The Israeli occupation forces committed a new massacre in the Al-Mawasi area – which they previously described as safe – west of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, while the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) accused Israel of violating all the rules of war in Gaza.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that 8 Palestinians were killed and others were injured – including children – as a result of Israeli drones bombing the tents of displaced people in Al-Mawasi.
Video clips showed the flames consuming a number of tents, while Palestinians were trying with primitive means to control the fires at the targeted site.
Press coverage 7 martyrs and a number of wounded as Israeli drones bombed the tents of displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/pZ4OWpam3U
– Quds News Network (@qudsn) December 22, 2024
The reporter added that another Israeli raid targeted a car in the Al-Mawasi area, resulting in two deaths and a number of injuries.
Medical sources reported to Tel Aviv Tribune that 50 Palestinians were killed in the ongoing Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours.
In the northern Gaza Strip, the occupation army continued to blow up residential squares in the Jabalia camp and the town of Beit Lahia, in conjunction with violent air and artillery bombardment throughout the night.
Al-Aqsa satellite channel said that the occupation quadcopter drones were firing intensely at citizens’ homes in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, and on Al-Nuzha Street and the vicinity of the Fishara roundabout in Jabalia Al-Balad.
Hospital siege
Meanwhile, the occupation forces continued to target Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, and besieged medical staff and patients in the hospital told Tel Aviv Tribune that they were “at risk of death from starvation after all the basic necessities of life had been exhausted.”
They added that they were crowded in the internal corridors of the hospital for fear of the intensity and randomness of the Israeli fire.
The besieged people explained that they were immersed in darkness, due to the occupation’s bombing of electricity generators, and they did not know each other except by their voices. They also confirmed the presence of a number of martyrs that no one could bury since Saturday for fear of the continuing bombing.
The director of field hospitals at Gaza Health, Marwan Al-Hams, said in a statement on Sunday that the situation in the hospital is “difficult,” and that communication with medical teams has been cut off.
Al-Hams pointed out that the Israeli army warned to evacuate the hospital without providing means to evacuate the patients.
In turn, World Health Organization spokeswoman Margaret Harris called for an end to the Israeli attacks targeting health facilities and their workers in the Gaza Strip.
She added – in a previous interview with Tel Aviv Tribune – that the organization was unable to provide the required medical assistance, due to the violent Israeli bombing.
Harris continued, “We try every day to deliver medical aid to the Gaza Strip, but the occupation authorities refuse to allow us to do so.”
Violation of the rules of war
For his part, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini confirmed that Israel is violating all the rules of war in the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to ongoing Israeli genocide for more than 14 months.
He said in a post on the X website, “All wars have rules, but all of these rules were violated in Gaza. Attacks on schools and hospitals have become common, and the world should not get used to that.”
Lazzarini added, “The ceasefire in Gaza is long overdue.”
With American support, since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a war on Gaza that left nearly 153,000 Palestinians martyred and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.
Israel continues its massacres, ignoring two arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court on November 21, against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Galant, for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Palestinians in Gaza.