While people in Gaza battle hunger, they are also under constant Israeli bombardment. Attacks have killed at least 11 Palestinians since dawn on Sunday - including five who were looking for food. At least two were killed near a food site operated by the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Israel has repeatedly attacked hungry Palestinians at the site, near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza. The injured have been taken to the al-Awda Hospital.
Overnight, Israeli warplanes carried out waves of air strikes in northern Gaza. In Jabalia, ground troops detonated an explosive device planted in the city. Israeli forces are targeting densely populated residential areas, forcing already displaced families to move south.
The Israeli military plans to seize Gaza City in a large-scale offensive. Now tanks have been moving through the neighbourhood of Sabra. It follows days of intense bombardment. Tens of thousands of reservists have been called up for military operation.
Funerals are being held for Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza City. Mourners have been gathering at the al- Shifa Hospital.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud has the latest updates from Gaza City, Palestine.
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00:00While people in Gaza battle hunger, they're also under constant Israeli bombardment.
00:05Attacks have killed at least 11 Palestinians since dawn on Sunday,
00:08including five who were looking for food.
00:11At least two were killed near a food site operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
00:16Israel has repeatedly attacked hungry Palestinians at the site
00:20near the Netzerim Corridor in central Gaza.
00:23The injured have been taken to the Al-Auda hospital.
00:25And overnight, Israeli warplanes have carried out waves of airstrikes in northern Gaza.
00:35In Jabalia, ground troops detonated an explosive device planted in the city.
00:40Israeli forces are targeting densely populated residential areas, forcing families to move south.
00:51And the Israeli military plans to seize Gaza City in a large-scale offensive.
00:55Now, tanks have been moving through the neighbourhood of Sabra.
00:58It follows days of intense bombardment.
01:01Tens of thousands of reservists have been called up for the military operation.
01:06And funerals are being held for Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza City.
01:11Mourners have been gathering at the Al-Shifa hospital.
01:14I'm going to speak to Hani Mahmoud, who is in Gaza City.
01:16Hani, we've been seeing on some of the agency feeds here,
01:19there have been some airdrops over Deir al-Bala in particular.
01:22Can you just talk to us about what's been happening?
01:32Yes, Rob.
01:33In fact, we've been seeing these planes flying over Gaza City.
01:38They're coming from the northern part, the northern-western part of the Gaza Strip,
01:42passing through the skies of Gaza, and due to the airdrop in the central area,
01:48we counted up to three military cargo planes flying over the Gaza Strip.
01:53And this has, for almost a month, been going on.
01:57And it's most sporadic and unsafe and unpredictable way dropping pallets of food attached to parachutes
02:09falling on tent sites or residential buildings.
02:13Some of these residential buildings are still standing intact.
02:16But if people think this is a relief line, wait until you talk to people.
02:22Not only the amount of food in these parachutes and pallets that dropped on the ground here is insufficient,
02:29but the kind of food that is in these pallets does not address the spread of famine,
02:39does not address the deepening of humanitarian crisis.
02:42People are still lacking access to vital elements like protein and vitamins.
02:48Children are deprived from much of the nutrients that is needed for their growth.
02:54We're talking about vegetable and fruits and other basic elements.
02:58That's from the part that people are lacking now to have proper access.
03:04But airdropping, apart from the fact that it's not safe and it's unpredictable, it's sporadic,
03:11it's causing much of the internal fightings among the hungry crowds across the gods.
03:18We see much of the infighting between people because it's a survival mode.
03:23It's not about safety right now as much as it's about survival and the ability to survive
03:29and stay alive amid these difficult conditions.
03:33Also, many of the documented cases where these pallets attached to these parachutes fill directly
03:39on people or tent sites killing or injuring people as they were waiting for it.
03:45This is the form of relief that the Israeli military has directed to Palestinians that has been deadly so far.
03:52And, Hani, we can't, of course, forget that the attacks are continuing.
03:55We were talking about the Israeli warplanes carrying waves of airstrikes in northern Gaza just in the last several hours.
04:02I want to ask you, though, we're getting reports about ground troops detonating an explosive device in Jabalia planted in the city there.
04:10What more do we know about that?
04:12Well, this is one of the lethal ways the Israeli military has been implementing so far across the Gaza Strip.
04:24It does save occupying soldiers on the ground because they don't approach these densely populated areas.
04:33Rather, they move these explosive devices, form of robotics, vehicles that are moved within these densely populated areas during the night time.
04:43They're planted in areas strategically that will indeed detonate and explode.
04:48They cause massive scale of destruction to the targeted areas and its surrounding.
04:53The eyewitnesses described massive explosions and shrapnel flying as far as one kilometer at the diameter size area in Jabalia in a Zaytun neighborhood.
05:06One person who was at least 1.5 kilometer away from the explosion site reported collecting many of these shrapnel falling in the balconies of his home.
05:17And that's 1.5 kilometers.
05:19So imagine the kind of damage and the scale of destruction caused to the nearby buildings and, of course, people who are trapped in these areas.
05:30Doctors in hospital report receiving cases other than those who are directly injured or killed by these explosive devices.
05:39Those who inhale the smoke from these explosions suffer from respiratory problems now.
05:46Inability to breathe properly had to be put on ventilators.
05:50And, by the way, none of this is available in the hospital.
05:53Only a few of them.
05:54And they had to take turns between patients in order to save lives as much as they can.
05:59But that's one of the tactics used by the Israeli military.
06:03During the night, the sound of these explosions are massive.
06:06And they come from all directions.
06:09They're planted at night, started to detonate at early hours of the morning, just causing a state of panic and fear among already displaced and traumatized population.
06:18Hani Mahmoud in Gaza City.
06:20Hani, thank you.
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