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.
9:30 PM Update:
Six Palestinians were killed on Sunday in Israeli shelling of Abu Halawa area east of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip, and Abu Al-Hajin area south of Deir Al-Balah.
Local sources reported that Red Crescent crews retrieved the bodies of two killed Palestinians from the Abu Halawa area, after the Israeli occupation forces bombed a group of citizens.
Four Palestinians were killed in the bombing of the Abu Al-Hajin area, south of Deir Al-Balah city, in the central Gaza Strip, by the Israeli occupation warplanes.
A Palestinian man was killed on Sunday evening by Israeli occupation forces’ gunfire west of Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Local sources reported that Israeli occupation forces present in the vicinity of Al-Nuseirat camp shot a young man in the western part of the camp, leading to his death.
According to the Wafa news agency, the Israeli occupation forces’ vehicles in the vicinity of the Wadi Gaza Bridge in the central Gaza Strip opened fire on a young man, killing him.
🚨 Update on the current field situation in the Gaza Strip ::
⭕️ North Governorate:
▪️Injuries as a result of Israeli shelling on a group of citizens on the beach of Beit Lahia near the Al-Waha area.
▪️ Israeli shelling on a house near the “Al-Quds School” in Jabalia camp.
⭕️ Gaza Governorate:
▪️7 killed and a number of wounded as a result of Israeli shelling on “Kafr Qasim School” which houses hundreds of displaced people in Al-Shati camp west of Gaza City.
▪️Israeli artillery shelling on various areas of Street 8, specifically the Al-Zeitoun area and the Islamic complex.
▪️The Israeli occupation forces have been preventing the entry of cooking gas since the beginning of the war until this moment, which prompts citizens to resort to using alternatives such as nylon, cardboard and cloth, which may lead to a danger to lives and property.
⭕️ Central Governorate:
▪️4 killed and a number of wounded as a result of Israeli shelling on a house belonging to the “Dawas” family in the Al-Hakr area in Deir al-Balah.
▪️One killed and a number wounded as a result of gunfire from drones on citizens in the Al-Nuwairi hill area west of Al-Nuseirat camp.
▪️4 killed and a number wounded as a result of Israeli shelling near the Abu Al-Ajeen area east of Deir al-Balah.
⭕️ Khan Yunis Governorate:
▪️One killed as a result of Israeli artillery shelling on citizens in the town of Khuza’a east of Khan Yunis Governorate.
▪️One killed and a number wounded as a result of Israeli shelling on a group of citizens in the vicinity of the Ma’an area east of Khan Yunis city.
⭕️ Rafah Governorate:
▪️Two killed from Israeli bombardment in the Abu Halawa area east of Rafah city.
▪️4 killed as a result of Israeli shelling on a house north of Rafah city.
▪️Israeli bombing of several houses in the Khirbet al-Adas area north of Rafah city and the evacuation of a number of casualties, all of them women and children.
▪️Israeli bombing and detonation of residential buildings northwest of Rafah city.
An article posted on Sunday by Wafa’s Yamen Noubani reported on the flooding of internally displaced Palestinians’ refugee camps:
“We drowned” is the most common and painful word this morning among the displaced in the Gaza Strip, after they woke up to rain that damaged and flooded their tents.
As soon as the camera enters one of the tents, worn out by yesterday’s sun and wet by today’s rain, an old woman’s voice comes in: “We drowned.” The first word of a later description filled with details of suffering, then the voices, mostly of children, intersect, repeating “we drowned.”
Barefoot children, others in light clothes, shivering with cold, walk on sand that has been turned into mud by the rapid rain showers at dawn today.
Life on the shores of the Gaza Strip has turned into mud, a large, continuous mud, running between the tents and in the streets, among the sick, the hungry, the elderly, the infants, and the amputees.
The winter season has not yet begun, but light and quick showers of rain have exacerbated the suffering of the displaced people in the tents, on top of their daily suffering in losing most of the necessities of normal life and the means of decent living.
Tens of thousands of displaced people are pleading for new tarps, winter tents, heavy blankets, and clothes, and everyone is demanding to return to their homes, even just to the land where their home was located, as most of those homes are now in ruins.
The sea waves have been rising, and the water enters the tents, which, if they do not break, drowns everything inside them, destroying what the families have tried to collect of clothes, firewood, food supplies, and basic necessities that are very necessary for life.
In one of the videos, taken this morning, an elderly woman is seen pointing to a bag of flour soaked by water. The elderly woman tried as much as she could to protect it, as in Gaza it means life. But the water reached it and destroyed it, along with the roof of her tent and the blankets that covered the ground.
In a video produced by the Independent Commission for Human Rights, it narrates the testimonies of displaced people on the Khan Yunis beach, who see details of their tents being submerged as the waves of the sea advance towards them, and rain falls on the camps.
In June, the Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) released a fact sheet titled “The Reality of Solid Waste Accumulation under the Israeli Military Aggression on the Gaza Strip: The Silent Killer.”
The fact sheet highlights Israeli occupation practices that have turned Gaza into an area exposed to all kinds of natural and environmental risks within the context of the genocide.
In the two months since the report was released, the problem has just gotten worse, and the environmental devastation and human impact of solid waste accumulation that then becomes flooded and streams through tent camps in toxic mud streams.
Citizen Ibrahim Al-Bukhari, displaced from Al-Rimal neighborhood, says, “A few days ago, a wave came and took two tents with it. The sea entered and soaked our clothes and the barriers we made were of no use.”
Ahlam Abu Taima said, while preparing new sand barriers with her children: We made sand barriers, but they were destroyed by a small rain that the Strip witnessed, and entered our tent. We do not know what we will do in the large air depressions and the days of the square.
Nasreen Al-Khawaja, displaced from Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, says: The waves rose up on us, sweeping away the sand barriers. We went back, but we are afraid that the current will drag us away. We are looking for a new place of refuge, wondering: What can a piece of wood and blankets do!
Saher Samir says, what can tarpaulins do? Can they stop floods or mud, or prevent wind and cold?
It is noteworthy that more than 1,900,000 citizens have been displaced in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023 until today, and they have been distributed in tens of thousands of tents on the beaches, and in hundreds of schools and shelters.
The death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 41,431, and the number of injuries to 95,818, most of whom are children and women, since the start of the Israeli occupation aggression on October 7.
12:25 PM Report:
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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— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) September 21, 2024
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.”
Eight months after his abduction by Israeli army from Nasser Hospital in southern #Gaza, the family now views this message from… pic.twitter.com/USV3UiGC8O
— Nour Naim| نُور (@NourNaim88) September 21, 2024
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.
