On Sunday, Day 393 of the ongoing genocide, the Israeli army bombarded various parts of the Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including children and women, in various parts of the devastated, besieged and starved coastal enclave.
Update: Nov. 3, 2024 11:59 pm Report from Gaza:
Israeli airstrikes continued throughout the afternoon and evening on Sunday November 3rd. The besieged north remains under Israeli closure for the 29th straight day, with no food, water or medicine able to enter. Over the past 24 hours, over 50 children have been killed, according to local medical facilities. These facilities themselves are now under severe attack, as some of the only remaining places with small amounts of electricity (through emergency generators), which is used to treat the overwhelming number of patients that keep being brought in by foot, donkey cart, bicycle cart or pickup truck (fuel is extremely scarce). The Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hussam Abu Safiyyah, said, “We do not have a single ambulance in northern Gaza.”
The Israeli occupation forces targeted, on Sunday evening, Kamal Adwan, Al-Awda, and Indonesian hospitals, in the north of the Gaza Strip.
Medical sources at Kamal Adwan Hospital reported that the Israeli occupation forces targeted its facilities with direct artillery shelling, as they bombed the dormitory, the nursery, the hospital yard and the water tanks, noting that a child was seriously injured. This is the hospital which was last week subjected to a massive raid by the Israeli military, and the abduction and humiliation of its medical staff and patients.
The Israeli occupation artillery also shelled the vicinity of Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia camp, while an Israeli drone opened fire at the gate and walls of the Indonesian Hospital in the town of Beit Lahia.
Israeli forces claimed Sunday that they had found a ‘weapons manufacturing facility’ used by the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas party, to manufacture shells to fire across the Israeli-constructed Wall toward Israel. However, the footage they presented showed a storage facility covered in dust with some machining parts and no actual weapons.
Meanwhile, a number of Palestinians were killed and others were injured on Sunday evening in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip.
Medical sources reported that at least 4 Palestinians were killed and dozens of others were injured, after the Israeli airforce targeted a house in the Al-Tawbah area, west of Jabalia camp.
A mother & her children were killed together this morning in an Israeli airstrike targeting the al-Najjar family home in Jabalia,northern Gaza. Several others were injured in the horrific attack pic.twitter.com/gJBJ9NeuTI
— ibraheem (@ibraheemqds) November 4, 2024
BBC Report on the 50 children killed over the past 24 hours:
Palestinian child Razan Barbakh has succumbed to her injuries sustained during the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza
She had been appealing for help to open the Rafah crossing and allow her to travel. pic.twitter.com/FkyCRRjMoe
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) November 3, 2024
🚨 SICKENING !!
Israeli army soldiers posed in front of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in #Gaza, which has been turned into a military base ‼️ pic.twitter.com/nAgIoeza6Q
— Nour Naim| نُور (@NourNaim88) November 3, 2024
This is a video of a young man who went to his home in northern Gaza (Jabalia) to find it destroyed and his father, killed, lying among the rubble:
Southern Gaza (Khan Younis) on the brink of famine. Hundreds queue for bread, desperately hungry:
Updated from Nov 3, 2024 14:55pm Report from Gaza:
Ongoing Israeli Bombing Kills Dozens In Gaza
In Gaza City, many Palestinians were killed and injured in an Israeli bombing of a home in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of the city.
The army also fired a shell at a home near the Ad-Dorra Hospital in the Salahuddin neighborhood in the Tuffah neighborhood, in the eastern part of the city.
At least two Palestinians, including a child, were killed and many injured when a missile detonated in front of Masqat Clinic while families were waiting for polio vaccines for their children.
In Jabalia, in northern Gaza, the army fired a missile at a home belonging to the Najjar family and at the Al-Jorn neighborhood, killing at least five Palestinians, including a mother and her child, and many, including children and women.
The army also fired a missile at a home in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, killing more than six Palestinians and wounding many.
Locals and rescue teams, despite the lack of basic equipment, continue to search under the rubble; many Palestinians, including children and women, remain missing.
Sixteen Palestinians, including children and women, were killed and dozens injured in two earlier Israeli bombings of homes in Beit Lahia.
In central Gaza, the army continued the extensive bombing and shelling of the Nuseirat refugee camp for the third day, killing 45 Palestinians and wounding 150 in two days, in addition to destroying 248 residential units.
The army also wired and detonated many homes and buildings in the western areas of Nuseirat.
Six Palestinians were killed and several others injured when an Israeli military drone fired a missile at the main entrance of the Al-Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza.
Furthermore, one Palestinian was killed and two injured when an Israeli military drone fired a missile at displaced families, northeast of Rafah city, in Gaza’s southernmost part.
Two Palestinians were also killed and many injured in two Israeli bombing attacks in the Nasr neighborhood, east of Rafah city.
A Palestinian mother and her two children were killed, and many were injured, when the army fired a missile from drome at Khirbet Al-Adas area, northeast of Rafah.
All of these journalists are a testament to the fact that the international system allows impunity for crimes against journalists.#EndImpunity #ProtectJournalists pic.twitter.com/eWNNll9rA5
— Euro-Med Monitor (@EuroMedHR) November 2, 2024
UNESCO said that most journalist killings remain unpunished in the world, in a report on the occasion of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists.
According to the report, UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay said, one journalist has been killed every four days around the world in the past two years simply for doing their essential work of seeking the truth, and in most cases, no one will be held accountable for these killings.
She pointed out that 85% of the murders of journalists recorded by UNESCO since 2006 remained unsolved, and the Palestinian territories topped the list of countries most dangerous for the lives of journalists in 2023, with 24 murders.
In this context, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a message on this occasion: “Recent years have witnessed an alarming rate of deaths in conflict zones – particularly in Gaza, which has witnessed the highest number of killings of journalists and media workers in any war in decades.”
Guterres noted that the Charter for the Future, adopted in September, calls for respect and protection of journalists, media professionals and associated personnel working in situations of armed conflict.
He called on governments to implement these commitments by taking urgent steps to protect journalists, investigate crimes committed against them and prosecute their perpetrators everywhere.
The Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression on the Gaza Strip by land, sea and air since October 7, 2023, which resulted in the killing of at least 43,314 citizens and the injury of more than 102,019 others, while thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and rescue teams cannot reach them.
Among the slain Palestinians are at least 17,210 children, 11,742 women, 2,421 elderly people, 177 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.
