The Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, which does not yet have an official name, entered its second day this Sunday with a reinforcement of troops and tank units operating inside the Palestinian enclave, according to a spokesman for the armed forces. According to the same source, Israeli warplanes have struck more than 450 Hamas military targets in the past 24 hours, including operational command centers, observation posts and anti-tank missile launch pads, the Israeli military reported. According to the United Nations, these airstrikes are the “heaviest” bombings since the war began on the 7th. Since then, Israel has counted about 1,400 dead and more than 200 abducted, most of them in the massive attack by militias. Islamists on the same day. The Ministry of Health of Gaza, an area controlled by Hamas since 2007, increased this Sunday the number of Palestinian deaths during the conflict to over 8,000.
Telephone communications and internet connectivity have been gradually recovering in the Gaza Strip since early Sunday, following a general decline on Friday evening as Israeli bombings began to intensify. Once again there are reports of the desperate situation in which the 2.3 million inhabitants of the coastal area, which is completely blocked by Israel, have found themselves for three weeks.
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has reported that this Sunday, thousands of Gaza residents stormed the organization’s warehouses and distribution centers to obtain wheat flour and “basic items for survival,” the UN agency reported .
The looting took place in the central and southern areas of the Gaza Strip. “This is a worrying sign that civil order is beginning to crumble after three weeks of war and a strict siege in the Gaza Strip,” UNRWA warned in a statement. “People are scared, frustrated and desperate. Tensions and fears were exacerbated by cuts to telephone and internet communications lines.”
A man held the body of a child before it was buried in Khan Yunis this Sunday. Mustafa Hassona (Anadolu via Getty Images)
This Sunday in Tel Aviv, the Israeli Uzi Yishai looked at the room of his son Almog, who was injured by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip. Almog is hospitalized for burns.ABIR SULTAN (EFE)
Palestinian women waited to buy bread in Rafah, southern Gaza, this Sunday. Hatem Ali (AP)
A group of Palestinians inspected a house destroyed after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, this Sunday. Abed Rahim Khatib (DPA / Europa Press)
Relatives wept this Sunday in front of the bodies of relatives who were victims of the Israeli air strikes in Khan Younis. Ahmad Hasaballah (Getty Images)
Several Palestinians near the Al-Maghari family’s home, which was destroyed after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza. DPA via Europa Press (DPA via Europa Press)
Search and rescue operation around the Bilal Masjid mosque, which was destroyed after Israeli attacks on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, this Sunday. Anadolu Agency (Anadolu via Getty Images)
Vehicles burned by Hamas during the October 7 attack, grouped in a field near the Israel-Gaza border.EVELYN HOCKSTEIN (Portal)
Israeli tanks maneuver in the Gaza Strip this Sunday, as seen from Israel.EVELYN HOCKSTEIN (Portal)
A man held two injured children in his arms this Sunday, among livestock and buildings affected by Israeli attacks in the Nuseirat refugee camp. Anadolu Agency (Anadolu via Getty Images)
Damage to houses in the Gaza Strip in Khan Younis after the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip this Sunday. MOHAMMED SALEM (Portal)
A man injured in the Israeli bombings was transferred to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis this Sunday.Ahmad Hasaballah (Getty Images)
Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system intercepted a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip toward Tel Aviv early Sunday. Oded Balilty (AP)
Manna mourned her nine-year-old daughter Tamar Chaya Torpiashvili, who died days after a heart attack following a warning of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into Israel, at her funeral in Ashdod, southern Israel, on Sunday.RONEN ZVULUN (Portal)
Rescue efforts following a bomb attack in Gaza City this Sunday. Anadolu Agency (Anadolu via Getty Images)
Israeli tanks are advancing along the northern coast of the Gaza Strip this Sunday. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (EFE)
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Two humanitarian aid convoys, each consisting of 20 trucks loaded with food, water and medical supplies, entered Egypt through the Rafah border crossing in Egypt to be inspected by Israeli agents before entering the Gaza Strip, according to Efe agency. Cairo. As the Red Crescent reported, another ten people arrived this Sunday with food and medical supplies. It is currently confirmed that only 94 trucks carrying humanitarian aid have entered the enclave since the start of the war, compared to a usual average of 500 cargo vehicles per day. There were 20 trucks at the start on both Saturday and Sunday last week; 14 on Monday; eight on Tuesday; 12 on Thursday and another 10 on Friday.
During this time, the influx of aid has been sparse, and Israel has not yet allowed the arrival of fuel vital to power desalination and water treatment plants and hospitals, among other things. Gaza residents are still unable to leave the country. UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said on Thursday that aid had “barely arrived” in Gaza over the past week.
“Overnight [del sábado al domingo] “We have increased the number of forces scheduled to enter the Gaza Strip and they have joined those already fighting there,” Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, top military spokesman, said this Sunday. Colonel Elad Goren, a member of the Israeli Defense Ministry’s panel coordinating civil affairs in Gaza and the West Bank (COGAT), has stated that Israel will allow a significant increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza in the coming days. “We have established a humanitarian zone in the Khan Yunis area in the south of the Gaza Strip and continue to recommend that evacuated civilians go to this zone,” Goren emphasized. However, the bombings in these three weeks have not only been concentrated in the northern Gaza Strip, where Israel continues to insist that the population must leave their homes, but there have also been attacks in the supposedly safest area, in the south of the enclave. including Khan Yunis.
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