Gazan Emergency Medical Services and Food Crisis After an Israeli Tank Overturned on Oct. 7. The UNRWA Gaza Food Distribution Center shut down on Dec. 7
The soldier was killed when a tank overturned in Gaza. Most of the Israeli soldiers killed on Oct. 7 were killed that day.
Over 1000 people were killed by the end of the weekend in Israel’s bombardment, according to Palestinian health officials.
Palestinian communications came back on Sunday after a two night internet and phone service outage. Across Gaza and beyond, Palestinians expressed relief as families were able to reach loved ones.
Israel has continued to urge the evacuation of northern Gaza, including hospitals, where beds are completely full with injured people and hallways have crowded each night with Palestinians seeking refuge from airstrikes. The UN says that at least a third of hospitals in Gaza have been forced to stop operating because of a lack of fuel.
At Ah-Ahli Arab Hospital, hospital officials have evacuated displaced people, but staff are still treating patients, said Dr. Fadel Naim, an orthopedic surgeon working there. Estimates by US intelligence services show that there was an explosion at the hospital that left at least 100 people dead.
Aid groups say that not enough food, water and medicine are available in southern Gaza, even though the largest convoy of aid trucks crossed in a single day.
Food in Gaza has been difficult to come by. The lack of electricity and fuel for generators has put many food suppliers out of operation. Palestinians living in Gaza have told NPR about fruitless searches for open vendors or waiting in line for hours for a days’ worth of bread for their family.
On Saturday, thousands of people broke into several warehouses operated by UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, to steal wheat flour and other survival supplies.
Israel Presses into Gaza as Pro-Palestinian Protests Spread Worldwide: “This is the beginning of civil order breaking down in Gaza,” White said
“This is a worrying sign that civil order is starting to break down after three weeks of war and a tight siege on Gaza. White said people were scared, frustrated and desperate in his statement Saturday.
“Very few trucks, slow processes, strict inspections, supplies that do not match the requirements of UNRWA and the other aid organizations, and mostly the ongoing ban on fuel, are all a recipe for a failed system,” he said.
Israel said Sunday it would resume water supply to central Gaza and authorize the Palestinian Water Authority to make repairs to pipelines damaged in the conflict. The United Nations reported that water supply in southern Gaza had experienced a “considerable improvement in recent days” after small quantities of fuel were delivered.
“We have been taking extreme measures to reserve whatever water we had left. Abood Okal, a Palestinian-American and Massachusetts resident who was stranded in Gaza during the current war, says showers are something of the past.
He, his wife and 1-year-old son are in a house with a lot of other people in southern Gaza. People in the house have walked to a station every day to fill up a few gallons to bring home.
Israel’s second phase of the conflict with the militant group Hamas in Gaza: Airstrikes pushed into a Sunday night outage in Dagestan
Last Thursday, that filtration station ran out of diesel to operate its generators, Okal said Thursday evening. We’re almost out of water today. I think we have just enough to last us through tonight, then tomorrow we’ll be basically out,” he said.
tens of thousands of people in New York City, London, Madrid, Casablanca, Istanbul, Islamabad and other cities around the world have taken part in pro-Palestinian protests this week calling for a cease-fire.
An airport in Russia’s Muslim-majority region of Dagestan closed Sunday night after pro-Palestinian protesters stormed the airport upon the arrival of a flight from Tel Aviv.
Video posted to social media appeared to show a crowd on the tarmac surrounding the plane, which landed at the Makhachkala airport around 7:15 p.m. local time.
“All Dagestanis empathize with the suffering of victims of the actions of unrighteous people and politicians and pray for peace in Palestine. But what happened at our airport is outrageous and should receive an appropriate assessment from law enforcement agencies,” said Sergey Melikov, head of the Dagestan Republic, in a post on Telegram.
TEL AVIV, Israel — The Israeli military’s intensified ground operations in Gaza pushed into a fourth day Monday as part of its so-called “second phase” of its war with the militant group Hamas.
Since the intensified operation began on Friday night, Israeli airstrikes have hit more than 600 Hamas targets, including weapons depots and anti-tank missile launch sites, Israel said. The Israeli Defence Force said it had killed dozens of Hamas fighters on Sunday. There were reports of Israeli soldiers and Hamas fighters fighting.
The leader of Hamas in Gaza is Israel’s targets, according to a Sunday night news conference. Israelis say Sinwar was the chief architect of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that left 1,400 dead.
Palestinian telecommunications providers blamed the service outage on deliberate Israeli sabotage. An Israeli defense official said she was “unaware” of the matter.
Gaza’s 34-hour telephone and internet blackout, as told in voice memos: “We are all struggling to get any connection from Jawwal,” said Anas Baba
It happened just as Anas Baba, NPR’s producer in the Gaza Strip, was getting ready to tape an interview with NPR’s All Things Considered. Baba said before the interview began that his line was a bit bouncy.
He connected to an Israeli cellphone signal and wrote the first voice memo about twenty-four hours after the Gaza communications cutoff. He spoke about the conditions from Friday to Saturday.
“We all are struggling to get any connection from Jawwal [a Palestinian cell service provider], internet, or even landlines. We don’t know what is going on. We don’t know what’s happening. We are totally cut off from the outside world. Every person in Gaza is reachable, even your relatives and friends. We can’t comprehend what is happening at the news.
The fate of Gaza City, and the suffering of a journalist, Baba, when he arrived in Rafah with a horse cart
Baba returned south to Rafah, where he is sheltering, to witness scenes of desperation. Getting around sometimes meant taking a horse cart, with fuel supplies dwindling.
It was a struggle to find bread, water and how to get there. I had to return from Khan Younis using a horse cart because I am located in the city. And today, I couldn’t even find that horse cart anymore.
“Nothing is the same, nothing is the same. My memories are still there in Gaza City, and I am reporting them for you now from Rafah.
“Don’t know what to do, don’t know what to say. Don’t know how to describe the damage. It’s completely flattened to the ground. Nothing is the same, nothing is standing.”
“It’s super, super dangerous, but I needed to understand what’s happening around me. For a journalist, not for a normal citizen, my mind was going to melt trying to understand what is happening.
When you hear the stories of people who are still trying to reach their loved ones, it’s the most catastrophic.
The people here told me that the war with signal and reception went well. It was 20 years before we could have reception and telecommunication. Being totally blind and disconnected is making you feel angry, helpless, and at the same time, vulnerable.”