Sayed Abu Tahoun kneel, grabbing his daughter’s lazy body, Dalia, killed by the fire of the Israeli tank outside her home in the city of Gaza.
His cry resonates in the hospital crowded halls. He looks into his lifeless eyes, then cries again, before bringing her closer in a desperate hug on the floor of the Al-Shifa hospital.
This scene and others were captured in videos by journalists in Gaza and verified by NBC News on Saturday, 24 hours after Israel said that the “initial stages” of his assault to the city of Gaza had begun.
Israel has promised to take control of the largest city in the enclave trapped in hunger, home with hundreds of thousands of Palestinians,
Israel’s Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, said on August 22 that the IDF “would open the doors of hell” in the city of Gaza until Hamas accepted the conditions of Israel to finish the conflict, including the delivery of all hostages and place their weapons.
For Saturday, Israel’s last assault had rained in a city that was already hungry, disease and displacement.
In images from the city of western Gaza, a child covered with gray dust was dead by another strike, with the blood that dripped from a crater in the skull.
In a bakery blow in a separate Israeli bombardment, another video showed rescuers who took a child after child from the butcher shop.
The Israeli strikes killed at least 70 people on the other side of the strip on Saturday, 47 of them only from the city of Gaza, told Dr. Khalil Al-Daqran, spokesman for the Ministry of Health of Gaza, to NBC News.
The Israeli army said he had hit a “key terrorist of Hamas” in Saturday attacks in Gaza city and that “numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of damaging civilians.”
When they were pressed to obtain additional details about the strike, the Israeli defense forces did not answer questions from NBC News.
It is expected that the assault on the city of Gaza declared a “dangerous combat zone” of Israel, displaces hundreds of thousands and has brought a global condemnation amid warnings that it could deepen the humanitarian catastrophe in the hunger stinging.
Unrwa, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said about 1 million people on Friday could be displaced by force again. The International Red Cross warned on Saturday to evacuate the city under bombing would be “impossible.”
Israel has told civilians to go south of the Palestinian enclave.
Looking for refuge, the Palestinians face air attacks and increasing deprivation, after a famine statement in northern Gaza in early August, including the city of Gaza, by the main world authority on hunger.
In these conditions, the disease is also a threat.
A virus that causes high fever, joint pain and diarrhea is spreading quickly in Gaza, Dr. Muhammad Abu Salmiya, director of the Al-Shifa medical complex, NBC News said Thursday.
He said that the immunodeficiency resulting from malnutrition, as well as overcrowding and lack of clean water and cleaning materials, were causing the virus to spread.
After Israel carried out strong strikes in the area on Friday, many of which have been displaced several times during the war, began to flee. As the tanks advanced in several areas, in the streets of the city of Gaza they were full of newly displaced families.
Suleiman Al-Hissi, 55, transported how little he possessed when his eight children grouped around him. “Enough!” He cried. “Stop this war! Where is mercy? Where is humanity?”
On Sunday, a help flotilla transported activists, including Swedish climatic activist Greta Thunberg, had to navigate from Barcelona, with the aim of violating the naval blockade of Israel and delivering humanitarian supplies.
The mission, the Global Sumud flotilla, sought to “open a humanitarian corridor and put an end to the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.”
Israel denies committing genocide.
He has already intercepted two floats this summer, one that leads Thunberg, stopping passengers in Israel before expelling them.
The Office of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said Friday that the IDF had recovered the remains of two hostages of the Gaza Strip in a military operation this week.
He announced the recovery of the body of Ilan Weiss along with the remains of another hostage, whose identity is now known that it is that of Idan Shivi, but had not been revealed at that time.
