Throughout the morning, midday and night on Monday, day 283 of the Israeli assault on the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip, Israeli troops continued their bombardment and artillery shelling focused on crowded civilian refugee camps in the Gaza Strip.
On Monday evening, seven Palestinian civilians were killed in Israeli shelling of several areas in the Gaza Strip.
Paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that they were able to retrieve the bodies of two of those who were killed, Kamel Ahmed Siam and Darwish Sharif Siam. The two were killed in an Israeli bombardment that targeted the Siam neighborhood north of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip. They were transferred to Nasser Hospital in the neighboring city of Khan Yunis.
The paramedics added that they were able to retrieve the bodies of an additional 4 Palestinians who were killed when an Israeli warplane bombed a residential apartment belonging to the Salama family in the middle of the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip. The four bodies were transferred to the remains of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city of Deir al-Balah.
Bodies, including children, from Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/qMTe5kV7EO
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A medical source at the Arab Baptist Hospital said that one deceased Palestinian and a number of wounded people arrived at the hospital after an Israeli drone targeted a group of citizens on Al-Nazzaz Street in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City.
The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, described on Monday the destruction of the agency’s headquarters in the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces as “horrific .”
This came in a post on Lazzarini’s account on the “X” platform, accompanied by pictures showing the destruction caused to the agency’s headquarters as a result of the Israeli occupation’s bombing of the Gaza Strip .
The Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, resulting in the killing of more than 38,664 Palestinians, the majority of whom are women and children, and the injury of more than 89,097 others, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble.
The Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education issued a statement Monday that 9,241 students have been killed, and 15,182 injured since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on October 7, following a Palestinian attack on Israel on October 7th that resulted in 1100 killed, including nearly 800 civilians, including 3 infants.
The Ministry also pointed out that 497 teachers and administrators were killed and 3,426 were injured in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and more than 357 were abducted in the West Bank.
In addition, 353 government schools, universities, university buildings, and 65 UNRWA schools were bombed and vandalized by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, resulting in 139 of them being severely damaged and 93 being completely destroyed. In addition, 69 schools and 5 universities in the West Bank were invaded and vandalized, and 133 government schools have been used as shelters for displaced civilians in the Gaza Strip .
The Ministry of Education confirmed that 620,000 students in the Gaza Strip are still deprived of attending their schools since the beginning of the aggression, and 88,000 students are also deprived of attending their universities. The Israeli occupation also deprived 39,000 students from the Gaza Strip of taking their high school exams, while most students suffer from psychological trauma and face difficult health conditions.
Meanwhile, inside Israel, protests against Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who has actively and continuously sabotaged peace talks with the Palestinian leadership in Gaza, family members of Israeli hostages still held in Gaza blocked the Ayalon Highway near the HaShalom junction in Tel Aviv. Israeli police attacked the family members with violent force, arresting some and dispersing the rest.
The protesters told reporters with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that “While the last cabinet meeting was dedicated entirely to the so-called danger to the Prime Minister’s life, we’re here to remind all of you that there are 120 hostages whose lives are truly in an immediate danger. We heard the Defense Minister saying in his own voice that we’re now the closest to a [hostage] deal that we’ve ever been. We won’t allow the prime minister to derail the talks with different excuses.”
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Day 283 of Israeli Assault on Gaza: Dozens Killed in Pre-Dawn Bombings
Published on: Jul 15, 2024 at 11:16
Israeli forces continued their assault on Gaza Monday before dawn, day 283 of the ongoing onslaught against the entire civilian population of 2.24 million people living in the Gaza Strip.
Israel continued carrying out several deadly bombings in az-Zawayda, Rafah and the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to the Palestinian Wafa news agency.
Meanwhile, the death toll from Israel’s airstrike on Sunday targeting a United Nations school-turned-refugee-shelter in Nuseirat, in central Gaza, has risen to 17 killed, with 80 others being injured.
The strike on the UN-run Abu Araban school in central Gaza’s Nuseirat camp was the fifth Israeli attack on a school-turned-shelter in eight days.
The Abu Araban school was housing “thousands of displaced people”, according to civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal. He added that most of those killed were women and children.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza will go down as one of the greatest crimes of the 21st century
“Human remains, all of them children, are scattered everywhere.”
Heartbreaking scenes at the UNRWA school in the Al-Nuseirat refugee camp
Israel bombed tents housing displaced Palestinians… pic.twitter.com/twQOkQEfgb
— Khalissee (@Kahlissee) July 14, 2024
Saturday’s bombing of the Abu Araban school followed a deadly massacre on a UN school in al-Mawasi, in Rafah on Saturday, in which 90 Palestinians were killed and 300 wounded, some with missing limbs and other serious injuries.
On Sunday morning, dozens of civilians were killed and injured on Monday in Israeli shelling of various areas in the Gaza Strip.
A correspondent with the Wafa news agency reported that the Israeli occupation artillery fired several shells at the neighborhoods of Tal al-Hawa, Sheikh Ajleen, and al-Sabra in Gaza City, while helicopters fired at citizens in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of the city.
In addition, the Israeli occupation artillery shelled the vicinity of Street 8 in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.
Also, Red Crescent paramedics recovered the bodies of 5 civilians, including 3 children, as a result of the targeting of the Al-Manaama family home in the Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip by the Israeli occupation warplanes, coinciding with the firing of the occupation artillery shells at the Al-Maghraqa area and the northern outskirts of the Al-Nuseirat camp, and the eastern areas of the Al-Bureij camp, in addition to gunfire from the Israeli occupation helicopters northwest of the city of Al-Zahra.
Israeli warplanes fired a missile at a residential apartment in the vicinity of Al-Awda Schools in the town of Abasan Al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, without any injuries being reported.
In Rafah, the Israeli occupation artillery fired several shells at the western areas of the city, in conjunction with shooting from helicopters toward the same area.
Palestinian officials continue to call for a ceasefire, and indicated, as they have from the first day of the Israeli invasion following the deadly Palestinian attack on Israel on October 7th 2024, a willingness to release remaining hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian hostages being held in horrific conditions in Israeli detention camps in the Negev desert.
Israeli sources reported this week that the Israeli Shin Bet (Intelligence) Service has estimated that over 18,000 Palestinians are currently being held in Israeli detention camps (which survivors and observers have called ‘torture camps’).
Hamas political bureau member Izzat al-Risheq denied rumors that the Palestinian group pulled out of ceasefire negotiations. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has continuously sabotaged ceasefire negotiations, and has pledged his desire to continue the “operation” in Gaza until it is ethnically cleansed of Palestinians. Tens of thousands of Israelis have been protesting for weeks at Netanyahu’s home and at government buildings, calling for Netanyahu’s immediate resignation, for a negotiated end to the Israeli assault on Gaza, and the release of Palestinian and Israeli hostages. Instead of responding to the protesters’ demands, Netanyahu has instead doubled down on his stance of relentlessly bombing civilian areas in Gaza.
