The death toll in Gaza has risen to 29,606 as Israeli forces continued to commit massacres amid a catastrophic humanitarian situation.
On Sunday, day 142 of the ongoing Israeli invasion of Gaza, the Ministry of Health said in a statement, “The Israeli occupation committed 8 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, claiming 92 Palestinian lives, and causing 123 injuries during the past 24 hours.”
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stated that he would meet with the war council to approve his operational plans for invading Rafah.
Saturday evening, eight Palestinians were killed and others wounded in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in central Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
🚨BREAKING: ATTACK NEAR TENTS IN RAFAH [Safe Area]
Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike near the tent camps sheltering displaced people in Rafah. pic.twitter.com/w9Hkhm6Jem
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The humanitarian crisis has reached a devastating level, with reports of death by starvation among the estimated 300,000 Palestinians who remain in the northern part of Gaza. Meanwhile, Israeli forces are trying to split the north from the south of Gaza, bulldozing a path through the area south of Gaza City.
Early Sunday morning, three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli occupation bombing of Gaza City.
Local sources said that Israeli occupation aircraft bombed the Kali family home in the Al-Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, leading to the death of three Palestinians.
Palestinian Wafa news correspondents reported that a number of Palestinians were killed and others were injured with various injuries, as a result of renewed Israeli artillery shelling on the western areas of the city of Khan Yunis and on the Al-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City.
A Palestinian was also killed and others were injured in an Israeli raid that targeted a house in the Al-Shaaf area, east of Gaza City, coinciding with shooting from Israeli occupation drones and artillery shelling on the eastern neighborhoods of the city.
The Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, witnessed violent clashes and explosions were heard.
Nine Palestinians were injured as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a gathering in front of a clinic housing dozens of displaced families southeast of Gaza City.
In Beit Lahia, local sources said that a Palestinian was killed as a result of the bombing of a house, and many missing people are still under the rubble.
Two Palestinians were killed, and 4 others were injured, yesterday evening, Saturday, as a result of the Israeli occupation bombing of Al-Shati camp, west of Gaza .
Local sources reported that Israeli occupation warplanes targeted a gathering of citizens in Al-Shati camp, killing two Palestinians and seriously wounding four others.
Two people were killed and four were seriously injured as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a gathering of Palestinians in the Beach Camp, west of Gaza City.
The Israeli army announced the wounding of seven soldiers during battles in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian Resistance groups continued bombing gatherings of invading Israeli forces.
Palestinian resistance fighters said they had targeted an Israeli bulldozer with a “lightning” device and a “Tandem” shell and a Merkava tank in Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, saying that it had eliminated its crew. Resistance fighters also targeted a building where Israeli soldiers were stationed in the Al-Malikiyah settlement, announcing that they had achieved a direct hit.
According to the Palestine Chronicle, South Africa’s ambassador to the Netherlands, Vusimuzi Madonsel, called on all countries to testify against Israel at the International Court of Justice, while Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva reiterated that Israel is committing the crime of genocide.
The Chronicle also reported that Israeli police attacked Israeli demonstrators in central Tel Aviv, including a female prisoner who was released in Gaza as part of the first deal, during a demonstration calling for early elections and the conclusion of a prisoner exchange deal.
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The Chronicle reported that the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah, located north of Israel, has been attacking Israeli targets, including the headquarters of the Beit Hillel Battalion, affiliated with the 769th Eastern Regional Brigade, in the Upper Galilee, northern Israel, with Katyusha rockets, and the Zarit barracks, hit with a Burkan missile. The armed group targeted with missiles an Israeli military gathering on “Cobra” Hill and that it achieved a “direct hit,” noting that it targeted with missiles the Zibdin barracks in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms .
The Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip by land, sea and air since the 7th of last October resulted in the death of 29,606 citizens and the injury of 69,737 others, most of them children and women, in addition to thousands of people missing under the rubble.
