GAZA: Dozens of people were killed and injured, the majority of them women and children, at dawn today as a result of ongoing Israeli bombings that targeted most of the besieged Gaza Strip.
Warplanes bombed two houses in the northern Gaza Strip killing at least 14 people and wounding others, while dozens of others, including children and women, were killed and injured as a result of the bombing of a house in Jabalia, while a large number of people are still trapped under the rubble.
A young man was also killed in Tal al-Zaatar area, north of Gaza, after an Israeli sniper shot him inside his house.
The occupation warships also opened heavy machinegun fire at Rafah shores, south of the Gaza Strip.
Kamal Adwan Hospital remains under siege for the eighth day in a row with a severe shortage of water and food. The occupation forces ordered all medical staff, the wounded, and those present to leave it and gather in its courtyards amid the cold weather as 12 infants are still held in the incubators without water
or food and medical attention.
The forces have also destroyed the southern part of the hospital and are still targeting everyone who moves in it.
Warplanes also targeted the vicinity of the UNRWA al-Mazraa School in Deir al-Balah and a house in Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Israeli warplanes also fired missiles at a house in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, while the occupation army continued its bombing of al-Shuja’iya, al-Tuffah, and al-Daraj neighborhoods in Gaza City.
Warplanes also attacked neighborhoods in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip.
The Ministry of Health said in its latest statistics that 18,700 people were killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israeli aggression on the seventh of October, the majority of them (70%) were women and children, while more than 51,000 were injured, pointing out that thousands are still missing under the rubble of the targeted residential areas.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA
Ramallah: Two Palestinians were murdered by Israeli gunfire on Saturday in two different instances in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
A 20-year-old man in the village of Beit Ummar died from his wounds after sustaining “critical wounds in the abdomen with live bullets from the occupation,” according to a statement from the ministry, while a 25-year-old man was martyred in the city of Tulkarm.
The overall number of Palestinian martyrs in the West Bank now stands at 290, with 3,430 injured since October 7.
“As-Salim Nasser Salim Hajar (25 years old), from the Shweika suburb, north of Tulkarm was murdered, after being shot in the head by the occupation’s forces, at the gate (of the town) of Deir Al-Ghusoun,” the Sawt Falastin (Voice of Palestine) Radio station (governmental) announced.
The official Palestinian News Agency reported earlier Saturday that a young man suffered injuries “before he and his brother were arrested, while they were near the apartheid separation
and expansion wall, west of Deir Al-Ghusoun, north of Tulkarm.”
In a previous statement, the Ministry declared “the martyrdom of the young man, Hamza Ibrahim Muhammad Bashkar (30 years old), who was shot dead by occupation forces near the town of Huwwara yesterday evening (Friday).”
The Ministry of Health did not disclose details about Bashkar’s martyrdom, but a journalist from Nablus mentioned the that the story circulated on Friday evening without any official announcement. The same source states that “the occupation army is detaining the body of the martyr who allegedly attempted to carry out a stabbing attack.”
According to the Palestinian Society Prisoners’ Club, the number of arrests increased on Saturday to 4,520 after 16 Palestinians were arrested from various governorates in the West Bank on Friday/Saturday night.
Source:Jordan News Agency