Gaza: a city of deaths!
Indiscriminate Israeli airstrikes have turned Gaza into a city of destruction and death. No food, no water, no fuel, just moaning all around.
According to the report of the British media BBC, houses were destroyed by Israeli air and artillery attacks. A row of dead bodies are laying on the hospital floor. There are no beds available in the hospital to treat the injured. The floor is also full of patients. Even places to bury dead relatives are not available now.
Dr.Mohammad Matar of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza said, I have never seen such a situation in my 9 years of medical life in Gaza. The situation here is terrible. He said, "I have seen many cases of war between Israel and the Palestinians, but this time is very, very different."
Dr. Matar said that most of the casualties are civilians. He said, no one understands what is happening in Gaza?
According to international media reports, there is an indescribable scene in the hospitals in Gaza. There is no place to accommodate the casualties. The morgue is overflowing with corpses. Relatives are flocking for the body of their loved ones. The wounded are crying. They do not have adequate medical facilities.
In the last six days, the Israeli Air Force has dropped about 6,000 bombs on the 363 square kilometer area of Gaza. They weigh four thousand tons. Many residential areas of Gaza have been destroyed by these powerful bombs. The death toll has already exceeded 1,400. More than six thousand people were injured. Among the dead were 447 children and 248 women.
Meanwhile, Israel has warned that it will not allow any kind of food, medicine or electricity to reach Palestine until the Israelis held hostage by Hamas, the armed group of the Palestinian Liberation Movement, are released.
According to the United Nations, 338,934 of the 2.2 million people living in Gaza have been displaced by Israeli bombing. 2,540 buildings in Gaza were completely destroyed and 22,850 buildings were partially destroyed. The UN human rights agency OCHA said in a statement on Thursday that the number of people displaced across the Gaza Strip continues to rise.
The UN has repeatedly highlighted the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.
According to the United Nations Sexual and Reproductive Health Agency (UNFPA), 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza are not being provided with essential health services, even clean water. The organization expressed concern for the safety, well-being and mental health of women and girls.
A UNFPA worker from Gaza said their only goal now is to breathe, to survive.
Continued Israeli airstrikes and artillery strikes cut electricity and water connections in the Gaza Strip, known as the world's largest open-air prison. People there are now spending their days in darkness. Meanwhile, there is a cry for water. If the situation does not change, it is feared that the people there may face a dire humanitarian crisis.
The UN agency World Food Program (WFP) has described the situation in Gaza as "horrendous". The agency said Gaza would soon run out of food and water. Emergency supplies to the region have dwindled dramatically since Israel's blockade.
Darkness has descended after Gaza's only power station ran out of fuel. Israel says its blockade will not end until the hostages are released.
Lt. Gen. Harji Halevi, chief of Israel's defense forces, admitted the failure to protect civilians. He said the IDF is responsible for the security of the country and its citizens. We could not give it to the area around the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning. We will learn, investigate.