Gaza: 32 Palestinians killed, 100 wounded by Israeli bombings last 24 hours
(The Muslim News): At least 32 Palestinians were killed and 100 others wounded by Israeli Defence Forces indiscriminate bombing in the Gaza Strip, pushing up the overall death toll of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces since last Oct. 7, to 41,020, and 94,925 others injured, Health Ministry in the battered territory said on Tuesday.
“Many people are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.
Israel struck a tented encampment near Khan Younis, with Gaza’s Health Ministry saying 19 bodies were recovered. More people are feared dead as health officials say rescue workers are unable to reach many victims.
Israel’s military says it targeted a Hamas command centre, but the Palestinian group dubbed the claim a “clear lie”.
“The Israeli occupation army committed a horrific massacre at dawn on Tuesday, September 10, 2024, near the British Hospital at the entrance to the Mawasi area of Khan Younis. This massacre left 40 martyrs and more than 60 wounded,” the media office said, adding that 19 bodies were taken to hospital.
Media office said the bodies of 22 Palestinians could not be recovered because the bombs used by Israel “evaporated” them.
“These bodies melted due to the bombing and due to the three explosions left by these giant bombs, meaning that we have not found any bodies of those who were in the eye of the bomb.”
According to press and local reports, five missiles were used in the attack, causing total destruction to the tents and digging nine meters deep into the ground, which made it more difficult for rescue and medical teams to reach the victims.
Gaza’s Civil Defense service said Israeli missiles set refugee tents ablaze and caused craters as deep as nine meters (30 feet).
The area is seeing chaos, with an intense presence of Israeli reconnaissance aircraft flying over the site, amid a complete power outage and fires resulting from the bombing.
Eyewitnesses and paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent said that medical teams are facing major challenges in retrieving bodies and the injured due to the massive destruction and deep holes.
They also added that a large number of ambulances transported the slain people and the injured to field hospitals and nearby medical centers, while rescue teams continue to search for the missing.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday “strongly” condemned a deadly Israeli airstrike on a declared “humanitarian safe zone” in the southern Gaza Strip.
“I can tell you that the Secretary-General (Guterres) is deeply alarmed by the continued loss of life in Gaza. He strongly condemns today’s Israeli airstrike in an Israeli designated zone for displaced persons in Khan Younis,” spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters.
“The use of heavy weapons in densely populated areas is unconscionable,” he said in conveying Guterres’s message.
Saying that the Palestinians were displaced from the area, “in search of safety,” Dujarric reiterated the UN chief’s demand for an immediate cease-fire and the release of all hostages in Gaza.
But Khan Younis has also been under intense attacks in the past couple of hours, where a residential building was completely destroyed, and six Palestinians were confirmed killed in that attack, reported Al Jazeera.
“Here in the central area, the situation is incredibly chaotic, because the army has been targeting the Bureij refugee camp.”
This latest attack occurred in the same part of the alleged humanitarian zone, where at least 71 were killed in similar circumstances on July 13.
An Israeli airstrike Tuesday evening killed a Palestinian and injured others in al-Bureij refugee camp in the central war-torn Gaza Strip, according to medical sources.
They said that first aid and emergency crews transported the body of a fatality together with several casualties to Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah following an Israeli airstrike that targeted a floor of a residential building at the entrance of the camp.
Seven civilians today were killed and dozens were injured in Israeli airstrikes on different areas in the Gaza Strip, according to Wafa News Agency.
Local sources, quoting paramedics from the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), that two civilians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli airstrike on a group of citizens on Mansoura Street in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City.
He added that a civilian was killed as a result of gunfire from an Israeli drone on civilians in the Zeitoun neighborhood southeast of Gaza City.
Meanwhile, four civilians, including a child and two women, were killed and others injured following an Israeli airstrike targeting the Al-Bayouk family home in the Qizan Al-Najjar neighborhood south of the city.
Five Palestinians were killed on Tuesday in an Israeli bombing of Al-Shawa Square east of Gaza City.
Local sources reported that the Israeli bombing targeted civilians at a falafel cart on Al-Hakima Street near Al-Shawa Square east of Gaza.
The Israeli artillery also fired its shells towards the north of Al-Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, two more Palestinians were killed in an Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Tulkarem on Tuesday, the Health Ministry said.
A ministry statement said that 10 other people were also injured by Israeli army fire during the raid, reports Anadolu Agency.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said a medic was among those wounded in the Israeli raid.
According to the organization, Israeli forces surrounded an ambulance center in the city and ordered staff inside to leave.
Witnesses said a hospital was also besieged by Israeli forces during the raid amid an exchange of fire with armed Palestinians.
Palestinians shared videos of the raid, with one showing a military vehicle ordering citizens to close their businesses and return to their homes.
The Israeli army withdrew from Tulkarem and Jenin cities and their refugee camps on Friday after a 10-day military operation there. However, it later announced that its offensive in Jenin was still ongoing “until its objectives are achieved.”
At least 694 Palestinians have since been killed and over 5,700 others injured by Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank territory, according to Palestinian figures.
Photo: View of 9 meter crater made by bombs dropped by Israeli airstrikes on a tent encampment Khan Yunis, Gaza on 10 09, 2024.
Photojournalist: Mahmoud Bassam /AA]
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