On Wednesday, Day 369 of the ongoing conflict, the Israeli army fired barrages of missiles and shells at various parts of the devastated, besieged, starved, and destroyed coastal enclave, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including many children and women.
Update: 11:59 PM Wednesday October 9:
Medical sources have reported that the number of people killed in the Gaza Strip has risen since dawn today has reached 64 people, 50 of them in the northern Gaza Strip – mainly in the area of Jabalia.
Israeli forces continued to pound sites in northern and southern Gaza for the second straight day, as hundreds of thousands are again being told to evacuate – with nowhere safe to evacuate to.
Dozens were killed and others were injured on Wednesday evening when the Israeli occupation forces bombed three houses in Jabalia refugee camp, north of the Gaza Strip.
Gaza’s north is witnessing unprecedented Israeli massacres against civilians trapped in homes and shelters following the Israeli army’s announcement of a new phase of war. Those refusing forced displacement face shocking killings and intimidation.
Testimony from a woman trapped in Jabalia:
A correspondent with the Wafa news agency reported that the Israeli occupation targeted three inhabited houses in the “Al-Hawja” area in Jabalia camp, which resulted in the martyrdom and injury of a number of citizens.
At least one Palestinian was killed and others were injured when the occupation targeted the displaced people in front of the gate of the “Al-Yaman Al-Saeed” hospital in the town of Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip.
Eight Palestinians were killed when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a vehicle and a group of citizens near Bani Suhaila roundabout and Maan area, east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Those killed were identified as: Tamer Abdullah Mansour, Sanaa Mohammed Ali Al-Awiti, Ahmed Sobhi Mohammed Al-Awiti, Abdullah Ibrahim Shahada Baraka, Shamel Mohammed Ali Baraka, Souma Mohammed Baroud, Ahmed Noman Abu Halima, and Zahdi Al-Ra’i.
Photojournalist Mohammed Al-Tanani was killed and journalist Tamer Labad was injured in an attack by the occupation forces at Abu Sharkh roundabout in Jabalia. Photographer Fadi Al-Wahidi was also seriously injured by occupation snipers.
In addition, journalist and educator Omar al-Balawi was killed by the Israeli attacks targeting journalists documenting Wednesday’s massacres in Jabalia.
THE ISRAELIS ARE KILLING THE FEW JOURNALISTS 📸 DOCUMENTING THE JABALIA KILLING FIELDS‼️
Muhammad Al-Tanani was killed on duty, his colleague was injured.
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— Jalal #CeasefireNow (@JalalAK_jojo) October 9, 2024
Palestinian journalist Omar Al-Balawi was shot and killed by the israelis in northern Gaza while he was reporting on the israeli massacres in Jabalia pic.twitter.com/rPlvAoNC01
— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) October 9, 2024
I didn’t see many people as determined and full of life as Omar Al-Balawi.
Israel killed Omar today in Jabalia.
I’m still in shock. I don’t really know what to say anymore. But this is too much.
pic.twitter.com/xBvAMNiT7V— ahmed nehad – Gaza 🇵🇸 (@AhmedNehadKh) October 9, 2024
According to Younis Tirawi (@ytirawi), Israeli troops killed Waleed Abo Abeed and his 3 children Assm, Hosam and Khaled while they were sheltering inside a tent behind the civil defense station.
Earlier, 16 Palestinians were killed when the occupation aircraft bombed the tents of displaced people in the town of Jabalia.
WAFA correspondents said that the Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a group of tents housing displaced people in the courtyard of the “Al-Yaman Al-Saeed” Hospital in the town of Jabalia, which led to the killing of 16 Palestinians and the injury of others.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced the evacuation of 7 of its schools that were housing displaced persons in the northern Gaza Strip, adding that the aggression on the northern Gaza Strip forced it to stop life-saving services .
According to UNRWA, the aggression resulted in only two of the eight water wells in Jabalia camp remaining operational.
The moments following an Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza today:
The UN Security Council held a meeting on Wednesday evening at the request of Algeria and Slovenia, during which it discussed the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli war of extermination enters its second year. The meeting heard a statement from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said that after a year of profound suffering and loss, Gaza has become a completely unrecognisable place and a graveyard for tens of thousands of Palestinians, many of them children.
“A sea of rubble has replaced the former streets, with almost all residents now displaced,” he added.
The recent Israeli aggression in the north is “particularly worrying,” he continued, as there is nowhere safe to go. In the south, living conditions have become unbearable as Gaza once again teeters “on the brink of man-made famine.”
After an entire school year of depriving children of education, Lazzarini said, Gaza “cannot afford to lose an entire generation,” which is why the agency has resumed some educational programmes alongside its life-saving operations.
The occupation forces continue their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, which resulted in the killing of 42,010 citizens and the injury of 97,720 others, the majority of whom are children and women, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of missing people are still under the rubble.
Among the slain Palestinians are at least 16,891 children, 11,458 women, 174 journalists, 85 emergency responders, 986 medical staff, and 203 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.
In Lebanon, the Public Health Emergency Operations Center of the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced that the death toll from the Israeli aggression on Lebanon since October 8 , 2023 has risen to 2141 martyrs, and the wounded to 10099.
Israeli occupation aircraft launched a series of violent raids on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Wednesday evening. They also launched raids on the towns of: Zoutar al-Sharqiya, Aita al-Shaab, Alma al-Shaab, Majdal Salm, Burj Qalawiyya, Adloun, Haboush, Shebaa, Jebchit, Al-Bazouriyeh, Yater, Al-Hawsh, Al-Sultaniya, Dab’al, Shaqra, Arabsalim, Jabal al-Rafi’, Jabal Blat, and Wadi Jilo in southern Lebanon .
Updated from 10:56 am Report (Dozens Killed in Ongoing Israeli Bombing Of Gaza):
Palestinian Red Crescent medics confirmed that nine members of the Farahat family were killed after an Israeli warplane targeted their apartment near the market in Sheja’eyya neighborhood, east of Gaza. The bodies were transported to the Baptist Hospital in the city.
Additionally, medics retrieved the bodies of three Palestinians, including a child, and several injured Palestinians after Israeli aircraft bombed a house belonging to the Al-Jamal family in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza. The victims were transported to Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat.
In the early hours of the morning, medics retrieved the bodies of four individuals, including a child, from under the rubble of a house belonging to the Al-Khaldi family in Al-Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza, after the army fired a missile at it.
The Israeli army also fired shells and missiles at various neighborhoods of Gaza City, coinciding with drone live fire, northwest of the city.
Medics said that a child was killed, and many Palestinians were injured, in an Israeli bombing of Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, in Gaza City, while the army continued to fire artillery shells at the northern parts of the city.
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Furthermore, Israeli airstrikes continued around Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, with medica and civil defense sources reporting dozens of bodies in the streets of Jabalia refugee camp amid escalating artillery shelling and gunfire in multiple areas.
Medical sources have confirmed that the army killed four Palestinians while trying to locate slain Palestinians under the rubble of bombarded homes, while seven other Palestinians were killed, and many injured, when the army fired a missile at a home in the refugee camp.
In Rafah, in Gaza’s southernmost part, ten Palestinians were killed and many injured in two Israeli bombings in the city.
Gaza, once home to 2.3 million Palestinians, now shows a striking contrast from what it was just a year ago. We explore the destruction after a year of Israel’s war on the besieged enclave.
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— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) October 8, 2024
In Khan Younis, in the southern part of the coastal enclave, the army continued the artillery shelling of various villages, east of the city, after the Palestinians were displaced from Bani Soheila town.
Reuters stated that United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced on Tuesday that he has written to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, warning him that proposed Israeli legislation to prevent the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) from operating in the occupied Palestinian territory would be disastrous.
“Such a measure would stifle efforts to alleviate human suffering and tensions in Gaza and the entire Occupied Palestinian Territory. It would be catastrophic in what is already an unmitigated disaster,” Guterres told reporters.
The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, reported that “at least 400,000 people are trapped in northern Gaza, with Israeli evacuation orders forcing them to flee repeatedly, especially from Jabalia refugee camp.”
In a press statement on Wednesday, Lazzarini noted that many Palestinians refuse to evacuate because they know there is no safe place in Gaza. He highlighted the spread and worsening of famine throughout the region, with basic supplies running out.
Lazzarini also revealed that some of the agency’s shelters and service centers have been forced to close for the first time since October 7, 2023.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed at least 41,965 Palestinians, including 16,927 children and 11,487 women, and injured more than 97,590 others, including a large number of children and women. The casualties are much higher than declared as thousands remain missing under the rubble, and rescue teams face immense difficulties in reaching all affected areas.
