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09-10-2024
GAZA STRIP: At least 45 Palestinians including five children and two women are martyred in Israeli air strikes on central Gaza as soldiers “systematically work to empty” the war-battered north.
Israel expands attacks on southern Lebanon and hammers Beirut’s southern suburbs as the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah launches a series of missile attacks into northern Israel.
Residents flee from one neighborhood to another after a days-long Israeli army siege in northern the Jabalia refugee camp with hospitals overwhelmed by the dead and wounded.
In Gaza, at least 41,965 people have been killed and 97,590 wounded in Israeli attacks since October 2023. In Israel, at least 1,139 people were killed in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 and more than 200 people taken captive.
This includes a rise in the death toll from Israel’s earlier attack on the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Strip, which now stands at seven, medical sources told our team.
The Israeli army has placed Jabalia under siege for the last several days, in tandem with stepping up its attacks on North Gaza to a level not seen in months, according to our team on the ground.
We are receiving updates on the rocket attacks on the city of Haifa in northern Israel.
A military statement says an additional 20 rockets were launched from Lebanon at the coastal city following 85 projectiles launched in the first wave.
According to the army, some of the rockets were intercepted by Israel’s air defence systems.
A woman in her 70s was slightly injured by shrapnel and is being treated, Magen David Adom ambulance service said on X. Medical teams continue to search the areas affected by the barrage.
Israel’s yearlong war on Gaza has killed 41,965 Palestinians and wounded 97,590 others, the Health Ministry says.
More than 10,000 bodies are feared buried in the vast destruction of downed buildings from Israeli attacks, meaning the death toll is likely far higher.
The vast majority of Gaza’s dead, an estimated 70 percent, are women and children.
Video obtained by Al Jazeera’s team on the ground in the Gaza Strip shows a group of displaced people in Jabalia, in the north of the territory, coming under heavy gunfire by Israeli soldiers. The video shows the group, which was in the process of evacuating Jabalia towards the western part of Gaza City, running in terror.
The video also shows many wounded. One man was bleeding from the abdomen as people tried to help him walk. Another, a little girl, is shown bleeding from the neck as she is bandaged in the back of an ambulance.
Earlier, journalist Abu Azzoum reported that the Israeli army is “systematically working to empty northern Gaza”, after placing the Jabalia refugee camp under siege for days. Chris Gunness, a former spokesman for the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, denounced Israel’s continuing “slaughter” in Gaza, and countries around the world for failing to stop it.
“In the last year, we have seen Gaza transform from the world’s largest open-air prison to the world’s largest concentration camp,” Gunness told media.
“Today, Gaza has been transformed into an industrial-scale slaughterhouse and I use the word ‘slaughter’ advisedly because frankly animals in most abattoirs around the world are killed more humanely than the women and children of Gaza. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
