Among them, 40 were killed in Israeli raids this morning, targeting three homes belonging to the Zaqout, Hamid, and Balousha families in the General Security area north of Gaza City.
Medical sources said that "Gaza City hospitals alone received at least 91 martyrs, while nine were killed in the central Gaza Strip and six in the south, as a result of heavy Israeli air and artillery bombardment that targeted inhabited homes, civilian gatherings, and a vehicle carrying displaced persons."
The Israeli occupation forces also carried out operations to destroy homes and residential buildings with explosive robots in areas northwest and northeast of the city. According to medical sources and eyewitnesses, the army targeted several adjacent homes crowded with Palestinians and tents housing displaced people in various areas of Gaza City.
Early Wednesday morning, Israeli aircraft bombed a residential tower east of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Emergency and ambulance sources in Gaza announced the deaths of two Palestinians and the injury of others in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in southern Gaza City. The attack coincided with the detonation of an armored vehicle laden with tons of explosives, destroying homes south of the neighborhood.
Al-Awda Hospital sources said that a Palestinian man, his wife, and his daughter were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. Meanwhile, Gaza Emergency and Ambulance Services reported that two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City. Others were injured in an Israeli airstrike on a tent housing displaced persons in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, south of the Strip.
Medical sources did not provide details about the locations of the martyrs, but eyewitnesses described some of the consequences of these attacks. They said that the Israeli army killed five Palestinians, including children, and wounded others on Tuesday when it bombed a vehicle carrying displaced persons near the Ansar Junction west of Gaza City.
The Israeli army also killed two Palestinians and wounded others when it targeted a civilian gathering near the Lababidi intersection on Nasr Street, west of the city. Meanwhile, a Palestinian was killed and several others wounded in shelling targeting civilians near Al-Shifa Hospital, west of the city. Several Palestinians, mostly children and women, were wounded in an Israeli airstrike that targeted an inhabited house in the Al-Shati refugee camp.
Northwest of Gaza City, medical sources told Anadolu Agency that the Israeli army committed a "horrific massacre" by bombing adjacent houses near the "General Security Junction," killing at least 23 Palestinians, including children and women, according to a preliminary toll. More than 25 others were injured, and dozens were missing under the rubble.
For several hours, civil defense and ambulance crews continued to try to rescue as many injured people as possible from under the rubble and retrieve the dead, according to eyewitnesses.
Northwest of the city, a number of Palestinians were injured when a small Israeli drone (quadcopter) fired at civilian gatherings around the Sheikh Radwan Bridge. Several Palestinians were also injured in Israeli shelling targeting the vicinity of Hamama School in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood.
During the night, the Israeli army continued to carry out operations to destroy homes and residential buildings with booby-trapped robots around the "Baraka" area in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, coinciding with artillery shelling and drone fire on civilians' homes in the area. Meanwhile, Israeli fighter jets launched a series of intensive and successive raids targeting the "Intelligence" and "Al-Karamah" areas northwest of the city.
From central Gaza City, civil defense crews recovered the bodies of 20 martyrs and 15 injured from under the rubble of homes bombed by the army in the vicinity of Shawa Square, including a 10-year-old girl who was rescued after a search that lasted more than 8 hours. In the eastern part of the city, the Israeli army committed a massacre by bombing two inhabited homes in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, resulting, according to a preliminary toll, in the deaths of 8 Palestinians and the loss of dozens of others under the rubble.
The bombing caused widespread destruction to nearby homes, while the process of retrieving the dead from under the rubble and transporting them to Al-Ma'moudiya and Al-Shifa hospitals continued. The final death toll has not yet been determined.
Medical sources reported that a girl was killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombardment near the Al-Aybaky Mosque in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood. Others were killed and injured in a bombardment targeting the Umm Al-Qura School, which houses displaced people in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood.
South of the city, four Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli bombardment targeting an inhabited house in the Sabra neighborhood. Meanwhile, Al-Quds Hospital announced the arrival of four martyrs and dozens more injured as a result of several Israeli attacks in the hospital's vicinity.
In the central Gaza Strip, a father, a mother, and their daughter were killed, and others were injured, in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house on Market Street, west of Deir al-Balah. Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat neighborhood announced that it had received "three martyrs waiting for aid, who were targeted by Israeli gunfire near the Netzarim checkpoint in the central Gaza Strip." A number of Palestinians were also injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a tent for displaced people at Abu Hamisa School in the al-Bureij refugee camp. Meanwhile, a Palestinian woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house east of Deir al-Balah.
In the southern Gaza Strip, Nasser Hospital received the bodies of four Palestinian aid seekers killed by Israeli army fire near distribution centers northwest of Rafah.
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Documenting the killing of displaced people
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor documented on Tuesday the killing of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli occupation army on forced displacement routes in the Gaza Strip.
The Geneva-based Observatory said in a statement that "the Israeli occupation army is forcibly displacing Palestinian civilians from their homes and places of refuge, and then deliberately targeting them during their displacement." It added that this practice "reveals a brutal pattern and a political decision based on carrying out genocide against the Palestinians."
He explained that this is taking place "through a combination of widespread killing, forced displacement, and the imposition of unlivable living conditions." He added that his field team documented Israeli aircraft targeting a Palestinian civilian family traveling in a private vehicle on their way to flee south, pursuant to Israeli forced displacement orders.
He added that the family "was deliberately bombed three times in succession" on Tuesday evening. He stated that "the Israeli targeting of the vehicle occurred (...) as it approached the Ansar intersection in Gaza City, resulting in the deaths of five civilians: a couple from the Sawalhi family and their three children."
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor asserted that "the Israeli occupation army is engaging in the greatest deception campaign against the world." It explained that "while it claims to be urging Gazans to evacuate and providing them with 'safe routes,' it continues to launch horrific raids on these routes and in refugee areas, turning them into death traps."
He stressed that this situation "reveals that the real goal is not to protect civilians, but rather to lure them in, deliberately target them, and kill them wherever they are." He stated that "the Israeli occupation forces have turned Gaza City into a battlefield of killing and destruction, as they are constantly launching airstrikes and detonating armored vehicles loaded with tons of explosives."
On Tuesday, September 16, the Israeli army announced that it had "begun a ground invasion of Gaza City," but field evidence and local sources confirm that no ground incursion has taken place.
According to evidence and sources, the army is intensifying its artillery and air bombardment, as well as its use of explosive robots, to terrorize Palestinians and force them to flee in a war of extermination and displacement.
The Observatory explained that "the goal of this 'scorched earth' policy is to force hundreds of thousands of residents and displaced persons in Gaza City to evacuate by force and intimidation." It added that this is happening "through committing massacres against civilians on a large scale, expanding the destruction of remaining residential buildings, and completely disrupting humanitarian response efforts."
The steadfastness of one million Palestinians in Gaza
The government media office in the Gaza Strip announced on Tuesday that "one million Palestinians continue to resist in Gaza and its north, refusing forced displacement southward, while about 190,000 others have been displaced under the pressure of Israeli plans for permanent displacement. Meanwhile, a reverse displacement movement has been recorded, with more than 15,000 returning to their original areas inside Gaza City by Tuesday afternoon, due to the lack of even the most basic necessities of life in the south."
The office noted that "the population of Gaza City and its northern areas exceeds 1.3 million people, including approximately 398,000 residents of the North Gaza Governorate, the majority of whom were forcibly displaced to the western part of the governorate. In addition, there are more than 914,000 residents of the Gaza Governorate, including approximately 350,000 who were forced to flee the eastern neighborhoods of the city toward its center and west."
He pointed out that "the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Yunis and Rafah, which currently houses approximately 800,000 people and is falsely promoted by the occupation forces as a humanitarian and safe area, has been subjected to more than 109 airstrikes and repeated shelling, leaving more than 2,000 martyrs. It is completely devoid of the basic necessities of life, with no hospitals, no infrastructure, and no essential services such as water, food, shelter, electricity, or education, making living there almost impossible."
He added that the area designated by Israel as "shelter" on its maps does not exceed 12% of the Gaza Strip's area, while "the occupation is trying to cram more than 1.7 million people into it, as part of a plan to establish concentration camps as part of a systematic forced displacement policy, with the aim of emptying northern Gaza and Gaza City of their residents."
The Israeli genocide in Gaza left 64,964 Palestinians dead and 165,312 injured, most of them children and women, and a famine that killed 428 Palestinians, including 146 children.
