Photos: Israeli strikes flatten buildings, mosques in Gaza
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Death toll rises to 313 in Gaza, with close to 2,000 wounded, as tensions continue to escalate on the second day.

At least 313 Palestinians have been killed as Israel struck 426 targets in Gaza, its military said, flattening residential buildings in giant explosions.

Among those killed in Gaza were 20 children. About 2,000 others are wounded, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said more than 20,000 Palestinians left Gaza’s border region to head further inside the territory and take refuge in UN schools.

Nebal Farsakh, the spokesperson of the NGO Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRC), told Al Jazeera that their medical teams were facing “great challenges” in Gaza, adding that they had called on the international humanitarian community to open humanitarian corridors so that NGOs like them could safely carry out their work of helping people in the Gaza Strip.

On Saturday night, Energy Minister Israel Katz said Israel would halt the electricity supply to the besieged territory. The Palestinian enclave – home to some two million people – has been under an Israeli air, land and sea blockade.

Al Jazeera’s Youmna ElSayed said humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip were in “constant deterioration”.

What used to be 120 megawatts of electricity has now decreased to only 20MW, provided by power plants that are paid for by the Palestinian Authority, ElSayed said.

Meanwhile, healthcare institutions had to rely on spare generators to continue operating through the night due to Israel’s decision to halt the electricity supply while residents were left to endure the darkness with the unsettling backdrop of explosions not far away.

  • probablyaCat@kbin.social
    2147·
    9 months ago

    Flattening places that are used to bomb them? I’d say just about any country is guilty of that. If Russia starts launching missiles from hospitals will we then be angry at Ukraine for taking out that hospital? Or is this a lifehack that all generals should take note of?

    • Amilo159@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1327·
      9 months ago

      Only one of the two is an occupying force that illegally took land and build their own settlements there.

      Other party is a terrorist group, however in past we called them by another term that seems to be unimaginable now: freedom fighters.

      Hamas attacked civilians and took women and children as hostages. This isn’t permitted by any law including Islamic rules of war. I must condone their actions which is nothing but terrorism.

      • sparky_gnome@lemmy.worldEnglish
        113·
        9 months ago

        Hamas is far more anti Israel than pro Gaza. Yes, Israel is anti Gaza, but Hamas does not represent what we want, or the waymost of us in Gaza want Israel or Jews to be treated. They are not freedom fighters, they are terrorists who have the same enemy as us.

          • sparky_gnome@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            9 months ago

            Yes, of course. If the two most powerful groups in your area are both acting like terrorist organizations, and one wants to kill you, and the other want to kill them, few people are going to dare to question Hamas. Hamas does nothing to help us, and nothing to better owr lives.

      • probablyaCat@kbin.social
        1610·
        9 months ago

        Illegally took land given to them by the countries in control of that land after said countries lost a war against them? Do you even know the history of how Israel was given control over the territories?