10/31/2024–|Last updated: 10/31/202410:35 PM (Mecca time)
95 Palestinians were martyred in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip since dawn today, 75 of them in the north of the Strip. The occupation also blew up the homes of citizens in Beit Lahia and set them on fire, and bombed a water tank station and vital departments in Kamal Adwan Hospital.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza said that the occupation committed 6 massacres in the Strip within 24 hours, noting that the death toll had risen to 43,204 martyrs and 101,641 injured since October 7, 2023.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that a Palestinian was martyred and wounded in gunfire from an Israeli march in the Beit Lahia project in the northern Gaza Strip.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that residents in the Beit Lahia project and the Beit Lahia area sent out distress calls, as the occupation forces fired dozens of shells and deployed fire belts.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent also reported that the Israeli occupation forces are burning homes in Beit Lahia and forcing residents, including women and children, to evacuate their homes in the town.
Yesterday, Wednesday, the Beit Lahia Municipality declared the city a disaster, as a result of the war of genocide and the Israeli siege, and launched a distress call to save what can be saved.
She confirmed that the city’s residents are suffering from a humanitarian catastrophe, as the city has become without food, without water, without hospitals, without first aid, without civil defense, without doctors, without services (sanitation and waste), and without communications.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent also reported that two Palestinians were martyred and injured in the targeting of a house in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
On October 5, the Israeli occupation army began unprecedented bombardment of the town of Jabalia, its camp, and large areas in the northern Gaza Strip, before invading it the next day under the pretext of preventing the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) from regaining its power, while the Palestinians say that Israel wants to occupy… The region and the displacement of its population.
Today, two Palestinians were martyred in an Israeli bombing that targeted citizens in the vicinity of Burj Al-Shifa, west of Gaza City. Others were also martyred and injured as a result of an occupation raid that targeted a house in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of the city as well.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent in Gaza reported that at least one person was killed, and others were injured, as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a number of citizens in the Beach Camp, west of Gaza City. Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent indicated that a number of children injured in the bombing arrived at the Sheikh Radwan Clinic, west of Gaza City.
Also in Gaza City, 4 people were martyred, and others were injured, near Al-Sahaba Junction, after the Israeli occupation forces targeted a gathering of citizens in the center of the city.
Targeting hospitals
Meanwhile, patients and injured people in Gaza Strip hospitals are facing death as a result of the continued Israeli massacres, the siege of hospitals, and the prevention of their supply of fuel and medicine, in addition to the targeting of medical personnel there.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that the Israeli occupation bombed the third floor of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, which led to the burning of a store of medicines and medical supplies that the hospital received 5 days ago from the World Health Organization.
The occupation forces also bombed the desalination plant of the dialysis department, the engineering and maintenance department, and water tanks in Kamal Adwan Hospital.
The hospital director, Dr. Hossam Abu Safia, appealed to international organizations for the need to intervene urgently to save the catastrophic health situation inside the hospital, which has been under siege for 27 days.
Al-Jazeera’s correspondent also said that the National Arab Hospital (Baptist) in Gaza appealed to citizens to quickly donate blood to save the lives of the injured.
In this hospital, Israel committed one of the most horrific massacres in the Gaza Strip, as its planes targeted the Baptist Hospital on October 17, 2023, which led to the death of more than 500 Palestinians, most of them women and children, who took the hospital as a safe refuge from Israeli raids.
For its part, Al Awda Hospital in northern Gaza confirmed that those injured inside the hospital face death due to the lack of blood units and specialized doctors.
International condemnation
Today, Thursday, the Director of Emergencies at the WHO Regional Office, Rick Brennan, condemned the Israeli attacks on medical institutions in Gaza.
Yesterday, Wednesday, the head of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Navi Pele, said in a press conference held at the United Nations headquarters, that “the continuation of Israel’s attacks on health facilities in the Gaza Strip unabated is outrageous,” and stressed that an immediate halt Shooting in the Gaza Strip is the highest priority.
The investigation committee said that Israel implemented a coordinated policy to destroy the health care system in the Gaza Strip, stressing that Palestinian detainees were subjected to continuous mistreatment, including torture, which is considered a war crime.
For her part, the communications officer at the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Gaza told Tel Aviv Tribune that the Strip’s hospitals are suffering in caring for children born there, stressing that all that can be provided to some children is painkillers due to the lack of medicines.
Resistance operations
On the other hand, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, announced that its fighters had destroyed a troop carrier by detonating a “Piercing” type device – planted in advance – in the Al-Atatra area in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Al-Quds Brigades also confirmed the detonation of another “Piercing” device, also planted in advance, in an occupation military vehicle penetrating the incinerator near the eastern cemetery east of Jabalia, and broadcast scenes of its bombing, in conjunction with the “Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades,” of occupation army crowds in the area. Juhr al-Dik, south of Gaza City, with mortar shells.
For its part, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, said that it destroyed a Merkava tank with two high-explosive devices west of Jabalia, and it also targeted an Israeli troop carrier with an anti-armor shell opposite the Civil Defense, also west of Jabalia.
For its part, the Israeli occupation army announced that 4 soldiers were injured during the battles that took place in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours.