On Saturday, for the 351st straight day, Israeli forces continued their onslaught against the entire civilian population of 2.2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, dropping several bombs in various parts of Gaza in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday September 21st.
Update 11:55 pm:
At least twenty-one Palestinians were killed and 30 others were wounded on Saturday in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a school housing displaced Palestinians in Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
Local sources reported that 21 Palestinians were killed, including 13 children, 6 women and a fetus, and 30 others were injured in an Israeli occupation bombing that targeted the Al-Zeitoun school, which is sheltering displaced people. Others were injured as a result of targeting Al-Falah School in the same neighborhood, and were transferred to the Baptist Hospital.
The video below (graphic) shows the aftermath of Saturday’s strike, with survivors and rescue workers finding bodies in the rubble:
Eight Palestinians were also injured as a result of the bombing of the university college west of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
This is at least the fifth targeting of a school housing displaced Palestinians in the past two weeks. Israeli forces appear to be deliberately targeting these schools, each housing hundreds of displaced families.
This video shows the aftermath of the Israeli bombardment of a school housing displaced families on September 18th in northern Gaza:
The speaker of the Palestinian National Council, Rawhi Fattouh, issued a statement condemning the Israeli occupation’s bombing of Al-Zeitoun School in Gaza City, which was sheltering displaced people who fled the ongoing aggression.
In his statement, Fattouh considered this attack a crime of genocide and ethnic cleansing targeting defenseless civilians who sought refuge in the school seeking protection, escaping the hell of bombs and missiles.
He pointed out that this brutal attack constitutes a flagrant violation of all international conventions and international humanitarian law, stressing that targeting schools and civilian facilities reflects the occupation’s intention to commit crimes against humanity against the Palestinian people, including children and women, within the framework of a hateful systematic policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Fattouh called on the international community and the United Nations to take urgent action to stop these crimes and hold the Israeli occupation leaders accountable for their actions, stressing that the world’s silence and the US administration’s protection and support for the apartheid government as they continue to commit these massacres are a green light to continue its aggression and crimes.
In addition to the attack on the school, four Palestinians were killed and six wounded on Saturday when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a warehouse in the Musabbeh area in Rafah city, south of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression on the Gaza Strip by land, sea and air since October 7, 2023, resulting in the martyrdom of more than 41,000, the majority of whom are children and women, while the number of injuries reached 95,000, while thousands of victims are still under the rubble.
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 41,978 citizens, the majority of whom are women and children, and the injury of at least 95,000 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 16,640 children, 11,410 women, 183 journalists and 23 emergency responders, 885 medical staff, 82 Civil Defense staff, and 211 UNRWA staff.
The British Lancet Medical Journal and other experts estimate the death toll in Gaza is much higher – and could be above 200,000, when counting both direct and indirect deaths related to the Israeli war on Gaza.
This most recent escalation of Israel’s ongoing military occupation of Palestine began October 7th 2023 when 1,143 Israelis were killed, including 767 civilians and 376 armed soldiers. Around 500 Israeli soldiers have been killed between October 7th and now – both in Gaza and on the Israeli border with Lebanon.
11:30 am report:
In a number of bombings before dawn Saturday, Israeli missiles killed at least 8 Palestinian civilians in central and southern Gaza. Four Palestinians were killed at dawn on Saturday in Israeli shelling in central Gaza Strip.
The children pictured in the photo above – Hani, Eileen, and Shaima, were killed last night with their mother and grandparents in an Israeli airstrike on their home near Gaza Municipality Park.
A correspondent with the Palestinian Wafa news agency said that ambulance crews recovered 4 killed Palestinians and a number of wounded people after a missile attack targeted a group of citizens in front of the house of the Al-Najjar family in Camp 1 in Al-Nuseirat camp.
Eleen, 5, Shaimaa, 7, and Hani, 10, were MURDERED by Israeli occupation while at home yesterday along with their mother and grandparents! pic.twitter.com/yo2loNkstj
— Motasem A Dalloul (@AbujomaaGaza) September 21, 2024
”My father, mother, and nine-year-old daughter were killed.”
While the world’s eyes turn to #Lebanon, #Israel continues its brutal attack on #Gaza strip. It is bombing and shelling across the besieged Strip while people shelter in crowded and ever-shrinking “safe zones.” pic.twitter.com/0aX2LjMAoX— Palestine Info Center (@palinfoen) September 20, 2024
The Wafa reporter added that the Israeli occupation artillery bombed citizens’ homes in the Al-Janina neighborhood, east of Rafah city, in the south of the Gaza Strip.
A young man was killed and others were injured, Saturday morning, when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a house in Khan Yiunis city, south of the Gaza Strip.
Local sources reported that a Palestinian was killed and others were injured as a result of the Israeli occupation bombing of a house belonging to the “Mukhaimer” family in the city.
Three other Palestinians were injured in a bombing that targeted a tent housing displaced people in the middle of Khan Yunis, while Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a site in the vicinity of Nasser Medical Complex to the west.
Also Saturday before dawn, the Israeli occupation artillery fired its shells and bullets towards the western areas of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
🚨Breaking: After over 72 hours under the rubble of their home in #Gaza, the bodies of two siblings 4 year old Majd and 2 year old Mona Zaqout were recovered, joining their mother and relatives, all KILLED by Israeli army. pic.twitter.com/XNmUojHuGs
— Nour Naim| نُور (@NourNaim88) September 20, 2024
A video posted by Palestinian photojournalist Ashraf Amra shows Ahmed, a Palestinian man, grieving for his family, who were killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza. Amra noted that Ahmed is the only surviving member of his family. pic.twitter.com/OIaYplexqi
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) September 21, 2024
Today, I narrowly escaped death while walking along the beach in northern #Gaza as Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike very close to me.#GazaGenocide pic.twitter.com/UqONvP6R9T
— الـشـبـ𓂆ـراوي #غـزَّة (@M_shebrawy3) September 20, 2024
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 41,957 since the start of the aggression on October 7, 2023, the majority of whom are children and women. The number of injuries has reached 95,000, while 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 16,640 children, 11,410 women, 183 journalists and 23 emergency responders, 885 medical staff, 82 Civil Defense staff, and 211 UNRWA staff.
The British Lancet Medical Journal and other experts estimate the death toll in Gaza is much higher – and could be above 200,000 when counting both direct and indirect deaths related to the Israeli war on Gaza.
This most recent escalation of Israel’s ongoing military occupation of Palestine began October 7th, 2023 when 1,143 Israelis were killed, including 767 civilians and 376 armed soldiers. Around 500 Israeli soldiers have been killed between October 7th and now – both in Gaza and on the Israeli border with Lebanon.
