Updated: On Friday, day 315 of the Israeli assault on the entire population of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued their assault, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians in numerous airstrikes in Khan Younis and in al-Mawasi — the area that Israeli forces had ordered all Palestinians to flee to as a supposed ‘safe zone’.
Update: At least one Palestinian was killed and many were injured when the army fired a missile at a home in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City.
Several Palestinians were injured when the army bombarded a home near the European Hospital, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
The army also wired and detonated homes and residential buildings in Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah, in Gaza’s southmost part.
Israeli missiles also fired a missile at a tent, housing a displaced family, west of Khan Younis, killing a Palestinian mother and her three girls.
Video By WAFA News
Aug 16, 2024, at 17:38: A woman and three children were killed on Friday in an Israeli airstrike on a tent for displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Medical sources said, “An Israeli airstrike targeted a tent for displaced people near the Doctors Without Borders Foundation, west of Khan Yunis, resulting in the killing of 4 civilians: a woman and her three children. ”
A heartbroken Palestinian father sorrowfully says goodbye to his little girl, who was killed after the Israeli occupation bombed a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians in Mawasi, west of Khan Younis:
This area is among the areas that the Israeli occupation previously claimed as “safe humanitarian” areas. The entire population of 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza have been forcibly displaced by the Israeli military, and have spent months going from one place to another that the Israeli military has deemed ‘safe’, only to be bombed there and forced to move again.
Palestinian sources reported that six innocent civilians were killed by an Israeli airstrike on a displaced persons’ tent west of Khan Younis.
The children:
1. Rima Al-Akkad
2. Alma Al-Akkad
3. Lana Al-Akkad
4. The mother (Al-Akkad)
5. Khaled Al-Firany
6. Ahmed Al-Firany
On Friday morning, the Israeli occupation reduced the “humanitarian zone” in the cities of Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah, ordering residents of several areas to evacuate. The previously-displaced Palestinians were ordered to pack up and move again — for many this is the 20th time they have been forced to pack up and move by the Israeli military.
Palestinian family attempting to flee Khan Younis as ordered by the Israeli military, coming under fire as they flee:
In an area encompassing less than one-fifth of the Gaza Strip, more than 1.7 million displaced Palestinian civilians live in the Al-Mawasi area and the area to the west of it. This is an area that lacks the most basic necessities of life as a result of the ongoing Israeli war of extermination, according to the international humanitarian aid organization “Oxfam”.
Al-Mawasi is a sandy area along the coastline, extending from the southwest of Deir al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip, passing through the west of Khan Younis to the west of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Friday that Palestinians in Gaza are “stuck in a nightmare of death and destruction”.
The UN agency indicated that “fear has spread once again among Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip, following orders from the Israeli army to evacuate some areas in Al-Mawasi.”
These latest evacuation orders include areas that Israel claimed were a “humanitarian zone” in Gaza. The UN Agency reported that Palestinians in Gaza are “stuck in an endless nightmare of death and destruction on an unbelievable scale.”
The Israeli army just issued another mass evacuation order from what it designated as the “humanitarian area” of Mawasi, expelling from their tents under the threat of annihilation displaced Palestinians who already live at the limit of survival. Permanent displacement. pic.twitter.com/HJfHcVwKvg
— Nicola Perugini (@PeruginiNic) August 16, 2024
Friday Funeral of Palestinians killed the previous day in Dir al-Balah:
According to Middle East Eye, Unicef and WHO are calling for a humanitarian pause for seven days in Gaza to launch two rounds of a polio vaccination campaign at the end of August in the besieged strip.
In a statement issued by Unicef, the pauses “would allow children and families to safely reach health facilities and community outreach workers to get to children who cannot access health facilities for polio vaccination” — something that is not possible without a cease in the Israeli attacks.
In coordination with the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the UN entities have previously provided two drops of novel oral polio vaccine type 2 to more than 640,000 children under the age of 10.
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 at least 40,005 Palestinians and the injury of 92,401 others, while thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and rescue crews cannot reach them. The death toll is likely much higher, with the Lancet scientific journal estimating in July around 180,000 Palestinians had been killed.
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Day 315: Israeli Missiles Kill And Injure Dozens In Gaza
Published on: Aug 16, 2024 at 11:38
In the early hours of Friday, the Gaza Strip was subject to intense rocket and artillery bombardment by Israeli forces, leading to dozens of fatalities and injuries among the residents.
Reports indicate that emergency medical teams have retrieved five slain individuals from the Abdul Wahid and Al-Khor families, along with eight wounded, following an attack on a residential building in Gaza City’s Al-Daraj neighborhood.
Also, Israeli military vehicles stationed near the Shuhada junction opened fire on homes in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.
The casualties were transported to the city’s Baptist Hospital. Among the deceased were Abu Bashar Abdul Wahid, his wife, their son Bashar, and their 13-year-old daughter.
An additional civilian fatality and several injuries occurred due to an Israeli airstrike near Al-Zawaida village’s entrance. The injured were taken to Deir Al-Balah’s Al-Aqsa Hospital.
Another Israeli bombing targeting Gaza City’s Saraya district resulted in one death and multiple injuries.
Furthermore, the body of a young man, Hatem Hassouna Qweider, was recovered after he was fatally shot by a drone near Nusseirat refugee camp’s Da’wa Mosque, in central Gaza; He was subsequently taken to the camp’s Al-Awda Hospital.
Also, a house owned by the Eid family in al-Bureij refugee camp’s Block 9 area was destroyed by Israeli airstrikes, causing casualties.
This Palestinian father left home to get birth certificates for his newborn twins. They were killed by an Israeli airstrike while he was gone.
Israel has killed over 2,000 children under 2 years old since Oct. 7. pic.twitter.com/mIpELoi9pX
— AJ+ (@ajplus) August 16, 2024
Moreover, Israeli shelling to the west of Rafah, in Gaza’s southmost part, claimed another life and caused further injuries. Concurrently, Israeli artillery targeted the western regions of Rafah.
Additionally, the body of a slain individual was retrieved following the shelling of a residence in the Mufti’s land area, situated north of the Nusseirat refugee camp.
The army fired missiles and shells at several areas east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the coastal enclave, causing casualties.
The patients who survived from bombings are now losing their lives due to power outages. Today, in the ICU at Al-Aqsa Hospital, the electricity failed because the fuel has completely run out 💔💔 pic.twitter.com/50ztjClux5
— Dr Mohammed Al Najjar 🇵🇸🇵🇸 (@M7madNajar) August 15, 2024
The soldiers also wired and demolished residential structures in the town of al-Qarara, northeast of Khan Younis.
In northern Gaza, the army fired a missile at an apartment in the Jabalia refugee camp, killing many Palestinians, including several children, and wounding many others.
Furthermore, ambulances and rescue teams were sent to a bombarded house in the refugee camp, and just as they arrived there, one of the medics, Abdul-Qader Ahmad, realized that it was his home the army targeted, killing seven members of his family, including his mother and father.
This pattern has become all too common: amidst the conflict, physicians have faced the heart-wrenching reality of treating their offspring in emergency wards, and first responders have encountered the grim task of retrieving their relatives from the aftermath of bombings.
A Palestinian family recorded the moments when the Israeli army directly targeted them as they evacuated their home along the designated route after an evacuation order. pic.twitter.com/wBwxtTNMCo
— Gaza Notifications (@gazanotice) August 15, 2024
In a post on X, Avichai Adraee, the Israeli army Arabic-language spokesperson, issued an evacuation order for residents in six neighborhood blocks of Gaza City.
The neighborhoods specified include Sabra, Rimal, Tel al-Hawa, and Daraj, which were previously regarded as part of the “humanitarian and safe zones” in Gaza.
🚨HORRIBLE:The headlines about forced displacement in #Gaza may pass quickly, BUT this is what it really looks like ‼️
How do you flee with your children under relentless Israeli military bombing and killing ‼️‼️ pic.twitter.com/qdmBgtYjlx
— Nour Naim| نُور (@NourNaim88) August 15, 2024
It is worth mentioning that, for the second day in a row, the army ordered the evacuation of more neighborhoods in Gaza, and said it intends to bomb those areas allegedly because Palestinian fighters are there.
Israel has now killed at least 40,005 Palestinians, including about 16,456 children, and injured more than 92,401, in addition to more than 10.000 who remain under the debris of bombarded homes, on destroyed streets, and in alleys, inaccessible to ambulance and rescue services, in various parts of the coastal enclave.
