By Abdul Adil
(The Muslim News): At least 30 more Palestinians were killed and 66 others injured in Israeli indiscriminate bombings across the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall death toll of Palestinians killed to 40,435 and injured 93,534 by Israeli forces since last Oct. 7 Health Ministry in the enclave said on Monday.
At least seven fishermen were killed and several others injured in an Israeli drone strike near Gaza City beach on Monday, according to a medical source.
strike targeted the fishermen as they were fishing, the source told Anadolu Agency.
The drone fired a missile into a group of fishermen as they gathered on Gaza City beach, witnesses said.
At least 15 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in Israeli strikes targeting homes and a school sheltering displaced civilians in the Gaza Strip on Monday, according to medical sources.
An Israeli drone hit a house in western Gaza City, killing five people, including two children and a woman, and injuring 15 others, a medical source told Anadolu.
Two more people were killed in another Israeli drone strike southeast of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, another medical source said.
The source said two women also lost their lives when an Israeli drone dropped a bomb on a school sheltering displaced people in the Al-Mufti area, north of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Palestinian medics recovered the bodies of six people, including two women, who were killed in Israeli attacks in the southern cities of Khan Younis and Rafah, the same source said.
Three more people were injured in an Israeli drone strike on a residential building in Khan Younis, according to medics.
Witnesses said Israeli military vehicles pushed deep into the southern part of the Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City amid heavy shelling.
A Palestinian woman was killed and several others were injured on Monday morning as Israeli forces shelled a school sheltering displaced people north of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
The elderly woman was killed and several other displaced people were injured when the Israeli army shelled the Al-Izz bin Abdul Salam School in the northern part of the Nuseirat refugee camp, medical sources told Anadolu.
Israeli drone strike kills at least seven people in Gaza City, as another evacuation order forces injured Palestinians to flee Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, the last functioning medical facility in the area.
Dozens of civilians, including children and women, were killed and wounded this evening, as a result of the ongoing bombardment of the Israeli occupation on scattered areas in the Gaza Strip, especially the provinces of Gaza, Khan Yunis and Rafah, reports Wafa News Agency.
According to medical sources, 14 bodies were brought to the Nasser Medical Complex as a result of the Israeli continuous bombing of Khan Yunis and Rafah.
Journalist sources in the Gaza Strip confirmed that journalist Ali Taima was killed in the Israeli’s shelling of a civilian vehicle in the Mawasi area west of Khan Yunis.
The Palestine Red Crescent paramedics confirmed that the bodies of three civilians and several wounded people were transported to the Kamal Adwan hospital after an Israeli missile targeted a food stall in the Hawja St. in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Strip.
According to local sources, four people were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a vehicle west of Khan Yunis, shortly after four bodies and several wounded were brought to the Kuwait Field Hospital as a result of the occupation’s shelling of al-Nasser Street in the Mawasi area west of Rafah.
Two civilians were also killed in an Israeli shelling of the coastal area of al-Qarara northwest of Khan Yunis, according to medical sources.
The Israeli warplanes also shelled the vicinity of the Nasser Hospital and Abu Hamid Roundabout in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, resulting in at least two civilian casualties.
Meanwhile, Israeli evacuation orders have forced around 250,000 Palestinian civilians to flee their neighborhoods in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, according to local authorities on Monday.
The Israeli army on Sunday demanded Palestinians evacuate an area east of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza that was previously designated as a “humanitarian area” by the military.
“The new evacuation orders have created a new tragedy and deepened the suffering of the people of Deir al-Balah,” the municipal office said in a statement.
According to the office, the city was home to around half of Gaza’s population.
The evacuation orders “have caused the forced displacement of about 250,000 people and put 25 shelters out of service,” it added.
The office said that four new water wells were forced out of service due to Israeli attacks in the area.
“The number of non-operational wells has reached 14, which used to supply water to about 70% of the city’s population,” it said.
“This will exacerbate the residents’ conditions and make it difficult for them to access water,” the office warned.
A Palestinian man was gunned down on Monday after being shot by Israeli forces in the occupied southern West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported.
Eyad Ayed Abdel-Najjar, 46, died after being shot in the head by Israeli forces in the Jinba area near Yatta, south of Hebron, a ministry statement said.
Witnesses told Anadolu that an Israeli military unit opened fire at Palestinians near the “apartheid wall,” hitting Abdel-Najjar. He was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
[Photo: Family members of journalist Ali Taima killed by Israeli forces mourn over his killing in Al-Mawasi district at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza on 26 08, 2024. Photojournalist: Hani Alshaer/ AA]
