Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee Rafah, a designated “safe zone,” after the Israeli military launched a ground invasion on the area.
“Where Should People Go? The humanitarian zones are a lie,” says Bisan after dozens of Palestinians, many of whom women and children, were killed by Israeli attacks on a camp near Rafah.
UNRWA called the aftermath of the attack “hell on Earth.” Some people were burned alive inside their tents.
At least 30 Palestinians including five children have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a UN school housing displaced people in al-Nuseirat, in central Gaza, with dozens more wounded.
Palestinian journalist Hind Khoudary posted on X that she had travelled to the school, which had housed hundreds of displaced families, after the strike. “All I smelled was blood,” she wrote.
UNRWA ran 183 schools in Gaza before Israel’s war on the territory. Those schools were converted into shelters after the start of the war in October, with approximately one million people seeking refuge in school buildings in the early months of the war.
An estimated 455 internally displaced people have been killed while sheltering at UNRWA facilities in Gaza since October.
‘Months of extreme hunger have already killed many Palestinians in Gaza and caused permanent damage to children through malnutrition, two new food security reports have found, even before famine is officially declared’
On June 5, 2024, an Israeli airstrike targeted a UN school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza, killing 27-30 people, including many women and children.
The attack, which sheltered thousands of displaced Palestinians, has sparked international outrage and condemnation, being labeled a massacre and an act of terrorism.
"I knew that as long as I stayed, I'd be contributing to this campaign that had already demonstrated basically it was going to be indiscriminately killing civilians..."
A report by the New York Times revealed that Israel's Ministry of Diaspora Affairs funded a $2 million covert influence campaign to target U.S. lawmakers and the public during the Gaza conflict.
The campaign, executed by Tel Aviv-based Stoic, a political marketing firm, targeted the American public and members of Congress through hundreds of fake accounts on X, #Facebook, and #Instagram to advocate for continued military funding.
In the process, three fake English-language news sites were set up to support the campaign and bolster support for Israel's actions in #Gaza.
‘14 members of his family were killed in an airstrike on his home in Gaza City. When he & his parents & siblings moved to Rafah, they were bombed & buried beneath the rubble, & his mother was killed.’
“We got our sister awake, but not aware. She was vomiting blood. We went to a near house, and we hid there. And unfortunately, my mother suffered from internal bleeding, and she didn’t make it.”
“We now live in a tent, which is super hard for me and my family. Because al-Mawasi and Rafah city has kind of a desert climate, because we are near to Sinai Desert, it is super hot. And living in a tent is exactly like living in an oven.”
“Before the war, you and your twin brother were students. Could you talk to us about what you were studying and what your hopes were for your own future before the war?”
“The person on the left is me, Helmi. My name in Arabic means “my dream.” My mother named me. The person in the middle is my mother, Ibtisam, which means “smile.” And she always smiled. And the person on the left is my identical twin brother Mohammed.”
“And I’m still under shock, because just two minutes before this interview starts, I saw a shattered dead body. And it was a super horrifying scene. I still can’t, like, process that. After all I went through, I still can’t process seeing this kind of destructive.”