Thread by @EuroMedHR

🧵Israeli forces have intensified direct and deliberate attacks on Palestinian civilians, increasingly targeting shelters and tents of displaced persons. This escalation reflects a clear policy to further the crime of genocide in the #Gaza Strip

Israeli warplanes have launched a series of intense airstrikes on densely populated residential areas in the Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, killing over 23 civilians, including women and children, and injuring dozens

According to documentation from Euro-Med Monitor’s field team, the airstrikes began at approximately 12:30 p.m., targeting a gathering of civilians at the Snafour intersection in the neighbourhood. Three civilians, including two brothers, were killed and several others injured

Israeli aircraft targeted the tents of displaced Palestinians near the Holy Family School in the Rimal neighbourhood, northwest of #Gaza City, using a heavy bomb that buried entire tents and their occupants under rubble and sand

In a testimony to Euro-Med Monitor, a survivor of the Rimal neighbourhood bombing said: “We thought the tents would be safer than our destroyed homes, but we found death here as well. The bombing was sudden, burying our neighbours’ children under the sand. We don’t know who is still alive.”

The intense Israeli attacks are neither incidental nor isolated, but part of a recurring and systematic pattern of targeting displaced persons already deprived of basic protection and food

Following the ceasefire between Israel and Iran on 24 June, the Israeli army significantly escalated its aerial and artillery bombardment of several areas in the north and south of the Gaza Strip

Israel is expanding its killing campaign as part of a broader escalation, adopting a scorched-earth policy and systematically destroying the remaining neighbourhoods and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip

These crimes follow a consistent pattern of targeting civilians gathered near aid distribution centres established by the Israeli military in central and southern Gaza

It is essential to provide special protection for shelters and establish safe humanitarian corridors to ensure the delivery of aid and the evacuation of the wounded

The international community must act immediately to halt Israeli attacks, implement effective measures to protect Palestinian civilians, and end the political and military impunity that enables Israel to continue its crimes without accountability

Israel must halt its inhumane aid distribution mechanism and urgently push for the restoration of humanitarian access and the lifting of the illegal blockade, as this is the only way to stop the accelerating humanitarian deterioration and ensure the entry of aid, given the imminent threat of famine.

Israel escalates genocide in #Gaza amid unjustifiable international silence
euromedmonitor.org/a/6767