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by IMEMC News
Aug 16, 2024

On Friday, day 315 of the Israeli assault on the entire population of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued their assault, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians in numerous airstrikes in Khan Younis and in al-Mawasi — the area that Israeli forces had ordered all Palestinians to flee to as a supposed ‘safe zone’.

A woman and three children were killed on Friday in an Israeli airstrike on a tent for displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Medical sources said, “An Israeli airstrike targeted a tent for displaced people near the Doctors Without Borders Foundation, west of Khan Yunis, resulting in the killing of 4 civilians: a woman and her three children. ”

A heartbroken Palestinian father sorrowfully says goodbye to his little girl, who was killed after the Israeli occupation bombed a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians in Mawasi, west of Khan Younis:

This area is among the areas that the Israeli occupation previously claimed as “safe humanitarian” areas. The entire population of 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza have been forcibly displaced by the Israeli military, and have spent months going from one place to another that the Israeli military has deemed ‘safe’, only to be bombed there and forced to move again.

Palestinian sources reported that six innocent civilians were killed by an Israeli airstrike on a displaced persons’ tent west of Khan Younis.

The children:
1. Rima Al-Akkad
2. Alma Al-Akkad
3. Lana Al-Akkad
4. The mother (Al-Akkad)
5. Khaled Al-Firany
6. Ahmed Al-Firany

On Friday morning, the Israeli occupation reduced the “humanitarian zone” in the cities of Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah, ordering residents of several areas to evacuate. The previously-displaced Palestinians were ordered to pack up and move again — for many this is the 20th time they have been forced to pack up and move by the Israeli military.

Palestinian family attempting to flee Khan Younis as ordered by the Israeli military, coming under fire as they flee:

In an area encompassing less than one-fifth of the Gaza Strip, more than 1.7 million displaced Palestinian civilians live in the Al-Mawasi area and the area to the west of it. This is an area that lacks the most basic necessities of life as a result of the ongoing Israeli war of extermination, according to the international humanitarian aid organization “Oxfam”.

Al-Mawasi is a sandy area along the coastline, extending from the southwest of Deir al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip, passing through the west of Khan Younis to the west of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Friday that Palestinians in Gaza are “stuck in a nightmare of death and destruction”.

The UN agency indicated that “fear has spread once again among Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip, following orders from the Israeli army to evacuate some areas in Al-Mawasi.”

These latest evacuation orders include areas that Israel claimed were a “humanitarian zone” in Gaza. The UN Agency reported that Palestinians in Gaza are “stuck in an endless nightmare of death and destruction on an unbelievable scale.”

Friday Funeral of Palestinians killed the previous day in Dir al-Balah:

According to Middle East Eye, Unicef and WHO are calling for a humanitarian pause for seven days in Gaza to launch two rounds of a polio vaccination campaign at the end of August in the beseiged strip.

In a statement issued by Unicef, the pauses “would allow children and families to safely reach health facilities and community outreach workers to get to children who cannot access health facilities for polio vaccination” — something that is not possible without a cease in the Israeli attacks.

In coordination with the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the UN entities have previously provided two drops of novel oral polio vaccine type 2 to more than 640,000 children under the age of 10.

The Israeli occupation forces have continue their aggression on the Gaza Strip by land, sea and air since October 7, 2023, which has resulted in the killing of at least 40,005 Palestinians and the injury of 92,401 others, while thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and rescue crews cannot reach them. The death toll is likely much higher, with the Lancet scientific journal estimating in July around 180,000 Palestinians had been killed.

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Day 315: Israeli Missiles Kill And Injure Dozens In Gaza

Published on: Aug 16, 2024 at 11:38

In the early hours of Friday, the Gaza Strip was subject to intense rocket and artillery bombardment by Israeli forces, leading to dozens of fatalities and injuries among the residents.

Reports indicate that emergency medical teams have retrieved five slain individuals from the Abdul Wahid and Al-Khor families, along with eight wounded, following an attack on a residential building in Gaza City’s Al-Daraj neighborhood.

Also, Israeli military vehicles stationed near the Shuhada junction opened fire on homes in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

The casualties were transported to the city’s Baptist Hospital. Among the deceased were Abu Bashar Abdul Wahid, his wife, their son Bashar, and their 13-year-old daughter.

An additional civilian fatality and several injuries occurred due to an Israeli airstrike near Al-Zawaida village’s entrance. The injured were taken to Deir Al-Balah’s Al-Aqsa Hospital.

Another Israeli bombing targeting Gaza City’s Saraya district resulted in one death and multiple injuries.

Furthermore, the body of a young man, Hatem Hassouna Qweider, was recovered after he was fatally shot by a drone near Nusseirat refugee camp’s Da’wa Mosque, in central Gaza; He was subsequently taken to the camp’s Al-Awda Hospital.

Also, a house owned by the Eid family in al-Bureij refugee camp’s Block 9 area was destroyed by Israeli airstrikes, causing casualties.

Moreover, Israeli shelling to the west of Rafah, in Gaza’s southmost part, claimed another life and caused further injuries. Concurrently, Israeli artillery targeted the western regions of Rafah.

Additionally, the body of a slain individual was retrieved following the shelling of a residence in the Mufti’s land area, situated north of the Nusseirat refugee camp.

The army fired missiles and shells at several areas east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the coastal enclave, causing casualties.

The soldiers also wired and demolished residential structures in the town of al-Qarara, northeast of Khan Younis.

In northern Gaza, the army fired a missile at an apartment in the Jabalia refugee camp, killing many Palestinians, including several children, and wounding many others.

Furthermore, ambulances and rescue teams were sent to a bombarded house in the refugee camp, and just as they arrived there, one of the medics, Abdul-Qader Ahmad, realized that it was his home the army targeted, killing seven members of his family, including his mother and father

This pattern has become all too common: amidst the conflict, physicians have faced the heart-wrenching reality of treating their offspring in emergency wards, and first responders have encountered the grim task of retrieving their relatives from the aftermath of bombings.

In a post on X, Avichai Adraee, the Israeli army Arabic-language spokesperson, issued an evacuation order for residents in six neighborhood blocks of Gaza City.

The neighborhoods specified include Sabra, Rimal, Tel al-Hawa, and Daraj, which were previously regarded as part of the “humanitarian and safe zones” in Gaza.

It is worth mentioning that, for the second day in a row, the army ordered the evacuation of more neighborhoods in Gaza, and said it intends to bomb those areas allegedly because Palestinian fighters are there.

Israel has now killed at least 40,005 Palestinians, including about 16,456 children, and injured more than 92,401, in addition to more than 10.000 who remain under the debris of bombarded homes, on destroyed streets, and in alleys, inaccessible to ambulance and rescue services, in various parts of the coastal enclave.
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At Least 17 Palestinians Killed in Israeli Strike in Central Gaza, Health Officials Say

According to Gaza health officials, eight children and four women were among the dead. The Israeli military says it is looking into reports of the strike

Reuters. Published by Haaretz
Aug 17, 2024 6:02 pm IDT

At least 17 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike in the Gaza town of Zawayda on Saturday, Gaza health officials said, as Israel issued new evacuation orders, citing Hamas rocket fire nearby.

Most of the people killed were from the same family and they included eight children and four women, according to health officials in the strip. Israel's military said it was aware of the reports of the strike and was looking into them.

"They were asleep in their beds, kids and babies, then three missiles targeted their place," said Abu Ahmed Hassan, a neighbor. The owner of the house was a known merchant, he said. "There are no military activities here at all," he added.

Israel's military spokesperson in Arabic posted instructions on X on Saturday for people in parts of central Gaza, including in the Maghazi district, which is near Zawayda, to evacuate to a designated humanitarian zone. He said militants were firing rockets from those locations and that the military was preparing to act against them.

Reuters could not immediately verify whether any areas of Zawayda were among those ordered to evacuate and whether people there received the military's instructions. Residents said thousands were streaming out of Maghazi.

On Friday, two sections of the southern city of Khan Yunis within what Israel has designated as a humanitarian zone were deemed dangerous by the military, which ordered people to evacuate them, saying that militants had been regularly firing rockets from there.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Friday's orders, which also included other areas of the enclave outside the humanitarian zones, had affected around 170,000 displaced people.

"This is one of the largest evacuation orders affecting the zone to date and it shrinks the size of the so-called 'humanitarian area' to about 41 square kilometers [16 square miles], or 11 percent of the total area of the Gaza Strip," an OCHA report said.

In the central part of the enclave, residents said that Israeli tanks advanced further on Saturday into the eastern area of Deir al-Balah, an area they had not invaded before, where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians are sheltering.

The Israeli military said that since Friday, its forces had killed dozens of militants, including some who had fired rockets from central and southern Gaza.

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