Kinshasa, April 17th, 2025 (CPA) – The international medical humanitarian association Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) has compared on Wednesday the Gaza Strip to a ‘mass grave for the Palestinians and those who come to their aid’, has reported the international media. ‘Gaza has become a mass grave for Palestinians and those who come to help them. We are witnessing in real time the destruction and forced displacement of the entire population of Gaza’, has said Amande Bazerolle, MSF’s emergency coordinator in Gaza. Despite the ceasefire that came into force on November 27th, Israel continues to carry out regular strikes in Lebanon, claiming to be targeting the pro-Iranian Hezbollah. An Israeli drone strike on Tuesday on a car in the Aïtaroun sector left two people dead, according to a new report from the Ministry in charge of Health. One of the three injured, a 17-year-old teenager, died. Israel’s Minister in charge of Defence, Israel Katz, ruled out the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, after the UN warned of the alarming situation in the Palestinian territory. ‘No humanitarian aid will enter Gaza’, has declared Israel Katz, two days after the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced that the Palestinian territory was experiencing ‘probably the worst’ humanitarian situation since the start of the war on October 7th, 2023.
Gaza: 11 dead in Israeli strikes
In addition, the Palestinian Civil Defence announced the deaths of 11 people, including women and children, in Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip. ‘Our teams transferred 10 martyrs and several wounded, including a number of children and women, to the Al-Chifa hospital in Gaza City following the targeting of the Hassouna family home’, has said Mahmoud Bassal, spokesman for this relief organisation. For its part, the Israeli army has announced earlier in the day that it had killed « the senior deputy of the commander of the Hamas Gaza Brigade » a few days earlier in the centre of the Palestinian territory. ‘We are witnessing in real time the destruction and forced displacement of the entire population of Gaza’, has said Amande Bazerolle, MSF’s emergency coordinator in Gaza, who believes that the humanitarian response is “severely hampered by constant insecurity and critical shortages”. “A series of deadly attacks by Israeli forces shows ‘a flagrant disregard for the safety of humanitarian and medical workers in Gaza”, accuses the organisation, 11 of whose staff have been killed since the start of the war in the narrow Palestinian territory.