On Saturday, for the 351st straight day, Israeli forces continued their onslaught against the entire civilian population of 2.2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, dropping several bombs in various parts of Gaza in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday September 21st.
In a number of bombings before dawn Saturday, Israeli missiles killed Palestinian civilians in central and southern Gaza. Four Palestinians were killed at dawn on Saturday in Israeli shelling in central Gaza Strip.
The children pictured in the photo above – Hani, Eileen, and Shaima, were killed last night with their mother and grandparents in an Israeli airstrike on their home near Gaza Municipality Park.
A correspondent with the Palestinian Wafa news agency said that ambulance crews recovered 4 killed Palestinians and a number of wounded people after a missile attack targeted a group of citizens in front of the house of the Al-Najjar family in Camp 1 in Al-Nuseirat camp.
Eleen, 5, Shaimaa, 7, and Hani, 10, were MURDERED by Israeli occupation while at home yesterday along with their mother and grandparents! pic.twitter.com/yo2loNkstj
— Motasem A Dalloul (@AbujomaaGaza) September 21, 2024
”My father, mother, and nine-year-old daughter were killed.”
While the world’s eyes turn to #Lebanon, #Israel continues its brutal attack on #Gaza strip. It is bombing and shelling across the besieged Strip while people shelter in crowded and ever-shrinking “safe zones.” pic.twitter.com/0aX2LjMAoX— Palestine Info Center (@palinfoen) September 20, 2024
The Wafa reporter added that the Israeli occupation artillery bombed citizens’ homes in the Al-Janina neighborhood, east of Rafah city, in the south of the Gaza Strip.
A young man was killed and others were injured, Saturday morning, when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a house in Khan Yiunis city, south of the Gaza Strip.
Local sources reported that a Palestinian was killed and others were injured as a result of the Israeli occupation bombing of a house belonging to the “Mukhaimer” family in the city.
Three other Palestinians were injured in a bombing that targeted a tent housing displaced people in the middle of Khan Yunis, while Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a site in the vicinity of Nasser Medical Complex to the west.
Also Saturday before dawn, the Israeli occupation artillery fired its shells and bullets towards the western areas of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
🚨Breaking: After over 72 hours under the rubble of their home in #Gaza, the bodies of two siblings 4 year old Majd and 2 year old Mona Zaqout were recovered, joining their mother and relatives, all KILLED by Israeli army. pic.twitter.com/XNmUojHuGs
— Nour Naim| نُور (@NourNaim88) September 20, 2024
A video posted by Palestinian photojournalist Ashraf Amra shows Ahmed, a Palestinian man, grieving for his family, who were killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza. Amra noted that Ahmed is the only surviving member of his family. pic.twitter.com/OIaYplexqi
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) September 21, 2024
Today, I narrowly escaped death while walking along the beach in northern #Gaza as Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike very close to me.#GazaGenocide pic.twitter.com/UqONvP6R9T
— الـشـبـ𓂆ـراوي #غـزَّة (@M_shebrawy3) September 20, 2024
Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression, by land, sea and air, on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, which has resulted in the killing of at least 41,957 since the start of the aggression on October 7, 2023, the majority of whom are children and women. The number of injuries has reached 95,000, while thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and rescue crews cannot reach them.
Among the slain Palestinians are at least 16,640 children, 11,410 women, 183 journalists and 23 emergency responders, 885 medical staff, 82 Civil Defense staff, and 211 UNRWA staff.
The British Lancet Medical Journal and other experts estimate the death toll in Gaza is much higher – and could be above 200,000 when counting both direct and indirect deaths related to the Israeli war on Gaza.
This most recent escalation of Israel’s ongoing military occupation of Palestine began October 7th, 2023 when 1,143 Israelis were killed, including 767 civilians and 376 armed soldiers. Around 500 Israeli soldiers have been killed between October 7th and now – both in Gaza and on the Israeli border with Lebanon.
