On Wednesday, Day 103 of the ongoing Israeli war and ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed dozens of Palestinians and wounded hundreds in several parts of the coastal enclave.
The number of slain Palestinians, Wednesday, is at least 163 in several parts of the Gaza Strip, in addition to those who are still to be located under the rubble of bombarded homes and buildings.
Medical sources said medics and residents located the corpses of 25 Palestinians, including children, under the rubble of bombarded homes in the Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City.
In addition, medical sources said a Palestinian child died from extreme cold in a tent in Gaza, due to the ongoing Israeli onslaught and the absence of electricity and heating devices.
Furthermore, the army wired and detonated Palestine University in Gaza City, using at least 315 explosives.
The army said it had expanded its bombings and operations in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, adding that it has no information regarding the location or the fate of captured Israelis, including soldiers, held by Hamas and other resistance groups of the Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023.
Palestinian medics located the corpses of seven Palestinians near Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis after the army withdrew from the area.
The Israeli army fired barrages of missiles and shells at residential blocs and densely populated areas of Khan Younis.
At least four Palestinians were killed, and many were injured when the army fired a missile at the home of the Namrouti family, in addition to three in a home for the Safi family in Khan Younis, while dozens were injured in the two homes and other homes for the Hamdan and Muheisin families.
The attacks included the placement, make-shift shelters in Khan Younis, while the army also fug and desecrated a graveyard in the Namsawi neighborhood and took several courses, the Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) said.
In addition, the army fired artillery shells at homes and buildings in the Al-Manara and Baten As-Samin neighborhoods in the center of Khan Younis, causing many casualties.
The army also fired missiles at homes and buildings in Jabalia and the Jabalia refugee camp, causing many casualties.
In Gaza City, the army fired hell and missiles at homes, in addition to the Ansar Center and the Port Area, west of the city, causing many casualties.
The Health Ministry in Gaza said at least 350.000 Palestinians with chronic conditions could face imminent death due to the sharp shortages of medicine and added that a large number of Palestinians remain buried under the rubble of bombarded homes and buildings and on streets in several parts of the Gaza Strip.
Furthermore, the Gaza Strip remains without telecommunications and internet services for the sixth consecutive day due to Israel’s bombing.
The blackout is at least the seventh time Gaza has lost internet and communications since October 7, especially due to the severe damage to networks, towers, and transformers targeted by the Israeli army and the massive destruction to Gaza’s infrastructure.
In related news, the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, said its fighters downed an Israeli military drone in the Al-Boreij refugee camp in central Gaza and added that its fighters also fired shells at Israeli tanks and armored vehicles southwest of Gaza City.
Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said its fighters continued to destroy Israeli tanks and armored vehicles, adding that, on Wednesday, the fighters also targeted a group of soldiers with an antipersonnel shell in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City.
Al-Qassam said its fighters, in cooperation with the Al-Quds Brigades of the Islamic Jihad, destroyed six Israeli Merkava tanks in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza and three vehicles, including an armored bulldozer in the Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza.
It added that its sharpshooters killed four soldiers in Al-Maghazi and one in Sheikh Radwan, in Gaza City.
Al-Qassam also said its fighters ambushed soldiers barricading themselves in a home in the Al-Karama Street area northwest of Gaza City, killing and wounding many after firing an antipersonnel shell at them, in addition to destroying three Merkava tanks in Khan Younis.
The Israeli army said Palestinian fighters killed two of its soldiers in several gunbattles in Gaza Wednesday and three on Tuesday and added that the soldiers were two lieutenants and a member of the Givati reconnaissance Brigade.
At least 529 Israeli soldiers have been killed since October 7, 2023, including 197 who were killed in several parts of the Gaza Strip since the army began the ground invasion of the Gaza Strip on October 27, 2023.
Furthermore, sources at the Soroka Israeli Medical Center said the hospital received seventeen wounded Israelis, including three in serious condition, over the last 24 hours, and added that it received 2.588 wounded Israelis, mainly soldiers, since October 7, 33 of them remain hospitalized, including 11 in serious conditions.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the Israeli bombing and shelling of the Gaza Strip since October 7 has led to the killing of at least 24.448 Palestinians, in addition to 61.504 wounded Palestinians, and added that most of the casualties are civilians, mainly women and children.
There are several thousand Palestinians who remain missing, largely killed and buried under the rubble of bombarded homes and buildings in several parts of the Gaza Strip.
In the occupied West Bank, Wednesday, Israeli soldiers killed ten Palestinians, including siblings, in Tulkarem and Nablus.
