On Wednesday, Day 166 of the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army continued the bombing of various parts of the Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including many women and children.
At least six Palestinians, including two children, were killed and many were injured when the army fired a missile at a home for the Issa family, east of Rafah city, in the southmost of the Gaza Strip.
Among the slain Palestinians are Ahmad Deeb Rajab, Reem Hatem Abdul-Majid Issa, Omar Mohammad Emad Issa (child), and Leen Mohammad Emad Issa (child).
In Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, the army detonated many homes in the area between Al-Qarara and Az-Zannah, east of the city, causing many casualties.
|Earlier Article: Day 166: Israel Kills Dozens, Including Children, In Gaza”|
In Jabalia, in northern Gaza, the army carried out many air strikes targeting the Hammouda Junction area, east of the city, killing at least three Palestinians and wounding ten.
The Al-Jazeera news agency said the army fired missiles and shells at various parts of Jabalia, and the Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including many children.
Al-Jazeera added that the attack came just hours after the army killed 23 Palestinians who were part of tribal committees that were trying to distribute humanitarian aid at the Kuwait Junction in Gaza City.
In Gaza City the army fired dozens of artillery shells at homes behind the Shifa Medical Center, causing dozens of casualties.
Ongoing Humanitarian Crisis: Mohammad Al-Najjar, is at severe risk of death by starvation.
2 days ago his brother Mohannad passed away after being in a prolonged state of severe dehydration and malnutrition caused by the ongoing Israeli-imposed siege. pic.twitter.com/IQiE4EoKNP
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) March 20, 2024
The army also fired a missile at a home for the Haboush family, killing Amjad Majdi Haboush and his mother, and wounding many others.
On its part, the Israeli army claimed its soldiers killed 90 Palestinian fighters, during gun battles around the Shifa Medical Center in Gaza City, and that the soldiers also abducted about 160 residents after interrogating 300.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the army committed ten massacres against Palestinian families in 24 hours, killing 104 and wounding 162, mainly women and children.
The United Nations warned that the lives of more than 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are at risk, while the World Food Program warned of famine.
Since the onset of the Gaza war, 16 PRCS ambulances have been taken out of service, and more than 20 other ambulances have been damaged due to Israeli occupation targeting.#NotATarget #IHL pic.twitter.com/02AAPqkyLA
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) March 20, 2024
The European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Israel is using starvation in Gaza as a weapon of war.
World Health Organization said that an increasing number of children in the Gaza Strip are on the brink of death due to acute hunger, and added that newborns are “simply dying because of low birth weight”.
Al-Jazeera English interviewed Dr. Nick Maynard, a consultant surgeon who was recently volunteering in Gaza, who said: “I have witnessed the worst cases in my career of thirty years, at the Al-Aqsa Hospital,” in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza.
Dr. Maynard told Al-Jazeera that “so many clinical injuries, mostly children and women, and added that they have “terrible burns, traumatic wounds and no real room to deal with these tragic cases.”
Dr. Maynard informed Al-Jazeera is one of the cases, a young girl with facial burns that were “so bad that bone could be seen, and was going to die” and added that the girl eventually died in agony on the emergency department food, because “we had no pain relief to give her.”
The Foreign Office also said that it provided UNICEF 150 tons of assistance, including tents and blankets, to distribute in the Gaza Strip.
David Cameron, the UK’s Foreign Secretary, said humanitarian access is urgently needed to get more aid in the Gaza Strip, and alleged that his country continues to push Israel to open more crossings and for longer periods to allow the entry of humanitarian aid, including medicine, and that the UK wants healthcare, water, and sanitation to be restored in the devastated coastal enclave.
Israel has now killed at least 31.623 Palestinians and injured more than 74.096, mostly women, children, and the elderly, in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, in addition to the thousands who remain missing, largely buried under the rubble of bombarded homes and buildings, and in alleys, in various parts of the destroyed coastal enclave.
