Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, Palestine. Israel carried out airstrikes on this camp last Saturday night. At least 47 people were killed in the attack. Most of the dead were women and children.
53-year-old Saeed Al-Nezma is a resident of this camp. Narrating the horrific attack, Saeed said that he was sleeping with his family members. Suddenly he heard a loud explosion.
Sayeed said about the aftermath of the Israeli attack on the camp, 'I along with others tried to pull out the bodies from under the rubble all night. We find bodies of children in the rubble. The bodies were dismembered.'
Arafat Abu Mashaiya is a resident of the same camp. He said that several houses in the camp were razed to the ground by Israeli air strikes.
Arafat said standing on the ruins yesterday Sunday morning, "This is a real genocide."
Arafat also said, 'Everyone here is a peaceful person. Whoever says, there are resistance fighters here, I challenge them.'
Israel has been bombing the Palestinian Gaza Strip for almost a month. The number of people killed in this attack has increased to 9 thousand 770. At least 4,800 children were among the dead. The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported this information.
In the last 24 hours, Israeli forces have carried out airstrikes on three refugee camps in Gaza. These include Al-Maghazi refugee camp.
Many Palestinians displaced from other parts of Gaza have taken refuge in al-Maghazi refugee camp. But even by sheltering here, they are not escaping the attack.
Israel has intensified military operations in northern Gaza. For this reason, they asked civilians to leave the northern part of Gaza.
Leaflets were also dropped in northern Gaza from Israeli aircraft yesterday. They called on civilians to move south of Gaza quickly.
Civilians can be seen running along the main north-south highway in the Gaza Strip in the wake of this latest directive from Israeli forces. Many were walking. They had essential items to carry on their hands and shoulders.
A displaced Palestinian said he had to hold up his arms as Israeli troops passed by. In this way he has walked at least 500 meters.
Another displaced Palestinian reported seeing human bodies in damaged cars on the side of the road.
A Palestinian, who did not wish to be named, said, 'Children have seen tanks for the first time. O world, have mercy on us.'
Officials of Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza said that the Israeli forces carried out an airstrike near a school in the Bureji refugee camp in central Gaza yesterday afternoon. Several houses were reduced to rubble in this attack. At least 13 Palestinians were killed.
The Bureji refugee camp is home to around 46,000 people. The camp was also targeted by Israeli airstrikes last Thursday.
Video footage verified by Al-Jazeera showed people carrying out rescue and search operations in the rubble of the camp after an Israeli airstrike.
The third refugee camp in Gaza to be targeted by Israeli strikes in the past 24 hours is Jabalia. More than half a hundred Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on three refugee camps.
Al-Jazeera journalist Hani Mahmoud was reporting from Khan Yunis in southern Gaza. He said Israeli forces appeared to be conducting a "systematic attack" on refugee camps in Gaza.
Hani Mahmoud said that the Israeli forces are conducting repeated airstrikes on the refugee camps in central and southern Gaza. For this reason, civilians are not taking Israel's instructions to go south of Gaza seriously because of security.
According to UN data, 1.5 million of Gaza's 2.3 million people are internally displaced.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday in Ramallah, occupied West Bank. In the meeting, Abbas called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
During the meeting, Blinken reiterated Washington's position in favor of a "humanitarian pause" in Gaza to protect civilians and allow foreigners to leave. However, he did not say anything about the ceasefire. Rather, he advocates Israel's stated goal of eliminating Hamas.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has again rejected calls for an end to attacks on Gaza. He visited an airport in southern Israel yesterday. There he said, 'There will be no ceasefire unless our hostages are returned. We say this to both our enemies and our friends. We will continue (the attack) until we defeat them (Hamas).'
Israel claims they are targeting Hamas fighters and Hamas installations in Gaza. Israel also accused Hamas of using civilians as human shields.
On October 7, the Palestinian independence armed organization Hamas attacked Israel. More than 1,400 Israelis were killed in the attack. In addition, Hamas has taken more than two hundred people from Israel and taken them as hostages to Gaza. Since that day, Israel has been conducting indiscriminate airstrikes by blocking the Palestinian Gaza.
Israel is also conducting ground operations in Gaza. Israel's attack has caused a humanitarian disaster in Gaza. In this situation, various countries and international organizations have been demanding a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. But Israel has been rejecting it. The United States is speaking in the tone of Israel on the question of ceasefire.
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