On Wednesday, Day 383 of the ongoing genocide, the Israeli army continued the bombing and shelling of various parts of the devastated, impoverished, and besieged coastal enclave, in addition to intensifying the bombing on northern Gaza, causing dozens of casualties, not long after an earlier bombing of a UNRWA shelter in Jabalia refugee camp in north Gaza, killing at least 57 Palestinians who were among the 70 slain since dawn on Tuesday.
Two Palestinians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli army shelling south of Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza.
Medical sources reported that the Israeli army targeted a vehicle belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) on Salahuddin Street, south of Deir al-Balah, resulting in the killing of two citizens and the injury of others with varying degrees of wounds.
The Israeli army continues to demolish residential blocks and homes in the western part of Jabalia refugee camp and various areas in the northern Gaza Strip, coinciding with a complete siege and the ongoing bombing and attempts at forcibly displacing the Palestinians.
The army has forced hundreds of families from the Jabalia refugee camp to evacuate their homes and flee to other areas in the northern Gaza Strip and to Khan Younis in the south.
In addition, Israeli soldiers surrounded the Al-Fahkoura school in Jabalia, before invading it and forcing the displaced families, sheltering there, to leave.
The Israeli army has escalated its bombings against Palestinians in Gaza City and the northern parts of the Gaza Strip, which has been under siege for 19 days, particularly in the Jabalia refugee camp, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries.
Early Wednesday morning, two Palestinian children and their mother were killed, and six others were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting the Halawa family’s home in the Al-Zarqa area, north of Gaza City. The injured and deceased were transported to the Baptist Hospital in the city.
Four Palestinians were also killed, and many injured, in an Israeli bombing of the eastern area of the Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City.
Also, the army fired many missiles at the Tuwam, Sheikh Radwan, and Az-Zarqa areas, northwest, and north of Gaza City, causing many casualties.
Media sources said the Israeli army conducted at least twenty strikes on various parts of the coastal enclave in the first few hours of Wednesday, especially in the Jabalia refugee camp and Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza.
The Palestinian Civil Defense said its medics located the corpses of two slain Palestinians and evacuated three wounded, from the rubble of the Masoud residential building that the Israeli army bombarded in Beit Lahia.
In addition, two Palestinians were killed, and many were wounded when the army bombarded the Mansour warehouse area in Beit Lahia. At the same time, the army also continued to fire barrages of live rounds at houses in the Al-Fakhoura area.
Two Palestinians were also killed and more than ten were injured, some seriously, when the army fired a missile at Osama Bin Zeid School, sheltering displaced families, in Beit Lahia.
Furthermore, an Israeli drone killed Dr. Mohammad Ghanem who works at the Kamal Adwan Hospital, while he was in Beit Lahia.
It is worth mentioning that Israeli warplanes launched intense airstrikes on neighborhoods in Jabalia refugee camp and Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, coinciding with heavy artillery shelling targeting populated areas, destroying several homes and terrifying civilians.
Several Palestinians, including two children, were killed and many more were wounded in an Israeli bombing of a home for the Halawa family in the western area of Jabalia town.
Residents and medics reported that Israeli forces have besieged hospitals and shelters for displaced individuals in northern Gaza, intensifying their operations and preventing essential aid from reaching civilians.
They confirmed that the forces abducted many men and ordered women to leave Jabalia refugee camp, while the army continued demolishing and burning dozens of homes in various areas of northern Gaza.
In addition, many Palestinians were killed and injured in an Israeli bombing of a home west of Jabalia town in northern Gaza, while at least seven Palestinians were killed and many injured in an Israeli bombing of a house on Al-Ajarma Street in Jabalia refugee camp.
The Palestinian Civil Defense reported that more than six hundred Palestinians have been killed since the start of the renewed Israeli onslaught on the Jabalia refugee camp on October 6 and added that many remain under the rubble and on the streets.
Also, an Israeli drone fired a missile at many displaced Palestinians in Beit Lahia, killing and wounding many citizens, while three more Palestinians were killed and many injured when the army fired a missile at a placement center housing displaced families in Beit Hanoun.
Two Palestinians were injured when an Israeli drone fired a missile at residents in the market area of Beit Lahia.
Dr. Mohammad Saleh, the acting director of Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, stated that the Israeli army has surrounded and isolated the hospital, positioning its tanks just about 150 meters away, and added, “Due to the heavy gunfire, we cannot leave the medical facility or even approach the windows and doors.”
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini called for an immediate humanitarian truce in northern Gaza, which has been under siege for more than two weeks.
He stated, “People in northern Gaza are just waiting for death. Bodies are lying on the roads or under the rubble, and missions to remove them or provide humanitarian assistance are being denied.”
Lazzarini added, “Our staff in northern Gaza cannot find food, water, or medical care.”
In a statement, Saleh explained that the World Health Organization (WHO) is unable to deliver fuel and supplies to us or coordinate the transfer of six critical cases to hospitals in Gaza City.
He confirmed that everyone inside the hospital is surviving on just one meal a day, consisting of half a loaf of bread or a small plate of rice.
Saleh noted that two days ago, the Israeli forces fired artillery shells at the hospital, destroying two floors designated for patient accommodation and the water tanks.
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“This is the third time the army has besieged the hospital since the beginning of this onslaught more than a year earlier,” Saleh stated. “We fear that the Israeli army is readying to invade the hospital to force all patients and medical staff out.”
In addition, the army fired barrages of artillery shells at all northwestern areas of Rafah city, in Gaza’s southernmost part.
The army also detonated an entire residential bloc in the Saudi neighborhood, west of Rafah city.
As of a preliminary count, the death toll since the onset of the aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7 has reached more than 42,718, with at least 100,282 Palestinians injured, the majority of whom are women and children. Thousands of Palestinians remain trapped under the rubble and in the streets, making them inaccessible.
