A number of Palestinians were killed and injured, on Wednesday morning, day 334 of the relentless Israeli assault on the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip, as a result of the Israeli occupation forces’ bombing of several areas in the Gaza Strip.
Update 11:35 pm
Medical sources said that 23 Palestinians were killed, including children and women, in Israeli missile and artillery shelling of various areas of the Gaza Strip since dawn on Wednesday until now.
Six Palestinians were killed on Wednesday afternoon in Israeli shelling of the Sheikh Zayed Towers area in the northern Gaza Strip, according to the Wafa news agency.
Medical sources reported that six citizens were killed when the occupation bombed a gathering of citizens in the vicinity of Sheikh Zayed Towers.
Reporter Muhammed Shehada posted this, about a child killed earlier today by Israeli forces – he had been a student of the girl’s father:
I scrolled past this footage today (death has become routine in Gaza) then realized it was my old chemistry teacher, now unrecognizable.
Husam cherished Tala the most, did everything to give her the best life possible.
Israel murdered her today while she was ROLLER SKATING! pic.twitter.com/FFE0zaz3za
— Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) September 4, 2024
Israeli activist @gershonbaskin has served as a backchannel negotiator with Hamas for many years and secured a historic 2011 prisoner exchange. He says the group has agreed to a ceasefire deal that would release all the Israeli hostages currently held in Gaza, but that Prime Minister Netanyahu…pic.twitter.com/Q2sBtzVz3k
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) September 4, 2024
According to Middle East Eye, a senior US official told reporters today that Israel’s long-term security will be more at risk if it doesn’t enter a US-backed ceasefire proposal, saying, “We have taken account of Israel’s security concerns in this negotiation, and if anything, not getting into this deal is more of a threat to Israel’s long-term security than actually concluding the deal and that includes the issue of the Philadelphi corridor”.
Also Wednesday, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was among a group of protesters arrested in Copenhagen calling for an end to the Israeli aggression in Gaza.
“To stand with Palestine is to be human”
—Greta Thunberg, who has just been arrested in Copenhagen protesting against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
— Matt Kennard (@kennardmatt) September 4, 2024
Video from today: Civil defence workers collect torn dead bodies, mostly of children, following an lsraeli air attack on Gaza Strip. (WARNING: Graphic footage)
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 40,819 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.
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.
11:43 am report from Gaza – Wednesday September 4, 2024
In Gaza City, Dr. Nehad al-Madhoun was killed and others were injured, after the Israeli occupation targeted his house in the Al-Daraj neighborhood.
BREAKING: Nehad al-Madhoun, a medical doctor, has been killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting his home in the neighborhood of al-Daraj in Gaza City. pic.twitter.com/fbng2HXgUU
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) September 4, 2024
9-year-old Tala Abu Ajwa was killed yesterday in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza while she was playing with her rollerblades in the street. She died after many attempts to save her by doctors at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City.
Four Palestinians were also injured when the Israeli occupation bombed a barn housing a displaced family in the Al-Sahaba area in Gaza City, while the Israeli occupation blew up residential buildings in the Al-Zeitoun Junun neighborhood, east of Gaza.
Israeli occupation military vehicles opened fire on citizens’ homes in the vicinity of Street 8 in the Tel al-Hawa and al-Zeitoun neighborhoods in Gaza City, amidst gunfire from Israeli drones and Israeli artillery shelling.
The Israeli occupation artillery fired its shells towards the northern areas of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, and the eastern areas west of the cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
The UK has announced that it will suspend 30 out of 350 arms export licences to Israel, citing a “clear risk” they could be used in serious breaches of international humanitarian law.
According to AL Jazeera, Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, says there was a recognition among states that Israel was “committing a series of international crimes”.
“There is huge pressure in the UK and in other countries … not to be complicit in these [international war crimes]. However, there is also a recognition that under the order given by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), there might be complicity in acts of genocide,” Albanese told Al Jazeera. “So there is a moment of awakening. But again this is the beginning. It’s still not enough.”
In January, the ICJ ordered Israel to take action to prevent acts of genocide during its war on Gaza.
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 citizens, 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.
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.
