The Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip continued unabated Thursday evening, with dozens of Palestinian civilians killed in Khan Younis, Rafah, Gaza, al-Nuseirat refugee camp, and Al-Maghazi refugee camp. The places hit by Israeli bombs include homes, medical centers, the home of the head of the Central Governorate Ambulance Center, and a tent encampment where internally displaced persons had relocated after their homes were bombed by Israeli forces.
In Khan Younis on Thursday, 32 Palestinians were killed in multiple airstrikes during the day and evening on Thursday. Khan Younis is in the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians are now sheltering in tents, schools and hospitals after their homes in the north were destroyed by Israeli bombardment.
Medical sources reported that a Thursday evening airstrike targeting a residential apartment in the Al-Amal neighborhood in Khan Younis killed one civilian and wounded a number of people, and took place at the same time as Israeli occupation artillery shelling of downtown areas. A second civilian, a woman, was killed and others were injured in the Israeli occupation aircraft’s bombing of a house in the Al-Qarara area in Khan Younis.
Also Thursday evening, Israeli occupation forces blew up residential squares in the town of Khuza’a and adjacent areas in the east of Khan Younis.
Earlier in the afternoon, at least one Palestinian was killed, and others were injured, as a result of the Israeli occupation’s bombing in the vicinity of the European Hospital in the southeast of Khan Yunis. Two Palestinian civilians were also killed in an Israeli bombing of the Al-Fokhari area in the east, while the Israeli occupation aircraft destroyed a house for the Kaware’ family east of the city, and launched raids on the vicinity of Nasser Hospital, Al Amal Hospital, and the headquarters of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.
A video clip showed the bodies of 14 Palestinian civilians, including 9 children, whose bodies were recovered after the Israeli occupation aircraft bombed the tents of the displaced in the vicinity of the coastal area of Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis.
In Rafah, also in the south of the Gaza Strip, five Palestinian civilians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli raid that targeted the home of the Abu Sanjar family in the center of the city.
In Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a house for the Abu Holi family, resulting in an unknown number of people killed and wounded.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that the Israeli occupation bombed the house of the director of the Central Governorate Ambulance Center, Anwar Abu Houli, in Al-Maghazi camp, which led to a number of martyrs and injuries, noting that its crews were able to evacuate two martyrs and five injuries so far, while a number of citizens are still under the rubble.
The Israeli occupation drones also fired bullets at displaced people near the entrance to Al-Masdar village in the central Gaza Strip.
Rescue and ambulance crews were able to recover a number of bodies of Palestinians killed and wounded from under the rubble of a house targeted by the occupation aircraft in Al-Maghazi camp.
5 Palestinians were killed earlier, and a number of others were injured, after the Israeli occupation targeted a Palestinian’s vehicle in the new camp in Nuseirat in central Gaza.
The Israeli occupation artillery bombed the areas of Al-Zawaida, Al-Nuseirat, Al-Maghazi and Al-Bureij in the central Gaza Strip, and the occupation aircraft destroyed a house for the Al-Louh family near the Wadi Gaza Bridge.
In Gaza City, medical sources reported that the bodies of 9 civilians arrived at Al-Shifa Medical Complex as a result of the Israeli occupation aircraft’s bombing of the city’s neighborhoods, as it launched raids on the Juhr al-Dik area in the south, and near the port of Gaza, bringing the toll of those killed Thursday in the city to 39.
In an ongoing toll, the number of Palestinians killed as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7 has risen to more than 22,430 killed, including 9,730 children and 6,830 women, in addition to 7,000 missing persons, and more than 57,600 wounded.
🚨The Israeli army killed Dina !
#Gaza_Genocide pic.twitter.com/ILcHP22YKk— Nour Naim| نور نعيم (@NourNaim88) January 4, 2024
⚠️ Imagine it’s your child… Karam Abdullah al-Louh, the child killed by Israel forces tonight as they bombed his home near Wadi Gaza bridge. #GazaGenocide pic.twitter.com/8NtLkyqzQ6
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) January 4, 2024
A woman who survived the Khan-Younis massacre earlier today bursts into tears when she realizes the body before her eyes is her mother’s pic.twitter.com/OxRD5EP6pS
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) January 4, 2024
“Take me to my home”
An elderly woman who was injured in one of the ongoing airstrikes on Khan-Younis today yearns for home. pic.twitter.com/oq7ReQDbBh
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) January 4, 2024
