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More than 52,900 people, mostly children and women, have already lost their lives in Gaza since the beginning of the war
Yabalia (Gaza).- "Everyone is dead," says a survivor of the Israeli attacks against the north of the Gaza Strip during the night of Wednesday, one of the bloodiest since Israel resumed its offensive against the Palestinian enclave, in which at least 70 people have died under the bombs.
The bombardments this morning targeted five Gazan family clans, one of them the Meqbel, the family of Hasan, who tells EFE that "none have survived", after the Israeli projectiles hit his sister's house.
In one of the houses destroyed by the bombs lived Hasan's sister along with several of her relatives, including four children. No one has survived.
From the pain and rage, he speaks at the gates of the Indonesian Hospital, in Beit Lahia, where emergency teams have transferred the bodies of the victims of Jabalia, a northern town where the deadliest attacks were concentrated.
This man woke up past midnight and knew that two projectiles had hit the house where his family resided, where he also slept until two weeks ago: "They had nothing to do with Fatah (the secular party that governs the Palestinian National Authority) or Hamas, the rocket hit them directly, I don't know why".
In the hospital, dozens of people weep over the blood-stained shrouds covering the bodies of their deceased relatives. The corridors of the center are flooded with corpses and the cries of the survivors are the only thing that can be distinguished among the murmur of those present.
The white cloths that envelop some bodies open and reveal the faces of a woman and two children, one of them a baby, with their eyes closed forever.
Tonight will be remembered in Gaza as an especially bloody one, which leaves, in addition to the 50 victims in the north of the enclave, another 13 dead in bombings against the town of Khan Yunis, in the south.
More than 52,900 people, mostly children and women, have already lost their lives in Gaza since the beginning of the war in October 2023, while another 119,700 have been injured in the incessant bombings by the Israeli Army, according to data from the Gazan Ministry of Health.
Tonight's bombings have coincided with the start of the US President Donald Trump's Middle East tour, who has already met with Arab leaders such as the interim president of Syria, Ahmed al Sharaa, or the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohamed bin Salman.
Hasan denounces that Arab leaders meet with Trump and send him "money and planes", instead of worrying about the suffering of the Palestinian people: "There is no longer an Arab Nation, Islam is dead!".
Death, turned into a habit
Another of the surviving members of the Meqbel family who gather at the doors of the Indonesian Hospital is Jihad. In his arms, he holds the body of a small child, his nephew.
"My cousin and her children died," he says, showing the body of little Adam, who was killed along with his mother and siblings in the bombing.
Jihad received a call at 2:30 in the morning (local time) to inform him of the attack that had taken the lives of his relatives, news that has surprised him, because he thought that the situation in Gaza was going to improve after the release of the American hostage Edan Alexander on Monday.
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"This has become a habit, they tell you that someone became a martyr and you answer 'may he rest in peace', we have become mere numbers for everyone", he laments.
He points towards the interior of the hospital and denounces that there are no medications or a blood unit for the survivors of the attacks. He assures that he has seen a small child, about five years old, "screaming because there was no sedative injection".
Within the Indonesian area, there are injured people who continue to wait to be attended, many of them children. A girl, lying on a stretcher, closes her eyes while flies land on her bloodied face.
