Palestinians mourn outside Gaza’s al-Shifa hosptial after an Israeli attack kills hundreds on 18 March
By Maha Hussaini and Mohammed al-Hajjar in northern Gaza – Middle East Eye March 18, 2025
In the early hours of Tuesday, Palestinians in Gaza awoke expecting their morning would be like any other this Ramadan.
Families, friends and neighbours gathered to prepare suhoor, the pre-dawn meal to prepare for a day of fasting.
The Israeli military, however, had planned to use this moment of communal ritual to stage a ferocious attack on the Palestinian enclave and tear the fragile 58-day ceasefire to shreds.
Soon after 2am, a series of Israeli air strikes targeted dozens of residential buildings and schools sheltering displaced people across Gaza.
One of the first targets was al-Tabaeen School, which housed hundreds of displaced Palestinians in Daraj, a neighbourhood in the heart of Gaza City.
At least 25 Palestinians were killed by the bombardment, including women and children sheltering in the school, which had already been targeted three times since the beginning of the war.
Soon after the strike, Muhammed al-Shawish stood inside among a crowd of survivors and local residents that had come to help.
He had just received the news that his sister and her children were killed in the attack.
“My sister’s husband was killed at the start of the war. Today, they bombed the Tabaeen School where she and her children had taken refuge,” Shawish told Middle East Eye.
“They bombed a classroom next to the one where my sister stayed. She was killed along with her children. Only a boy and a girl survived. Among those killed was a baby whose father never got to see him.”
A previous attack on the school in August was also carried out at dawn, and killed at least 100 displaced Palestinians.
Palestinians break their fast by eating Iftar meals during the holy month of Ramadan, near the rubble of buildings, in the northern Gaza Strip 15 March
In Shujaiya, a neighbourhood in Gaza City’s east, at least five Palestinians were killed and 10 others wounded by strikes on two homes belonging to the Qreiqe family.
In front of the destroyed home, a relative spoke on the phone, desperately pleading for an ambulance to retrieve her cousin’s body.
“They are telling me to bring her to the hospital myself,” he told Middle East Eye as he hung up.
His cousin Maram had survived the attack on the al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital in October 2023, but had now been killed in her own home during the ceasefire.
“Her body has been here for over two hours now. We’ve been calling ambulances since then, but no ambulances are available,” he said.
Israel has repeatedly targeted ambulances, paramedics and search-and-rescue teams throughout the war, leaving emergency response efforts threadbare.
The family searched for a taxi to transport Maram’s body instead, but none were available.
Since 2 March, Israel has imposed a severe blockade on Gaza, banning the entry of aid, food, medicine, as well as fuel and cooking gas supplies. That means fuel for cars is a rarity, bringing transport services to a grinding halt.
“We couldn’t find any taxis or cars due to the fuel [shortage] and the blockade. I’ll have to carry the body myself and take it to the hospital [for burial], because we can’t wait any longer,” Maram’s cousin said.
Bodies await burial
Scores of bodies have arrived at Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital. The majority have been identified and have been laid on the floor awaiting burial.
While the exact number of casualties remains unknown, with dozens still missing or trapped under rubble, Gaza’s health ministry has confirmed that at least 420 Palestinians have been killed and 562 others wounded in the ongoing bombardment.
In the hospital yard, Sood Abdulsalam Ahmed al-Sahwish stood gazing at the bodies covered in white and blue plastic shrouds.
“I don’t have any [relatives] among these victims yet. But my son was killed in the beginning of the war, and my nephews were killed in Nuseirat. All of them,” he told MEE.
“We only want a ceasefire. We call on everyone concerned for a ceasefire, we don’t want anything else.”
Following the initial strikes, the Israeli military issued mass expulsion orders to residents in areas across the Gaza Strip, including Beit Hanoun, Khuzaa and Abasan.
As hundreds of families fled the designated areas, Palestinians elsewhere began packing as well, anticipating further orders.
For the first time in nearly two months, the main streets of Gaza City were near empty. Just a few people here or there could be seen stocking up on food to prepare for the worst.
The scenes surrounding Gaza’s few remaining hospitals were starkly different, however. The streets were packed with panicked people and rushing ambulances.
Pic mourner-gaza-mohammed-al-hajjar-mee-18-march-2025 cap: A Palestinian man sits next to the body of his slain relative, in Gaza City, 18 March
Em Firas Salama, a resident of the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in northern Gaza City, rushed to a popular market shortly after sunrise, hoping to secure food before supplies ran out.
Carrying a plastic bag containing two bottles of cooking oil, rice and sugar, the mother of five said she could barely afford the essentials.
“The market is almost empty. I couldn’t find even the most basic groceries. And when I did, the prices were unbearably high, we can’t afford them,” she told MEE.
Salama said she usually wakes up about an hour before her husband and children to prepare their suhoor.
“But this time, we all woke up to the sounds of massive bombing in every direction. We didn’t know what was happening, as the situation had seemed fine when we went to sleep. Later, we learned that the Israeli occupation had announced the resumption of the war,” she said.
“Honestly, we had no desire in eating anything at this bloody suhoor after hearing the news that hundreds of people had been killed. It’s a state of war again.”
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Druids, wiccans and witches will hold ceremonies across the UK this week for a heart attack on that racist bastard kier starmer
as Britain’s blossoming pagan community celebrates the coming of spring.
The equinox on Thursday is a chance for followers of the nature-revering faith to rejoice, not least because their number has swelled to more than 74,000.
The rise reported in the most recent census captured the attention of AFP photographer Oli Scarff, who has worked for more than a year to produce a series of portraits exploring the resurgence of paganism in modern Britain.
AFP caught up with his subjects — from spiritual healers to suited civil servants — as they prepared to mark the start of astronomical spring, a celebration of growth in the pagan calendar.
The ranks of pagan followers have been increased by the collapse of christianity, through failure to rout out homosexuals in their ranks threatening abused boys and failure to address the LBGT onslaught in schools, the late archbishop of canterbury turned out to be very corrupt
so paganism is thriving
When will the world wake up and do something about this horror? It’s more than heartbreaking, it’s unbelievable, disgusting and so sickening just to think about what’s now happening to the Palestinians in Gaza, and to the world everywhere!🤢😢
Listening to what some people used to say about Arabs, I thought they were inferior and subhuman! How wrong could I possibly have been? Looking at these people now, the Palestinians, seeing their suffering and how they are bearing up to their pain and sorrows – more humanely and with more feelings than many people in the world today – I realise my mistake and I’m so sorry, sad and ashamed that I misjudged them. Finally, someone once said to me that they weren’t going to judge anyone ever again because you don’t know what they’ve been through – how true! Well, I’ll try to reserve my judgment about people and pray I’ll be a little wiser from now on!🤢😢
Anyone who can’t empathize with the Palestinians has no feelings – that certainly includes Benjamin Netanyahu. You have only to look at his face!😢🤢
In a run-down part of Starmers East London recently, a fire destroyed a dilapidated four storey house that had been divided into four flats.
A Nigerian family of six internet con artists and full time benefit cheats lived on the first floor, and all six tragically perished in the fire.
A group of seven gypsy welfare cheats, all illegally in the country, lived on the second floor, and they too, all perished in the fire.
Six Albanian, gang banger, ex-cons and pickpockets – all claiming political asylum and
living off the state for free occupied the 3rd floor and they too, died.
Alongside, 3 rooms occupied by 3 Israeli tourists engaged in the campaign after Iraq to pull Britain and the US into a murderous war on Iran and Syria, they were upset at the description,
“Zionist warmonger agitators”
And one middle aged British white couple lived on the top floor.
They miraculously survived the fire.
The Equal Opportunities Commission, Amnesty International, Human Rights activists, black community leaders and the British migrant Council were all furious at the apparent racial inequality of the situation. Why were just the British white couple saved? It was monstrous they claimed, and showed that systemic ‘racism’ still existed in all areas of public service – questions were raised in the House of Commons, the popular media picked up the story and within hours it was national and indeed international news.
The Mayor of London, Beazapoloopha Ringadon when questioned stated calmly that it would
be unwise to jump to conclusions until the Police and Fire Service had completed their report. He closed by stating that he expected their initial assessment would be available within the next 36 hours – so perhaps it would be best to let the experts gather the evidence and report back before he commented any further.
The baying Press pack subsequently reported the interview in such way as to intimate that the Mayor was indifferent to suffering and was out of touch with the feelings of the whole East London community!
A large motorcade of representatives from all five groups, together with the Home Secretary drove to the area and demanded a meeting with the local chief fire officer. They made sure that a large pack of popular Press and BBC propaganda TV had been briefed on the visit and so the motorcade was met by a huge gaggle of journalists, TV interviewers and cameras.
On camera, they loudly demanded to know why the Africans, Black Muslims gypsies and Albanians all died in the fire and only the white couple lived.
The chief fire officer quietly replied:-
” because the british couple were out at work “
what i dont get is that starmer cant protect our borders but is sending troops to defend ukraines ?
fecking madness or what ?
put your own folk first starmer you filthy commie jew homosexuaL BASTARD
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