Israeli attacks kill 32 in Gaza, destroys bulldozers for recovering the dead
A bulldozer used in humanitarian operations including rubble removal and the recovery of bodies destroyed in Gaza attack
Al Jazeera reports on 22 April 2025:
Israeli forces have killed at least 32 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn, including 11 people who burned to death inside their home in Khan Younis, and carried out air strikes that destroyed equipment used to retrieve the dead from under rubble.
Seven members of a family were also killed on Tuesday by an air raid on the home where they were sheltering in western Gaza City. Three civilians, including two girls, were killed when Israeli warplanes targeted a group of people in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
Later, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported that the Israeli military shelled the ICU at Al-Durra Children’s Hospital in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City at around midnight. An Israeli air strike also targeted solar panels at the facility, the ministry said in a post on Telegram.
Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, warned that more than two million people – mostly women and children – were being collectively punished. “Gaza has become a land of desperation,” he said on X.
Nearly 3,000 trucks of UNRWA supplies and humanitarian aid remained stuck outside Gaza, unable to enter while food and medicine inside the strip are quickly running out. “Hunger is spreading,” Lazzarini warned. “Humanitarian aid is being used as a bargaining chip – a weapon of war.”
The UN’s special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, warned that withholding humanitarian aid constitutes a war crime. “This action would further aggravate conditions of life calculated to destroy the Palestinian population of Gaza.”