At least twenty people died and thirty were injured in a new wave of Israeli bombings at different points of the Gaza Strip during Wednesday night. Among them, five journalists of the Al Quds television channel (linked to Hamas) They lost their lives after Israel will bomb are vehicle of transmission in front of Al-Awda hospital in Nuseiratin it center of the Gaza Stripas reported by this same media outlet.
With them, they are already 201 informants who have died in Gaza due to the Israeli offensive according to the count of the Media Office of the Government of the enclave, which includes among its figures the deaths of journalists, but also of influencers and intellectuals. The deceased were identified as Faisal Abu al Qumsan, Ayman al Jadi, Ibrahim al Sheikh Ali, Muhammad al Ladah and Fadi Hassouni.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), for its part, confirmed that it carried out a “precise attack” against a vehicle belonging to an Islamic Jihad cell in the Nuseirat area during the night.
Risk of harm to civilians
“Prior to the attack, numerous measures were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civiliansincluding the use of precise munitions, aerial surveillance and additional intelligence collection. “The IDF will continue to operate against Hamas in defense of the citizens of Israel,” the IDF said in a statement.
According to the Wafa news agency, five people died and twenty others were injured after an airstrike on a home in the Zeitun neighborhood of Gaza City.
In the neighborhood of Sabra of the gazati capitalten people lost their lives in Israeli attacks. Eight were killed in an airstrike on a home of a family identified as Dahsan. So far, Civil Defense teams have extracted five bodies from the rubble of the house.
Further north, in the town of They counted (under Israeli siege since last October 6), two other people died in another bombing against a residence.
These bombings are added to those carried out by Israel the day before and which ended the lives of 23 Palestinians, which increased the total number of deaths since the start of the war to 45,361 last year. October 7, 2023according to the latest data from the Gaza Health Ministry of the Hamas Government.
“Catastrophic”
The situation in the Strip is catastrophic and thousands of Palestinians face hunger in the besieged north of the enclave, a new report from FEWS NET, a US intelligence monitoring body, revealed on Monday. food crisiswhich claimed that famine is already occurring in northern Gaza amid a near-total Israeli food blockade.
With increasing force, international organizations and humanitarian groups describe the continuation of the Israeli war in Gaza as genocide. On December 5, Amnesty International concluded, after an investigation, that Israel “has committed and continues to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.”
