Gaza Strip: Israeli Bombardment of Camps Killed 25 People
Funeral Procession in Gaza Strip, Oct 8, 2024 Photo: EFE
October 8, 2024 Hour: 8:26 pm
The country’s armed forces launched a massive ground operation against the north of the coastal enclave last week after ordering a forced evacuation of the population in that region.
On Tuesday, official sources stated that the Israeli army killed 25 Palestinians following further shelling of the Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip.
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The Red Crescent Society initially reported nine fatalities and numerous injuries after an attack on tents for displaced people in Al-Sikka Street in Bureij.
But a correspondent for the official Wafa news agency raised the death toll to 25 after raids also targeted the neighboring Nuseirat camp.
However, he warned that the death toll could rise in the coming hours because operations are still underway to search for bodies under the rubble.
The country’s armed forces launched a massive ground operation against the north of the coastal enclave last week after ordering a forced evacuation of the population in that region.
Regional television stations described the situation in the Jabalia refugee camp as hell, where explosions and gunfire can be heard as Palestinians flee to the south, the only escape route open after the military siege.
Last month, the Kan Broadcasting Corporation revealed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was considering a plan to forcibly displace the Palestinian population from the north of the Strip.
According to the source, during a closed-door meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in the Knesset (parliament), Netanyahu said the plan was very logical.
It is one of the initiatives we are considering, but there are many others to dismantle the civilian control of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), the right-wing politician said.
The draft is known as the General’s Plan because it was drawn up by retired senior army officers, including Giora Eiland, former head of the National Security Council.
Eiland detailed his proposal on YouTube, which includes the displacement of the population of the northern region, which would be declared a closed military zone.
Many Israeli ministers and Knesset members have in recent months publicly supported the re-establishment of settlements in the coastal enclave, which is opposed by the UN and the international community.
The Haaretz newspaper revealed in August that Netanyahu plans to keep the army in the Strip after the end of the conflict and begin Jewish settlement in the north.
‘The occupation (of Gaza) is the goal Netanyahu is fighting for, even at the cost of the death of the remaining (Israeli) hostages and at the risk of a regional war,’ Aluf Benn, the paper’s editor-in-chief, said in an article.
Autor: OSG
Fuente: Aljazeera-WAFA
