This is “Operation Gideon’s Chariots,” which Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as the “concluding moves” in Gaza. The final solution
“Nothing Left in Jabaliya”: Endless Catastrophes in a Besieged Refugee Camp.
After already destroying everything, the Israeli army has returned to invade Jabaliya for the fourth time since the war began.
Israel’s war of extermination in Gaza is approaching its apex. Over the past several days, the Israeli military has launched a massive offensive with near-continuous airstrikes across the enclave, a ground invasion, and a full-spectrum blockade on food, fuel, and medicine that has brought hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to the brink of starvation.
This is “Operation Gideon’s Chariots,” which Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as the “concluding moves” in Gaza. The final solution.
The scale of the assault is nearly impossible to track. Just overnight and into today, strikes in the north on the Musa Bin Nusair School in Gaza City, killed at least 13 people, including children who burned to death. In Beit Lahia, Israeli troops are besieging the Indonesian hospital, opening fire on doctors and patients inside with tanks and snipers. A strike on a home in the central city of Deir al-Balah killed at least 12. At least 15 were killed in the bombing of a gas station in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. More strikes in Khan Younis in the south killed at least 10. This is an incomplete account of barely half a day of horror.
The killing is so relentless that the health ministry, in its afternoon bulletin publishing the number of confirmed dead and wounded for the previous 24 hours, has also begun including the number killed since dawn that same day as it tries to keep up with the body count.
By mid-afternoon today, already 53 Palestinians have been killed. More than 100 have been killed every day for the past several days—with the official figures acknowledged as an undercount.
The military continues to issue sweeping displacement orders, including one covering much of Khan Younis, Gaza’s second largest city. Nearly 100,000 Palestinians have been displaced in just the last four days.
The genocidal assault has ramped up to such a degree that it even prompted the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, and Canada to issue a joint statement calling “the level of human suffering in Gaza…intolerable” and threatening to take “concrete actions” if Israel does not curtail its attack and lift aid restrictions. Meanwhile, Adam Boehler, Trump’s special envoy for hostage affairs, reiterated support for Israel’s renewed military offensive.
Hamza Salha is a journalist based in the Jabaliya refugee camp, which has already been decimated in the war and is under new military displacement orders. He filed this heart-wrenching personal account for Drop Site News as Israeli ground troops are fast advancing on the camp.
—Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Middle East Bureau Chief/Drop Site News
After already destroying everything, the Israeli army has returned to invade Jabaliya for the fourth time since the war began.
Israel’s war of extermination in Gaza is approaching its apex. Over the past several days, the Israeli military has launched a massive offensive with near-continuous airstrikes across the enclave, a ground invasion, and a full-spectrum blockade on food, fuel, and medicine that has brought hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to the brink of starvation.
This is “Operation Gideon’s Chariots,” which Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as the “concluding moves” in Gaza. The final solution.
The scale of the assault is nearly impossible to track. Just overnight and into today, strikes in the north on the Musa Bin Nusair School in Gaza City, killed at least 13 people, including children who burned to death. In Beit Lahia, Israeli troops are besieging the Indonesian hospital, opening fire on doctors and patients inside with tanks and snipers. A strike on a home in the central city of Deir al-Balah killed at least 12. At least 15 were killed in the bombing of a gas station in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. More strikes in Khan Younis in the south killed at least 10. This is an incomplete account of barely half a day of horror.
The killing is so relentless that the health ministry, in its afternoon bulletin publishing the number of confirmed dead and wounded for the previous 24 hours, has also begun including the number killed since dawn that same day as it tries to keep up with the body count.
By mid-afternoon today, already 53 Palestinians have been killed. More than 100 have been killed every day for the past several days—with the official figures acknowledged as an undercount.
The military continues to issue sweeping displacement orders, including one covering much of Khan Younis, Gaza’s second largest city. Nearly 100,000 Palestinians have been displaced in just the last four days.
The genocidal assault has ramped up to such a degree that it even prompted the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, and Canada to issue a joint statement calling “the level of human suffering in Gaza…intolerable” and threatening to take “concrete actions” if Israel does not curtail its attack and lift aid restrictions. Meanwhile, Adam Boehler, Trump’s special envoy for hostage affairs, reiterated support for Israel’s renewed military offensive.
Hamza Salha is a journalist based in the Jabaliya refugee camp, which has already been decimated in the war and is under new military displacement orders. He filed this heart-wrenching personal account for Drop Site News as Israeli ground troops are fast advancing on the camp.
—Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Middle East Bureau Chief/Drop Site News
