2024-08-31 09:46:16
About 30 Palestinians were killed during the early hours of this Saturday in the Gaza Strip after heavy Israeli airstrikes throughout the devastated area, according to local and medical sources.
While waiting for the Ministry of Health to announce the deaths in hospitals a few hours ago, since October 7, more than 40,600 people have died in Gaza, especially women and children, and in around 93,800 were injured.
Last night at least seventeen Palestinians were killed west of the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the center of the Strip; nine of them fired two grenades at a house, Palestinian sources reported.
In addition, four others died due to an Israeli bombing of the top floor of a house belonging to the Hamad family, and four more in an attack on a house belonging to the Zaqout family, in Al-Hasayna district.
“Five civilians were killed and 15 other members of the Abu Bakr family were injured when the operation targeted a house of the Al Jabour family” in Khan Yunis, south of the Strip, the Palestinian news agency, Wafa, said. .
In the devastated northern city of Gaza, doctors from the Palestinian Red Crescent (MLRP) transported three bodies and several wounded to the Baptist Hospital, after Israeli warplanes hit a house in Sabra district, south of Gazati .
In the Zeitun area, according to Wafa, three other Palestinians lost their lives when an Israeli missile bombed their house, and four others died in an airstrike on the Nassar family home in the Jabalia camp (north).
Following the new evacuation orders by Israeli forces in Deir al Balah and Khan Younis, congestion and living conditions in the Al Mawasi humanitarian area, which is around 14% of the Strip, have become even more difficult.
“Overcrowding, severe water scarcity and lack of sanitation services are fueling the spread of diseases. “We are not able to face the huge amount of needs,” protested the President of Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
This NGO claims to treat between 300 and 400 cases daily in a hospital in the region, of which 200 are related to skin conditions that, above all, affect children.
Tension in Lebanon
While the Gaza Strip was attacked, Israel’s tension with Lebanon also increased. The fight of almost forty rockets tonight from Lebanon to the territory of Israel, in the last exchange of fire that the two have had since October, with many intercepted that did not cause harm, the Israeli army reported this morning.
“After the sirens sounded between 10:26 p.m. and 11:02 p.m. in the Western Galilee region, approximately 40 missiles crossed from Lebanon to Israeli territory,” the military statement said.
The army has also said it has attacked launch sites in southwest Lebanon, specifically, in the districts of Naqoura, Tayr Harfa and Yaroun, among others. In Tayr Harfa, the Army also said yesterday that they attacked a military center, after members of Hezbollah entered it. In addition, missiles have hit several rocket launchers that they call “ready to use” in the areas of Maryamine and Yaroun, in the south of the neighboring country.
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