GAZA,(Palestine Foundation Information Center ) The Palestinian Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip has issued a stark warning: Israeli occupation forces are intensifying their airstrikes on Gaza City, leaving no areas safe across the Strip.
According to Major Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Civil Defense, over 1,000 buildings have been completely destroyed in the Al-Zaytoun and Al-Sabra neighborhoods since August 6.
He emphasized that Civil Defense teams are still unable to retrieve hundreds of bodies trapped under the rubble due to ongoing bombardments and a severe lack of resources.
“We continue to receive urgent appeals about missing persons, the wounded, and the martyred in Al-Zaytoun and Al-Sabra,” Basal said. “Yet our rescue teams can’t reach them due to the relentless shelling and extreme danger in the field.”
He also raised serious concerns over the continued incursion of Israeli forces into Gaza City, warning that rescue teams lack the capacity to respond to the escalating intensity of the Israeli attacks.
Basal concluded, “There are no safe zones anywhere in Gaza, north or south. Civilians are being bombed in their homes, their shelters, and even in their displacement tents.”
Israeli occupation forces have ramped up attacks on Gaza City neighborhoods, particularly Al-Zaytoun and Al-Sabra, while simultaneously escalating assaults in Jabalia, in the north.
Medical sources reported that at least 52 Palestinians were killed since dawn today, including two infants who died due to severe malnutrition and the lack of baby formula.
This marks day 688 of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, characterized by massacres, ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, and a deliberate starvation campaign that has claimed the lives of both children and adults due to acute malnutrition.
