Around 400 Palestanians have lost their lives, as Israel’s ground operation and air strikes continued unabated, while thousand of people have started evacuating Shejaia on Sunday.
At least 20 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli shelling in a Gaza neighbourhood, where bodies were strewn in the street and thousands fled toward a hospital packed with wounded, witnesses and health officials said. The mass casualties in the Shejaia district in northeast Gaza appeared to be the heaviest since Israel launched its
offensive on the Palestinian territory on July 8 after cross-border rocket strikes by militants intensified.
Anguished cries of “Did you see Ahmed?” “Did you see my wife?” echoed through the courtyard of Gaza´s Shifa hospital, where panicked residents of Shejaia gathered in family groups, while bodies and wounded, including those of children lay on blood-stained floors.
At the hospital, about three kilometres (two miles away), elderly men said the Israeli attack was the fiercest they had seen since the 1967 Middle East war, when Israel captured Gaza. Thousands fled the neighbourhood, some by foot and others piling into the backs of trucks and sitting on the hoods of cars filled with families trying to get away. However with both the Isreali and Egyptian borders closed. They simply have nowhere to go!
