Israeli aggression on Gaza continues, kills 50 Palestinians in 1 hour

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen
12 Oct 2023 06:27
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Israeli warplanes target communications networks in Gaza.

A plume of smoke rises above buildings in Gaza City on October 7, 2023, during an Israeli airstrike that hit the Palestine Tower building. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP)

For the sixth day in a row, Israeli occupation warplane raids and artillery shelling on the Gaza Strip continue, Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reported.

Our correspondent revealed that Israeli raids on al-Karamah neighborhood, northwest of Gaza, are still ongoing, adding that the occupation also targeted the central region of the Strip.

He further added that the Israeli occupation warplanes targeted the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, with other raids focused on Khan Yunis and the eastern border of the Strip.

Israeli warplanes even targeted the communications network in the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, Al Mayadeen’s correspondent confirmed that more than 50 Palestinians were martyred in Gaza in one hour.

This comes at a time when the Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that the Israeli occupation shutting off electricity, water, and fuel poses a “danger to the lives of the sick and wounded.”

The Ministry noted that hospitals in the Gaza Strip are at full capacity and that patients “are lying on the floor” due to the severity of the occupation's aggression, further warning that healthcare services in Gaza are now at a critical stage.

Al Mayadeen's correspondent in the Gaza Strip reported that the occupation aircraft and artillery were violently targeting residential neighborhoods in the Strip with internationally banned phosphorus bombs.

He also reported on the violent Israeli bombardment of the fishermen's port with phosphorous bombs, noting that the smell of this toxic substance filled the air.

Our correspondent also revealed that violent bombardment by Israeli warplanes and artillery hit the eastern, northern, and southern regions of the Gaza Strip, confirming that the bodies of three new martyrs were recovered from under the rubble of destroyed buildings in the northern Gaza Strip and a house targeted in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced earlier that more than 1,100 Palestinians were martyred and at least 5,339 were wounded in the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israeli aggression last Saturday.

Moreover, according to the latest figures provided, the United Nations revealed that the number of people forced out of the Gaza Strip has risen to more than 338 thousand.

"Mass displacement across the Gaza Strip continues," the UN humanitarian agency OCHA said in a statement sent on Thursday.

By late Wednesday, the number of displaced people in Gaza had risen by an additional 75,000 people from the figure given 24 hours earlier, reaching 338,934, it said.

Meanwhile, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Gaza called for a truce and described the situation as “extremely dangerous”.