On Thursday, October 10th, day 370 of Israel’s ongoing assault against the entire population of 2.2 million Palestinian people in the besieged, imprisoned and utterly devastated Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued to batter the already destroyed north of Gaza with continuous airstrikes targeting civilian structures, including hospitals and schools.
In Rafah, at the southernmost point in Gaza, at least 22 Palestinians were killed and several others were injured on Thursday when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a school housing displaced persons west of Rafah city.
A correspondent with the Wafa news agency reported, quoting medical sources, that 22 Palestinians were killed, including children and women, and a number of others were injured, some of whom are in critical condition, as a result of the Israeli occupation’s bombing of the Rafidah School, which is sheltering displaced people.
A Palestinian was also killed and others were injured when the occupation aircraft bombed a group of citizens in the Saftawi area, north of the Jalaa area, northwest of Gaza City.
A new picture shows Israeli occupation soldiers arrest Palestinians in the city of Rafah.
At least 4,500 Palestinians have been arrested by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war on October 7, 2023. pic.twitter.com/kcZD0uCpEO
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For the fifth consecutive day, Palestinians in Jabalia camp, in the north of the Gaza Strip, are being subjected to a horrific bombing campaign and forced removal, as part of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the north of Gaza.
The Israeli occupation commited a massacre at Abu Sharkh roundabout west of Jabalia camp after opening fire on a group of residents while they were leaving, and medical crews are still unable to reach the area.
The Civil Defense in Gaza issued a statement Thursday morning that:
• We receive many appeals from the injured trapped inside their homes in areas that the Israeli occupation army prevents us from entering to rescue them and retrieve the wounded and killed
• Dozens of bodies are stuck along the roads in the northern Gaza Strip and have not been retrieved due to the continuous and violent shelling
• Our crews in the north are only present in the Al-Fakhoura School area in Jabalia under very dangerous conditions and cannot move to the places of events except in some areas of the Beit Lahia Project and the Kamal Adwan area
Israeli forces have been continuously bombarding the area, from land, sea and air, and dropping leaflets telling Palestinians to flee south – even though the Israeli military is also bombing in the south, and there is no safe route to leave, and nowhere to go if they do leave.
Many local residents remain steadfast despite the forced removal orders, and despite the Israeli military putting the health system in the northern Gaza Strip out of service, yesterday ordering the “Kamal Adwan, Indonesian, and Al-Awda” hospitals to evacuate within 24 hours.
This is the third ground operation carried out by the Israeli occupation in Jabalia camp since the beginning of the genocidal war on October 7, 2023.
On Sunday, October 6th, the Israeli occupation army announced the start of a ground military operation in Jabalia, just hours after they had launched a fierce attack on the eastern and western regions of the northern Gaza Strip, including Jabalia. These attacks by ground troops firing artillery shells from tanks, and by air forces dropping bombs, have been the most violent since the major invasion of Jabalia in May.
On Monday, October 7th, the Israeli occupation dropped leaflets telling Palestinians to evacuate their homes in Jabalia, and the towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia, and head south.
Areas in Beit Lahia and the surrounding areas of Al-Tawam and Al-Atatra are also being subjected to continuous shelling by land, sea and air.
Of the 1.2 million people who lived in the Gaza and North governorates, there are currently about 700,000 people who refused to move to the southern Gaza Strip, according to official Palestinian data.
Most of the areas surrounding Jabalia camp are witnessing an incursion by the Israeli occupation forces, which imposed a siege on the area on Thursday morning, according to eyewitnesses.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas party, stated on Thursday morning that their fighters destroyed a Zionist Merkava 4 tank with an explosive device in Al-Zahraa neighborhood, west of Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip on Thursday morning.
In an unofficial tally, the number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli military in Gaza since the beginning of the aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023 has risen to at least 42,010 killed, and 97,720 wounded, the majority of whom are women and children, and thousands of victims who are still under the rubble and on the roads where they cannot be reached.
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. At least 500 Israeli soldiers have been killed between October 7th and now – both in Gaza and on the Israeli border with Lebanon – some estimates by groups monitoring the Israeli military have put the death toll among Israeli soldiers much higher, with some estimates as high as 10,000 soldiers killed in the past year.
