On Wednesday, Day 376 of the ongoing genocide, Israeli missiles and shells struck various parts of the devastated, starved and besieged Gaza Strip, killing and wounding many Palestinians, including children and women.
Medical sources said the army fired a missile at the Wafa Tower in the Al-Fallujah area, in northern Gaza, causing many injuries.
They added that Israeli Quadcopter drones also fired live rounds at the Kamal Adwan hospital, and several buildings were families tried to shelter in the Abu Hussein area in the center of the Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza, causing many casualties.
Another Palestinian was seriously injured in the Safi area, west of the Jabalia refugee camp, before he was rushed to Kamal Adwan hospital.
It is worth mentioning that the army renewed its massive ground invasion and bombing of Jabalia, twelve days earlier, while the soldiers continue to wire and detonate dozens of homes and buildings.
Israeli forces have killed more than 360 Palestinians and injured hundreds, in addition to dozens who remain under the rubble, in Jabalia and the Jabalia refugee camp since in the last twelve days since the army renewed its onslaught.
The army also fired a missile at a home on the Shaima’ street in the center of Beit Lahia city, in northern Gaza.
Husam Abu Safiya, the head of Kamal Adwan Hospital, told Al-Jazeera that hospitals in northern Gaza face catastrophic conditions, and called for the opening of safe corridors to save the lives of patients in the area.
Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, told Al Jazeera that hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip are in a catastrophic situation, and called for the opening of safe corridors to save the lives of patients in the area. pic.twitter.com/Tl5pe3l3Aj
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) October 16, 2024
In Gaza city, the army fired a missile at Palestinians on the Ahmad Yassin Street, in the northern part of the city, killing two and wounding several others.
Thirteen Palestinians were killed and many injured when the Israeli Air Force fired a missile at a home in the Nasr street, west of Gaza city.
Furthermore, the army fired missile at a home near the “Italian Towers” in Gaza, killing at least five and wounding many.
Palestinian Civil Defense medics located the corpses of five Palestinians under the rubble of the home where displaced families sheltered near the “Italian Tower,” in the Nasr area, northwest of Gaza city.
At least four Palestinians were killed and many injured by Israeli missiles and shells at the Bani Soheila junction, east of Khan Younis; among the slain Palestinians are a father, his son and his grandson.
At least one Palestinian was killed, and many were injured, in an Israeli bombing of the Sofa area, east of Rafah city, in Gaza’s southmost part. The Israeli army also continued to wire and detonate homes in several parts of Rafah.
In addition, Palestinian medics located the corpse of one Palestinian who was among many slain and wounded residents, under the rubble of a bombarded home in the Al-Jenina neighborhood, in the eastern part of Rafah city.
The army also fired missiles and shells at the eastern areas of the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, in central Gaza.
It is worth mentioning that the Israeli army killed more than twenty Palestinians and wounded dozens, including children and women, in the last twenty-four hours, in central Gaza.
The Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education revealed that 11,406 students have been killed and 18,556 injured since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7, 2023, in both the Gaza Strip Gaza and the West Bank.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Ministry explained that the number of students killed in Gaza since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza has reached more than 11,292, with 17,965 injured, and added that 114 students have been killed and 591 injured, in addition to 439 abducted in the occupied West Bank.
Tragically, this Palestinian youth has lost multiple family members, with the latest being his sister, who was killed in the ongoing Israeli aggression in northern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/slLjx05TDM
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) October 16, 2024
The Ministry also noted that 550 teachers and administrators have been killed and 3,717 injured in Gaza and the West Bank, with more than 145 arrested in the West Bank.
It also highlighted that 362 government schools, universities, and university buildings, along with sixty-five facilities belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), have been bombed and destroyed in Gaza, resulting in severe damage to 124 of them and the complete destruction of sixty-two.
Today in the ICU,where nothing exists except darkness and wounded
we die every day we burn alive 💔🇵🇸. How long will you continue to watch this tragedy unfold? We have lost all hope. Our hearts are heavy with the weight of loss, silently waiting for relief that never comes pic.twitter.com/oLhyGbSOIT— Dr Mohammed Al Najjar 🇵🇸🇵🇸 (@M7madNajar) October 15, 2024
Additionally, eighty-four schools and seven universities in the West Bank have been raided and vandalized by Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers, while133 government schools have been used as shelters in Gaza.
The Ministry emphasized that 718,000 students in Gaza are still deprived of attending their schools and universities since the start of the aggression, with most students suffering from psychological trauma and facing difficult health conditions.
It also pointed out that repeated incursions by Israeli forces into the governorates of Jenin and Tulkarm have caused terror among students in their schools.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the Israeli army committed four massacres of families, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians in several parts of the coastal enclave in the last 24 hours, among them 55 slain Palestinians and 329 injured, including dozens of children and women who were moved to medical centers, while many remain under the rubble.
Israel has now killed at least 42,344 Palestinians, including 16,927 children, and 11,487 women, and injured more than 99,013 others, the majority of whom are children and women, in addition to the thousands of missing Palestinians, under the rubble, on destroyed streets and bombarded alleys, across the destroyed coastal enclave, since October 7, 2023.
