More than 40 martyrs in Gaza, including a journalist and his family / AP
Three citizens were killed on Wednesday evening, including journalist Saeed Abu Hassanein, his wife, and his daughter , in an Israeli airstrike on Al-Bi'a Street in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA.
Nine Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting the home of the Jarada family on Mashtaha Street in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City. The Israeli airstrike destroyed the targeted home and damaged neighboring houses. Medical sources described the injuries of several of the injured as critical.
Citizens were injured when an Israeli drone struck Palestinians in the town of Beit Lahia, north of Gaza, and the bodies of two martyrs were recovered after a house was bombed in central Khan Yunis, south of the Strip.
In a related development, the Israeli occupation army admitted Wednesday evening that it had killed 10 Palestinians in an attack on a school housing displaced persons in Gaza City, claiming that the school housed resistance fighters.
On Wednesday morning, 10 Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting the Yaffa School, which houses displaced persons northeast of Gaza City.
Videos circulating on social media showed the school building extensively damaged and set on fire by Israeli drone strikes, according to eyewitnesses.
On a humanitarian level, Dr. Ahmed Al-Farra, director of Al-Tahrir Hospital at Nasser Medical Complex, said that children in the Gaza Strip are experiencing the most severe stages of malnutrition, and medical follow-up is difficult due to the shortage of therapeutic medications and baby formula. He explained that the Strip is currently experiencing stage five of malnutrition, the most severe stage according to the World Health Organization.
He stressed that the continued blockade of food and medicine supplies indicates that children in the Gaza Strip are facing a dangerous and catastrophic situation, noting that the lack of adequate nutrition and medication for pregnant mothers has serious repercussions for newborns, particularly premature infants.
Forced displacement amid international silence
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said on Wednesday that Israel is implementing "the most dangerous phase of its colonial project" in the Gaza Strip, by "publicly beginning the forced displacement of residents from their homeland, marketing this crime as voluntary migration, amid international silence."
"Israel is proceeding with its plan for the mass expulsion of Palestinians, after having paved the way for it with 19 months of genocide, with the aim of making departure the only way to survive," Lima Bastami, director of the Geneva-based Observatory's legal department, said in a statement.
Bastami added that "the Israeli project in Gaza has reached its peak." She noted that Israel seeks to market mass expulsion as voluntary behavior, exploiting its power and the silence of the international community. She emphasized that "forced displacement is a crime under international law, meaning the expulsion of residents from their legitimate areas using force or coercive means without legal justification."
Bastami pointed out that the residents of Gaza "are living in catastrophic conditions amidst total destruction and a stifling siege that surrounds 2.3 million people after widespread displacement and the transformation of most of the land into buffer zones or destroyed." She emphasized that "Israel deliberately designed this environment as a pressure tool to push the population to leave Gaza, leaving them no real choice." Bastami indicated that population transfer may be justified in some humanitarian cases, but it loses its legitimacy if the party implementing it is the same one responsible for the crisis, as international judicial precedents have proven.
She warned that "presenting forced displacement as a voluntary option distorts the truth and undermines the legal basis of the international system." Bastami emphasized that "the departure of Gaza's residents under these circumstances cannot be considered voluntary, but rather constitutes forced displacement under international law."