Israel has resumed bombing the Gaza Strip, killing at least 100 people
Rights — di Luigi Mastrodonato
Bombs struck tent camps, residential buildings and a hospital. This is yet another violation of the Gaza ceasefire by Israel.
Israel has resumed bombing the Gaza Strip, killing at least 100 people
Bombs struck tent camps, residential buildings and a hospital. This is yet another violation of the Gaza ceasefire by Israel.
Israel has resumed bombing the Gaza Strip, causing yet another massacre. The attacks were announced on the evening of 28 October by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who cited an alleged ceasefire violation by Hamas — for which no evidence was provided. Bombs struck tent camps, residential buildings and a hospital, with a provisional toll of around 100 dead, including at least 22 children.
Since the ceasefire agreement was reached at the beginning of October, Israel has violated it on numerous occasions, both through a series of strikes that caused more than 90 deaths and by restricting the entry of humanitarian aid.
Israel struck multiple sites across Gaza City with one missile hitting near the al-Shifa Hospital. Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud said the strike caused panic among patients and staff.
Gaza civil defence officials say two people have been killed.
Gaza civil defence officials say two people have been killed.
A new massacre in Gaza
On the evening of 28 October, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that a position held by soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had come under fire in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip. He attributed responsibility for the attack — for which no evidence was provided — to the Palestinian organisation Hamas. Netanyahu spoke of a violation of the ceasefire signed at the beginning of October and ordered heavy bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
The raids continued throughout the night, concentrating in particular on Gaza City. As witnesses on the ground reported, the strikes hit residential buildings and tent camps, and bombs also reached a hospital. Videos emerging from Palestinian territory show people trapped under rubble, buildings razed to the ground and rescue workers digging with their bare hands in search of survivors. The toll of the Israeli offensive is devastating. At least 100 people have been killed, including 22 children, while the number of wounded runs into the hundreds. For its part, Israel announced the death of one of its soldiers in southern Gaza.
Videos posted on social media show Palestinian Civil Defence workers rescuing civilians from beneath the rubble of a collapsed building following an Israeli strike, which killed at least three Palestinians and injured several others in Gaza City's al-Sabra neighbourhood.
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What ceasefire?
US President Donald Trump commented on the new Israeli offensive by saying that "the ceasefire is holding". Yet the sense is that a genuine ceasefire has never truly been reached in Gaza.
The massacre caused by the Israeli bombardments of recent hours is not an isolated episode. In the preceding weeks, further strikes had been carried out that caused at least 90 deaths, while Israel had also restricted the access of humanitarian trucks into Palestinian territory. Since the beginning of October the scale of Israeli attacks on Gaza has certainly diminished drastically, but the genocide of the Palestinian people has never truly stopped.