(the Muslim News): According to OCHA, Israeli bombardment from the air, land, and sea continues to be reported across much of the Gaza Strip, resulting in further civilian casualties, displacement, and destruction of houses and other civilian infrastructure. Ground incursions and heavy fighting also continue to be reported.
No figures are available for Palestinians killed in the last 24 hours.
At least 61 Palestinian bodies were retrieved on Friday after a partial withdrawal of Israeli forces from Tal al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City, tragically killed during the recent Israeli military offensive in the area four days after initiating a military operation there.
Mahmoud Basal, the Palestinian Civil Defense spokesman in Gaza, stated that “the Israeli army is retreating from the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, the industrial area, and the Patient Friend’s Hospital, extending to Route 8 on the southern outskirts of Tel al-Hawa.”
Basal added that “Civil Defense teams discovered the remains of deceased individuals and completely incinerated residences in Tel al-Hawa and the industrial area.”
“We retrieved charred bodies from a single family, and we continue to receive distress calls from the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood and the industrial area,” he added.
According to eyewitnesses, the occupation forces executed entire families, including children, women and elderly, inside their homes in Tel al-Hawa.
Medical sources at the Baptist Hospital told Anadolu that the bodies of 56 Palestinians were recovered from the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood and the industrial area.
According to Palestinian medical sources speaking to Anadolu, ambulance teams recovered the bodies of five Palestinians from inside the Patient Friend’s Hospital, located west of Gaza City, following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the area.
Meanwhile, the government media office in Gaza said: “We have received reports of grave atrocities committed by the occupation forces in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood.”
Eyewitnesses informed Anadolu’s correspondent that hundreds of residential units in Tel al-Hawa neighborhood and the industrial area were either burned or completely destroyed by the Israeli army.
Several Palestinians were killed and injured late Thursday as an Israeli warplane targeted a gathering in the city of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Anadolu learned.
Witnesses said the fighter jet bombed a crowd of citizens near the Abu Hamid roundabout, resulting in an unspecified number of casualties.
The dead and injured were transported to Nasser Hospital in the city.
In Rafah, southern Gaza, two civilians were reported killed in an Israeli drone strike on the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood.
Furthermore, a number of individuals sustained injuries in intense airstrikes and artillery bombardment by Israeli forces targeting the northern part of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, necessitating their transfer to the al-Awda Hospital.
Early this morning, at least three civilians were killed following an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the central Gaza Strip.
Local sources reported that among the deceased was an infant, after Israeli aircraft targeted a home in the northern area of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, reported Wafa News Agency.
Sources further stated that several injured individuals, including a critically wounded young girl, were rushed to Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat refugee camp as a result of the attack.
At least 38,345 people have been killed and 88,295 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 is estimated at 1,139, and dozens of people are still held captive in Gaza.
[Photo Rami Abu Qas, who suffered fourth-degree burns on his face & various parts of his body in Israeli attack on their house in Al Nazla neighborhood in Jabalia Al-Balad, north of Gaza being treated at Indonesia Hospital in N Gaza 10 07 2024.Photojournalist: Khalit Alkahlut/ AA]
