Following Israeli troops’ targeting of a crowded market and a school providing shelter for the displaced, at least 20 Palestinians have lost their lives in another tragic day in Gaza. On Tuesday, it was mentioned that eight Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid on a busy market in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, though the death toll may climb. This neighborhood is near the market, and the street is always quite busy. The number of casualties is also high.
The incident, which occurred less than 0.6 miles from the Al-Aqsa Hospital, where the majority of the injured were sent, left multiple children injured. There are at least ten Palestinian patients—many of them very ill—remaining in the intensive care unit.
The majority of those injured were young people. They were soaked in blood and laying on the floor in the hospital halls while they awaited medical attention. The market strike happened just hours after another Israeli attack that killed 12 people and injured several more when it struck a school in the western part of Gaza City.
Numerous individuals are thought to be buried in the dust following the falling of the school building, and rescue workers were actively looking for survivors. According to Mahmoud Basal, a spokesman for Gaza’s civil defense agency, our personnel recovered 12 martyrs from the Mustafa Hafiz school, which was bombarded by the Israel, earlier on Tuesday.
The school was providing refuge to some 700 Palestinians who had been evacuated, said Israeli civil defense officials. The injured were brought to Gaza City’s al-Alhi Arab Hospital.
The Israeli army, which has often attacked Gaza’s schools, said that it targeted a command center used by Palestinian militants inside the school, although it has never shown any supporting documentation for this assertion.
Israel’s Deliberate Assaults on Palestinians
In the course of its ongoing attack on the Gaza Strip, Israel has deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure, including as schools, hospitals, and places of prayer, in defiance of a resolution by the UN Security Council that calls for an immediate ceasefire.
Since October 7, the Israeli assault on Gaza has resulted in the deaths of over 40,173 Palestinians, the majority of whom were women and children, and the injuries of another 92,857. As part of the most recent diplomatic effort to establish a truce in Gaza, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken also visited fellow mediators Egypt and Qatar on Tuesday, despite signals from Hamas and Israel that difficulties still exist.
The Palestinian militant organization Hamas said in a statement that the US was exhibiting “blind bias” against Israel and had changed the conditions of the truce discussions. Blinken’s assertion that Hamas is pulling out of an agreement, according to Hamas, is “misleading.” It maintains its commitment to the June ceasefire framework approved by the US and the UN.
