On Thursday, December 26, 2024, Day 447 of its brutal and protracted military onslaught against the Gaza Strip, Israel assassinated five journalists and five medical personnel, in addition to many other civilians, including children.
07:00 AM
- The Israeli military carried out an assassination operation, at dawn Thursday, killing five Palestinian journalists in the Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
- Media sources said that a missile struck a Press van parked in front of the Al-Awda medical center in the Al-Nuseirat refugee camp, killing five journalists.
- The Shireen Observatory reports that Israeli forces have killed 217 journalists in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.
The same source identified the five slain journalists as:
1. Faisal Abdullah Abu Al-Qumsan, 27,
2. Ayman Nihad Abdul Rahman Al-Jadi, 28,
3. Ibrahim Jamal Sheikh Ali, 38,
4. Mohammad Ayad Al-Ladah, 23, and
08:15 AM
- Israeli warplanes bombed a residential building in the Sabra area Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, killing 8 citizens, including children, and injuring others.
- In the Jabalia al-Balad area, in northern Gaza, occupation forces bombed the Radwan family home, killing two Palestinians and wounding others.
- Israeli tanks fired artillery shells near the Al-Maghazi camp, in the central Gaza Strip; no injuries were reported.
- The WAFA News Agency quoted medical sources that indicated that approximately 10% of the Palestinian population in the besieged and destroyed Gaza Strip have been killed, wounded, or remain missing under the rubble of bombarded buildings.
10:32 AM
- Three Palestinian newborns, aged 4 to 21 days old, died as a result of the cold temperatures in the Gaza Strip, amid harsh living conditions and food insecurity among the entire population.
1:52 PM
- The WAFA News Agency reported that the Israeli occupation committed three massacres, killing at least 38 citizens and wounding 137 others, since the last update.
- Medical sources announced, on Thursday, that since the beginning of the Israeli military onslaught on October 7, 2023, Israeli missiles and artillery shells have killed 45,399 Palestinians, and injured more than 107,940.
2:24 PM
- Two paramedics, identified as Abdul Majeed Abu Al-Aish and Maher Al-Ajrami, were killed by artillery shelling of a site near the Martyr Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip.
- An Israeli drone dropped a bomb at the front gate of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, killing one Palestinian.
- The bodies of four citizens were retrieved under the rubble of a home in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, bombed by Israeli warplanes less than 24 hours earlier.
- Israeli aircraft bombed the Hamada family home in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City, in northern Gaza, killing an undetermined number of citizens and others injured.
4:35 PM
- WAFA correspondent reported that occupation forces targeted the Al-Safir Tower next to the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, killing an undetermined number of Palestinians, including women and children, and injuring others.
- Medical crews were unable to rescue the injured or retrieve the dead as Israeli forces continued to target the vicinity of the hospital with artillery shells.
- Medical and civil defense crews were able to retrieve the bodies of 5 citizens and rescued several wounded people from the rubble, after Israeli warplanes bombed the Alwan family home in the Al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City.
- A Palestinian fisherman was killed by the Israeli Navy who opened fire at a number of fishermen in the Nuseirat Sea in central Gaza.
- Occupation tanks fired artillery shells at sites east of Khuza’a town, east of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, coinciding with heavy gunfire towards civilians and their homes, while warplanes bombed a site in the western part of Gaza City.
5:19 PM
- Another infant died as a result of low temperatures and inadequate housing, this is the fourth infant to die from theses conditions in the past 72 hours.
6:46 PM
- A pediatrician, identified as Dr. Ahmad Samour, and two members of the medical staff, identified as laboratory specialist, Israa Abu Zaida, and maintenance specialist, Fares Al-Hudali, were all killed after Israeli forces bombed the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza.
- Occupation forces continue to besiege and target the Kamal Adwan Hospital, where 91 patients are being treated, while soldiers opened fire, and military aircraft, drones, and tanks continued to bomb the hospital and its vicinity.
- A generator and a fuel tank which supply the hospital with electricity were targeted, catching fire, and affecting the hospital’s ability to function and provide adequate care.
8:14 PM
- WAFA correspondent reported that Israeli warplanes bombed the Htehat family home in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, killing an undetermined number of Palestinians and injuring 40 others who remain under the rubble.
- At least 2 Palestinians were killed and 20 others were wounded when Israeli aircraft targeted the Aslim family home in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City.
- WAFA correspondent reported that 7 citizens remain under the rubble, while rescue crews were able to retrieve one body from the site.
- Israeli soldiers detonated residential buildings in the northern Gaza Strip, while drones fired live rounds at citizens’ homes in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City.
