On Wednesday November 6, 2024, Israeli forces continued their ongoing relentless assault on the 2.2 million civilians in northern, central and southern Gaza for the 397th straight day.
A mother and her three children were killed on Wednesday when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a house in the town of Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip.
Local sources reported that the Israeli occupation’s warplanes bombed a house belonging to the family, which led to the death of the mother and her three children. The sources noted that her husband is currently imprisoned in the Israeli torture prison camps, where thousands of Palestinians are currently being illegally detained.
The Israeli occupation aircraft also launched an air strike in the vicinity of the western roundabout in the town of Beit Lahia, while the occupation artillery fired its shells at Jabalia and the Beit Lahia project.
The Israeli military issued a statement that “This time there is no intention to allow the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to return to their homes … there are no more civilians left north of Gaza City”. This is despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians remain in northern Gaza, and there is literally nowhere for them to go.
The Environment Quality Authority said that the Israeli occupation army dropped more than 85 thousand tons of bombs on the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the aggression on October 7, 2023, which exceeds what was dropped in World War II.
It added in a statement issued today, Wednesday, on the occasion of the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Military Conflict, that the occupation’s continuous bombing of the Gaza Strip has caused the destruction of vast areas of agricultural land and the contamination of the soil with toxic chemicals that will hinder agriculture for decades.
The Environment Quality Authority pointed out that the occupation used all types of weapons and shells in its ongoing aggression, most notably white phosphorus, which is prohibited by international law under the United Nations Convention on Conventional Weapons, which targets environmental components, causing serious environmental damage that threatens the lives of humans and living organisms.
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“I continue to receive very serious and painful news from Gaza. Unarmed civilians are subjected to bombings and shootings. A mother and her daughter were ki!!ed by Israeli snipers while going to the restroom. It is… pic.twitter.com/ETK2ryUQqS
— ADAM (@AdameMedia) November 6, 2024
Children’s daily morning journey for getting water in #Gaza! pic.twitter.com/glViEtJHBl
— Motasem A Dalloul (@AbujomaaGaza) November 5, 2024
The death toll from the ongoing occupation aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 43,391 killed and 102,347 wounded, while thousands of bodies are still trapped under the rubble, while ambulance and civil defense crews face great difficulties in reaching the victims and rescuing the injured, as the intensity of the bombing and the widespread destruction hinder rescue efforts.
Among the slain Palestinians are at least 17,289 children, 11,815 women, 2,421 elderly people, 183 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.
