On Monday, Day 311 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the devastated, starved, and besieged Gaza Strip, the Israeli army killed dozens of Palestinians, including children and women, and injured many more across the coastal enclave.
The Israeli Air Force carried a series of airstrikes at various parts of the Gaza Strip, targeting entire residential blocks in Nusseirat refugee camp, the Zawaida area, and around camps where families sheltered, in central Gaza, in addition to Tal Al-Sultan in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip’s southmost part, and various other areas across the coastal region.
In Gaza City, the army fired shells near Bader Mosque in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of the city, killing at least five Palestinians and wounding many others, before the medics moved them to the Baptist Hospital.
The army also fired barrages of live rounds and gas bombs at the eastern areas of the Zeitoun neighborhood.
Also, three Palestinians were killed, and many were injured when the army fired a missile at a home on Abu Hasira Street, west of Gaza City.
A Palestinian baby is killed by the israelis in a precision missile strike that targeted a family home in the Bureij refugee camp, in the centre of Gaza pic.twitter.com/XfQnaGqDfb
— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) August 12, 2024
In addition, an Israeli drone fired a missile at Nadim Street in Gaza City’s Zeitoun streets, causing casualties.
In Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, the army fired a missile at a home for the Najjar family in the Ma’en area, east of the city, killing and wounding many Palestinians, including children and women.
This child survived 9 days under the rubble and his ordeal still isn’t over
How can you justify this? pic.twitter.com/a3UNa4psTs
— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) August 12, 2024
The army also fired a missile at a car on Salahuddin Street, east of Khan Younis, killing at least three and wounding ten.
Also in Khan Younis, at least two Palestinians were killed, and many were injured, by Israeli missiles and shells in the Al-Qarara town, east of the city.
In addition, Israeli missiles killed at least six Palestinians and wounded many in the water desalination area in Khan Younis.
Furthermore, many Palestinians were killed and injured when the army fired a missile at a car on the Salahuddin, east of Khan Younis.
In Abasan town, east of Khan Younis, the army fired a missile at homes, killing more than ten Palestinians and wounding dozens.
In Rafah, in Gaza’s southmost part, the army fired many missiles at homes, causing many casualties, and continued the wiring and detonating of many residential buildings, west of the city.
The Israeli army said a soldier was killed in southern Gaza, bringing the number of slain soldiers, since October 7, 2023, to 690, including 330 who were killed since the beginning of the ground offensive on October 27.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said its fighters targeted Israeli soldiers and tanks with mortars when the army invaded areas northeast of Khan Younis.
The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, said its fighters along with Qassam fighters struck an Israeli tank with a high-explosive shell at the Abu Ayyash junction, west of Rafah.
The Al-Quds Brigades added that its fighters fire many mortars at Israeli soldiers and armored vehicles invading the Az-Zanna area, east of Khan Younis.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said Israel committed three massacres of families in the Gaza Strip, in less than 48 hours, killing 142 Palestinians, including many children and women, among them 107 who were moved to hospitals and identified, and added that more than 150 Palestinians have been injured.
Israel has now killed at least 39.897 Palestinians, including more than 16.365 children, 11.012 women, 885 medical staff, 165 journalists, and 496 educational staff, and injured more than 92.152, largely children women and elders, in addition to the thousands of Palestinians who remain under the rubble, on destroyed streets and in bombarded alleys across the coastal enclave, since October 7, 2023.
