(AA, Al Jazeera, Wafa,):
GAZA
The Israeli army has indiscriminately killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in northern Gaza, forced half of the population to flee from bombardments, and left the other half trapped without water or food for nearly three weeks, the Palestinian Civil Defense announced on Sunday.
Mahmoud Bassal, a spokesman for Palestinian Civil Defense, said in a video shared on social media that the Israeli army has killed over 1,000 Palestinians during its three-week-long military offensives in northern Gaza, which are still ongoing.
“More than 100,000 Palestinians in the areas of Jabalia, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahia are suffering from an Israeli siege and bombardment, while the other half of the population, which numbered around 200,000, has been forcibly displaced towards Gaza City, the closest governorate to the north,” Bassal told Anadolu.
He continued: “The Israeli army is killing anyone who tries to provide aid to the Palestinians trapped in the northern Gaza Strip, who are suffering from a lack of water, medicine, and food.”
“The Israeli occupation is practicing a policy of ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza amid international silence,” Bassal lamented.
Israeli attacks have killed more than 53 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip in less than a day, most of them in the north of the enclave which has been the scene of renewed Israeli ground offensive for the past three weeks, leading the UN chief to call the plight of civilians there “unbearable”.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said he is “shocked by harrowing levels of death, injury and destruction” in north Gaza.
He urged international and humanitarian organizations “to work immediately and urgently to save the Palestinians in northern Gaza.”
A reminder that at least 53 people were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza on Sunday. At least 46 of them were killed in the north as Israel tightened its siege with bombings on residential areas and mass arrests. In Gaza, at least 42,924 people have been killed and 100,833 wounded in Israeli attacks since October 7, 2023.
“Asmaa School has been targeted by Israeli warplanes. A large number of injured people have been transported to al-Ahli Hospital. Several injured people remain trapped. This school was sheltering people from Jabalia and western areas of Gaza City,” said Hussein al-Halabi, a Palestinian medic.
Death toll from the Israeli airstrike on a UN-run school sheltering displaced civilians west of Gaza City on Sunday has reached 11, a medical source said.
Twenty other people were injured in the attack that targeted Asma School, run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in the Shati refugee camp, the source added.
The attack was the second to have targeted the same school within days.
An Israeli airstrike hit the school on Oct. 19, leaving at least 10 people dead and injuring others.
Twenty other people were injured in the attack that targeted Asma School, run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in the Shati refugee camp, the source added.
Two Palestinians were killed, and several others injured today when an Israeli drone opened fire on a group of civilians in the vicinity of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
According to local reports, the drone targeted the group with gunfire, resulting in two fatalities and injuring four others.
The attack was the second to have targeted the same school within days.
An Israeli airstrike hit the school on Oct. 19, leaving at least 10 people dead and inuring others.
At least five people were killed in another Israeli airstrike on a UN-run school sheltering displaced civilians west of Gaza City on Sunday, a medical source said.
Twenty other people were injured in the attack that targeted Asma School, run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in the Shati refugee camp, the source added.
Israeli warplanes also carried out airstrikes on a residential block near Al-Fakhoura School in Jabalia, leaving 20 people dead, a medical source said.
According to witnesses, civil defense teams were unable to reach the site of the attack due to intensive Israeli airstrikes and siege.
Two brothers were killed in Israeli artillery fire near the Indonesian Hospital in Tel al-Zaatar area east of Jabalia, while another Palestinian was killed and others were injured in Israeli shelling of civilians in the Al-Safatawi area north of Gaza City, according to medical sources.
The Israeli army renewed its artillery shelling and opened fire from vehicles in the Jabalia refugee camp, Beit Lahia, and around the areas of Al-Tawam and Al-Safatawi in the northern Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses told Anadolu.
In Gaza City, a medical source reported that a Palestinian was killed and several others were injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the Salah Al-Din School, where thousands of displaced civilians have sheltered.
Two more people were killed and several others injured in an airstrike on a home in Gaza City, the same source said.
In southern Gaza, Israeli naval forces also fired at the coast of Al-Qarara northwest of Khan Younis.
At least 13 Palestinians were killed and several others injured while others remain missing following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza on Sunday.
“Ten Palestinians were killed and others injured in an airstrike that targeted a family home in the Beit Lahia project in northern Gaza,” said a source from Gaza Civil Defense.
The source added that several people are still trapped under the rubble of the targeted home, as there are no civil defense or ambulance services available in the area.
Meanwhile five more Palestinian journalists were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, bringing the overall death toll since last year to 182, the government media office said.
“The number of journalist martyrs has risen to 182 since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza, following the killing of journalists Nadia Al-Sayed, who worked with radio stations and media outlets, and Abdul Rahman Al-Tanani, who worked with Zaman and Sawt Al-Shaab radio stations,” said the media office in a statement.
Earlier, the office identified the slain reporters as Saed Radwan from the local Al-Aqsa TV, Hamza Abu Salmiya from the Sanad News Agency, and Haneen Baroud, who works for Al-Quds Foundation.
It appealed to the international community and press organizations to intervene “to deter the occupation and pursue it in international courts for its ongoing crimes, and pressure it to stop its ongoing genocide and the killing of Palestinian journalists.”
WEST BANK
A Palestinian was shot dead in an alleged car-ramming attack in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, the army said.
A military statement said a Palestinian driver attempted to ram his vehicle into a group of Israeli soldiers near the town of Hizma north of East Jerusalem.
The army said the driver was killed after he exited the vehicle and allegedly pulled out a knife to stab soldiers.
No injuries were reported among Israeli soldiers.
LEBANON
Death toll from Israel’s onslaught on Lebanon since Oct. 8 last year has surged to 2,672, with 12,468 injuries, the Lebanese Health Ministry said Sunday.
Israeli air strike in Lebanon’s southern town of Ain Baal.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry has reported the 7 paramedics were killed by Israeli bombings. At least 24 people were also wounded in the attack.
Since the start of the war in October last year, at least 168 healthcare workers have been killed in Israeli attacks, in what constitutes a war crime, according to the ministry.
At least 21 people were killed and 108 injured in Israeli attacks across Lebanon on Saturday, according to the ministry.
Eight people were killed and 25 others injured in a new Israeli airstrike in Sidon in southern Lebanon on Sunday, the Health Ministry said.
Lebanon’s state news agency NNA said the attack targeted a home in Haret Saida town in Sidon. A child was among the victims, the broadcaster said.
At least four Israelis were injured in a Hezbollah rocket attack from Lebanon into northern Israel on Sunday, according to Israeli media.
Israeli public broadcaster KAN said a barrage of rockets struck the northern city of Tamra in Western Galilee from Lebanese territory.
Israel’s ambulance service Magen David Adom said four people were injured, including one in serious condition.
Israel’s Army Radio said rockets made a direct hit on a residential home in Tamra.
The Israeli army said some 75 rockets were fired from Lebanon towards Upper and Western Galilee in northern Israel, causing sirens to sound.
According to the army, some of the rockets were intercepted while others impacted the region.
Yedioth Ahronoth daily called the rocket barrage one of the “most concentrated and intense” launched toward Israel since the onset of the current conflict.
The attack came as Israel escalated its air campaign in Lebanon since last month against what it claims are Hezbollah targets in an escalation from year-long cross-border warfare between Israel and Hezbollah since the start of Israel’s brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip.
Three people lost their lives when Israeli fighter jets carried out two airstrikes in the border towns of Burji al-Shemali and Qaaqaait Al Jisr, the state news agency NNA reported.
Five more people were killed and several others injured in Israeli airstrikes in Tyre, the broadcaster said.
Two more strikes hit Marjeyoun, killing at least eight people, NNA said. Three people were also killed in another airstrike in the town of Bafliyeh.
Lebanese media also reported an Israeli strike on a mosque in the border town of Al-Dhahira, completely destroying it, marking a repeated occurrence of attacks on religious sites during the conflict.
Israeli forces also reportedly rigged several homes near a base of the UN peacekeeping mission (UNIFIL) in Al-Dhahira and detonated them.
Four more Israeli soldiers were killed and 14 others injured in southern Lebanon, the military said on Sunday.
A military statement said the fatalities occurred in battles with Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon.
Five of the injured soldiers were in serious condition, the statement added.
[Photo Relatives of those who were killed by Israeli bombings on Asma School run by UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA in Shati refugee camp in Gaza on 27 10, 2024. Photojournalist Omar El Qattaa/ AA]
