The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that the number of martyrs resulting from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has surpassed 704, with the number of injuries exceeding 3,900.

Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported that a state of calm prevails in the Strip after a night of intense Israeli airstrikes.

Journalists Saeed Al-Taweel, Mohammad Sobh, and Hisham al-Nwajha were martyred in an Israeli bombing that targeted areas in the western Gaza Strip, Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported.

طائرات الاحتلال استهدفت مجموعة من الصحافيين، وذلك أثناء إخلائهم مبنى غربي غزة، قرب ميناء الصيادين.#طوفان_الأقصى #فلسطين #غزة pic.twitter.com/IoOclBzX8o

— قناة الميادين (@AlMayadeenNews) October 10, 2023

In yet another war crime, Israeli occupation forces target journalists who are covering its aggression on Gaza.

Our correspondent previously reported that the Israeli occupation is deliberately targeting journalists covering the ongoing aggression on the Strip.

The three journalists were killed as "Israel" bombed and destroyed a residential building in Western Gaza, in close proximity to Al Mayadeen's office in the Gaza Strip.

The war crime comes in conjunction with intensified IOF strikes across Gaza, leading to hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries among civilians.

In the #Gaza Strip, a grieving #Palestinian father tenderly holds his lifeless baby girl in his arms, offering her a final, heart-wrenching embrace following her tragic loss in an Israeli airstrike.

This devastating scene serves as a poignant reminder of the immense human toll… pic.twitter.com/6IFrfXC1vr

— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) October 9, 2023

The occupation has targeted residential areas, Mosques, residential buildings, and ambulances.

In the same context, a government official in Gaza has stated that the Israeli occupation had collectively wiped out 15 families.

Our correspondent highlighted that the bombing witnessed on Monday is by far the harshest since the Israeli occupation launched its bombing campaign on the Strip.

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"Israel" tightens its seige on Gaza

In a response to the announcement made by the Israeli security minister Yoav Gallant, ordering a full siege of the city, Omar Shakir, Human Rights Watch "Israel" and Palestine Director for Human Rights, posted on X that depriving a population of food and electricity is "collective punishment" and that this is the Israeli occupation's method of utilizing starvation as a weapon of war. 

According to the Israeli Energy Minister Israel Katz, all the water supply from "Israel" to Gaza has been cut off. 

Gallant, as quoted by GLZ Radio, has ordered to cut off electricity, water, and food from Gaza in the aftermath of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.

He revealed the occupation's true face by referring to the Palestinians in Gaza as "human animals," whom he will have to deal with "accordingly". 

Read more: HRW director calls Israeli siege 'collective punishment', 'war crime'