On Monday, December 30, 2024, Day 451 of its brutal and protracted military onslaught against the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military continued its genocidal bombing campaign in various regions, killing and injuring dozens of Palestinians.
9:02 AM
- Overnight, hundreds of tents sheltering displaced persons were flooded and destroyed as a result of heavy rains and strong winds, in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, and the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
9:43 AM
- Occupation forces shot and killed one Palestinian citizen in the Al-Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip.
- An Israeli quadcopter dropped a bomb near the Kerem Abu Salem crossing, east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, killing one citizen.
- Occupation tanks heavily bombarded the Jabalia refugee camp and Jabalia Al-Nazla, while the sounds of explosions could be heard as the army detonated residential buildings in the area.
- In Gaza City, in the north, tanks fired random artillery shells in the Zeitoun and Al-Sabra neighborhoods, while a drones fired live rounds; no injuries were reported.
- In the central Gaza Strip, occupation tanks fired artillery shells sporadically, while soldiers opened fire in the Al-Nuseirat refugee camp.
- The Israeli Navy bombed the Al-Mawasi area, west of Rafah city, in the southern Gaza Strip, while occupation tanks bombarded an area northwest of the city.
10:10 AM
- One Palestinian citizen was killed after Israeli warplanes bombed a house in Al-Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip.
10:16 AM
- A sixth Palestinian newborn has died as a result of the cold temperatures and lack of proper housing and electricity for heating.: https://t.co/EVvZ8Ggsgs pic.twitter.com/kCatgx4lbE
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- One-month-old, Ali Al-Batran, is the twin of the infant, Jumaa, that died on Sunday under the same circumstances; the family has been living in a tent in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.
12:29 PM
- The WAFA News Agency reported that the Israeli occupation committed three massacres, killing at least 27 citizens and wounding 149 others, since the last update on December 29.
- Medical sources announced, on Saturday, that since the beginning of the its military onslaught against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, the Israeli military has killed 45,541 Palestinians, and injured at least 108,338.
5:29 PM
- Israeli forces bombed a group of citizens in the Jabalia al-Balad area, in the north, killing four Palestinians and injuring several others .
- In the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, occupation forces carried out an airstrike against a home near the Jordanian field Hospital.
In a press statement, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that the destruction of the health system in northern Gaza exposes Palestinian civilians to grave and unacceptable danger.
Amnesty International expressed its concern for the wellbeing of the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, demanding his immediate release, in addition to the release of the detained health care workers.
Tedro Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that “the health system in the Gaza Strip is under severe threat,” stressing the need for Israel to cease all attacks on health care facilities.
In a press release, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said the following;
“Israel’s continued impunity sends a dangerous message suggesting that parties to other conflicts around the world need not comply with their obligations under international humanitarian law.”
“We cannot afford to lose the force of the multilateral system. Israel and its leaders must be held accountable.”
“As we have repeatedly reminded Israel, international humanitarian law comprises a set of universal and binding rules to protect civilian objects and persons who are not, or are no longer, directly participating in hostilities and limits permissible means and methods of warfare,”
“Rather than abide by these rules, Israel has openly defied international law time and again, inflicting maximum suffering on civilians in the occupied Palestinian territory and beyond.”
