Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes on Gaza killed four Palestinians and left nine others hospitalized Thursday. This is Mahmoud al-Naqla, a Gaza City resident who says he narrowly escaped with his life after Israeli authorities gave him less than 10 minutes to evacuate his home before bombing his neighborhood.
Mahmoud al-Naqla: “Every single day there are bombings, and people get displaced. This is the third time for us, the third time we’ve been bombed, and we have nothing to do with anything. … We’re just ordinary civilians who want to live like human beings, just like the rest of the world. There’s nothing for us. Even life’s basic necessities don’t exist. We’re like the walking dead.”
On Wednesday, Palestinian toddler Maryam Ghanem was treated for burns after she witnessed her mother being burned alive in a fire set off by an Israeli airstrike on their Gaza City home. In response, the Council on American-Islamic Relations called on U.S. lawmakers to end U.S. support for Israel’s assault, writing, “The horrific video of a little girl surrounded by fire as her mother burns to death in their home exemplifies the reality of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. We cannot comprehend how any political leader with a conscience could continue to fund the sheer cruelty of the Israeli government and the war criminals who carry out its orders.”
This comes as The Times of Israel reports U.S. officials signed a deal to supply 12 advanced Apache helicopter gunships to the Israeli Air Force at a cost of approximately $1 billion.