#al Hawaja street

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24 October 2024

Gaza Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal reports on Telegram that the occupation has launched a massive assault on Block 7 of Al-Hawaja Street in Jabaliya, in which it destroyed 11 homes, most (if not all) of which were inhabited. So far, there are over 150 martyrs. Civil Defense is unable reach the dead and dying, as the occupation has been systematically attacking and sabotaging their operations.

Civilians are desperately trying to reach medical centers, carrying their wounded loved ones in cars, on animal-drawn carts, and on foot, and facing immense difficulty. The situation is absolutely catastrophic.

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Survivors of north Gaza invasion report Israeli ‘extermination’ campaign

Survivors of the ongoing Israeli extermination campaign in north Gaza describe how the Israeli army is separating mothers from children before forcing them south, executing civilians in ditches, and directly targeting hospitals and medical staff.

On Thursday night, the Gaza Civil Defense announced that a massive Israeli airstrike targeting a residential area on al-Hawaja street in the northern Gaza town of Jabalia killed over 150 people. “A horrific massacre is taking place in al-Hawaja street in block 7 in Jabalia,” the Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said in a statement posted to Telegram. “There is no one here to save them.”

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Local testimonies from inside Jabalia indicate that in its ongoing siege of the area, the Israeli army is killing most people on sight. Even civilian families, who were surprised by the invasion when it started and raised white flags in an attempt to evacuate, were gunned down by quadcopter drones.

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Local reports have also emerged that the Israeli army has sent remote controlled booby-trapped troop carriers into areas where civilians have refused to leave and detonated them in the middle of residential areas. This strategy has reportedly been repeated in multiple areas.

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After the army gathered the families they were led from inside the school to another location, and it was here that the crowds were separated — children in one place, men in another, and women in yet another. Mothers saw their children lying on the ground and screamed without being able to reach out to them, as any of the mothers who attempted to move were either shot directly by the soldiers, or by quadcopter drones hovering overhead. “After they separated us from each other, they ordered us all to enter these large ditches. The men were put in one hole, the women in another, and they left the children on the ground,” [Yousef] al-Saudi said. “After they forced us into them, the Israeli tanks and vehicles began to circle the ditches, creating huge dust clouds, and sand was flying everywhere. We thought we were taking our last breaths, and we thought the bulldozers would bury us alive in those ditches. Dozens of us were all reciting the shahada, thinking that these were our final moments.” “After hours, the army began to take us out of the holes one by one,” he continued. “The soldiers were pointing at us from above and ordering us to move. After interrogating us, they ordered us to head south, while arresting dozens of men.” As for the women and children, the soldiers made the women climb out of the ditch one woman at a time, ordered them to pick up a child from the ground at random, and told to walk in a predetermined route that took them south. Women were forced to pick up children who were not their own at the army’s orders and made to march on, leaving their own children behind and hoping that some other woman would pick them up.

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A man with severe wounds to his neck and one eye lies on a bed inside the al-Ahli Arab Hospital. “Extermination…extermination. This is extermination,” he told Mondoweiss. “They kill us in every way. They bury us alive. They run over men, women, and children with tanks and bulldozers. They want us to leave our land, but our souls will leave before we leave our land. We will stand firm until death.”