The Jews ("Israel") and the US Strikes Tents Full of Children
Israel has attacked all areas of the Gaza Strip, while, for nearly seven consecutive weeks, it has closed all the crossings – banning the entry of food, fuel, medicines, construction vehicles and essential supplies – driving Palestinians into multiple crises of starvation, displacement and unmitigated trauma. | “Gaza has been turned into a mass grave of Palestinians and those coming to their assistance,” said Amande Bazerolle, the emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. “We are witnessing in real time the destruction and forced displacement of the entire population in Gaza.” ● Since Israel resumed its mass-scale attacks on 18 March, approximately 1,700 people have been killed and more than 4,400 have been injured, according to the Palestinian health ministry, as the last partially-functioning hospitals remain out of medications, supplies, fuel, clean water, and are routinely bombed and attacked by Israeli forces. Around 420,000 Palestinians have also been newly displaced over the last four weeks of attacks. ● Before dawn on Thursday, 17 April, Israeli airstrikes across Gaza targeted displaced families living in tents in three separate places – in al-Mawasi Khan Younis in southern Gaza, Deir al-Balah in the center and in Jabaliya in the north. Journalists and eyewitnesses reported that the tents were engulfed in flames and the victims, including many children, were burned alive, with bystanders desperately trying to put the fires out.
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