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Gaza – Palestinian Information Center
As the brutal Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip entered its seventeenth day, the Israeli occupation forces intensified their attacks, committing successive retaliatory massacres that left hundreds of martyrs in a matter of hours, following a day of resounding defeats on the Gaza border and the Lebanese front.
The spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, Ashraf al-Qudra, confirmed that the Israeli occupation committed 23 massacres in the past few hours, resulting in the deaths of 436 martyrs, including 182 children, the majority of whom were from the southern Gaza Strip.
He indicated that the number of massacres perpetrated by the Israeli occupation against families has reached 597, resulting in the deaths of 3,813 martyrs, with the majority still buried under the rubble.
He confirmed that the total number of victims of the Israeli aggression since its beginning on Gaza has reached 5,087 martyrs, including 2,055 children, 1,119 women, and 217 elderly people, in addition to 15,273 citizens wounded.
He added: We have received 1,500 reports of missing persons still trapped under the rubble, including 830 children. He revealed that medical teams are facing severe burn injuries and skin fusion, the likes of which they have never seen before on the bodies of the wounded, making them extremely difficult to treat.
He called on international organizations to investigate the nature of the weapon used to fuse the skin of the wounded and to urgently provide the necessary treatments.
This evening, the Ministry of Interior stated that the occupation forces committed their brutal nighttime massacres against civilians sleeping in their homes in several areas of the Gaza Strip, destroying homes with their inhabitants inside and causing a large number of martyrs and wounded, many of whom remain trapped under the rubble.
On Monday evening, journalist Muhammad Imad Labad was killed in an Israeli airstrike near his home in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, bringing the number of martyred journalists to 20.
Martyrs were killed and a large number of civilians were wounded as a result of Israeli shelling of several inhabited homes in the Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City this evening.
Occupation aircraft bombed the Al-Ihsan Mosque in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, completely destroying it.
A number of civilians were injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the homes of the Al-Ustad family in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood and the Farhat family in the Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City.
The Israeli occupation forces also bombed a house in Bir al-Na'ja, north of the Gaza Strip, resulting in casualties. Additionally, several people were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a home in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City.
Rescue and civil defense teams recovered a number of bodies and injured people from the rubble of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the home of the Abu Taqiya family in the Al-Shuhada area, west of the Jabalia refugee camp. There are still bodies and injuries under the rubble.
Earlier, Interior Ministry spokesman Iyad al-Bazm stated that the Israeli army is committing new massacres against civilians and has intensified its airstrikes on dozens of homes across the Gaza Strip since last night and this morning, resulting in a large number of casualties, mostly women and children.
At least 18 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in Israeli airstrikes that targeted several inhabited homes in the Al-Saoudi and Al-Junaina neighborhoods of Rafah.
Israeli warplanes also bombed a home belonging to the Al-Hosari family opposite the Al-Ansar Mosque in the Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City.
Israeli warplanes bombed an inhabited house near the Nassar Junction in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, leaving several people injured and others trapped under the rubble.
Israeli warplanes also bombed a home belonging to the Abu Zeina family in the Bir Al-Naaja area, west of Gaza City, resulting in several injuries.
Our correspondent reported that Professor Ibrahim Hamed Al-Astal, Dean of the Faculty of Education at the Islamic University, along with his wife, daughters, and several relatives, were killed in an Israeli airstrike.
This morning, Israeli warplanes bombed a home belonging to the Radwan family in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, west of Gaza City, killing and wounding several residents.
Israeli warplanes also bombed and destroyed the Al-Nour Al-Muhammadi Mosque in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, injuring several people in the process. Israeli warplanes bombed two houses on Yarmouk Street in the center of Gaza City, resulting in a number of martyrs and injuries.
Israeli warplanes also bombed the home of the Mohsen family in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood west of Gaza City, killing and wounding several residents. Another house in the Sabra neighborhood was also bombed.
The Ministry of Interior announced the recovery of at least 10 bodies from the site of an Israeli airstrike targeting the Abu Dan family home in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip this morning.
Our correspondent reported that the Gaza Strip experienced its bloodiest night since the start of the offensive, with dozens of Israeli warplanes participating in the bombing of homes and residential neighborhoods, continuing their scorched-earth policy.
He said that the intense bombardment continued almost non-stop until the early hours of Monday morning, noting that the attacks targeted civilians, destroying homes with their inhabitants inside and killing children and women en masse in a futile attempt to pressure the public and undermine popular support for the resistance.
According to medical sources; Israeli airstrikes since last night have resulted in over 100 martyrs and dozens of injuries across the Gaza Strip.
The Ministry of Interior announced that 17 people were martyred and dozens were injured in Israeli airstrikes targeting the home of the Batsh family in Jabalia and an apartment building in the al-Falouja neighborhood in northern Gaza this morning.
Early this morning, six people were martyred: university lecturer Mohammed Abdel Ghafour, his wife, and four of their children, including three children. Others were injured when Israeli warplanes bombed the Abdel Ghafour family home in Khan Younis.
Israeli warplanes also bombed the home of the Samour family near Hamad City, causing injuries in a neighboring house.
Eleven people, including children, were martyred when Israeli warplanes bombed two homes belonging to the Rashwan and al-Zinati families in Khan Younis.
Early this morning, several people were martyred and others were injured when Israeli warplanes targeted the home of the Abu Ayada family in the al-Saouda neighborhood west of Rafah.
The Ministry of Interior reported early this morning that several people were killed and others wounded when Israeli warplanes bombed the home of the Abu Ayada family in Rafah and another belonging to the Zinati family in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Our correspondent reported that Israeli warplanes also bombed the home of the Hashash family in Rafah, launched an airstrike near a UNRWA food distribution center in the Shati refugee camp, and carried out several airstrikes on the Tel al-Hawa area of Gaza City.
The Israeli military also targeted two homes in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City and launched a third airstrike that hit the Sheikh Radwan water reservoir, causing a fire in one of the generators.
A number of people were killed and others wounded in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house on Aida Street, west of Gaza City.
Israeli warplanes also bombed the home of the Ladawi family in the Martyrs' area, west of the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, resulting in several deaths and injuries.
Israeli warplanes also bombed the vicinity of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza and the vicinity of Al-Quds and Al-Shifa hospitals in Gaza City.
Israeli warplanes bombed the home of the Al-Ghoul family behind Al-Shifa Medical Complex, causing critical injuries.
Until midnight, residents and rescue teams continued to recover the bodies of two more martyrs and search for survivors and wounded individuals under a group of houses destroyed by Israeli shelling in the Jabalia refugee camp, after the bodies of 30 martyrs had already been recovered.
The Ministry of Health spokesperson confirmed that more than 400 Palestinians were killed on Sunday, while dozens more were still arriving at hospitals after a bloody night in which Israeli forces destroyed numerous homes with their inhabitants inside.
Al-Qudra stated, "It is not possible to give an accurate count of the martyrs at this time because many are still arriving at hospitals, and there are still many trapped under the rubble. Night has fallen, and the intense bombardment continues."
The occupation's massacres came hours after it suffered resounding blows from the resistance, namely the Qassam Brigades' ambush east of Khan Younis, which resulted in the destruction of a tank and a bulldozer. The occupation admitted to the death of one soldier and the wounding of three others. Meanwhile, a major escalation occurred on the Lebanese front, where the Islamic Resistance launched rocket attacks against occupation forces and their positions in northern occupied Palestine, inflicting confirmed casualties.
According to the latest update from the Ministry of Health on Sunday evening, the number of martyrs in the occupation's aggression against Gaza has risen to 4,651, including 1,873 children, 1,023 women, and 187 elderly people, in addition to 14,245 wounded. This statistic does not include the dozens of martyrs who were killed last night and this morning.
The Ministry of Health also received 1,450 reports of missing persons under the rubble, including 800 children.
Rescue and civil defense teams are facing difficulties in recovering the martyrs and the wounded from under the rubble of bombed homes due to the repeated bombings and the scarcity of resources and fuel.
The occupation continues to carry out a bloody holocaust on the Gaza Strip, where the “Israeli” war machine has committed the most heinous crimes of murder and genocide against civilians, and continues to close the crossings of the Strip and prevent the entry of food, medicine and fuel.