On January 9th, day 95 of the Israeli assault on the civilian population of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces committed new massacres of civilians in different parts of Gaza. Having fully devastated the north, Israeli forces pushed through central Gaza and are now concentrating on the obliteration of parts of al-Nuseirat and Khan Younis, including the neighborhood of Khuza’a, which was almost completely flattened over the past several days.
In al-Nuseirat refugee camp, an Israeli airstrike on Farjallah family’s home killed 7: 3 women and 4 children.
Another airstrike west of the refugee camp targeted the Zared family house. 10 were killed, most of whom are children and women
Also Tuesday morning, Israeli forces bombed a car near Farhoud junction containing refugees, killing 10 civilians.
Tuesday evening, at least 15 Palestinian civilians were killed and many others were injured when Israeli forces bombed an apartment building west of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip.
Medical sources reported that 15 bodies arrived at the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah as a result of the Israeli occupation bombing of an apartment in a residential building for the Nofal family in the Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah.
Local sources reported that a number of Palestinian civilians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombing targeting civilians in the town of Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip.
The Israeli occupation aircraft also bombed a house near the girls’ middle school in the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in an unknown number of killed and wounded.
Earlier, at least 4 civilians were killed in Al-Maghazi camp, without ambulance and rescue crews being able to reach them, due to the positioning of Israeli occupation vehicles at the entrance to the camp.
A number of killed and wounded arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital — which is itself under siege by Israeli forces — as a result of the occupation aircraft bombing a house in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
Israeli drones opened fire on displaced people and citizens in UNRWA schools, west of Khan Younis, and in the vicinity of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, and east of al-Nuseirat, in the center of the Gaza Strip, resulting in injuries.
The Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a mosque and citizens’ homes in the southern region of Qaizan al-Najjar, south of Khan Younis.
The Israeli occupation artillery continued to bomb the Al-Manara neighborhood, the Al-Fokhari area, and various neighborhoods and areas of Khan Younis, which led to the killing of two women in the Al-Fokhari area in the east. A child also died in the Gaza European Hospital as a result of her injuries in an artillery shelling on the east of Khan Younis yesterday, bringing the number of people killed in Khan Younis to 13 within the last 24 hours.
Ambulance and rescue crews recovered two bodies and a number of wounded from under the rubble of a house targeted by the occupation aircraft in Jabalia al-Balad, north of the Gaza Strip. A number of citizens were also martyred and others were injured in an Israeli raid west of Gaza City, and the occupation aircraft bombed the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza.
In an ongoing and ever-increasing number, the toll of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7 has risen to 23,210 martyrs, more than 70% of whom are women and children, and 59,167 wounded, in addition to more than 7,000 people missing.
An estimated 8,000 of those killed are children under age 18 – many of them infants and children under 5, buried under the rubble of their homes. 953 Israelis were killed on October 7th, 2023, in an attack by Hamas fighters from Gaza. An estimated 600 of those killed were civilians – although recent evidence has emerged that many of the Israeli civilians killed on October 7th were not killed by Hamas fighters, but by Israeli airstrikes and tank fire.
Over 100 Israeli civilians are still being held as prisoners by Hamas in Gaza, while Israeli officials have refused to negotiate for their release, and instead continue to pound civilian structures in Gaza – including schools, hospitals, mosques and churches.
Meanwhile, the humanitarian situation has reached beyond catastrophic levels, with 1.4 million displaced people currently crowded into the city of Rafah, after having been forced from their homes in north, central, eastern and western Gaza by invading Israeli forces.
The population of the city of Rafah was three hundred thousand people before the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on the seventh of last October and the forced displacement of 90% of the population of Gaza.
The United Nations monitored scenes of crowding in the city of Rafah and the spread of tents on both sides of the roads in difficult living conditions .
Adnan Abu Hasna, spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Strip, says that there are one million and nine hundred thousand displaced people in various areas of the Gaza Strip, of whom about one million and four hundred thousand are in 155 schools and shelter centers affiliated with UNRWA.
🚨Israeli soldiers brag about “annihilating” an entire town, Khuzaa in Khan Younis, home to over 13,000 people:
“We went joyous… to annihilate the village… We blew up the ENTIRE village”
Not a single headline or even passing mention in US/EU mainstream media! NOT ONE! pic.twitter.com/zDUVuPylGE
— Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) January 8, 2024
Scenes of the damage caused by heavy Israeli air strikes in Khan Younis city. pic.twitter.com/dmkNxkGc2Z
— Manusia (@Manusia0_0human) January 10, 2024
