Ahmed Asmar
28 May 2024•Update: 28 May 2024
GAZA CITY, Palestine
The Israeli army conducted a limited pullout from the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, leaving behind a massive trail of destruction and scores of dead bodies, according to witnesses.
Several dead bodies were recovered from under the rubble of destroyed buildings after Israeli forces withdrew from the Faluja area in the camp, witnesses said.
Scores of burnt houses and remains of destroyed Israeli military vehicles were found in the area after the army pullout.
The Israeli army launched a wide-scale military operation in the camp on May 12 during which it destroyed homes and forced residents to flee their homes in the camp.
Early Tuesday, several people were killed when an Israeli drone shelled a group of civilians in Faluja as they attempted to return to their homes.
The Israeli army has killed more than 36,000 Palestinians and injured 81,000 others in the besieged enclave since a cross-border attack by Hamas on Oct. 7 last year, which killed around 1,200 people.
Nearly eight months into the Israeli war, vast swathes of Gaza lay in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water, and medicine.
Israel stands accused of “genocide” at the International Court of Justice, which in its latest ruling ordered Tel Aviv to halt its offensive in Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.
*Writing by Ahmed Asmar in Ankara
