It was just after midnight on Tuesday that the wall of the headquarters started shaking, says Brubakk. She and her colleagues in Legar without Borders had all gone to bed when she was woken up by a series of drones, which followed each other quickly. They have been informed that there were three rockets. Health personnel at the site previously reported four, but the civil defense now reports “three deep craters” according to AFP. – There were such strong bangs that you automatically curled up in bed, against the wall, and hoped that the roof would not collapse, says Brubakk to news. 20 tents burned down after the attack, according to the civil defense in Gaza. Photo: Abdullah Al-Attar / Reuters – Then the thoughts immediately went to those who were sleeping in tents right outside, who had no way to protect themselves against it. The rockets had struck a tent camp in Al-Mawasi, 500 meters away. This camp is located in the so-called humanitarian zone in Gaza. 19 people have been confirmed dead after the attack, according to the health authorities in Gaza. They have warned that the number may rise. More than 60 people have also been reported injured, some of them seriously. There is a wide network of aid organizations spread over the humanitarian zone in Gaza. This time the attack happened closest to the International Committee of the Red Cross’ field hospital, says Brubakk. Photo: EYAD BABA / AFP Four-year-old twins were badly injured A pair of four-year-old twins were exposed to the explosions last night, says Brubakk. The children were received at the Nasser hospital in the city, where she has worked as a child psychologist for the past five weeks. – One girl has lost both legs and four fingers on her left hand. The other twin has lost a leg. – I would guess that their mother wrapped them up nicely last night, kissed them goodnight, wished them a good night’s sleep, and then they woke up to be seriously injured. The civil defense in Gaza said that the explosions destroyed 20 tents. Witnesses at the site told the AP news agency that they left craters that were up to nine meters deep. Photo: Mohammed Salem / Reuters It took many people to gain access to everything that lies down in the sand. Photo: BASHAR TALEB / AFP 20 tents have also been burnt down, says the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza. Photo: Mohammed Salem / Reuters People have also cooperated to recover property that has not been destroyed. Photo: BASHAR TALEB / AFP Others mourn what is gone. Photo: Mohammed Salem / Reuters Two days ago there was an evacuation order from Israel, she says further. In it, the Palestinians in southern Gaza were asked to move to this particular area to save their lives. – While I have been at work, I have had colleagues who have run for their lives, jumped over bodies to get away, in the humanitarian zone. – It is the first time for me that it has been so close. But in five weeks there have been perhaps two nights where there has been no bombing. The boy who gets help here from Brubakk and a colleague is called Mohammed. He has lost his father and one of his legs in an earlier attack on southern Gaza. Photo: Katrin Glatz Brubakk / Doctors Without Borders – If we are alive Monday was Brubakk’s last day at the hospital for this time. She left Gaza as planned, and is in Jordan on Tuesday evening. – I told them at the hospital that I hoped we would see each other again, and that I really wanted to go back and contribute one more time. – Then a colleague said as they very often say: “We’ll see each other again if we’re alive”. These words run and vibrate in my head. It is difficult to help children who are chronically afraid of dying, Brubakk tells news. The girl in the picture is not one of the twins who were injured last night. Photo: Katrin Glatz Brubakk / Doctors without Borders Nights like the one they’ve had now show that this is not just something one says, Brubakk believes. – They have been terrified of dying for 11 months, and you see that in people. I have seen pictures of them from before the war and you hardly recognize them. – They’ve got a face of their own. Israel’s victory is “close to completion” in the south Israel has carried out a series of attacks in and around this area, including one in July in which the military claimed to have killed Hamas’s military leader Mohammad Deif. Now the plan is to withdraw from southern Gaza and shift the focus towards the border with Lebanon, says the Israeli defense minister in a video on his website. – The center of gravity is heading north. We are close to completing our tasks in the south, but we have not yet completed our mission here, said Yoav Gallant to a group of soldiers stationed in the north. Yoav Gallant (h) has several times expressed dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (v) and the election of the other top political and military leaders in Israel. Photo: Abir Sultan / AP Earlier on Tuesday, Gallant said the following in a statement: – Hamas no longer exists as a military unit. Hamas engages in guerrilla warfare, and we are still fighting Hamas terrorists and hunting Hamas’s leadership. I think the announcement will be badly received. With this, the Minister of Defense indicates that he does not see Hamas as as big a threat as before, says military expert Tormod Heier to news. – To say that Hamas no longer constitutes a military unit in terms of size is the same as saying that Hamas can be seen as a defeated military organization for a long time. He himself agrees that Hamas is best described as a guerrilla organization. Heier is professor of military strategy and operations at the Norwegian Defense Academy. Photo: Ole Berg-Rusten / NTB But this is a move that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the more radical right-wing forces in the government want just as badly, he says. – Their mantra is to completely defeat all parts of Hamas in order to justify their continued presence in the Gaza Strip. – It is probably an expression of internal dissatisfaction and discord in the Israeli state apparatus on the political and military side. Because I think that Hamas has been quite weakened for quite some time. Two conflicting Israeli stories Earlier on Tuesday, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) claimed that it attacked the area with “precise ammunition and drones” because there was a command center for Hamas there. – The terrorists were directly involved in the 7 October massacre, and had recently carried out terrorist activities, the statement further states. Hamas denies that there was any command center in Al-Mawasi, and says this is “an open lie to justify ugly crimes”. What Gallant says about Hamas’s transition from a military unit to a guerrilla group contradicts Israel’s story about the attack on Al-Mawasi, Heier believes. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has also “strongly condemned” the attack in the humanitarian zone on Tuesday night. Photo: BASHAR TALEB / AFP – The attack signals that Hamas clearly has a centralised, well-functioning chain of command with a number of subordinate departments from which they can control and coordinate their operations, he says. – Then one might think that the reason they give for the attack exaggerates or overdramatizes Hamas’s real operative subject. Are you interested in more from news’s foreign editors? Listen to our latest podcast: Published 10.09.2024, at 20.49 Updated 10.09.2024, at 21.19
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