On Friday, January 17th, 2024, day 469 of the ongoing Israeli assault on the entire Gaza Strip, Israeli airstrikes killed dozens of Palestinian civilians. Although a ceasefire was declared two days ago, the bombardment in Gaa has only gotten worse – the ceasefire is set to go into effect on Sunday, and Israeli forces appear to be engaging in increased bombings in advance of the ceasefire.
Incidents documented on Friday January 17th:
9 pm:
An Israeli military Quadcopter launches a bomb at a house, catching it on fire in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Civil Defense reported that their crews extinguished a fire that broke out in a previously bombed house and a “car complex” in the vicinity of the gold market on Omar Al-Mukhtar Street, east of Gaza City.
7:30 pm
Three Palestinian citizens were killed when the Israeli occupation forces targeted a group of citizens in Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
Wafa news correspondents said that the Israeli occupation forces bombed a group of citizens in the Tuffah neighborhood with drones, which led to the killing of 3 Palestinian citizens and the injury of others.
5:00 pm
A Palestinian citizen and his son were killed on Friday evening when Israeli warplanes bombed their house in the northern Gaza Strip.
A correspondent with the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported that the Israeli occupation targeted a house near Al-Jurn roundabout in the center of Jabalia city, north of the Gaza Strip, which led to the killing of Ahmed Saeed Nabhan and his son, Dr. Saeed.
Around the same time, civil defense crews were able to retrieve the bodies of 3 Palestinians from the Alloush family from the Sheikh Radwan area in Gaza City, targeted in the first hour of the announcement of the ceasefire agreement.
9:30 am:
Dozens of Palestinian citizens were killed and injured at dawn and early Friday morning, after the Israeli occupation forces bombed several sites in different parts of the Gaza Strip, despite the announcement of a “ceasefire” that is scheduled to go into effect next Sunday.
Our correspondent reported that 9 citizens were killed when the occupation forces bombed a house near the Sultan station in Jabalia al-Balad, north of the Gaza Strip, noting that those killed were the mother, sons and grandchildren of the family of journalist Amer al-Sultan.
A local Wafa news correspondent confirmed the killing of 5 Palestinian citizens in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a house belonging to the Baraka family in the town of Abasan al-Jadida, east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. pointed out that two young men were martyred as a result of an Israeli bombardment that targeted a tent for displaced persons in the vicinity of the Dhahra market, west of Khan Yunis, and that another citizen was killed after the Israeli occupation forces bombed a tent for displaced persons in the al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Yunis.
In the middle of the Gaza Strip, a Wafa correspondent said that the Israeli occupation forces targeted a tent belonging to the Ali family on Al-Mahkama Street in Al-Nusraat camp, which led to the killing of a Palestinian citizen, while another citizen died of his injuries a few days ago after being targeted by a bomb from a drone near Salah Al-Din Street. The correspondent confirmed that the bodies of two civilians were recovered from the house of the Ghurab family, which the occupation targeted yesterday in the Mufti area in the central governorate, while the bodies of three more family members are still under the rubble.
A Wafa correspondent confirmed that the Israeli occupation forces continue to bomb several areas in the Gaza Strip, the latest of which was launching three raids on Jabalia al-Balad in the northern Gaza Strip.
Palestinian girl treated for shrapnel wounds today:
Palestinian children examine their home after it was bombed by Israeli forces:
Medical sources announced today, Friday, that the death toll from the Israeli occupation’s aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 46,876 martyrs and 110,642 wounded, since October 7, 2023, while thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and rescue crews are unable to reach them.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said that an average of 35 Palestinian children have been killed daily in the Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli occupation’s aggression.
UNICEF spokesman James Elder said today, Friday, during the weekly press conference held at the United Nations office in the Swiss city of Geneva, that according to medical data, 15,000 children have been killed since October 7, 2023, which averages to 35 children killed by Israeli forces per day for 14 straight months.
For its part, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that rebuilding the health system in the Gaza Strip requires at least $13 billion over the coming years.
The organization stated that an initial assessment showed that it would require “more than three billion dollars during the first year and a half, and ten billion dollars during five to seven years.”
“We all know that the destruction in Gaza is enormous, and I have never seen anything like it anywhere else in my life,” said the WHO representative in Palestine, Rick Peeperkorn, noting that reconstruction is “a collective responsibility of the member states” of the World Health Organization, including Israel and its partners.