More killings in Gaza as Palestinians remember 1948 Nakba
發佈日期: 2025-05-16 20:02
TVB News
Israeli strikes killed at least 50 people in Gaza on Friday morning, authorities report more than 130 Palestinians dead over the previous two days.
This as Palestinians in Gaza and around the world remember the Nakba, or catastrophe, from 1948 when hundreds of thousands were forced from their lands.
For many in the Gaza Strip who have survived 18 months of Israeli airstrikes, the Nakba continues.
Ghalia Abu Moteir was four years old when the Nakba, or catastrophe, happened. Her family fled their home in what is now Israel, among hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were forced out of their lands during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
Seventy-seven years later, she is back in a tent, sheltering from Israel's 18-month bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
Today we're in an even bigger Nakba than the Nakba we saw before, she says. We are not living. There is no life, no children. Everyone is being martyred. There are no houses left, no people, no food or drink. The planes strike us and throw our children dead in front of us.
More than 130 Palestinians were reportedly killed by Israeli airstrikes over the previous two days across Gaza, including in Khan Younis and Jabaliya. Funerals up and down the strip were held for the victims.
The population has been denied humanitarian aid for more than 10 weeks, with food supplies running short.
The United Nations and other countries have been applying pressure on Israel to open up crossings where thousands of trucks are waiting to send food, water and medicine.
In the northern Gaza district of Beit Lahiya, resident Um Abed said she arrived at this soup kitchen at 9am, hoping to receive food to feed a family of 20, including a three-year-old child. She left empty-handed for the second day in a row, unable to fight her way past the crowds.
At the United Nations, Israel's ambassador to the body said Israel would allow an organisation known as the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to lead aid delivery efforts.
Danny Danon said: "We will not fund those efforts. We will facilitate them, we will enable them, some of them will have to cross through territory that we operate, but we will definitely not fund them."
Many in the aid community believe the foundation is meant to supplant the U.N.'s distribution system. The U.N. and others have rejected Israel's efforts to control aid distribution.
