On Wednesday, Day 383 of the ongoing genocide, the Israeli army intensified the bombardment of various parts of the devastated, starved, and besieged Gaza Strip, killing and wounding scores of Palestinians.
Casualties and Injuries: Dozens of casualties reported as Israel escalates bombing in Gaza. Four Palestinians, including children, were killed in an airstrike on a house in Gaza City. Several others were injured in various bombings across the Gaza Strip. Two Palestinians were killed near Al-Yaman Al-Sa’id Hospital in Jabalia refugee camp.
Targeted Attacks: Israeli drones and artillery targeted multiple locations, including a fire truck, Az-Zahra School, and medical personnel.
Humanitarian Crisis: The Palestinian Civil Defense halted operations in northern Gaza due to catastrophic conditions. Hospitals in northern Gaza remain besieged, with thousands of residents displaced and trapped.
|Earlier Article: Day 383: Dozens Of Casualties As Israel Intensifies Gaza Bombing|
The Palestinian Civil Defense confirmed that an Israeli drone targeted three of its members, injuring them and cutting off communication, leaving their fate unknown.
Communication with them has been lost, and their fate remains unknown, while the Israeli army also abducted five other medics in the Sheikh Zayed area.
It also said that the Israeli army in the Sheikh Zayed area abducted five Civil Defense members and took them to an unknown location.
The Palestinian Civil Defense announced a complete halt to its operations in the northern governorate, stating that the situation has become catastrophic, with residents left without humanitarian services.
It confirmed that Israeli tanks targeted the only fire truck in the northern Gaza Strip with shells, setting it on fire.
Civil Defense spokesperson stated: “The Israel army is executing medics and rescue teams in northern Gazal; it is ending all humanitarian services there; we now allow that all services in northern Gaza are suspended and out of service. The Civil Defense, Medical Services, the Indonesia Hospital, Al-Awda Hospital, and Kamal Adwan Hospital, are surrounded.”
He added: “We have been always asking the free world, the humanitarian world, what will happen now to the people in northern Gaza?!”
Medical sources reported that at least four Palestinians, including children, were killed and several others were injured after Israeli aircraft targeted a house in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City.
Furthermore, two Palestinians were killed after being targeted by an Israeli drone near Al-Yaman Al-Sa’id Hospital in Jabalia refugee camp, in Gaza’s northern part.
Additionally, two Palestinians were killed and at least four others were injured in an Israeli drone strike on a group of people in Khirbet al-Adas, north of Rafah in the Gaza Strip’s southmost part.
Her name is Ghazal Ba’ir. The only remaining family member. Look how this rescue worker tries to keep her spirits up and beams upon rescuing her. pic.twitter.com/1AKh2xSMUA
— Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا (@SMohyeddin) October 23, 2024
Three Palestinians were killed, and dozens were injured, with varying degrees of wounds after Israeli forces bombed Al-Zahra School, which shelters displaced individuals, east of Gaza City.
Israeli artillery also targeted several areas in the northwestern parts of the Nuseirat in central Gaza.
⚡️BREAKING: Israeli occupation forces arrest dozens of young men around the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. They will probably be moved to the concentration camps similar to Sde Teiman.
Palestinians are bound, barefoot and blindfolded. pic.twitter.com/SPET3jPPOF
— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws) October 23, 2024
Six Palestinians, including a doctor and a nurse, were killed, and several others sustained various injuries on Wednesday afternoon due to an Israeli airstrike targeting Jabalia refugee camp and Beit Lahia, in the Gaza Strip’s northern areas.
Medical sources confirmed that the doctor and nurse were killed by an Israeli drone strike near Kamal Adwan Hospital.
Additionally, the same sources reported that four more individuals were killed, and others injured in an Israeli bombing of a house in Jabalia town.
For the 19th consecutive day, the Israeli army continues to besiege hospitals in northern Gaza, killing and displacing residents, and forcibly removing them from shelters.
As of a preliminary count, the death toll since the onset of the aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7 has reached more than 42,792, with at least 100,412 Palestinians injured, the majority of whom are women and children. Thousands of Palestinians remain trapped under the rubble and in the streets, making them inaccessible.
