On Tuesday, September 23rd, the 718th day of Israel’s ongoing campaign of genocide in Gaza, the Israeli military escalated its bombardment of residential neighborhoods and displacement camps, killing and wounding numerous Palestinians.
The oxygen has been cut off at the Al-Quds Hospital in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City, after it was exposed to gunfire from the Israeli occupation forces. The hospital currently relies on pre-packaged oxygen cylinders, which are sufficient for only 3 days, which directly threatens the lives of patients.
As of midnight on Tuesday, Israeli occupation forces are present at the southern gate of the hospital and are preventing entry and exit from it.
A paediatric hospital and an eye care hospital in Gaza City have been forced to shut down following repeated Israeli attacks, including direct bombings of one of the facilities and its surroundings.
The Palestinian health ministry reported that the Eye Hospital is the only public facility providing eye care services in Gaza City, while Al-Rantisi Hospital for children offers paediatric services not available elsewhere.
“There are no safe routes to reach hospitals and medical facilities, preventing patients and the wounded from accessing care,” the ministry said in a statement.
“The occupation is deliberately and systematically targeting the healthcare system in Gaza City as part of its policy of genocide against the population of the Gaza Strip”
Large numbers of children, women, and the elderly have gathered outside Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, displaced by ongoing Israeli airstrikes and the advance of Israeli forces in the city. Many now find themselves without shelter or a safe place to go.
Families in Gaza, displaced by relentless Israeli bombardment in Gaza city, are forced to sleep on the streets, unable to find shelter or even a single tent.
The following attacks by Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians in Gaza were documented by local sources on Tuesday:
11:50 pm
Seven Palestinians were killed and others injured following an Israeli strike on a house sheltering displaced families near Souk Firas area in Gaza City.
Multiple Palestinian children were among dozens of injuries following Israeli strikes on a house near Souk Firas area in Gaza City
10 pm
Israeli occupation forces detonate explosive-laden robots amid residential homes in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood and Al-Jalaa Street, northern Gaza City.
Artillery shells strike the Al-Sham’ah area in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southern Gaza City.
Israeli drones open fire east of Gaza City and around Al-Nasr Street in the west.
9 pm
Israeli occupation attack kills Dr. Ihab Al-Halabi, a consultant in diabetes and endocrinology, while he was on his way to the hospital in Gaza.
6 pm
A number of citizens were killed and others were injured, including a number of aid seekers, by the occupation forces’ bullets in the Gaza Strip.
Medical sources reported that 3 citizens were killed and 4 others were injured by occupation bullets, waiting for aid in the Miraj area, south of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
At least two citizens were killed and others were injured when an Israeli occupation drone targeted a tent housing displaced people in the town of Al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip. A number of citizens were also injured when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a group of citizens next to the military clinic in the Al-Shati camp, west of Gaza City
Medical sources announced that 29 people had been killed by Israeli occupation forces’ fire in the Gaza Strip since dawn today, including 25 in Gaza City.
The death toll from the occupation’s aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 65,382 killed and 166,985 injured, since October 7, 2023.
The same sources explained that 38 killed and 190 injured arrived at Gaza Strip hospitals during the past 24 hours.
Amr Saleh, 25 years old Palestinian, suffers from partial paralysis and severe malnutrition, worsened by the ongoing genocide and blockade, leaving his body skeletal and his condition critical.
He and his family were forcibly displaced from Jabalia camp to Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, where his mother, Sabah, struggles to care for him while also protecting her seven other children amid scarce food, medicine, and shelter.
UPDATED FROM:
12:00 PM REPORT
At least eighteen Palestinians were killed, and dozens more wounded, by Israeli missiles in various parts of the Gaza Startup. 12 slain Palestinians were moved to the Shifa Hospital and six to the Baptist Hospital, in Gaza city.
Since before dawn on Tuesday, Gaza City has witnessed violent air and artillery bombardment targeting various neighborhoods, including Tal al-Hawa, the southern and northern sands, the Nasr neighborhood, Sheikh Radwan, the tunnel area, the Daraj neighborhood, and the old town in the Zaytoun neighborhood, which led to a heavy rise of columns of smoke that covered the city’s sky.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation warplanes bombed a residential square near the Samer Junction in the center of the city, during which the Palestinian Medical Relief Clinic building was damaged.
Israeli military vehicles were also stationed in the southern Al-Rimal neighborhood between the UNRWA headquarters and the Islamic University, along Tunis Street, and in the vicinity of the Jordanian field hospital, amid the detonation of car bombs in citizens’ homes in the southern Tal Al-Hawa and Al-Rimal neighborhoods.
In the same context, the Israeli occupation forces were stationed near the Al-Ayoun Junction in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, along Al-Jalaa Street, in addition to the vicinity of Sheikh Radwan Pond and the Al-Sudaniya area north of Gaza City.
The west of the city is also witnessing intense flights by occupation aircraft of various types, while the smell of gunpowder floods the atmosphere as a result of the bombing and explosions that targeted homes and buildings in several areas of the city.
Amid scarce and unaffordable transportation, an elderly Palestinian couple were forced to leave Gaza City on foot, walking long distances south due to the Israeli campaign of ethnic cleansing in the city.
Two Palestinian fishermen were shot and killed by Israeli naval forces off the coast of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip.
Scenes from Gaza City’s Al-Sabra neighborhood this morning show the massive destruction left after Israeli forces detonated explosive-laden military vehicles in the area.
Massive explosions rock Gaza City as the Israeli occupation army remotely detontates out-of-service armoured personnel carriers, packed with explosives, to destroy residential buildings.
Five-year-old Ala’a Muhammad Al-Arja passed away today at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, after suffering from severe malnutrition that reduced her weight from 18 kilograms to just 7, leaving her body almost skeletal.
Ala’a had no underlying illnesses, yet she became a victim of the blockade and food shortages in Gaza, leaving behind a new wave of grief added to the suffering of children in the besieged territory.
The cumulative death toll since October 7, 2023, has reached more than 65,344, with at least 166,795 injuries, the majority of whom are children, women, and elderly, in addition to thousands of missing Palestinians in destroyed areas inaccessible to medics and rescue teams in the devastated coastal enclave.
