On Thursday, Day 181 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the destroyed and devastated Gaza Strip, the Israeli army continued the bombing and shelling of various parts of the coastal enclave, killing dozens of Palestinians and wounding hundreds.
The Israeli army carried out a series of air strikes in Rafah, in southern Gaza, the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, many residential blocks in the Al-Maghazi, Deir Al-Balah, and Al-Boreij in central Gaza, in addition to many other parts of the destroyed and starved coastal enclave.
In Rafah, in the southmost part of the Gaza Strip, the army carried out three airstrikes on the city of Rafah, killing at least eight Palestinians, including two women and three children, and wounding dozens.
Media sources said the army fired a missile at the home of Ashraf Abu Darraz in the Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah city, killing one woman and three children, and wounding many others.
They added that the army also fired a missile at the home of Nasser Nasr on Aaed Al-Bashiti Street in Rafah, killing Nasser’s wife and his son, and wounding many Palestinians.
In addition, the army killed Bara’ Majdi Abu Sabla, 20, after an Israeli drone fired a missile at him near the Abu Yousef Najjar Hospital in Rafah.
In Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, the army fired dozens of missiles, especially at the western parts of the city, largely focused around Nasser Hospital.
Also, medics evacuated the corpses of three slain Palestinians and many wounded after an Israeli quadcopter drone fired a missile at them near Nasser Hospital.
Many casualties were also reported when the army fired missiles at several homes in Abasan village, east of Khan Younis.
The army also wired and detonated many homes and buildings in the Al-Baten As-Sameen area, in the western part of Khan Younis.
Dozens of Palestinians, including many women and children, were injured, some seriously, when the Israeli soldiers opened fire at displaced families in the Al-Mawasi area in Al-Qarara town, northwest of Khan Younus.
In central Gaza, the army fired many missiles at home in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, killing at least two Palestinians and wounding fifteen in one home for the Al-Mana’ma family, in the western part of the refugee camp.
At least two Palestinians were killed and many were injured when an Israeli drone fired a missile at families sheltering in the Al-Mighraqa area, in central Gaza, in addition to killing one Palestinian and wounding several others in a home in Zawaida.
In Deir Al-Balah, the army fired a missile at a home for the Namrouti family, killing at least two Palestinians and wounding several others.
Human Rights Watch called for suspending the transfer of weapons to Israel and added that, on October 31, 2023, the Israeli army targeted a residential building, killing at least 106 Palestinian civilians, including 54 children.
Human Rights Watch stated that, due to the constant Israeli violations of International Law, all governments must suspend the transfer of weapons and must support the investigations by the International Criminal Court, in addition to imposing sanctions on those involved in these violations.
|HRW: Gaza: Israeli Strike Killing 106 Civilians an Apparent War Crime|
In addition, the United Nations Human Rights Council intends to consider, Friday, a draft resolution calling for an embargo on arms to Israel, due to the “plausible risk of genocide.”
The draft calls on all states to stop the sale, transfer, and diversion of arms, munition, and all military supplies to Israel, to avoid further violations of International Law and the violations of human rights.
If the draft resolution is adopted by the United Nations, the issue would be the first time that the UN’s leading human rights organization to take a position on the Israeli offensive on Gaza.
The draft resolution, which was distributed Wednesday, also condemns Israel’s use of starvation of civilians as a weapon of war, and demands Israel to “uphold its responsibility to prevent genocide.”
Co-sponsored by Cuba, Bolivia, and the Palestinian Mission in Geneva, the draft resolution also demands that Israel must end its occupation of Palestine, immediately lift the blockade on the Gaza Strip, and end all forms of collective punishment against the Palestinian people.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the army committed five massacres against families, killing 59 Palestinians and wounding 83, mostly women and children, in less than twenty-four hours.
Israel has now killed at least 33.037 Palestinians, and injured at least 75.688, mostly women and children, in several parts of the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.
It is worth mentioning that, on Wednesday, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said the total number of slain Palestinians is 41.496 (37.676 civilians), including 15.370 children, and 9.671 women, and the injured 77.250, the majority of whom are women and children. (October 7, 2023 – April 3, 2023)
