Israel continues to pound Gaza Strip as reported Palestinian death toll soars

FRANCE 24 English

Visit our website: http://www.france24.com  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FRANCE24.English  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/France24_en

Transcript

00:00 Bombs raining down into Gaza while Hamas rockets fly out of it, aimed for Israel.

00:05 These images come from the Israeli Air Force.

00:08 Posted on social media, they illustrate Israel's retaliation against Hamas

00:13 after the Islamist group's deadliest incursion into Israeli territory in half a century.

00:19 According to the Israeli Air Force, this is what it calls a terror nest,

00:23 or where many of the attacks on Israel were planned.

00:26 These hits, spread out across Palestinian territories,

00:30 are part of what Israel's prime minister vowed would be a mighty vengeance.

00:34 But not all of the Israeli bombs have hit purely Hamas hideouts.

00:39 Here in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip,

00:43 Palestinians picked through the rubble of their levelled mosque.

00:47 At night, Israeli planes targeted the mosque of al-Habib Mohammed

00:52 and transformed it into a pile of ruins.

00:54 As you can see, this is a violation of the holiness of the house of God

00:59 and a violation of the Muslim holy places in their own lands.

01:02 Multiple apartment blocks were also reduced to rubble in Gaza.

01:07 It's a narrow strip of land that is home to 2.3 million Palestinians.

01:11 Like in Israel, after Hamas' attacks, in Gaza the wounded were rushed to hospital

01:18 and families began to mourn their dead.

01:20 The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned the targeting of civilians.

01:25 The scenes of devastation inflicted on Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip are harrowing.

01:30 As an occupying power, Israel has no right or justification

01:34 to target the defenceless civilian population in Gaza or elsewhere in Palestine.

01:39 Gaza has lived under a blockade for 16 years, since Hamas took over the area.

01:44 With Israeli retaliatory strikes falling on Gaza,

01:48 scores of Palestinian families have sought refuge in over 40 United Nations schools.

01:54 At least 20,000 people have already fled their homes

01:58 as the conflict between Hamas and Israel roars on.

Category

Transcript

Recommended