On Thursday, Day 104, on Israel’s war and genocide targeting about 2.2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells claimed dozens of lives and caused large numbers of injuries across the coastal enclave.
The army fired dozens of missiles and shells at several parts of the Gaza Strip, especially in Khan Younis, Rafah, Nusseirat, Al-Maghazi, Al-Boreij, and Jabalia.
The bombing has been continuous, burying dozens of Palestinians under the rubble of bombarded homes and buildings, in addition to many corpses on streets while medics and rescue teams have been unable to reach most of the bombarded areas.
Medical sources have confirmed that the army fired many shells and missiles at homes and buildings in the Abasan area, east of Kahn Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, killing at least three Palestinians, including a journalist, and wounding many others.
The sources added that the corpses of twelve Palestinians were found under the rubble of homes in Khan Younis and were moved to Nasser Medical Center.
It is worth mentioning that the Israeli army bombarded an entire residential block in Khan Younis, causing dozens of casualties.
In addition, the Israeli army fired a missile at a home for the Zamily family in the Jneina neighborhood, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, killing at least sixteen Palestinians and wounding dozens.
Furthermore, the Israeli army also fired missiles at the Islamic University in Gaza for the third time since October 2023, causing excessive damage.
Also, three Palestinians from the Abu Qaddous family were killed, and many were injured when the army fired a missile at their home in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City.
Palestinian medics also located the corpses of twelve Palestinians under the rubble of homes in Gaza before moving them to the Shifa Medical Center.
“It’s a tent. I came to find my family in pieces.”
A Palestinian father recalls an Israeli attack on his family’s tent in central Gaza that killed three of his children after they were forcibly displaced from the north ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/khd8NJM7Zt
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) January 17, 2024
Jabalia, in northern Gaza, and Khan Younis, among several other areas, were scenes of intense gunbattle fire between the soldiers and Palestinian resistance fighters from various groups.
The Gaza Strip remains without internet and telecommunications for the seventh consecutive day due to the ongoing bombing of various parts of the devastated and destroyed coastal enclave.
This is the seventh time the Gaza Strip has remained without internet and telecommunications since October 7, 2023, especially since the army targeted towers, transformers, and infrastructure, in addition to the serious shortage of fuel needed to run power generators.
The Qatar-based Al-Jazeera said the Israeli army announced locating the bodies of 21 Israeli captives killed in Khan Younis due to Israel’s intense bombings of every part of the coastal enclave.
The announcement came not long after the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said it lost contact with its fighters in charge of guarding dozens of Israelis, including soldiers, who were abducted on October 7, 2023.
Al-Jazeera added that The Israeli military has dug up hundreds of Palestinian graves in Gaza using bulldozers and then taken their bodies to unknown locations.
The Al-Qassam Brigades said its fighters targeted and destroyed several Israeli tanks and armored vehicles in Gaza, while the Israeli army announced the death of three soldiers and one officer in addition to the injury of 35 in the last 24 hours.
It said the fighters destroyed a troop carrier vehicle and two Merkava tanks east of Jabalia, in northern Gaza, and added that its fighters also exchanged fire with twelve soldiers in the same area, killing four.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the “war on Gaza will not be stopped before achieving the stated goals” and added that “Decisive victory in this war means the return of the Israeli captives and the elimination of Hamas.”
He also said that stopping the war on Gaza without achieving its goals sends a message that Israel is weak and added that “Israel must continue to fight until it wins.”
Netanyahu failed to mention the fact that the majority of the victims in Gaza are civilians, mainly women and children, and that Israel’s missiles are also killing Israeli captives in the coastal enclave.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said Israel killed at least 163 Palestinians in the last 24 hours, adding that the Israeli army has now killed 24.620 Palestinians and injured at least 61.504, in addition to the thousands who remain missing, largely under the rubble of bombarded homes and buildings.
Gaza: @WFP warns more aid must reach people in need to prevent a deadly combination of hunger, malnutrition and disease outbreaks.
As the risk of famine grows, the UN is calling for an urgent increase in humanitarian access. pic.twitter.com/B64Jdptfkd
— United Nations (@UN) January 17, 2024
