Israeli occupation forces committed three massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the killing of at least 40 Palestinians and the injury of 134 others, according to medical sources.
The moment several journalists were targeted by IOF in Hamed City, Khan Younis, resulting in one of them being shot. pic.twitter.com/sj2DZubKEg
— AlQastal News (@QastalNewsEn) August 18, 2024
Local health authorities confirmed that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 7 has risen to 40,139 reported fatalities, with an additional 92,743 individuals sustaining injuries. The majority of the victims are women and children.
Israeli occupation forces blast residential buildings in southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. pic.twitter.com/EB7Tdqt3W7
— AlQastal News (@QastalNewsEn) August 18, 2024
Emergency services are struggling to reach many of the trapped casualties and bodies under the rubble or scattered on roads due to Israeli forces obstructing the movement of ambulances and civil defense crews.
Displaced Palestinian families struggle to find and transport water to their tents amid the shutdown of all water wells due to the Israeli genocide. #Gaxa pic.twitter.com/Z4kKEMWeuj
— PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 (@OnlinePalEng) August 19, 2024
‘Israel’ launched the genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.
Palestinians perform funeral prayer to some of the victims of the recent Israeli airstrikes in Deir el-Balah. pic.twitter.com/POQjK7iPbQ
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) August 19, 2024
Source: Al-Manar English Website and Agencies
