Five Palestinian civilians were killed on Friday evening, in the shelling of the central and southern Gaza Strip. A correspondent with the Wafa news agency said that the Israeli occupation aircraft bombed the vicinity of Faisal School in the Japanese neighborhood west of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, which led to the death of 3 citizens.
Two civilians were also killed and others were injured in the Israeli occupation air strikes on the Al-Sawarha area, west of Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Earlier Friday afternoon, a Palestinian was killed and others were injured as a result of a bombardment launched by the Israeli occupation aircraft on the town of Al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip.
Warplanes launched raids on a house in the town, killing a Palestinian and wounding others, who were taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
A number of civilians were also injured when the occupation shelled agricultural land in Al-Sawarha area, west of Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, and continued to launch air raids on areas northwest of Khan Yunis in the south.
Rami Abdu, Assist. Prof of Law & Finance. Chairman of Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said: “We mourn with you the loss of Shaimaa, the eldest daughter of our dear friend Rafat Al-Araeer @itranslate123, and her husband, engineer Mohammed Abdel Aziz Siyam, along with their newborn baby, after their apartment near Al-Ramal Clinic in Gaza was targeted in an Israeli airstrike. Shaimaa joined her father Rafat in less than 5 months.
Breaking: We mourn with you the loss of Shaimaa, the eldest daughter of our dear friend Rafat Al-Araeer @itranslate123, and her husband, engineer Mohammed Abdel Aziz Siyam, along with their newborn baby, after their apartment near Al-Ramal Clinic in Gaza was targeted in an… pic.twitter.com/pGFkt9ssPI
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) April 26, 2024
WAFA news agency published interviews with displaced Palestinians. Rateb Saleh, a displaced resident of Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, said: “We were displaced to Rafah seven months ago and the war is still ongoing, with killing, destruction, suffering, displacement and intimidation.”
He told Anatolia: “The situation is very tragic, no water, no electricity, no food, destruction and killing everywhere. There is no safe area in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation destroys mosques and homes and kills women, children and the elderly. The population is dying and the world is looking at us, we want the war to stop,” he said, stressing the need for international pressure to restrain Israel in its ongoing war.”
The process of retrieving victims from mass graves at Nasser Hospital continues for the eighth consecutive day. #GazaGenocide pic.twitter.com/IIwiZt0M1M
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Amna Saleh, 87, said: “We were displaced amid the shelling, where houses were destroyed above our heads and we lost our sons and youth. Those who do not die as a result of killing and shelling die from lack of food and treatment. We have been living for seven months in tents that lack the basic necessities of life under rain, rockets, shelling and fear”.
She expressed her wish that the war would end and she would be able to return to the land of her destroyed home in the town of Jabalya.
The displaced people established temporary camps in Rafah, which is crowded with about 1 million and 100,000 citizens, most of whom are displaced, living in difficult conditions as a result of the aggression.
The camps lack the most basic necessities of life and represent a temporary refuge for many families displaced by the bombing, where citizens live in difficult conditions under the shade.
The suffering of citizens in displacement camps in the southern Gaza Strip is exacerbated by the intensification of heat waves, amid warnings of the spread of epidemics and diseases, especially among children and women.
UN and international reports confirm that the Gaza Strip has become virtually unviable as a result of the massive destruction carried out by the Israeli occupation forces in homes and infrastructure, which affected more than 60% of the buildings of the Strip.
Citizens fear that the Israeli occupation will carry out its threats to invade the city of Rafah, despite international warnings of its repercussions and consequences.
The WAFA News Agency quoted Pehr Lodhammar, a senior officer from the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), stating that that the Israeli aggression on Gaza has left an estimated 37 million tons of debris.
“He said it was impossible to determine the exact amount of unexploded ordnance in the enclave where formerly heavily built-up and densely populated neighborhoods have been reduced to rubble, after nearly seven months of intense Israeli bombardment.”
“Every square meter in Gaza impacted by the conflict contains some 200 kilograms of rubble, the veteran UN demining expert told journalists in Geneva.”
“All I can say is that at least 10 percent of the ammunition that is being fired potentially fails to function…we’re talking about 14 years of work with 100 trucks, so that’s 14 years for their removal with about 750,000 workdays – person workdays – to remove the debris.”
Israel continues its aggression against the Gaza Strip despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire and despite being brought before the International Court of Justice on charges of genocide.
updated from: Day 203 of Israel’s Gaza Invasion: Internet Cut-off, Bombing Continues
Apr 26, 2024 at 10:31
The Israeli occupation forces continued, at dawn Friday, their fierce bombardment throughout the Gaza Strip, as the aggression entered its 203rd straight day. The Times of Gaza has reported another internet blackout in southern Gaza since Thursday, which has left the 1.5 million people who are displaced there, living in tents, with no access to the outside world and increasingly isolated amidst Israeli threats to bomb the city of Rafah where they are now displaced.
According to the Palestinian Wafa news agency, on Friday morning, the Israeli warplanes launched violent raids in the north of Nuseirat and Maghazi refugee camps and the town of Al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip. Israeli infantry on the ground in central Gaza blew up residential buildings in the town of Al-Mughraqa, in conjunction with the Israeli artillery shelling areas north of Al-Nuseirat refugee camp, the town of Beit Lahia and the eastern areas in the northern Gaza Strip. This is in addition to the Israeli occupation vehicles firing machine guns along the border strip in the northern Gaza Strip.
A young woman, Lara Sayegh, 19, who was sheltering in a church in central Gaza after the army bombarded her family’s home, died from extreme exhaustion, thirst, and the heat, after crossing an Israeli military roadblock and was walking with his mother towards Rafah, hoping to cross into Egypt.
Her mother lost consciousness due to the same concession, and Lara was buried without any of her remaining family attending in Zawaida City, in central Gaza.
Also, a baby, Malak Saed Al-Yaziji, only five months of age, has died in a tent in Gaza due to extreme heat and malnutrition.
The Israeli warplanes also launched violent raids on Al-Safa Mosque in Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, and on the Al-Zaytoun and Al-Sheja’eyya neighborhoods in the east of the city, in conjunction with Israeli artillery shelling.
In addition, ambulance and rescue crews continue to recover the bodies of martyrs from mass graves discovered at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. At least 392 bodies were recovered from three mass graves discovered at the Nasser Medical Complex, following the withdrawal of the Israeli occupying forces from Khan Younis. Among the bodies were 165 unidentified because the Israeli occupation rendered the bodies unrecognizable.
The suffering of citizens in displacement camps in the southern Gaza Strip has been exacerbated by sandstorms, amid warnings of the spread of epidemics and diseases, especially among children and women. The temperature in the Gaza Strip on Thursday reached about 37 degrees Celsius.
The Israeli aggression and the genocidal war have led to the forced displacement of over one and a half million Palestinians from the north and center of the Gaza Strip to its south, especially to the Rafah governorate, which is now crowded with internally displaced persons.
The Central Bureau of Statistics announced that the number of citizens residing in Rafah governorate until April 22 is estimated at about 1.1 million individuals, living in an area of 63.1 km. The population density in Rafah before the Israeli aggression reached 4,360 individuals per km2, while it is now about 50,017 individuals per km2, which constitutes a humanitarian and environmental disaster, and a huge pressure on scarce services, and the ability to obtain the simplest means of life under the aggression.
These displaced people suffer from difficult living and health conditions as a result of the aggression, as the displacement camps lack the most basic necessities of life.
Israel has now killed at least 34.305 Palestinians, including 14.778 children, 9.752 women, 497 medical staff and medics, 67 Civil Defense members, 152 UNRWA employees and workers, 140 journalists, and 246 educators, and injured more than 77.293, mostly women and children, in various parts of the Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023.
