On Tuesday, Day 186 of the Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people in the destroyed Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed hundreds of Palestinians, including women and children, in various parts of the coastal enclave.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) published a video showing the extensive destruction the Israeli army caused to the Al-Amal Hospital it runs in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza strip.
The deliberate destruction carried out by Israeli occupation soldiers inside the PRCS #AlAmalHospital in Khan Yunis has resulted in extensive devastation, rendering the hospital incapable of providing services to patients and wounded individuals. Following their invasion, the… pic.twitter.com/hMpeazXjEb
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) April 9, 2024
The PRCS said the hospital is now out of service as it cannot provide the needed help to wound Palestinians and the patients, after the army stormed the destroyed hospital and forcibly evacuated it.
In addition, the army killed several Palestinians, including women and children, in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
The PRCS also said the army killed a woman and wounded two Palestinians in their tent in a land in the Zohour neighborhood, north of Rafah.
Medical sources in Gaza said the Civil Defense teams and medics evacuated the bodies of 409 slain Palestinians, killed by the Israeli army in the Shifa Medical Center and its surrounding areas, in Gaza City.
They added that there are more slain Palestinians still under the rubble and on streets around the hospital, and in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, where the medics have already located the bodies of more than 67 Palestinians, while dozens remain missing, including those buried under the rubble.
They appealed to the International Community and all humanitarian groups to act and ensure the delivery of equipment and medical supplies, including machines to remove the rubble and look for slain Palestinians in many parts of the Gaza Strip.
Body parts on the ground, and victims’ bodies inside a large pit dug by the Israeli forces in the courtyard of the Shifa Hospital in #Gaza City.. The Euro-Med Monitor team monitors the retrieval of dozens of bodies a week following the Israeli army’s withdrawal pic.twitter.com/XcUB6gVECH
— Euro-Med Monitor (@EuroMedHR) April 9, 2024
In addition, the army fired many artillery shells at the Zeitoun neighborhood, Al-Mansoura and Sikka Streets, and around a school, housing refugees, east of Gaza City, causing many casualties.
Israel’s missiles and shells also killed and injured dozens of Palestinians in central Gaza, in addition to many who were killed by Israeli army sharpshooters.
Among the slain Palestinian was the mayor Al-Maghazi refugee camp, who accompanied medical teams and rescue workers, carrying out humanitarian duties in the bombarded refugee camp.
Israel assassinates the mayor of Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip.
A piece of news has gone unnoticed.A democratically elected civilian mayor with no political affiliation, carrying out humanitarian duties! pic.twitter.com/FyXdtz1CYU
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) April 9, 2024
Also among Palestinians are fourteen Palestinians, all are women and children, in the Nusseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza.
Al-Jazeera said the home, for the Abu Yousef, was targeted with a missile fired by the Israeli Air Force and added that the number of casualties is must higher than fourteen as many Palestinians remain under the rubble, in addition to all the surrounding homes.
UNICEF spokesperson, James Elder, said Gaza, with a population of 2.3 million Palestinians, is “on the brink of destruction and famine.”
Talking to Anadolu News Agency, Alder said, “Palestinians are struggling to survive under extremely harsh conditions.”
He added, “There was great hope for a ceasefire following the resolution of the United Nations Security Council, and everywhere I went in Gaza, a ceasefire was the most common plea people made, they begged for it. So, there was hope, but that hope was crushed by the sound of bombs.”
The official also said that the Israeli army continues to bomb Gaza, previously declared a “safe zone,” despite a UN Security Council, just two days earlier, calling for a ceasefire.
Alder added that he visited a hospital in Rafah and observed the seriously wounded children, and stated that “despite the ceasefire resolution, the army increased the bombing throughout the day.”
He said that the ceasefire resolution must be implemented so that the families and the children “who have endured this pain for several months, know that they will indeed be able to wake up in the morning.”
Jens Laerke, spokesman for the United Nations Humanitarian Office (UNOCHA), stated that it is way more difficult to get clearance (from Israel) to deliver food, more than any other aid in the destroyed Gaza Strip.
“Food convoys that should be going particularly to the north, where 70 percent of people face famine conditions, are … three times more likely to be denied than any other humanitarian convoys with other kinds of material,” Laerke told reporters in Geneva. (WAFA)
Challenging International Community, the United Nations, and ceasefire resolution, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel is ongoing with its war on Gaza, and added that “no power in the world can stop us.”
Netanyahu claimed he is fighting Hamas, although the overwhelming majority of the slain and wounded Palestinians are women and children.
Israeli media sources said the “Defense Ministry” wants to buy 40.000 tents to evacuate the Palestinians from Rafah, where more than 2 million Palestinians are trying to shelter after fleeing the northern parts of the destroyed coastal enclave.
Israel has not officially declared its alleged plan to buy the tents, but its officials, including Netanyahu are determined to continue violating international law and all calls not to conduct the planned ground invasion of Rafah which was already been under extensive bombing.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said Israel has now killed at least 33.360 Palestinians and injured more than 75.993 and stated that the majority of the slain and wounded Palestinians are children and women.
