On Tuesday, Israeli missiles and shells have killed and injured hundreds of Palestinians, including women and children, in extensive bombings and the firing of missiles at various parts of the devastated and destroyed Gaza Strip, including schools and UNRWA-run facilities.
The Israeli Airforce fired missiles at the Beit Hanoun Elementary School and Beit Hanoun Secondary School, both run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), while soldiers could be heard and seen laughing, cheering, and celebrating the destruction.
Israel’s bombing Tuesday also killed a Palestinian journalist, Abdul-Karim Odah, who was among many slain and wounded Palestinians.
The army also bombarded various schools in Gaza to displace, yet again, the displaced Palestinians who fled their homes and sought shelter in these facilities, to be shelled again by the military.
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The army fired many missiles and shells at the densely populated Shaboura refugee camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza strip, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, mainly women, children, and infants.
In Rafah, the army killed dozens of Palestinians and injured dozens, in addition to scores who remain under the rubble, in a series of airstrikes and shelling targeting various areas of the city.
Media sources said the army bombarded homes in Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood in Rafah, killing at least twenty and wounding more than seventy; most of them children and wounded, while dozens remain under the rubble.
In Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, the army killed and injured many Palestinians in a number of air strikes and also fired missiles around Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in addition to wounding and killing many Palestinians when Israeli war jets fired a missile at a car in the center of the city.
Israeli missiles and shells targeted dozens of homes and buildings in the eastern and central parts of Khan Younis, forcing thousands of families to flee to the far southern areas of Rafah.
Dozens of Israeli artillery shells also struck homes and buildings in the Jabalia refugee camp, in Jabalia in northern Gaza, causing dozens of casualties, including fatalities, among the civilians, including children and women.
Despite constant bombings, Palestinian medics and rescue teams tried to evacuate the wounded but were also targeted with missiles.
The army began its siege of the Jabalia refugee camp eight days ago before starting to force more than 5000 Palestinians to leave two schools they sheltered in.
Also, the Israeli occupation army said it started flooding the tunnels in the Gaza Strip with water from the Mediterranean Sea.
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At least fifteen Palestinians, including women and children, were killed when the Israeli army fired missiles at a home for the Salem family in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City. The slain Palestinians were buried in a mass grave near the bombed building due to extensive Israeli strikes and the destruction of roads and infrastructure.
The Israeli Airforce fired missiles at ten homes filled with Palestinian families in the Daraj neighborhood, Sahaba Area, Al-Yarmouk area, Sheja’eyya, and the Zeitoun neighborhood, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including women and children.
In addition, Israeli drones targeted ambulances, medics, and rescue teams while trying to evacuate the wounded and the slain Palestinians.
Israeli tanks and armored vehicles continued the siege on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza while the soldiers forced more than 5000 Palestinians, mainly women and children, to leave two UNRWA-run schools they sheltered in after their homes were bombarded.
Media sources said the soldiers stormed nine UNRWA schools after extensive bombings of the area.
The army also fired a missile at the main entrance and gate of Jabalia Clinic, killing five Palestinians and wounding many others.
In central Gaza, especially in the Al-Boreij and Deir Al-Balah, the army fired missiles at more than five homes, killing nine Palestinians and wounding more than twenty.
In addition, Israel said it is trying to destroy all tunnels used by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza by bombing and flooding them with water and that flooding is just one of many methods implemented to destroy the tunnels.
Likely, many Israelis and Israeli soldiers who are in the hands of Hamas and other groups in Gaza are also in those tunnels. Hamas also previously said that many of the Israelis it has have been killed, along with the Palestinians, by Israeli missiles and shells.
Dr. Ashraf Al-Qedra, the spokesperson of the Health Ministry in Gaza, said the “Israeli army committed 17 massacres against entire families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours.”
Al-Qedra added that Gaza hospitals received the corpses of 207 Palestinians and more than 450 wounded in just a few hours and that a large number of Palestinians remain buried under the rubble of bombarded homes and buildings.
Furthermore, dozens of slain Palestinians on the streets as medics and rescue operators have been unable to reach them.
Al-Qedra also said that dozens of soldiers invaded and caused serious damage to Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, after firing shells at it.
The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a statement reiterating “its call for the protection of health care and humanitarian assistance in Gaza, following military checkpoint delays and detention of health partners during a mission to transfer critically ill patients and deliver supplies to a hospital in northern Gaza. During the mission, a patient reportedly died.”
It added that: “On December 9 2023, a WHO team, in collaboration with the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and with support from the United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS), completed a high-risk mission to Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City to deliver medical supplies, assess the situation in the hospital, and transfer critically-injured patients to a hospital in the south. The mission delivered trauma and surgical supplies, enough to treat 1500 patients, to the hospital and transferred 19 critical patients with 14 companions to Nasser Medical Complex in south Gaza, where they can receive a higher level of care.
In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that Israeli missiles and shells have killed more than 18.405 and injured 51.100 Palestinians since October 7. The Israeli bombings of Gaza are carried out from the land, the air, and the sea.
