Update on the situation this week in Gaza, as Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians enters its fifteenth month today.
By Palestine Media Agency, January 7, 2025
KEY FIGURES
in Gaza since October 7, 2023:
45,885 Palestinians killed by Israel
including 17,000 children, including 800 infants under 1 year old
11,000 people trapped under the rubble
109,196 injured
1.9 million displaced
The Israeli army continues its massive bombardments throughout the Gaza Strip, including in areas declared as “humanitarian”. In the last 24 hours, the Israeli army has killed at least 31 people, reports the Gaza Ministry of Health this morning of January 7, 2025.
Night of horror in Gaza
Monday, January 6 evening, a house of the Abdel Hadi family in the Bureij camp, in the middle of the Gaza Strip, killing 4 Palestinians, including children, and injuring 13 others, reports Al-Awda hospital in Nuseirat. Another Israeli strike was reported the same evening on the Nuseirat camp, targeting a residential apartment and killing two people.
The Wafa news agency reports that Israeli forces also targeted a house belonging to the Sahweil family in the Shati refugee camp, north of Gaza City, killing four people.
Several people were also injured when the Israeli army bombed a tent belonging to the displaced Ismail family near the entrance to the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
During the night, the Israeli army bombed a house in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City. Ahmed Barakat, a resident who survived the attack, said: “The dead are scattered in the streets. We are still trying to find some of our people because there are no civil defense teams or ambulances here. I don’t know what more to expect. I have no more words. »
Khalil Abed, another resident, explains that the targeted residential house had been razed.
“We are still looking for our loved ones. We are still trying to recover them from under the rubble. We use our hands to find them because we don’t have any tools. The Israelis attacked us without warning. »
The attack was apparently carried out without warning, around 1 a.m., while residents were sleeping. Medical sources report that at least 4 people were killed in this attack, adding that this toll is likely to rise in the coming hours, as more bodies are pulled from the rubble.
“Real disaster” in hospitals
The Gaza Ministry of Health announced this morning a “real catastrophe”, because none of the health establishments still operational in the enclave no longer have fuel stocks, which “threatens hospitals, oxygen stations , medicine refrigerators and incubators.”
« L’occupation [israélienne] forces aid convoys, including fuel trucks, to use roads filled with thieves and bandits who rob them under its protection,” the ministry said, adding that the last shipment of fuel was stolen yesterday as She was on her way to the hospitals.
In addition to shortages imposed by Israel in fuel, equipment and medicine, repeated Israeli attacks on hospitals have been widely denounced by international observers and human rights defenders, including the latest report dated by the UN, which points to these attacks as a real “system” of destruction of the health system.
The destruction by the Israeli army of health infrastructure, the living conditions of Palestinians displaced in makeshift camps and famine lead to the serious spread of diseases, multiplying the number of patients in these hospitals. out of breath.
On Monday, neonatal doctor Thabat Saleem, aged 30, was assassinated in an Israeli strike on the Nuseirat camp. The director of Al-Aqsa Hospital, where she had worked as a volunteer for almost a year, paid tribute to her and congratulated her for her work on his Count X. Since October 7, Israel has killed more than 1,150 health professionals and detained 300 of them.
