On Sunday, Day 408 of the ongoing genocide, the Israeli army bombarded and shelled various parts of the Gaza Strip, with a particular focus on northern Gaza, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including children and women.
Palestinian civilians continue to flee for their lives from Jabalia and Beit Lahia, with no place safe for them to go. Thousands of families, carrying all the belongings they have left after multiple displacements over the past 13 months, are walking and camping along roads, only to be bombed there as well.
Israeli officials who declared two weeks ago that they are “clearing northern Gaza completely” have been acting on that statement with bombings of civilian areas day and night, killing thousands of civilians in the past two weeks alone. Palestinians in northern Gaza have been without access to food or water for over forty days, and resorted to drinking dirty water or trying to filter sea water to drink to survive.
Among the attacks documented on Sunday afternoon and evening (updated at 9:14 pm):
Israeli bombardment of the Qizan al-Najjar area, south of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, resulted in the killing of four Palestinians and the wounding of many more.
Two Palestinians were also killed when the occupation forces bombed a group of citizens in the vicinity of the industrial area west of Gaza City, and two others were killed when the Israeli occupation forces bombed the vicinity of the Finance Roundabout in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood southwest of Gaza.
A number of Palestinians were also injured with varying degrees of injuries when an Israeli drone bombed a group of citizens east of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip.
An unknown number of Palestinians were killed and injured when Israeli warplanes bombed two houses in the Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip.
Medical sources reported that at least six bodies had been recovered, with many more under the rubble, following the Israeli occupation bombing of the house of the Al-Masry family.
In addition, four were killed and others were injured when the Israeli occupation bombed the house of the Rammana family in Camp 2 in Nuseirat.
On Sunday afternoon, the Refugee Affairs Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) condemned the Israeli occupation forces’ shelling of Abu Asi School on Saturday. Abu Asi is a school affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City and a house in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, which resulted in the death of more than 60 people and the injury of dozens, most of them women and children. The occupation forces also committed two new massacres today by targeting two houses in the Bureij and Nuseirat camps in the central Gaza Strip, which resulted in the death and injury of dozens .
Ahmed Abu Holi, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Head of the Department of Refugee Affairs, stressed that the bombing of the Abu Asi School in the Beach Camp, and the targeting of inhabited homes in Beit Lahia and the Bureij and Nuseirat camps, are added to the war crimes and genocide against the Palestinian people that have been ongoing since October 7 of last year, and an insistence on the systematic targeting of civilians and centers for sheltering the displaced, which resulted in more than 146,000 Palestinians killed and wounded, the majority of whom are children and women, in addition to more than 10 thousand missing persons, amidst massive destruction and famine that has claimed the lives of many children.
He pointed out that the continued suspicious silence of the international community, the adoption of a policy of impunity, and the American financial and military support for the massacres and crimes committed by the Israeli occupation government, is a green light for the Israeli occupation to continue its crimes that violate international humanitarian law, the United Nations Charter and its resolutions, and to pass its plans for the forced displacement of the residents of the Gaza Strip.
The first moments after the massacre carried out by the occupation in Abu Asi School in Al-Shati Camp in Gaza City
So every day of the past 400 this state hits locations that are protected by international law and massacres hundreds of non combatants….. https://t.co/OBytMNqEku
— Hamdy El-Hakim (@asrarelhakim) November 17, 2024
Chairman of the Palestinian National Council Rawhi Fattouh called on the international community and the Security Council to intervene to stop the massacres, ethnic cleansing operations and siege imposed by the Israeli occupation forces on the northern Gaza Strip, and to save more than 60,000 citizens who are currently being subjected to genocide in those areas.
Fattouh said in a press statement on Sunday that what is happening in the northern Gaza Strip and the Nuseirat camp cannot be imagined by the human mind, describing it as a catastrophe against humanity and a witness to the world’s injustice towards the Palestinian people, pointing out that the massacre committed by the occupation today in Beit Lahia and the Nuseirat camp using explosive barrels, which resulted in the killing of more than 60 Palestinians, is a war crime.
The Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani issued a statement on Sunday calling for Britain, the US and all major countries to stop arming and funding the Israeli war in Gaza and Lebanon.
Updated from
8:16 am report:
Medical sources in Gaza have confirmed that the army fired a missile at a home for the Aqel family in Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza, killing seven Palestinians and wounding many, including children and women.
Palestinian medics moved the slain and wounded residents to the Al-‘Awda Hospital in Nuseirat refugee camp and the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah.
Additionally, ten Palestinians were killed, and eight were injured, including children and women, when the army bombarded a home for the Al-Maqadma family in the Al-Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza, before they were transferred to the Al-Awda Hospital.
The Al-Aqsa Satellite TV reported that several Israeli tanks and armored vehicles advanced into an area east of the Al-Bureij refugee camp, firing shells and barrages of live fire. Armored military bulldozers also began destroying buildings and streets.
The Israeli army bombed family homes. In the massacre, where ambulances and rescue teams were hindered from operating, 9 Palestinian civilians, including women and children, lost their lives.
Families trapped under the rubble of bombed homes are struggling to save themselves… pic.twitter.com/ihmO1n7Gc0
— Gaza Notifications (@gazanotice) November 17, 2024
Furthermore, the army fired barrages of missiles and shells at several parts in the northwestern areas of Gaza City, resulting in many casualties.
Among the victims are ten slain Palestinians and twenty injured when the army fired a missile at a school where displaced families sheltered in the Shati’ refugee camp, west of Gaza city.
In Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, four Palestinians were killed and many injured when the army fired a missile at a home in the city.
Also, Palestinian medics located the corpses of four Palestinians who were killed, Saturday, after the army bombarded their home, in the southern part of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
In Rafah, in Gaza’s southernmost part, the army bombarded many neighborhoods in the eastern areas of the city, killing at least five Palestinians and wounding many.
A Palestinian mother loses her three young daughters and her sister after an Israeli strike on a shelter at a school in Al-Shati refugee camp. #GazaGenocide pic.twitter.com/LXr5m4VgwG
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) November 16, 2024
In Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, the Israeli army fired a missile at a home where families were sheltering, killing and wounding many Palestinians, including children and women.
Mahmoud Basal of the Palestinian Civil Defense said the Israeli army bombarded dozens of homes across northern Gaza and added that families remain buried under the rubble.
In addition, the Israeli army detonated many homes in the Jabalia refugee camp, bombing and dropping barrel bombs on entire residential neighborhoods.
Despite repeated calls from victims, the Israeli army continues to prevent medics and rescue teams from entering various parts of northern Gaza for the 25th day and is attacking ambulances and medics that try to enter those areas.
Basal stated that the Civil Defense tried to reach a bombarded home near the shore in northern Gaza after a recent call from a resident stating that his family is buried under the rubble, but the medics were unable to reach the property.
الدفاع المدني بغزة للجزيرة: الاحتلال يهدم المنازل على رؤوس أصحابها شمال القطاع#الجزيرة #الأخبار pic.twitter.com/NKM4ntfwjf
— الجزيرة فلسطين (@AJA_Palestine) November 17, 2024
Basal also mentioned that more than 80,000 Palestinians in northern Gaza do not have access to food, clean water, or medicine, as the army continues to surround the entire area amidst constant bombing and shelling.
How was Israel able to starve 2.3 million people in Gaza so quickly and so completely?
Israel has been starving the people of Gaza for years. pic.twitter.com/rI4m20pS4Y
— Khalissee (@Kahlissee) November 16, 2024
“One of the desperately needed essentials the Palestinians are asking for is clean drinking water, in addition to basic supplies, including medicine,” Basal added. “Many Palestinians who fled northern Gaza spend days walking towards Gaza City, trying to find a safer area.”
It is worth mentioning that, on Saturday, the Israeli army killed at least 51 Palestinians and injured dozens, including many children and women, in several parts of the Gaza Strip. Many remain under the rubble.
The preliminary death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, has reached 43,799, with 103,601 wounded. Among the slain Palestinians are at least 17,385 children, 11,891 women, 2,421 elderly people, 183 journalists, 85 emergency responders, 1,054 medical staff, 496 education staff, and 203 UNRWA staff.
Reports also indicate that thousands of victims are still trapped under the rubble or in the streets, where it is impossible to reach them due to the ongoing bombing.