On Tuesday, December 24th, 2024, day 445 of the ongoing Israeli assault against the entire civilian population of 2.2 million Palestinians in the Gaza prison camp, Israeli forces continued their relentless assault on Gaza’s civilians.
8:57 AM
- Occupation forces besieged the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia and forced patients to evacuate it on foot, amid tanks firing artillery shells in its vicinity.
- The Israeli military continued its targeting the Kamal Adwan Hospital and its surroundings in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza.
- Occupation tanks fired artillery shells targeting the third floor of Al-Awda Hospital, in the Jabalia refugee camp, causing extensive damage inside.
- Occupation aircraft bombed the Tal al-Zaatar area in the Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza.
- The military carried out a new bombing campaign in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, in Gaza City, in the central Gaza Strip.
10:10 AM
- One citizen was killed and others were injured when occupation tanks fired artillery shells at a site east of Deir al-Balah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
- One citizen was killed and others were injured in an Israeli drone strike north of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
12:49 PM
- The cumulative death toll of Palestinians in the besieged and devastated Gaza Strip rose to 45,338 dead and 107,764 injured after Israeli forces committed 3 massacres, killing 21 citizens and wounding 51 others in the 24 hours since the last update.
12:53 PM
- A Palestinian man and his son were killed and others were injured after Israeli warplanes bombed a building in Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City, in the central Gaza Strip.
5:58 PM
- An unknown number of citizens were killed and others injured when Israeli warplanes bombed a group of citizens in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, in Gaza City.
- Occupation aircraft bombed land near Beit Lahia Street in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip and an Israeli Quadcopter dropped bombs on Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia.
- An unknown number of citizens were killed and others were injured after the occupation forces bombed a residential building near the Jabalia bus station in Gaza City.
- At least 12 Palestinians were injured when the occupation bombed citizens’ homes near the Abu Arabyan School in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
8:21 PM
- A citizen, his wife, and 5 brothers from the Abu Warda family, and 2 other citizens were killed after the Israeli air force bombed a residential building belonging to the Al-Fahham (Abu Warda) family in the Al-Nazla area, west of Jabalia.
10:12 PM
- Occupation warplanes bombed a house in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, killing three citizens from the Al-Ghandour family and the injury of others.
11:14 PM
- Occupation aircraft targeted a tent housing internally displaced persons northwest of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, killing a citizen and his wife, and wounding seven others, three seriously; they were transferred to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
On Tuesday, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) issued a report that the Israeli occupation authorities kill a child every hour in the Gaza Strip.
The agency added in a statement issued on Tuesday: “There is no place for children. Since the beginning of the war, 14,500 children have been reported killed in Gaza, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).”
“A child is killed every hour. These are not just numbers, they are lives cut short,” the report continued.
UNRWA confirmed that there is no justification for killing children in the Gaza Strip, and that all the children who survived “were left with physical and psychological scars.”
The organization pointed out that children are deprived of education, as “boys and girls in Gaza spend their time searching through the rubble.”
“Time is running out for these children,” they warned. “They are losing their lives, their futures and most of their hopes.”
Last July, UNRWA said, “Children in the Gaza Strip face tragedy and trauma every day.”
Since October 7, 2023, the occupation forces have continued their aggression on Gaza from land, sea and air, which has so far resulted in the martyrdom of 45,338 citizens and the injury of 107,764 others, including a large number of children and women.
The numbers are expected to rise in light of the presence of thousands of missing people under the rubble, while rescue teams face enormous difficulties in reaching all affected areas.
