On Wednesday, day 257 of the Israeli assault on the entire population of 2.3 million Palestinians living in the world’s largest open-air prison: the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued bombing and attacking Palestinian civilians by land, sea and air.
At least 11 Palestinian civilians were killed and others were injured on Wednesday evening in a raid launched by the Israeli occupation aircraft east of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
A correspondent with the Wafa news agency reported that 11 Palestinians were killed and 30 others were injured, in a raid launched by the Israeli occupation aircraft on a gathering of civilians on Salah al-Din Street, east of Rafah. The bodies of the killed and the wounded were transported to the European Gaza Hospital in the neighboring city of Khan Younis.
Earlier, two civilians were killed in Israeli occupation artillery shelling around Al-Alam Roundabout, west of the city of Rafah, bringing the number of people killed in the city since dawn today to 23 martyrs.
Local sources reported that the Israeli occupation army destroyed more than 70% of the city’s facilities and infrastructure, including burning and destroying the Rafah border crossing to Egypt.
The Israeli occupation forces continue to close the crossing after they occupied the Palestinian side of it on May 7, the day after the start of their ground invasion of the city of Rafah.
In Gaza City on Wednesday, two Palestinians were killed after being targeted by a missile from an Israeli drone.
A medical source at Al-Ahly Al-Arabi Hospital “Al-Maamdani” reported that two deceased men arrived at the hospital after they were targeted by a missile from an Israeli drone on Al-Sikka Street in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.
Also Wednesday evening, near the eastern entrance to the city of Jericho, near the Jordan River, eyewitnesses reported to “Wafa” news agency that a group of Israeli paramilitary colonizers gathered in the vicinity of the Karama border crossing linking Jordan to the West Bank, as humanitarian aid trucks were scheduled to arrive from Jordan heading to Gaza.
An activist in the Popular Resistance Committees in the Jordan Valley, Ayman Gharib, indicated to “Wafa” that the Israeli colonists are gathering in an attempt to obstruct the passage of trucks, attack their drivers, and sabotage their contents, pointing out that they have carried out similar attacks in the recent period, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces.
These ongoing attacks on humanitarian aid by right-wing Israeli colonizers come as Democracy Now reports that aid agencies are running out of food in southern Gaza amid Israel’s ongoing offensive in Rafah and the shutdown of the two main border crossings in the south. Some 1.1 million Palestinians are on the brink of starvation, according to the United Nations, while a “full-blown famine” is taking place in the north.
Israeli peace activist Sapir Sluzker Amran said, about one of the recent incidents of attacks on aid trucks that she witnessed: “Settlers and their supporters, they are organizing in those WhatsApp groups, getting notifications from inside information, actually, to know where the trucks are going and coming from, and then trying to block them or to loot and destroy the entire food on the trucks…And what the settlers did is tearing up the entire food that was there. There were bags of rice, bags of sugar and instant noodles in bags. And they did it in a way that we cannot repair it. They did it in a way that they were tearing everything down, jumping on the instant noodles so we cannot save it. And, yeah, that was the situation.”
In an ongoing and indefinite, ever-increasing toll, the number of people killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israeli occupation aggression on the 7th of last October reached 37,396 killed, in addition to 85,523 wounded, the majority of whom are children and women. A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and crews cannot access their bodies. An estimated 1100 Israelis were killed on October 7th, including 800 civilians – many of whom were killed by so-called ‘friendly fire’ when Israeli forces dropped bombs and fired artillery shells into buildings and at cars fleeing the ‘Nova’ rave.
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Day 257: Pre-Dawn Airstrikes on Tents Kill Palestinian Refugees
Published on: Jun 19, 2024 at 10:41
On Wednesday, day 257 of the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation army continued its land, air and sea aggression against the entire civilian population of Gaza.
Before dawn Wednesday, a number of Palestinians were killed and others were injured as a result of the bombing of several areas in the Strip by Israeli warplanes, quadcopters and drones.
In the city of Rafah, at least 7 civilians were killed and dozens injured, in a violent Israeli occupation bombing that targeted the tents of displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area, in the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli occupation also opened fire on citizens’ homes in the Saudi neighborhood, west of the city of Rafah, accompanied by an incursion by Israeli military vehicles into the neighborhood.
Israeli warplanes launched raids on the western areas of the city of Rafah and targeted with artillery shelling the vicinity of the Emirati field hospital west of the city.
In the same context, doctors warned of the catastrophic deterioration of the health situation in Rafah due to the occupation army’s targeting of hospitals, as some patients are dying due to lack of medicines.
In Gaza City, medical sources reported that 6 citizens were killed and others were injured as a result of the occupation bombing of a house belonging to the Abu Safiya family on Second Street in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood.
The Israeli occupation artillery targeted the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of the city, amid heavy gunfire, and Israeli gunboats also opened fire on civilian homes off the coast of Al-Shati camp, west of Gaza City.
In the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, medical teams recovered 3 killed Palestinians as a result of the Israeli occupation’s bombing of the northwestern region of the Nuseirat camp. The three were identified as Al-Harith Miqdad, Mahmoud Abu Arab, and Muhammad Abu Arab.
In addition, Israeli quadcopter drones fired bullets at citizens’ homes east of the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
In an ongoing and indefinite toll, the death toll since the start of the aggression on the Gaza Strip, on the seventh of last October, has risen to more than 37,372 killed, the majority of whom are children and women, and 85,452 injuries, and thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads. The Israeli occupation has been preventing ambulance and civil defense crews from reaching them.
(Source / 21.06.2024)
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