On Wednesday, Day 215 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the devastated Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, including many children and women.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said a mass grave was discovered at Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza containing the bodies of dozens of Palestinians, including women, children, and patients, executed by Israel.
Euro-Med added that it has documented around 140 mass graves in the Gaza Strip, since the start of the genocide.
In northern Gaza, the army fired shells at areas around the Indonesian Hospital in Jabalia, and homes and buildings in Beit Lahia, causing casualties.
A Palestinian father, his wife, and their five children were killed when the army fired a missile at their homes in a residential building for the Al-Loah family in the Asqoula area in the Zeitoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
Israel killed Hani Qishta (7 months old) in an attack on Rafah.
Hani’s parents were both killed in Israeli strikes earlier during the Israeli offensive on Gaza. pic.twitter.com/D9EtXKVNrJ
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) May 7, 2024
Medical sources have confirmed that the Israeli army killed Na’im Mohammad Al-Loah, his wife Susan, and their children, Ali, Mohammad, Karam, Sama, and Mais.
The sources added that the medics and rescue teams also evacuated many Palestinians to the Baptist hospital in Gaza after they were injured in the bombing of the Al-Loah family home.
At least one Palestinian was killed, and several others were injured by Israeli shells targeting many Palestinians on Street 8, south of Gaza City.
Many Palestinians were injured, some seriously, when the army fired shells and missiles at Al-Mufti Land, north of the Nusseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza, in addition to firing many shells at the Al-Musaddar nearby village.
In Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, the army fired shells at Khuza’a town, east of the city, killing at least two women and wounding many Palestinians.
In Rafah, in Gaza’s southmost area, the army fired a missile at a motorcycle, near the Salahuddin Gate, south of the city, killing two Palestinians and wounding many others, some seriously.
Another Palestinian was killed and many were injured when the army fired artillery shells at the top floor of Qishta residential tower, in the center of Rafah City.
Bridget, a midwife from California working in Rafah’s last maternity hospital: now is the time for you to call your govts #AllEyesOnRafah pic.twitter.com/J23VL2VJPo
— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) May 8, 2024
One Palestinian was killed and a few were injured in an Israeli shelling of an area, west of Rafah City.
After the Israeli army invaded the Rafah Border Terminal with Egypt and destroyed and occupied it, the army closed the main land crossing where humanitarian aid, wounded Palestinians, and patients were able to enter and leave the coastal enclave.
The United Nations said the closure would lead to a serious humanitarian crisis, especially since food supplies in the Gaza Strip are barely enough for four days.
Al-Jazeera said the army fired a missile near the old destroyed airport, east of Rafah, in addition to firing many shells during exchanges of fire with Palestinian fighters, east of the Salam neighborhood, in the easter part of the city.
The Israeli navy also fired dozens of live rounds at Palestinian families trying to shelter near the shore of Rafah.
It is worth mentioning that, after the Israeli army destroyed various parts of the Rafah Border Terminal and completely occupied it, a day earlier, all humanitarian aid entering Gaza through the border crossing ceased, which also means that all patients and seriously wounded Palestinians are unable to leave the Gaza Strip.
Today marks 215 days since the start of the #GazaGenocide, yet Israel continues to block international press, investigative teams, and fact-finding missions from entering Gaza. pic.twitter.com/67WZ55D5T9
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) May 8, 2024
On Wednesday, the army reopened the only commercial crossing in Gaza, Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) after closing it for four days, preventing the entry of humanitarian aid.
Rafah, only about 65 square kilometers, is where more than 1.5 million Palestinians are trying to shelter after the Israeli army bombarded and destroyed the northern and central parts of the Gaza Strip are facing very difficult living conditions in tents and makeshift shelters without access to basic supplies and infrastructure that could accommodate those large numbers of families.
Israel has now killed more than 34.798 Palestinians, including more than 14.873 children and 9.801 women, and injured at least 34.789, mostly children and women, in addition to the thousands who remain buried under the rubble in several parts of the destroyed and devastated Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023.
