Israeli forces killed 38 Palestinians, injured 193 in Gaza & committed 5 violations of cease-fire agreement with Lebanon by bombing houses

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Israeli forces killed 38 Palestinians, injured 193 in Gaza & committed 5 violations of cease-fire agreement with Lebanon by bombing houses

By Abdul Adil

(AA, NNA, Wafa, Al Jazeera, The Muslim News):

GAZA

Israeli occupation forces bombed indiscriminately killed 38 Palestinians, injured 193 others, in the Gaza Strip over the past 48 hours, according to medical reports.

Local health authorities confirmed that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 7, 2023 has risen to 46,537 reported fatalities, with an additional 109,571 people sustaining injuries. The majority of the victims are women and children.

According to the same sources, emergency services are still unable to reach many casualties and dead bodies trapped under the rubble or scattered on roads across the war-torn enclave, as Israeli occupation forces continue to obstruct the movement of ambulance and civil defense crews.

At least 10 Palestinians, including two children and two women were killed and several others injured today in Israeli airstrikes that targeted Zaybab al-Wazir school sheltering displaced families in Jabalia, northern Gaza, and a house in the Shujaiya neighborhood of Gaza City.

In a separate attack, Israeli warplanes targeted a home belonging to the Al-Hayyah family in Al-Beltaji Street in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, leading to the killing of two more people.

Meanwhile, Civil Defense teams managed to evacuate two wounded individuals after they were targeted by an Israeli drone strike in the Al-Kharba Al-Adas area, north of Rafah.

At least nine Palestinians were killed and several others injured today in Israeli airstrikes that targeted various locations across the central Gaza Strip, including the Al-Daraj neighborhood, Deir al-Balah, and the northern area of the Bureij refugee camp.

Local sources reported that four Palestinians were killed, and several others wounded, in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a group of civilians on Al-Nafaq Street in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City.

In the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah, three more Palestinians were killed, and others were injured when Israeli fighter jets bombed a tent sheltering displaced families near the Abu Salim station in the southern part of the city.

Additionally, one Palestinian was killed by Israeli drone fire near the Martyrs’ Square roundabout, located north of the Bureij refugee camp.

In the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, one Palestinian was killed, and two others were injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of the city.

Several Palestinians were killed last night in Israeli airstrikes targeting residential areas in Gaza City’s Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, according to local sources.

WAFA correspondent reported that Israeli warplanes struck an apartment in the Abu Al-Ouf building near Al-Sham’a Mosque in southeastern Gaza City. The attack resulted in fatalities and injuries among residents.

In a separate strike, Israeli warplanes targeted a residential building belonging to the Tafesh family in the same neighborhood. The assault claimed the life of at least one individual and left three others injured.

Earlier in the day, Israeli forces bombed an apartment near Al-Kanz Mosque in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City. The attack caused the killing of three people, including a woman and a young girl, while injuring ten others. Nearby homes sustained significant damage.

A young girl along with her grandfather and another elderly man were killed in this attack in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza. Several of the injured were taken here to Al-Aqsa Hospital.

Most of those wounded are at risk of death because there are low medical supplies; there is no medicine, antibiotics and painkillers. Doctors perform surgeries in hospitals with very limited quantities of fuel.

A school sheltering thousands of families was also targeted in Jabalia. Northern Gaza has been under siege for more than 80 days. Eight Palestinians were killed, among them two women and two children, and at least 30 were injured.

In the northern Gaza Strip, it’s different because there are no ambulances or rescue teams. Even hospitals are not working.

Israeli army on Saturday attacked a hospital in northern Gaza and killed 14 more Palestinians in strikes across Gaza in the course of its ongoing genocide.

In a statement, the Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza said the Israeli army opened heavy fire towards several parts and sections of the hospital. It, however, did not report any casualties.

Three Palestinians were killed in an airstrike on a home of the “Fannana” family in eastern Gaza City, according to a medical source.

In southern Gaza, a Palestinian man was killed and two injured in a strike on a group of people in Khan Younis, according to a medical source.

A Palestinian succumbed to his wounds he sustained in a previous strike on a tent in Khan Younis’s Al-Mawasi area, which the Israeli army designates as a “safe humanitarian zone.”

An Israeli airstrike on western Gaza City Friday evening killed three Palestinians and injured 10 others, according to WAFA correspondent.

He said that an Israeli fighter jet carried out an airstrike targeting an apartment in a building located close to al-Kanz Mosque in the Rimal neighborhood of western Gaza City, claiming the lives of three civilians, including a woman and a female child, and injuring 10 others.

The airstrike caused damage to nearby houses.

In central Gaza, at least five Palestinians were killed and others were injured following Israeli airstrikes targeting the Al-Bureij refugee camp, local sources reported.

Further casualties were reported in a separate Israeli bombing that struck the Al-Mawassi area west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing of several civilians and injuries to others.

In another attack, at least two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Al-Mansoura Street in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

Earlier on Friday, a medical source reported that an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis killed a young Palestinian man and injured two others. Another individual died from injuries sustained two days earlier in a strike on a tent in Khan Younis’s al-Mawasi area, which the Israeli military had previously declared “safe.”

Despite the designation of Khan Younis’s al-Mawasi as a “safe zone,” Israeli forces have repeatedly targeted the area, causing mass casualties, including women and childre

The al-Mawasi region stretches from northwest Deir al-Balah to southwest Khan Younis.

In Rafah, Israeli forces opened fire on tents housing displaced families west of the city, witnesses said, though no casualties were reported.

The UN reported on Friday that Israel continues to obstruct “vital aid” reaching those in need in the Gaza Strip, pointing to more than half of the humanitarian assistance that was blocked by authorities a day earlier.

Citing the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said during a news conference that, “Israeli authorities continue to deny UN-led efforts to reach Gaza governor with vital aid.”

“This includes our most recent attempt today across the Gaza Strip yesterday. Only 10 out of the 21 UN-planned humanitarian movements were facilitated by Israeli authorities,” he said, adding that “seven were denied outright, three were impeded, and one was canceled due to security and logistical challenges.”

He also conveyed OCHA’s deep concern over the impact of “dwindling fuel supplies on essential services in Gaza.”

Saed Abu Nabhan, a freelance Anadolu cameraman in Gaza, was killed on Friday by a long-range rifle attack by the Israeli army. Abu Nabhan, 25, had a wife and one child.

In the fatal incident, the Israeli military first surrounded an area in the Al-Jadeed Refugee Camp, located in the central Gaza Strip’s Nuseirat region, where many journalists were, before targeting those in the area.

Footage from the scene shows a wounded individual being rushed out of a house on a stretcher with the help of aid workers.

Nearby, Abu Nabhan is seen trying to run while covering the incident with his equipment. At that moment, he is targeted by what appears to be a shot fired from a long-range rifle.

Abu Nabhan then falls to the ground and lies motionless. People nearby struggle fearfully to approach him due to the threat of being targeted by Israeli bullets.

The death of Abu Nabhan brought the total number of Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023 to 203. Reports also indicate that 399 journalists have been injured, and 43 others captured.

WEST BANK

Israeli occupation forces detained a Palestinian youth this evening after shooting him with live ammunition in the eastern area of Nablu, north of the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian security sources told WAFA that the detained youth, identified as Mohammad Sanakra from the Al-Masaken Al-Shaabiyya neighborhood, was shot in the thigh during an Israeli raid on the eastern area of the city.

He was subsequently taken to an unknown destination.

Israeli special forces Saturday abducted several Palestinians from the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to local sources.

They said that Israeli special forces sneaked their way into the vicinity of an-Najah National University Hospital, located on Asira Street in the city, and besieged a vehicle before detaining all those who were aboard it.

Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces rounded up a Palestinian at the permanently staffed al-Muraba’ah checkpoint, southwest of Nablus.

Earlier, the occupying forces detained four others from Turmus Ayya village, north of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.

The occupation forces frequently raid Palestinian houses almost daily across the West Bank on the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians, triggering clashes with residents.

These raids are conducted without 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.

According to the latest figures from Addameer, the Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, there are currently 10,400 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centres, including 320 child prisoners and 88 female prisoners.

This number includes approximately 3,376 Palestinians placed under “administrative detention”, which allows the detention of Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable intervals ranging between three and six months based on undisclosed evidence that even a detainee’s lawyer is barred from viewing.

Several Palestinians Saturday evening sustained injuries in a colonists’ raid in Turmus Ayya village, north of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, according to local sources.

They said that Israeli settlers, under the protection of the occupation forces, raided the village, prompting the villagers to fend off the raid and triggering confrontations.

They added that Israeli soldiers opened gunfire toward the villagers, injuring three by rubber-coated steel bullets.

The soldiers detained four others from the village.

Settlers’ violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.

Settlers’ violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, and attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.

There are over 700,000 illegal Israeli settlers living in colonies in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Israeli occupation forces stormed the village of Artas, south of Bethlehem, today, and raided two homes belonging to local residents, according to local sources.

The sources reported that Israeli forces broke into the village and raided the homes of Mohammad Nadi Ayash and Khaled Walid Ayash, two local residents. Additionally, the forces set up a military checkpoint on the southern entrance to the village.

The occupation forces also erected a military checkpoint at the Aqaba Hasana area, located on the western entrance to Bethlehem governorate. They stopped and searched Palestinian vehicles, checking IDs and causing significant traffic congestion in the area.

Israeli settlers attacked the Qa’oun plain near Bardala village in the northern Jordan Valley, located northeast of the occupied West Bank, last night, cutting down olive trees, local sources reported.

Muataz Bisharat, who oversees the settlement portfolio in the Tubas Governorate, stated that a group of Israeli settlers stormed the area, damaging olive trees belonging to Sultan Swafta, a local Palestinian resident. The attack targeted an area of approximately 10 dunums, causing significant destruction to the farm.

The region has witnessed a series of attacks in recent weeks by Israeli settlers, who recently established a new outpost in the area.

These incidents are part of a broader pattern of violations targeting residents in the northern Jordan Valley, one of the most heavily targeted areas by colonists and the Israeli military.

The ongoing violations have taken various forms, including the destruction of crops, burning of lands, and uprooting of fruit-bearing trees.

Local activists and residents view these actions as a deliberate attempt to weaken the resilience of Palestinians in the region and force them to leave their land.

Israeli occupation forces Friday evening conducted multiple raids in the occupied West Bank governorates of Ramallah and Nablus, according to eyewitnesses and local sources.

Eyewitnesses said that the occupation forces stormed Budrus village, west of Ramallah, where the soldiers fired barrages of tear gas canisters towards the villagers and their houses.

Meanwhile, the occupation forces conducted a raid in Yatma village, south of Nablus, triggering confrontations, as confirmed by Ahmad Snaubar, the head of the Village Council.

The gun-toting soldiers fired volleys of teargas and concussion bombs towards the villagers, without any casualty.

The occupation forces showed up at the family house of a slain Palestinian in Wadi al-Badhan, a village northeast of Nablus.

The family of Jaafar Dababseh said that several army vehicles stormed the village, where the soldiers muscled inside the house, held them along with some guests in a room and confiscated their mobile phones.

Dababseh is a former 40-year-old detainee who was killed by undercover forces on Tuesday, January 7, in front of his house.

Israeli occupation forces frequently raid Palestinian houses almost daily across the West Bank on the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians, triggering clashes with residents.

Israeli occupation forces forced shops to close their doors in the town of Huwara, located south of Nablus, today, amid rising provocations from Israeli settlers militias near the town.

Jihad Odeh, the head of Huwara Municipality, reported that Israeli forces compelled shop owners to shut down their businesses while engaging in acts of provocation and disorder within the town.

He further explained that Israeli forces had initially informed the shop owners of their intention to close several businesses around the Ali bin Abi Talib Mosque in the town until Sunday.

However, the forces proceeded to close all shops along the main street, significantly disrupting the local economy and daily life in the area.

Israeli occupation forces Friday prevented Palestinians from continuing their agricultural work in the Umm al-Qaba plain in the northern Jordan Valley, northeast of the occupied West Bank.

Mehdi Draghmeh, head of the Al-Maleh village council, reported that Israeli forces stopped the farmers from plowing and planting their lands in the area. This is not the first time such actions have taken place; two weeks ago, Israeli forces also barred residents from farming their lands in the same area, following direct incitement by Israeli colonists.

The ongoing restrictions are part of broader efforts to disrupt Palestinian agricultural activities in the Jordan Valley, a region frequently targeted for settlement expansion and land confiscation by Israeli authorities.

YEMEN

One person was killed and nine injured Friday in a series of raids by Israeli, American and British coordinated airstrikes on Yemen.

Thirty-one raids hit the provinces of Sana’a and Amran, in northern Yemen, and Al-Hudaydah in the west of the country, according to separate statements by Houthi-affiliated media outlets.

Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV said six raids on the port of Ras Isa in Al-Hudaydah left one employee dead and six injured.

Separately, the broadcaster said Sana’a witnessed 13 raids, including on the Sanhan district’s Haziz Central Power Station that injured three civilians and damaged several homes near the station.

Al-Masirah TV earlier reported that airstrikes targeted the vicinity of the Al-Sabeen Square in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a.

The attack coincided with a rally in support of Palestine amid Israel’s 16-month continuing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

“An American-British assault targeted the Harf Sufyan district in the governorate of Amran with 12 airstrikes,” Al-Masirah reported.

Israeli public broadcaster, KAN, said Israel, the US and Britain carried out their first coordinated attack on Houthi targets in Yemen.

The Houthi group announced another attack Friday against the US aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman and several naval vessels in the northern Red Sea with several cruise missiles and drones.

The group said Monday it attacked the aircraft carrier in addition to missile and drone attacks on targets in southern and central Israel.

Israel, the US, and Britain on Friday carried out their first coordinated attack on Houthi targets in Yemen, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation reported.

The Israeli army says it has struck targets in the Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen, including the Hezyaz power station near the capital Sanaa, and the Hodeidah and Ras Isa ports on the western coast.

Israeli media reported Saturday that security agencies are on high alert fearing a possible Houthi retaliation following a joint Israeli-American-British airstrikes on targets in Yemen on Friday.

“The Israeli security system is in a heightened state of alert due to anticipated Houthi retaliation for the Friday strikes,” Israeli Channel 12 reported.

It added that “there are genuine fears that the Houthis may attempt to respond to the joint assault in the coming hours.”

The channel also noted that this joint operation marked “the fifth such attack” on Houthi targets since the start of the war on Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023.

Among the targets, the statement highlighted, were infrastructure elements at the Hezyaz power station which it alleged were used to support Houthi military operations. It also claimed strikes on facilities at Ras Isa and Al Hudaydah ports.

LEBANON

The Israeli army committed five violations of a cease-fire agreement with Lebanon on Saturday, bringing the total number of breaches since the agreement took effect on Nov. 27 to 455.

The latest figure comes from statistics compiled by Anadolu based on announcements by Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA).

The violations included at least one strike by an Israeli army drone, demolitions of homes and buildings, and leveling operations.

In the Bint Jbeil district in southern Lebanon, an Israeli drone struck a car in the town of Kounin, but no injuries were reported in the incident.

The Israeli army carried out blowing-up operations on homes and buildings in the Ayta al-Shaab town, resulting in loud explosions heard in several parts of southern Lebanon.

An Israeli drone threw a stun grenade on people in Aitaroun town while moving their homes’ furniture, according to NNA.

While in the Tyre district, the Israeli bulldozers carried out leveling operations near the Lebanese army’s Al-Hamra Center area.

Lebanese authorities have reported more than 455 Israeli violations of the cease-fire, including killng of 37 people and the injury of 43 others, since the deal came into force on Nov. 27.

The cease-fire agreement aimed to end over 14 months of fighting between the Israeli army and Hezbollah group since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023.

Under the cease-fire terms, Israel is required to withdraw its forces south of the Blue Line – a de facto border – in phases, while the Lebanese army is to deploy in southern Lebanon within 60 days.

The Lebanese army says its units are “completing their deployment in Ras an-Naqoura – Tyre and towns in the western sector of the southern part of the country like … Aitaroun and Bint Jbeil …”

After Israeli troops withdrew from the areas as part of the November 27 ceasefire, Lebanese army troops are working to strengthen their positions in coordination with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), according to a statement by the army.

Israeli forces, who have a two-month deadline to leave as part of the ceasefire, continue to occupy other parts of southern Lebanon.

The Israeli airstrike on Tayr Debba killed six people and injured two more, the Lebanese Ministry of Health said in a statement.

Earlier, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that the drone struck a vehicle in Tayr Debba.

A civil defense vehicle was dispatched to the scene, and the casualties were taken to hospitals in Tyre, the news agency added.

[Photo: Mosque and nearby homes bombed by Israeli attacks in Khan Yunis, Gaza on January 11, 2025. Photojournalist: Abed Rahim Khatib/AA]