On Wednesday, Day 369 of the ongoing conflict, the Israeli army fired barrages of missiles and shells at various parts of the devastated, besieged, starved, and destroyed coastal enclave, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including many children and women.
Palestinian Red Crescent medics confirmed that nine members of the Farahat family were killed after an Israeli warplane targeted their apartment near the market in Sheja’eyya neighborhood, east of Gaza. The bodies were transported to the Baptist Hospital in the city.
Additionally, medics retrieved the bodies of three Palestinians, including a child, and several injured Palestinians after Israeli aircraft bombed a house belonging to the Al-Jamal family in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza. The victims were transported to Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat.
In the early hours of the morning, medics retrieved the bodies of four individuals, including a child, from under the rubble of a house belonging to the Al-Khaldi family in Al-Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza, after the army fired a missile at it.
The Israeli army also fired shells and missiles at various neighborhoods of Gaza City, coinciding with drone live fire, northwest of the city.
Medics said that a child was killed, and many Palestinians were injured, in an Israeli bombing of Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, in Gaza City, while the army continued to fire artillery shells at the northern parts of the city.
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Furthermore, Israeli airstrikes continued around Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, with medica and civil defense sources reporting dozens of bodies in the streets of Jabalia refugee camp amid escalating artillery shelling and gunfire in multiple areas.
Medical sources have confirmed that the army killed four Palestinians while trying to locate slain Palestinians under the rubble of bombarded homes, while seven other Palestinians were killed, and many injured, when the army fired a missile at a home in the refugee camp.
In Rafah, in Gaza’s southernmost part, ten Palestinians were killed and many injured in two Israeli bombings in the city.
Gaza, once home to 2.3 million Palestinians, now shows a striking contrast from what it was just a year ago. We explore the destruction after a year of Israel’s war on the besieged enclave.
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In Khan Younis, in the southern part of the coastal enclave, the army continued the artillery shelling of various villages, east of the city, after the Palestinians were displaced from Bani Soheila town.
Reuters stated that United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced on Tuesday that he has written to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, warning him that proposed Israeli legislation to prevent the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) from operating in the occupied Palestinian territory would be disastrous.
“Such a measure would stifle efforts to alleviate human suffering and tensions in Gaza and the entire Occupied Palestinian Territory. It would be catastrophic in what is already an unmitigated disaster,” Guterres told reporters.
The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, reported that “at least 400,000 people are trapped in northern Gaza, with Israeli evacuation orders forcing them to flee repeatedly, especially from Jabalia refugee camp.”
In a press statement on Wednesday, Lazzarini noted that many Palestinians refuse to evacuate because they know there is no safe place in Gaza. He highlighted the spread and worsening of famine throughout the region, with basic supplies running out.
Lazzarini also revealed that some of the agency’s shelters and service centers have been forced to close for the first time since October 7, 2023.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed at least 41,965 Palestinians, including 16,927 children and 11,487 women, and injured more than 97,590 others, including a large number of children and women. The casualties are much higher than declared as thousands remain missing under the rubble, and rescue teams face immense difficulties in reaching all affected areas.
