Death toll rises in Jabalia attack, more killed in strike on Gaza City
At least 22 people are now confirmed dead as a result of an Israeli air strike in Jabalia, northern Gaza, according to the Wafa news agency.
We previously reported that Israeli fighter jets bombed a multistorey apartment block in Jabalia, hitting four inhabited homes. Women, children and elderly are among the dead, while 30 more are injured, and 14 people are still missing under the rubble, according to Wafa.
In nearby Gaza City, at least three people have been killed and several more injured after the Israeli military bombed a home in the Tuffah neighbourhood, according to Palestine Red Crescent Society paramedics.
Israeli military issues new evacuation orders for northern Gaza
The Israeli military posted a map of northern Gaza on X with instructions for residents in the vicinity of Jabalia to leave.
“The area must be evacuated immediately via Salah El-Din Street to the humanitarian area,” the post added, referring to the so-called humanitarian zone between al-Mawasi and Deir el-Balah in southern Gaza.
The “humanitarian area”, populated by overcrowded tent camps housing about one million displaced Palestinians, has been subject to repeated deadly Israeli attacks. On Wednesday, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), criticised Israel’s efforts to “forcefully and violently push thousands of people from northern Gaza to the south”.
Casualties of Jabalia attacks arriving in hospital in pieces or soaked in blood
The latest Israeli strikes on the Jabalia refugee camp reminds us of the initial weeks of the war and relentless attacks there. Many people in Jabalia have been describing to us that there are ongoing artillery and air strikes that are like earlier in this genocidal war.
Powerful explosions were heard in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. This latest strike that killed more than 20 Palestinians was catastrophic. Many of the casualties are children and women, and they are arriving at the hospital either in pieces or soaked in blood.
The question that many are asking is why are so many civilians are killed, and people here keep asking why this is happening to them. If this is a target, why does the Israeli military not send warnings to civilians?
This is not collateral damage, it is caused deliberately and is hitting the trapped population on the northern part of the Strip.
Rocket fired into Israel, Palestinian fighters use mortars, IEDs in Jabalia: Monitors
Rockets from Gaza continue to target Israel with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades launching a rocket at the Israeli city of Sderot, military analysts report.
The rocket was fired from northern Gaza on Friday where Israeli forces have been carrying out a punishing weeklong ground operation to root out Palestinian armed resistance, US-based think tanks the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) report.
According to the latest ISW-CTP joint report, fighters with Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the National Resistance Brigades, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Resistance Committee carried out mortar attacks in Jabalia on Friday.
The Palestinian Mujahideen Brigades also used an improvised explosive device (IED) to target a tank in the Jabalia refugee camp while Hamas fighters used rocket-propelled grenades and IEDs against Israeli armour in Beit Lahiya, located to the north of Jabalia.
One Israeli soldier was reported killed in southern Gaza on Friday, according to the monitors.
Red Cross receiving ‘overwhelming’ number of calls for help after Israeli evacuation orders
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reports that it is receiving more distress calls than it can handle after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders for northern Gaza on Friday which it has followed up with another order this morning.
“They tell us they are scared and desperate. Many are pleading with us and asking the questions of where they can go, what they should do, and where they can find safety for themselves and their families,” said ICRC spokesperson Sarah Davies in a video message from Gaza.
“Parents are reaching out to us, asking for tents, food, safe drinking water, for things like diapers for their babies, who have never known a moment of peace or a time when the fighting has stopped.”
Davies said families are “at a breaking point” and hundreds of thousands have been affected just by the latest of many forced evacuation orders.
📍Gaza | After twelve months of living in fear, with constant displacement amid ongoing fighting, people are at their breaking point.
Since the latest evacuation orders, we have received an influx of calls, with people asking where they can go to be safe. @Sarahdavies___ shares👇🏽 pic.twitter.com/OW0NHhyPaf
— ICRC (@ICRC) October 12, 2024
