3pm from Gaza city
Al Shifa Hospital
Vik (Italy) later ascertained that these rockets had targetted the port police station, and also the “President’s Palace” nearby, killing about 20.
At the time of the attacks, Eva (Canada) was on Omar Mukhtar street where a police station had just been hit, and witnessed a last rocket hit the street 150 m away where crowds had already gathered to try to extract the dead bodies. The street was littered with rubble, making it difficult for ambulances and cars to get near enough to take bodies away.
Omar Mukthar Police Station
Al Shifa hospital in Gaza city is full of dazed, wounded people – and also, we are told, pieces of what were people. Two from our group are currently inside documenting. Eva stood outside the hospital, watching as car after car, as well as the small number of functional ambulances, rushed into the hospital, Gaza’s main hospital, bringing the dead and the severely injured.
We also have a team documenting in Rafah. We are hearing that over 100 are dead and over 200 wounded. Several of the police stations that were targeted were having training days, but the dead and wounded include civilians and children.
More detailed reports will follow.
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….E has just heard the mother of her friend, who gave her a beautiful traditional Palestinian dress, is dead in the attacks on Jabalia. And M just told us that the Israeli military have announced that these strikes are only the beginning. PLEASE: write to the press, call talkback radio, tell your MP, join local Palestinian solidarity groups for actions and demonstrations: these rockets are killing civilians. They are NOT solely targetting Hamas. The many policemen just now killed and injured are government employees – they deal with traffic offences, petty crime. Women and children are dead. The police station nearest us was right by a school.
