On Tuesday, July 16, Israel intensified its strikes on the Gaza Strip, causing dozens of deaths in several bombings, including one on a school sheltering displaced people, according to local authorities. Children, victims of the conflict, are being treated in the most precarious conditions, frequently having to undergo amputations.
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Israel increased its strikes on the Strip on Tuesday, July 16. Gazawhere three bombings, including on a school sheltering displaced people, left dozens dead, according to local authorities, after American criticism of the high number of civilian casualties.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the army must “further increase pressure on Hamas“, author of an unprecedented attack on October 7 against Israelwhich triggered the war in the Palestinian territory.
The Palestinian Islamist movement is under increasing pressure because we are hurting it, we are eliminating its top commanders and thousands of its terrorists. This is exactly the time to increase the pressure even more” said the Israeli Prime Minister.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), “Multiple strikes across Gaza Strip» made Tuesday « dDozens of dead and injured“One of them took place”a few hundred meters away” from a United Nations center in Deir el-Balah, a town in the center of the territory that is home to many displaced people. The U.S. State Department estimated on Monday, July 15, that the number of civilian casualties “remained unacceptable” in the Gaza Strip, where the war has left tens of thousands dead.
48 dead and “dozens injured”
On Tuesday evening, the Gaza Civil Defense, an organization dependent on Hamas, announced that three Israeli strikes had killed 48 people and “tens” of wounded. “Three massacres took place in less than an hour against displaced people” said his spokesman, Mahmoud Bassal, without giving details of the toll.
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According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, at least five people were killed in the Al-Razi school in Nousseirat, run by the UN in the center of the territory, which housed “thousands” displaced. Another bombing killed 17 people near a gas station in Al-Mawasi, near Khan Younis in the south, according to the Hamas Health Ministry. The third strike took place near a roundabout in Beit Lahia in the north.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the fighting, often several times since the war began, according to UN estimates. Many are sheltering in buildings, including schools, but also in the courtyards of clinics and hospitals.
Children frequently amputated due to lack of medical resources
Faced with the Israeli offensive, which has lasted for more than 10 months, Palestinian children are on the front line. More than 14,000 children have been killed since October 7 (according to UNICEF) and thousands more, injured, are being treated in the most precarious conditions. This is the case, for example, at the Al-Aqsa hospital in the city of Deir El-Balah, where our correspondent in the Gaza Strip, Rami Al Meghari, visited with Eliott Brachet.
When Sumaiya arrived, she had almost lost her arm. The pediatric surgeon performed a lobotomy, a liver repair, removed the shrapnel. Then it was necessary to amputate, they cut at the shoulder. She is an example of what happens to children in Gaza…
Report: In Gaza, due to lack of medical resources, children victims of bombings are frequently amputated
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