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03-01-2024
GAZA CITY: Shelling and missile strikes continued into Tuesday and its impact was felt across the Gaza Strip.
Nearly three months of Israeli occupation aggression have claimed almost 22,000 lives in Gaza and devastated much of the infrastructures in the country.
On Monday night into Tuesday morning, eyewitnesses reported missiles fired toward the city of Rafah in the south and shelling around the Jabalia refugee camp in the north.
Fighting was also reported around the central areas of Maghazi and Bureij, as well as the main southern city of Khan Yunis.
Israeli forces carried out 15 attacks and killed 207 Palestinians in the past 24 hours in Gaza, the Palestinian health ministry said while adding that 338 people were also wounded.
The total number of Palestinians killed in Gaza since October 7 now stands at 22,185. At least 57,000 have been wounded.
Additionally, more than 320 Palestinians have also been killed across the occupied West Bank by Israeli forces and settlers since October 7.
The Palestinian Ministry of Education says that 4,156 students have been killed in Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza.
At least 381 schools have also been bombed or damaged, the ministry added.
Four Palestinians were martyred on Tuesday morning in the town of Azzun, in the northern West Bank province of Qalqilya, according to Palestinian security sources.
According to Palestinian news agency (WAFA), the four Palestinians were shot dead during fierce confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces who stormed the town amidst firing live ammunition, stun grenades and teargas.
The occupation forces raided shops and houses in the town, seizing surveillance footage from multiple shops.
On the other hand, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a Palestinian woman in the Jalazone camp, north of Ramallah, and raided homes and shops.
Since the start of the devastating Israeli aggression on Gaza Strip on Oct. 7, the Israeli occupation has intensified its military operations in the occupied West Bank, increasing the pace of incursions and arrests that resulted in dozens of victims and thousands of detainees.
Two weeks ahead of Palestine’s opening game at the 2023 Asian Cup in Qatar, the team is struggling to focus as war rages on in Gaza, where thousands have been killed.
Some players have lost loved ones in Israel’s relentless bombardment of the besieged territory.
Much of Gaza has been reduced to rubble, including stadiums, in air and artillery strikes and a ground offensive, and football fields have been used as makeshift graves for some of the dead as many cemeteries are either full or inaccessible.
“Everyone is glued to the news, before and after training, be it on the bus or at the hotel,” the team’s coach, Makram Daboub, said from Saudi Arabia where the players were training. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
