On Friday, as Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians of the devastated Gaza Strip enters its 154th day, Israeli missiles and shells killed dozens of Palestinians and injured many more and have led to the displacement of more than %90 of the population since October 7, 2023.
Update: Israeli missiles killed twelve Palestinians and injured dozens, in addition to many who remain under the rubble of two homes in the Al-Qarara town, northeast of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
The army killed and injured many Palestinians, some seriously, In Bani Soheila, east of Khan Younis, and fired phosphorous shells in the city in addition to bombing a home for Wadi family, west of Khan Younis.
The known and officially confirmed number of Palestinians who died from hunger in the Gaza Strip is now twenty, including children, and is likely to increase as Israel continue to prevent the urgently needed aid, including medicine and food, from entering the Gaza Strip.
Published on: Mar 8, 2024, at 20:28: The Israeli army continued its indiscriminate bombing of various parts of the coastal enclave, firing dozens of missiles and shells, and barrages of live rounds at various parts of the Gaza Strip, while hunger and diseases also continued to kill the Palestinians, especially children.
In Gaza City, two Palestinians were killed, and many were injured when the army fired a missile at a home in the Tuffah neighborhood, east of the city.
In central Gaza, the army fired missiles at homes in the Zawaida area, killing at least eight Palestinians, including children, and wounding many others.
The army also fired barrages of artillery shells and missiles at refugee camps and surrounding areas in central Gaza.
Furthermore, the army fired a missile at a home in Deir Al-Balah city, in central Gaza, killing nine Palestinians and wounding many.
In Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, the army killed and injured several Palestinians, in addition to many who remain under the rubble, after firing missiles at two homes in the Al-Qarara town.
Also, a Palestinian mother and two of her children were killed when the army fired a missile at a home in the Al-Qarara area, north of the city.
The soldiers also fired a missile at a car, south of Khan Younis, killing one Palestinian and wounding many.
10-year-old Dana has lived in a tent with her family for months in southern Gaza after the Israeli military forcibly displaced them.
“We are so tired from moving from one place to another.” pic.twitter.com/Xo8WHQLwFq
— Defense for Children (@DCIPalestine) March 8, 2024
Several Palestinians were injured by live rounds fired by Israeli army sharpshooters in Abasan Al-Jadeeda town, east of Khan Younis.
In Rafah, in the southmost part of the Gaza Strip, the army killed at least eleven Palestinians, including three children, and wounded many after firing missiles at their homes.
In northern Gaza, the army fired many missiles and shells at homes and buildings in the Sheikh Zayed area, causing many casualties.
In related news, five Palestinians were killed, and many were injured, west of Gaza City, after being struck by aid boxes dropped from planes, after the parashoots of some of the dropped aid boxes malfunctioned.
In addition, a spokesperson of Al-Aqsa Hospital said the medical facility is facing severe shortages in medications for pregnant women, infants, and children, and added that the humanitarian aid it received is barely %3 of the needed supplies.
He also said that most of the wounded Palestinians rushed to the hospital were women and children.
Rami Abdu Assist. Prof of Law & Finance and Chairman of Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (@EuroMedHR) said: “More starvation-related deaths are reaching hospitals in northern Gaza. Dozens of victims are buried without reaching hospitals as Israel continues its genocide under American and European cover. The death toll exceeded 40,000, with over 92% civilians.” (including those who remain under the rubble and on streets and alleys in bombarded and isolated areas)
Since the seventh of October 2023, Israel has waged an offensive on the Palestinians in the already besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip, leaving tens of thousands of victims, mostly children and women, in addition to massive destruction of infrastructure and a humanitarian catastrophe, as most victims are elders, women, and children.
Francesca P. Albanese, an Italian international lawyer, academic, and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, said the situation in the Gaza Strip is horrific, and added that Israel is disregarding International Humanitarian Law.
On her account on X, Albanese said “Arms embargo and economic sanctions on Israel are the only way to stop the genocide in Gaza.”
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Furthermore, The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said that, as various parts of the world celebrate March 8, International Women’s Day, 63 women are killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip each day, adding that most of the slain women are mothers and that the number of slain women is now at least 9.000.
The Israeli bombings have also led to a deadly humanitarian disaster, in addition to the destruction of most of the buildings, and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, and the displacement of about 2 million of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million. Among the displaced Palestinians are about 786.000 children and 359.1000 women.
Israel has now killed at least 30.878 Palestinians, and injured 72.402, mainly elders, women, and children, in several parts of the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said that about %72 of the slain and injured Palestinians in the coastal enclave are women and children.
