For 409 agonizing days, the people of Gaza have endured a relentless campaign of genocide at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces. The grim statistics are staggering: 43,922 Palestinians killed, 103,898 injured, in what can only be described as a systematic and merciless assault on an already beleaguered population.
Emergency crews managed to pull a Palestinian girl and the sole survivor of her family from under the rubble after the Israeli occupation bombed her home in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/z9uXYBWquP
— PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 (@OnlinePalEng) November 18, 2024
The latest 24-hour period has seen a fresh wave of unspeakable brutality, with the Gaza Health Ministry reporting four new massacres that have claimed the lives of 76 martyrs and left 158 others wounded. Many victims remain trapped under the rubble or inaccessible in the streets, as the Israeli military’s onslaught continues unabated.
Israeli occupation forces continue to blow up residential blocks in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/AAoJY64BdW
— PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 (@OnlinePalEng) November 18, 2024
At least three Palestinians were killed, and others wounded, in an Israeli strike on a residential building in the Beit Lahia housing project. Simultaneously, the surrounding areas of al-Midan, Atatra, and Sultan neighborhoods have been subjected to severe artillery shelling, exacerbating the dire humanitarian crisis.
In Gaza City, the southeastern and southwestern neighborhoods have been the targets of heavy Israeli airstrikes, with a home on al-Jalaa Street being destroyed in a targeted raid. The new camp north of Nuseirat in central Gaza has also been hit by airstrikes and artillery shelling.
The southern Gaza Strip has not been spared, either. An Israeli airstrike targeted a makeshift tent providing shelter to displaced families west of Khan Younis, killing four Palestinians, including two children, and leaving several others injured. In Rafah, two more Palestinians were martyred following a strike on the al-Geneina neighborhood, while an entire residential block in the northwestern part of the city was demolished, leaving widespread destruction.
#صور | انتشال 7 شهداء وإنقاذ مصابين من منزل عائلة أبو ريالة وما يزال تحت الأنفاض مفقودين يصعب انتشالهم لعدم وجود المعدات المناسبة pic.twitter.com/XY1wo18TJG
— المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) November 18, 2024
The toll on Gaza’s civil defense has been catastrophic. The emergency service has reported 85 personnel killed, 301 injured, and 20 detained amid the ongoing Israeli aggression. Seventeen Civil Defense centers have been damaged or destroyed, and 56 emergency vehicles have been either completely or partially destroyed.
Source: Agencies (edited and translated by Al-Manar English Website)
