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Tareq S. HajjajTruthout |
Palestinians returning to Gaza from Egypt report being tortured and pressured to collaborate with Israel as informants.
Elderly women report being shackled, blindfolded, and berated for hours by Israeli soldiers for attempting to return.
Conditions in Gaza's displacement camps, malnutrition, and Israeli bans on the entry of medicines increase the risk.
Survivors wait as Gaza's Civil Defense works to recover the estimated 10,000 bodies that remain buried under rubble.
As Gazans attempt to rebuild, the effects of the genocide are still being felt amid heightened social unrest.
The office says Israeli forces have destroyed 720 water wells, depriving more than 1.25 million people of clean water.
“The Americans and Israelis set a huge trap for us to lure us here and kill us,” one Palestinian eyewitness said.
Israel's renewed effort to “conquer” the strip has forced 300,000 starving Palestinians to flee south in just 48 hours.
Israel bombed three schools-turned-shelters, intensifying attacks across Gaza City and ordering residents to evacuate.
The fate of the Civil Defense and Palestinian Red Crescent crews remained unknown for over a week.
As some Palestinians took to the streets this week calling for Hamas to step down, others condemned the demonstrations.
“This war will not end so as long as this criminal occupation remains on our land,” said one Gaza resident.
Gazans claim Israel is obstructing humanitarian aid to keep the area unlivable and compel them to leave their homeland.
“When a city is destroyed, its people return to it to rebuild it; they do not leave it,” said one resident.
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