Day 372 in Gaza: Israeli attack on Jabalia continues, dozens killed |

On Saturday, the 372nd day of Israel’s ongoing genocide against the people of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued their attack on Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip for the seventh consecutive day, leaving dozens of Palestinians dead and wounded.

From colleague @AbujomaaGaza in North Gaza: Reports of two massacres overnight/at dawn:

• In #Jabalia, over 20 people were killed when Israeli occupation bombed a residential complex
• An Israeli bomb attack on a house in Gaza City’s Al Daraj district killed a dozen people

Israeli occupation forces continue to bomb the city of Jabalia and the Jabalia refugee camp east of the city by air and land, leaving dozens dead and wounded and destroying entire blocks of flats.

Dozens of civilians, including children and women, have been killed and injured since dawn Saturday by rocket and artillery fire from Jabalia and its camp, as well as the Saftawi and Al-Tawam areas north of the Gaza Strip.

Early Saturday morning, the Israeli occupation army issued new evacuation orders for residents of Jabalia, but many Palestinians insisted on staying and not moving south – as the Israeli military had blocked the southern route and attacked Palestinians trying to go south . Furthermore, there is no safe place to evacuate as Israeli forces have continued their attack on Gaza City in the center of the Gaza Strip and Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip, bombing civilians in all areas of the Gaza Strip for the 372nd consecutive day.

The humanitarian situation in the Jabalia camp is becoming increasingly dangerous as food, medicine and water cannot reach the camp and it is difficult for rescue workers to recover the bodies of those killed and transport the wounded.

Donkey carts carry killed and wounded Palestinians to hospital as a lack of fuel and Israel’s destruction of roads makes it nearly impossible for ambulances to recover the bodies of those killed.

Rescuing a child trapped under rubble in Jabalia:

On October 6, the Israeli occupation army announced the start of a military operation in Jabalia, hours after a fierce attack began on the eastern and western regions of the northern Gaza Strip, the fiercest since last May.

The Israeli occupation army had already attacked Jabalia on land twice, in November and December last year.

This is the third ground operation by the Israeli occupation army in Jabalia camp since the beginning of the genocidal war on October 7, 2023.

Violent aggression is occurring in the northern Gaza Strip, targeting infrastructure, roads and what remains of citizens’ homes, as well as isolating areas from each other.

This is accompanied by a systematic and organized hunger campaign, which includes, among other things, preventing the infiltration of food, medicine, water and fuel supplies as well as targeting bakeries.

In the air, the Israeli occupying forces’ drones target every movement of citizens on the ground by firing bullets intensely and indiscriminately.

Doctor Victoria Rose, a British plastic surgeon who worked in Gaza, described Palestinian doctors’ frustration and disbelief at how “the world can simply stand by” as children in Gaza are bombed and the suffering continues. pic.twitter.com/RUXfzPZlL9

— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) October 12, 2024

Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression against the Gaza Strip by land, sea and air since October 7, 2023, resulting in the killing of at least 42,126 citizens and the injury of 98,117 others, the majority of whom are children and teenagers Women, in incomplete numbers, as thousands of missing people still lie under the rubble.

Among the Palestinians killed are at least 16,927 children, 11,487 women, 2,419 elderly people, 175 journalists, 85 emergency workers, 986 medical personnel and 203 UNRWA employees.

The British Lancet Medical Journal and other experts estimate that the death toll in Gaza is much higher – and could be over 200,000 if both direct and indirect deaths related to Israel’s war on Gaza are taken into account.

This latest escalation of Israel’s ongoing military occupation of Palestine began on October 7, 2023, when 1,143 Israelis were killed, including 767 civilians and 376 armed soldiers. Around 500 Israeli soldiers have been killed between October 7 and today – both in the Gaza Strip and on Israel’s border with Lebanon.