As the Israeli onslaught on the Palestinians in the devastated and destroyed Gaza Strip entered its 123rd day, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, especially children and women, mainly in Gaza City and its surrounding areas.
Media sources said the Israeli army fired barrages of missiles and shells at homes in the Sabra and the Zeitoun neighborhoods in Gaza City, killing more than ten Palestinians, and wounding dozens, including women and children.
The sources added that the slain Palestinians were in four homes in the two neighborhoods when the army bombed them.
In addition, Israeli war jets fired a missile at a home in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, in Gaza City, killing five Palestinians and wounding fifteen, mostly women and children.
The Israeli Air Force also fired missiles at homes in the Ansar area, Abu Mazen Junction area, and the Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City, causing many casualties, while the Israeli tanks and the soldiers prevented Palestinian ambulances and rescue teams from reaching the bombarded areas, and fired live rounds at them.
In related news, the Israeli soldiers abducted dozens of Palestinians in the Universities Area, west of Gaza City, cuffed and blindfolded them before moving them to an unknown destination.
Eyewitnesses said the abducted Palestinians are between the ages of 15 and 65, and that it remains unknown where the soldiers are talking them to.
It is worth mentioning that the army abducted hundreds of Palestinian from the Gaza Strip since it began the ground offensive in Gaza on October 27, and continues to deny requests by local and international human rights groups regarding their conditions, whereabouts and full lists of their names.
Furthermore, the army fired missiles and shells around the Nasser Hospital, west of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
Medical sources reported injuries in the medical center and said that the debris from missiles struck areas inside its yards and outer buildings.
Also in Khan Younis, six Palestinians were killed and many were injured when the army fired missiles at an apartment building for the Al-Khatib family in Hamad City, northwest of the city.
Furthermore, Israeli Navy ships fired live rounds at Palestinians who fled their homes and were trying to shelter near the Khan Younis shore.
Israel is bombing Rafah and says it’s planning a ground invasion in the area. Israel declared it a “safe zone,” but now Palestinians have no safe place to go.
The UN described Rafah as a “pressure cooker of despair.” Israeli bombardment has killed 27,000+ Palestinians. pic.twitter.com/Xrx0vsnIoT
— AJ+ (@ajplus) February 6, 2024
In addition, the Israeli bombing and resulting massive destruction of infrastructure resulted in flooding tents of hundreds of families with sewage water in several parts of Rafah City, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
In related news, the “Israel Today” media agency said Israel is weighing the possibility of transferring the Palestinians who fled to Rafah, back to areas in northern Gaza, starting with women and children, without specifying the fate of men, and added that this move won’t be before next month.
Egypt recently sent messages to Israel refusing the transfer of the Palestinians from Gaza to Sinai and said that such a move could jeopardize the Israeli-Egyptian peace agreement.
Egypt is concerned that Israel is planning to force hundreds of thousands of Palestinians out of Gaza and into Sinai as part of the Israeli plan to control the Gaza Strip, while it is expanding the offensive and concentrating it in Rafah, especially since Israel is planning to control “Philadelphi Corridor,” about 14 km (8.699 miles) in length, along the border between the two countries.
The Gaza Strip lost most of its homes, buildings, and medical facilities due to the ongoing Israeli bombing, especially in northern and central Gaza; the Palestinians do not have homes or facilities to go back to.
Israeli has already displaced at least 1.8 Million Palestinians from their homes in several parts of the Gaza Strip, especially in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, Gaza City and the central parts of the coastal enclave, and is now ongoing with its bombing, displacement and destruction in the southern parts.
Displaced yet again, more than 200.000 Palestinians, fled Khan Younis to Rafah and are now facing dire condition, without services, near the border fence with Egypt.
Hanin Al-Athamna, who just like hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians, said that she and her family fled Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, and were displaced several times since then, until reaching the border area in Rafah a week earlier.
“We have no food, no medicine, no infrastructure, we have nothing here,” she said, “We only have water because their is an Egyptian waterline”.
A day earlier, the Israeli army bombarded the headquarters of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Jabalia, in northern Gaza.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the Israeli army “committed twelve massacres against Palestinian families, killing 107 and wounding 143, mostly women and chidden, in 24 hours.
Israel’s missiles and shells have killed at least 27.565 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured more than 66.789, including hundreds who remain in critical conditions, in the Gaza Strip since October 7. More than 8.000 Palestinians remain under the rubble of bombarded homes and buildings.
