The U.N. estimates, based on local reports, that 11,000 bodies are under the rubble. Gaza’s Civil Defense said nine bulldozers entered the enclave during the six-week cease-fire that Israel ended on March 18. Its general directorate described the strikes on the Jabalia al-Nazla Municipality headquarters in northern Gaza as a “targeted attack.”
The Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday that it had attacked “engineering vehicles” used for “terror purposes.” The Center for Palestinian Human Rights, based in Gaza City, condemned the destruction, saying the equipment was essential for saving lives and enabling ambulance and Civil Defense crews to move. The group accused Israeli security forces of imposing conditions on Palestinians that, it said, formed part of an ongoing genocide allegation.
Israel has blocked aid from entering Gaza since early March and resumed its military campaign on March 18, ending the cease-fire that began in mid-January. Oxfam said it and its partners have received no aid trucks, food parcels, hygiene kits or other essential equipment since the siege began. The organization said only a few of its water tanks remained and its supplies were nearly exhausted.
Clemence Lagouardat, Oxfam’s humanitarian response lead in Gaza, said staff and partners were witnessing “scenes of carnage and despair” and that residents faced evacuation orders with little notice. Amande Bazerolle, Gaza emergency coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières, told The Guardian that displaced people in Gaza City were sheltering on streets or in damaged buildings. She said the organization’s burns clinic was turning patients away by 10:00 am and asking them to return the next day as it rationed drug supplies.
The war began after Hamas militants attacked southern Israel in October 2023, killing more than 1,000 people and taking roughly 250 hostages. Local health officials say more than 51,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel’s campaign began.
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