{"id":247045,"date":"2023-10-30T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T12:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=247045"},"modified":"2023-10-28T05:21:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T04:21:55","slug":"they-let-humanitarian-aid-in-and-then-bombed-it-so-that-gaza-would-starve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/10\/they-let-humanitarian-aid-in-and-then-bombed-it-so-that-gaza-would-starve\/","title":{"rendered":"They Let Humanitarian Aid in and Then Bombed It So That Gaza Would Starve"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following report is a consolidation of voice recordings sent by Mondoweiss<\/em> Gaza Correspondent Tareq Hajjaj on October 25.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the bakeries that Israel bombed in Nuseirat refugee camp had just received a shipment of flour from UNRWA meant to cover the food needs of the entire camp. Israel waited to bomb it after all the flour was unloaded.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Palestinians and civil defense inspect a destroyed bakery after an airstrike that killed four people in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, October 18, 2023.\u00a0 (Photo: Naaman Omar\/APA Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

26 Oct 2023<\/em> – The situation is more terrifying than any previous day. People have been standing in long lines outside bakeries to get a small bag of bread for hours \u2014 six hours, seven hours, every day. But in the last few days, over ten bakeries have been targeted in the south, the so-called \u201csafe zone\u201d where the Israeli army told us to go. But it was a trap<\/a>. They wanted to cram us into one place and start bombing us again. They\u2019re targeting bakeries, and we don\u2019t even hear reports of Hamas members among the dead.<\/p>\n

One of the bakeries targeted in Nuseirat refugee camp had just received a huge shipment of flour from UNRWA, which had agreed with the bakery to sell the bread from the flour at half-price for the camp residents. UNRWA had just finished unloading the shipment, which was meant to cover the needs of the entire Nuseirat area, when the bakery was bombed and completely destroyed. They aren\u2019t only targeting people and homes. They\u2019re letting in aid, and then they destroy it before it reaches the people who need it. It\u2019s calculated and deliberate<\/a>. It\u2019s meant to exterminate the civilian\u00a0population.<\/p>\n

By now, we know what kinds of missiles are being used to target us. There are kinds whose sole purpose is destruction, and there are other kinds that are designed to kill and are launched at crowds \u2014 people are calling them \u201ckilling missiles\u201d because they\u2019re designed to kill every living thing within a wide radius. People have started congregating at barber shops and hair salons to charge their cell phones because most of those salons use solar energy to charge the batteries that provide those shops with electricity, so now those shops are also being targeted by these kinds of \u201ckilling\u201d missiles. The Israeli army bombed two of the salons, one in Khan Younis and one in Nuseirat refugee camp. They hit the salons only, not the areas near them. It wasn\u2019t collateral damage; it was a deliberate strike on civilians.<\/p>\n

These missiles exploded inside the salon and killed everyone inside, but the building was left standing. This is how these missiles operate. Those who don\u2019t die are ripped into pieces, their wounds critical in almost every case. A person can lose half their body. The sounds of these missiles are the scariest because the missile relies on the force of the explosion itself to kill its target. The other day, I started hearing other bombs being dropped that I\u2019ve never heard before in Gaza. The bomb would be preceded by a long pronounced whistle, but when it explodes, its sound is lower than the other bombs. Artillery strikes have also become routine in the south, coming from the eastern side of the Gaza Strip. But the most prevalent missiles are the ones that are designed to destroy wide areas and level buildings. It depends on where the targeted areas are, but you can see the evidence of their use by looking at the scale of the destruction in Gaza.<\/p>\n

All of this means that people are afraid to leave their homes even for basic necessities. When people stand in line for bread, they\u2019re terrified. When they move in the streets, they\u2019re terrified. The missiles target the markets, places where there are a lot of people, and they are all killed. We never hear that a Hamas operative was killed in these strikes. It\u2019s always women, children, random people walking through the market. People aren\u2019t leaving their homes anymore for any reason. In the house where I\u2019m staying, not one of us is prepared to go stand in line at a bakery because we know that, at any moment, the bakery might be targeted. It doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re a civilian or not. But I have to venture out on many days, whether it\u2019s to get baby formula for my son, diapers, or medicine. And every moment, I keep thinking that this is the day I\u2019m going to die.<\/p>\n

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26 Oct 2023 – One of the bakeries that Israel bombed in Nuseirat refugee camp had just received a shipment of flour from UNRWA meant to cover the food needs of the entire camp. Israel waited to bomb it after all the flour was unloaded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":247046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1854,87,865,88,427,124,965,886],"class_list":["post-247045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-united-nations","tag-war-crimes","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247051,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247045\/revisions\/247051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}