Israeli military strikes killed at least 50 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip as Israeli forces tightened their squeeze around Jabalia in the north of the enclave on Tuesday, amid fierce battles with Hamas-led fighters.
Palestinian health officials said at least 17 people were killed by Israeli fire near Al-Falouja in Jabalia, the largest of Gaza's eight historic refugee camps, while 10 others were killed in Bani Suhaila in eastern Khan Younis in the south when an Israeli missile struck a house.
Earlier on Tuesday, an Israeli airstrike destroyed three houses in the Sabra suburb of Gaza City, and the local civil emergency service said they recovered two bodies from the site, while the search continued for 12 other people who were believed to have been in the houses at the time.
Eight others were killed when a house was struck in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza.
The Gaza health ministry said one doctor was killed when he tried to help people wounded by Israeli strikes in Al-Falouja in Jabalia. It added that several medics were wounded when their ambulance came under Israeli fire in the northern and southern Gaza Strip.
Jabalia has been the focus of an Israeli offensive for more than 10 days, with troops returning to areas of the north that came under heavy bombardment in the early months of the year-long war.
The operation has raised concerns among Palestinians and U.N. agencies that Israel wants to clear residents from the north of the crowded enclave, a charge it has denied. Residents said Israeli forces destroyed dozens of houses in the past 10 days.
On Tuesday, the Israeli military said troops had killed dozens of fighters in the Jabalia area over the past day, including a unit that fired an anti-tank missile at them.
The United Nations human rights office said the Israeli military appeared to be "cutting off North Gaza completely from the rest of the Gaza Strip."
"Gaza families are facing unimaginable fear, loss of loved ones, confusion, and exhaustion. People must be able to flee safely, without facing further danger," Adrian Zimmerman,
ICRC Gaza head of sub-delegation, said in a statement.
The Israeli military's administrative unit, Cogat, which oversees aid and commercial shipments to Gaza, said on Tuesday that operations in Jabalia were targeting terrorist infrastructure and operatives embedded inside civilian areas. It said it was facilitating humanitarian, and in particular medical aid to residents.
Hamas denies it embeds its operatives amongst civilians.
JABALIA ENCIRCLED
The Israeli military has now encircled the Jabalia camp and sent tanks into nearby Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun towns, with the declared aim of stamping out Hamas fighters who are trying to regroup there.
The Israeli military has told residents to leave their homes and head to safety in southern Gaza. Palestinian and U.N. officials say there is no safe place in Gaza.
Hamas' armed wing said fighters were engaged in fierce battles with Israeli forces in and around Jabalia.
Gaza's health ministry said the army ordered the three hospitals operating there to evacuate but medical staffers said they were determined to continue their services.
Cogat said in recent days it had facilitated the transfer of 33 patients, medical staff and accompanying personnel from the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the north to functioning facilities elsewhere in Gaza.
It said it has also provided 68,650 litres of fuel to hospitals and coordinated the delivery of 800 blood transfusion units.
Ismail Al-Thawabta, the director of the Hamas-run Gaza government media office, said Israel was trying to give a misleading impression and that its forces had been preventing ambulance and civil emergency teams from recovering the bodies of dozens of people from the streets.
Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of the three hospitals in northern Gaza, said they were facing serious shortages of food, medication, and fuel, that could soon impact patients in their facilities.
"There is a stark shortage of consumables and supplies began to run out. Milk is running out, and everything available is depleting and we could face a humanitarian disaster that would impact those in the maternity and the neonatal units," said Abu Safiya in a video appeal to international relief and human rights groups.
The northern part of Gaza is home to well over half the territory's 2.3 million people. Around 400,000 people remain, according to United Nations estimates.
Israel launched the offensive against Hamas after the militant group's Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in which 1,200 people were killed and around 250 taken hostage to Gaza, by Israeli tallies. More than 42,000 Palestinians have been killed in the offensive so far, according to Gaza's health authorities.
© Thomson Reuters 2024.
35 Comments
John
Blinken threatening to cut netanyahu's arms off.
Ceasefire now to avoid anymore blooshed.
sakurasuki
First they were being told to move to refugee camp or hospital, only to find themselves as for easier target?
It is a genocide. Some of them even burned alive while being treated with IV on the bed.
https://news.sky.com/story/heartbreaking-story-behind-video-of-young-man-burnt-to-death-in-medical-compound-after-israeli-strike-13234035
RichardPearce
The question is no longer what Netanyahu is willing to do, the question is why certain states are denying what he is doing, when most have them have laws making it a crime to deny, even slightly by diminishing the scale of deaths, brutality, and guilt of accessory nations, a previous version of what Netanyahu is doing.
But, in 'good news', turns out that those helping shield Netanyahu are going to be cutting back on that help. No, not for humanitarian reasons (despite ridiculous claims to that effect) but because between Netanyahu and Zelensky, they've outstripped the ability to produce the expendables component of that shield for so long, all the reserves are gone, and the factories that have been running 24/7 trying to keep up with the usage rates are the only sources left.
Which means that when Netanyahu attacks Iran for the THIRD time, Iran is going to simply keep firing until that shield runs out, and Netanyahu will soon after that run out of the capacity to oppress the majority of the legal population of his 'state' from taking it back into their own hands.
WoodyLee
A Genocide and Mass killings of Palestinians in progress and the world is watching take place. Israel supporters have blood on their dirty hands.
If this is not a Genocide then I don't know what is.
Aly Rustom
Agree with all the above
changamangaliay
Genocide of Palestinians by Israel continues while the world watches.
NB
There are two indications for genocide: 1) The intention: Which nations declares that it aspires to commit genocide to the other nation? 2) The implementation: Which nation practices genocide in reality?
Tiger
These are not numbers!! These are human beings that were murdered!!! For God's sake we've seen children burnt alive!!!!!!
If these satans aren't stopped, human rights simply don't exist in this world.
WoodyLee
@NB,
"" The UNGA decided in 1947 to establish two states on the land – A Jewish-Arab state, Israel, and an Arabic state, Palestine. Although the land is small, there is enough space for both nations, who could have lived and thrived together. What is the use of dying together? ""
Middle Eastern Jews have lived and still live among Arabs of all faiths in the Middle East Including Palestine UNTILL the Zionists and their western allies arrived from Europe and decided to establish a state for themselves called Israel on Palestinians Lands.
They ravaged the land killed and terrorized the locals and forced Arabs to leave their lands at gun point the same Tactics we are witnessing now in Gaza, Lebanon, and the rest of Palestine.
The plan has not changed since the establishment of Israel, kill or remove as many people as possible to expand their Zionist state.
Wasabi
Why is the terrorist still has not release the hostage?
They want this maybe?
NB
These are not the historical facts. The Palestinians, under their extremist leadership, decided to refuse to the UNGA 1947 resolution and launched a genicidal war in 1948. This war brought a disaster to themselves.
owzer
puh-lease! Israel hs given these terrorist supporters plenty of opportunity to leave. They chose, again, to Find Out.
WoodyLee
@wasabi,
""Why is the terrorist still has not release the hostage?""
Hahaha, they are waiting on Bibi to make up his mind I think!
Or may be they were all killed by the IDF & the IAF and their indiscriminate bombing!???
NB
Which side of the conflict did this wholesale, with deliberation, on October 7 2023?
NB
As long as Hamas continues to shower the other nation with missiles, sloughter civilians, and sacrifice its own people, all under the relentless agenda of wiping out the other nation - it is not possible to stop the horrific bloodshed.
Sanjinosebleed
Disgusting hypocrisy! When is the western political elite going to finally admit war crimes are being committed by Israel on a daily basis as they stand idly by and watch?
Chabbawanga
Goodwill towards Israel is almost entirely spent.
Chabbawanga
Israel has repeatedly bombed every refuge these people have been able to find for themselves. They have been herded around like cattle for over a year. As they are moved from one area to another they are attacked by IDF troops and drones. They move to "safe zones" where they are attacked also. They send their children to a school that is designated to be a Polio vaccination site, they are bombed again.
"Why dont they just leave?"
They are exhausted, and what is the point?
owzer
Hardly! The more terrorists they remove, the more I support them!
NB
Indeed, what is the point? Why not let the two nations solve the conflict and coexist?
Chabbawanga
Completely ignoring the context of what I wrote.
Zaphod
The drumbeat of anti-Israel news continues, but none of the journalist suggest what Israel should do. Withdraw from Gaza, let Hamas declare victory and keep the hostages? Something else?
Zaphod
NB
Does Hamas, in your opinion, have any intention to co-exist with Israel? Have you read their charter?
Jik7Y
Shame on Hamas for using its civilians as human shields.
NB
Hamas must be replaced with a sane Palestinian leadership, which cares for its own people and is willing to coexist with the other people.
Chabbawanga
aka the cold hard truth
Zaphod
WoodyLee
Apparently it is the latter. Israels war against Hamas is not a "genocide" by any definition of the word, much as Hamas and other islamists like to call it such. Mis-using the word like this is an insult to any victims of real genocides.
WoodyLee
""Jul 25, 2024 — The official Palestinian Health Ministry count as of Sept. 29, was 41,595 Palestinian dead, amounting to about 10 times its count of losses in ""
Source, Reuters .
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-death-toll-how-many-palestinians-has-israels-campaign-killed-2024-07-25/
Sanjinosebleed
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-military-human-shields.html
You mean shame on Israel right???
WoodyLee
""Jul 25, 2024 — The official Palestinian Health Ministry count as of Sept. 29, was 41,595 Palestinian dead, amounting to about 10 times its count of losses in ""
Source, Reuters .
We can call it what ever we want, the fact of the matter is unarmed civilians are being targeted and getting killed by the Israeli military on daily basis in the name of self defense when the real agenda is to reduce or even eliminate the population of Gaza then occupy it.
NB
A large portion of the dead Palestinians are Hamas terrorists. As to the civilians killed - this is a tragedy. But who is responsible? Hamas, who pursues a genocidal agenda against Israel, launched a war and a giant masscre on October 7 2023, in order to thwart the efforts made by Saudi Arabia to solve the Middle East conflict.
M1984FA
Is a war that can be ended by one party surrendering a "genocide"? I would not think so. Why is this extremely strong word so recklessly bandied about?
Vincent Ricci
How the world would react if the UK sent missiles on French cities and destroyed buildings with civilians just because some of their ennemies are hiding there?
I am asking because this is exactly what’s happening in Gaza and Lebanon and nothing seems to be able to stop it.
GDBD
now they don’t even want it to be reported. All they want a quite genocide that no ones talk about or remember. This tells a lot about them.
the more I read the comments here and what Israel represents in their eyes, the more I am convinced that Middle East should get rid of that plague soon.
Wasabi
Did the French took some UK hostages?