12/19/2024–|Last updated: 12/19/202411:39 AM (Mecca time)
Dozens of Palestinians, most of them women and children, were killed and injured in Israeli raids on various areas of the Gaza Strip since dawn on Thursday, as the occupation intensified its massacres in the northern Gaza Strip, where the genocide of its residents has been continuing for more than 70 days.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent in Gaza reported that 18 Palestinians were killed and others were injured, most of them women and children, in Israeli raids on Gaza City and areas in the northern Gaza Strip.
Gaza Civil Defense spokesman, Mahmoud Basal, said that rescue crews were able to recover the bodies of the martyrs, including 7 children, from under the rubble of 3 homes belonging to the Al-Najjar, Al-Zaytouniyah, and Al-Zard families that were completely destroyed in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip.
The bodies of the martyrs and the injured arrived at Baptist Hospital, where doctors described the condition of some of the injured as serious, while Basal indicated that crews continued their efforts to search for more victims beneath the rubble.
Yesterday, Wednesday, the Civil Defense Service indicated that the Israeli army bombed two homes belonging to the Najjar and Al-Zaytouniyah families, which led to their leveling to the ground. It initially announced the death of 11 Palestinians, before the number rose to 18 as rescue operations continued until Thursday morning. This morning, the people bid farewell to the martyrs who were pulled from under the rubble.
In another incident, eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that a number of civilians were injured by an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the vicinity of Saeed Siam Mosque in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City, at a time when Israeli vehicles opened fire south of the Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza.
Palestinian media reported today that a large explosion rocked the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, followed by heavy gunfire and the throwing of smoke bombs in the vicinity of the Al-Khulafa Al-Rashidun Mosque.
A previous Israeli raid also targeted a house in Jabalia al-Balad, while another raid targeted a house housing displaced people in the Daraj neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
Witnesses reported that the Israeli army intensified operations to blow up homes, using explosive robots and explosive barrels, especially in the areas of the Beit Lahia project, west of Jabalia, and the Al-Saftawi area, northwest of Gaza City.
The occupation army again invaded the northern Gaza Strip on October 5, and since that date it has continued operations of genocide, forced displacement, and starvation of the population, with the aim of emptying the north of its population.
In the central governorate of the Gaza Strip, 4 Palestinians were martyred and others were injured in the bombing of a house for the Darwish family in the Al-Maghazi camp. Al-Aqsa satellite channel also said that the occupation vehicles fired their heavy artillery and machine guns at the northern neighborhoods of the Nuseirat camp in the central Strip.
In the south, an Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent reported that 3 citizens were martyred in an Israeli drone bombardment on Palestinians in the Al-Zuhur neighborhood, north of the city of Rafah. Two Palestinians were also injured in an artillery shelling that targeted a house in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, north of the city, and they were transferred to the European Gaza Hospital. The Israeli bombing also targeted the towns of Khuza’a and Al-Fukhari, east of Khan. Younis, south of the Gaza Strip.
According to the Palestinian Information Center, the continuous Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours left 43 martyrs and dozens injured and trapped under the rubble.
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 152,000 Palestinian martyrs 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.