Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that occupation aircraft launched raids on the towns of Al-Zawaida and Al-Masdar and east of Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip. These raids come as an extension of the intense bombardment that has been continuing for days on the central and southern Gaza Strip. Israeli fighters also launched a series of violent raids on Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian survivors – who were stuck in the Martyr Muhammad Al-Durra School in the Qizan Al-Najjar area in Khan Yunis – appealed to the Red Cross to intervene and retrieve 5 martyrs from one family, whose bodies are still inside the school that houses displaced people.
For its part, Doctors Without Borders said that a shell hit its shelter in Khan Yunis, which includes more than 100 employees and their families.
Doctors Without Borders explained that 4 people were injured, including the 5-year-old daughter of one of its employees, who is in critical condition. It confirmed that it had previously informed the Israeli forces that this was a shelter for the organization, “and we did not receive orders to evacuate it.”
As for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, it said that Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the center of the Strip received the bodies of 57 martyrs and 65 injured as a result of the Israeli bombing during the past 24 hours, and added that About 126 Palestinians were martyred and 241 injured during the past 24 hours.
The Ministry also announced – in a statement, today, Tuesday – that the death toll in the Israeli aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip had risen to 23,210 martyrs, in addition to the injury of 59,167 others, since October 7, 2023.
Officials at the World Health Organization expressed their concern about the possibility of hospitals collapsing in the south of the Gaza Strip with the intensification of fighting around the city of Khan Yunis, amid the detention of 66 health workers in Gaza. The organization confirmed that the health system is collapsing at a very rapid pace in this sector.
On Monday evening, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari announced – in press statements – the start of a new phase of the war in the Gaza Strip, less intense in fighting, and including ground forces and fewer air attacks.
Execution and torture of displaced people
A Palestinian witness from the Gaza Strip revealed that the Israeli army executed his father, brother, and dozens of displaced people, after releasing them and granting them safety after hours of detention.
Hamdallah Abu Al-Omrin told Anadolu Agency that the Israeli army, during its incursion into the Al-Rimal neighborhood in central Gaza City, deliberately executed dozens of displaced people on the ground, including his brother and father.
He explained that the displaced people who survived these executions were subjected to severe intimidation and torture by invading army forces, as well as insults and insults.
The witness added that the Israeli army – during its ground operation inside Gaza City, especially the Al-Rimal neighborhood – was demolishing the buildings of the Holy Family School, which was housing hundreds of displaced people. This coincided with the targeting of surrounding residential buildings with artillery shells, and intense shooting towards the displaced people who were taking shelter inside. These buildings.
Abu Al-Omrain explained that the elderly men were not spared the torture practiced by the Israeli army at the time. He said that an elderly man over eighty years old tried to talk to the soldiers to dissuade them from targeting displaced civilians, especially children and women, but they arrested him, tortured him, and beat him severely.
After that, the army began storming the building where the displaced people were sheltering and took them out. The occupation forces gathered the children and men in the school yard and forced them to take off their clothes and sit on the ground in a very cold atmosphere, after blindfolding them. The Israeli soldiers began beating the men, dragging them, and cursing them in a humiliating manner, leaving them almost naked until the next morning.
Palestinian and European human rights organizations had indicated, in previous statements and reports, that the Israeli army carried out field executions against displaced people in Gaza during its invasion of the city as part of its ongoing ground operations.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said yesterday that one million and 900,000 residents of the Gaza Strip have been displaced from their homes since October 7, 2023, while European Union foreign policy official Josep Borrell confirmed that all residents of the Gaza Strip suffer from a lack of… Food security and hundreds of thousands of them have become homeless.