On Wednesday, Day 292 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the devastated and destroyed Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, including women and children.
In central Gaza, the Israeli army fired a missile at a home in Camp 2 in Nusseirat, killing one child and wounding many Palestinians.
The army also fired at a car for the Gaza Electricity Company in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, killing at least four Palestinians and wounding many others.
Furthermore, the army fired live rounds at Palestinian citizens in Khan Younis, killing at least two Palestinians, including a child, near Bani Soheila Junction, east of the city.
Israeli occupation forces spread havoc everywhere in #Gaza to make it uninhabitable! pic.twitter.com/bMlRUliMBx
— Motasem A Dalloul (@AbujomaaGaza) July 24, 2024
The army also killed four Palestinians, including three from the Najjar family, after bombarding their homes in the Ma’en area, in the southeastern part of Khan Younis.
Furthermore, the army fired missiles and shells at homes in the Jouret Al-Lout area, in the southern part of Khan Younis, killing at least four Palestinians, and wounding many.
Also, Israel sharpshooters killed targeted civilians at the Bani Soheila Junction, east of Khan Younis, killing a young man and a child
Palestinian medics and Civil Defense teams also found the corpses of many slain Palestinians in the Bani Soheila Junction, and two in a school where families sheltered after the army fired missiles at those areas in Khan Younis.
Furthermore, the army continued the wiring and detonation of residential blocks in Bani Soheila, and the Al-Qarara town, in Khan Younis.
In Gaza City, the army fired missiles at Palestinians near the Al-Ahli Club in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, in the western part of the city, wounding many, some seriously.
Eyewitnesses said that Israeli snipers fatally shot a young man and a child at the Bani Suheila roundabout east of Khan Younis.
Detonating the remaining buildings of Al Azhar University in #Gaza.. pic.twitter.com/gZD9eDJU45
— Motasem A Dalloul (@AbujomaaGaza) July 24, 2024
Dr. Ahmad Soufi, the Mayor of Rafah, in Gaza’s southmost part, said the Israeli army is ongoing with the massive destruction of the entire governorate for the third consecutive month, and continues to prevent the entry of humanitarian supplies after turning the Rafah Border Terminal into rubble.
Dr. Soufi added that Israel has destroyed more than %70 of Rafah’s infrastructure, including streets, water lines, sewage facilities, water wells, the Central Market, and all public facilities.
He stressed that the occupation forces adopted a scorched earth policy in areas like Shouka, the Salam neighborhood, the Yibna refugee camp, and all areas in the western part of Rafah, where the destruction exceeded %80 of the buildings.
Dr. Soufi stated that the army also destroyed entire residential blocks, such as Tal Al-Sultan, the Saudi neighborhood, and the western camp, in addition to destroying more than %60 of the Shaboura refugee camp.
On its part, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Wednesday that children are paying the highest price of the war in the Gaza Strip, amid displacement and fear of losing their childhood.
Children are paying the highest price in #Gaza. Amid displacement & fear they are losing their childhood
Our @UNRWA colleagues continue to provide psychosocial & recreational activities to give them a sense of normalcy as much as possible. Children should be able to be children. pic.twitter.com/GpVGszojA6
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) July 24, 2024
UNRWA added in a post on X, “Our UNRWA colleagues continue to provide psychological, social, and recreational activities to give the children a sense of normalcy as much as possible. Children should be able to be children.”
“People are just in the streets, they run away from the ongoing bombardments, there’s no space to go, they have nothing with them.”@UNWateridge to @BBCNews: people in #Gaza have nowhere to go and no means to move. They are completely exhausted and desperate to stay alive. pic.twitter.com/9PHg6rB3Pj
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) July 24, 2024
On Wednesday evening, the Israeli army said two soldiers were seriously wounded during gun battles with Palestinian fighters in southern Gaza.
Israel has now killed at least 39.145 Palestinians, and injured more than 90.257, mostly children, women, and elderly, in addition to the thousands of missing Palestinians, largely under the rubble, on destroyed streets and bombarded alleys, in various parts of the Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023.
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers have killed 589 Palestinians, including 142 children, since October 7, 2023.
