‘They’ll kill us all’: Gazans plead for intervention as Israeli attacks intensify
Palestinians mourn those killed in an Israeli airstrike, Nasser Hospital, Khan Younis, southern Gaza, 24 March 2025
Ruwaida Amer and Ahmed Ahmed report in +972 on 7 April 2025:
Since Israel shattered the ceasefire in Gaza last month, Palestinians have been facing horrors reminiscent of the first days of Israel’s genocidal onslaught. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, the Israeli military has killed over 1,300 people and wounded more than 3,000 in the past three weeks, in which time the overall death toll in the enclave has surpassed 50,000.
Over 280,000 people have been displaced as Israel corrals Gaza’s population into ever-shrinking “humanitarian zones” which it continues to bomb. Nearly two-thirds of the entire territory of the Strip is now either under active displacement orders or defined by the military as a “no-go” area, with the army’s current operations focusing in particular on Gaza City in the north and Rafah in the south.
Israel’s total blockade on humanitarian aid has entered its sixth week, with starvation and malnutrition threatening to engulf Gaza’s whole population. And while Israeli forces continue to level entire residential blocks with bulldozers and explosive robots, they are executing journalists and medics in cold blood.
Schools-turned-shelters have also come under intense attack in recent days. On April 3, Israel bombed Dar Al-Arkam School in the Tuffah neighborhood in northeastern Gaza City, killing at least 31 people and wounding another 70. According to a spokesperson for Gaza’s Civil Defense, six people are still missing following the strikes, including a woman who was nine-months pregnant with twins.
Minutes later, Israel bombed another school in the same neighborhood, Fahd Al-Sabah, killing three people. More than half of the casualties in both strikes were children. (In response to +972’s inquiry, an Israeli army spokesperson claimed that Hamas used the schools as a “command and control center” — an allegation it makes regularly without providing evidence.)