Dozens of Palestinians were killed and injured in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip today, Saturday, especially in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip, where nearly 40 Palestinians were martyred, while the attack on eastern Rafah led to the displacement of about 650,000 people.
Manhattan Tribune’s correspondent in Jabalia camp reported that the occupation forces committed a massacre in a residential neighborhood in the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital, in which dozens of citizens were killed and wounded.
He explained that warplanes raided dozens of homes in the inhabited neighborhood, most of whom were women and children.
Hossam Abu Safia, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, announced the arrival of the bodies of 28 martyrs, including 10 children and 10 women, following this bombing, in addition to dozens of injuries.
He said that many of the wounded died due to the lack of medical capabilities necessary to save them in light of the collapse of the health system in the Strip as a result of the war.
Manhattan Tribune’s correspondent reported that rescue teams are trying hard to reach dozens of missing people under the rubble of homes, despite their lack of appropriate means and capabilities.
300 homes destroyed
For his part, Gaza Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said that the Israeli army has destroyed 300 homes in Jabalia since the beginning of its military operation in the camp a week ago. He added that civil defense crews cannot reach most of these homes due to the continuing raids.
The spokesman stressed that the capabilities of the crews working in Jabalia are not commensurate with the scale of the tragedy that the camp is experiencing.
Also in Jabalia, Manhattan Tribune’s correspondent reported today that at least 15 Palestinians were martyred and 30 others were injured as a result of Israeli raids on citizens who tried to return to their homes in the camp. He added that civil defense crews were unable to reach the bodies of dozens of martyrs in the streets of the camp.
Meanwhile, 13 injured people arrived at Al Awda Hospital in the Tal Al-Zaatar area of Jabalia camp.
For a week, the Israeli occupation army has been carrying out new incursions into Jabalia and some surrounding areas under heavy fire cover, targeting dozens of homes and infrastructure in the camp, which is inhabited by hundreds of thousands of residents and those displaced from the northern areas of the Gaza Strip.
Ministry of Health in Gaza: The occupation committed 9 massacres in the Strip, killing 83 martyrs and 105 injured within 24 hours.
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Central and southern regions
In the central Gaza Strip, an Manhattan Tribune correspondent reported that three Palestinians were killed and others, including children, were injured as a result of Israeli bombing that targeted a group of citizens east of the Maghazi camp.
Two young men were also martyred by the bullets of the occupation forces near Wadi Gaza, north of the Central Governorate, and two other young men west of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, according to what was reported by Manhattan Tribune’s correspondent.
In the southern regions, 4 Palestinians were martyred and others were injured as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the town of Khuza’a, east of Khan Yunis.
The occupation aircraft also targeted a three-story house in the Al-Farahin area in the town of Abasan Al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, killing a number of Palestinians and wounding others.
A Palestinian was martyred and others were injured with varying injuries after an Israeli drone targeted a civilian car northwest of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza said this afternoon that the occupation committed 9 massacres against families in the Strip, of which 83 martyrs and 105 injuries reached hospitals during the past 24 hours.
Thus, the toll of the Israeli aggression rises to 35,386 martyrs and 79,366 wounded since October 7, according to the ministry.
650 thousand displaced people
Meanwhile, the mayor of Rafah, Ahmed Al-Sufi, said that the ongoing Israeli aggression against the city forced approximately 650,000 people to leave it.
Al-Sufi explained that the residents had no choice but to head towards the Rafah highways or the western areas of the Khan Yunis and Central governorates, which lack the minimum necessities of life.
He stated that the military operations taking place in the governorate caused the only hospital and primary care centers in the east and center of the city to be out of service.
Al-Sufi described the continued closure of the land crossings as a slow death sentence for all residents of the Gaza Strip, calling on international organizations and the international community to intervene immediately and seriously to restart them and put pressure to stop the genocidal war.
