Israel’s escalated bombing of the Gaza Strip was evidenced on Tuesday by airstrikes that targeted two high-rise buildings in Gaza City that left one flattened completely and the other badly damaged.
According to the Associated Press it is the fifth high-rise targeted and destroyed in the last several days as a new wave of bombing has taken hold since a cease fire collapsed last week.
While a United Nation’s agency says the level of violence has again peaked, reports indicate that a delayed shipment of U.S. weapons have been cleared and may soon arrive in Israel.
The Ma’an News Agency reports:
According to AP:
The latest dispatch from the United Nation’s Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza reports that the situation on the ground for Palestinians has reached a crisis of unprecedented scale:
The UNRWA is now pleading for international assistance so that it can begin to grapple with the level of need dictated by the scope of the destruction.
“Civilians caught in the ongoing violence need help to meet their immediate needs, and to support the long path to recovery that will begin when hostilities cease,” the agency said. “The most immediate needs include food and non-food items such as hygiene kits that help prevent the outbreak of diseases. Other priorities include primary health care and psychosocial support. Almost all families in Gaza are coping with grief – including many cases in which multiple members of the same family have been killed. Extreme and continuous levels of violence have caused deep levels of fear in the population of Gaza, particularly children. Many children will bear permanent impact from the violence, with the Ministry of Health estimating that 1,000 of the 3,000 children who have been injured will suffer from a life-long disability.”
Amid the latest escalation of violence and despite the catastrophe unleashed by more than six weeks of fighting, Haaretz reports on Tuesday that a temporarily delayed shipment of U.S. arms—including Hellfire missiles and other weapons requested by the IDF for its ongoing assault on Gaza—will soon be released and delivered to Israel. According to the newspaper:
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