No safe place for residents of Gaza

Professor Ibrahim Kilani and his family fled their home in Beit Lahia, a town north of Gaza on Thursday when Israeli soldiers began its ground invasion of Gaza.

Many Palestinians then thought the infantry and tanks would attack northern territory, so Ibrahim took his five children to Shiyaiya, east of Gaza City. They came out of there in time to avoid the bombs that destroyed the neighborhood Saturday night, killing dozens of neighbors. Then took refuge in the most optimistic of the Gaza building, the Peace Tower in the central Omar Mutjar street. Their top six floors collapsed on Monday after the impact of two Israeli missiles. There the Kilani, five children aged 4 to 12 years and four people died. Like them, more than 600 Palestinians have been killed in two weeks of intense Israeli bombardment.

When the Israeli army ordered the residents to leave a neighborhood, entire families as Atar village Atatra seek shelter in one of the 69 schools authorized by the UN as a refuge.

Now more than 100,000 displace have taken refuge in schools. Israel attacked on Tuesday one of these schools turned into shelters. The UN, which reported the finding of rockets at a second school – confirmed the attack, but would not say if the building had been evacuated. The day before, shot guns against Al Aqsa hospital, which was full of patients. They killed five people. The 1.8 million Gazans can not leave the Strip. Israel, like Egypt, remains closed all border crossings. Meet the Sea, where Israeli patrol boat lurking any trespasses in the Mediterranean. “In Gaza there is literally no safe place,” said from Geneva a senior United Nations.

Caught in what they consider a big prison, many Palestinians give drifter Gaza as Kilani, who believed that Israel declared war “against Hamas tunnels ” would not affect the fifth floor of the Tower of Peace. Or the widow Nasha Suker, who after leaving the devastated Shiyaiya, not knowing where to go, takes refuge in the Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius with her seven children, 50 other relatives and several hundred more Palestinians.

The Greek Archbishop Alexios opened the doors of the temple, after discussion with the heads of the adjacent mosque. Sweaty and agitated after a sleepless night, the archbishop told yesterday that Israeli tanks had shelled the two adjacent cemeteries: the Christian and the Muslim.

Women caring for children with Nasha explained that ” pieces of shrapnel and stones from the graves ” had jumped to the explosions to the yard where her children played. No one was hurt this time, but the shrapnel still easy to find yesterday, broke the water tanks.

While another Israeli soldier died in Gaza, bringing the total number of soldiers killed in the offensive to 28 international diplomacy intensified contacts to host a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militias, who continued firing rockets at Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Hamas of using ” the telegenic death” of Palestinians in Gaza ” for cause.” Netanyahu insisted Tuesday that the Palestinians killed in Israeli air strikes are “victims of brutal Hamas regime.” Israel admitted that one of its soldiers, Oron Shaul, is gone missing. Hamas announced his capture on Sunday.

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