By Ahmad Awad
Jabalia, Gaza Strip, May 14 (EFE).- “Everyone is dead,” says a survivor of Israeli attacks on the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday night, one of the bloodiest since Israel resumed its offensive against the Palestinian enclave, in which at least 70 people have been killed.
The overnight bombings struck five Gazan extended families, one of them the Meqbel, the family of Hassan, who told EFE that “no one has survived” after the Israeli shells hit the house of his sister.
In one of the houses destroyed by the bombs, Hasan’s sister lived with several of her relatives, including four children. All of them lost their lives.
Expressing pain and anger, Hasan stood at the doors of the Indonesia Hospital in Beit Lahia, where emergency teams have moved the bodies of victims from Jabalia, the northern town where the deadliest attacks were concentrated.
Hasan woke up after midnight and learned that two shells had hit the house where his family lived, where he also used to live until two weeks ago.
“They had nothing to do with Fatah (the secular party that governs the Palestinian National Authority) or Hamas, the rocket reached them directly, I don’t know why,” he said.
The corridors of the hospital were full of bodies from the airstrikes, including women and children, while the cries of their relatives filled the premises.
The night will be ed in Gaza as a particularly bloody one, which left, in addition to the 50 victims in the north of the enclave, another 13 dead in the bombing of the town of Khan Younis in the south.
More than 52,900 people, mostly children and women, have lost their lives in Gaza since the start of the war in October in 2023, while another 119,700 have been wounded in the incessant bombings of the Israeli army, according to data from the Gazan Ministry of Health.
Jihad, another surviving member of the Meqbel family, stood at the gates of the Indonesia Hospital with the body of a small child, his nephew, in his arms.
“My cousin and her children died,” he said, showing the body of little Adam, who was killed along with his mother and siblings in the bombing.
Jihad received a call at 2.30am local time to inform him of the attack that killed his family, a news that surprised him, because he thought the situation in Gaza was going to improve after the release of the US hostage Edan Alexander on Monday.
“This has already become a habit, they tell you that someone became a martyr and you answer ‘well rest in peace’, we have become mere statistics for the whole world,” he rued.
He pointed to the hospital and denounced that there were no medicines or even a blood unit for survivors of the attacks.
He added that there was a little boy of about five “screaming because there was no sedative injection.” Many others suffer a similar fate as they wait for treatment inside the hospital. EFE
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