Israeli civilians mourn the loss of life in the Gazan enclave during the Oct. 7 bombing campaign and Israeli attacks on the Bedouin Arabs
About 117 trucks carrying aid have been allowed into Gaza via the territory’s Rafah border with Egypt. Roughly half of those trucks have food and medical supplies in them. Israel has prevented fuel from being taken by Hamas because of concerns it could be stolen.
The ground operations in Gaza pushed into a fourth day Monday as Israel intensified its war with Hamas.
After phone and internet service returned, a journalist based in Gaza wrote on his Facebook profile that he was blind and unable to hear.
Since the slaughter of 1,400 Israelis and foreigners by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, the world’s sympathies have focused on the Jewish communities closest to Gaza, where many of the victims lived. The Bedouin Arabs are one of Israel’s more hidden minorities.
On Friday at sunset, three weeks into Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza — and as Palestinians braced themselves for an impending Israeli ground invasion — the weak phone and internet service that had allowed some semblance of life to continue inside the blockaded enclave was suddenly severed. Two American officials said the United States believed Israel was responsible for the communications loss, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
No one knew if their loved ones were alive or dead. Emergency phone lines stopped ringing. Paramedics drove toward the sound of loud blasts to try to save people. The people were killed in the street.
Bedouins have always suffered at the hands of Hamas. Because many live in villages not recognized by Israel, they mostly lack the bomb shelters and health clinics that the government has made widely available in southern Israel. There were only about 10 bomb shelters in Rahat, the mayor of the city, Ata Abu Mediam, told Israeli news media.
A doctor who went to Beer Sheva as the hospital staff rushed to treat hundreds of patients that day, including victims who had lost limbs, said she was born in Tel Sheva. They treated children, seniors and foreigners too.
Ayesha Ziadna, 29, a relative of the Ziadnas who were attacked on the beach, said that the four members of the family who disappeared are still missing, as are a number of other residents of the area, though the exact number was not immediately clear.
The largest city in southern Israel was the one where 17 people were killed in the Hamas attacks. The victim of the all night music and dance festival was a Arab paramedic who had come from northern Israel.
During their murderous Oct. 7 rampage, Hamas militants attacked Zikkim Beach near the Gaza Strip where Abd Alrahman Aatef Ziadna and his family had been camping along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
The military said a soldier was killed when a tank overturned in Gaza. Most of the dead Israeli soldiers were killed on October 7.
While Israeli raids are not new to Palestinians in the West Bank, they have stepped up since Oct. 7. Over 200 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank over the course of nine years, according to the AP tally. More than 100 Palestinians have died in the West Bank since the beginning of the war, according to Palestinian officials.
After two nights and a day of internet and phone service outages, Palestinian communications came back on Sunday. The Palestinians were happy as they were able to reach loved ones.
Israel has continued to urge the evacuation of northern Gaza, including hospitals, where beds are completely full with injured people and hallways have crowded each night with Palestinians seeking refuge from airstrikes. According to the UN, at least 3rd of hospitals in Gaza have stopped operating due to lack of fuel to operate generators.
At Ah-Ahli Arab Hospital, the officials have evacuated some people, but the staff is still treating patients, according to a doctor. The hospital was the site of a deadly explosion that killed at least 100 people.
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Food in Gaza has been difficult to come by. Food suppliers have been out of business because of the lack of electricity and fuel. Palestinians living in Gaza have told NPR about fruitless searches for open vendors or waiting in line for hours for a days’ worth of bread for their family.
Thousands of people broke into several warehouses operated by the U.N. UN agency for Palestinian refugees to steal wheat flour and other survival supplies.
“This is a worrying sign that civil order is starting to break down after three weeks of war and a tight siege on Gaza. White said in a statement that people are scared, frustrated and desperate.
He said that there were very few trucks, slow processes, strict inspections, supplies that did not match the requirements of UNRWA and the other aid organizations were all a recipe for a failed system.
Israel said Sunday it would resume water supply to central Gaza and authorize the Palestinian Water Authority to make repairs to pipelines damaged in the conflict. The U.N. has delivered small amounts of fuel to desalination plants and pumping stations in southern Gaza, which it said had experienced a significant improvement in the water supply.
“We have been taking extreme measures to reserve whatever water we had left. Abood Okal, a Palestinian-American and Massachusetts resident who was visiting family in Gaza when the war began and has since been stranded, said showers are something of the past.
He, his wife and 1-year-old son are sheltering in a home in southern Gaza with about 40 or so other people, he said. The members of the household have been walking to a Filtration station to fill up a few gallons each day.
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Last Thursday, that filtration station ran out of diesel to operate its generators, Okal said Thursday evening. We are almost out of water. We have enough to last us through tonight and then we’ll be out tomorrow, he said.
In New York City, London, Madrid, Casablanca, Istanbul, Islamabad and other cities worldwide, tens of thousands of people took part in pro-Palestinian protests this past weekend, calling for a cease-fire.
pro-Palestinian protesters broke into an airport in Russia’s Muslim-majority region of Makhachkala on the eve of a flight to Tel Aviv.
The video appeared to show a crowd at the Makhachkala airport around the time the plane made its landing.
“All Dagestanis empathize with the suffering of victims of the actions of unrighteous people and politicians and pray for peace in Palestine. But what happened at our airport is outrageous and should receive an appropriate assessment from law enforcement agencies,” said Sergey Melikov, head of the Dagestan Republic, in a post on Telegram.
Since the intensified operation began on Friday night, Israeli airstrikes have hit more than 600 Hamas targets, including weapons depots and anti-tank missile launch sites, Israel said. The army killed many Hamas fighters on Sunday. The statements from the Israeli military said there was a clash between Israeli soldiers and Hamas fighters.
Hagari told a Sunday night news conference that the leader of Hamas in Gaza was among Israel’s targets. The Israelis say that Sinwar was the chief architect of the attack on Israel.
JENIN, West Bank — The mosque is unrecognizable. The stairway to the upper floor, now lacking a wall to support it, is leaning strangely. Pillars holding up the ceiling are bowing. Rubble is piled up outside. And through the holes in the floor, a man peers into the basement where Israeli security forces say Palestinian militants were storing weapons.
An Israeli air strike destroyed the Al-Ansar Mosque in Jenin on October 22, making it the first time in a long time that Israeli forces have done that in the occupied West Bank. At least two Palestinians were killed, officials in Jenin say.
More than 10,000 people live in the refugee camp, a part of Jenin packed with squat concrete houses and apartment buildings separated by steep, winding alleys. Most residents are descendants of Palestinian refugees from the conflict around the founding of the state of Israel in 1948, and object to the Israeli occupation that has lasted for decades.
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Around the corner from the mosque, Ma’in Zakarneh was asleep when the airstrike hit on Oct. 22. After a moment of shock, he and his wife rushed to gather their young daughters and drive to a family member’s home.
I was going to see what had happened to my family. I could not even get in,” Damaj says. “There was a lot of dust and gunpowder that we couldn’t see.”
He claimed that the mosque had piled up debris against their home’s exterior doors, trapping members of the family inside. It took about an hour and a half.
The target of the strike was an “underground terror compound” at a mosque that was being used by members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
The refugee camp has occasionally been raided by Israeli security forces. The camp was attacked in July by hundreds of troops. It was the largest operation that Israel had done in the West Bank in many years.
Things had grown relatively quiet since then, residents say — until last week. Three people were killed in an Israeli airstrike, and at least one other person died in a second attack, according to Palestinian officials.
Zakarneh’s wife, Yasmin Radwan, sent an email to the State Department last week, begging for their case to be expedited. She showed NPR the email, in which she described their proximity to the airstrike and the ongoing violence. “We don’t believe in safety and peace.” She said that every day, they see militant walking around in the streets.
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Zakarneh says that the problems in Jenin are hard to solve. Not everyone in the refugee camp has a good job, a nice house, and a family to care for. Many of the residents in Jenin are young and poor.
Hours later, their blood was still on the ground. They were holding scraps of metal and leftover homemade explosives, witnesses said.
The strike hit just outside a cemetery where Palestinians killed by Israeli forces are buried. locals said the cemetery is full Those who died in last week’s attacks were all buried at a new graveyard nearby.
He personally wouldn’t have held the homemade explosives, he says. He only answered “Muqawim, freedom fighter” when asked what his future holds.