United Nations and Red Cross workers die in crossfire in Gaza
This Wednesday (11) the conflict produced even more innocent victims. As the death toll rose from the barbarism promoted by Hamas on Saturday (7), the group also attacked and destroyed an Israeli hospital. Israeli bombings killed civilians in Gaza. Among them were representatives of the United Nations and the Red Cross.
A child who lost his childhood this Wednesday (11). Another may have lost her life. A boy tries to calm his mother, who has lost her dignity. While another waits in the crowded hallway and lacks supplies. There is no fuel, no water supply and no electricity. A mass burial takes place in the square. A collective lament for an innocent death.
The scenes were recorded this Wednesday (11) in the largest city in the Gaza Strip. The strip of land borders Israel and Egypt, where they live 2 million from people.
1 of 1 Gaza Strip Photo: Jornal Nacional/ Reproduction Gaza Strip Photo: Jornal Nacional/ Reproduction
Israeli civilians have already been displaced from the entire surrounding region, which has become a military zone. From there, mortars carry out air strikes. The head of the Israeli army says it is a response to the cruel and inhumane attack on Saturday (7).
The terrorist group Hamas shot hundreds of Israeli civilians during everyday activities such as waiting for a bus. Soldiers are still finding bodies of victims who were at an electronic music festival.
The Israeli army claims that the counteroffensive is aimed at places where Hamas terrorists are located. Images taken by drones show the liquidation of entire districts. Four important mosques were destroyed and a market where civilians shopped as well as schools and hospitals.
Eleven employees of the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees died. The Red Cross recorded five deaths in the Hamas attack: four medics in the Gaza Strip and one in Israel.
A Red Cross official in Gaza said he had to move his family three times in just one day because of the bombings.
This Wednesday (11), Hamas destroyed a hospital in the Israeli city of Ashkelon, the first city outside the militarized zone.
But Hamas’ major attack took place on Saturday (7) and more and more scenes of atrocity are coming to light. A video shows the terrorists leaving Gaza across the sea towards Zikim, further north in Israel. There they broke into a military base. Inside, Israeli soldiers try to protect themselves. Hamas later released the video of these massacred soldiers. Hamas still holds at least 150 hostages.
Four of Gali’s family members who live in the United States are missing. They lived near the Gaza border. She says she just doesn’t know whether they are dead or in the hands of terrorists, and the last time she heard from them she heard a cry for help.
Rescuing American hostages is a priority for the United States. But Joe Biden made it clear that Israel had his unconditional support in the counteroffensive. The Foreign Minister will arrive there on Thursday (12) to coordinate measures with the Israeli authorities.
The Americans positioned ships in the Mediterranean. The first delivery of weapons has already arrived. The US promises more and will approve emergency funds for the war in Congress.
This Wednesday (11), American President Joe Biden said that the Hamas terrorist attack marked the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust and a campaign of pure cruelty.
Meanwhile, in Israel, Israelis sing the national anthem in an underground bunker: “Hatikvah” means hope.
“We saw men and women burned alive. Young women raped and dismembered. Soldiers beheaded. Every Hamas man is a dead man,” he promised.
Shortly thereafter, Israel stationed 300,000 soldiers in the militarized zone. For comparison: Before the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin stationed 100,000 soldiers on the border. Ukraine is more than a thousand times larger than the Gaza Strip. A ground attack of this magnitude has the potential to redefine the map of the Middle East.