Monday, December 16, 2024, marks day 437 of the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip by air, land, and sea. Since October 7, 2023, 45,028 citizens have been killed and 106,962 citizens have been injured. Thousands of people are still under the rubble and on the roads, where medical crews and ambulances cannot reach them.
11:30 pm
Israeli quadcopter drones had dropped at least 10 bombs on the Kamal Adwan Hospital in recent hours. Al-Quds News Network reported that the hospital’s power has been cut off as a result of the repeated attacks. There are more than 50 injured people still in the besieged facility, according to Al-Jazeera Arabic, including patients in intensive care who require oxygen and water. The director of the besieged hospital called for international protection after Israeli forces destroyed the facility’s power generators and snipers fired at staff in the intensive care unit.
(Photo of Kamal Adwan Hospital after power had been cut off)
UPDATE 8:38 pm
5 citizens, including two women, were killed and others were wounded, on Monday evening, in an Israeli bombing targeting an apartment in the northwest area of Gaza City, and a house in the Sabra neighborhood in the south of the strip.
UPDATE 5:40 pm
4 citizens were killed and 15 wounded in an Israeli bombing of a group of citizens on Aydiya Street in the Shati’ refugee camp, west of Gaza City.
Furthermore, a girl passed away affected by her wounds after the Israeli forces bombed a home for Abu Hajar family last night, in Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip.
4:15 pm
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees “UNRWA” said that its infant formula supplies are almost finished in the Gaza Strip, putting the lives of more than 8,500 infants at risk. The agency indicated that only six boxes of infant formula are left. UNRWA also stressed that the lack of supplies endangers the lives of infants and more than 200,000 people who depend on the agency’s services in the Gaza Strip. UNRWA also stated that about 19,000 children have been hospitalized due to malnutrition during the past four months, confirming that the number has doubled from the beginning of this year.
10:30 am
5 citizens were killed and several others were wounded, Monday morning, after an Israeli warplanes bombed a house in the Beit Lahiya housing project in the north of the Gaza Strip. Moreover, 3 citizens were killed and others were wounded in an Israeli bombing of Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the middle of the Strip.
9:50 am
A young man, named Nidal Muhammad Abu Bakra, was shot dead by the Israeli forces in the housing project area east of the city of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Furthermore, the Israeli artillery shelled the towns of Khuza’a and Al-Fakhari, east of Khan Yunis, also southern Gaza Strip.
Israeli forces have bombed another United Nations-run school in southern Gaza, killing at least 20 displaced Palestinians sheltering in the building, said eye witnesses, as the death toll from several attacks across the besieged territory, including in Beit Hanoon, Deir el-Balah and the Nuseirat refugee camp rises. More than 60 people were confirmed dead as a result of Israeli attacks in the last 24 hours, according to Palestinian officials.
Watch: A grieving man recounts the loss of his pregnant wife and daughter in the Israeli airstrike on the UNRWA school.
Watch: Maher, a Palestinian child from North Gaza, saw and ate bananas for the first time in his life, a rare moment of joy amidst relentless Israeli aggression and siege.
Watch: Firas, a young Palestinian boy, recounted his heroic act after Deir Al-Balah Municipality building was struck by an Israeli missile. Amid the chaos, he saved another child who had been thrown from his mother’s grip by the blast while she was struck by debris. Seeing the child covered in blood, Firas carried him and ran to Al-Aqsa Hospital, ensuring he was delivered to the ICU. “Thank God, he is fine,” Firas shared, later visiting the boy with juice, though the child remains traumatized and unable to sleep.
Watch: An elderly woman screams through a crowd of displaced Gazans trying to get food from the soup kitchen. Famine ravages both the elderly and the young across the Gaza Strip.
Watch: recent footage of Jabalia city, north of Gaza Strip.
