Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have claimed the lives of 42 more people, taking the death toll to 188. According to Gaza health officials, 16 women and 10 children were killed in the recent air strikes which also targeted the home of a Hamas leader.
Stories being shared from the region are devastating. A ten-year-old girl, heartbroken and tired from the atrocities she is having to face, questions the world,” I am only ten. How can one expect me to fix the ongoing situation?”
“When I see all this, I cry everyday. I ask my myself, Why do we deserve this ?” cried the girl.
Palestinians are scared as Gaza continues to bleed and Israeli barbarism doesn’t seem to end.
A little girl cries to her mother that she doesn’t want to die. ” I’m scared that my home will be demolished,” cries the girl to her mother.
A deaf child who survived the air-strike explains what he experienced.
Israeli warplanes unleashed a new series of heavy airstrikes at several locations in Gaza early on Monday, hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signalled that the bombings would rage on.
In a televised address on Sunday, Netanyahu said the Israeli air raids were continuing at “full-force” and would “take time”, adding that his country “wants to levy a heavy price” from Gaza’s Hamas rulers.
While Palestinians mourn the loss of their loved ones, others called out Israel, standing with Palestine.
US Representative, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, “If the Biden admin can’t stand up to an ally, who can it stand up to?”
She further tweeted,” Apartheid states aren’t democracies.”
People from across the world marched in solidarity with Palestinians.
“There is no space in any of the hospital rooms,” Journalist Youmna Al Sayed reported, saying that Gaza’s healthcare system is on the verge of collapsing.
