Gaza’s death toll rises above 42,000
At least 42,010 people have been killed and 97,720 wounded in Israeli military attacks on Gaza since October 7, the enclave’s Health Ministry says.
Of those, 45 Palestinians were killed and 130 wounded in the latest 24-hour reporting period, the ministry added.
‘Dozens killed in Jabalia. No one can retrieve their bodies’
The Israeli military ground operation is ongoing against Jabalia refugee camp.
We are here on the street corner of Jabalia al-Balad and Jabalia camp, where the Israeli forces shoot at anyone who moves in this street.
These are some displaced people who are trying to leave the street and to escape the scene.
Also, the Israeli forces have set up a number of barriers, and they destroyed a number of citizens’ homes in order to close the street leading to Jabalia.
The Israeli military has deployed reinforcements here, and there are a number of dead and wounded in the eastern and northeastern areas of the camp.
We can hear the sounds of gunfire. Dozens of people have been killed in the streets of the camp. No one can retrieve their bodies.
It’s a very difficult situation with the Israeli operation in the area now into its fifth successive day.
The streets have been bulldozed, and the Israelis have created piles of earth as barriers to prevent any movement between Jabalia al-Balad and Jabalia camp.
Dozens of Israeli soldiers troops vow to quit over Gaza captives: Report
More than 100 Israeli soldiers signed a letter saying they’ll refuse to serve in the military unless the government commits to a Gaza ceasefire and secures the release of captives held there.
According to the Israeli newspaper
Haaretz, the 130 signatories of the letter – addressed to Israeli cabinet ministers and army chief of staff – included reservists and draftees from various units.
“It is now clear that continuing the war in Gaza does not only delay the hostages’ return from captivity, but also endangers their lives. Many hostages have been killed by [army] strikes, many more than those who have been rescued in military operations to save them,” the letter said.
Warning they “will not be able to continue serving” unless the government pursues a captive deal, it added: “For some of us, the red line has been crossed already. For others … the day is approaching when we will, with broken hearts, stop reporting for duty.”
UNRWA forced to shut down lifesaving services
As previously reported, Israeli military operations in the north of Gaza are causing humanitarian services to stop.
“Intensified military operations in the north are forcing us to shut down lifesaving services,” the UNRWA said on X.
At least seven schools sheltering displaced people are being evacuated, the UN agency said. Only two out of eight water wells in the Jabalia refugee camp are still operational, it added.
Two people killed in northern Israel by Hezbollah rocket fire
A man and a woman were killed in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona after it was hit by a rocket barrage from Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israel’s ambulance service says.
The deaths follow a spate of rocket fire over the past few days as Hezbollah responds to Israeli strikes inside Lebanon.
“We found a man and a woman, aged around 40 years old, unconscious and injured by shrapnel. We carried out medical examinations, but their injuries were serious and we had to declare them dead on the spot,” said emergency service provider Magen David Adom in a statement.
Medical teams flee hospitals in northern Gaza
Hospitals in northern Gaza were told by the Israeli army to flee in the last 24 hours and not remain operational because of the expansion of military operations in the Jabalia refugee camp.
What is going on there right now is that medical teams are leaving the hospitals and a very limited number of medics are left behind with the remaining patients as there has been no sort of international rescue intervention to help evacuate them.
There are about 400,000 still stuck in Jabalia refugee camp trying to flee to Gaza City but the roads are locked.
We are also getting more confirmation from medics that the Kamal Adwan Hospital is nearly empty now. They are also running low in fuel and medical supplies as no convoy was able to pass by for the past few days due to the ongoing military operations there.
These evacuation orders were given to residents of Jabalia, Beit Hanoon and Beit Lahiya – the three main towns in northern Gaza.
Families are trying to avoid going to the south … they have taken the decision as they have nowhere else to go and they are aware bombing takes place there, too.
Jabalia refugee camp is surrounded by the Israeli army, bodies have been left in the narrow streets around it and those who try to flee have been shot by snipers.
Israeli soldiers ‘firing on anyone who moves’ in western Jabalia
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society says its medics are receiving dozens of urgent pleas to evacuate casualties but are unable to respond because of the Israeli ground invasion of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip.
“Soldiers are firing at anyone who moves in the Be’er al-Na’ja area, west of Jabalia in northern Gaza,” the rescue organisation said in a post on X, including video of one of its crew members responding to a call.
A large-scale Israeli operation in northern Gaza has killed and wounded dozens of people and threatens to shut down three hospitals. An air strike early on Wednesday killed at least nine people, including two women and two children
in Jabalia.
Israel’s northern Gaza offensive ‘one of the most violent campaigns of genocide’
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor is calling for urgent international intervention to save tens of thousands of Palestinians trapped in northern Gaza “who are being subjected to one of the most violent campaigns of genocide the Strip has ever witnessed”.
The appeal from the Geneva-based group came as Israel’s deadly offensive in northern Gaza entered a fifth day.
“The Israeli army is systematically working to empty northern Gaza of its residents and force them to move to the south, recently issuing several evacuation orders and dropping leaflets demanding their evacuation,” Euro-Med said in a statement.
“It is clear that the Israeli army’s latest operation has no military objective or necessity; rather, it is intended to finish the destructive operations that, during three prior incursions, have affected over 85% of the buildings in northern Gaza. Additionally, it is intended to target civilians and force them to flee the area, converting it into a full military zone,” it added.
Israel is accelerating the pace of its genocide against the Palestinians there by carrying out mass and planned killings.
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