Palestinians are anxiously anticipating the arrival of the first shipment of international emergency aid in Gaza on Friday, as Israeli forces continued their aerial bombardment of the enclave and issued warnings of an imminent ground invasion, AFP reported.
The Israeli military has been conducting relentless airstrikes on the Palestinian territory for the past 13 days. This attacks began after retaliatory actions by Palestinian soldiers against decades-long occupation and crimes committed by Israel across Palestine.
Earlier on October 19, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, stated that Israel is conducting the largest campaign of destruction of buildings and residential houses in the Gaza Strip in modern history, as part of a wide-scale military attack ongoing since the seventh of this month.
Euro-Med Monitor emphasised that Israel is focusing its attacks on the Gaza and North Gaza governorates through a systematic destruction campaign, aiming to force displacement and population transfer against the residents of these governorates.
The Israeli army has warned the residents of both governorates, which are home to nearly a million people, to evacuate the areas and move to the central and southern sections of the Strip, a measure that raises serious legal and humanitarian concerns as it endangers the safety of civilians.
According to documentation by Euro-Med Monitor, at least 4,079 Palestinians have been killed, including 1,413 children and 806 women.
More than 15,000 additional Palestinians have been injured in various ways, with more than half of them being children and women.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor concluded that Israel is committing complex war crimes in the Gaza Strip. The organisation reiterated that these crimes represent serious violations of international humanitarian law and may amount to war crimes under the Fourth Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilians.
