Witnesses of the Israeli bombing of a lively beach cafeteria in the city of Gaza described Keeper The result of the murder, which left at least 24 dead and was even more injured on Monday.
Al-Baka coffee, next to the port of the city of Gaza, the most densely populated in the strip, was almost full of yesterday when he received the influence of the rocket. The result was a meat shop, which destroyed the relative calm that reigned in this place.
Among the dead of them women, children and elderly people were Palestinian photojournalist Ismail Abu Hatab and artist France al-Salmi, whose works were open at the international level.
On Tuesday, Israeli defense forces (IDF) said that they were checking what happened in the attack, which, according to their version, “several Hamas terrorists in the north of gas.”
60-year-old Abu al-Nier said that he had left coffee to eat, and returned when an attack occurred. “The missile hit it when it was close. She flew everywhere, and this place was filled with smoke and the smell of gunpowder. Nothing was visible. I ran to coffee and saw that she was destroyed. At the entrance, I saw the bodies on the ground. All workers were dead, ”he said.
The witness said that the institution had a family with young children. “Why did they attack them? It was a place where people went in search of relief for hardships of life, ”he criticized.
Coffee and the restaurant survived to this moment 20 months of the war and suggested a break for the merciless violence of the conflict.
“This is a place in which there are always many people. It gives drinks, space for families and access to the Internet, ”explains 26-year-old Ahmad al-Narab, who walked along the surrounding beach when he heard a strong explosion.
“It was a massacre,” he said AFP. “I saw pieces of bodies flying everywhere, crushed and burnt bodies. It was a terrible scene, shouted, ”he added.
Adam, 21 years old, worked nearby, rented chairs and tables on a walk. “When the attack occurred, they threw us to the ground, and Shrapnel began to fall on us. When I got to the place, the scene was unimaginable. I knew all the employees of the site, they had customers of all ages, ”he said Keeper.
Other witnesses said that they saw a four -year -old boy, an elderly person with two amputated legs and other serious wounded. In the photographs of the butcher showed puddles of blood and internal species between cement and ceiling columns exploding. A deep crater was also evaluated, which gives an idea of the strength of the projectile used by Israel.
The IDF representative claimed that “before the attack there were steps to mitigate the risk of damage to civilian observation.”
According to the Al-Sifs hospital, 15 people were killed in the city of Gaza, in which victims were injured. Information about witnesses, hospitals and the Ministry of Health in Gaza also spreads that 11 other people who are looking for food in the south of the strip were killed by Israeli soldiers.
In recent days, Israel has doubled his offensive with multiple waves of bombing and “evacuation orders”, which forced tens of thousands of people to leave their shacks in large areas north of the devastated enclave.
The orders warned that the attacks would be made in the near future, and discovered the Palestinians to move to the overflowing coastal areas in the south of the strip, where there are few objects, and the water is not enough. About 80% of the territory are included in the area in which these orders weigh or controlled by Israeli forces.
The Jewish army indicated that it plans to enter the core of the city of Gaza, the most densely populated area of the strip to fight the militants of Hamas who are there.
The war began when the militants led by Hamas attacked South Israel on October 7, 2023. They killed about 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and took about 250 hostages to gas.
The subsequent Israeli military offensive died more than 56,500 Palestinians, most civilians and moved to almost all 2.3 million inhabitants of Gaza, while at the same time reducing most of the territory to garbage.
