Tuesday marks day 193 of the ongoing relentless Israeli assault on the 2.4 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, who are being collectively punished for an attack in southern Israel on October 7th, 2023 that killed over 400 Israeli soldiers and 700 Israeli civilians, including 35 children.
Since October 7th, the Palestinian people have been under an unending rain of bombs from Israeli warplanes (apart from one five-day pause in late November). In the 193 days of bombardment and ground invasions, Israeli forces have killed 33,797 Palestinians, in addition to wounding 76,371, while thousands of victims are still under the rubble. An estimated 14,000 of those killed by Israeli forces in the past 193 days are children.
On Tuesday before dawn, a number of Palestinians were killed and others were injured at dawn on Tuesday, after Israeli warplanes targeted a house in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.
Medical sources announced the arrival of the bodies of four deceased civilians, including a child and a number of wounded, to the Kuwaiti hospital in the city after the occupation aircraft targeted a house belonging to the Abu Libdeh family in the Tel Al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
An Israeli quadcopter is roaming Nuseirat camp in Gaza and playing the sound of a baby crying.
When people go to help what they think is a baby in need, they are shot and killed.pic.twitter.com/ltxqHKYJP0
— Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) April 15, 2024
A number of Palestinians were killed and others were injured when Israeli warplanes bombed a mosque in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip.
According to medical sources, a number of deceased Palestinians and nine injuries arrived at Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli occupation warplanes targeting the Al-Fakhoura Martyrs Mosque, west of Jabalya camp.
Number of casualties of the #Israeli_bombing of a mosque in Jabalia is rising as rescue teams and volunteers are still working!!! pic.twitter.com/K4fKWuWqX6
— Motasem A Dalloul (@AbujomaaGaza) April 16, 2024
A number of Israeli occupation vehicles also moved into the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, surrounded a school housing displaced persons in the town and shot at them.
Several local sources spoke of the interruption of communications and internet in the city of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip in conjunction with the incursion of the occupation forces.
The occupying forces continued to fire heavy machine guns west of the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, and continued artillery shelling in the northern eastern areas of the Gaza Strip.
Under heavy tank and artillery fire, Israeli occupation forces suddenly stormed the city of Beit Hanoun and BLOCKADED 3 SCHOOLS —refugee shelters.
People, who could escape, reported casualties among #displaced_persons inside the schools!#StopGazaGenocide pic.twitter.com/tvHCGUX6hV
— Motasem A Dalloul (@AbujomaaGaza) April 16, 2024
An estimated 1.5 million Palestinians have been displaced to Rafah, the town in the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip – most have no homes to return to, and are sheltering in makeshift tents. Many are suffering from malnutrition, with doctors in southern Gaza reporting that at least 39 babies and small children have died from malnutrition. The World Health Organization said that the 193 days of Israeli attack on the imprisoned people of Gaza has been the fastest deterioration of a people’s health indicators in modern history.
