GAZA, (The Palestinian Information Center) The Civil Defense in Gaza issued a statement on Tuesday declaring that the city is “burning and humanity is being annihilated,” warning of an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.
In a press release, it explained that within just 72 hours, Israeli warplanes targeted five high-rise towers, each over seven stories tall, containing approximately 209 residential units. These buildings had sheltered more than 4,100 people, children, women, and the elderly, who are now left homeless.
The statement added that the bombardment also destroyed over 350 tents housing displaced families, leaving around 3,500 people without their final refuge.
According to Civil Defense figures, the total impact of these attacks has resulted in the displacement of approximately 550 families, around 7,600 individuals, now deprived of the most basic necessities of life, and struggling against death, hunger, and heat in what it described as “an unbearable catastrophic scene.”
The Civil Defense issued an urgent appeal to the international community and humanitarian organizations to intervene immediately to save thousands of innocent lives, stressing that “the world watches in silence while Gaza cries out for rescue before it’s too late.”
The Israeli occupation army issued on Tuesday an evacuation warning to all residents of Gaza City and its neighborhoods, marking the first such order since the announcement of a plan aimed at occupying and destroying the city.
For days, the occupation forces have been carrying out the largest extermination campaign targeting Gaza City and its districts, including repeated strikes on residential buildings and towers under the pretext that Hamas uses them for military purposes.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened Gaza’s residents on Monday, boasting in a statement that 50 residential towers had been destroyed in just two days, saying, “This is just a prelude, merely the beginning, of the main intensive operation.”
