By Quds News Network
Gaza (Quds News Network)- As Israel continues to ethnically cleanse northern Gaza under a plan labeled ‘the Generals’ Plan,’ witnesses describe horrifying scenes of suffering, deprivation, and death unfolding daily. Blocked from receiving life-saving aid, civilians are left to fend for themselves under conditions that officials and human rights advocates decry as a systematic strategy of starvation and extermination.
Dr. Ezzedine Shaheen, a local physician, shared a heartbreaking account from Jabalia, where Yusuf, a young boy, is wounded and bleeding. “He’s bleeding from his neck and eye,” he said. “One of the neighbors tried to bandage him, but the bleeding hasn’t stopped since morning. He’s leaning against a red car on Al-Ajarama Street.”
With no ambulances, doctors, or emergency resources available, Shaheen pleads for awareness: “This is what’s happening in northern Gaza… and anyone who reads this and remains silent is complicit in this crime.”
In Beit Lahia, survivors of Al-Louh massacre echo these sentiments. According to Dr. Munir al-Bursh, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, survivors are calling urgently for medical aid amidst complete devastation of civil and medical services. “Israel’s ongoing blockade has crippled humanitarian agencies,” Al-Bursh said. “There’s no support left here.”
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People on the ground are left as both victims and responders in the crisis. Al Jazeera reporter Hossam Shabat poignantly captured the harrowing reality: “My brother is my medic, my mother pulls me from the rubble, my neighbor is my healer. The wounded are also the rescuers and the martyrs.”
Journalist Abdul Qader Sabah highlighted how futile appeals to the Civil Defense have become. “Appeals are met with silence; #CivilDefense is completely paralyzed by the unrelenting Israeli assault, with personnel either detained or displaced.”
One of the most devastating massacres in recent days took place in Beit Lahia’s Abu Nasr neighborhood. Dr. Ezzedine Shaheen, who lives nearby, reported that “over 150 people were killed or went missing in a single morning… The bodies of children lay mingled with the rubble and steel. Those faces, many of whom I knew, are no longer here.” Shaheen added that no ambulances came to retrieve the dead, who were eventually loaded onto carts pulled by donkeys. “A large extended family that always filled the neighborhood with noise and commotion; they were all killed by Israel, and the world kept turning without anyone stopping to read their names. They couldn’t find an ambulance to transport them, nor anyone to pray over them or mourn their bodies. O God, this is the end of times; we believe in You and Your noble Prophet. In this way, everyone in Gaza awaits their turn in the massacre, waiting to see how Israel will slaughter us, who will remain, and who will die. There is no escape from human fate, but how can our deaths be so transient and easy? And no one can stop the monster? There is no power and no strength except through God.”
“They were a family of poor, destitute people; no one paid attention to the quality of their lives or their deaths. No one mourned for them, no protests were organized, and their deaths did not create any uproar. They quietly slipped from life to death, buried in the market. They couldn’t find ambulances to transport them, and their bodies were simply piled onto carts pulled by donkeys.”
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Elsewhere, Mohammed Haniyeh from SAND News Agency described one mother’s agonizing search for her daughter Haneen. “Haneen, just 26, was frail and her mother searched for her remains through the ruins.”
Gaza’s Civil Defense released statements pleading for international intervention as they face their seventh consecutive day of incapacitation due to Israel’s blockade. “We are unable to respond to countless pleas for help from homes bombarded in Jabalia,” said Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Civil Defense. “To the international community: northern Gaza is being slaughtered from vein to vein.”
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30 October 2024
Source: countercurrents.org