Israeli strikes have wiped out ‘entire bloodlines’ in Gaza: AP investigation
The Associated Press has found at least 60 cases in which families in Gaza have lost at least 25 of their members to Israel’s strikes during its war on Gaza. Some Israeli attacks have taken out “four generations from the same family”, according to its report.
Al Jazeera broadcast engineer Mohamed Abu Al-Qumsan lost 19 members of his family in one strike on the Jabalia refugee camp, his extended family is mentioned in the AP report.
The following families in Gaza are among the hardest hit, according to AP:
- Eighty members of the extended Abu Abu Al-Qumsan family were killed
- The Mughrabi family lost more than 70 members in a single air strike in December
- The Abu Naja family had 50 of its members killed in October strikes, including at least two pregnant women
- More than 100 members of the Doghmush clan were killed in several weeks of strikes
Neighbourhoods ‘completely razed’ in eastern Rafah
On the second day of Eid, the situation remains quite difficult.
Overnight, attacks took place across the Gaza Strip – from the northern city of Beit Hanoon all the way to Rafah city, coupled with heavy artillery strikes along the eastern border.
That includes heavy strikes on central and eastern parts of Rafah. Israeli forces also continued systematically demolishing homes in the east and near the Philadelphi Corridor [southern Rafah]. These areas are completely razed, with no remaining residential buildings and no agricultural land left.
In a separate wave, the Israeli military carried out heavy artillery strikes in central Gaza, including on Bureij and Maghazi refugee camps and the southeastern part of Deir el-Balah city.
Everything seems to be contributing to one thing: making Gaza uninhabitable.
Israel kills Palestinian journalist Mahmoud Qassem: Gaza government
The Government Media Office in Gaza has announced Israel’s killing of Mahmoud Qassem, a Palestinian journalist working with digital publication Palestine Online. It did not elaborate on the location and the date of the killing.
His death brought the number of journalists killed during Israel’s war on Gaza to 151, it said in a Telegram post.
