On Saturday, day 372 of the ongoing Israeli genocide against the people of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued their assault on Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, for the seventh straight day, leaving dozens of Palestinians dead and wounded.
Over the last week of Israeli assault on northern Gaza, more than 200 Palestinian civilians have been killed, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
11:59 PM Update:
The Israeli bombardment and encircling of Jabalia continued throughout the day and night on Saturday in northern Gaza.
Eleven Palestinians were killed and others were injured on Saturday evening in Israeli airstrikes on the Nuseirat and Jabalia refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, bringing the number of Palestinians killed in the Strip since dawn to 37.
Medical sources reported that 7 Palestinians were killed and others were injured in the Israeli occupation’s bombing of a house in the Nuseirat camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip, and that four Palestinians were killed and others were injured in the occupation’s bombing of the Jabalia camp in the north of the Gaza Strip, adding that the number is likely to increase, since there are a number of injured people in critical condition.
One of the multiple Israeli bombs dropped in Jabalia Saturday left a number of children completely buried in rubble – one of these children miraculously survived and was rescued by a Palestinian civil defense rescue team:
Local sources reported that the Israeli occupation forces are placing earthen barriers on the main streets between Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip, indicating that the Israeli occupation is working to separate the city from the northern regions in its ongoing ground aggression for eight days.
Israeli occupation forces blew up dozens of houses in Jabalia camp using explosive “robots”, leaving dozens of killed and wounded.
Meanwhile, the New York Times issued a report Saturday on volunteer doctors who worked in the Gaza Strip, who recounted the horrific scenes they witnessed in a number of hospitals in the Strip.
According to the New York Times, doctors confirmed that they saw children with gunshot wounds to the head or chest almost every day, without mentioning the names of the hospitals or the length of time they worked inside the Gaza Strip.
The newspaper quoted statements by the American doctor, Muhammad Rasool Abu Nawar, in which he said that he treated many children in the emergency room of the hospital where he worked.
“In four hours one night, I saw six children, aged between 5 and 12, with gunshot wounds to the skull ,” he added .
For his part, Dr. Mark Perlmutter, an orthopedic specialist, told the same newspaper that he had seen several children who had been shot in the head and chest.
In turn, Dr. Irfan Jalaria said that he was treating a number of children between the ages of 5 and 8 who had been shot in the head, and that they had all died.
“I saw a child who had been shot in the jaw, but no other part of his body was affected. He was fully awake and aware of what was happening. While I was trying to draw blood using a broken suction unit, he was looking at me, choking on his own blood , ” Dr. Rania Afaneh said .
As for Dr. Khawaja Ikram, she explained the horror she witnessed, saying: “One day, when I was in the emergency room, I saw two children, ages 3 and 5, with bullet holes in their heads . ”
She continued: “I learned that the two children were told that Israel had withdrawn from Khan Yunis (southern Gaza Strip), and accordingly they returned to their home, but Israeli snipers shot them.”
Anesthesiologist and intensive care physician Ahlia Qattan said she saw an 18-month-old baby girl who had been shot in the head, while her colleague, physician Nidal Farah, explained that children are frequently shot in the head, and that most of them cannot be treated.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Saturday that the lives of children in the Middle East are being destroyed by the ongoing Israeli assault on all parts of the Gaza Strip.
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell stressed in a statement published on the UN organization’s website, “The need for all parties to commit to protecting civilians, especially children, humanitarian workers, schools and health facilities.”
The UN official also stressed the need for all parties to allow unrestricted access to life-saving aid .
She added that these commitments were “clearly ignored” in the region, and that “children do not start wars and do not have the power to end them, but their lives are destroyed by conflicts.”
She continued: “Tens of thousands of children have been killed, and thousands are still in captivity, displaced, orphaned, out of school, and traumatized by violence and war.”
The Executive Director of UNICEF called for an end to violence against children.
The ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza for a year has left more than 140,000 dead and wounded, and more than 10,000 missing, amidst massive destruction and famine that has killed dozens of children and elderly people .
Israel, the occupying power, continues its massacres, ignoring the UN Security Council resolution to end them immediately, and the International Court of Justice’s orders to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza.
According to the Washington Post, “A U.N.-led convoy trying to evacuate patients from northern Gaza was forced to delay its mission for a third day Friday amid heavy fighting, the United Nations said, as Israeli forces once again battled Hamas militants in the area, leaving neighborhoods under siege.
“The U.N.-led convoy, which left southern Gaza for the north on Wednesday, hoped to retrieve critically ill and injured patients from the Kamal Adwan Hospital and bring them south to Gaza City, officials said. But for days, despite prior coordination with the Israeli military, the vehicles were held up at checkpoints by forces on the ground or prevented from moving because of the strikes, according to Georgios Petropoulos, head of the Gaza office at the U.N. agency for humanitarian affairs.”
The Israeli occupation forces continue their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, which resulted in the killing of 42,175 citizens and the injury of 98,336 others, the majority of whom are children and women, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of people are still missing under the rubble.
updated from:
Oct 12, 2024 at 10:43 AM
From colleague @AbujomaaGaza in North Gaza: reports of two massacres overnight/at dawn:
- In #Jabalia over 20 people got KILLED by the Israeli occupation’s bombing of a residential compound
- In Al Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City a dozen people were killed in the Israeli bombing of a house
The Israeli occupation forces continue to bomb the city Jabalia and the Jabalia refugee camp east of the city by air and land, leaving dozens of killed and wounded, as well as demolishing entire residential blocks.
Dozens of civilians, including children and women, have been killed and injured since dawn on Saturday in rocket and artillery shelling of Jabalia and its camp, and the areas of Saftawi and Al-Tawam, north of the Strip.
Early Saturday morning, the Israeli occupation army issued new evacuation orders for the residents of Jabalia, but many Palestinians insisted on staying and not moving to the south – as the Israeli military has the southern route blocked and have attacked Palestinians trying to go south. In addition, there is no safe place to evacuate to, as Israeli forces have continued their assault on Gaza City in central Gaza, and on Khan Younis in southern Gaza, bombing civilians in all areas of Gaza for the 372nd straight day.
The humanitarian situation in Jabalia camp is becoming more dangerous, with food, medicine and water supplies being prevented from entering the camp, and with the difficulty of ambulance crews entering to retrieve the bodies of the killed and to transport the wounded.
Donkey carts are bringing killed and wounded Palestinians to the hospital, due to the lack of fuel and Israeli destruction of roads that have made it nearly impossible for ambulances to even retrieve the bodies of those killed.
The rescue of a child trapped under rubble in Jabalia:
On October 6, the Israeli occupation army announced the start of a military operation in Jabalia, hours after the start of a fierce attack on the eastern and western regions of the northern Gaza Strip, the most violent since last May.
The Israeli occupation army attacked Jabalia on land twice before, in November and December of last year.
This is the third ground operation carried out by the Israeli occupation army in Jabalia camp since the beginning of the genocidal war on October 7, 2023.
The northern Gaza Strip is witnessing a violent aggression targeting the infrastructure, roads, and what remains of citizens’ homes, in addition to isolating areas from each other.
This is accompanied by a systematic and organized starvation campaign, which includes preventing the entry of food, medicine, water and fuel supplies, and targeting bakeries.
In the air, the Israeli occupation’s drones target any movement of citizens on the ground by firing bullets intensively and randomly.
Doctor Victoria Rose, a British consultant plastic surgeon who worked in Gaza, described the frustration and disbelief felt by Palestinian doctors over how the “world can just stand and watch” as children in Gaza are bombed and the suffering continues. pic.twitter.com/RUXfzPZlL9
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) October 12, 2024
The Israeli occupation forces have continue their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, which resulted in the killing of at least 42,126 citizens and the injury of 98,117 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 16,927 children, 11,487 women, 2,419 elderly people, 175 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.
