At least 22 people were killed in the Gaza Strip, according to the Civil Defense of the Enclave, while the bombings on the city of Gaza intensifies
The local civil defense reported death on Saturday of 22 Palestinians, including children, killed in the Gaza Strip. The spokesman for the Civil Defense of the Enclave, Mahmoud Bassal, told the Agency France-Presse (AFP) that a district of the city of Gaza in the north of the Palestinian territory, besieged and hungry, was subject to intense bombardments for almost a week.
“We estimate that more than 50,000 people stay in the Zeitoun district, most of them without water or food”he said, accusing Israel of “Ethnic cleaning” In this district and in the one neighboring such al-Hawa. “Our teams do not have access to the injured. »»
Among the 22 Palestinians killed by the Israeli army shots and strikes, nine were nearly two humanitarian aid distribution centers in the south and north of the territory, said Mahmoud Bassal. Six other Palestinians, three children, perished in two strikes on the al-Boureij refugee camp, in the center, and in the Al-Mawassi area, to the south.
The spokesperson for the Civil Defense has alarmed the Israeli army operations in the city of Gaza, as he has been doing for almost a week now: “The inhabitants have no place to take refuge. The situation is catastrophic. »»
Ghassan Kashko, 40, a resident of the city of Gaza, lives with his family in a school where other displaced people have found. “We have forgotten what sleep is. The air raids and chariot shots do not stop. (…) We no longer have food or drinking water ”He told AFP on the phone.
