On Wednesday, the Israeli army continued its ground invasion and the extensive bombings of civilian areas in the besieged and devastated Gaza Strip for the 61st day, killing and wounding hundreds of Palestinians, including many women and children.
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Update: The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said its Urgent Care Clinic in northern Gaza has stopped working after running out of fuel for its generators and of medical supplies.
It stated that, after running out of fuel for their ambulances too, and after all hospital in northern Gaza have shut down after running out of supplies and fuel, medics and rescue operators became unable to evacuate the wounded or retrieve the corpses of slain Palestinians.
The PRCS stated that only its mobile clinic in Jabalia, in northern Gaza, is still operational amidst dire need for urgent supplies, as it receives more than 250 wounded Palestinians each day. ________________________________________________________________________
The army fired a missile at a home in the Shaboura refugee camp, south of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, killing at least six Palestinians and injuring dozens, mainly women and children.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said its fighters managed to detonate a home where many Israeli soldiers gathered, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, killing and wounding many.
The Brigades added that its fighters also destroyed two Israeli tanks in the same area, and a third tank, north of Khan Younis.
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— قناة الجزيرة (@AJArabic) December 6, 2023
Al-Jazeera correspondent in Khan Younis, Mo’men Sharafi, lost 21 members of his family at dawn in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza after an Israeli plane dropped an explosive barrel at a home she sheltered in.
Mo’men told Al-Jazeera that among the slain Palestinians are his father, Mahmoud, his mother Amina, his brother Dr. Ayman and his brother’s wife, Dr. Khitam and their son, Mohammad a pharmaceutical student, their daughter, medical student Amina, and their children, Maria, Fatima and Hanin, his brother’s wife and their children, his aunt Asma’ and her husband Eng. Nahi, his nephew, Eng. Ahmad, his aunt Sahab and her husband.
He added that all of his slain family members remained buried under the rubble, except for one little girl hose mutilated body was found on the rooftop of a nearby home due to the massive blast from the Israeli missile.
Mo’men told Al-Jazeera that the Israeli army is targeting medics and rescue teams and every Palestinian who is trying to look under the rubble to find survivors or slain Palestinians.
In addition, the army fired missiles and shells, including White phosphorus munitions, at an entire residential bloc in Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, mainly women and children.
Dozens of Palestinians were killed and injured when the army fires missiles at Palestine School, west of Jabalia, where many families sheltered.
The army also fired missiles and shells at homes and buildings in Gaza City, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including many who remain buried under the rubble, in Gaza City.
Dozens of Palestinians, mainly children and women, were killed and scores were injured by Israeli missiles in the Nafaq Street area in Gaza city, while more casualties were reported in Al-Yarmouk, Sahaba and Nafaq areas in Gaza city; scores remain under the rubble.
Dozens of Palestinians were also killed and injured by Israeli missiles in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, in addition to many Palestinians who remain buried under the rubble.
In addition, the army fired artillery shells at homes and buildings, in addition to a school were dozens of families sheltered in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, causing hundreds of casualties.
Israeli missiles also struck many areas near the European Hospital in Khan Younis, and near the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, in central Gaza.
The Israeli army allowed for publication the death of one officer in Gaza, bringing the number of soldiers killed during exchanges of fire with Palestinian resistance fighters in 24 hours, to ten.
As the Israeli army continued the bombing of the densely populated Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens of thousands of civilians, the United States decided to send ten thousand tons of missiles and shells, the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera has reported.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said Israeli missiles and shells killed more than 16248 Palestinians, including 7112 children and 4885 women, and injured more than 43000 in the Gaza Strip since October 7.
Among the slain Palestinians are 75 journalists and media workers, in addition to at least 80 injuries and two who remain missing.
The army targeted the homes of sixty journalists, bombarded 63 media centers, and damaged 24 radio stations in the Gaza Strip (damaged one radio station and abducted 41 journalists in the West Bank). Thirty of the abducted journalists are held under the arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial.
The number of displaced Palestinians in Gaza is exceeded 1.9 million (%80 of the population of the coastal region), the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said.
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli soldiers killed Wednesday Moath Ibrahim Zahran, 23, from the Al-Far’a refugee camp, and Abdul-Rahman Khaled Bani Odah, 16, from Tammoun, south of Tubas in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank.
On Wednesday afternoon, Palestinian medical sources confirmed the death of Abdul-Nasser Mustafa Riyahi, 24, who succumbed to serious wounds he suffered when the Israeli army invaded the Balata refugee camp north of the northern West Bank city of Nablus at dawn.
Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers have killed 471 Palestinians since the beginning of this year, including 262 since October 7 in several parts of the occupied West Bank.
First Published on: Dec 6, 2023 at 20:3
