For the 361st straight day in the Gaza Strip, Tuesday October 1st, 2024, Israeli forces have continued their relentless assault against the entire civilian population of 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza.
At least 19 Palestinians were killed and others were injured in a bombing before dawn on Tuesday, when Israeli occupation forces’ shelling of the Nuseirat refugee camp and the “Shuja’iyya” school, which shelters displaced people in the Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
In the Nuseirat camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip, 12 Palestinians, most of them children and women, were killed as a result of the Israeli occupation bombing of two houses in the camp.
A correspondent with the Wafa news agency reported that the Israeli occupation’s bombing led to the destruction of a three-story house belonging to the Al-Durra family, and the killing of 7 children and 3 women, as a family displaced from Gaza City was staying there. Two women were also killed as a result of the occupation’s bombing of another house in the camp belonging to the Abu Ataya family, while an elderly man was injured by bullets from a “Quadcopter” plane while it was firing on civilians in the New camp in Nuseirat.
In Gaza City, 7 Palestinians were killed and others were injured, after the occupation bombed the “Shuja’iyya” school, which shelters displaced people in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
GRAPHIC – video shows aftermath of Israeli bombing of “Shuja’iyya” School, including bodies of children killed:
A number of Palestinians, including children, were also killed after a residential apartment was bombed near the gold market in the old city of Gaza.
The Israeli occupation artillery fired its shells simultaneously with the firing of vehicles stationed in the Kuwait Roundabout and University College area at the Zeitoun and Sabra neighborhoods southeast of Gaza City, while the Israeli occupation forces blew up residential buildings in the city of Rafah.
Civil defense forces pulled out the bodies of two Palestinians and evacuated trapped residents from a residential building after being bombed by Israeli warplanes in Gaza city. pic.twitter.com/BQmWCqNnMw
— Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine) September 30, 2024
Israeli ground troops remain entrenched in northern, central and southern Gaza, while over 2 million Palestinians have been forced from their homes and pushed into smaller and smaller enclaves as the Israeli military bombs and bulldozes large swaths of land that they plan to take from the Palestinian owners using massive military force.
The Israeli military entered Gaza by scanning with aircraft missiles, destroying all buildings, streets and lands within a 12 kilometer distance before ground troops enter.
Currently, Israeli occupation forces are present in Rafah “on the Egyptian-Palestinian border south of the Gaza Strip, and in Netzarim in the middle of the Gaza Strip, and on the border north of the Gaza Strip,” which are open areas far from buildings and residents for more than 10 kilometers. Israeli soldiers remain in their armored military vehicles all the time, and when the troops do try to engage and enter residential neighborhoods in cars they “use the clothes of journalists, ambulances or civil defense personnel and impersonates them”, according to local sources.
The death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 41,615, the majority of whom are children and women, and the number of injuries has risen to 96,359 since the start of the Israeli occupation aggression on October 7, while thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, as the occupation prevents ambulance and civil defense crews from reaching them.
Among the slain Palestinians are at least 16,891 children, 11,458 women, 174 journalists, 85 emergency responders, 986 medical staff, and 203 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.
