Israel massacres scores in strikes on Jabalia refugee camp
At least 56 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip after the regime’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the military would enter the war-battered territory “with full force”.
Medical sources said 50 of the victims were in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, as Israeli raids have targeted the area since dawn Wednesday.
The heavy airstrikes have also left more than 100 people injured, with several houses being targeted and collapsed on their residents.
This comes as Israeli forces continue attacks on the southern city of Khan Yunis.
Meanwhile, Russia, China and the UK have rejected Israel’s plans for distributing aid in Gaza, instead urging Tel Aviv to lift its two-month blockade on the territory.
Since the Israeli military broke a two-month ceasefire agreement with the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in mid-March, the occupying entity has blocked the entry of all humanitarian aid, including medicine, fuel, and food supplies into Gaza, drastically worsening the humanitarian crisis in the territory, where even clean water is critically scarce.
Dozens of people, mostly children, have died from starvation. Since the aid blockade began on March 2, at least 57 children have reportedly died from the effects of malnutrition, according to the Ministry of Health.
“People are trapped in this cycle where a lack of diversified food, malnutrition and disease fuel each other,” WHO’s representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Dr. Rik Peeperkorn said.
“This is one of the world’s worst hunger crises, unfolding in real time,” he added.
According to a World Bank report, the current crisis in Gaza has now made nearly all of its population almost entirely dependent on humanitarian aid due to prolonged war and blockade.
Nearly all of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million has been displaced, often multiple times, since the regime launched its genocidal war on the territory in October 2023.
Over 52,900 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in the brutal Israeli onslaught since October 2023, most of them women and children.
