The Israeli occupation army continues to bomb the entire Gaza Strip for the 285th day, leaving dozens of martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women. Meanwhile, concerns are growing about the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Strip, especially after the sewage pumps in Deir al-Balah stopped working.
At dawn on Wednesday, the Director of the Supply and Equipment Department in the Civil Defense in Gaza, Muhammad Al-Mughair, said that the occupation army launched violent raids on Tuesday evening on the displaced people in the Al-Attar area west of Khan Yunis, the Al-Razi School in the Al-Nuseirat camp, and a gathering of civilians around the Sheikh Zayed roundabout in the northern Gaza Strip, which led to the martyrdom of 48 people.
Two Israeli airstrikes targeted a house in Al-Zawayda and a mosque in Al-Nuseirat camp at dawn today, killing 9 Palestinians and wounding others.
In Gaza City, the occupation artillery targeted civilian homes in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of the city, while the occupation warplanes launched a raid on a house in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza.
In the cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah, the occupation artillery fired its shells towards the eastern areas of Khan Yunis, while the Israeli warplanes launched two raids on the southwestern area of Rafah amid artillery shelling of the place.
Deterioration of the humanitarian situation
On the humanitarian level, Deir al-Balah Municipality announced that “work at the sewage treatment plants in Deir al-Balah has stopped due to the depletion of the amount of diesel needed for operation.”
The municipality warned of "the unavailability of diesel in the required quantity in the coming hours, which will result in a disaster that the city will experience, with the streets being flooded with sewage water."
The head of the municipality's emergency committee, Ismail Sarsour, announced that "19 wells and two large water tanks were out of service in the city of Deir al-Balah."
The spokesman stressed that "the irregularity of diesel was a major reason for the outage of these facilities, which were supplying more than 140 shelters, not to mention schools, displaced persons and citizens." Sarsour and experts pointed to a severe shortage of spare parts needed to repair the damaged infrastructure.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been waging a war on Gaza, resulting in about 128,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing amid massive destruction and deadly famine.
Tel Aviv continues this war, ignoring the UN Security Council resolutions to stop it immediately, and the International Court of Justice orders to end the invasion of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, take measures to prevent acts of genocide, and improve the dire humanitarian situation in the Strip.