Relentless bombardments on Gaza continue

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Relentless bombardments on Gaza continued, resulting in an additional 307 Palestinians killed in the past 24 hours. teleSUR

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00:00 As hostilities enter the 13-day, relentless bombardments on Gaza continue, resulting in

00:06 an additional 307 Palestinian killed in the past 24 hours.

00:10 This brings the cumulative fatality toll in the Gaza Strip to 3,785, including at least

00:19 1,524 children, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

00:23 Hundreds of additional fatalities are believed to have been trapped under rubble.

00:27 At least 30 percent of all housing units in the Gaza Strip have been either destroyed,

00:33 rendered uninhabitable or more than deadly damaged.

00:37 Scenes of this are of the hostilities, according to the Ministry of Housing in Gaza.

00:51 The Rafah crossing point is still closed, but people are still hoping to get into Gaza

00:57 to flee the conflict and return home.

00:59 Our correspondent in Gaza, Noura Harassan, interviewed two of the foreign who were visiting

01:04 Gaza when the conflict broke out.

01:06 Let's hear their declarations.

01:09 My name is Talat Gabayen.

01:11 I am a Norwegian citizen.

01:14 I have been here at the Rafah crossing since Thursday, since they said they were going

01:19 to open the crossing.

01:21 I have slept here every day waiting for news of the opening of the crossing so I can return

01:26 home.

01:30 We have Dutch citizenship.

01:31 I came with my family to attend my cousin's party after four or five days.

01:36 Everything was quiet.

01:37 Then the day of my cousin's wedding we started hearing noises and the sound of missiles in

01:40 the morning.

01:41 At first we thought it was raining heavily.

01:44 Then we realized it was a war and we were locked in Gaza.

01:47 We tried to get out through the Rafah crossing, but unfortunately we couldn't in two attempts.

01:54 Yes, I personally communicated four times with the Dutch embassy, three of which they

02:01 told us that they could not help us at all because we are in Gaza and that if we were

02:05 in the West Bank they could have help us through the Dutch embassy there.

02:09 Then we contacted the Dutch press who interviewed us.

02:11 As a result of the Dutch press interview, the Dutch embassy in Egypt called us, this

02:16 time to tell us that they had already started the procedures to manage our exit from the

02:20 Gaza Strip.

02:21 Now we are waiting to hear from them.

02:27 There is no way a normal person can express him or herself when seeing these images because

02:31 they are shocking images that the human mind cannot process.

02:35 There are many corpses, decapitated bodies.

02:38 There are entire families dead.

02:40 There are family groups of 40, 50, 100 people who have disappeared.

02:44 There are houses completely destroyed over their inhabitants.

02:47 Among those houses is my uncle's house.

02:49 In it there were 32 people.

02:51 After the bombing only seven people survived who were left disabled with amputated legs

02:56 and fractured bodies.

02:57 And the rest, may they rest in peace, we got the bodies of six burned children and several

03:02 dismembered.

03:03 They were attacked with phosphorous, internationally prohibited in this type of attacks.

03:08 We have been able to recover 13 bodies and the rest are missing.

03:13 The Israeli side continues for the 14th consecutive day.

03:16 On Friday the Palestinian people mobilized to demand an end to the Israeli side whose

03:20 data have claimed the lives of more than 4,200 Palestinians and wounded more than 13,400.

03:32 On Friday, Israeli attacks on Camp Yudi southwest of the Gaza Strip killed 21 people and wounded

03:37 at least 79, mostly women and children in both cases.

03:46 Mothers and relatives of the victims of the Israeli attacks continue with the search and

03:49 recovery of bodies, while other groups of people seek to bury their loved ones who were

03:54 killed in the massacres in Gaza.

03:59 Meanwhile, new clashes erupted on Friday between Palestinians and Israeli occupation forces

04:05 in several areas of the occupied West Bank after Israeli troops suppressed demonstrations

04:10 denouncing Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip amid demands for the release of humanitarian

04:15 aid.

04:19 In this regard, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for speeding up the transfer

04:23 of humanitarian aid from Rafah to the Gaza Strip and called for an unconditional humanitarian

04:28 ceasefire to ensure that aid reaches Gaza.

04:41 It is impossible to be here and not feel heartbroken.

04:44 We are witnessing a paradox.

04:46 Behind these walls we have two million people who are suffering enormously, who have no

04:51 water, no food, no medicine, no fuel, and they are under fire and they need everything

04:57 to survive.

05:07 Amid Israel's refusal to unblock the Rafah crossing, expressions of support for the Palestinian

05:12 people continue.

05:13 Egypt joined the protest in solidarity with the Palestinian people with rallies at the

05:18 entry to the Rafah crossing to demand an end to the blockade of Gaza and to allow the flow

05:22 of humanitarian aid.

05:27 The population in Yemen also demonstrates its support to the Palestinian cause with

05:31 massive mobilization in rejection to the siege of Israeli occupation forces to the Gaza Strip

05:36 and to the Palestinian people.

05:38 Likewise, the Yemeni authorities call for urgent measures and greater international

05:42 support in the face of Israeli aggression.

05:47 Finally, from Lebanon, the factions held a massive march in Beirut to the Palestinian

05:52 refugee camp of Chetila to reject the massacres committed by Israel in the midst of the bombardment

05:58 of the Tel Aviv forces against the south of the country.

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