Nowhere to Go": Gaza Suffers One of Deadliest Days so Far as Israel Vows "Protracted" Assault
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Nowhere to Go": Gaza Suffers One of Deadliest Days so Far as Israel Vows "Protracted" Assault
Published on Jul 29, 2014
http://www.democracynow.org - Despite a U.N. Security Council call for a ceasefire, Israel has intensified its attack on Gaza and warned of a "protracted campaign." Palestinian officials say more than 110 people have been killed in the past 24 hours, with some saying Monday was the most intensive night of bombing so far. In this time period, Israel attacked more than 150 sites including Gaza's only power station and a media center that houses the broadcasting headquarters of Hamas and a number of other Arab satellite news channels.
Earlier on Monday, 10 people were killed, eight of which were children, and 40 others wounded by an explosion in a park near the beach in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. The child victims were said to be playing on a playground swing when they were hit. Israel denied carrying out the attack, but eyewitnesses said the explosion was caused by an Israeli air strike. Another Israeli bombing reportedly hit an outpatient building at at Shifa, Gaza's main hospital. Meanwhile ten Israeli soldiers were killed on Monday. Fifty-three Israeli soldiers, two Israeli civilians and a Thai farmworker have died since the assault began.
We go to Gaza City to speak with Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous. "[Israel has] shelled hospitals, U.N. schools, they’ve bombed people in their homes," Kouddous says. "There’s literally nowhere for these people to run to."
Watch full Democracy Now! coverage about the Gaza conflict in our archive: http://www.democracynow.org/topics/gaza