Israel UN representative reports terrible impressions in Gaza
Following the Israeli airstrike in the south of the Gaza Strip, UN representative Scott Anderson speaks of some of the most horrific scenes he has seen in nine months in the Gaza Strip. The director of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in Gaza said that there were not enough beds in the hospital in Chan Junis, which he had visited, and that many patients were being treated on the floor and without sufficient disinfection facilities.
14.07.2024, 12:05
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Desperate parents had told him that they had moved to the humanitarian zone in the hope that their children would be safe there, Anderson said. He called for civilians to be protected at all times. A ceasefire is urgently needed and the hostages remaining in the Gaza Strip must be released.
On Saturday, the Israeli army attacked the leader of Hamas' military wing, Mohammed Deif, in the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of other people. It was initially uncertain whether Deif was also killed or injured in the airstrike.
According to Palestinian reports, at least 90 people were killed in the Israeli military operation. At least 300 other people were also injured in the Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone, according to the Hamas-controlled health authority. This information could not initially be independently verified.
A representative of the Israeli military later admitted in a briefing that the object hit was located in the humanitarian zone west of Chan Junis, as declared by Israel. "But it was a fenced-off, guarded Hamas base, manned by terrorists," he added. This information cannot currently be independently verified either.
