The Gaza Strip is a humanitarian zone: Israeli troops stop a convoy during a campaign against the epidemic of vaccine-preventable disease
The health care system in the Gaza Strip has been destroyed by a war that ended with the discovery of a case of the vaccine-preventable disease.
The staff and convoy went back to a UN base but it was still unclear if a vaccine campaign would take place Tuesday in northern Gaza.
“The convoy was stopped at gun point just after the Wadi Gaza checkpoint with threats to detain UN staff,” he wrote on the social platform X. bulldozers caused heavy damage to the armoured vehicles.
The UN agency providing aid to Palestinians said Israeli troops stopped a convoy in the middle of a vaccination campaign for more than eight hours on Monday. UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini said the staffers who were held had been taking part in the campaign in northern Gaza and Gaza City.
The war has plunged Gaza into a humanitarian crisis, and humanitarian groups have struggled to provide aid because of ongoing fighting, Israeli restrictions, and the breakdown of law and order. The territory is at high risk for famine according to the international authority on hunger crises.
The United States, Egypt and Qatar have spent much of this year trying to broker an agreement for a cease-fire and the release of the hostages, but the talks have repeatedly bogged down as Israel and Hamas have accused each other of making new and unacceptable demands.
The Hamas-led group killed 1,200 people on Oct. 7. They kidnapped another 250 people after releasing most of the rest in exchange for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel during a cease-fire last November. Around a third of the remaining hostages are believed to be dead.
Despite being designated a humanitarian zone by Israel, aid groups have struggled to provide even basic services in Muwasi.
It was among the deadliest strikes yet in Muwasi, a sprawl of crowded tent camps along the Gaza coast that Israel designated as a humanitarian zone for hundreds of thousands of civilians to seek shelter from the Israel-Hamas war.
Israel tries to avoid hurting civilians during the war which was started by Hamas. It blames Hamas for their deaths because the militants often operate in residential areas and are known to position tunnels, rocket launchers and other infrastructure near homes, schools and mosques.
EIRAL-BALA, Gaza Strip. An Israeli strike on a crowded tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in Gaza killed at least 40 people and wounded 60 others early Tuesday, Palestinian officials said. Israel said it targeted “significant” Hamas militants, allegations denied by the militant group.
Muwasi, a Hamas commander, was killed in the July 7 strike by the Israeli army and its alleged kinematics
An Associated Press camera operator saw three large craters at the scene, where first responders and displaced people were sifting through the sand and rubble with garden tools and their bare hands by the light of mobile phones. They pulled body parts from the sand, including what appeared to be a human leg.
The Civil Defense, which is in charge of first responders under the Hamas-run government, said it recovered 40 bodies and was still looking for others. It said entire families were killed in their tents.
After making sure that her children were safe, she looked around to find her husband. After searching, she saw him still alive stuck under the rubble. Sha’er said she used her bare hands to dig him out.
Maha al-Sha’er said “Nowhere is safe in Gaza” when she found her tent destroyed in Tuesday’s strike. She said her family woke up startled by loud booms on Monday. Sha’er was not sure what was going on from the dust and explosions.
This isn’t the first time Muwasi has been struck. In July, 90 Palestinians were killed in a strike that the Israeli military said targeted and killed top Hamas commander Mohammed Deif. There was no denying that Deif was killed.
Muwasi was a chaotic scene after the strikes. The tents and cars were covered in dust. A mess of personal belongings such as blankets, a deflated basketball and kitchen supplies littered the camp. Parents looked for their children in the rubble, and a massive crater was left by an explosion in the middle of the camp.
The health ministry said dozens were still stuck, which would contribute to a higher casualty toll and first responders told NPR it took them hours to pull dead bodies from beneath the rubble.
Airstrike on southern Gaza: Israel’s response to the Israeli air force and its response to a Palestinian population infra–red
The Israeli Air Force carried out an airstrike on southern Gaza that killed 19 Palestinians and wounded 60 others, according to the ministry of health in Gaza.