On Wednesday, Day 327 of the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells struck various parts of the destroyed, starved, and strangled coastal enclave, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including children and women.
update 8:30 pm:
Eight civilians were killed on Wednesday in the Israeli military’s bombardment of a school sheltering displaced Palestinian east of Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip.
A correspondent with the Wafa news agency said that the Israeli occupation forces targeted the vicinity of the “Al-Manfalouti” school, which shelters displaced people east of Deir al-Balah, which led to the killing of eight citizens and the injury of others.
Video of a Palestinian mother trying to resuscitate her young son. While she is crying and grieving, her other son’s body is brought in, as he was also killed by the US-funded Israeli missile:
A funeral was held for the journalist Mohammad Abdel Rabbo in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, who was targeted and killed along with his sister in their home the previous day:
The Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression by land, sea and air on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023 , which has resulted in the killing of 40,534 citizens and the injury of 93,778 others, while thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) temporarily suspended its activities across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, after it said one of its vehicles, clearly marked with its logo, was hit by at least 10 bullets as it approached an Israeli military checkpoint.
The program said in a statement that the convoy, which included two armored vehicles, received “numerous approvals from the Israeli authorities to approach” the checkpoint at the Wadi Gaza Bridge on Tuesday evening. No one in the vehicle was injured.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“Although this is not the first security incident to occur during the war, it is the first time that a WFP vehicle has come under direct fire near a checkpoint despite having obtained the necessary approvals,” the programme said.
The WFP added that the vehicle was “a few metres” from the Israeli checkpoint when it was hit.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Wednesday that aid operations in Gaza were “significantly constrained by hostilities, insecurity and mass evacuation orders affecting aid routes and facilities.”
Also Wednesday, Amnesty International called on European Union countries not to supply Israel with weapons, in a letter addressed to the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell.
In a letter published by the German News Agency DPA on Wednesday, the organization urged the European Union not to invest or trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, which the International Court of Justice in The Hague deemed illegal in a recent advisory opinion.
The organization’s call to tighten the European Union’s policy comes before a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels to discuss the war on Gaza.
In July, the International Court of Justice stated that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories for nearly 60 years violates international law and must end as soon as possible.
The court, in a landmark opinion from the United Nations’ highest judicial body (although not legally binding), noted that Israel’s settlement policy effectively constitutes illegal annexation.
“Its members, including the European Union countries, have a responsibility not to support the occupation policy or accept the status quo created by Israel, ” the court stated.
In its letter to Borrell, Amnesty International indicated that the European Union countries, by “supplying Israel with weapons, technology and equipment,” are not fulfilling this responsibility.
Video of severely injured young girl who was one of the victims of the Israeli airstrikes in Deir al-Balah Wednesday:
A Palestinian young girl sustained severe injuries as a result of an airstrike by the Israeli occupation forces on the Abu Suweirh family home in the western part of the Nusairat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/w6xqR1H3vJ
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) August 28, 2024
Palestinian children are drinking contaminated water from leaking pipes in the besieged Gaza strip amid severe water shortages due to Israel’s ongoing war. pic.twitter.com/YzlORfwq2L
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) August 28, 2024
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In Jabalia, in northern Gaza, the army fired a missile at a home, killing five Palestinians, including two children, and wounding many, while many remained under the rubble.
The army fired a missile at a home of the Ziyada family in the center of the Jabalia refugee camp, killing four Palestinians and wounding many others.
In Gaza City, the army fired a missile at the Sahyoun family home in the Rimal neighborhood, west of the city, killing two Palestinians and wounding seven.
The army also fired barrages of missiles and shells at the Zeitoun, Tal Al-Hawa, Sheikh Ejleen, and Sabra neighborhoods, killing and wounding many Palestinians.
In central Gaza, at least three Palestinians were killed and many were wounded when the army fired a missile at a car in the Zawaida area.
The army also fired a missile at an apartment of the Abu Dalal family in the Nusseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza, killing a Palestinian journalist and his sister.
In addition, casualties were reported when the army fired missiles and shells at many homes east of the Al-Maghazi refugee camp and east of Deir Al-Balah City, in central Gaza.
In Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, the army fired missiles at homes near Nasser Medical Center in the city, killing and wounding many Palestinians, including children, before they were taken to the hospital.
Five of the slain Palestinians were killed in a home for the Abdul-Rahman family in the Batn As-Sameen area.
The army also carried out several airstrikes targeting the Al-Mahatta area, and Qizan Najjar, south of Khan Younis, causing many casualties.
Many bombings and airstrikes were reported in several areas of Rafah city, in the Gaza Strip’s southmost area.
It is worth mentioning that the Israeli army said a soldier was killed during gun battles in Gaza, bringing the military death toll to 703. Approximately 1,139 Israelis were killed since October 7.
On Tuesday, the army said it managed to secure the release of an Israeli captive in a tunnel in what it called a “Hamas tunnel” in Rafah.
The army stated that Farhan Al-Qadi was found accidentally when the military was operating in tunnels in Rafah, and added that it is investigating how Al-Qadi was found alone, after the soldiers “initially thought he was a Hamas fighter,” and said that Al-Qadi was weak and seemingly malnourished, and was unable to climb out of the tunnel on his own.
The Israeli army killed more than 40 Palestinians, mostly children and women, from various parts of the Gaza Strip at dawn, Wednesday, among them at least 20 in Israeli bombings of Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza.
Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian political leader and former key member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), “criticized the US’s bizarre” provision of unlimited lethal weapons” and cash to Israel’s army while also saying it is “doing everything” to stop the escalation of conflict.
Gaza photojournalist @walidmahmodrouk speaks about his grandmother’s story – she was forced out of her home by Israel and died in a tent in Gaza after multiple displacements.
Fatima, who was 89 years old, survived the first Nakba and was older than the state of Israel. pic.twitter.com/uFr6FlhAJg
— AJ+ (@ajplus) August 27, 2024
Dr. Ashrawi said: “Nothing can be more bizarre than the US showering Israel with billions, supplying its genocidal army with unlimited lethal weapons and munitions, deploying its warships, submarines, and fighter planes to the region in readiness to fight Israel’s wars of “self-defense,” manipulating a charade of “negotiations” to buy Israel more time to pursue its carnage and ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank, then clutching its pearls and claiming that it’s doing everything to prevent the escalation and expansion of the “conflict,” while threatening Israel’s victims should they dare retaliate. Enough!”
Israel has now killed at least 40,476 Palestinians, including 16,589 children and more than 11,207 women, and injured more than 93,647, largely children and women, in addition to the thousands (about 10,000, including 4,700 children and women,) who remain under the rubble, on destroyed streets in bombarded alleys in various parts of the Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023.
