Over 9,600 children and 6,700 women have been murdered in the fourth month of the Israel-Gaza conflict, with 45,000 rockets and explosives fired in strikes on the enclave since October 7.
The entire death toll in Gaza has surpassed 22,300, with over 57,000 people injured. According to the Hamas government’s media office, 1.9 million people have been displaced, and Israel has deployed 65,000 tons of bombs, causing damage to 290,000 houses.
“The sound of clashes and shelling makes you think that it is the end,” Rami Darwish, from Al Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, told The National.
“Israeli army has stepped up air strikes and artillery shelling in the middle areas of the Gaza Strip.”
Israeli bombing in the southern city of Khan Younis killed 14 members of one family who had already been displaced. At least nine members of the Abu Hattab family were killed, mostly, medical sources said.
“We fled here because we were looking for a safe place, but there is no safe place,” Aziz Abu Hattab told The National.
“We were sleeping when suddenly shelling targeted us and we started running. We don’t know where to go.”
