(AA, Al Jazeera, Wafa): At least 55 more Palestinians were killed and 166 others injured by Israeli indiscriminate aattacks in the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, bringing the overall Palestinians killed by Israeli forces since last October 42,065, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Thursday.
A ministry statement added that some 97,886 others weren injured in the ongoing assault.
“Many people are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.
Israeli bombardments in residential areas in Beirut, Lebanon, killed 22 people and injured 117 others.
Gaza’s health ministry has updated the death toll from Israel’s air attack on a school shelter in Deir el-Balah to 28.
“The Israeli occupation forces committed a new massacre by targeting the displaced in the (Rafida) school in the Deir el-Balah area in the central governorate this afternoon, where 28 martyrs and more than 54 injuries arrived at the hospitals,” the ministry said.
Gaza’s Government Media Office has condemned the targeting of a school shelter by Israeli forces, saying that the majority of those killed or wounded were women and children.
“The occupation army was aware that this school included thousands of displaced children and women who were displaced from their homes and whose civilian neighbourhoods were bombed,” the media office said in a statement. “It chose the time of the bombing at the peak time when these children and women were moving to get their daily food.”
A civilian was also killed and many others were injured as a result of the Israeli aircraft bombing a group of Palestinians in Saftawi area north of the Jalaa area northwest of Gaza City.
Five Palestinian civilians from one family were killed in the Israeli’s bombing of Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip.
WAFA correspondent reported that the occupation bombed the house of local resident Saqr Al-Amour in the Al-Fakhari area east of Khan Yunis, which led to his killing, his wife and his three children, the youngest of whom is a seven-month-old infant girl.
The Israeli artillery targeted Palestinians’ homes north of Al-Nuseirat camp, Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, the vicinity of Al-Tawam and Al-Atatra areas in the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, and the vicinity of Street 8 south of Al-Zeitoun neighborhood southeast of Gaza City.
The army also blew up residential buildings in Al-Tawam area in the northern Gaza Strip, while the war planes launched a raid targeting Al-Barawi land opposite the Bank of Palestine in the Sheikh Zayed area in the northern Gaza Strip.
Additionally, local sources reported that Israel is imposing a strict siege on the northern Gaza Strip and isolating it completely from Gaza City, and has been preventing the entry of basic supplies into the northern Gaza Strip since last Sunday.
Israeli forceskilled four Palestinians in Khan Younis and three in the Jabalia refugee camp as a siege that forced the United Nations to shut down schools and hospitals in northern Gaza enters a sixth day.
Seven Palestinians, including three children, were killed in new Israeli airstrikes in the southern Gaza Strip early Thursday, a medical source said.
An airstrike hit a home in al-Fukhari neighborhood east of Khan Younis, killing five people, including three children, the source said.
Two more people died of their wounds sustained in earlier Israeli attacks in the same city, the source added.
At least 16 people have been killed and many others wounded in Israeli airstrikes near Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.
Hossam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamala Adwan Hospital in Gaza, told Anadolu that the victims were killed when an Israeli warplane targeted displaced people’s tents outside the hospital.
Paramedics said the dead included women and children, noting that the bombardment left “charred remains of the deceased Palestinians.”
Later, several Palestinians were killed and wounded in a second airstrike targeting displaced people outside the entrance of the hospital, the Gaza Civil Defense reported.
According to an Anadolu reporter, the Israeli army has enforced a tight siege around northern Gaza from all directions, cutting it off from Gaza City.
Lebanon
Israeli attacks have hit central Beirut, Lebanon, outside of the city’s southern suburbs where attacks are regular, killing at least 22 and wounding another 117 people. No prior warning was given for the attacks in the residential areas.
Israel has mounted massive airstrikes across Lebanon against what it claims Hezbollah targets since Sept. 23, killing at least 1,323 people, injuring over 3,700 others, and displacing more than 1.2 million people.#
Two Israelis were injured on Thursday by rockets fired by the Lebanese group Hezbollah, Israeli media said.
A military statement said some 40 rockets were fired from Lebanon into Upper Galilee in northern Israel.
According to Israel’s Army Radio, two people were lightly injured from shrapnel.
Israeli Channel 12 said a rocket hit a building in the Margaliot settlement, but caused no casualties.
The Israeli army, meanwhile, claimed to have killed two Hezbollah commanders and hit over 110 targets belonging to the Lebanese group across Lebanon over the last 24 hours.
“Violence, carnage, and destruction will not lead to a solution,” the Lebanese premier said. “Israel must be forced to cease its destructive aggression.”
Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Thursday diplomatic communications have intensified ahead of a UN Security Council session on Thursday to reach a temporary cease-fire with Israel.
“We have reiterated during the diplomatic contacts that we are ready to implement UN Resolution 1701 provided that Israel abides by all its provisions,” Mikati said.
A source in UNIFIL forces has told Al Jazeera that two peacekeepers were slightly wounded in the Israeli shelling of a UNIFIL site on Lebanon’s southern border.
The source added that Israeli forces targeted a UNIFIL guard tower at the headquarters in the Ras Naqoura area, injuring two soldiers.
The Israeli army on Thursday morning said one of its military officers was killed and a soldier injured in clashes with the Hezbollah group in southern Lebanon.
In a statement, the army identified the officer as Sgt. Maj. Ronny Ganizate of the Alon Brigade’s 5030th Battalion.
A reserve soldier from the same battalion was seriously wounded in the same incident and taken to hospital, it added.
WEST BANK
Meanwhile in the West Bank, he Israeli army on Thursday morning raided the northern West Bank cities of Tubas and Nablus during which military bulldozers destroyed infrastructure and people’s properties.
Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that the Israeli army raided the Far’a refugee camp in Tubas city, deployed snipers on the roofs of buildings and imposed a siege on parts of the camp.
Israeli army bulldozers also destroyed infrastructure and private property in the camp.
Clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians were heard in the camp, eyewitnesses added.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said the Israeli army was obstructing the work of its medical teams in the camp, ordering them to leave their medical station.
The army also raided Joseph’s Tomb in eastern Nablus city, with illegal Israeli settlers subsequently storming the site, according to local sources.
Jews believe the site to be the burial place of the biblical patriarch Joseph. Muslims, however, challenge this claim, saying an Islamic cleric — Sheikh Yussef Dawiqat — was buried there two centuries ago.
In Israel, at least 1,139 people were killed in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, and more than 200 people were taken captive.
[Photo: Lebanese civil defense and emergency teams conduct a search and rescue operation following Israeli airstrike on Nowayri area of Beirut on 10 10, 2024. Photojournalist: Murat Şengül /AA]
