On Sunday, Day 331 of the ongoing genocide, Israeli missiles and shells killed at least 27 Palestinians across the starved, devastated, and besieged Gaza Strip, and wounded dozens more. Others remain under the rubble, with their friends and neighbors trying to dig them out from the latest Israeli bombardment.
Update: 11:30 pm
At least 11 civilians were killed on Sunday when Israeli warplanes bombed the Safad School, which shelters displaced people in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City. Many people are still missing under the rubble.
The Civil Defense explained that the school was evacuated after the Israeli occupation army threatened to bomb it again, while the process of retrieving the bodies of the killed and the wounded following the first bombing of it continues.
Israel has just bombed another UN school that people are using as a shelter.
Children killed. This is not a war. This is a genocide. pic.twitter.com/NiTQ15E7GO
— Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) September 1, 2024
Six Palestinians were killed on Sunday evening in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a group of people near the education area in Beit Lahia town, north of the Gaza Strip.
According to Hamza al-Namlaa on Twitter, three of those killed have been identified as:
– Murtaja Ahmed Hekmat Junaid
– Jihad Khaled Abdel Qader Abdel Qader
– Musa Abdel Hadi Musa Al-Ghandour
According to the Wafa news agency, Israeli occupation warplanes targeted a group of citizens in the education area in Beit Lahia, which led to the killing of six civilians and the injury of others, who were transferred to the Indonesian and Kamal Adwan hospitals.
Two Palestinians were killed and others were injured when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a residential apartment in Al-Jalaa Street, northwest of Gaza City.
The Civil Defense reported that it was able to retrieve two bodies and a number of injured people from a residential apartment belonging to the Al-Araj family at the Abdul Aal intersection on Al-Jalaa Street, northwest of Gaza.
27 people have been killed on Sunday alone, as a result of the occupation’s bombing of various areas of the Gaza Strip, according to local sources.
The 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 40,738 citizens and the injury of 94,154 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. Most experts estimate the death toll is much higher – and could be as high as 200,000, when counting both direct and indirect deaths related to the Israeli war on Gaza that began October 7th 2023 when 1100 Israelis were killed, including 700 civilians, inside Israel. Around 500 Israeli soldiers have been killed between October 7th and now – both in Gaza and on the Israeli border with Lebanon.
12:45 pm update:
Israeli army warplanes bombed two houses belonging to the Muftah and Bulbul families near the Municipal Park west of Gaza City, killing a Palestinian child and a man, and wounding at least six Palestinians.
The army also fired a missile at Palestinians in the Sheja’eyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, killing one Palestinian and wounding many others, in addition to bombing areas in the Zeitoun neighborhood.
Furthermore, the army fired many artillery shells at the Qleibo area, north of Gaza City, and detonated a residential area in the Tuffah neighborhood.
In central Gaza., the army fired artillery shells at the Al-Boreij refugee camp, killing one Palestinian and wounding several residents.
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
Furthermore, the army fired many artillery shells and missiles at Salahuddin Street near Zawaida, and north of the Nusseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza, causing casualties.
In southern Gaza, the army fired artillery shells at the Al-Fakhari town, east of Khan Younis, causing many casualties.
In addition, the army also wired and detonated three residential blocs in Rafah, in Gaza’s southmost part.
In addition, the army bombarded the home of the Hanthal family in the Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza, killing three Palestinians, Bilal Abu Khater, Ahmad Al-Bahri, and Talal Abu Hajar.
A Palestinian father from Gaza was seen embracing his two daughters in a final goodbye after Israeli forces killed them in an attack on a dwelling in Nuseirat. pic.twitter.com/uNA0lOKMIj
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) September 1, 2024
In Gaza City, the army bombarded many areas near the University College Building, while navy ships fired barrages of live rounds at areas west of the city.
In related news, the army said it found the corpses of six Israeli captives in Rafah; they were identified as Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Carmel Gat, Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov, and Ori Danino.
The army claimed that the six might have been killed by their captors when the soldiers were operating nearby before the soldiers managed to reach them.
The army stated that the six were reportedly not killed in recent gun battles with Palestinian fighters and said that “the army did not use force in the area.”
🚨 Breaking: Despite claims of a humanitarian ceasefire for a polio vaccination campaign, Israel bombed Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in #Gaza, killing 2 and injuring many others.
The so-called “ceasefire” is nothing but a lie ‼️ pic.twitter.com/taDi5JuPSq
— Nour Naim| نُور (@NourNaim88) August 31, 2024
It added that the six were found in an area only about one kilometer away from where another captive, Kayed Farhan Al-Kadi, 52, from Rahat, was located only a week earlier.
The Israeli reports did not take into account the extensive and indiscriminate bombing and shelling carried out by the army across the Gaza Strip.
Al-Jazeera quoted Israeli Yedioth Ahronoth stating that three of the Israelis who were killed and the army found their corpses were among a list of Israeli captives that, back in July, Hamas agreed to release them.
The Israeli Army Radio said that the four could have been returned alive if a prisoner-swap agreement had been reached.
Hamas said the six Israelis were killed by Israeli missiles, and added that, if US President Joe Biden was concerned about their lives, he could have stopped his support for the Israeli aggression.
Ezzat Resheq, a member of Hamas’s Political Bureau, said: “Unlike Biden, we are very keen on keeping them alive, and that is why we accepted his ceasefire proposal, and the Security Council resolution, while Netanyahu opposed it.”
Resheq stated that Israel and the United States are responsible for the death of the Israeli captives by rejecting the ceasefire and continuing the genocide in Gaza.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been bombing Gaza by land, sea, and air, resulting in the killing of at least 40,691 citizens, and the injury of 94,060 others, mostly children, women, and the elderly, in addition to the thousands who remain under the rubble, on bombarded streets and in destroyed alleys while medics and rescue teams have been unable to reach them.
Among the slain Palestinians are at least 16,589 children, 11,207 women, 182 journalists and 23 emergency responders, 885 medical staff, 82 “82 Civil Defense staff, and 203 UNRWA staff.
