Horror images inside Gaza show kids hit by Israeli airstrikes as ceasefire ends
Horror images inside Gaza hospitals show kids left screaming and families covered in blood as Israel resumed its bombardment of the besieged territory at the end of a week-long ceasefire..
At least 200 Palestinians have been killed since the fighting restarted on Friday, increasing the death toll to 15,200 with majority being women and children, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry.
The Israel Defence Force (IDF) said attacks on Saturday have been focused on the last civilian hide-outs in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. The military said it struck more than 50 Hamas targets with airstrikes, tank fire and its navy. Images show the devastating aftermath of an attack in Deir Al-Balah as families rushed young children covered in blood and soot into Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in the hospital in Khan Younis (AP)A stony-faced woman can be seen clutching at her toddler as she hurries through the crowd. In the background, a young boy whose shirt is coated in blood watches on. Another shows a young girl crying as she nurses her mother on a hospital bed and a man carrying an unconscious young boy who appears to have been injured by debris from an attack, causing blood to gush down his face.
Other harrowing images show kids crying as they get medical treatment and parents holding their babies at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. It comes as the US urged its ally Israel to do everything possible to protect civilians.
Baby boy has spent his life in hospital as doctors are 'scared' to discharge him
njured people, including children, are brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital for treatment (Anadolu via Getty Images)Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Arab foreign ministers in Dubai on Friday wrapping up his third Middle East tour since the war started by calling on restraint from Israel. He said: “This is going to be very important going forward, it’s something we’re going to be looking at very closely.”
The Israeli defence force has cut Gaza into "parcels" in an evacuation plan that was blasted by the United Nations. After US calls to protect civilians, the Israeli military released an online map - but the move appears to have done more to confuse the matter than help. It divides the Gaza Strip into hundreds of numbered, haphazardly drawn parcels, sometimes across roads or blocks.
A young girl cries as she nurses her mum on a hospital bed (Anadolu via Getty Images)People living there are asked to learn the number of their location in case of an eventual evacuation. The UN office, which coordinates humanitarian issues in the Palestinian territory, said in its daily report: “The publication does not specify where people should evacuate to. It is unclear how those residing in Gaza would access the map without electricity and amid recurrent telecommunications cuts.”
The UN said the end of the temporary Gaza ceasefire has been “the nightmare that everyone feared”. James Elder, a spokesperson for Unicef, said the bombing had been “catastrophic” for the people of Gaza. Speaking from a hospital in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, Mr Elder said there was a strike nearby, with ambulances at the scene and plumes of smoke visible in the sky.
Palestinians injured in Israeli airstrikes arrive at Nasser Medical Hospital (Getty Images)He said that Nasser Hospital was "overflowing with children and people with wounds of war" recovering from the last attack. He added that many families had been sleeping on mattresses at the hospital for weeks after being displaced from their homes - many of which have been destroyed by Israeli air strikes.
Mr Elder told the BBC's Newsday programme: "This hospital cannot possibly cope with a surge in wounds from the battlefield with more children with burns, with those horrendous shrapnel injuries."
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