A total of 89 Gazans have been killed and 205 wounded in the past two days in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Saturday, bringing the death toll since October 7 to 40,691.
“The Israeli occupation has committed five massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the past 48 hours, causing 89 deaths and 205 injuries in hospitals,” said a statement from the Hamas-controlled ministry, which put the total number of injured at 94,060.
Dead in Nuseirat and Khan Yunis
At least seventeen Palestinians were killed last night in the western Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip, nine of them in an attack by two Israeli artillery shells on a building, Palestinian sources reported today.
Four others were killed in an Israeli bombing of the top floor of a residential building, and four more were killed in an attack on a family home in the Al-Hasayna neighborhood, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
In Khan Yunis, in the south of the enclave, “five civilians were killed and 15 other members of the Abu Bakr family were injured” in the bombing of a house in Al Jabour, according to the same media.
Dead in Gaza City
In the devastated northern Gaza City, Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) medics transported three bodies and several wounded people to Baptist Hospital after Israeli warplanes attacked a house in the Sabra neighborhood south of the Gazan capital.
In the Zeitun neighbourhood, according to Wafa, three other Palestinians lost their lives when an Israeli missile bombed their house, while a fourth died in an airstrike on an apartment in the Jabalia camp (north).
Extreme living conditions
Following the latest evacuation orders by Israeli forces in Deir al-Balah and Khan Yunis, overcrowding and living conditions in the humanitarian area of Al Mawasi, which has shrunk to around 14 percent of the Strip, have become even more difficult.
“Overcrowding, a huge lack of water and a lack of sanitation facilities are fuelling the spread of disease. We are unable to cope with the enormous number of needs,” a coordinator for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said yesterday.
Two Palestinians killed in car bombing near West Bank settlements
The Israeli army confirmed early this morning that two suspected Palestinian attackers had been killed after they detonated two car bombs in the Karmei Tzur settlement and at the entrance to the Gush Etzion settlement block in the occupied West Bank near Hebron.
According to military sources, around midnight a man drove his vehicle into the Karmei Tzur settlement and, after being chased by local security agents, his car was rammed and he was shot dead.
The Israeli military said the attacker had opened fire before the collision, causing the vehicle to explode, slightly injuring the guard.
Minutes before the shooting in Karmei Tzur, a vehicle exploded at a gas station near the Gush Etzion junction, some eight kilometers away.
Israeli forces shot and killed the attacker after the explosion, while a commander of the Etzion regional brigade and two uniformed men were lightly wounded.
The suspected attackers have been identified as Mohamad Ihsan Yaqeen Marqa and Zahdi Nidal Abu Afifa, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, and their bodies remain in Israeli custody.
Military incursion in Jenin for fourth consecutive day
Israeli forces with armored vehicles, snipers and drones have continued their military incursion for the fourth day in a row into Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, and its refugee camp, where 11 Palestinians have already been killed since Wednesday.
According to Palestinian sources, quoted by the Wafa news agency, Israeli military reinforcements have stormed the camp and are conducting raids on several houses in search of persons of interest.
“Widespread water leakage has affected large areas of Jenin and the camp due to the destruction of the main pipelines,” said Wafa, who also spoke of neighbourhoods without electricity after troops attacked power generators.
The destruction is widespread, as a local journalist explained yesterday via press conference, with hardly any roads or access points that have not been destroyed by Israeli bulldozers and a sense of terror embedded in the local population.
Some 40 rockets fired from Lebanon into northern Israel
Meanwhile, a volley of some 40 rockets were launched from Lebanon into Israeli territory tonight, in the latest exchange of fire between the two countries since October, with most of them intercepted and causing no casualties, the Israeli army reported early this morning.
The army also claimed to have bombed launching points in southwestern Lebanon, in particular in the areas of Naqoura, Tayr Harfa and Yaroun, among others. In Tayr Harfa, the army also said yesterday that it attacked a military structure, after alleged members of Hezbollah entered it.
Jerusalem / EFE
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2024-09-01 17:14:16
