Israel has hammered Gaza with greater than 12,000 air and artillery strikes and despatched in floor forces which have successfully reduce it in half. It has air-dropped leaflets and despatched texts ordering civilians in northern Gaza to flee south, however a US official stated Saturday no less than 350,000 civilians remained within the worst-hit areas. Clutching one in every of her toddlers, Amira al-Sakani stated she fled Gaza Metropolis after coming throughout the air-dropped Israeli flyers. “Our life is tragic; we do not need battle… we wish peace”, she added. The Worldwide Committee of the Crimson Cross, which stated one in every of its humanitarian convoys in Gaza was hit by gunfire on Tuesday, demanded an finish to the struggling of civilians. “Youngsters have been ripped from their households and held hostage. In Gaza, ICRC surgeons deal with toddlers whose pores and skin is charred from widespread burns,” the organisation’s president Mirjana Spoljaric stated. The convoy of 5 vans and two Crimson Cross autos was carrying provides to well being services, together with to Al-Quds hospital, when it was hit, an ICRC assertion stated, including that two vans have been broken and a driver frivolously wounded. For extra on the harrowing plight of civilians and humanitarian support staff in Gaza, FRANCE 24’s Nadia Massih is joined by Tommaso Della Longa, Spokesperson and Supervisor of the Media Unit on the Worldwide Federation of the Crimson Cross and Crimson Crescent Societies – IFRC.
