On Sunday, day 191 of the Israeli assault on Gaza that has killed over 33,000 and wounded over 76,000 civilians, Israeli forces bombarded different parts of the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of Palestinian civilians.
Five civilians were killed and others were injured on Sunday evening after Israeli warplanes targeted a house northwest of Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip.
According to local sources, the occupation warplanes bombed a house belonging to the Al-Arabi family northwest of Al-Nuseirat camp, killing five citizens and injuring dozens, and bombed a mosque in the camp and flattened it. In addition, the occupation artillery shelled the Assar Tower in Nuseirat.
Local medical teams indicated that the bodies of a number of Palestinian civilians were found under the sand mounds erected by the occupation army in the Beit Lahia project, north of the Gaza Strip, noting that the bodies of 4 Palestinians were recovered from different areas in Khan Yunis since Sunday morning.
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Day 191: Israel Fires at Displaced Refugees Returning Home
Published on: Apr 14, 2024 at 20:27
On Sunday, day 191 of the Israeli assault on Gaza that has killed over 33,000 and wounded over 76,000 civilians, Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds of Palestinian civilians who were following Israeli instructions to follow the al-Rasheed Street from the south to the north on foot.
Five civilians, including a woman, were killed and 23 others were injured, on Sunday, as a result of the Israeli artillery targeting displaced people on Al-Rasheed Street while they were trying to return to the northern Gaza Strip.
Local sources said that the Israeli occupation forces, positioned near Al-Rasheed Street, fired artillery shells, fire and poison gas canisters at the displaced people while they were trying to return to Gaza City, killing five of them and wounding at least 23.
Horrible scenes
Israeli occupation forces open fire from apache and artillery towards displaced people attempting to return from the south of #Gaza to their homes in the north! pic.twitter.com/Q0shU4XNuS
— Motasem A Dalloul (@AbujomaaGaza) April 14, 2024
Hundreds of Palestinians, starving in tents in Rafah, where they had been earlier displaced, were told they could return to see what was left of their homes in Gaza City. Hundreds were trying to return to northern Gaza through the Wadi Gaza Bridge on al-Rasheed Street when Israeli forces opened fire on the crowd. This is just the latest in numerous massacres carried out by Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians who were trying to follow the instructions of the Israeli military – including the ‘Flour Massacre’ several weeks ago, in which hundreds of Palestinian civilians were gunned down by Israeli troops when trying to retrieve flour on aid trucks in northern Gaza.
An activist recorded the moment when Israeli occupation forces targeted journalists and displaced Palestinians attempting to return to Gaza City and the northern Gaza areas today, resulting in casualties. pic.twitter.com/OIOWjBoLSw
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) April 14, 2024
Social media pages had reported that the Israeli occupation forces had said they would allow the displaced to return to the northern Gaza Strip, but the civilians were surprised by the Israeli occupation shooting at them and targeting them with artillery shells on Al-Rasheed Street on their way back to the north.
As soon as news crept in that the Israelis would open the newly-established checkpoint in the middle of Gaza, thousands of displaced people rushed from their tents packing their belongings to return to their homes.
The coastal road in the western Gaza Strip was jammed with trucks, buses, vehicles of various sizes, and carts drawn by animals, carrying tens of thousands of citizens eager to return to their homes in the northern part of the Strip.
About one and a half million civilians have been displaced from the Gaza City and northern governorates over the past six months of Israeli bombardment and destruction, and have traveled to the south of the Gaza Strip following the Israeli military’s orders.
On the sidewalk, ‘Etaf Abu Sa’id sat with six children and boys, each carrying his bag or plastic bag with some clothes, food, and necessities.
She told the Wafa correspondent that she was waiting for a car to transport her to the Wadi Gaza area on the coastal road to reach her home in the Sheikh Radwan area of Gaza City, adding that as soon as she heard news about the return of some civilians, she packed up a little of what she had and decided to return without thinking twice. She told the correspondent with Wafa news agency that even if the news is unconfirmed, she will not wait until confirmation.
“I miss our house, our bed, and our kitchen. We are disgusted and distracted by a life of displacement,” she said.
Amid the crowd of passengers in the trunk of a truck, Mohammed al-Katri was one of the most eager to return home to the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. He said he was returning alone to explore the road and bury his son if he could pass.
“I want to bury my son, he was killed in an aerial bombardment five months ago and he is still under the rubble, I want to smell the dirt he embraced,” Katri told the Wafa news correspondent.
In an inconclusive toll, the number of martyrs since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7 has reached at least 33,729, in addition to 76,371 injuries, while thousands of victims remain under the rubble.
