Gaza : Martyrs and wounded in Israeli raids, and more than 630,000 displaced from Rafah

During the last hours of Friday, the Israeli occupation army launched a series of intense raids targeting several areas in the Gaza Strip, which led to a number of deaths and injuries among Palestinian civilians.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza said in a statement today, Friday, that “the Israeli occupation committed 4 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, including 31 martyrs and 56 injuries to hospitals during the past 24 hours,” adding that “a number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and crews cannot Ambulance and civil defense reach them.

Thus, “the toll of the Israeli aggression rises to 35,303 martyrs and 79,261 injuries since the seventh of last October,” according to the statement.

Medical sources reported that 4 were killed and others were injured in a raid launched by Israeli aircraft on the “Al-Jaouni” school, which houses displaced people in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Israeli aircraft targeted agricultural land in the vicinity of Abu Ubaida Mosque in the Nuseirat camp, and Israeli occupation army artillery bombed the north of the camp, without any casualties being reported.

Three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted a home for the Al-Tilbani family in the Beach camp, west of Gaza, according to medical sources at the Baptist Hospital.

In Rafah, a young man was killed and two others were injured in an Israeli air strike near Al-Awda Roundabout in the center of the city. The planes also bombed an uninhabited house for the “Hamad” family west of the city.

Eyewitnesses and local sources reported that Israeli vehicles are stationed in several areas east of Rafah: the vicinity of the Eastern Cemetery, George Street, Al-Salam neighborhood, Al-Bilbisi Street, Al-Shawi land, the project area, Al-Tanour neighborhood, Al-Shawka town, inside and around the airport, and the Rafah and Karam Abu Salem crossings.

He added that military vehicles are carrying out bulldozing, excavation, and bombing operations on homes in their locations east of the city of Rafah.

Witnesses reported that air strikes and artillery shelling targeted the Al-Jeneina and Al-Barazil neighborhoods, east of Rafah, while Israeli gunboats fired machine guns towards the shores of Rafah and Khan Yunis.

They pointed out that columns of black smoke were rising in the sky of the city, and from time to time the sounds of mutual clashes and violent artillery shelling were heard.

In the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continue to storm Jabalia camp for the sixth day, and launched a series of raids targeting all areas of the camp, in addition to heavy gunfire from vehicles penetrating towards Palestinian homes.

Eyewitnesses said that Israeli vehicles penetrating the entrance to Beit Hanoun continued to besiege a number of the town's residents and displaced people in shelter centers without them being able to leave.

The northern areas of the Gaza Strip are also witnessing violent battles between the resistance and the Israeli occupation forces, according to witnesses.

More than 630 thousand displaced people from Rafah

On the other hand, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced on Friday, via the X platform, that more than 630,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

She added that the Palestinians who were displaced from Rafah headed to the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, indicating that the latter had become unbearably overcrowded and suffering from miserable conditions.

Since last October 7, Israel has been waging a war on Gaza that has left more than 114,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and nearly 10,000 missing amid massive destruction and famine that has claimed the lives of children and the elderly.

Israel continues the war despite the issuance of a resolution by the UN Security Council to stop the fighting immediately, and the International Court of Justice has asked it to take immediate measures to prevent acts of “genocide” and improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza.