Day 283 of Israeli Assault on Gaza: Dozens Killed in Pre-Dawn Bombings
Israeli forces continued their assault on Gaza Monday before dawn, day 283 of the ongoing onslaught against the entire civilian population of 2.24 million people living in the Gaza Strip.
Israel continued carrying out several deadly bombings in az-Zawayda, Rafah and the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to the Palestinian Wafa news agency.
Meanwhile, the death toll from Israel’s airstrike on Sunday targeting a United Nations school-turned-refugee-shelter in Nuseirat, in central Gaza, has risen to 17 killed, with 80 others being injured.
The strike on the UN-run Abu Araban school in central Gaza’s Nuseirat camp was the fifth Israeli attack on a school-turned-shelter in eight days.
The Abu Araban school was housing “thousands of displaced people”, according to civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal. He added that most of those killed were women and children.
Saturday’s bombing of the Abu Araban school followed a deadly massacre on a UN school in al-Mawasi, in Rafah on Saturday, in which 90 Palestinians were killed and 300 wounded, some with missing limbs and other serious injuries.
On Sunday morning, dozens of civilians were killed and injured on Monday in Israeli shelling of various areas in the Gaza Strip.
A correspondent with the Wafa news agency reported that the Israeli occupation artillery fired several shells at the neighborhoods of Tal al-Hawa, Sheikh Ajleen, and al-Sabra in Gaza City, while helicopters fired at citizens in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of the city.
In addition, the Israeli occupation artillery shelled the vicinity of Street 8 in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.
Also, Red Crescent paramedics recovered the bodies of 5 civilians, including 3 children, as a result of the targeting of the Al-Manaama family home in the Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip by the Israeli occupation warplanes, coinciding with the firing of the occupation artillery shells at the Al-Maghraqa area and the northern outskirts of the Al-Nuseirat camp, and the eastern areas of the Al-Bureij camp, in addition to gunfire from the Israeli occupation helicopters northwest of the city of Al-Zahra.
Israeli warplanes fired a missile at a residential apartment in the vicinity of Al-Awda Schools in the town of Abasan Al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, without any injuries being reported.
In Rafah, the Israeli occupation artillery fired several shells at the western areas of the city, in conjunction with shooting from helicopters toward the same area.
Palestinian officials continue to call for a ceasefire, and indicated, as they have from the first day of the Israeli invasion following the deadly Palestinian attack on Israel on October 7th 2024, a willingness to release remaining hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian hostages being held in horrific conditions in Israeli detention camps in the Negev desert.
Israeli sources reported this week that the Israeli Shin Bet (Intelligence) Service has estimated that over 18,000 Palestinians are currently being held in Israeli detention camps (which survivors and observers have called ‘torture camps’).
Hamas political bureau member Izzat al-Risheq denied rumors that the Palestinian group pulled out of ceasefire negotiations. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has continuously sabotaged ceasefire negotiations, and has pledged his desire to continue the “operation” in Gaza until it is ethnically cleansed of Palestinians. Tens of thousands of Israelis have been protesting for weeks at Netanyahu’s home and at government buildings, calling for Netanyahu’s immediate resignation, for a negotiated end to the Israeli assault on Gaza, and the release of Palestinian and Israeli hostages. Instead of responding to the protesters’ demands, Netanyahu has instead doubled down on his stance of relentlessly bombing civilian areas in Gaza.
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