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Heavy machinery in Gaza damaged by Israeli strikes
STORY: :: Gazans say Israeli airstrikes are destroying heavy machinery used to lift rubble and recover bodies:: April 22, 2025:: Jabalia, Gaza”Those ten bulldozers that were destroyed used to serve Jabalia city and the northern governorate of Gaza, they served 300,000 people. These bulldozers removed the rubble. The rubble is still in the streets, and we can’t move… People are still trapped under the houses. We don’t know where they are taking us. Do you want to drive us out of the Gaza Strip? We do not want to leave. I am one of those whose eye is gone and am waiting to leave for treatment, I do not want to leave.”“The machinery, they open the streets and retrieve martyrs from under the houses. For a year now, there are people who are still not retrieved from under the rubble. These bulldozers came from God to help us in order to remove the rubble. Today, they destroyed the bulldozers. What do they want from us? Where do they want to take us?”Residents said Israeli forces bombed several areas across the enclave from tanks, planes, and naval boats. The attacks hit houses, tent encampments and roads, they added.Israel has imposed a total blockade on all supplies to Gaza since the start of March and relaunched its military operations on March 18 after the collapse of a ceasefire.Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1,600 Palestinians according to the Gaza health authorities, and hundreds of thousands have been forced from their homes as Israel seized what it calls a buffer zone of Gaza land.
