Israeli forces continued their relentless assault on the entire population of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, killing at least 35 civilians and wounding dozens more, and ordering thousands of Palestinians to leave their homes and shelters in northern Gaza in preparation for the Israeli demolition of hundreds more Palestinian homes.
11:30 pm
The Israeli army bombed a five-story building in which the family of journalist Abdul Rahim Khader was sheltering – an estimated 60 people total were buried in the rubble. Rescuers managed to pull out three bodies, but the remaining victims are still under rubble.
5:30 pm:
Three Palestinian citizens were killed and dozens of others were injured on Friday in the Israeli shelling of a residential building in the town of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, raising the number of people killed since the dawn of the first day of Eid al-Adha to more than 35.
Casualties were reported among Palestinian civilians, mostly children, following an Israeli airstrike on Abu Holi area in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip.
According to the Quds News Network, Israeli forces committed a new massacre on the first day of Eid al-Adha near a US-Israeli so-called ‘aid distribution center’ in Rafah.
According to the report, Israeli troops and a US private security company opened fire on crowds of starving civilians waiting for aid. The attack killed at least 8 people and wounded 61 others.
Since the infamous Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began operations on May 27, Israeli forces have killed 110 starved civilians and injured 583 more near the organization’s distribution sites. Nine others remain missing, the office added.
“These suspicious aid centers have turned into death traps,” the Palestinian government media office in Gaza said. “The starving are lured to these sites and then deliberately targeted by Israeli forces and the American security company.”
The GHF announced earlier on Friday that it had suspended food distribution “until further notice.” The decision followed several massacres near its locations.
“All four aid sites in Gaza have been shut down,” the organization said in a statement. “Residents must stay away from these locations for their own safety. We will announce the resumption of operations at a later time.”
The GHF has faced sharp criticism from UN-affiliated aid organizations. Many state that the group lacks neutrality as it was founded by Washington and Tel Aviv.
Gaza’s humanitarian crisis continues to worsen. Israel’s ongoing siege and daily airstrikes have left more than two million Palestinians with no access to food, clean water, and medical care.
On Friday evening, Wafa correspondents said that the occupation bombed a five-storey residential building, killing at least three citizens and wounding dozens of others.
In the southern Gaza Strip, medical sources announced the death of three Palestinian citizens and the injury of others in the shelling of an occupation drone on a telephone charging point between the tents of the displaced west of the city of Khan Younis. The child Omar Raed Ahmed al-Qatti was also killed by the bullets of the occupation forces near the area of Al-Saraya prison, and the citizen Omar Amer Al-Madhoun due to wounds he sustained in a previous shelling on the city.
A citizen was killed in an occupation raid on the large town of Absan, east of Khan Younis, while the occupation army carried out an operation to blow up buildings north of the city.
Wafa correspondents also reported the death of 8 citizens and the injury of 61 others, in a new massacre committed by the occupation after it fired at citizens near a point for the distribution of aid west of the city of Rafah.
Earlier, 10 citizens were killed and others were injured in an occupation raid on houses in the town of Jabalia in the north of the Strip, who were transferred to the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City.
Forced displacement of thousands:
Meanwhile, in northern Gaza, the Israeli occupation army continues to force thousands of citizens in many areas of the Gaza Strip to forcibly flee to other areas, this time from areas in the northern Gaza Strip, on the first day of Eid al-Adha, amid massacres, demolition of houses, hunger, and starvation of about two million people.
The occupation, through a post on social media, on Friday, “who are in blocks 608, 609, 615, 616 in the northern Gaza Strip, to move, and go west,” namely:
First: The eastern and northern areas of Al-Tuffah neighborhood, near Al-Shaaf Street and its extension, and the areas near the Sheikh Radwan Junction – Al-Shaaf.
Second: Al-Zaytoun neighborhood northeast: The area east of Salah al-Din Street, north of the intersection of the road with Al-Shaaf and the outskirts of the olive areas that approach the border of Jabalia from the eastern side.
Third: southwest of Jabalia al-Balad – near the border with Gaza City.
Also Friday, the group Forensic Architecture published a report that they had documented a pattern of Israeli attacks on areas into which they have previously instructed civilians in Gaza to evacuate. Their research confirms that the Israeli military carried out multiple attacks in areas towards which civilians had been directed, either on the same day as the evacuation order, or on the day after.
Quds Press reported Friday morning: Journalist Succumbed to Wounds in Gaza City
8:33 am – Photojournalist Ahmed Qalja died on Friday morning from wounds he sustained in an Israeli airstrike on the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City.
– death toll among journalists since the start of the aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, has risen to 226 journalists and media workers
8:25 am – The child, Omar Raed Al-Qatati was killed this morning, Friday, by Israeli occupation forces’ gunfire, northwest of Khan Younis
