Early Monday, Day 381 of the ongoing genocide, the Gaza Strip experienced a series of Israeli air and ground bombings and shelling, leading to dozens of casualties and extensive damage to infrastructure and citizens’ properties.
The Israeli army continued the ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza, bombing, shelling, and burning homes and entire residential blocs in Jabalia town, Jabalia refugee camp, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahia while continuing to block the entry of food, water, and medicine for the seventeenth consecutive day.
Al-Jazeera said the Israeli army bombarded and destroyed all homes, buildings, and infrastructure in the Bloc 2 area of the Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza.
Media sources reported that Israeli warplanes targeted a house around At-Tawba Mosque in Jabalia refugee camp, causing casualties.
So the starvation, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and land theft has an official name after all! pic.twitter.com/5gX5DEnnjC
— Rania (@umyaznemo) October 21, 2024
Additionally, Israeli artillery shelled many homes in Jabalia refugee camp, with reports of additional injuries among citizens.
In Beit Lahia, dozens of Palestinians, including children and women, were killed and injured, in the Israeli bombing of many homes and buildings.
For the 17th consecutive day, Israeli forces continue to besiege tens of thousands of Palestinians in northern Gaza, preventing food, water, and medicine from reaching the trapped residents.
Also, the army burned the makeshift shelters surrounding the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza and injured many Palestinians.
Medical sources said the army committed massacres of families in Beit Lahia, killing many Palestinians, including children, and added that some of the wounded Palestinians, including children, suffered serious wounds and burns to most of their bodies.
Furthermore, Israeli forces renewed their wiring and detonating of homes in the western areas of the Jabalia refugee camp, as well as in the Safatwi and Al-Tiwam areas in northern Gaza.
Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli forces demolished many residential buildings in the Safatwi area, displacing many families. The Israeli Airforce also fired barrages of missiles at all the northwestern areas of Gaza city.
Also, the sound of explosions continued to shake Gaza City because of intense airstrikes conducted by Israeli warplanes.
There are thousands of children like this in Gaza.
They have no-one, completely alone. Israel killed their whole families.
They even have a category: WCNSF. Wounded child, no surviving family.
Humanity failed on an epic scale. There is no way back from any of this. https://t.co/Gep7AfnNo9
— Matt Kennard (@kennardmatt) October 20, 2024
Several Palestinians were killed and injured in an Israeli bombing of the Tuffah neighborhood, in the eastern area of Gaza City.
At least two Palestinians were killed and many injured when the army fired a shell at a home in the Saftwawi area, northwest of Gaza City.
In addition, Israeli warplanes launched an airstrike targeting populated areas in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City.
Meanwhile, the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza witnessed heavy artillery shelling, resulting in several casualties.
Many Palestinians were injured, including eleven who were rushed to Al-Awda Hospital, when the army bombarded a home for the Al-Qarnawi family, in the Al-Boreij refugee camp.
In Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, at least one Palestinian was killed, and many injured, in an Israeli bombing of a tent of displaced Palestinians in Al-Mawasi, in the western area of the city.
In Rafah, in Gaza’s southmost part, the army bombarded homes in the Shaboura, Khirbet Al-Adas, and Arabiya, in the central and northern parts of the city, killing at least seven Palestinians and wounding dozens.
In related news, Inas Hamdan, public relations officer at UNRWA, reported that Israel denied an urgent request from the agency to evacuate those trapped under rubble due to the ongoing genocide in northern Gaza.
“The tightening of the siege on Jabalia and northern Gaza worsens the already catastrophic situation,” She stated, “the military assault in northern Gaza prevents access to essential survival needs, including water.”
Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, said on X “The collective shame of the century continues unabated and unstopped, in defiance of every norm of international law and morale,” and added, “The Palestinians, exhausted by relentless attacks on their bodies and souls are abandoned to their tormentors.”
“Shocking images of summary executions, mass forced displacements, and other egregious abuses strike us, leaving us stunned and bewildered, unable to comprehend that what is happening in Gaza is truly real,” Albanese stated, “What a disgraceful testament to our global failure to protect basic human rights. The United Nations, once a believed beacon of hope and a force for peace, are crumbling under the weight of this shame – and the pressure of the inaction or complicity of its most powerful member states.”
On Sunday, Day 380 of the ongoing genocide, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, including children and women, among them 84 Palestinians who were killed in Beit Lahia, at least 22 of whom are from one family.
The Israeli army has continued its bombing and shelling of the Gaza Strip by land, sea, and air since October 7, 2023, resulting in the deaths of 42,603 Palestinians, including 17.029 children and 11.585 women, and injuries to 99,795 others, most of whom are children and women, in addition to the thousands of missing Palestinians, largely under the rubble of bombarded buildings, on destroyed streets and bombarded alleys across the devastated coastal enclave.
