CNN reported on Wednesday that stray dogs are eating people killed in Israeli military attacks in the Gaza Strip. Fares Afana, head of emergency services in the war-torn northern enclave, told CNN that he and his colleagues had received bodies of murdered Palestinians in northern Gaza, some with signs of being scavenged by animals. He said there was.
“Hungry stray dogs are eating these bodies on the streets… which makes it difficult to identify them,” he said.
He cited air and ground attacks in northern Gaza and the Jabalia area, where Israeli forces say Hamas members are regrouping, and said Israeli forces were “destroying life and everything that represents signs of life.” “I am doing so,” he said.
Israel launched a military operation in Gaza after Hamas attacked an Israeli town on October 7 last year, resulting in the deaths of 1,206 people, mostly civilians.
Since then, Israeli attacks have killed 42,409 people, mostly civilians, and injured 99,153 in the Gaza Strip.
The Gaza Health Ministry announced in a daily update on Wednesday that Israeli military attacks have killed 65 Palestinians across the enclave in the past 24 hours.
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Afana said on Monday that Israeli forces opened fire on hungry residents searching for food at a warehouse relief center run by the United Nations Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA).
“The situation is deteriorating,” he said, adding: “We can’t work as usual.”
“What is happening in northern Gaza is a real genocide,” he said.
UNRWA warns of ‘real risk’ of famine in Gaza
UNRWA warned on Wednesday that there was a risk of famine in the Gaza Strip as Israel stepped up operations in the besieged northern Palestinian territory.
“Today there is a real risk that we find ourselves in a situation where hunger and acute malnutrition are unfortunately likely to reoccur again,” UNRWA Executive Director Philippe Lazzarini said at a press conference, adding that the coming winter and Gaza’s He pointed to the weakened immune system in the district. population.
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Speaking about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, he said that Gaza “has become a kind of wasteland, almost uninhabitable.”
Lazzarini said that with the right actions, a hunger crisis in Gaza could be “avoided” if convoys and food were allowed into the country.
