On Tuesday, July 16th, day 284 of the ongoing Israeli assault on the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip. At least 50 Palestinians were killed, and many more wounded.
The Israeli army committed a new massacre by bombing a school housing displaced people in the Nusseirat camp, which resulted in the death of 23 Palestinians and the injury of more than 70.
In addition, 17 citizens were killed, and 26 others were injured in an occupation raid that targeted the Al-Attar area, which is crowded with displaced people, west of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
A girl was shot by the Israeli soldiers while she was in the yard of a school sheltering displaced people east of the camp.
In addition, the Israeli army’s’ artillery also shelled areas west of the camp, resulting in several injuries.
Israeli warplanes target a house in Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. Casualties reported. pic.twitter.com/LRDotwRN6r
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) July 16, 2024
Seven civilians were killed, and others were injured when the Israeli occupation forces bombed the Diab family’s house in the town of Al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip.
Five civilians were killed, and others injured when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a house east of Al-Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
In addition, Israeli occupation forces bombed the house of the Abu Hamda family east of the Nuseirat camp, which led to the martyrdom of 5 citizens and the injury of others, who were transferred to Al-Awda Hospital.
In Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, 5 citizens were killed in an airstrike launched by the occupation forces on the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, west of the city.
A civilian was killed when an Israeli occupation drone bombed the entrance to the town of Beit Hanoun, north of the Gaza Strip.
Rasha Nahed Abdel Latif, 11 years old, was executed by Israeli forces with a direct shot to the head while attempting to flee from the Israeli tank incursion into her neighborhood. #GazaGenocide pic.twitter.com/rujdUnZlmP
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) July 16, 2024
According to the Middle East Eye, Muhammad Abdullah Mishmish, the program director at Sawt al-Aqsa Radio, has been reported dead by Gaza’s Government Media Office, as Israel’s onslaught on the besieged Strip continues. Mishmish is now the 160th journalist to have lost their life in Israel’s war on Gaza
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said at least 539 displaced Palestinians have been killed in its facilities in Gaza since 7 October
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a halt to the recording of security consultations and cabinet discussions held in the underground operations center of military headquarters, according to Haaretz.
Three far-right groups that have been preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza have raised over $200,000 in donations from Israel and the US, the AP and Israeli investigative site Shomrim found, in an examination of crowdfunding websites and other public records.
Israeli settler mobs were informed of the precise locations and timing of aid trucks delivering urgently needed supplies to starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israeli media coverage of these groups, which operated under controlled movement, was heavily censored. A recent AP report… pic.twitter.com/obipz6dYgY
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) July 16, 2024
The Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, resulting in the martyrdom of more than 38,713 citizens, the majority of whom are women and children, and the injury of more than 89,166 others, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble.
The Government Media Office in Gaza has issued a dire warning about a deepening water crisis, worsened by rising temperatures and higher water demand.
With Israel now occupying all crossings into Gaza, it has intensified the suffering of thousands of Palestinians by using water… pic.twitter.com/fe0I8jUall
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) July 16, 2024
Updated from: Day 284: Israel Continues Relentless Bombardment of Civilian ‘Safe Areas’
On Tuesday, July 16th, day 284 of the ongoing Israeli assault on the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip, in the early hours before dawn, an Israeli strike on a home in Nuseirat killed 11 people, including five children.
According to the Palestinian Wafa news agency, in Khan Yunis, paramedics recovered 4 deceased civilians and 3 wounded from a house belonging to the Abu Teir family after it was targeted by an airstrike launched by Israeli occupation aircraft in the town of Abasan, east of the city. They were transferred to Nasser Medical Complex. The Israeli occupation artillery also fired shells towards the town of Al-Qarara, northeast of the city.
In Rafah city, Tuesday morning, 4 civilians were killed in the Khirbet Al-Adas area in Rafah city. The bodies arrived at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis.
Local residents in the Rafah area reported that the Israeli occupation army also blew up residential blocks west of Rafah.
In Gaza City, ambulance crews recovered a body, and a number of wounded after an Israeli warplane targeted a house belonging to the Zaqouq family in the Nuseirat camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip, and another body of a deceased Palestinian, as well as two injured, after the targeting a residential apartment in Al-Nafaq Street in the city.
The eastern area of Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, was subjected to shelling by the Israeli occupation artillery, while the occupation military vehicles opened fire on the Al-Maghraqa area, north of the Al-Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, Turkey has condemned Israel’s attack on Gaza’s Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital and said those responsible will face “justice in international courts”.
In addition, a spokesperson for the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency (UNRWA) reported that the past week was “one of the deadliest” in Gaza since the war began. The spokesperson also criticized the Isralei military’s destruction of the agency’s headquarters in Gaza City.
3 martyrs, including a child, and others injured as a result of an Israeli bombing targeting a house on Al-Salam Street in the city of Deir al-Balah. pic.twitter.com/E5qxOLuoE6
— 🔻🇲🇾 __azwa__ 🇵🇸🔻 (@__azwa__) July 16, 2024
The Palestine Red Crescent Society’s #mental_health team organized a recreational day at the society’s two shelters in Deir al-Balah, central #Gaza Strip: Basmat Amal 1, dedicated to individuals with disabilities, and Basmat Amal 2, dedicated to cancer patients. pic.twitter.com/CaJQlQdpsJ
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) July 16, 2024
The Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, resulting in the killing of more than 38,664 citizens, the majority of whom are women and children, and the injury of more than 89,097 others, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble.
According to the Middle East Eye, in the US, President Joe Biden faced heavy backlash after he made a claim that he has done “more for the Palestinian community than anybody”.
