The targeting by Israeli aircraft of the Bureij camp and the town of Jabalia, in the central and northern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, killed at least 17 Palestinians, and injured others.
According to the Palestinian news and Information Agency (Wafa),”15 citizens, most of them children, were martyred, and a number of others were injured as a result of the shelling of occupation aircraft on a house in Jabalia al-Balad, north of Gaza, and two citizens were martyred as a result of the shelling of the occupation on a house in Bureij camp”.
Blowing up residential blocks
According to the agency, “the occupation forces blew up residential blocks in the town of Beit Lahiya and the Jabalia camp and its surroundings, in the northern Gaza Strip”.
“The occupation forces opened fire in the north-western area of Gaza City, and the occupation artillery targeted the south-eastern neighborhoods of Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip,”she said.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced in a statement that “the toll of the Israeli aggression has risen to 45,553 martyrs and 108,379 injuries since the seventh of October 2023,” pointing out that “12 martyrs arrived at hospitals during the past 48 hours,” and the new toll does not include the Palestinians killed today (Wednesday), according to Agence France-Presse.
The Civil Defense confirmed that paramedics from the Palestine Red Crescent Society transported, this morning (Wednesday), “4 martyrs and a number of wounded following a raid by an Israeli drone targeting a group of citizens in the city of Khan Yunis” south of the Gaza Strip, and were transferred to Nasser Hospital in the city.
Rocket shelling
The aerial bombardment today by two rockets fired by an Israeli warplane led to the total destruction of the three-story house in the town of Jabalia, according to a civil defense officer. “We transported martyrs, including children, and injured, including children and women, to the Baptist Hospital (in Gaza City), who were recovered from the rubble of the targeted House, and a number of missing people are still under the rubble,”he said. The bodies of the dead were wrapped in blankets and taken to the Baptist Hospital in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza, before a number of the dead were buried.
Recovery from the rubble
“We are still trying to pull out martyrs and wounded from the rubble,” said an eyewitness, a relative of several of the dead, noting that the house “turned into a pile of rubble”. He explained that” the explosions resulting from the shelling from the air and tanks, started about one in the morning, “stressing that”in the morning we went to the targeted house, we saw a massacre, the remains of children and women, who were sleeping when they bombed the house, why they bombed the house no one knows, they are all civilians.
Arrest of medical personnel
For about three months, the Israeli army has been continuing a ground war in the northern areas of the Gaza Strip, which include the towns of Jabalia, Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun and the Jabalia refugee camp,”he said.
A few days ago, the Israeli army arrested a number of medical staff and Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, which burned a number of departments and was completely out of Service.
On the other hand, the General Directorate of Civil Defense reported that “more than 1,500 tents sheltering displaced people were flooded by rain in displacement camps” as a result of the rains witnessed in the Gaza Strip. Tens of thousands of displaced people’s luggage, bedding and blankets were damaged, she said in a statement. Within a week, seven children and infants died from the severe cold, according to the Ministry of Health.
