On Monday, September 15th, Day 710 of the Israeli genocide against the entire population of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, the Israeli military continued its relentless assault on the people of Gaza City, raining down missiles on homes and refugee tents, killing 62. In addition, three premature babies died in incubators at Nasser Medical Complex due to the lack of electricity and pre-natal nutritional supplements, and five Palestinians died of starvation.
Medical sources announced that the death toll in the ongoing Israeli occupation raids on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Monday has risen to 62, the majority of whom are in Gaza City.
The entire Lubad family (pictured above) was killed today in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza:
Teacher / Iman Abdullah Lubad
Doctor / Bilal Nasser Lubad
Doctor / Banan Nasser Lubad
Child / Rital Nasser Lubad
Child / Ismail Nasser Lubad
Since October 7th, 2023, Israel, the occupying power, has committed a genocide in the Gaza Strip, including killing, starvation, destruction, and displacement, ignoring international law and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt the genocide. This genocide has left at least 64,905 killed, 164,926 injured, most of them children and women, and a famine that killed 425 citizens, including 145 children.
Gaza’s Health Ministry reported five deaths in the enclave due to famine and malnutrition in the past 24 hours, raising the death toll from the hunger crisis to 425, including 145 children.
Since the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report officially declared famine in Gaza last month, 144 people have died from malnutrition, including 30 children.
The following attacks by Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians were documented by local sources on Monday:
Monday evening, four citizens were killed and others were injured in an Israeli occupation raid from a drone that targeted a tent housing displaced people west of the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip. The killed and injured were transferred to Al-Awda Hospital.
A man and his wife sustained injuries in the horrific Israeli massacre against displaced families northwest of Gaza City.
A heartbroken Palestinian father cries and mourns after his three children were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home in northwestern Gaza City Monday.
Thousands of families fled Gaza City overnight under relentless Israeli bombardment, traveling long distances by car or on foot toward the southern Gaza Strip in what might be a one-way exodus.
Rescue teams recover casualties following an Israeli strike on the Masoud family home in Al-Shawa Square, Gaza City, as searches continue for those still missing under the rubble.
A Palestinian father mourns the loss of his children, killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit their home in the north of Gaza City.
Two citizens were killed and others were injured when the occupation forces bombed a tent on the roof of a house belonging to the Al-Kuwaifi family in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, west of Gaza City.
A number of citizens were injured when Israeli occupation aircraft targeted a civilian vehicle on Al-Jalaa Street and a water truck in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City.
A medical source reported that at least one citizen was killed and a number of others were injured when occupation Quadcopter drones dropped bombs near the Abdel Aal intersection on Al-Jalaa Street in Gaza City.
A female citizen with a hearing disability was also killed and four others were injured by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets in the Mawasi Khan Yunis regional area in the southern Gaza Strip.
Since Monday morning, the Israeli occupation army has destroyed a number of residential buildings and towers, most notably Al-Ghafri Tower – the tallest tower in the city – which consisted of 20 floors and was inhabited by hundreds of families, in addition to containing headquarters for media outlets, media production companies, and other commercial companies.
During the past weeks, the Israeli occupation army has intensified its targeting of towers and residential buildings in Gaza in a policy aimed at forcing citizens to flee the city to areas south of the Strip, following the Israeli occupation government’s approval on August 8 of a plan put forward by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reoccupy the entire Gaza Strip, starting with Gaza City.
Since August 11, the intensive aggression on the city began in the Zeitoun neighborhood (southeast), which included the bombing of homes using booby-trapped robots, artillery shelling, random shooting, and forced displacement.
Over the following weeks, the occupation army, in its aggression and policy of destroying residential neighborhoods, moved to the Sabra neighborhood in the south, then neighborhoods in the north of the city and later in the west.
From August 11 until Saturday evening, September 13th, the Israeli occupation completely or severely destroyed more than 3,600 buildings and towers in Gaza City, and over 13,000 tents housing displaced people.
UPDATED FROM:
11 AM REPORT
Israeli airstrikes killed 17 Palestinians before dawn on Monday.
Four pregnant women lost their babies in miscarriages this morning at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis. Their deaths resulted from their mothers’ severe malnutrition, extreme fear, constant stress, and exhaustion caused by displacement and forced eviction due to the ongoing Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip.
Twin Palestinian children, Amir and Zain, both six years old, were killed after Israeli strikes hit their home in Gaza City.
In an updated toll, six Palestinians were killed, including three children, following an Israeli airstrike on a displacement tent near Capital Mall in Gaza City.
On Sunday, Israeli forces killed 53 Palestinian civilians – a daily death toll that has consistently numbered over fifty people a day for months.
The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees “UNRWA”, Philippe Lazzarini, announced that during the past four days alone, Israel bombed 10 buildings belonging to the agency in Gaza City, including 7 schools and two clinics, which are currently used as shelters for thousands of displaced people.
A few days ago, Israel launched a campaign to destroy all of the remaining high-rise apartment buildings in Gaza City, which increased the number of displaced families and pushed them into harsh displacement conditions. This forced displacement is part of the Israeli strategy to destroy Gaza City and push its one million residents south, as part of a broader Israeli-American plan to displace them outside the Strip.
Lazzarini added that no one is safe in Gaza City and its north, where the intensity of air strikes is increasing, forcing more Palestinians to flee into the unknown.
Commenting on the situation in Gaza City, he said: “We were forced to stop health care in the Beach Camp, which is the only one available north of Wadi Gaza, while our vital water and sanitation services are now operating at only half their capacity”.
The UN official continued: “In the past four days alone, 10 UNRWA buildings were targeted in Gaza City.” Lazzarini reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire to stop the ongoing and worsening humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor warned that Israel is carrying out a comprehensive erasure of Gaza’s historical landmarks and cultural heritage.
The ongoing large-scale military assault on Gaza City, including repeated and systematic bombardment of historic neighborhoods threatens to wipe out what remains of the city’s tangible and intangible heritage.
This destruction, which appears to be part of a declared policy aimed at erasing the city and forcibly displacing its population, constitutes a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property.
The situation demands urgent intervention by UNESCO and state parties to halt the destruction, document the damage, ensure restoration, hold perpetrators accountable, and prevent Gaza from being turned into a land without memory or identity.
Doctors Without Borders issued a statement Monday warning that more than one million people in Gaza City are facing renewed terror after receiving an urgent order to evacuate.
The organization stressed that escape is impossible for many vulnerable groups, including the elderly, critically ill patients, pregnant women, and the wounded, noting that those left behind are effectively sentenced to death.
It added that those attempting to flee will be accompanied by heavy bombardment along the way, while survivors will reach overcrowded areas in central and southern Gaza, where neither safety nor the basic necessities for survival exist.
Doctors Without Borders emphasized that what is happening in Gaza is not merely a humanitarian catastrophe but a systematic genocide targeting an entire people. The organization further warned that the scale of human loss is immense, with Israel deploying highly destructive weapons designed for open battlefields, greatly compounding the devastation.
Israeli and US officials have worked in tandem to prevent any ceasefire from happening – last week, when Hamas sent a delegation to negotiate in Doha, Qatar, Israeli warplanes, with US weapons and logistical support, bombed the apartment where they were staying, killing the entire delegation and preventing the ceasefire agreement.
