On Friday, December 20th, day 441 of the ongoing Israeli assault on the entire population of 2.2 million Palestinians imprisoned in the Gaza Strip, the relentless Israeli bombardment continued in a number of places in northern, central and southern Gaza.
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Ten citizens were killed, Friday evening, when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a house in Jabalia Al-Nazla, north of the Gaza Strip.
A Wafa news correspondent said that the Israeli occupation aircraft bombed the house of the Khala family in Jabalia al-Nazla, which led to the killing of 10 citizens, including 7 children, and the injury of others.
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An entire family: husband, wife and their two daughters were killed on Friday morning in an Israeli airstrike on Beit Hanoun, north of the Gaza Strip.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation aircraft launched a raid on Beit Hanoun, which resulted in the death of a citizen, his wife and their two daughters, and the injury of others.
Local sources reported that the occupation forces carried out bombing operations against residential buildings in the project and town of Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip.
The bodies of three brothers from the Al-Sharafi family were recovered. They were killed in an Israeli raid that targeted the vicinity of the Martyr Kamal Adwan Hospital several days ago.
UNRWA Emergency Officer Louise Waterridge said on Friday that more than two million people are still trapped in horrific conditions in Gaza and are deprived of their basic needs .
“People can’t escape, and it feels like every path you take leads to death,” Waterridge said .
For its part, UNICEF said that “the war on children in Gaza” is a stark reminder of the world’s collective responsibility to do everything possible to end their suffering, stressing that “a generation of children is bearing the brunt of the brutal violation of their rights and the destruction of their future .”
“Gaza is one of the saddest places for us as humanitarians, because every small effort to save a child’s life is lost to the violent destruction,” said UNICEF’s Chief Communications Officer in Gaza, Rosalia Poulin. “For more than 14 months, children have been on the brink of this nightmare, with more than 14,500 children reported killed and thousands more injured .”
UNICEF warned of the difficulty of the situation with the arrival of winter in Gaza, where children “feel cold and wet and are barefoot”, while many of them are still wearing summer clothes, adding that children are searching among the rubble for pieces of plastic to burn, and that diseases are spreading in the sector in light of the lack of health services and the continuous exposure of hospitals to attacks .
The Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, resulting in the killing of 45,206 citizens, the majority of whom are women and children, and the injury of 107,512 others, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble and in the streets, and ambulance and rescue crews cannot reach them.
