Updated: On Wednesday, Day 404 of the ongoing genocide, Israeli missiles and shells struck various parts of the besieged, destroyed, and starved Gaza Strip, killing dozens of Palestinians, including many children.
A Palestinian child was killed, and more than twenty Palestinians were injured when the Israeli army bombarded the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
The Civil Defense Directorate in Gaza announced on Wednesday that its operations have been disrupted for 22 days across all northern regions of the Gaza Strip due to the ongoing Israeli onslaught.
In a statement, the Directorate added that thousands of Palestinians are now without medical and humanitarian care as a result of the disruption in civil defense activities.
The statement reads: “For the 22nd consecutive day, civil defense services remain forcibly suspended in all areas of northern Gaza Strip due to the continuous targeting and aggression by Israel, leaving thousands of citizens without humanitarian and medical care.”
On October 23, Israeli forces attacked civil defense teams in northern Gaza, seizing their vehicles and displacing most of the personnel to central and southern regions, with ten members reportedly kidnapped.
The Gaza Civil Defense called on humanitarian organizations to respond to the distress calls and suffering of thousands of citizens trapped in northern Gaza due to ongoing Israeli crimes, urging serious efforts to restore civil defense operations and deploy their stalled vehicles in the town of Beit Lahia.
Palestinians and local, international, and Israeli human rights organizations report that the Israeli military is implementing what is known as the “Generals’ Plan” in northern Gaza.
The plan entails evacuating the northern Gaza Strip of its residents, relocating them to the south, besieging the north, and preventing humanitarian aid from entering the area.
The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that the army “committed seven massacres in the Gaza Strip, Wednesday,” killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including children and women, among them 47 slain residents and 182 wounded, who were moved to hospitals, while many remain under the rubble and in areas sealed off by the army.
The preliminary death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, has reached 43,712 killed and 103,258 wounded.
Among the slain Palestinians are at least 17,385 children, 11,891 women, 2,421 elderly people, 183 journalists, 85 emergency responders, 1,054 medical staff, 496 education staff, and 203 UNRWA staff.
Reports also indicate that there are thousands of victims who are still trapped under the rubble or in the streets, where it is impossible to reach them due to the ongoing bombing.
UPDATE 07:30 pm
Israeli air strikes target displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza. Eyewitnesses reported that several people have been wounded due to an Israeli air strike on a tent housing displaced people in Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis.
UPDATE 06:50 pm
In Italy, about 100 students have occupied Leonardo’s LDOF.MI headquarters in Turin city to denounce what they say is the Italian defense group’s complicity in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. The students, who unfurled the Palestinian flag from the roof of Leonardo’s offices, said the company was supporting the war by providing remote technical assistance and spare parts to Israel’s air force.
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The northern part of Gaza has been under a deadly Israeli siege for more than a month. A review by the Famine Review Committee (FRC) last week found an “imminent and substantial likelihood of famine occurring, due to the rapidly deteriorating situation in the Gaza Strip”.
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Photos (Reuters): Israel bombs displacement tents in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza
Earlier Wednesday
The army fired missiles at Al-Mintar Street in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, killing three Palestinians and wounding many.
In Northern Gaza, the army killed a Palestinian athlete, Eyad Abu Khater, and injured many Palestinians in ongoing bombings, especially targeting a home for the Abu Jarad family in Beit Lahia.
In Jabalia, in northern Gaza, the army wired and detonated many homes and buildings and fired missiles and shells at several parts of the city and the Jabalia refugee camp, causing many casualties.
At least nine Palestinians were killed by Israeli missiles and shells in two areas in Beit Lahia.
Medical sources said five Palestinians were killed and many injured when the army fired shells at displaced Palestinians near the gate of Kamal Adwan Hospital.
Additionally, four Palestinians were killed and many wounded in a bombing targeting a home in Beit Lahia.
In Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza, the army bombarded many buildings and forcibly evacuated three placement centers, housing thousands of displaced Palestinians, to leave the area for Gaza City and the southern parts of the coastal enclave.
The soldiers also burned the Mahdiyya Shawwa School in the city after forcing the families out and destroyed all humanitarian aid that was allowed into the area just a day earlier.
Furthermore, the army bombarded the northern area of Gaza City, while Israeli navy ships fired missiles and shells at the northwestern areas near the shore of Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza.
Many Palestinians were killed and injured in Israeli bombings targeting displaced Palestinians awaiting aid trucks in the northwestern part of Gaza City.
The locals managed to evacuate some of the wounded on foot; however, the army prevented Palestinian ambulances from entering the area to evacuate the slain and the seriously wounded residents.
In addition, medical sources said a child, only 10 years of age, succumbed to serious wounds she suffered two days earlier after the army bombarded the tent in which her family sheltered in Nuseirat refugee camp, killing her father and wounding many Palestinians.
The army also fired a missile at a home for the Thabet family in Bloc C in Nuseirat refugee camp, killing five Palestinians and wounding many.
In Deir Al-Balah, in central Gaza, two Palestinians were killed and six injured when the army fired a shell at a tent of a displaced family in the Al-Bassa area, in the western part of the city.
An earlier attack in Deir Al-Balah killed more than six Palestinians, including children, in the western part of the city.
In Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, two Palestinians were killed and many injured in an Israeli bombing of the Qizan Rashwan area, south of the city, before they were moved to the Kuwaiti and Nasser hospitals.
In Rafah, in Gaza’s southernmost part, twelve Palestinians were killed and many more injured when the army fired a missile at the northern part of the city. Also in Rafah, one Palestinian was killed after Israeli drones targeted Palestinians in the city.
The UN’s aid chief told the Security Council that the world is “witnessing acts reminiscent of the gravest international crimes in Gaza” where Israel is accused of deliberately starving Palestinian civilians to force them out of the north. pic.twitter.com/4gOdsIyRHw
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) November 13, 2024
The preliminary death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, has reached 43,665 killed and 103,076 wounded.
Among the slain Palestinians are at least 17,385 children, 11,891 women, 2,421 elderly people, 183 journalists, 85 emergency responders, 1,054 medical staff, 496 education staff, and 203 UNRWA staff.
Reports also indicate that there are thousands of victims who are still trapped under the rubble or in the streets, where it is impossible to reach them due to the ongoing bombing.
⚡️🇮🇱BREAKING: WAR CRIME EXPOSED.
An Israeli soldier from the Combat Engineering Battalion filmed himself destroying aid supplies in Jabalia, while the northern residents have been suffering from starvation and siege for over a month.
Credit: @tamerqdh pic.twitter.com/kKysLROrGE
— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws) November 12, 2024
The United Nations Human Rights Office reported that nearly 70% of the verified victims are women and children.
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.
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces and paramilitary colonizers have killed 781 Palestinians, including 167 children, and injured 6,300, including at least 660 children.
