On Thursday, Day 181 of the ongoing Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed dozens of Palestinians and injured hundreds, including many women and children, across the destroyed and starved coastal enclave.
Gaza Strip Detainees lose limbs due to being constantly cuffed, and forced to eat grass
The Israeli army fired barrages of missiles and shells targeted various parts of the Gaza Strip, including Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, in and around Gaza City and various parts of central Gaza, in addition to Khan Younis and Rafah, in the southern parts.
Dozens of casualties were reported in extensive Israeli bombings of various parts of Gaza, city, including around the Kuwait junction where families await humanitarian aid, while the army also fired missiles at homes and buildings in Tal Al-Hawa, and surrounding areas in the western parts of Gaza City.
Heartbreaking: The mother of the Palestinian girl Jana Ayad cries as her daughter’s condition deteriorates due to hunger and dehydration caused by the severe Israeli blockade on northern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/9GIJbpAN8w
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) April 4, 2024
Many Palestinians were killed and injured when the Israeli army fired missiles at shells at various parts of central Gaza, including Deir Al-Balah, Al-Maghazi, and Al-Boreij.
The army fired barrages of artillery shells and missiles at the Qleibo area and Sheikh Zayed, north of Gaza, causing many casualties.
Exclusive footage published by Al Jazeera shows Israeli occupation forces shooting a Palestinian carrying food aid that was dropped hundreds of meters away from their presence.
Despite the Palestinian posing no threat to them and walking away, the Israeli forces shoot him… pic.twitter.com/0sFcUjTDdm
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) April 4, 2024
In addition, many casualties were ported when the army fired missiles and shells at homes and buildings in Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza.
Also, the Israeli army targeted a group of paramedics in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, killing a paramedic, Hussein Matar, and wounding several others.
In Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, many Palestinians were killed and injured, in Israeli bombing and shelling of homes.
The Israeli army also continued the wiring and detonating of dozens of homes and buildings in the center and the western parts of Khan Younis.
“We were sleeping in the house, a missile came down on us, I gained consciousness in the hospital. May God have mercy on them”
Ashraf Abu Daraz bid farewell to his children and his pregnant wife in the aftermath of last night’s Israeli massacres in Rafah. pic.twitter.com/KbADmNiC2M
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) April 4, 2024
Despite the ongoing Israeli bombing and the mass destruction, Palestinian fighters continued to target not only the Israeli soldiers and tanks invading Gaza and bombing every part of it but also fired shells at the Western Negev and various areas across the perimeter fence.
On Its part, Qatar said that, instead of supporting efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement, Israel is attacking the mediators, and spreading lies.
The spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry in Qatar, Majed Al-Ansari, said his country was the party that helped achieve the release of hostages, yet, Israel is now spreading lies and obstructing efforts to reach an agreement.
The statement came after the Israeli Ministry of Economy attacked Qatar and its mediation efforts to reach a deal.
“Spreading lies about Qatar is political recklessness and selfishness,” Al-Ansari said, “The Israeli Minister of Economy (Nir Barkat) is spreading lies to boost his political future.”
It is worth mentioning that a report by the Israeli daily Haaretz quoted an Israeli physician stating that “Israel is committing crimes against Palestinian detainees in the Negev.”
Haaretz said: “Doctor at Israeli Field Hospital for Detained Gazans: ‘We Are All Complicit in Breaking the Law”
“Two prisoners had their legs amputated due to handcuff injuries,’ says a doctor at an Israeli prison facility, who describes deplorable conditions and violations of medical ethics and the law in a letter to ministers, attorney general” – Haaretz
Israeli soldiers are posting videos of themselves torturing Palestinians from Gaza.
Legal expert @luigidaniele10 says Israel’s tacit support of this abuse is an “existential threat to the international legal system.” pic.twitter.com/6uulteNO1K
— AJ+ (@ajplus) April 4, 2024
It said that, in a letter that was delivered to the Israeli Defense Minister, the Minister of Health, and the Legal Advisor of the Israeli government, the physician said that, just this week, two Palestinian detainees had their legs amputated because of the shackles digging into their bones and skin, and added that this became a routine occurrence.
The physician, who worked at a field hospital set up at the Sde Teiman detention center to hold Palestinian detainees from the Gaza Strip, said the detainees are forced to eat grass, are defecating in dirty diapers, and their hands are constantly tied, facing conditions that violate international law and medical ethics.
According to Haaretz, the doctor said in his letter to government ministers and the attorney general that he is facing “serious ethical dilemmas,” and warning them that “operations in the facility do not comply with a single section among those dealing with health in the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law.”
The doctor stated that the detainees are always blindfolded, cuffed, and fed through a straw, and added that the detainees, even the young and the healthy, are losing weight after just a week or two of hospitalization, and yet, the “hospital doesn’t receive the regular supplies of medicine and medical equipment.”
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the Israeli army committed at least six massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, killing 62 and wounding 91, largely women and children, in less than 24 hours.
Israel has now killed at least 33.037 Palestinians, and injured more than 75.668, mostly women and children in several parts of the devastated 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)
