Gaza: 156 Palestinians killed, 220 injured by Israeli bombardments last 48 hrs
By Abdul Adil
Gaza City (Wafa News Agency, Al Jazeera): In the last 48 hours, 156 Palestinians were killed and 220 injured by Israeli indiscriminate bombings in Gaza Strip, according to Ministry of Health. This brings the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 7 to 32,226, including 13,000 children, reported fatalities, with an additional 74,518 individuals sustaining injuries. 8,500 Palestinians are missing.
The Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said in a new report on Saturday that the Israeli military has killed at least 560 and injured 1,523 other Palestinians in incidents involving aid trucks amid its war on Gaza.
Five Palestinian civilians were killed Sunday evening, and others were injured, in an Israeli occupation bombing of Rafah and Gaza City.
Local sources said that five people were killed in a raid by Israeli aircraft that targeted a house owned by Kurdi family in Al-Geneina neighborhood, east of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
A Palestinian was also killed and two others were injured in an Israeli bombing of the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City, while three citizens were injured as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted the Dawla Roundabout area, southeast of al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.
Medical sources said that the number of civilians killed in the Israeli bombing of homes in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, had risen to 10, including children and women, while a number of others were left with varying injuries.
A number of Palestinians were also killed and dozens injured after the Israeli aircraft bombed two homes owned by Salem family in the Beach Camp, west of Gaza City.
A number of Palestinian civilians were killed and others were injured on Sunday after the occupation warplanes targeted homes in Rafah and al-Shati camp in the Gaza Strip.
At least three Palestinians were killed this morning in Israeli airstrikes targeting residential homes in the cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip.
Media sources reported that two civilians were killed in an Israeli shelling on a house in the vicinity of Rabaa School in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
Local sources also reported that 5 injuries, including children, arrived at Abu Yousef al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah as a result of the Israeli shelling of the Barkat family’s house in the Salam neighborhood of the city.
Simultaneously, Israeli warplanes launched an airstrike targeting agricultural land near the border area south of Rafah, coinciding with the Israeli naval gunboats firing machine gun shots towards fishermen’s boats westward.
In Khan Yunis, a Palestinian was killed in a shelling targeting a house in the Al-Amal neighborhood, while one of the displaced persons at Al-Amal Hospital was injured in the head in the same attack.
Two civilians were also injured as a result of Israeli gunfire targeting a school sheltering displaced families in the Namsawi neighborhood in the city.
Meantime, local sources reported the retrieval of the bodies of four Palestinians from the Al-Qarara area to the east earlier after the area had been targeted by Israeli bombardment.
Israel has informed the UN that it will no longer approve UNRWA food convoys to north Gaza, says agency head, where 70 percent of people face highest level of food scarcity.
Palestinian Red Crescent says smoke bombs launched at the hospital to force staff, wounded and displaced individuals to evacuate.
Israeli forces have launched “violent” ground and air attacks on Khan Younis and bombed homes in Rafah and Deir el-Balah, killing at least 14 Palestinians, according to media reports.
The Israeli military is carrying on with an intense operation against al-Amal Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis in Gaza.
All displaced Palestinians and patients who could move independently were evacuated towards the al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis after the Israeli military directly hit the hospital and issued an evacuation order.
Hospital staff remain, along with nine patients and their 10 companions, and a displaced family with children who have disabilities. All need to be evacuated safely.
PRCS staff member Amir Abu Aisha and a wounded individual who was being treated at the hospital after being shot in the head by the Israeli military were both killed, and their bodies need to be removed.
Israeli tanks and armoured vehicles have completely surrounded all entrances to the hospital, and control any movement in and out.
At least seven Palestinian civilians were killed and others wounded Saturday evening after Israeli warplanes bombed a residential house in Deir al-Balah, located in the central Gaza Strip.
Eyewitnesses and medical sources reported that seven fatalities and a large number of injuries were transported to hospital following the intense Israeli airstrikes concentrated in the Hikr area of Deir al-Balah.
Additionally, Israeli artillery shelled areas southeast of the Khan Yunis governorate, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Five civilians, including children, were killed and others were injured at Saturday dawn in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the north of the city of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip.
Medical sources reported that Israeli warplanes bombed a two-story house in the Mirage area, north of the city of Rafah, killing five civilians and causing several injuries.
Meanwhile, Israeli fighter jets conducted airstrikes at the town of Al-Qarara, north of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, causing significant damage.
Five Palestinian patients at Al-Shifa Medical Complex, which has been under Israeli military siege for the sixth day in a raw, Satruday were pronounced dead, according to medical sources.
Sources reported that the Israeli forces are detaining about 240 patients along with their caregivers, in addition to 10 healthcare workers inside the Complex, under harsh conditions without water, food, or health services.
A large number of the wounded are facing dire conditions inside the Complex and worms have begun to emerge from their wounds, added the sources.
Medical personnel and patients urgently appealed to all UN institutions and the international community to immediately intervene in order to save their lives.
On Friday, the Israeli army shelled several buildings and set on fire the vascular surgery department at Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City.
Five civilians, including children, were killed and others were injured at Saturday dawn in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the north of the city of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip.
Medical sources reported that Israeli warplanes bombed a two-story house in the Mirage area, north of the city of Rafah, killing five civilians and causing several injuries.
Meanwhile, Israeli fighter jets conducted airstrikes at the town of Al-Qarara, north of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, causing significant damage.
The Israeli military targeted a home in the al-Hakar area of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza killing seven Palestinians, an Al Jazeera correspondent reports from the scene.
A large number of wounded, including terrified children, arrived at the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital and are being treated.
The line of blocked aid trucks stuck on Egypt’s side of the border with the Gaza Strip while Palestinians face starvation on the other side is a “moral outrage”, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on a visit to the Rafah crossing.
“I have come to Rafah to shine a spotlight on the pain of Palestinians in Gaza,” the UN chief said on Saturday, addressing a news conference in El Arish, in Egypt’s northern Sinai, where much of the international relief for Gaza is stockpiled as Israel continues to block aid from entering.
“Here, from this crossing, we see the heartbreak and heartlessness of it all. A long line of blocked relief trucks on one side of the gates, the long shadow of starvation on the other,” he said.
“That is more than tragic. It is a moral outrage. Any further onslaught will make things even worse – worse for Palestinian civilians, worse for hostages and worse for all people in the region.”
The visit by Guterres, which is a part of his annual “solidarity trip” to Muslim countries during Ramadan, comes as Israel faces global pressure to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza, which has been devastated by more than five months of war.
“You cannot see so many people being killed, you cannot see so much suffering without feeling hugely frustrated,” Guterres said while taking questions from reporters. “We don’t have the power to stop [the war in Gaza], I appeal to those who have the power to stop it to do it,” he added.
According to Israeli government 1,139 Israelis were killed by Hamas on 7 October in southern Israel and 134 Israelis and foreign nationals are still detained by Hamas in Gaza.
[Photo: Injured Palestinian treated at the hospital after Israeli airstrike hit Kavara family’s home in Khan Yunis, Gaza on 23 03 2024.
Photojournalist: Ahmed Zaqout/ AA]
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