Israeli attacks on Gaza ‘designed to cause maximum damage’
The Israeli army continues to conduct and carry out air strikes that it described as precise, limited to targeted operatives across the Gaza Strip.
But when we look on the ground, how these attacks are being carried out, they are designed to cause maximum damage.
They are not only causing further civilian casualties, but the scale and the extent of damage and destruction and casualties that they cause is very high, contrary to what Israeli statements describe these attacks and overnight attacks.
In the early morning of today’s attack, artillery fired on the eastern part of the Gaza Strip, as well as the western part of Nuseirat refugee camp, where the Israeli military attacks almost on hourly basis right now.
Every once in a while, we hear heavy artilleries, and according to witnesses and the Palestinian Civil Defence, who are prevented from getting anywhere near these bomb sites, they describe the horror of – many of the people are trapped inside the homes that are being targeted.
Many of these homes are already collapsed on people while they are still inside because they could not leave, whether here in Maghazi refugee camp or further western part of Gaza—of the Nuseirat refugee camp, the reports of many people are still trapped and buried under the rubble.
Twelve people have been confirmed killed, according to health officials here at Al-Aqsa Hospital and al-Awda Hospital. Five of them were in a residential home in northern part of the Strip, in Shati refugee camp, that has been bombed relentlessly since week one of this genocidal war.
Palestinian Civil Defence rescuers extract the body of a victim from a hole underneath the rubble of a collapsed building in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday
Israeli forces kill four Palestinians gathering wood
Within the past hour, as we were finishing up our earlier report, the Israeli military once again carried out deadly attacks on a group of people.
A missile was fired by a drone in the northern part of the city of Beit Lahiya on a group of people who were in the area collecting wood. And the reason people were in that area, the reason they were collecting this wood, was because of the lack of cooking gas.
There are people in the northern part, they lack every basic necessity in their life and it’s not unusual to see people out in the streets or areas where they can collect wood or other elements that could help them with their daily struggles in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
Four people were confirmed dead as a result of the attacks.
This is an example of what people in the northern part of the Strip are suffering on a daily basis. It’s not only the ongoing attacks, the aerial bombardment, but also their daily routine of staying alive and staying protected and safe – they can’t even have that.
Three of UNRWA’s schools in Gaza struck in 48 hours: Lazzarini
The head of UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, says that in the past two days alone, three UNRWA schools were hit in Gaza. In a post on X, Philippe Lazzarini said at least 21 people were reported killed.
“More than 140 UNRWA schools have come under attack since 7 October, the majority while people were taking refuge in them under the UN flag,” he said.
“Schools cannot be used for any military purposes by anyone. Schools are not a target”.
“These are some of the basic rules of war blatantly disregarded”.
#Gaza: in the past two days alone, three @UNRWA schools were hit in Gaza.
At least 21 people were reported killed.
The schools were home for more than 20,000 displaced people.
Some schools were hit more than once since the war began.
More than 140 UNRWA schools have come…
— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) October 3, 2024
Palestinians injured in Israeli attack on Nuseirat camp receive medical care
A wounded Palestinian man is brought on a stretcher to al-Awda Hospital for treatment following the Israeli attack on Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza City
A Palestinian child who lost a relative mourns as the bodies of the people who lost their lives in the Israeli army attack are brought to al-Awda Hospital for funeral procedures
Majority of Palestinian water and sewage facilities in Gaza out of operation
The Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing officials at the Palestinian Water Authority, reports that over 85 percent of water and sewage facilities have either completely or partially ceased operations due to the destruction of vital infrastructure by Israeli forces.
Ziyad Fuqaha, the acting head of the water authority, said that the Israeli war on Gaza has affected all three water sources in the enclave, estimating that the production from these sources has decreased to approximately 30-35 percent of pre-war levels.
Israeli forces blow up residential buildings in central Gaza
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that the Israeli military has blown up residential buildings northwest of the Nuseirat refugee camp. Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reported earlier that the military has been striking the western part of the camp on a near-hourly basis.
