On Friday, Day 378 of the ongoing genocide, the Israeli army continued the bombing and the shelling of various parts of the destroyed, starved and devasted coastal enclave, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians.
On Friday evening, six Palestinians were killed and many injured in ongoing Israeli airstrikes on northern Gaza, coinciding with the disruption of communication and internet services in northern Gaza and several areas in Gaza City.
|Gaza Day 378: Israel Bombs Children in Gaza City|
Medics from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that four Palestinians were killed, and others injured when an Israeli drone targeted a group of citizens near Hmeid Junction on Al-Nasr Street in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, northwest of Gaza City. They were transported to Al-Shifa Medical Complex in the western part of the city.
Nine Palestinians were killed, and more than 40 injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a group of citizens near Al-Awda Hospital, and many homes, in Tel Al-Zaatar area in Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza. They were transported to the same hospital.
Earlier, three Palestinians were killed and many injured in an Israeli bombing of the Jabalia refugee camp, and sixteen Palestinians were injured when the army fired a missile at a home in the refugee camp.
In addition, Israeli military bulldozers demolished a house belonging to Wishah family in the Al-Fallujah area of Jabalia camp, collapsing it on displaced members of the Hassouna family; the fate of those inside the house remains unknown.
Israeli drones also targeted Palestinians and structures in the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza.
⚠️Children massacre in #Jabalia
Paramedics: Numbers have not identified yet! pic.twitter.com/d6G7ZbW5Gh
— Motasem A Dalloul (@AbujomaaGaza) October 18, 2024
The Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA) reported the disruption of communication and internet services in northern Gaza and various areas in Gaza City and added that the disruption of communication and internet services hinders the work of ambulance and rescue teams, as citizens are unable to report the injured, the dead, or the missing.
Earlier, three Palestinians were killed and others injured in Israeli airstrikes on the Al-Fakhoura area in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
For the 14th consecutive day, Israeli forces have besieged 200,000 citizens in northern Gaza without food, water, or medicine, under continuous bloody bombardment, demolishing homes over their residents’ heads and targeting schools.
“#Gaza is the real-world embodiment of hell on earth for its one million children. And it’s getting worse, day by day, as we see the horrific impact of the daily airstrikes and military operations on Palestinian children.” – @1jameselder, @UNICEF pic.twitter.com/JTL4a32Duq
— United Nations Geneva (@UNGeneva) October 18, 2024
The Israeli occupation forces continue their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, which has killed at least 42,438 Palestinians and the injury of 99,246 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, eighty-five 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 7, 2023, when 1,143 Israelis were killed, including 767 civilians and 376 armed soldiers. Around five hundred Israeli soldiers have been killed between October 7th and now – both in Gaza and on the Israeli border with Lebanon.
