Israeli Gaza genocide persists; death toll rises to 22,313 martyrs

By Al Mayadeen English
3 Jan 2024 16:11

Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Gaza reports that four women were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the city of Hamad in Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza.

Israeli soldiers fire a mortar at Gaza, Wednesday, January 3, 2024. (AP)

The death toll of the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip has risen to 22,313 martyrs and 57,296 injured over the past 89 days.

Persisting with its genocidal war against the people of Gaza, the occupation committed 10 massacres against Palestinian families in the past 24 hours, resulting in 128 martyrs and 261 injured.

Earlier, Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Gaza reported the death of four women in an Israeli airstrike on the city of Hamad in Khan Younis.

Another martyr fell victim to gunfire from an Israeli drone in the Maan area east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Additionally, a child was martyred after a school in Jabalia Al-Balad, north of the Gaza Strip, was targeted.

Shelling intensifies

The Israeli aggression intensified in the central Gaza Strip, where the occupation dropped phosphorus bombs behind the General Secondary School in the al-Maghazi camp.

The occupation also targeted the northern part of the same camp and the Palm Towers in the Bureij camp.

In the Bureij and Nuseirat camps, the occupation employed Quadcopter drones targetting densely populated areas igniting fire belts there.

The invading Occupation forces also fired artillery shells against the Maghazi camp.

Gaza City also witnessed Israeli shelling, targeting residential units in Al-Zawaida and east of the Shujaiya neighborhood.

IOF rain central, southern parts of Gaza with intense airstrikes

Earlier today, Israeli occupation warplanes launched intensive airstrikes targeting wide areas in the central region of the Gaza Strip, Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Gaza reported, adding that the Israeli occupation forces carried out intense fire belts on the al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the center of the Strip simultaneously with a series of airstrikes.

Several people were killed and others were injured in an Israeli shelling that targeted a house behind UNRWA schools east of al-Maghazi.

Our correspondent confirmed that 40 martyrs and 98 injuries were transferred Tuesday to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.

In the central Gaza Strip, another Israeli strike targeted a residential building on Salah al-Din Street opposite the entrance to al-Bureij. An Israeli drone also opened fire in the vicinity of the governmental hospital in the al-Maghazi camp.

In the southern Gaza Strip, our correspondent reported the arrival of the bodies of three martyrs and 10 injuries to Abu Yousef al-Najjar Hospital, after the Israeli occupation shelled the al-Nahhal family's house in Rafah.