On Saturday, Day 330 of the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells struck various parts of the devastated, starved, surrounded, and destroyed coastal enclave, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including children.
Update – 10:30 pm:
Israeli airstrikes continued non-stop throughout the day and night on Saturday, mainly in central Gaza.
As Palestinian Christians were praying in St. Porphyrius church, an Israeli airstrike hit a house directly adjacent to the church, causing a number of deaths and injuries.
An Israeli airstrike injured my sister, Fadwa, and my niece, Maria, as it targeted a house next to Saint Porphyrius church in Gaza, killing women and children from our Muslim neighbors.
Saint Porphyrius church community is yet again in danger by the Israeli murderous military pic.twitter.com/0cSRwgo23E
— Khalil Sayegh خليل الصايغ (@KhalilJeries) August 31, 2024
The Israeli military also shelled two hospitals and the surrounding neighborhoods in Gaza City – the Baptist Hospital and the Al-Durra Hospital.
Three Palestinians were killed and others were injured, Saturday evening, in the Israeli occupation’s bombing of the vicinity of the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City.
Local sources reported that the occupation warplanes bombed the vicinity of the Baptist Hospital in the center of Gaza City with several missiles, which led to the martyrdom of three Palestinians and the injury of others.
Rescue and ambulance crews are still working to retrieve the killed and injured as a result of the bombing.
In central Gaza, a number of Palestinians were killed and injured on Saturday evening when Israeli warplanes bombed a house in Al-Tuffah neighborhood.
Local sources reported that the Israeli occupation warplanes bombed a house in the Tuffah neighborhood, which led to the death and injury of a number of Palestinians.
In the north of Gaza, three Palestinians were killed Saturday night when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a house in the al-Tawba area in Jabalia camp.
Local sources reported that the Israeli occupation warplanes bombed the house of the Hanzel family in the Al-Tawbah area, which led to the deaths of three Palestinians and the injury of others.
Israeli occupation aircraft targeted a residential area surrounding Al-Durra Hospital in Al-Tuffah neighborhood, coinciding with violent raids targeting Gaza City.
The Israeli occupation artillery bombed the east of Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip.
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 at least 40,691 citizens and the injury of 94,060 others, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and rescue crews cannot reach them.
10:45 am:
Throughout the night, the army bombarded and shelled various parts of the coastal enclave, especially Jabalia, Gaza City, Nusseirat, and Khan Younis.
In northern Gaza, the army fired a missile at an apartment in the Tal Qleibo area near the Indonesian Hospital, in addition to firing a missile at the Nassar building in the Jabalia refugee camp, killing at least four Palestinians and wounding many.
In Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics and rescue teams recovered the bodies of five slain Palestinians and evacuated fifteen injured residents, including many children with burn injuries when the army bombarded a home for the Al-Jabour family; they were also transferred to Nasser Hospital.
Also in Khan Younis, four Palestinians were killed and twenty were injured when the army fired a missile at a home of the Al-Assar family, southeast of the city. They were identified as Dr. Abdul-Rauf Assar, and the siblings Maysoun, Yasim, and Qussai Ammar Assar.
Furthermore, the Palestinian Civil Defense said its medics recovered the bodies of three Palestinians from the rubble of a home of the Hajjaj family in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City after the army fired a missile at it.
Many Palestinians were killed and at least ten were injured when the army bombarded a home of the Hajjaj family in the Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City, while the army also fired many missiles and shells at the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of the city.
It is worth mentioning that, in less than 24 hours, the Israeli army killed 21 Palestinians and injured dozens, including children and women, in several areas in Khan Younis and Rafah, while the army continued to wire and detonate many homes and buildings in Rafah, in Gaza’s southernmost part.
In central Gaza, the army killed at least four Palestinians and injured many after firing a missile at a home of the Zaqqout family in the Al-Hasayna area, in addition to killing seven Palestinians and wounding many in a home of the Elian family, west of Nusseirat refugee camp.
My brother @yipengGe speaks about the babies and children he treated in clinic in Rafah- victims of the public health catastrophe.
Heartbreaking- and a very important call to action. Watch this video now pic.twitter.com/rTpuFvV32a
— Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (@BenNephrology) August 30, 2024
Two Palestinians were killed when an Israeli drone fired a missile at them in the Shakoush area, northwest of Rafah, in Gaza’s southernmost area.
Medical sources also said that five Palestinians were killed and many were injured when the army bombarded the top floor of a residential building of the Hamad family in Camp 1 in Nusseirat.
Earlier, a Palestinian father from the Shalti family in the Nusseirat refugee camp was killed along with his wife and their child after the army bombarded their home.
Yesterday, Israel killed at least four Palestinians working with ANERA to deliver humanitarian aid.
-The image is illustrative. pic.twitter.com/yb5I4NDJGz
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) August 30, 2024
Al-Jazeera English has reported that “a polio vaccination campaign due to begin in Gaza on Sunday comes as aid groups express concerns that ongoing Israeli attacks are limiting their ability to deliver food and healthcare.”
Israel has now killed more than 40,602 Palestinians, including 16,589 children and 11,207 women, and injured at least 93,855, mostly children, women, and elderly, in addition to the thousands who remain under the rubble of bombarded homes and buildings, on destroyed streets and in alleys, while rescue teams have been unable to reach them.
