Several trucks carrying humanitarian supplies have entered the Gaza Strip, as Israeli troops in northern Gaza continue to encounter Hamas fighters, an Israeli military spokesperson said,
reports.
“Throughout the day several trucks — tens of trucks — have come into Gaza after being security cleared on the Israeli side,” Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner told a briefing with journalists.
A middle-aged man with a blank, shattered expression walked slowly down a ramp at the hospital, gently cradling in his arms a tiny body wrapped in a white shroud,
AFP reports.
After the collapse of a week-long truce between Israel and Hamas, the Nasser hospital’s morgue in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, was full once again on Saturday.
A handful of women wept for their own children, while a group of men nearby prayed for the dead.
“My son Mohammed tried to get the women and children out of our tent” at a makeshift camp where they had sheltered inside a school, Jumana Murad said of the 19-year-old.
“But a piece of shrapnel hit him in the head… I saw his brains,” she told
AFP, before bursting into tears.
The family had left their home in Gaza City after the Israeli army told around 1.1 million people in the north of the Palestinian territory to move to avoid the fighting following Hamas militants’ unprecedented October 7 attacks on Israel.
Under aerial bombardment from Israel, people sheltering in the south of the Gaza Strip after fleeing their homes earlier in the military offensive have said they have nowhere safe to go now, Reuters reports.
The city of Khan Younis is the focus of Israeli air strikes and artillery fire after fighting resumed on Friday following the collapse of a week-long truce. Its population has swelled in recent weeks as several hundred thousand people from the northern Gaza Strip have fled south.
Some are camping in tents, others in schools. Some are sleeping in stairwells or outside the few hospitals operating in the city.
