On Saturday, day 323 of the ongoing Israeli attack on the entire Palestinian civilian population of Gaza, Israeli forces launched airstrikes on several different parts of the Gaza Strip, killing and wounding several Palestinian civilians, including children.
Update: Shortly after midnight, medical sources said six Palestinians were injured and many were injured when the army fired a shell at a home for the Moammar family in Deir Al-Balah, in central Gaza.
Update 11:12 pm: A Palestinian toddler, 8 months, and her mother, and many Palestinians were killed when the army fired an artillery shell at home in the Al-Boreij refugee camp, in central Gaza.
7:45 pm update:
Three Palestinians were killed and many were injured from the Israeli occupation bombing in the Nusseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip and were transferred to the Al-Awda Hospital:
Four civilians were killed and others were injured on Saturday when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a house southeast of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. Local sources reported that the Israeli occupation warplanes bombed a house in the Maan area, southeast of Khan Yunis, which led to the deaths of 4 Palestinians and the injury of others.
Hundreds of Palestinians were forced to sleep in the courtyards at Nasser medical complex last night after the bombing in Khan Younis pic.twitter.com/6jJbAhfMIh
— Tui 🔻 (@moon_treacle) August 24, 2024
The Israeli occupation army continues to force thousands of civilians in several areas east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip to move to other areas, for the second time in less than three days, and move to what the Israeli military terms the “humanitarian area” (although that area continues to be bombed by the Israeli airforce.
According to the Palestinian Wafa news agency, the Israeli occupation issued an order on its social media to “those present in the area of the municipalities of Al-Masdar, Al-Maghazi, and northeast of Deir Al-Balah, and those present next to Salah Al-Din Street in this area, specifically in Blocks 125, 126, 2231, 2232, to evacuate.”
Last Wednesday, the occupation forced thousands of displaced Palestinians east of the city of Deir al-Balah to move in a new displacement, which it previously claimed was “humanitarian.”
This constant pushing of hundreds of thousands of civilians from one place to another has been termed a “death march” by some human rights groups, as it is an ongoing displacement of civilians who have been repeatedly pushed from one place to another inside the imprisoned Gaza Strip for the past ten months.
The Israeli occupation army has reduced the area of the alleged “humanitarian zone” east of Deir al-Balah, which is crowded with hundreds of thousands of displaced people, after orders to evacuate new areas from the “humanitarian zone”, in order to carry out a military operation there. Using social media (which most Palestinians have no access to, given the lack of internet and cell service), the Israeli army ordered residents and displaced people in a number of Deir al-Balah towns to evacuate in preparation for attacking these areas.
The Israeli occupation army published a map on the “X” platform, calling on “all residents and displaced persons in Blocks 129 and 130 in the Al-Mahta and Deir al-Balah neighborhoods to the south, from Salah al-Din Street to the street designated for displacement.”
Thousands of citizens were forced to leave their homes on foot, carrying small bags and some basic belongings such as blankets, bedding and a little food.
The majority of the area of the “humanitarian zone” lacks infrastructure, and there is no water or service facilities, as it is an uninhabited area, and is witnessing health and environmental crises, and diseases and epidemics are spreading in the zone.
The displaced suffer from a lack of transportation and various means of transport, due to the lack of sufficient fuel, which forces them to use handcarts or distribute luggage among all family members.
Displaced families are finding it very difficult to transport the elderly, the sick, and their basic needs.
According to the Civil Defense, the occupation has placed more than 450,000 Palestinian citizens under the burden of “new humanitarian challenges”, after reducing the area that it previously classified as “safe humanitarian” in the Gaza Strip.
In a non-final tally, the number of martyrs since the beginning of the Israeli occupation’s aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7th has risen to 40,334 martyrs, in addition to 93,356 wounded.
Palestinians walk past the rubble as he inspects the damages in Hamad City, following Israeli raids, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip:
Video from Al-Mayadeen news agency showing the areas that Israeli bombs have hit in Gaza over the past 323 days
Videos from my comrade Libre who is on a medical mission in Gaza; they were forced to flee Deir al-Balah today under US-funded zionist bombing. They said “The bombing was happening as we were forced to evacuate. Where will everyone go? 2 million ppl on 11% and shrinking… pic.twitter.com/twAAzVg5dh
— Calla (@CallaWalsh) August 24, 2024
9:22 am:
Eleven Palestinians were killed and others, including children and women, were injured at dawn on Saturday, due to Israeli shelling that targeted different neighborhoods in Khan Younis city and north of Al-Nuseirat camp.
Health sources reported the killing of 11 Palestinians, including 4 children and 4 women, and the injury of at least 15 civilians as a result of the Israeli occupation bombing of a house belonging to the Kalakh family in Al-Madrasa Street in Al-Amal neighborhood west of Khan Younis, while others were injured as a result of Israeli artillery shelling in the vicinity of Al-Salam Street in Joura Al-Lut, and the vicinity of the Al-Tahlia area south and east of the city.
Palestinians trying to flee Khan Younis after Israeli military orders them to evacuate, even though there is nowhere to go:
Three Palestinians were killed and others were injured, Saturday morning, in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a residential apartment in the Ein Jalut Towers in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza .
Three Palestinians were also injured when an Israeli drone targeted a school housing displaced persons north of the Nuseirat camp.
In addition, Palestinian Civil Defense sources said that concentrated Israeli shelling led to the destruction of residential buildings in the Kuwaiti roundabout area, the Aliyin square, and the university college in the south of Gaza City.
Four Palestinians were killed on Friday evening when the Israeli occupation bombed gatherings of citizens in the northern Gaza Strip.
The number of people killed in the Gaza Strip has risen to 40,334 and the number of injuries to 93,365 since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. A number of victims are still under the rubble and in the roads and streets, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them.
