‘They’ll kill us all’: Gazans plead for intervention as Israeli attacks intensify

‘They’ll kill us all’: Gazans plead for intervention as Israeli attacks intensify

Ruwaida Amer and Ahmed Ahmed report:

Since Israel shattered the ceasefire in Gaza last month, Palestinians have been facing horrors reminiscent of the first days of Israel’s genocidal onslaught. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, the Israeli military has killed over 1,300 people and wounded more than 3,000 in the past three weeks, in which time the overall death toll in the enclave has surpassed 50,000.

Over 280,000 people have been displaced as Israel corrals Gaza’s population into ever-shrinking “humanitarian zones” which it continues to bomb. Nearly two-thirds of the entire territory of the Strip is now either under active displacement orders or defined by the military as a “no-go” area, with the army’s current operations focusing in particular on Gaza City in the north and Rafah in the south.

Israel’s total blockade on humanitarian aid has entered its sixth week, with starvation and malnutrition threatening to engulf Gaza’s whole population. And while Israeli forces continue to level entire residential blocks with bulldozers and explosive robots, they are executing journalists and medics in cold blood. [Continue reading…]

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