On Wednesday, Day 285 of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in the besieged, destroyed, and starved Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, including many women and children.
In northern Gaza, the army fired shells at the Sheikh Zayed Towers areas, north of the Jabalia refugee camp, killing four Palestinians and wounding many others.
In Beit Hanoun, also in northern Gaza, the army killed at least one Palestinian and injured several others.
In Gaza City, the army fired a missile at a home for the Tatar family, killing and injuring many Palestinians, and fired a missile at a home for the Al-Farabi family in the Abu Iskandar area in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood.
The army also fired artillery shells at homes in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City, causing many casualties.
In addition, the army fired missiles and shells at the Sheja’eyya, Zeitoun, and Sheikh Radwan neighborhoods, causing casualties.
Day 285: Israeli Missiles Kill Dozens In Gaza
In addition, the Israeli army continued the bombing and shelling of homes, schools, and centers where families sheltered, in central Gaza.
The Palestinian Civil Defense said its medics located the corpses of many slain Palestinians and evacuated many injured residents after the army bombarded a building for the Al-Isawi family where many families sheltered near the Ihsan Mosque in Nusseirat.
It added that, just a few hours earlier, the medics located the corpses of five Palestinians, and evacuated many injured, after the army fired a missile at a home for the Abu Hamda family.
At least seven Palestinians were killed, and many were injured, when the army fired a missile at a home for the Diab family in Zawaida, in central Gaza.
Also, the army fired a missile at Abdullah Azzam Mosque, west of Nusseirat, killing two Palestinians and wounding many.
It is worth mentioning that, on Tuesday, the army bombarded the ar-Razi school, where many families sheltered in Nusseirat, killing 23 Palestinians and wounding more than 70.
In Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, the army fired a missile at a car in the Al-Mawasi area, in the western part of the city, killing 17 Palestinians and wounding 26, in the area.
The army also fired a shell at a home in the Holandi neighborhood, in Khan Younis, killing three Palestinians from the Abu ‘Aker family.
Also in Khan Younis, the army filed a missile at a home for the Islaih family, in the Al-Manara neighborhood, southeast of the city, wounding more than fifteen Palestinians, mostly children and women.
An almost daily occurrence.
At least eight schools hit in the last 10 days, including six @UNRWA schools.The war robbed the girls and boys in #Gaza of their childhood & education.
Schools must never be used for fighting or military purposes by any party to the conflict.… pic.twitter.com/nJE5hfy9df
— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) July 17, 2024
Furthermore, the army continued the ground invasion of Rafah, in Gaza’s southmost part, and the detonation of entire residential neighborhoods, for the third month.
In addition, medical sources said at least five Palestinians were killed and many were injured, when the army bombarded the Khirbet Al-Adas area, in addition to killing two in the Sultan neighborhood, in the western part of the city.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the army committed two massacres of families in several parts of the coastal enclave, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians; among them 49 slain residents and 69 injured, including many children and women, who were moved to medical centers, while the search continues under the rubble.
🚨Palestine Red Crescent ambulance crews attended to 13 detainees who were released today at the Kissufim checkpoint in central #Gaza and transferred them to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. pic.twitter.com/doowNXNZhR
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) July 17, 2024
Furthermore, the Israeli army released thirteen Palestinians, including one woman, who were abducted in several parts of the Gaza Strip, before they were all moved to the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, in central Gaza.
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Over the past several months, the army abducted more than 3.000 Palestinians, and released hundreds of them, after subjecting them to torture and abuse, while an unknown number of detainees have died due to inhumane conditions, including torture, lack of medical treatment, and the extreme conditions they are held under, without food of water.
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In a post on X, UNRWA stated that nearly 70% of its schools in Gaza have been hit since the war began (October 7, 2023,)” and added that “Over 95% of these schools were used as shelters when hit. 539 people sheltering in UNRWA facilities have been killed. Nowhere is safe. The blatant disregard for @UN premises and humanitarian law must stop.”
Nearly 70% of @UNRWA schools in #Gaza have been hit since the war began.
Over 95% of these schools were used as shelters when hit. 539 people sheltering in UNRWA facilities have been killed.
Nowhere is safe. The blatant disregard for @UN premises and humanitarian law must stop. pic.twitter.com/EKiSiOm2kc
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) July 16, 2024
The United Nations stated that Israel continues to prevent the entry of urgently needed fuel to humanitarian aid workers, an issue that is hindering the distribution of food supplies in the Gaza Strip.
“The Israeli authorities still do not allow the provision of necessary fuel to humanitarian relief workers, and therefore food distribution is hampered,” the UN stated.
Stéphane Dujarric, the UN spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, stated that dozens of civilians were killed and others wounded in the recent Israeli attacks in several parts of the Gaza Strip.
Dujarric added that “one of the attacks occurred 100 meters from the center where humanitarian aid operations are conducted in Deir al-Balah.”
Israel just killed 7 Palestinian civilians from the same family.
1. Abdullah Raed Diab
2. Reza Raed Diab
3. Raed Ahmed Diab
4. Riham Raed Diab
5. Roua Raed Diab
6. Suha Diab
7. Unidentified child pic.twitter.com/5F0ebVnlRq— Gaza Notifications (@gazanotice) July 16, 2024
He also said that, despite the Israeli attacks, humanitarian aid operations are ongoing, but added that these attacks “make it more difficult to put people who are already working under great pressure.”
On Tuesday, Doctors Without Borders said that “following strikes, today MSF teams responded yet again to mass casualty influxes at the MSF clinic & Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, and at Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir El Balah. This comes just days after Nasser Hospital received hundreds injured and killed.”
It stated on X social media platform, “Since the beginning of July, our teams have responded to four mass casualty incidents. With each attack, medical staff in Gaza are put under unbearable pressure in a health system that is already stretched to its limits.”
Doctors Without Borders quoted its medical team leader Dr Javid Abdelmoneim stating “Medical staff try their best to save lives in already overwhelmed hospitals that lack even the most basic supplies. But more people will die each second the fighting continues, and supplies are delayed & blocked from entering Gaza.”
It is worth noting that, out of 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip, only 13 are still operational, although partially, lacking basic supplies, while three out of eleven field hospitals in the Gaza Strip had to temporarily close, and four are partially operational.
Israel has now killed at least 38.713, including more than 16.122 children and 10.645 women, and injured more than 89.166, in addition to the thousands (at least 10.000) of missing Palestinians (among them at least 4.700 children and women), largely under the rubble, on destroyed streets and bombarded alleys, across the destroyed Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023.
