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.
They attacked a fucking music festival and slaughtered civilians. That’s a beginning.
That is horrific, inexcusable, and unjustifiable, but it is not a beginning.
https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/charts/
Yes, it is. Last week, Gaza was at peace. They planned and executed this attack.
Oh, right. Yes, I forgot that peace was achieved between Israel and Hamas until Saturday.
Last week, they weren’t shooting each other. This week, Hamas unilaterally decided to end that by murdering hundreds of civilians.
https://www.ochaopt.org/poc/5-18-september-2023
Not true. Gaza was not “at peace”.
Yes, they were.
Only according to Israel.
According to objective, basic reality.
Not by a long shot.
How many more innocent people have to die before you admit reality is real?
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Dude the Palestinian-Israeli conflict didn’t begin last week….
This war did. Last week, Gaza was at peace.
Lmfao. Tell me u have no clue without telling me you have no clue.
No it was not. Has not been since 1948.
There’s been a series of wars, generally started by Arabs, since 1948. But last week, there wasn’t a war.
Simply wrong on all accounts. Wow.
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No it wasn’t. Last week it was under Israeli occupation and blockade. That is not peace
Blockade, yes, for obvious reasons. But Gaza hasn’t been occupied since 2005.
Dude just… no https://www.ochaopt.org/poc/5-18-september-2023
This war is a part of a almost century long conflict. You cannot ignore that.