(AA, Al Jazeera, Wafa): At least 45 more Palestinians were killed in Israeli indiscriminate attacks in the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall death toll since last year to 42,010, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Wednesday.
A ministry statement added that some 97,720 others were injured in the ongoing assault by Israel.
“Israeli forces killed 45 people and injured 130 others in three massacres of families in the last 24 hours,” the ministry said.
“Many people are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.
Israeli army continues its siege of northern Gaza for a fifth day, killing dozens of people and forcing thousands to flee.
The UNWRA says at least seven schools sheltering displaced people are being evacuated and that Israeli attacks have forced the agency to “shut down lifesaving services”.
Seven UN-run schools sheltering displaced civilians have been evacuated in the northern Gaza Strip amid an Israeli offensive in the area, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Wednesday.
“Intensified military operations in the north are forcing us to shut down lifesaving services,” UNRWA said in a statement on X.
It added that only two out of eight water wells in the Jabalia refugee camp are operational.
Journalist killed in northern Gaza, says Palestine Red Crescent.
The PRCS says its teams transported to a hospital morgue the body of a journalist killed in an Israeli air raid “on a group of journalists at Abu Shrekh roundabout in northern Gaza.”
It did not identify them.
The Red Crescent also said that another injured person was transferred to al-Ahli al-Mamadani Hospital.
15 civilians were killed today when the Israeli occupation forces bombed the tents of displaced people in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip.
Local sources said that the occupation forces bombed a group of tents housing displaced people in the courtyard of the Al-Yaman Al-Saeed Hospital in the town of Jabalia, resulting in the killing of 15 civilians and the injury of others.
Medical sources said that the number of slain Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has risen since dawn today to 60 civilians.
At least 13 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in Israeli bombardment in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to medical sources.
A medical source said three people lost their lives and 15 others were injured when Israeli forces bombed Al-Rafie School, where hundreds of displaced civilians have sheltered in Jabalia.
Seven more people were killed in Israeli shelling of the western part of the Jabalia refugee camp, another source said.
Israeli forces also shelled a group of civilians in Al-Fakhoura area in Jabalia, leaving three people dead, the source added.
An Israeli strike targeted a group of civilians near the Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital in Jabalia, injuring 18 people, Al-Awda Hospital confirmed in a statement.
The Israeli army launched a new offensive in northern Gaza on Sunday, claiming that the operation aims to prevent Hamas from regaining strength in the area.
As part of the onslaught, the Israeli army ordered Palestinian residents in Jabalia, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahia to leave their homes and head south.
According to an Anadolu reporter, the Israeli army has slapped a tight siege around northern Gaza from all directions, cutting it off from Gaza City.
Four Palestinians were shot dead by the Israeli military in Nablus in the northern West Bank on Wednesday evening.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that its teams “transported four martyrs from the eastern market in the city of Nablus to the hospital.”
Palestine state-run TV reported that Israeli special forces killed young men in a vehicle in the eastern market of Nablus.
Meanwhile, the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, reported that “undercover soldiers (disguised as Arabs) opened fire on a vehicle containing several young men in Nablus.”
In a later statement, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported that its teams transported to the hospital “a young man with shrapnel wounds in the head and chest in the eastern market of Nablus.”
Witnesses told Anadolu that “heavy gunfire was heard near the eastern market in Nablus, and soldiers were seen in a civilian vehicle, dressed in civilian clothes, shooting at a Palestinian civilian vehicle from all sides, resulting in the deaths of the young men.”
“An Israeli military force stormed the area to support the special forces,” the witnesses added.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said Israel, which continues to bombard Gaza and Lebanon, is a “Zionist terrorist organization.”
“History will never forgive those who applaud the monster responsible for the blood of tens of thousands of Palestinian children, women, civilians,” stated Erdogan while addressing the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party’s meeting in Ankara.
The Turkish president warned Israel that its “promised land delusion” would ultimately lead to great disappointment.
LEBANON
Israel has mounted massive airstrikes across Lebanon against what it claims Hezbollah targets since Sept. 23, killing more than 1,301 people, injuring 3,618 others, and displacing more than 1.2 million people.
Hezbollah said on Wednesday that it targeted Israeli infantry forces attempting to advance into several areas in southern Lebanon.
In a statement, the group reported targeting “Israeli enemy forces with rocket and artillery fire as they tried to advance to Meiss El Jabal from several locations,” noting that “the clashes are still ongoing.”
In another statement, Hezbollah mentioned that its fighters targeted an Israeli infantry unit attempting to advance toward the Labbouneh area “with a large rocket barrage, causing casualties.”
The movement said it struck enemy forces during their advance from the Toufa plain toward Meiss El Jabal and Mhaibib with a rocket barrage, adding that it also targeted a group of Israeli soldiers south of Maroun El Ras with rocket fire.
The movement also reported targeting Israeli infantry forces with a rocket barrage while attempting to infiltrate at Ras al-Naqurah toward Mshayerfeh. The group said it also targeted a concentration of Israeli forces in the Kroum al-Marah in Meiss El Jabal with artillery shells.
Hezbollah further said it targeted Israeli forces in the Bsatayn al-Manarah area with a rocket barrage.
Regarding the rockets fired toward Israel, the group stated that its fighters targeted the Zofulon area in northern Israel with a large rocket barrage.
In another statement, it confirmed targeting Israeli forces in Misgav Am with artillery shells and firing rockets at Israeli forces in the Kfar Giladi settlement in northern Israel.
WEST BANK
Meanwhile, undercover Israeli forces Wednesday evening killed four Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to WAFA News Agency correspondent.
He said that undercover Israeli forces, known as Mista’arvim, sneaked their way into the city and opened gunfire on a vehicle, killing the four youths inside, at a time when military reinforcements were sent to Jerusalem Road from the direction of the Huwara military checkpoint before withdrawing.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that PRCS paramedics arrived at the scene and evacuated the four victims to the Rafidia Government Hospital.
PRCS paramedics also evacuated a youth who sustained an injury after being hit with shrapnel from live ammunition fired by the Israeli special forces to the hospital.
The Israeli occupation forces frequently conduct raids daily across the West Bank on the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians, triggering clashes with residents.
These raids are conducted with no need for a search warrant, whenever and wherever the military chooses in keeping with its sweeping arbitrary powers.
Under Israeli military law army commanders have full executive, legislative and judicial authority over 3 million Palestinians living in the West Bank. Palestinians have no say in how this authority is exercised.
In Israel, at least 1,139 people were killed in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 and more than 200 people were taken captive.
[Photo People mourn at the funeral ceremony of Lebanese civilians killed by Israeli airstrikes on Khodor, Bekaa Valley,Lebanon on 09 10, 2024.
Photojournalist: Jose Colon /AA]
