On Saturday, day 372 of the ongoing Israeli genocide against the people of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued their assault on Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, for the seventh straight day, leaving dozens of Palestinians dead and wounded,
From colleague @AbujomaaGaza in North Gaza: reports of two massacres overnight/at dawn:
- In #Jabalia over 20 people got KILLED by the Israeli occupation’s bombing of a residential compound
- In Al Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City a dozen people were killed in the Israeli bombing of a house
The Israeli occupation forces continue to bomb the city Jabalia and the Jabalia refugee camp east of the city by air and land, leaving dozens of killed and wounded, as well as demolishing entire residential blocks.
Dozens of civilians, including children and women, have been killed and injured since dawn on Saturday in rocket and artillery shelling of Jabalia and its camp, and the areas of Saftawi and Al-Tawam, north of the Strip.
Early Saturday morning, the Israeli occupation army issued new evacuation orders for the residents of Jabalia, but many Palestinians insisted on staying and not moving to the south – as the Israeli military has the southern route blocked and have attacked Palestinians trying to go south. In addition, there is no safe place to evacuate to, as Israeli forces have continued their assault on Gaza City in central Gaza, and on Khan Younis in southern Gaza, bombing civilians in all areas of Gaza for the 372nd straight day.
The humanitarian situation in Jabalia camp is becoming more dangerous, with food, medicine and water supplies being prevented from entering the camp, and with the difficulty of ambulance crews entering to retrieve the bodies of the killed and to transport the wounded.
Donkey carts are bringing killed and wounded Palestinians to the hospital, due to the lack of fuel and Israeli destruction of roads that have made it nearly impossible for ambulances to even retrieve the bodies of those killed.
The rescue of a child trapped under rubble in Jabalia:
On October 6, the Israeli occupation army announced the start of a military operation in Jabalia, hours after the start of a fierce attack on the eastern and western regions of the northern Gaza Strip, the most violent since last May.
The Israeli occupation army attacked Jabalia on land twice before, in November and December of last year.
This is the third ground operation carried out by the Israeli occupation army in Jabalia camp since the beginning of the genocidal war on October 7, 2023.
The northern Gaza Strip is witnessing a violent aggression targeting the infrastructure, roads, and what remains of citizens’ homes, in addition to isolating areas from each other.
This is accompanied by a systematic and organized starvation campaign, which includes preventing the entry of food, medicine, water and fuel supplies, and targeting bakeries.
In the air, the Israeli occupation’s drones target any movement of citizens on the ground by firing bullets intensively and randomly.
Doctor Victoria Rose, a British consultant plastic surgeon who worked in Gaza, described the frustration and disbelief felt by Palestinian doctors over how the “world can just stand and watch” as children in Gaza are bombed and the suffering continues. pic.twitter.com/RUXfzPZlL9
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) October 12, 2024
The Israeli occupation forces have continue their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, which resulted in the killing of at least 42,126 citizens and the injury of 98,117 others, the majority of whom are children and women, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of missing people are still under the rubble.
Among the slain Palestinians are at least 16,927 children, 11,487 women, 2,419 elderly people, 175 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.
