On Wednesday, Day 376 of the ongoing genocide, Israeli missiles and shells struck various parts of the devastated, starved and besieged Gaza Strip, killing and wounding many Palestinians, including children and women.
Update – 11:59 PM:
Continued Israeli bombardment throughout the afternoon and evening on Wednesday led to numerous deaths and injuries, including children, in both Gaza City (central Gaza) and Jabalia (northern Gaza).
Israeli officials have publicly stated their plan to ethnically cleanse all of northern Gaza of its population, so that the Israeli military can move into the area and take over the land to annex to the state of Israel. Since its creation in 1948, Israel has never declared its borders, and has continually expanded onto Palestinian land – in direct violation of international law.
In Jabalia, Israeli occupation forces blew up residential buildings, causing fires that spread to neighboring houses, causing deaths and injuries of numerous Palestinian civilians.
Local sources reported hearing violent explosions from Jabalia camp, resulting from the Israeli occupation army’s demolition of homes, buildings and property of citizens.
According to local sources in Jabalia refugee camp, which has been under a severe siege for the past 12 days, amid the ban on food and humanitarian supplies, the Israeli occupation army placed water barrels containing large quantities of explosives that detonated upon approach,… pic.twitter.com/VPGfAtlnyV
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) October 16, 2024
The sources added that Israeli ground forces that had penetrated the Bir al-Na’ja area, west of Jabalia camp, continued to burn homes and residential buildings, noting that the fires devoured a large number of homes and properties.
The occupation forces also bombed the house of the Saleh family, opposite Abu Rashid Pool, on the western side of Jabalia camp, north of Gaza.
The occupation also bombed the “Wafa” residential tower in Al-Faluja west of Jabalia camp
For the twelfth consecutive day, the northern Gaza Strip has been subjected to Israeli air, land and sea bombardment, the prevention of entry of food, water, medicine and fuel supplies, the destruction of homes and the bombing of entire residential blocks, with the stated intent by Israeli officials to ethnically cleanse the entire area of Palestinians.
May Golan, for example, an official with the Likud party (the party of Prime Minister Netanyahu) stated on Wednesday, “Gaza is ours forever and we are preparing to settle there.”
In November 2023, Netanyahu told ABC News, “Israel [will govern] Gaza for an INDEFINITE period”. Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu stated, “Blow up & flatten everything, delightful…After we are done, we allocate the lands of Gaza to the soldiers fighting and the settlers who lived in Gush Katif”.
In central Gaza, a number of Palestinians were killed, and others were injured Wednesday evening when the Israeli occupation forces targeted a house in Gaza City.
Medical sources reported that five Palestinians were killed, and others were injured after the Israeli occupation aircraft bombed the house of the Al-Hilo family on Al-Sina’a Street, southwest of Gaza City.
The occupation artillery bombed the north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
5 Palestinian children and civilians were killed in the Israeli bombing of a house near the Italian tower in the Nasr neighborhood west of Gaza.
In southern Gaza, drones were seen patrolling the skies around refugee camps:
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 at least 42,409 citizens and the injury of 99,153 others, the majority of whom are children and women, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of people are still missing 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.
Updated from:
October 16, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Medical sources said the army fired a missile at the Wafa Tower in the Al-Fallujah area, in northern Gaza, causing many injuries.
They added that Israeli Quadcopter drones also fired live rounds at the Kamal Adwan hospital, and several buildings were families tried to shelter in the Abu Hussein area in the center of the Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza, causing many casualties.
Another Palestinian was seriously injured in the Safi area, west of the Jabalia refugee camp, before he was rushed to Kamal Adwan hospital.
It is worth mentioning that the army renewed its massive ground invasion and bombing of Jabalia, twelve days earlier, while the soldiers continue to wire and detonate dozens of homes and buildings.
Israeli forces have killed more than 360 Palestinians and injured hundreds, in addition to dozens who remain under the rubble, in Jabalia and the Jabalia refugee camp since in the last twelve days since the army renewed its onslaught.
The army also fired a missile at a home on the Shaima’ street in the center of Beit Lahia city, in northern Gaza.
Husam Abu Safiya, the head of Kamal Adwan Hospital, told Al-Jazeera that hospitals in northern Gaza face catastrophic conditions, and called for the opening of safe corridors to save the lives of patients in the area.
Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, told Al Jazeera that hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip are in a catastrophic situation, and called for the opening of safe corridors to save the lives of patients in the area. pic.twitter.com/Tl5pe3l3Aj
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) October 16, 2024
In Gaza city, the army fired a missile at Palestinians on the Ahmad Yassin Street, in the northern part of the city, killing two and wounding several others.
Thirteen Palestinians were killed and many injured when the Israeli Air Force fired a missile at a home in the Nasr street, west of Gaza city.
Furthermore, the army fired missile at a home near the “Italian Towers” in Gaza, killing at least five and wounding many.
Palestinian Civil Defense medics located the corpses of five Palestinians under the rubble of the home where displaced families sheltered near the “Italian Tower,” in the Nasr area, northwest of Gaza city.
At least four Palestinians were killed and many injured by Israeli missiles and shells at the Bani Soheila junction, east of Khan Younis; among the slain Palestinians are a father, his son and his grandson.
At least one Palestinian was killed, and many were injured, in an Israeli bombing of the Sofa area, east of Rafah city, in Gaza’s southmost part. The Israeli army also continued to wire and detonate homes in several parts of Rafah.
In addition, Palestinian medics located the corpse of one Palestinian who was among many slain and wounded residents, under the rubble of a bombarded home in the Al-Jenina neighborhood, in the eastern part of Rafah city.
The army also fired missiles and shells at the eastern areas of the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, in central Gaza.
It is worth mentioning that the Israeli army killed more than twenty Palestinians and wounded dozens, including children and women, in the last twenty-four hours, in central Gaza.
The Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education revealed that 11,406 students have been killed and 18,556 injured since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7, 2023, in both the Gaza Strip Gaza and the West Bank.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Ministry explained that the number of students killed in Gaza since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza has reached more than 11,292, with 17,965 injured, and added that 114 students have been killed and 591 injured, in addition to 439 abducted in the occupied West Bank.
Tragically, this Palestinian youth has lost multiple family members, with the latest being his sister, who was killed in the ongoing Israeli aggression in northern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/slLjx05TDM
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) October 16, 2024
The Ministry also noted that 550 teachers and administrators have been killed and 3,717 injured in Gaza and the West Bank, with more than 145 arrested in the West Bank.
It also highlighted that 362 government schools, universities, and university buildings, along with sixty-five facilities belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), have been bombed and destroyed in Gaza, resulting in severe damage to 124 of them and the complete destruction of sixty-two.
Today in the ICU,where nothing exists except darkness and wounded
we die every day we burn alive 💔🇵🇸. How long will you continue to watch this tragedy unfold? We have lost all hope. Our hearts are heavy with the weight of loss, silently waiting for relief that never comes pic.twitter.com/oLhyGbSOIT— Dr Mohammed Al Najjar 🇵🇸🇵🇸 (@M7madNajar) October 15, 2024
Additionally, eighty-four schools and seven universities in the West Bank have been raided and vandalized by Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers, while133 government schools have been used as shelters in Gaza.
The Ministry emphasized that 718,000 students in Gaza are still deprived of attending their schools and universities since the start of the aggression, with most students suffering from psychological trauma and facing difficult health conditions.
It also pointed out that repeated incursions by Israeli forces into the governorates of Jenin and Tulkarm have caused terror among students in their schools.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the Israeli army committed four massacres of families, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians in several parts of the coastal enclave in the last 24 hours, among them 55 slain Palestinians and 329 injured, including dozens of children and women who were moved to medical centers, while many remain under the rubble.
Israel has now killed at least 42,344 Palestinians, including 16,927 children, and 11,487 women, and injured more than 99,013 others, the majority of whom are children and women, in addition to the thousands of missing Palestinians, under the rubble, on destroyed streets and bombarded alleys, across the destroyed coastal enclave, since October 7, 2023.
