On Thursday, Day 83 of the ongoing onslaught on Gaza, Israeli missiles and shells killed dozens of Palestinians, including two journalists, and injured many more in several parts of the besieged and devastated Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said at least ten Palestinians were killed and more than twelve were injured when the army fired a missile at a home near the Al-Amal Hospital it runs in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli missiles also killed at least seventeen Palestinians and injured dozens in bombings targeting their homes in several parts of the central part of the coastal enclave; seven of them were killed in their home in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp.
In Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, the army fired barrages of missiles at homes and buildings, killing at least thirty Palestinians and wounding dozens.
In Jabalia, in northern Gaza, Palestinians medics located the bodies of nine Palestinians under the rubble of their home the army bombarded, while many more remain under the rubble.
It is worth mentioning that the army has escalated its bombing and shelling of all parts of the northern Gaza Strip.
A Palestinian journalist, Mohammad Kheireddin, and Photojournalist, Ahmad Maher Kheireddin, were killed when the army fired missiles at their homes in Beit Lahia, bringing the number of slain journalists to 105.
Furthermore, Palestinian journalist Husam Shabat, one of the few journalists covering the Israeli occupation onslaught in northern Gaza, said he received a call from the Israeli forces ordering him to delete all of his published content online and to stop covering news about the ongoing offensive.
In addition, Israeli forces forced dozens of children, women and elderly to vacate Saftawi Health Center, in Gaza, where they sheltered after the army bombarded their homes.
Medical sources at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza said Israel’s bombing of the Shati’ refugee camp, and the neighborhoods of Sheikh Radwan, Ad-Daraj and At-Tuffah, have killed at least 40 Palestinians and injured dozens.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said its fighters targeted and destroyed seven Israeli tanks and armored vehicles in the Tuffah and the Daraj areas in Gaza City and one vehicle in the Al-Boreij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip.
The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, said its fighters destroyed two Israeli military vehicles in the Tuffah area in Gaza City.
In related news, an investigation by the Wall Street Journal American Daily revealed that, on October 31, the Israeli army carried out an airstrike targeting one Hamas commander has also killed dozen dozens of civilians along with its target.
On its part, the Israeli army announced the death of two officers and one soldier in gun battles in central and southern Gaza, bringing the number of officially declared deaths among the soldiers since October 7 to 501, including 168 who were killed when the army initiated the ground invasion of Gaza on October 27.
The Israeli army has killed at least 21.110 Palestinians and injured more than 55.243, mostly women and children, in addition to the thousands who remain missing, largely buried under the rubble of bombarded homes and buildings.
Among the slain Palestinians are 105 journalists and 226 medical workers, including doctors and nurses, in addition to 225 injured healthcare workers and medics.
Commenting on Israel’s bombing of the Baptist church in Gaza on the second Christmas Day, Rev. Mitri Raheb, Founder, President at Dar al-Kalima University said: “Israel’s Christmas present to the tiny Baptist church in Gaza on the second Christmas Day is a tank shell that penetrated the building and damaged and destroyed the interior.”
The Israeli war on the Palestinians in Gaza displaced 1.920.000 Palestinians, destroyed 65.600 homes, and partially damaged 177.2000, in addition to damaging 183 mosques and three children.
Israel’s missiles also destroyed 1.541 industrial facilities and 305 schools, in addition to damaging and destroying 165 media facilities.
It is worth mentioning that early on Thursday morning, Israeli soldiers abducted more than 25 Palestinians in the West Bank, mainly in Ramallah, Hebron, Jericho, Tulkarem, Nablus, Jenin, Tubas, and Qalqilia, bringing the number of abducted Palestinians since October 7 to 4820.
Also, Palestinian medical sources confirmed the death of Tareq Shakhsheer, 21, whom Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured ten days earlier when the army invaded Nablus, in the occupied West Bank’s northern part.
On Thursday dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded the center of Ramallah city, in the occupied West Bank’s central part, killed a young man, Hazem Abdul-Fattah Qattawi, 23, and injured fourteen.
On Wednesday afternoon, a Palestinian young man, Abdul Karim Ibrahim Bodeirat, 24, succumbed to critical wounds he had sustained a month earlier during an Israeli military assault on the Tulkarem refugee camp in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank.
The soldiers also shot nine Palestinians, including children, in Halhoul town, north of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.
Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers have killed 314 Palestinians in several parts of the occupied West Bank since October 7, bringing the number of slain Palestinians in the West Bank since the beginning of this year, 2023, to 522.
