On Wednesday, day 299 of Israeli forces’ continuous and ongoing assault on the entire, imprisoned 2.24 million Palestinians of the Gaza Strip, massive Israeli bombardment of Palestinian camps for internally displaced refugees continued.
On Wednesday evening, a number of civilians were killed and others were injured when Israeli occupation forces shelled the entrance to Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Medical sources reported that 8 civilians were killed and others were injured after the Israeli occupation forces bombed a civilian vehicle near the entrance to Al-Maghazi camp.
Also in central Gaza, eight civilians were killed in an Israeli drone strike in Al-Zawaida.
A correspondent with the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported that an Israeli occupation drone targeted a group of Palestinians near the electricity company in the Al-Zawaida area, resulting in the killing of eight Palestinians, whose bodies were transferred to the remains of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
Gazan health sources reported that a number of people were killed and wounded in an Israeli bombardment that targeted tents in the Al-Mawasi area, the Israeli-declared so-called ‘safe zone’ west of Rafah city.
A correspondent with the Wafa news agency said that many injuries arrived at the Red Cross field hospital as a result of gunfire from Israeli army vehicles towards the tents of the displaced in the Al-Mawasi area west of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
Health sources also reported that a Palestinian civilian was killed and 4 others were injured in an Israeli bombardment that targeted Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
The neighborhoods of Al-Zeitoun, Al-Shuja’iyya and Al-Tuffah, east of Gaza City, were subjected to intense artillery shelling, which led to the injury of many citizens, including children and women.
Areas east of Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, were also subjected to intense artillery shelling and successive explosions amidst gunfire from Israeli occupation army vehicles.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement Wednesday responding to the report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on cases of detention since October 7, 2023 until June 30, which confirmed the escalation of systematic arbitrary detentions, including administrative detentions, practiced by the Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, or in the Gaza Strip.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated in a statement that the number of Palestinian detainees in Israeli occupation prisons reached 9,440 male and female detainees as of June 30, 2024, including 3,377 cases of administrative detention. This includes women, children, medical personnel, journalists, patients, UNRWA employees, and human rights defenders.
The Ministry stressed that the inhuman and degrading treatment to which Palestinian detainees are subjected in the Israeli occupation prisons, and the systematic torture, including severe beatings leading to death and other crimes, require urgent international action to compel Israel, the occupying power, to stop its flagrant violation of the provisions of international humanitarian law and international human rights law, which is a collective punishment that amounts to a war crime.
Also Wednesday, the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency reported that skin infections and diseases are on the rise among displaced families in Gaza, who are living in inhumane conditions, with minimal access to water & sanitation. The Agency called on the international community to allow more humanitarian access to Gaza to bring in fuel for clean water hygiene & cleaning supplies including soap, among many other needed items.
The Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression on the Gaza Strip by land, sea and air since October 7, 2023, which has resulted in the killing of 39,445 Palestinians, the majority of whom are children and women, and the injury of 91,073 others, while thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them.
