Updated: Israeli bombardment on all parts of the Gaza Strip continued on Monday morning, the 213th day of the Israeli military invasion of the Gaza Strip. 22 Palestinian civilians were killed between midnight and 6 am Monday in numerous Israeli bombings.
The airstrikes focused on the city of Rafah, where 1.5 million displaced Palestinians are currently sheltering in the southern Gaza Strip after having fled the north and central parts of Gaza under the orders of the Israeli military.
In addition, hundreds of trucks filled with humanitarian aid for the starving population of Gaza are stuck at the border as Israeli military officials refuse to allow them entry.
The Israeli army has begun calling for Palestinians to evacuate parts of Rafah. To force 1 million+ displaced Palestinians in Rafah to again flee is unlawful & catastrophic. There’s nowhere safe to go in Gaza. The int’l community should act to prevent further atrocities. @hrwhttps://t.co/76smi5HmmL
Overnight in Gaza, 22 Palestinians, including 8 children, were killed in Israeli raids targeting 11 houses in Rafah, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
Reporters explained that 4 Palestinian civilians, including two children, were killed in an Israeli shelling that targeted a house belonging to the Abu Libdeh family in the Al-Geneina neighborhood, east of Rafah, while 9 civilians, including 4 children, were killed after an Israeli shelling targeted a house for the Qishta family in Al-Salam neighborhood in Rafah.
Four civilians, including an infant, were killed when Israeli warplanes bombed a house on George Street, east of Rafah, and an air strike targeted Khirbet al-Adas, northeast of the city.
Earlier on Saturday, the Civil Defense teams in Gaza Governorate recovered 5 decomposing bodies of martyrs from the Jabari family, whose home was targeted near the Palestine Stadium in the city.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military issued an order (via internet social media channels, which most Gazans lack access to) for Palestinians sheltering in eastern Rafah to walk northeast to Khan Younis, an area which has been devastated by Israeli bombardment for the past four months and is now mainly rubble, so that they can launch a ground invasion of eastern Rafah.
This evacuation order would force Palestinians to walk around 1.5 to 4+ hours from the closest and farthest points east of Rafah (red) to north of Khan Younis (yellow).
Along their path is total devastation, confirmed and unknown mass graves, and potential unexploded ordinances. https://t.co/zKqd0DEszT
An attack by the Palestinian resistance on the Kerem Shalom military base on the eastern border between Gaza and Israel was claimed by the Israeli government to have targeted the Kerem Shalom (Karem Abu Salem) border crossing, but that claim was proven false, as the resistance targeted the military base and not the border crossing, which is about 2 kilometers away.
Image shows the hole left by a Palestinian rocket fired at the Israeli military base
The picture shows two circles in yellow and red, the yellow is the actual Kerem Abu Salem crossing, the red is the military Kerem Abu Salem military post.
The recent attack by the Palestinian resistance was not on the Kerem Abu Salem… pic.twitter.com/1tvXdMBbkn
Among those killed in airstrikes overnight were three children under 5 years old:
Muhammad (6 months) & Reem (3 yo), their sister Hadeel (4 yo), & three more members of their family were killed by ‘Israel' in Rafah today in the Al-Attar family massacre. pic.twitter.com/zni4v7CxHD
Medical sources announced that the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 34,683, including more than 17.873 children and 9.801 women, and injuries to 78,018, since the start of the Israeli invasion on the seventh of last October.
Thousands of Palestinians are still missing under the rubble and in the streets, and that the occupation prevents ambulance crews and civil defense from reaching them.
🚨DEBUNKING THE RECENT ISRAELI PROPAGANDA.
The picture shows two circles in yellow and red, the yellow is the actual Kerem Abu Salem crossing, the red is the military Kerem Abu Salem military post.
The recent attack by the Palestinian resistance was not on the Kerem Abu Salem… pic.twitter.com/1tvXdMBbkn
