Throughout the day on Tuesday, Israeli troops continued their bombardment of Rafah, the city sheltering hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians – after dropping leaflets telling the already displaced Palestinians to move once again. Over 500,000 civilians fled Rafah, trying to find a safe place away from the constant Israeli bombardment.
Israeli occupation aircraft dropped a bomb on a residential apartment in Gaza City, killing a woman and her child.
A civilian was killed and two others were seriously injured after Israeli drones targeted a group of civilians on the old Gaza Street in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip.
Israeli warplanes launched violent raids on Jabalya and on neighborhoods in Gaza City, including “Al-Rimal” and “Al-Zaytoun”, and the occupation artillery shelled Al-Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, in conjunction with the Israeli gunboats firing towards the northern coast of the Gaza Strip.
This is how the morning looks in Gaza. Children under the rubble since yesterday! They may have died of hunger, suffocation, or thirst before anyone could save them! pic.twitter.com/2ja0d3Y29B
— Ahmed El-Madhoun (@madhoun95) May 14, 2024
Israeli settler mobs have reached the Erez checkpoint with Gaza, threatening to invade Gaza if the Israeli government persists in allowing humanitarian aid into the Strip. They demand the starvation of Palestinians. pic.twitter.com/eG84FcngWA
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) May 14, 2024
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Day 221: Intensified Israeli Bombings Kill Dozens In Gaza
Published on: May 14, 2024 at 11:34
On Tuesday, Day 221 of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israel’s missiles and shells killed dozens of Palestinians, including many children and women, in several parts of the destroyed and starved coastal enclave.
The Israeli army escalated its aerial, naval, and ground attacks against all parts of the Gaza Strip after the army demanded the families leave Jabalia, in northern Gaza, and leave the eastern and the southern parts of Rafah, in the southmost part of the coastal enclave, while pushing more tanks and armored vehicles into the southern areas of Gaza City, and the eastern areas of Khan Younis.
The Al-Jazeera News Agency said Israel’s shells killed eleven Palestinians in a home and a UNRWA School in the Nusseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza.
Al-Jazeera added that Israeli drones also fired live rounds at Palestinians on Salahuddin Street in the Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, killing two.
The Israeli army also fired missiles at a four-story house where dozens of Palestinians tried to shelter, in Rafah, in Gaza’s southmost part, killing and wounding dozens, including children; many residents remain under the rubble.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said around 450.000 Palestinians were forced to leave Rafah since the Israeli army first issued the orders on May 6.
It added that the Palestinians in northern Gaza also face constant bombing and orders to leave the area, while the terrified families remain in fear as they have no place to go, as there is no safe place in Gaza.
“The Palestinians have no place to go to,” UNRWA stated, “There can never be security for the families without a ceasefire.”
UNRWA also stated that the severe Israeli restrictions on humanitarian aid entering Gaza, are devastating the already starved and displaced families who suffer under the constant bombing and have no food security.
It reiterated the calls for urgent safe passages to allow humanitarian aid and humanitarian workers to move freely in Gaza without being bombed or attacked.
The Prime Minister of Qatar, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, said despite ongoing mediation efforts to reach a ceasefire and a prisoner-swap agreement between Israel and Hamas, all talks have not yielded any progress, and remain stalled, but added that his country will continue to work with all parties to achieve a deal.
He added that Israel does not have a clear idea on how to end this war, and return the captured Israelis, and said that Qatar is a mediator and will not allow any attempt to use its role otherwise.
Sheikh Mohammed also stated that the talks about reconstructing Gaza are premature as this offensive is still ongoing, and added that the cost of such a reconstruction, as it stands now, would be between 40 to 50 billion US Dollars.
It is worth mentioning that Israel is still closing the Rafah Border Terminal and Karem Abu Salem Commercial Crossing, amidst dire warnings from the international community regarding an unprecedented humanitarian disaster.
Israel invaded the Rafah Border Terminal with Egypt on May 7, and destroyed various buildings before shutting it down and barring the entry of humanitarian and medical aid, while Karem Abu Salem Crossing (Kerem Shalom), southeast of Rafah City, remains closed for the tenth day.
Rafah Terminal was the only land crossing used for delivering aid supplies, although in limited quantities, and was the only crossing where patients and seriously wounded Palestinians were transferred to receive treatment in Egypt and other countries.
Israel has now killed more than 35.173 Palestinians, mostly women, and children, and injured at least 79.061, in addition to the thousands of missing Palestinians, largely under the rubble of bombarded homes and buildings in several parts of the Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023.
