Updated: On Sunday, Day 86 of the ongoing Israeli offensive on the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed dozens, including a journalist, and a medic, and injured hundreds in several parts of the coastal enclave.
In Gaza City, Israeli army sharpshooters killed five Palestinians in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, while the army also fired missiles and shells and many homes and buildings.
Although the Israeli tanks withdrew from large areas of Sheikh Radwan, the Palestinians were unable to retrieve the dead and the wounded due to Israeli sharpshooters in nearby areas and Israeli military drones that continued to fire missiles on anyone trying to reach the western areas of the neighborhood.
In addition, a Palestinian journalist, Narmeen Haboush, was killed along with her baby and her mother when the army fired a missile at their home in Gaza, bringing the number of slain journalists to 106.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said its fighters killed and injured at least twenty soldiers in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood and destroyed a Merkava Israeli tank in the Sheikh Ejleen area.
The soldiers also detonated many homes in the Saftawi area, north of Gaza City, while trying to advance deeper into the city.
Furthermore, Israeli missiles killed Dr. Sa’id Al-Zubda, the president of the University College of Applied Sciences in Gaza, along with his wife and children, in their homes in Gaza.
Also in Gaza City, an Israeli missile struck a home for the Isleem family near Abdullah Azzam Mosque in the Sabra neighborhood, south of the city, killing dozens of Palestinians and burying at least 40 under the rubble.
The Israeli army fired missiles at three mosques, Al-Mohajerin and the Sahaba Mosque in Al-Maghazi refugee camp, and the Al-Furqan Mosque in Deir Al-Balah, in central Gaza, killing and wounding many Palestinians.
Furthermore, medical sources have confirmed that the Israeli army killed Sheikh Yousef Salama, an Imam and the former Minister of Waqf and Islamic Endowment and the former Khatib of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and injured several members of his family after firing a missile at his home in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp.
The Israeli missiles and shells also killed and injured several Palestinians in two homes for the Qandil and Abu Shehada families in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp; the army also bombed a charitable society in the refugee camp.
In the Zawaida area in central Gaza, an Israeli missile killed thirteen Palestinians and wounded many, largely women and children, in a home for the Jom’a family.
In addition, several Palestinians were killed and injured in an Israeli air strike east of Deir Al-Balah.
Furthermore, the Israeli army fired barrages of missiles and artillery shells at homes and buildings east of the Al-Boreij refugee camp and the Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing and wounding many Palestinians.
At least 64 Palestinians have been confirmed dead, and more than 186 injured by Israeli missiles in the Central District, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
One of the slain Palestinians in the Nusseirat refugee camp is a medic, who was killed and another medic who was with him was injured, when the army targeted ambulances and medics trying to rescue wounded Palestinians.
Despite the intensity of the Israeli bombing of Al-Boreij by land and air and the massive destruction, Palestinian resistance fighters continued to exchange fire with the soldiers and managed to destroy several Israeli tanks and armored vehicles.
It is worth mentioning that, on Saturday evening, Israeli missiles and shells killed twenty-five Palestinians and injured dozens in Nusseirat, Al-Maghazi, and the Zawaida area.
In addition, an Israeli drone fired a missile at a home for the Tahrawi family, west of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, while the Israeli navy killed one Palestinian near the shore of Rafah City.
In Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, Israeli artillery shells killed at least ten Palestinians and injured many others in a school where dozens of families sheltered in Khan Younis refugee camp.
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In related news, a medical source told Al-Jazeera that Israeli missiles and shells have killed 64 Palestinians and injured 186 in just one day in several parts of the Central Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army said two senior commanders of the Golani and the Givati Brigades were killed in gun battles in northern Gaza.
The officially declared number of Israeli soldiers and commanders who were killed since October 7 is 504, including 176 since the beginning of the ground offensive on Gaza on October 27.
Despite the massive civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip and the entire obliterated families, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that the Israeli army is “operating with mortality,” vowed to “wipe Hamas out,” and criticized South Africa for filing a case with the International Criminal Court, accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.
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Ziad Nakhalah, the secretary-general of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, said there would be no prisoner-swap agreements with the Israeli occupation as long as Israel’s onslaught is ongoing and added that the resistance factions in Gaza are strong and capable of continuing the struggle.
The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), said the army tried to free of the captured soldiers, but ended up killing him, and the soldiers were unable to take his corpse, and added that its fighters also managed to take various sorts of weapons, a laptop and military gear the soldiers left behind while running away.
Israel has now killed more than 21.672 Palestinians and injured 56.165, in addition to the thousands of Palestinians who remain missing, largely buried under the rubble of bombarded homes and buildings. %70 of the casualties of the ongoing Israeli onslaught on Gaza are women and children.
First Published on: Dec 31, 2023 at 12:12
