Israeli forces continued their genocide against the Palestinian civilian population of the Gaza Strip for the 352nd straight day on Sunday, launching multiple airstrikes in the early hours of Sunday, September 22nd, 2024.
A number of Palestinians were killed and injured, on Sunday morning, as a result of the Israeli occupation forces’ shelling of Deir al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip.
The Civil Defense reported that 4 Palestinians were killed and others were injured as a result of the Israeli occupation bombing of a house belonging to the “Dawas” family in the Al-Hakr area in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
Seven citizens were killed and others were injured on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a school housing displaced persons west of Gaza City.
A correspondent with the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported that the occupation aircraft bombed Kafr Qasim School in Al-Shati camp, which led to the martyrdom of seven citizens and the injury of others with varying injuries. They were transferred to Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
Yesterday, the occupation forces bombed Al-Falah School, which shelters displaced people in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, resulting in the martyrdom of 21 citizens, including 13 children, 6 women and a fetus, and the injury of 30 others.
A rainstorm on Sunday led to flooding and thick mud in some of the Palestinian internally displaced refugee camps in southern Gaza:
These images, obtained by Al Jazeera from an Israeli drone shot down by the resistance in Gaza, reveal violations committed by Israeli soldiers against Palestinian civilians in the Khan Younis area.
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On Sunday, the administration of the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, issued a statement warning of the danger of it going out of service in less than 10 days due to the depletion of oils and spare parts for its electric generators and the prevention of their entry by the Israeli occupation authorities.
The hospital administration said in a statement that it “announces the risk of its shutdown and going out of service in less than 10 days only due to the depletion of quantities of oils and spare parts for the hospital’s electric generators and the prevention of their entry.”
According to the hospital administration, this “foretells of a real humanitarian disaster in the central governorate, which is currently home to more than one million people.”
The administration explained that it has been relying on electric generators for an entire year, and suffered tremendous damage when the Israeli army invaded and occupied the hospital several months ago. Israeli forces have continuously attempted to eliminate the Palestinian health system and put all hospitals out of service.
The hospital administration launched an urgent distress call to respond by bringing in and delivering oil and spare parts for the electric generators in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital to ensure the continued operation of the electric generators and the hospital, and thus ensure the continued provision of health and medical services to more than one million people.
The statement called on the World Health Organization, the Red Cross, and all international organizations to examine the dangerous conditions in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, and to immediately and urgently head to closely examine the bitter and difficult health situation and address this situation as quickly as possible, immediately and urgently.
Minister of Health Majed Abu Ramadan condemned the Israeli occupation forces’ targeting of the Ministry of Health building on Saturday, in which five medical personnel were killed and others were injured, as a result of the occupation forces’ bombing this morning in the southern Gaza Strip .
The Minister of Health added in a statement on Saturday evening that this deliberate targeting is added to the series of crimes and violence practiced by the occupation against health workers in various specialties, as well as treatment centers and ambulances.
He said: The occupation is ignoring all international laws and humanitarian laws that prohibit targeting all workers in the humanitarian health field.
Abu Ramadan explained that Palestine has lost more than 990 health workers since the beginning of the occupation’s aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7, including doctors, specialists, nurses, supporting medical professionals, administrators and paramedics. The occupation forces have also arrested more than 300 workers, destroyed many hospitals and put them out of service. The occupation’s bombing has also led to the shutdown of 130 ambulances, in addition to hundreds of violations against the entire health system in the West Bank .
The Ministry of Health renewed its appeals to the international community and international humanitarian and health organizations, and urgently sent letters to the International Red Cross and the World Health Organization, demanding increased pressure on the occupation authorities to stop the aggression immediately, open the crossings to allow the entry of various forms of health support, and allow the exit of hundreds of patients and wounded who suffer from critical health conditions .
“There is no trace of Dr. Mohammad Khaled Al-Dardasawi, a gastroenterology and endoscopy specialist, in any Israeli prisons or detention centers.”
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The Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression on the Gaza Strip by land, sea and air since October 7, 2023, resulting in the killing of 41,391 citizens and the injury of 95,760 others, most of whom are children and women, while thousands of people are still missing under the rubble.
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.
