Israeli airstrikes continued throughout the day and night on Monday, day 227 of the Israeli attack on Gaza.
Four Palestinians were among those killed this evening, Monday, in an Israeli occupation raid on the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
A correspondent with the Wafa news agency reported that the occupation aircraft bombed a house for the Qandil family in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, leading to the death of four citizens, and their bodies were transported to the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City.
The Israeli occupation continued its aggression against the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since the seventh of last October, which resulted in the death of at least 35,562 citizens, the majority of whom were children and women, and the injury of 79,652 others, in an infinite toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble.
An official at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Adeem Wa Surno, said on Monday before the UN Security Council: “Frankly, we do not find words to describe what is happening in Gaza. We described it as a disaster, a nightmare, hell on earth. The situation (in Gaza) “It is all that and worse.”
Wesorno presented a briefing to the Council on behalf of Martin Griffiths, Emergency Relief Coordinator, in which she said that living conditions in Gaza are deteriorating as a result of the violent fighting, especially in Jabalia, in the north of Gaza, and east of Rafah in the south, in addition to Israeli bombing from the air, land and sea.
The UN official indicated that the number of victims continues to rise daily. She spoke about the fact that 1.1 million people in Gaza are facing catastrophic levels of hunger while the Strip remains on the brink of famine, and touched on the scarcity of fuel and supplies and the enormous pressure on the health system.
She said: 75% of Gaza’s population, or 1.7 million people, have been forcibly displaced inside Gaza, many of them three or four times, including due to repeated evacuation instructions from the Israeli army.
She stressed, unequivocally, that people forcibly displaced within or from Gaza must be guaranteed the right to voluntary return as required by international law. It also stressed the need to meet the basic needs of civilians.
“For evacuated civilians this means ensuring, to the greatest extent possible, that adequate shelter and conditions for hygiene, health, safety and nutrition are available and that members of the same family are not separated,” she said. “These appalling conditions raise serious doubts about compliance with these basic obligations.”
An Israeli soldier posted this video of what they are doing to civilians in Rafah southern Gaza. With words indicating that they are destroying the area and soft music in the background, he seems to be really enjoying genocide. pic.twitter.com/3vdDjv1XO4
— Maha Hussaini (@MahaGaza) May 21, 2024
The Civil Defense: Our teams have recovered several injured individuals as a result of gunfire from an Israeli quadcopter targeting a group of residents behind the Disabled Association on the Palestinian-Egyptian border in southern Rafah. pic.twitter.com/VDjjy4XkBj
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) May 20, 2024
This was one of our schools in Khan Younis before evacuation orders impacted #Rafah 2 weeks ago
Families in #Gaza have been forced to return to damaged & destroyed facilities that are not safe nor suited to shelter people. The situation is desperate, there is nowhere else to go pic.twitter.com/Fn4wp5lONO
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) May 20, 2024
Day 227: Israeli Bombardment Kills 70 Civilians in Past 24 Hours
Published on: May 20, 2024 at 07:13
A number of Palestinians, including children and women, were killed before dawn on Monday, in a series of Israeli raids and artillery shelling that targeted the cities of Gaza, Rafah, Khan Yunis, and the Jabalia and Bureij refugee camps.
According to local sources, over the past 24 hours at least 70 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces. This level of killing has been a daily reality for Palestinians in Gaza for the past 227 days, as Israeli forces have bombarded nearly every section of the Gaza Strip, forcing hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee from one part of the Gaza Strip to another – multiple times – as they try to follow Israeli orders to escape being killed.
Correspondents with the Wafa news agency reported that 3 civilians were killed and at least 8 others were injured as a result of the occupation aircraft bombing a house in the vicinity of Al-Qadisiyah School in the Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, while the Brazil neighborhood in the center of the city witnessed similar air strikes.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that an Israeli bombing targeted a residential apartment in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah, leaving 3 killed and a number of injured.
The reporter said that several people were martyred and others were injured in the bombing of a house for the Al-Arouqi family in the Abu Iskandar area in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City.
Among those killed was the infant son of journalist Motasem A Dalloul, Abu Baker.
A number of civilians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli raid that targeted the vicinity of Sheikh Zakariya Mosque in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in the center of Gaza City, while artillery shelling targeted the eastern areas of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of the city.
Various areas in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, and the Jabalia and Bureij camps witnessed a series of Israeli raids, resulting in the injury of a number of citizens.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent said that Israeli warplanes bombed the Al-Qasaib neighborhood in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip said earlier that the Israeli bombing targeted a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp, and its spokesman Mahmoud Basal added to Agence France-Presse that the Civil Defense teams in the Central Governorate were able to recover 31 martyrs and 20 wounded from a house belonging to the Hassan family that was targeted by the Israeli occupation forces. In Nuseirat camp.
In the north of the besieged and devastated Palestinian Strip, the Arab National Hospital (Al-Baptist) reported the death of three people in an Israeli raid on a school housing displaced people in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
The Israeli occupation army announced months ago the “dismantling of the military structure” of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the northern Gaza Strip, but last Friday it declared to the press agency that Hamas “was in complete control of Jabalia until our arrival a few days ago.”
In the southern Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation army announced the intensification of its operations in Rafah, where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists on carrying out a large ground attack that he considers necessary to eliminate the Hamas movement in its last major “strongholds.”
On May 7, the Israeli army took control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, despite widespread international opposition to this.
About 800,000 Palestinians have been forced to flee Rafah, according to the United Nations, since the sixth of this month.
Medical sources had announced that the current death toll in the Gaza Strip had risen to 35,456, and injuries to 79,476, since the start of the Israeli occupation aggression on the 7th of last October.
The sources indicated that the occupation committed 8 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the death of 70 civilians and the injury of 110 others, during the past 24 hours.
