Israel announced that it will continue its attack on Gaza in 2024. According to Israel, the ground operation in Gaza can continue for the whole year.
– I hope I don’t die in 2024.
An 11-year-old Palestinian living in the Rafah tent camp has such a wish Layan Harara presented for the coming year.
The Palestinian children who fled their homes also hope for the end of the war in Gaza and the opportunity to return to their homes, as the conditions in the tent camps are difficult.
The children say that the Rafah camp is unsafe.
In addition, the refugee camps in the Gaza Strip do not have proper sanitary facilities, for example. Food, water and firewood are on the card in Rafah.
– We live in a tent in the freezing cold. We don’t have sheets. I wish we even had beds. I hope that the war ends and the occupation of the Palestinian territories ends. I want us to have our own country and be allowed to return to our hometown, 14 years old Mohammed Eyad said to a Reuters reporter who asked about the wishes of Palestinian children for the coming year.
In December, the UN children’s fund Unicef described Gaza as the most dangerous place in the world for children to live.
The UN organization UNRWA, which helps Palestinian refugees, has described the humanitarian situation in Gaza as catastrophic.
According to UNRWA, tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled Israeli airstrikes to the southern parts of Gaza from the northern and central parts of the strip.
Large groups of people have also moved south at the behest of Israeli forces. At the end of the year, Israel repeatedly called on Palestinian civilians to move out of the parts of Gaza where Israel is conducting its ground operation to eradicate Hamas.
The year changed, the war in Gaza continues
On Monday, Israel’s military announced it would recruit up to 300,000 reservists to prepare for what the Israeli army described as protracted fighting.
Spokesman for the Israeli Armed Forces of Daniel Hagar fighting in Gaza may continue throughout the year.
The mortar fire and missile strikes on the Gaza Strip continued the night before Tuesday. According to the extremist organization Hamas, at least 207 Palestinians have been killed and 338 wounded in Israeli airstrikes between Monday and Tuesday, news agencies AFP and Reuters reported.
According to witnesses, Israel struck, among other things, Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza Strip and Jabalia in the northern part.
Fighting also took place last night in Maghazi and Bureij in the central part of the strip, and in Khan Younis, the most important city in the southern part.
The conflict between Israel and the extremist organization Hamas, which escalated into a bloody war, has led to the death of thousands of people.
The Ministry of Health under the terrorist organization Hamas announced on Tuesday that since the start of the full-scale war, at least 22,185 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes. In addition, more than 57,000 people have been wounded as a result of the hostilities.
It has not been possible to independently confirm the number of casualties reported by Hamas, as fierce fighting is taking place in the area, and journalists or workers of human rights organizations have not been able to independently enter the area to count the dead.
Israel launched its ground offensive on Gaza after the extremist organization Hamas attacked the Israeli side on October 7. According to Israel, Hamas fighters killed at least 1,200 people and kidnapped at least 240 Israelis.
Sources: Reuters, AFP