On Wednesday, January 1, 2025, Day 453 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.
17 people, most of them children, were killed and 20 others injured by Israeli occupation forces in an airstrike targeting Jabalia camp.
Also on Wednesday:
Hundreds of tents in displacement camps across the Gaza Strip were flooded last night and this morning due to heavy rains.
The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hussam Abu Safiya, is being held at Israel’s notorious Sde Teiman prison, where abuse – including torture, murder and rape – is widespread, according to recently released detainees.
Medical sources reported that the twin of the infant who died yesterday also succumbed to the cold, bringing the total number of infant deaths due to freezing temperatures to six in a week, Wafa news agency reported.
Five Palestinian detainees from Gaza have died inside Israeli jails over the past 24 hours.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned that the “obliteration” of Gaza’s healthcare system puts civilians at “unacceptably grave risk”.
Incidents documented on Wednesday January 1, 2025:
7:20 pm
Two Palestinian citizens were killed on Wednesday evening in Israeli shelling in the northern Gaza Strip.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that an Israeli drone bombed a group of citizens near Al-Halabi roundabout in Jabalia Al-Balad, north of the Strip, which led to the killing of two Palestinian citizens and the injury of others.
2:03 pm
Six Palestinian citizens were killed and others were injured on Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential apartment in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
Local sources reported that an Israeli occupation drone targeted a residential apartment of the Al-Suwairki family on Mashtaha Street in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood, which led to the killing of six citizens, including three children and two women.
She added that the Israeli occupation’s drones opened fire on residents in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, west of the city, which led to the injury of a number of citizens.
11:34 am
A number of Palestinian citizens were killed and others were injured as a result of Israeli shelling on Khan Yunis city, south of the Gaza Strip.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that 3 citizens were killed and a number of others were injured, as a result of a drone strike on a group of citizens in the Al-Manara neighborhood, southeast of Khan Yunis.
Also, the Israeli occupation aircraft targeted land in the vicinity of the Khadir Barracks in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, and a quadcopter drone and Israeli occupation vehicles opened fire continuously since the morning hours east of the Shuja’iyya and Al-Sha’af neighborhoods, east of Gaza City .
7:38 am
At least 17 Palestinian citizens were killed and others were injured, on Wednesday morning, when the Israeli occupation forces targeted Al-Bureij refugee camp and Jabalia town in the central and northern Gaza Strip.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that 17 Palestinian citizens, most of them children, were killed and a number of others were injured as a result of the Israeli occupation aircraft bombing a house in Jabalia al-Balad, north of Gaza. Two Palestinian citizens were also killed as a result of the occupation bombing a house in al-Bureij camp.
The Israeli occupation forces blew up residential blocks in the town of Beit Lahia, Jabalia camp and its surroundings in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli occupation forces opened fire in the northwestern area of Gaza City, and the Israeli occupation forces’ artillery targeted the southeastern neighborhoods of Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Also Wednesday, a United Nations official said that the Israeli occupation authorities rejected more than 140 UN requests to enter the northern Gaza Strip during the past two months.
The Senior Official of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA), Jonathan Whittall, explained that the Israeli occupation army continues its air attacks on the Jabalia area and the surrounding areas, targeting hospitals and health care workers.
He added: “We tried to reach northern Gaza during the past two months, but the Israeli authorities rejected our requests more than 140 times,” noting that Palestinian families in the Jabalia area have been living under an Israeli siege for more than two months.
He stressed that the Palestinians forcibly displaced from the northern Gaza Strip, from areas such as Jabalia, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia, live under extremely difficult conditions in the vicinity of Gaza City.
An Israeli soldier from the Givati Brigade celebrates the New Year in a scene that includes dozens of Palestinians abused and abducted from Jabalia pic.twitter.com/v0JUC3jOPO
— Younis Tirawi | يونس (@ytirawi) December 31, 2024
Remains of Jabalia pic.twitter.com/NdMEepm9Vt
— Dr. Mustafa Elmasri (@Gaza_Psych) January 1, 2025
Horrific scenes… The moment an ambulance was directly targeted in Jabalia Camp two months ago pic.twitter.com/RBgleH2eAF
— S A R A 𓂆 (@GazaUnfiltered) January 1, 2025
meet Amin and Husam. they arrived at Nasser hospital with an unknown viral infection spreading among children. Amin came in the wave of people ethnically cleansed from Jabalia in the north, and Husam from Khan Younis. Amin was forced by Israeli soldiers into a large pit with… pic.twitter.com/ZpwdJHmxuU
— susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى (@susanabulhawa) December 31, 2024
A young girl bids farewell to her parents after the occupation targeted the home of the Taroush family in Jabalia Al-Balad, northern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/jkDCQBLc37
— Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine) January 1, 2025
The Israeli occupation continues its aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, which resulted in the martyrdom of 45,553 citizens, the majority of whom are women and children, and the injury of 108,379 others, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble and in the streets, and ambulance and rescue crews cannot reach them.
