12/18/2023–|Last updated: 12/18/202302:46 AM (Mecca time)
Yesterday, Sunday, the Israeli occupation army committed a series of massacres in the Gaza Strip, resulting in more than 170 martyrs, while the Palestinian resistance announced that it had killed and wounded Israeli soldiers and destroyed vehicles during battles on several fronts.
Yesterday evening, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that at least 15 Palestinians were martyred and dozens injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Nuseirat camp in the center of the besieged Gaza Strip, which raises the death toll in the camp during the past hours to at least 25.
Among the martyrs in Nuseirat camp was journalist Haneen Al-Qashtan and a number of her family members.
Also in the central Gaza Strip, at least 12 were martyred in the bombing of Deir al-Balah.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qudra, confirmed that 90 Palestinians were killed yesterday in Israeli raids on Jabalia, north of the Strip.
Al-Jazeera’s correspondent reported that the bodies of 54 martyrs arrived at Al-Shifa Hospital after bombing of the areas of Al-Sabra, Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, and Al-Rimal in Gaza City.
A video recording – earlier – showed the effects of destruction in the Al-Sabra residential neighborhood in Gaza City after it was targeted by the Israeli occupation forces.
In the south of the Gaza Strip, an injured woman was martyred as a result of the occupation targeting Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. A medical source told Tel Aviv Tribune that the bodies of 17 martyrs arrived at this hospital yesterday.
So far, the toll of Palestinian martyrs has reached about 19,000, and 51,000 injured, most of them women and children, as a result of the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip for more than two months.
Storming Al Awda Hospital
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said that the occupation forces stormed Al Awda Hospital in Jabalia yesterday evening, and detained members of the administrative and medical staff after stripping them naked.
The ministry added that the occupation arrested the hospital director, Ahmed Muhanna, and transferred him to an unknown destination.
The storming of Al-Awda Hospital comes after widespread attacks by the occupation forces on Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza said yesterday that the Israeli army is committing massacres in the northern Gaza Strip, noting that there are no longer hospitals in the area to receive the martyrs and wounded after the occupation caused them to be out of service.
In the same context, a medical official at Jabalia Medical Center (north of the Gaza Strip) reported that the center and all hospitals in the north of the Gaza Strip were out of medical service.
Resistance operations
In the developments in the battles between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – announced that yesterday it detonated an anti-personnel device in an Israeli foot force consisting of 10 soldiers – north of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip – and caused deaths and injuries among the ranks of this group. Power.
The Al-Qassam Brigades also announced that they destroyed two Israeli troop carriers north of Khan Yunis with “Al-Yassin 105” shells, and said that an Israeli helicopter evacuated the dead and wounded.
Al-Jazeera clips documented pictures of an Israeli helicopter hovering in the town of Al-Qarara, north of Khan Yunis, and then landing. It is believed that its goal is to evacuate wounded Israeli soldiers. At the same time, sounds of clashes and artillery shelling were heard in the area.
Al-Qassam Brigades forces also targeted a gathering of occupation soldiers east of Khan Yunis with heavy-caliber mortar shells.
In another operation, the Brigades published pictures showing an Israeli Merkava tank being targeted southeast of the city of Deir al-Balah in the middle of the Gaza Strip with an Al-Yassin 105 shell.
The military media of the Al-Qassam Brigades broadcast pictures of missile barrages that targeted Israeli areas yesterday, and they also bombed the Nirim settlement in the Gaza Strip with a short-range stoning missile system.
At the same time, video clips showed sounds of violent clashes with weapons in Gaza City along Yarmouk Street.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement – said that its fighters bombed the Israeli occupation crowds east of the Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City with heavy-caliber mortar shells, and achieved direct hits.
The Al-Quds Brigades also confirmed that they bombed the military crowds of the occupation forces in the Beit Lahia axis with a barrage of mortar shells, as well as in the Juhr al-Dik area.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army announced yesterday that an officer and two soldiers were killed and 9 wounded, including two officers and three soldiers, in battles in the southern Gaza Strip within 24 hours, bringing the number of its deaths since the start of the ground operation in Gaza late last October to 128.
In a related development, Israeli Army Radio said that army estimates indicate that resolving the battle against the Qassam Brigades in Khan Yunis will take several months.