On Tuesday, September 3, day 333 of the Israeli assault on the entire population of 2.24 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued their relentless bombardment of civilians and civilian infrastructure throughout Gaza. A number of civilians were injured early Tuesday morning, when the Israeli occupation forces bombed tents sheltering displaced people northwest of Khan Yunis.
Update 10:30 pm:
Seven Palestinians were killed on Tuesday evening in Israeli shelling of Gaza City.
Local sources reported that the Israeli occupation forces bombed a residential apartment in the vicinity of the municipal park in the center of Gaza City, which led to the killing of five civilians, including a child.
Israel killed Palestinian girl Sarah along with her father and siblings in an airstrike, leaving her mother holding onto memories that will never return. pic.twitter.com/toe0WFzWeG
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) September 3, 2024
Two Palestinians were killed and about 30 were injured in an Israeli occupation bombing that targeted Namaa College in the Saftawi area north of Gaza City, while a number of others were injured when an Israeli drone targeted a group of Palestinians in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood in the city.
An Israeli airstrike killed a young Palestinian girl in central Gaza City while she was playing on her roller blades, targeting and bombing the area where she was.
Israel has killed more than 14,000 Palestinian children in Gaza since October 7, according to the latest figures… pic.twitter.com/16yd3sUFMy
— Mondoweiss (@Mondoweiss) September 3, 2024
Also Tuesday evening, medical sources reported that a number of civilians, including children, were injured after the Israeli occupation forces targeted a house in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in the center of Gaza City.
The following video shows the market in Gaza, with the correspondent from the Wafa news agency reporting that prices have skyrocketed – with a kilo (around 3 large potatoes) costing upwards of $40 US dollars (200 NIS). “In addition to the destruction we’re facing in the Gaza Strip, the prices are unimaginably high,” says Abdul Malik, a displaced Palestinian from the Jabalia camp, near a market in Gaza City. “Even in Europe, they don’t have to live with prices as high as ours”.
Minister of Health Majed Abu Ramadan announced that 350,000 additional doses of polio vaccines arrived in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday evening, and were stored in a vaccine warehouse designated for the vaccination campaign in coordination with UNICEF.
Abu Ramadan said in a statement by the ministry that this is the second batch of vaccines that have arrived in the Gaza Strip, bringing the number of doses arriving in the Gaza Strip to about one million and six hundred thousand doses, which is enough to vaccinate all children from one day old to 10 years old with two doses of the vaccine.
He added that the Ministry of Health teams, in cooperation with the World Health Organization, UNRWA and UNICEF teams, have been carrying out the vaccination campaign since last Sunday in Deir al-Balah Governorate, and the campaign will continue in Khan Yunis Governorate and the surrounding areas, Gaza Governorate and the North .
On August 16 , UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a 7-day humanitarian truce to implement a polio campaign targeting 640,000 children, which was directly supported by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) at the time.
This call came after the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the registration of the first confirmed case of polio in the Gaza Strip, in a 10-month-old child. Three weeks before the outbreak, Palestinian medical experts had warned of the presence of polio in the sewage flowing through the camps where displaced Palestinians have been forced by the Israeli military. Israeli forces refused, and continue to refuse, a humanitarian pause or any break in their relentless bombardment of all parts of Gaza.
Earlier this week, Israeli forces attacked a hospital that had begun launching a polio vaccination drive, causing injuries among patients and the shutdown of the program.
The Minister of Health renewed his appeal to the international community and international organizations to increase pressure on the occupation authorities to stop the aggression and facilitate the mission of health personnel in the Gaza Strip.
A video documents the massive destruction brought about by the Israeli occupation in Hamad Town northwest of Khan Younis. pic.twitter.com/O7IddGWmlT
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) September 3, 2024
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 40,819 Palestinians, the majority of whom are women and children, and the injury of 94,291 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.
8:56 am – Tuesday, September 3:
Medical sources reported that a number of Palestinians were injured with varying degrees of injuries, in addition to a number of missing persons, after the Israeli occupation air force targeted factory tents housing displaced persons northwest of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli occupation army’s aircraft also bombed a house in Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.
In addition, Israeli forces opened fire in the vicinity of the prisoners’ towers northwest of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, in addition to artillery shelling and heavy gunfire in the camp.
Israeli aircraft targeted a house, causing a fire to break out, on Al-Nafaq Street, east of Gaza City.
Three days ago, Eman Nassar, who ran a biscuit project for the displaced, shared her last message. She was thrilled to be helping clean streets of Gaza & hopeful that displaced families would soon return to their homes in North.
Israel killed Eman.
These are not just numbers.… pic.twitter.com/pBowqRQrXy
— Khalissee (@Kahlissee) September 2, 2024
Bloomberg on the erasure of Gaza:
‘Israeli air strikes have left more than 42 million tonnes of debris… enough rubble to fill a line of dump trucks stretching from New York to Singapore. Removing it all may take years and cost as much as $700m.
‘The task will be complicated… pic.twitter.com/Oh7qIkEFBO
— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) August 31, 2024
The UK government has announced the suspension of 30 arms export licenses to Israel.
The suspension, however, will not affect Israel’s ‘security’, according to the British government.
More details: https://t.co/5m5sA5oEIe pic.twitter.com/VhNtoliNnr
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) September 3, 2024
Before dawn on Tuesday, September 3rd, the Israeli occupation bombed a tent housing displaced people northwest of the city of Khan Younis. Two Palestinians, one of whom was a child from the Abu Shab family, were killed. They were transferred to Nasser Hospital in the city. The same area was also subjected to Israeli occupation helicopter bombardment.
The Israeli occupation warplanes bombed a house in the vicinity of the Shuhada junction in Al-Bureij camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip, and Israeli military vehicles opened fire east of the camp.
In the middle of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation artillery fired its shells towards the vicinity of Al-Nuwairi Hill and Abu Ma’la land west of Al-Nuseirat camp in the middle of the Strip, and the vicinity of the electricity company north of the camp.
The Israeli occupation army blew up residential buildings south of the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, and Israeli warplanes targeted a house belonging to the Al-Jadba family, which caught fire without any injuries among the citizens, in Al-Nafaq Street, east of the city.
Also Tuesday, according to Quds News, “the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, released a video of an Israeli prisoner who was killed, one of the six prisoners whose bodies were recovered by the Israeli military last Saturday from a tunnel in southern Gaza. The deceased prisoner, 24-year-old Eden Yerushalmi, revealed that she had been captured at Re’im settlement on October 7th.
“In her final message, Yerushalmi pleaded with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government to do whatever it takes to secure her release through a prisoner exchange deal. She referenced the 2011 exchange deal brokered by Netanyahu with Hamas, which saw the release of over 1,000 Palestinian detainees in exchange for the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Yerushalmi questioned, ‘They are asking for less than a quarter for each of us now, am I worth less?’ expressing her fears of the Israeli ongoing bombardments and the threat of death.”
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 40,786 Palestinians, the majority of whom are women and children, and the injury of 94,224 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.
Among the slain Palestinians are at least 16,589 children, 11,207 women, 182 journalists and 23 emergency responders, 885 medical staff, 82 Civil Defense staff, and 203 UNRWA staff.
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.
