Updated: On Thursday, Day 321 of the ongoing genocide, Israeli missiles and shells struck many homes and buildings across the destroyed, starved, and besieged Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including women, children, and infants.
In Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, the army fired a missile at a home for the Hammouda family, killing eleven Palestinians and wounding many others.
Medical sources have reported that most of the casualties were children and women who were severely mutilated were transferred to Kamal Adwan Hospital.
In Jabalia, in northern Gaza, the army fired a missile at an apartment for the Salman family in Tal Az-Za’tar in the Jabalia refugee camp, killing at least three Palestinians, including children and women, and wounding many more.
The army also fired barrages of missiles and shells at Palestinian lands near Abu Obeida graveyard and Al-Qastal towers, east of Deir Al-Balah, in central Gaza, causing many casualties.
Many Palestinians, including children and women, were injured when the army fired a missile at a home near the Abdul-‘Al Hall, west of Nusseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza.
In the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, in central Gaza, an Israeli missile struck a home for the Dabaka family, killing a Palestinian photojournalist, Husam Dabaka, along with his wife, children, and several members of his family, and wounding many others.
Casualties were also reported when the army fired shells at the neighborhoods of Sabra, Tal Al-Hawa, and Zeitoun, especially after the army fired missiles, artillery shells, and live rounds at them.
A Palestinian mother and her child were killed, and several citizens were injured, when the army fired a missile at a home for the Abu Doqqa family, southeast of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the coastal region.
On the political level, some Israeli media outlets held US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, responsible for the diminished chances of reaching a ceasefire agreement in Cairo, and stated that the US stances, siding with Netanyahu, have caused the indirect ceasefire talks to reach a dead end.
Israeli Times Of Israel quoted an Arab official “from a state that is involved in the indirect ceasefire talks,” stating that “Blinken’s statement regarding Netanyahu’s support of the American proposal is puzzling and inaccurately presents Hamas as the only party blocking the deal.”
Israel’s missiles and shells have destroyed, 87.000 housing units and 25.010 residential buildings in addition to partially damaging 297.000 housing units, and damaging 25 hospitals, 3 churches, 25 mosques, 117 schools and universities (332 schools and universities were partially destroyed) and 198 governmental buildings, in addition to destroying 131 ambulances.
Photographer Mohammed Faraj Allah is found 8 months after he was killed by the israelis while filming the Civil Defense teams work to retrieve bodies pic.twitter.com/rIr63Xsm8Y
— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) August 21, 2024
On Wednesday, Palestinian sources said the Israeli army has killed at least 43 Palestinians and injured dozens, in addition to many who remain under the rubble, in several parts of the Gaza Strip.
On Wednesday evening, at least 25 Palestinians, including children and women, were killed, and dozens were injured, when the army fired missiles and shells at the homes and tents of displaced Palestinians.
Medical sources in the Gaza Strip said the Israeli army killed at least 22 Palestinians, including children, infants, and women, and injured dozens, in the Gaza Strip in the first dawn hours, Thursday.
Israel has now killed at least 40.223, including 16.365 children (2,000 children under 2 years old) Palestinians and more than 11.012 women, and injured more than 92.981, largely children, women and elderly, in addition to the thousands (more than 10.000 including 4.700 children and women) who remain under the rubble, on destroyed streets, and in bombarded alleys, while medics and rescue teams remain unable to reach them in various parts of the coastal enclave, since October 7, 2023.
Also among the slain Palestinians in Gaza are 885 medical staff, 165 journalists, 496 educators, 203 UNRWA workers, and 79 Civil Defense workers.
