Dozens of civilians were killed and injured in Gaza as a result of the continuous Israeli bombing, while the occupation forces continued their military operation and siege of the northern areas of the Strip for the 53rd day.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that 6 Palestinians were killed and others were injured, including women and children, in an Israeli raid that targeted a home for the Al-Jadba family in the Zarqa area, north of Gaza City.
Doctors at the National Baptist Hospital described the condition of some of the injured as critical, while rescue teams continue to search for missing people under the rubble.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent in Gaza reported that at least four Palestinians were killed and others, including children, were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a home for a Harb family in the vicinity of the Sheikh Radwan pool, west of Gaza City. The injured were transferred to Al-Ahly Baptist Hospital, and doctors described the condition of some of the injured as critical.
The reporter also reported that a woman was martyred and a number of Palestinians were injured in an Israeli artillery shelling on Kishko Street in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
He pointed out that the occupation forces have continued their incursion into the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood for 90 days, in their sixth ground operation since the start of their war on Gaza.
In the center of the Gaza Strip, an Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent reported that a Palestinian was martyred and others, including children, were injured as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Bureij camp.
New toll
Medical sources told Tel Aviv Tribune that 25 Palestinians were martyred in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Monday.
The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said yesterday evening that the occupation forces committed two massacres against families in the Strip during the past 24 hours, resulting in 24 martyrs and about 70 wounded.
The Ministry added in a statement that a number of victims are still under the rubble of their homes or on the roads, with ambulance crews unable to reach them.
The statement indicated that the number of victims since the start of the Israeli aggression rose to 44,235 martyrs and 104,638 injuries, since October 7, 2023.
Today, the Israeli occupation forces continue their military operation and siege of the northern areas, separating them from Gaza City.
Those trapped in these areas are subjected to aerial and artillery bombardment, in conjunction with bombing operations concentrated in the Jabalia camp, Beit Lahia, and the Saftawi area. The people continue to launch appeals to save them in light of the spread of famine, as the occupation has deliberately cut off food and medicine supplies to them since the beginning of its operation.
Winter suffering
In conjunction with the bombing and siege, heavy rains in the Gaza Strip caused the destruction and sweeping away of dozens of tents sheltering displaced people on the coast of the Al-Mawasi area, west of the city of Khan Yunis.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that the seawater swept away the tents and belongings of the displaced, leaving hundreds of families without shelter in light of the continuing bad weather conditions and the lack of centers and tents to shelter the displaced in the winter.
Louise Wattridge, emergency official at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), pointed out that the residents of Gaza, who suffer from severe malnutrition due to Israel’s war on the Strip, face an additional risk of disease in the winter.
The British newspaper, the Financial Times, quoted Wattridge as saying that the United Nations estimated that about half a million people throughout Gaza are in flood-prone locations that could be submerged in liquid waste once the rains begin.
According to aid officials, winter rains in Gaza threaten to unleash a deluge of sewage on hundreds of thousands of displaced people.
With American support, Israel has been waging a genocide in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, leaving thousands of Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.