On Day 152 of the continued Israeli genocide and massive bombing of civilian areas in the destroyed and devastated Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed dozens of Palestinians, and injured hundreds.
The Israeli army bombarded entire densely populated residential blocs in the Gaza Strip, in addition to wiring and detonating many homes and buildings to flatten entire neighborhoods.
In Deir Al-Balah, in central Gaza, the army fired a missile at a home for Palestinians from the Al-Attar family, killing at least four Palestinians and wounding many others, some seriously.
The Al-Jazeera News Agency said the soldiers fired missiles at a five-story building in the Nusseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza, killing at least four Palestinians and wounding many others.
Palestinian medics and rescue teams rushed to the bombarded areas and started evacuation efforts and looking under the rubble, while Civil Defense workers said they were still looking for two Palestinians under the rubble.
جلهم من الأطفال والنساء.. استشهاد 4 فلسطينيين وإصابة عشرات في قصف إسرائيلي على منزل عائلة السدودي بمخيم النصيرات وسط قطاع #غزة#الأخبار #حرب_غزة pic.twitter.com/AoIvDO3ekD
— قناة الجزيرة (@AJArabic) March 5, 2024
Al-Jazeera quoted Palestinians who survived the attack that the building was filled with Palestinians, mainly children, who fled their homes in other parts of the Gaza Strip, and that the missiles were fired without a warning. Video Report – Al-Jazeera
Furthermore, the army continued its bombing of Hamad city, north of Khan Younis, and fired barrages of missiles and shells at its homes and buildings.
Dozens of Palestinians, including children and women, were killed and many more when injured in several areas between Khan Younis and Rafah, including Bani Soheila town, Hamas city, and across the northern part of Khan Younis.
The Israeli army also fired barrages of missiles and artillery shells at many areas of the already destroyed and starved northern parts of the Gaza Strip.
Also, at least one child was killed and many Palestinians were injured by Israeli missiles and bullets targeting Palestinians in Rashid Street, in central Gaza.
In addition, the army fired missiles at homes in the Al-Mughraqa area, north of the Nusseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza, killing more than nine Palestinians and wounding dozens, while many remain buried under the rubble.
In Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, the army fired missiles at homes and buildings near the Shouka School, east of the city, killing and wounding many Palestinians,
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said that 1.7 million Palestinians (more than %75 of the population in the Gaza Strip) have been repeatedly displaced due to the constant Israeli bombing and added that its teams managed to deliver flour to only about 370.000 families in southern Gaza.
Over the last month, Israel intensified its bombing of Rafah, the southmost part of the Gaza Strip where about 1.5 million Palestinians are trying to seek shelter; the majority of whom fled their homes in northern Gaza.
Rafah is only about 64 Square kilometers (25 Square Miles) and has been the last refuge for the Palestinians fleeing northern and central Gaza, after being pushed there with a mirage promise of a safe zone that never materialized.
The World Food Program (WFP) said that Israel denied an aid convoy, consisting of 14 trucks from entering northern Gaza, and added that the Israel soldiers forced the trucks to turn back after stopping them and forcing them to wait for three hours, at a military roadblock in Wadi Gaza area.
WFP stated that after the trucks were turned back, many Palestinians, facing famine and dire conations, took around 200 tons of food.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the army “committed ten massacres against Palestinian families in the last 24 hours, killing 97 Palestinians and wounding 123”.
Al-Jazeera said 16 children in the Gaza Strip have died from hunger and malnutrition, %15.6 of Gaza’s children suffer severe malnutrition %90 suffer infectious diseases and malnutrition, and %64 of the Palestinian families are barely eating one meal a day.
Israel has now killed at least 30,717, mostly women, children, and elders, in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, in addition to wounding more than 72. 043 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
The army also abducted more than 4.000 Palestinians, destroyed at least 70.000 residential units, and displaced more than 2.000.000 Palestinians.
According to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitors, as of March 5, the total number of slain Palestinians is 39.178, including 14.622 children, 8.896 women, 132 journalists, 325 healthcare workers, and 42 Civil Defense workers. (The numbers include those under the rubble)
Euro-Med added that Israel destroyed 106.000 homes, partially damaged 250.900 homes, destroyed or damaged 175 media centers, damaged 432 schools, destroyed 199 heritage sites, destroyed 2.120 industrial facilities, and damaged 621 mosques and 3 churches.
