By Abdul Adil
(AA, Al Jazeera, Wafa, The Muslim News):
GAZA
At least 61 more Palestinians were killed in indiscriminate Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, pushing up the overall Palestinians killed toll since October 2023 to 46,645, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Tuesday.
A ministry statement added that some 110,012 others were injured in the ongoing assault.
“Israeli forces killed 61 people and injured 281 others in four 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.
Renewed Israeli aerial bombardment on Gaza City Tuesday evening killed several Palestinians, according to WAFA correspondent.
He said that Israeli warplanes fired missiles at a house in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City, and another house in the Manara neighborhood, south of Khan Younes City, killing several civilians and injuring others.
An Israeli airstrike on Gaza City Tuesday evening killed two Palestinians and injured others, according to WAFA correspondents.
They said that an Israeli fighter jet carried out an airstrike targeting a gathering of civilians in the vicinity of the As-Saraya Junction in Gaza, killing at least two and injuring several others.
Meanwhile, another Israeli airstrike targeted a plot of agricultural land near the 17 Roundabout, west of Khan Younes, injuring two civilians, at a time when Israeli tanks shelled the eastern Qarara town, northeast of Khan Younes.
Earlier today, Israeli bombardment killed two civilians after targeting a tent sheltering displaced persons in the Nuseirat refugee camp, two others in the Shati refugee camp in addition to at least 20 others in the bombing of various areas of the Strip Monday night in the predawn hours of Tuesday
Two civilians were killed on Tuesday evening in an Israeli shelling that targeted a tent sheltering displaced persons in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the middle of the war-torn Gaza Strip.
WAFA correspondent reported the killing of two civilians and the critical injury of a woman following an airstrike by the Israeli warplanes on a tent housing displaced people west of Nuseirat camp.
The body of a civilian, who was targeted by the Israeli forces near a mosque in Khirbat al-Adas north of Rafah City in southern Gaza, was also recovered.
Israel warplanes also bombed agricultural lands in the Qizan Abu Rashwan area of Khan Younis, southern Gaza City. Warplanes also launched violent airstrikes in the vicinity of the Farouq Mosque in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
WEST BANK
Six Palestinians were killed and several others injured this evening following an airstrike carried out by Israeli occupation forces on a house in the Jenin refugee camp, north of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed in a brief statement that six fatalities and multiple injuries were brought to hospitals in the city as a result of the attack.
The victims have been identified as Mahmoud Ashraf Mustafa Gharbiyeh, 15; Mo’men Ibrahim Abu al-Hayja, 28; Amir Ibrahim Mahmoud Abu al-Hayja, 27; Hussam Hassan Qanouh, 34; Ibrahim Mustafa Qaneiry, 23; and Bahaa Ibrahim Abu al-Hayja, 33.
Eyewitnesses reported that an Israeli drone fired three missiles at a group of people near Al-Awda roundabout in the camp. The strike resulted in the fatalities and injuries reported.
Others were also injured in the attack, and were said to be in a stable condition.
Elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces have led incursions into the village of Marah Ma’ala, south of Bethlehem, and Anabta, east of Tulkarem.
Wafa news agency reports that Israeli army arrested a young man in Anabta after stopping his vehicle and interrogating him.
The Israeli army detained at least 35 more Palestinians in fresh military raids in the occupied West Bank, according to prisoners’ affairs groups on Tuesday.
Former prisoners were among the detainees in the raids that targeted Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarem, Jenin, and Salfit, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a joint statement.
Scores of Palestinians were interrogated by Israeli soldiers in the field before being released, the two groups said.
“The arrest campaigns came amid a massive aggression launched by the (Israeli) occupation against our people in retaliation that falls under the crime of collective punishment,” the statement said.
The new arrests brought the number of Palestinians detained by the Israeli army in the West Bank since October 2023 to over 14,300, including those who were released after being arrested, according to Palestinian figures.
The figure does not include those arrested from the Gaza Strip whose numbers are estimated to be in the thousands.
Israeli occupation forces stormed Aqabat Jaber camp, south of Jericho, on Tuesday afternoon.
Security sources told WAFA that Israeli special forces, followed by reinforcements from the occupation army, stormed the camp, surrounded two homes belonging to loal residents Ibrahim Ahmed Abu Dahouk and Musa Ahmed Abu Dahouk, and fired live ammunition.
No casualties were reported, however.
The occupation forces also severely beat a young man near the southern cemetery of Jaber, coinciding with their storming of the camp.
Israeli settlers cut down dozens of olive trees in the village of Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya, south of Nablus, on Tuesday.
The head of the village council in Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya, Yaqoub Awis, told WAFA correspondent that colonists cut down dozens of olive trees in the Saria area, southeast of the village.
According to the annual report of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, the number of operations targeting Palestinian trees during the past year 2024 amounted to a total of 451 attacks targeting 14,212 trees, including 10,459 olive trees.
YEMEN
The Yemeni Houthi [Ansar Allah] group said late Tuesday that it had carried out new attacks on targets in central and southern Israel, including Tel Aviv and Eilat.
In a recorded statement, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree claimed that the group’s drone forces launched a “special military operation” targeting unspecified Israeli sites in “the occupied Jaffa area (Tel Aviv).”
He added that “a second operation used a cruise missile to strike a power station in the Umm Rashrash (Eilat) area.”
According to Saree, both operations “successfully hit their targets.”
Earlier Tuesday, the Houthis also claimed responsibility for striking Israel’s Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv with a hypersonic ballistic missile, adding that Israeli interception systems failed to neutralize it.
However, the Israeli military claimed in a statement that the missile was intercepted before it entered Israeli airspace. The Magen David Adom emergency service reported that 11 people were injured while rushing to shelters during the interception, and four more suffered panic attacks.
Since the beginning of 2024, a coalition led by the US has been carrying out airstrikes that it said target Houthi locations in Yemen in response to the group’s Red Sea attacks. They have been occasionally met with retaliation from the Houthis.
With the intervention of Washington and London and escalating tensions, the Houthis announced that they consider all American and British ships military targets.
[Photo: A mourning Palestinian child cries as bodies of his family killed by Israeli attack on makeshift tents of displaced Palestinians, are taken from al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital for burial process in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on January 14, 2025. Photojournalist: Ashraf Amra/AA]
