinians died immediately as medical workers and local residents said scores of others suffered injuries. However, the assessment of the extent of destruction is far from definitive, as there are at least 50 corpses still beneath the smoldering rubble-ineluctable proof of the indiscriminateness of the assaults.
The north of Gaza saw itself break from the restraint, shattering into chaos. Great flames devoured houses in Jabaliya camp and around Beit Hanoun, mortared by continued application of air and artillery bombardments creating the kind of apocalyptic scene of destruction. Surviving residents of past bombardments have been telling a litany of hopelessness that has now come to be their daily reality.
Al-Jazeera’s reported medical sources present a more alarming picture. Israeli bombings killed 71 Palestinians on Thursday alone, with 57 of them dead in the southern and central parts of the Strip. These are people lives, not only numbers; each one symbolizes a family, a narrative, or a destiny that was cut short.
The Gaza Strip’s northern region has been especially damaged. Since the military operation started on October 5 and is currently on its 70th agonizing day, almost 4,000 individuals have been reported dead or missing. More than 12,000 Palestinians have been injured, and people say they are always under danger even when they try to get the bare needs like food and water.
The correspondent on the scene provided a testimony of devastation that cannot be easily described. Houses are flattened on people’s bases — it is possible to recognize only the precise area of the residential block . The number of people detained during this military campaign is about two thousand, which means that in addition to the continued military conflict, which is an obvious disaster, there is a dual human tragedy here.
It was not a case of different zones within the building under attack being compartmentalized. Al Zawaida is the town of central Gaza; it had shelling scenes which caused injuries to many people. As for Gaza City, fifty details of airstrikes around the Abd al-Aal intersection on al-Jalaa Street reported the evacuation of 10 dead who were children transferred to the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital which has become arguably the institution central to the question of how a society processes battles.
The Sabra neighborhood observed two successive airstrikes targeting a residential building in the shape of the Abu Sharia area with colossal destruction and the tragedy that might have been suffered by individuals residing therein. Every blow viciously inflicted is symbolic of not only the annihilation of communal fabric, prospects of a brighter future erasing of basic human worth.
While the world keeps on observing, the citizens of Gaza are now left with impacts within the short road and longer view on this relentless warfare. Increased civilian casualties spring new questions of how proportional and humane these military operations are.
This is not a war over figures and strategic territories. These are real people, real families, real neighborhoods whose lives are being violated; whose existence is being annihilated, pillar by pillar, with every shelling of a home, much as the right to life.
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