On Tuesday, the 410th day of the aggression on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli raids and massacres continued, with more than 76 Palestinians killed and at least 158 wounded in the past twenty-four hours alone.
On Tuesday night, the Israeli army fired a missile at a home in the Sabra neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City, killing and wounding several Palestinians.
Additionally, the army launched barrages of missiles and shells at various parts of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.
These attacks followed an earlier missile strike on a home belonging to the Al-Kahlout family, which also housed displaced Palestinians, resulting in at least eight deaths and numerous injuries, including children and women.
Medical sources reported that the deceased and many of the wounded were transported to Kamal Adwan Hospital, while several residents remained trapped under the rubble.
The Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression on the Gaza Strip by land, sea, and air since October 7, 2023. This ongoing assault has resulted in the deaths of 43,972 citizens, the majority of whom are women and children, and injuries to 104,008 others. The toll is incomplete, as thousands of victims remain under the rubble and on the roads, with ambulance and civil defense crews unable to reach them.
Update 5:57 pm:
At least four Palestinians were killed, and others were injured and missing, Tuesday evening, in Israeli shelling of Al-Bureij and Al-Nuseirat refugee camps in the Gaza Strip.
A correspondent with the Wafa news agency reported that the Israeli occupation aircraft targeted a residential area in Al-Bureij camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip, which led to the killing of three Palestinians.
At least one Palestinian was killed and others were injured when the Israeli occupation forces bombed the Abu Jalala family home in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
A correspondent with the Wafa news agency reported that Palestinians were able to retrieve a body, as well as numerous severed body parts, in addition to a number of injuries that were transferred to the “Al-Aqsa Martyrs” Hospital in the neighboring city of Deir al-Balah, while the fate of Palestinians missing under the rubble remains unknown.
According to Suppressed News, a Palestinian resistance fighter launched an anti-armor shell at a vehicle carrying members of one of the largest crime gangs managed by Israel in the southern Gaza Strip. This gang, according to local sources, was responsible for stealing 109 out of 150 aid trucks yesterday. Everyone (22 gang members, including the lead collaborator) in the vehicle was eliminated by the Sahm (Arrow) Unit.
The ambush was carried out in cooperation with tribal committees and endorsed by Palestinian factions after they had monitored and confirmed communication between the gang and the Israeli Shin Bet (‘Intelligence’ Agency).
Local sources have reported that in the midst of the ongoing starvation of the 2.2 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces have attempted to arm collaborators to sow discord and undermine the Palestinian resistance movements by arming criminal gangs that collaborate with the Israeli military – but that despite the horrific and brutal conditions and the collective punishment of the entire population of Gaza (in direct violation of international law), the Palestinian resistance remains steadfast and unified across all party lines.
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics received an international award for their storymap using ArcGIS to document the brutal, 13-month long assault on the entire population of the imprisoned and besieged Gaza Strip.
Reporter Hatem Abu Daqqa with the Wafa news agency interviewed a number of internally displaced refugees in the al-Mawasi tent camp (which was declared months ago by Israel as a ‘safe zone’ but has been repeatedly bombed and set on fire by Israeli airstrikes.
Abu Daqq reports: The suffering of the displaced in the Gaza Strip is compounded by the continuation of the genocidal war for the 410th day, and the winter that has left them homeless, and they face their fate in addition to the cold and rain. Thousands of displaced people are gathering what they can to fix their dilapidated tents, which were torn apart by the winter of 2023, as another winter now approaches amid a severe shortage of heating and basic necessities.
Many are living out in the rain, with no covering at all, and they pray out loud, repeating the phrase, “The rain is good, but please God stop it.”
This is the situation of Akram Jamil al-Tawil (50 years old), a displaced person from Rafah Governorate, who fears that his dilapidated tent in the Rafah waterways, directly overlooking the sea, will be flooded.
The tall man with a pale face, sad from the hardship of his circumstances, says, “We are tired of promises to provide tarps to cover the tents, or to replace them, to cover our children, who are shivering from the intense cold.”
He explained that what worries the displaced is the theft of aid by bandits, who are hired by Israel to prevent the aid from reaching those who need it.
Al-Tawil, who lives with his six children and wife, confirmed to Wafa that the displaced people in Al-Mawasi are living in the worst conditions, where fear, cold, and hunger combine.
Just a few meters away from Al-Tawil’s tent, another internally displaced refugee, Haitham Kamel Farhat from Shuja’iyya, northeast of Gaza City, sits in front of his eroded tent, hoping that a new tent will be provided to shelter his children, the oldest of whom is no more than ten years old.
Farhat, who worked as a janitor at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, said that he lost everything in his life after being exhausted by the expenses of displacement from one place to another over the course of more than a year.
He called on international institutions and all human rights organizations to look at the displaced with compassion and provide the minimum requirements of life in light of the aggravation of their suffering with the arrival of winter and their need for everything.
Another internally displaced refugee, Ali Ismail Shabak (43 years old) was not in a better situation than his neighbors on the beach of Mawasi Rafah, after he was forced in the middle of the night with the rain falling to leave his broken, leaking tent and go to another tent until the rain stopped.
Farhat pointed with his finger to the holes above the tent’s roof, unable to provide a cover for it, even of nylon, in light of the difficult economic conditions and the lack of even the most minimal capabilities.
To the north of his tent, his relative Faraj Farhat lives with his seven children and his wife in a tent no larger than five metres, sleeping on the ground as they lack any supplies, such as blankets and mattresses.
He asks with pain and sorrow: How can an unemployed person who lives on the food provided by the hospice repair a tent in light of the high prices, where the price of a tent exceeds 450 shekels?
Anyone looking at most of the damaged tents on the beach would not believe that they were housing displaced people until he saw them, with his own eye, sitting inside them, their clothes, most of which were torn and damaged, hanging on the ropes.
The displaced Farhat concluded his conversation with Wafa news by saying: “My home is my land, my only refuge, and I will not accept anything less than returning to my land, even if it is on the ruins of the home that was destroyed by Israeli bombing, and setting up my tent there, on my own land.
Amidst all this suffering, the only wish of these displaced people is for the war to stop and for them to return to their homes, even if those homes are in ruins.
The Israeli occupation forces are continuing their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, which resulted in the killing of 43,972 citizens, the majority of whom are women and children, and the injury of 104,008 others, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them.
10:17 am report:
A Palestinian was killed when the Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a group of civilians west of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, while the Israeli warplanes raided the vicinity of the Toba area in the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza.
The Israeli occupation forces also blew up a number of residential buildings around the camp, and artillery targeted citizens’ homes in Beit Lahia, north of the Strip .
Also Tuesday, the Palestinian Civil Defense teams announced that the tents of the displaced in the Gaza Strip were flooded as a result of a wave of heavy rain, which exacerbated the suffering of thousands of families displaced by the bombing.
‼️URGENT‼️
The tents of the displaced people in Al-Yarmouk Stadium in Gaza City were flooded due to the rain.pic.twitter.com/GoJUYqUief— shameen suleman (@shameensuleman) November 19, 2024
Rain is currently flooding the tents of displaced people in Gaza.
There are 2 million Palestinians internally displaced, with no shelter except tents made of thin fabric that cannot protect anyone from the rain or cold weather.
Can you imagine how they’re feeling right now? pic.twitter.com/VONP0eEmV6
— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws) November 18, 2024
🚨Breaking: The siblings Khaled and Aseel Abu Al Hassan, along with their father Walid and mother Amani, were killed by the Israeli army in a missile strike on a TENT in the “SAFE ZONE” they had fled to in southern #Gaza strip. pic.twitter.com/A5n249liuN
— Nour Naim| نُور (@NourNaim88) November 18, 2024
CHILDREN STRIPPED DOWN BY ISRAELI SOLDIERS.
The Israeli occupation forces stripped children down in Al-Qarara area in central Gaza.
Residents were threatened with rifles, forcing them to leave whilst the children were being stripped.
pic.twitter.com/89VOJA3xgA— Khalissee (@Kahlissee) November 18, 2024
The death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen, according to the Ministry of Health, to 43,922 killed and 103,898 wounded.
