At least 45 Palestinian citizens were killed and dozens more were wounded, since dawn on Sunday, in Israeli shelling of various parts of the Gaza Strip, coinciding with the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.
UPDATE 9:48 PM:
Three Palestinians were killed and others injured on Sunday evening when the Israeli occupation forces shelled a vehicle west of Gaza City.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation forces bombed a civilian vehicle on Al-Shifa Street, west of Gaza City, killing three civilians and wounding others, most of them children.
Two children were killed by Israeli artillery shelling east of Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip.
Local sources reported to Wafa that two children, Mohammed Amin Abu Freih (16 years old) and Nasser Yasser Abu Freih (12 years old), were killed as a result of the Israeli occupation’s artillery shelling of Ezbet Abd Rabbo, east of Jabalia.
Nine citizens were martyred, including Ahmed Hussein Abu Al-Aish (34 years old), his wife Aya Jabr Abu Al-Aish (33 years old), their children Karim (7 years old), Majd (8 years old), and Mayan (3 years old), the children’s grandmother, Hala Al-Hajj (59 years old), and her son Ibrahim Jabr Al-Hajj (28 years old), and others were injured when the occupation bombed a residential apartment in Hamad City, west of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Six citizens were killed and others injured when the occupation forces bombed the house of Kamal Muammar near the Tahlia roundabout in the center of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
Since resuming its genocide in Gaza on March 18, Israel, the occupying power, has killed 921 civilians and injured 2,054 others, most of them children and women, by Saturday morning.
Medical sources announced the deaths of at least 64 citizens in the Gaza Strip since dawn on Sunday, the first day of Eid al-Fitr.
Hundreds of thousands of Gazans performed Eid prayers on Sunday amid the rubble of destroyed mosques, in shelters, and next to their destroyed homes. Joy and celebration were absent amid the ongoing Israeli war of extermination, which has been ongoing since October 7, 2023. The war has left more than 164,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 14,000 missing.
Amid the ruins of their homes, Palestinian children mark the first day of Eid in Gaza as Israeli attacks persist across the Strip:
Children describe the Israeli missile that struck near them, nearly killing them as they were celebrating Eid:
Injured and killed children arrive at the hospital:
10:46 AM:
The estimated number of people killed between midnight and 10 am Sunday is 24, all of them civilians.
Just hours into Eid al-Fitr, Israeli occupation attacks have already killed five children in ongoing targeting of civilians across Gaza.
Israeli occupation airstrike targeting displaced civilians near Juhha School in Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis, killing at least one Palestinian and wounding others.
Palestinians in Gaza performed Eid prayers inside heavily damaged mosques and atop destroyed ones, decimated by Israel’s intentional destruction of places of worship during the ongoing genocide.
Wafa news correspondents reported that four citizens were killed when the occupation forces bombed a tent housing displaced persons in Qizan Abu Rashwan, south of Khan Yunis.
The four killed were identified as:
1- Ala Abdel Hamid Al-Qadi
2- Muhammad Rashid Al-Qadi
3- Nour Shafiq Al-Qadi
4- Abdul Rahman Shafiq Al-Qadi
As the first night of Eid begins today, Gaza continues to suffer the ravages of the Israeli aggression without the world taking any action.
Hours before the Eid prayer, the occupation launched several airstrikes on Gaza, its south and north, resulting in deaths and injuries.
On the ground, residents are suffering from the lack of the most basic necessities of life, such as gas, electricity, and water, in addition to food shortages and high prices.
While the Muslim world exchanges Eid greetings, the people of the Gaza Strip exchange condolences, sympathy, and grief among themselves. The children of Gaza suffer from the loss of their rights to life, education, health, and safety, and they will suffer from the loss of the joy of Eid. At a time when Eid prayers will be held, clothes will be bought for children, sweets will be exchanged, and visits will take place, Gaza will perform the funeral prayer, dress its children in shrouds, and visits will be cut off due to the ongoing aggression.
Meanwhile, 9,500 Palestinian prisoners will spend Eid in Israeli prisons amid escalating violations
This includes 350 children, 22 female prisoners, and 3,405 administrative detainees, facing organized and systematic crimes.
The Israeli occupation’s crimes have reached their peak since the genocidal war, resulting in the martyrdom of dozens of prisoners.
According to the Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Prisoners’ Club, the identities of 63 of them have been identified, including 40 from Gaza. Many of the killed prisoners from Gaza remain subject to enforced disappearance.
The Israeli occupation has been conducting daily arrest campaigns, totaling approximately 15,700 cases in the West Bank since the beginning of the war of extermination.
The number of abducted women arrested has reached more than 500, not including female detainees from Gaza.
Israeli occupation aircraft bombed displaced Palestinian families in the Al-Mawasi area south of Khan Yunis, killing and wounding several civilians, including children who were celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday.
Two citizens were killed and others were injured when the occupation forces bombed the home of the Maqbal family in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip. Several others were injured when a drone bombed a gathering in the Khirbet al-Adas area, north of Rafah.
Palestinians praying the Eid prayers amidst the rubble caused by Israeli bombing:
Al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas, has released a message from an Israeli prisoner, in which he asks the Netanyahu government, “You defend your respected workers, don’t you know how to defend me?”
The Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth quoted a security source as saying that the Israeli military assault in Gaza is putting the lives of Israeli prisoners in Gaza at grave risk. According to the author, only Trump can impose a swap deal on Netanyahu. There is a belief that Netanyahu appointed Dermer as head of the negotiating team to prevent further progress.
According to medical sources, the death toll from the aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 50,277, and the number of injuries to 114,095, since October 7, 2023.
