For the 379th straight day on Saturday, October 19, 2024, US-funded Israeli bombardment continued throughout the already devastated Gaza Strip, targeting families, civilians, a hospital and an ambulance in their repeated airstrikes throughout the day and night.
Update 11:59 pm:
73 Palestinians were killed and dozens were injured Saturday night when Israeli warplanes bombed a square in Beit Lahia project, north of the Gaza Strip.
Local sources reported that the Israeli occupation warplanes launched violent raids on the Beit Lahia project, and completely destroyed a square on the heads of the crowd of people who were , which led to the martyrdom of about 73 citizens, and the injury of dozens, while many are still under the rubble.
The sources added that a Quadcopter drone fired at the tents of the displaced in the courtyard of Al-Awda Hospital, and directly targeted an ambulance.
🩸The #Israeli fighter jets hit tonight a densely-populated residential block, targeting the homes of the Al-Sharif, Al-Hindi, Al-Kahlot, Al-Dariwi, and Obaid families Beit Lahia in northern #Gaza. pic.twitter.com/XhISHJaNqZ
— PalYouth (@PalYouth4News) October 20, 2024
The Israeli occupation is currently targeting northern Gaza, resulting in the destruction of Beit Lahia. Numerous Palestinian civilians, including women and children, have been reported killed in the onslaught pic.twitter.com/mxzmk2LRPj
— Al-Estiklal English (@alestiklalen) October 20, 2024
Moments after the Beit Lahia bombardment, with medics and rescue teams trying to find and rescue anyone living among those crushed under the rubble:
The Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, which resulted in the martyrdom of 42,519 citizens and the injury of 99,637 others, the majority of whom are children and women, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of people are still missing under the rubble.
Update 9:44 am:
Eleven family members were killed and others were injured in the early morning pre-dawn hours on Saturday when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a home in Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.
On Saturday morning, three Palestinians were killed and many were injured in Israeli airstrikes on northern and southern Gaza.
Medical sources reported that one Palestinian was killed and others wounded, in an Israeli airstrike targeting the entrance of the laboratory at Kamal Adwan Hospital, which, along with the Indonesian and Al-Awda hospitals, has been under a severe siege for 15 days, exacerbating the already dire humanitarian situation amid the ongoing aggression since October 7, 2023.
The same sources added that two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike east of Rafah, in Gaza’s southmost part.
 Oct 19, 2024, at 09:22: Medical sources reported that eleven Palestinians were killed, others were injured, and several people are missing under the rubble, as a result of the Israeli occupation bombing of a house belonging to the Shana’a family in Al-Maghazi camp.ا
The sources indicated that 64 Palestinians were killed in the occupation raids on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Friday, 45 of them in Jabalia camp in northern Gaza.
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Israeli forces have been surrounding and besieging the Jabalia camp for the past fifteen days, allowing no food, water or medicine to enter, and dropping bombs day and night, including bombing the al-Aqsa Hospital in Jabalia and burning Palestinian families to death in their tents on the hospital grounds.
Those besieged in Jabalia now, their eyes are towards the sky, shivering with cold, starving, and threatened with death by shelling, bombing, and sniping. Oh God, have mercy on them and their condition.
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— El’Gido (@Elg1do) October 19, 2024
The Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea, and air, since October 7, 2023, which resulted in the killing of at least 42,500 Palestinians and the injury of 99,546 others, the majority of whom are children and women, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of people are still missing under the rubble. Among the slain Palestinians are at least 16,927 children, 11,487 women, 2,419 elderly people, 175 journalists, 85 emergency responders, 986 medical staff, and 203 UNRWA staff.
One of the 21 women killed tonight in Israeli attacks on Jabalia, Gaza, was Palestinian artist Mahasen Al Khatib.@MahasenAlkhatib
IG: mahasen_ktheeb
Just 13 hours before her death, the artist shared her work in memory of 19-year-old Sha’ban Al-Dalou, who was burned to death by… pic.twitter.com/XcXlzBzuBD
— Gaza Notifications (@gazanotice) October 18, 2024
The British Lancet Medical Journal and other experts estimate the death toll in Gaza is much higher – and could be above 200,000 when counting both direct and indirect deaths related to the Israeli war on Gaza.
This most recent escalation of Israel’s ongoing military occupation of Palestine began October 7th, 2023 when 1,143 Israelis were killed, including 767 civilians and 376 armed soldiers. Over 700 Israeli soldiers have been killed between October 7th and now – both in Gaza and on the Israeli border with Lebanon.
