The number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on various areas of the Gaza Strip since dawn on Wednesday has risen to 99, including children. This comes as part of the genocidal crimes the occupation army has been committing against civilians for 21 months.
Medical sources and eyewitnesses reported that the number of Palestinians killed in massacres perpetrated by the Israeli occupation army through shelling and gunfire in various areas of the Gaza Strip rose from 61 to 99, after 38 people were killed in the past few hours.
In the latest attack, medical sources reported that six Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombardment that targeted an inhabited house southwest of Gaza City.
Medical sources reported that eight Palestinians, including two children, were killed and an unspecified number of others were missing in an Israeli attack targeting the Abu Ajwa family home in the Shujaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City.
In another raid, nine people, including five Palestinian children, were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting the home of the Aqeelan family in the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, according to medical sources.
South of Gaza City, an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood killed 12 Palestinians and injured others, some of them seriously, according to sources.
Sources also indicated that the occupation army killed five Palestinians and injured others in an airstrike targeting civilians west of Gaza City.
Sources reported that three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombardment targeting a gathering of civilians near the al-Julani Mosque in the al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of the city.
She noted that the number of Palestinians killed in an Israeli bombardment targeting the Talmis family home in the Al-Karama area, northwest of Gaza City, had risen from three (a mother and her two children) to five.
Shortly before, two Palestinians were killed and others injured in an airstrike targeting a gathering of civilians in central Gaza City, according to the same sources.
In the northern Gaza Strip, medical sources reported that five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting two homes belonging to the Nasr and Dada families in Jabalia al-Nazla.
It confirmed the martyrdom of 13 Palestinians and the injury of others (the number was not specified) in Israeli shelling that targeted various areas of Jabalia al-Balad and al-Nazla.
In the central and southern Gaza Strip, and in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, sources said that the Israeli occupation army killed six Palestinians in a bombing that targeted the Shehadeh family's home.
Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack northeast of Nuseirat, according to medical sources.
Eight Palestinians were killed and 18 others were injured, two of them seriously, when the occupation forces targeted aid recipients with live ammunition on Salah al-Din Street, south of the Wadi Gaza area, according to the same sources.
She noted that medical crews recovered the body of a young Palestinian man who was killed in a previous Israeli bombardment in the central Gaza Strip, without specifying the location.
In the city of Deir al-Balah in the central governorate, sources reported that four Palestinians were killed in the bombing of a home belonging to the Salman family.
In Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, sources reported that seven Palestinians were killed in separate Israeli airstrikes and gunfire in various areas of the city.
Sources reported that three Palestinians died of wounds sustained in a previous Israeli attack on Khan Yunis.
In the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, sources said that five Palestinians waiting for aid were killed by Israeli army fire near a distribution center west of the city.
Limited quantities of blood units
In a related development, very limited quantities of blood and plasma units entered the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, at a time when besieged hospitals are experiencing severe shortages and growing demand.
Despite intense international pressure on Israel, it allowed the entry of 2,900 units of blood and plasma for hospitals in Gaza, according to Mohammed Saqr, a spokesman for Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Saqr explained in statements that "the complex received 1,500 plasma units and 1,400 blood units sent from the West Bank, an amount sufficient for the complex's needs for only two weeks."
He warned that these quantities would only be sufficient for one week if distributed to all hospitals in the Gaza Strip, stressing that the daily number of infections is extremely high, depleting the remaining capacity of the health system.
Saqr stressed that these quantities "cover only a small portion of the growing medical need," calling on the World Health Organization to pressure for the continued and regular entry of blood shipments.
Earlier today, the Ministry of Health in Gaza warned that the health and humanitarian situation had reached a "catastrophic level" as Israel prevented the entry of emergency medical supplies.
She pointed out that the collapse in stocks of medicines and medical supplies has led to a deterioration in specialized services, particularly for cancer and heart patients.
The ministry explained that 47% of the essential medicines list and 65% of medical supplies are now at zero stock, while only 9 of 34 oxygen generating stations are partially operating, affecting hospital supplies.
She also pointed out that community blood donation campaigns have become ineffective due to the spread of malnutrition and anemia.
"UNRWA faces an existential crisis"
Meanwhile, Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said that two million people in the Gaza Strip are facing starvation, while food and medical supplies are piling up at the border.
In a speech at the agency's Advisory Committee meeting yesterday, Lazzarini said, "The agency is at a turning point in the occupied Palestinian territory, which threatens to permanently alter the established parameters for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This phase is witnessing the implementation of a project that has been in the making for decades, with the aim of separating Palestinians from Palestine."
"This is the abhorrent culmination of 20 months of inaction and impunity, during which more than 55,000 people, most of them women and children, were reported killed," Lazzarini said.
With full American support, Israel has been committing genocidal crimes in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 188,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands displaced.
