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24 October 2024

Gaza Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal reports on Telegram that the occupation has launched a massive assault on Block 7 of Al-Hawaja Street in Jabaliya, in which it destroyed 11 homes, most (if not all) of which were inhabited. So far, there are over 150 martyrs. Civil Defense is unable reach the dead and dying, as the occupation has been systematically attacking and sabotaging their operations.

Civilians are desperately trying to reach medical centers, carrying their wounded loved ones in cars, on animal-drawn carts, and on foot, and facing immense difficulty. The situation is absolutely catastrophic.

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🚨 ISRAEL BURNS HUNDREDS ALIVE IN SCHOOL - EMAIL YOUR ELECTED OFFICIAL 🚨

Israel has killed over 100 Palestinians during morning prayers at Al-Taba’een School in the Al-Daraj neighbourhood of eastern Gaza City.

Israeli military aircraft targeted the school while worshippers were performing Fajr (dawn) prayers, according to reports from the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

The sheer power of the bombing tore people apart and incinerated what remained. The photos and videos from inside the school are beyond words.

At the time of the bombing, over 6,000 Palestinians were sheltering in the school. The current death toll is expected to rise, with the number of injuries still being counted, though they are anticipated to be in the hundreds.

“The school area is strewn with dead bodies and body parts. It is very difficult for paramedics to identify whole bodies. There’s an arm here, a leg there. Bodies have been ripped to pieces.” - Mahmoud Basal, Gaza Civil Defence.

Israel claims with every heinous war crime that they are targeting Palestinian resistance fighters. However, evidence for this is often non-existent. Even if it were true, in some of these school bombings, the death and injury toll has seen up to 80% of the casualties being children.

Families and children are sheltering in these schools. Under no circumstances is it ever acceptable or legal under international law to bomb a school. Yet, Israel, with the full backing of the US, UK, and Germany, has bombed over 150 schools in Gaza with impunity.

WHEN WILL ISRAEL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR WAR CRIMES?

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* Sources: AJ, Middle East Monitor, Ahmed Kouta, Sky News, and other journalists on the ground.

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GAZA STRIP (PrR)(RNN) — 20 martyrs have ascended so far in the horrific massacre bombing the tents of the displaced in the Mawasi Khan Younis "safe zone" in southern Gaza. An infant girl was among the martyrs who burned to death in their tents.

Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal told Al-Jazeera: The occupation knows very well that there are only civilians in the Mawasi area.

This massacre coincided with belts of fire carried out by IOF warplanes on Gaza City in northern Gaza, where 25 martyrs ascended and 50 are wounded in a residential block.

At least 70 martyrs have ascended throughout the Gaza Strip today since dawn.

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Quds News Network:

Mahmoud Basal, a spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defense, says nearly 200,000 Palestinians currently under Israeli siege in Jabalia are facing imminent death from Israeli airstrikes or from hunger and thirst due to the ongoing land blockade imposed by the Israeli army.

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Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defense, stated that Gaza City has endured over 20 airstrikes since dawn today alone.

He emphasized the escalating violence, with the number of martyrs potentially reaching 50 within just 12 hours.

Basal described the Israeli bombardments as "pure insanity," targeting schools, mosques, homes, and infrastructure indiscriminately.

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🚨 ISRAEL BURNS HUNDREDS ALIVE IN SCHOOL - EMAIL YOUR ELECTED OFFICIAL 🚨

Israel has killed over 100 Palestinians during morning prayers at Al-Taba’een School in the Al-Daraj neighbourhood of eastern Gaza City.

Israeli military aircraft targeted the school while worshippers were performing Fajr (dawn) prayers, according to reports from the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

The sheer power of the bombing tore people apart and incinerated what remained. The photos and videos from inside the school are beyond words.

At the time of the bombing, over 6,000 Palestinians were sheltering in the school. The current death toll is expected to rise, with the number of injuries still being counted, though they are anticipated to be in the hundreds.

“The school area is strewn with dead bodies and body parts. It is very difficult for paramedics to identify whole bodies. There’s an arm here, a leg there. Bodies have been ripped to pieces.” - Mahmoud Basal, Gaza Civil Defence.

Israel claims with every heinous war crime that they are targeting Palestinian resistance fighters. However, evidence for this is often non-existent. Even if it were true, in some of these school bombings, the death and injury toll has seen up to 80% of the casualties being children.

Families and children are sheltering in these schools. Under no circumstances is it ever acceptable or legal under international law to bomb a school. Yet, Israel, with the full backing of the US, UK, and Germany, has bombed over 150 schools in Gaza with impunity.

WHEN WILL ISRAEL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR WAR CRIMES?

👉 EMAIL YOUR ELECTED OFFICIAL NOW! USE THE FREE TEMPLATE IN @HumantiProject’s bio or visit HumantiProject.org 👈

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* Sources: AJ, Middle East Monitor, Ahmed Kouta, Sky News, and other journalists on the ground.

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[ 📹 One casualty after another is brought to Nasser Medical Complex in the city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, today, Saturday, after the Israeli occupation forces bombed a displacement camp filled with Palestinian civilian families in the Nus area of the town of Al-Mawasi, northeast of Khan Yunis, resulting in the deaths of at least 71 civilians and wounding nearly 300 others, according to local reporting. ]

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GAZA GENOCIDE DAY 281: SEVERAL NEW MASSACRES ON TENTS OF DISPLACED PALESTINIAN FAMILIES LEAVES SCORES DEAD AS ISRAELI OCCUPATION ARMY INTENSIFIES ATTACKS ACROSS GAZA

On 281st day of the Israeli occupation's ongoing special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) committed a total of 4 new massacres of Palestinian families, resulting in the deaths of no less than 61 Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children, while another 129 others were wounded over the previous 24-hours.

It should be noted that as a result of the constant Israeli bombardment of Gaza's healthcare system, infrastructure, residential and commercial buildings, local paramedic and civil defense crews are unable to recover countless hundreds, even thousands, of victims who remain trapped under the rubble, or who's bodies remain strewn across the streets of Gaza.

This leaves the official death toll vastly undercounted as Gaza's healthcare officials are unable to accurately tally those killed and maimed in this genocide, which must be kept in mind when considering the scale of the mass murder.

A new Israeli attack on the tents of displaced Palestinian families in the Nus area of the town of Al-Mawasi, northeast of Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza, has killed at least 70 Palestinian civilians, and wounded nearly 300 others, in the latest example of the Israeli occupation's ongoing genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

In a statement issued on Saturday, Gaza's Ministry of Health said that “the death toll of the occupation’s horrific massacre against citizens and displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis reached more than 71 martyrs and 289 injuries, including serious cases that medical teams are still dealing with up to this moment.”

The Ministry previously stated that “the bodies of 20 Palestinians and over 90 injured arrived at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis after Israeli forces bombed the Al-Mawasi area.”

Reports shortly after the attack, from Gaza's media office, stated that more than 100 civilians had been killed and wounded as a result of the Zionist army's bombing of displacement tents in a "major massacre" in the Al-Mawasi area, which the occupation army previously declared a "safe" humanitarian zone.

In a statement, Gaza's Media Office said that “the occupation army committed a major massacre by bombing displaced persons camps in the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis, leaving more than 100 casualties, including individuals and officers from the Civil Defense according to a preliminary toll."

According to Turkish news organization, Anadolu News Agency, which has reporters on the ground in Gaza, witnesses told the news outlet that the Israeli occupation forces had fired five large missiles into the Al-Mawasi area's displacement camps, which were previously declared a humanitarian safe zone by the Zionist army.

According to the statement of Gaza's Health Ministry, the dead and wounded were transferred to Nasser Hospital, where medical staff were "unable to provide medical services at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis due to the large number of wounded."

In a statement from the Director-General of Gaza's Civil Defense services, Mahmoud Basal, "One of our members was martyred and 8 others were injured after an Israeli attack on a residential house again while crews were working to rescue citizens from inside the house in the center of Khan Yunis."

He added that the continued large-scale bombing conducted by the Israeli occupation army targeting sites, homes and tents of displaced Palestinians makes it difficult to reach many of the dead and wounded.

The Zionist entity continues to violate the orders of the United Nations Security Council, which demanded an immediate ceasefire in a resolution back in early June, 2024, and continues to face international condemnation over its ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip.

The Zionist entity has also been accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague, in the Netherlands, where a recent ruling ordered the Israeli occupation army to immediately halt its military operations in Gaza's southern city of Rafah, where, at the time, more than 1 million Palestinians had sought shelter from the army's endless bombing, shelling and gunfire, as well as drone and missile strikes, before itself being invaded on May 6th.

Unfortunately for the Palestinian population of Gaza, the Israeli occupation's audacious massacres and war crimes continued on Saturday, July 13th, when occupation forces bombed a prayer hall near the White Mosque in the Al-Shati Refugee Camp, west of Gaza City, resulting in the deaths of more than 25 Palestinian civilians, and wounding dozens of others.

Meanwhile, large-scale massacres aside, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to target the homes and shelters of Palestinian families across the Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens more civilians, and leaving countless thousands of people without shelter.

On the 281st day of the genocidal operations in the Gaza Strip, a retreat of the Zionist army's Merkava tanks and other armored personnel carriers from the Industrial area and the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, south of Gaza City, has revealed the presence of dozens of martyrs inside their homes, executed by the occupation army.

Since Friday, Palestinian rescue crews have continued their work to retrieve the bodies of the dead and wounded from the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood and the Industrial area of Gaza City, where witnesses say they saw the occupation army execute civilians, including women, children and the elderly, as well as entire families, inside their homes.

Local civil defense and paramedic crews managed to recover the decomposing corpses of more than 60 Palestinians from the Al-Shujaiya and Tal al-Hawa neighborhoods since dawn on Saturday, while dozens of others remain trapped under the rubble, their fates remaining unknown at this time.

Sources in the city said that dozens of bodies remain lying on the ground and in the streets, some of them charred from explosives and resulting fires, while Zionist soldiers systematically set fire to Palestinian homes before withdrawing from Tal al-Hawa and several other areas.

The Israeli occupation army also destroyed the Friends of Patients Hospital building in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, east of Gaza City, while a number of corpses were removed from the building and taken to a nearby hospital.

The International Red Cross also issued a statement on the situation, announcing it had received "hundreds of calls in recent days from desperate people asking for help, and that entire families are trapped and in need of security," adding that "the need is much greater than the ability to respond."

The Zionist army continues to occupy several areas of the two neighborhoods in Gaza City, with the presence of military vehicles on Carrefour Street and Street 8.

Additionally, the Asdeeq al-Mu'reed Hospital continues to remain out of service due to the immense destruction evident to parts of the hospital that occured during Israeli ground operations in Gaza City.

IOF warplanes also renewed their bombardment of civilian homes in Gaza, with four members of the Abu Hashem family martyred in the bombing of a residential apartment on al-Jala'a Street, while another three civilians were killed in the bombing of the Al-Katiba area of Gaza City.

The occupation army also opened fire on the al-Mina area, west of Gaza City, killing the fisherman Ahmed al-Nasi.

In yet another massacre, Israeli occupation forces bombed a residential home near the Islamic University in the Ma'an area, south of the city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, killing two members of the Wadi family, including a man and his wife, who was 3-months pregnant at the time of her death.

The atrocities continued when the Zionist army bombed the Al-Mawasi area, which the army claimed to be a safe zone, resulting in the deaths of four International aid workers.

Occupation fighter jets next bombed a residential building which remains under construction, belonging to Mr. Abdul Malik Baraka, located behind the former electricity company, opposite the Al-Khansa School in Abasan Al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis.

The Israeli occupation army also continues its ground operations in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, for the third consecutive month, while Zionist forces continue to openly fire on any civilians that enter the city.

Israeli occupation forces also bombed a residential building in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah City, killing two Palestinian citizens.

Additionally, two Palestinian women were killed when Zionist warplanes bombed a residential house in the city of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.

Similarly, occupation aircraft bombarded a residential home belonging to the Aql family near the Nuseirat Municipality, in the central Gaza Strip, wounding at least 10 civilians.

Occupation warplanes also bombed a residential house in Abasan Al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, while Zionist artillery detatchments shelled neighborhoods north of the Nuseirat Camp, in the central Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) also reported the recovery of 5 dead bodies, including three children, who were killed as a result of an Israeli airstrike on the residential home of Al-Ra'i family in the city of Deir al-Balah. The dead and wounded were transported to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city.

Explosions were also heard coming from the vicinity of the Shuhada Junction, south of Gaza City, which coincided with occupation artillery shelling targeting the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

Occupation quadcopter drones were also witnessed firing at civilians south of the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City, while Zionist artillery detatchments fired shells towards the south of the Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of the city.

As a result of the Israeli occupation's ongoing war of extermination in the Gaza Strip, the infinitely rising death toll now exceeds 38'443 Palestinians killed, including at least 10'000 women and well over 15'000 children, while another 88'481 others have been wounded since the start of the current round of Zionist aggression, beginning with the events of October 7th, 2023.

This means the Israeli occupation forces have left a total of 126'924 casualties, according to the official count of the Ministry of Health, in its wake in the Gaza Strip, or the equivalent of 5.5% of the total Palestinian population of the enclave.

July 13th, 2024.

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Palestinians in Gaza are forced to make life-or-death decisions following Israeli evacuation orders. There is no right choice.

This week, families in Gaza City followed orders to evacuate to a nearby school, and then Israel bombed it, killing 18 people. There is no safe choice for Palestinians when they are forced to decide whether to leave their homes.

On Tuesday, November 26, the Israeli army bombed the Al-Hurriya School in the Zaytoon area. Fourteen of the people who were killed arrived in local hospitals, and at least four more were not found; in other words, their bodies were completely destroyed. Inside the Arab Baptist Hospital in Gaza City the spokesman for the Civil Defense, Mahmoud Basal, stands surrounded by bodies and limbs gathered on pieces of cloth and sheets. In a video obtained by Mondoweiss, Basal described the scene of the attack. “The Israeli occupation continues its bombing operations until this moment, and this massacre in the Al-Hurriya School, which houses thousands of displaced people, is being targeted. What this raid left behind is several martyrs, some of whom arrived beheaded and others who, unfortunately, are difficult to identify,” he explained. “There are a number of martyrs whose fate is unknown until this moment, and they cannot be identified because their bodies are completely torn apart.” He confirmed that the initial toll is 14 martyrs, some of whom arrived at the Arab Baptist Hospital, and there are still a number in the school under the rubble. He says that rescue crews are having difficulty accessing the area due to the danger of unexploded ordnance. Basal also commented on Israel’s practice of targeting shelters, displacement camps, and schools. “This is the policy that the Israeli occupation has been following since the beginning of the war until this moment,” he said.

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ReutersPalestinians walk past the rubble of houses and buildings in central GazaOn the first full day of peace in Gaza on Monday, rescue workers and civilians began to reckon with the sheer scale of the destruction to the Strip.Gaza's Civil Defence agency – the strip's main emergency response service – said it feared there were more than 10,000 bodies still buried under the vast sea of rubble.Spokesman Mahmoud Basal told the BBC that they hoped to recover the dead within 100 days, but were likely to be delayed by a deficit of bulldozers and other essential equipment.New images from Gaza following Sunday's ceasefire showed scenes of total devastation wrought during 15 months of Israeli offensive, particularly in the north of the enclave.The UN has previously estimated that 60% of structures across Gaza have been damaged or destroyed.Though the sounds of bombing were replaced by celebrations as the ceasefire began on Sunday, the reality facing people across Gaza remains desperate.According to the UN World Food Programme (WFP), the war has left more than two million Gazans homeless, without income, and completely dependent on food aid to survive.That aid began to enter Gaza immediately after the ceasefire on Sunday and the UN said at least 630 lorries went into the Strip before the end of the day - the highest number since the start of the war 15 months ago.EPADestuction in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip following the Israeli army withdrawal from the region.Sam Rose, acting director of Unrwa, the UN's Palestinian refugee agency in Gaza, said the aid supplies were just the beginning in the challenge of bringing the strip back to life."We're not just talking about food, healthcare, buildings, roads, infrastructure, we've got individuals, families, communities that need to be rebuilt," he said."The trauma that they've gone through, the suffering, the loss, the grief, the humiliation, and the cruelty that they've endured over the past 16 months - this is going to be a very, very long road."In Israel, the families of the three hostages who were freed in the first exchange spoke at a news conference in Tel Aviv on Monday night. Mandy Damari, the mother of dual Israeli-British citizen Emily Damari, said Emily was in "high spirits" and "on the road to recovery" despite losing two fingers in the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023.Meirav Leshem Gonen, the mother of Romi Gonen, said: "We got our Romi back, but all families deserve the same outcome, both the living and the dead. Our hearts go out to the other families."Before the news conference, Israeli authorities released new footage showing Damari, 28, Gonen, 24, and Doron Steinbrecher, 31 tearfully greeting their mothers on Sunday just moments after being taken out of Gaza.If the first phase of the ceasefire holds, 30 more hostages will be released from Gaza over the next 40 days in return for about 1,800 Palestinians freed from Israeli jails.EPAInternally displaced Palestinians walk in Rafah on MondayPalestinian health authorities estimate that more than 46,900 people were killed in Gaza during the more than 15 months of war and more than 110,700 were wounded.The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but it says the majority of the dead are women and children – an assertion backed by the UN.A UK-led study published by the medical journal The Lancet this month suggested that the health ministry figures may underestimate the death toll by more than 40%.The Gaza Civil Defence agency said in a statement on Monday that 48% of its own personnel had been killed, injured or detained during the conflict, and 85% of its vehicles and 17 out of 21 facilities had been damaged or destroyed.Though the risk from air strikes is gone, for now, the grim work continues for the remaining Civil Defence workers. Pictures shared with the BBC by members of the agency in northern Gaza on Monday showed them performing harrowing work, including the recovery of dead babies and of human remains in poor condition."In every street there are dead. In every neighbourhood there are people under the buildings," said Abdullah Al-Majdalawi, a 24-year-old Civil Defence worker in Gaza City."Even after the ceasefire we received many calls from people saying please come, my family is buried under the rubble."Malaak Kasab, a 23-year-old recent graduate displaced from Gaza City, told the BBC on Monday that members of her own family were among those yet to be recovered."We have lost a lot of members of our family and some are still under the destroyed buildings," she said. "There are a lot of people under the rubble – everybody knows about this."Kasab's family home in an apartment building was not completely destroyed, she said, but very badly damaged. "There are no doors, no windows, no water, no electricity, nothing. Not even wood to make a fire. It is unliveable."Movement is still dangerous for displaced Gazans as the Israeli military begins the process of withdrawing from populated areas of the Strip.The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has warned people not to approach its personnel or installations, nor enter a buffer zone it created around the border of Gaza and around the Netzarim corridor, which bisects Gaza separating north from south.‘I want to fulfil my dead brother’s dream’ - Gazans face a daunting task as they try to rebuild their livesBut many residents were eager to see what was left of their homes sooner than they had been advised. Hatem Eliwah, a 42-year-old factory supervisor from Gaza City, said he was considering setting out on foot from his shelter in Khan Younis in the south."We have been waiting for this ceasefire like people waiting to enter heaven," Eliwah said. "I lost two of my brothers and their families. I lost cousins, uncles. The only thing I still hope for is to go home."There are grave concerns on both sides that the deal could collapse even before the first phase is complete in roughly six weeks, and Israel has stressed it reserves the right to resume military action in Gaza at any time.Speaking at a meeting of the UN Security Council on Monday, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the deal as a "ray of hope" and said its obligations must be met.But Guterres warned of a worsening situation in the occupied West Bank, which has seen a huge rise in Israeli settler attacks against Palestinian villages since the Hamas attack on Israel of 7 October 2023."Senior Israeli officials openly speak of formally annexing all or part of the West Bank in the coming months," Guterres said, adding: "Any such annexation would constitute a most serious violation of international law."Muath Al-Khatib contributed to this report

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ReutersPalestinians walk past the rubble of houses and buildings in central GazaOn the first full day of peace in Gaza on Monday, rescue workers and civilians began to reckon with the sheer scale of the destruction to the Strip.Gaza's Civil Defence agency – the strip's main emergency response service – said it feared there were more than 10,000 bodies still buried under the vast sea of rubble.Spokesman Mahmoud Basal told the BBC that they hoped to recover the dead within 100 days, but were likely to be delayed by a deficit of bulldozers and other essential equipment.New images from Gaza following Sunday's ceasefire showed scenes of total devastation wrought during 15 months of Israeli offensive, particularly in the north of the enclave.The UN has previously estimated that 60% of structures across Gaza have been damaged or destroyed.Though the sounds of bombing were replaced by celebrations as the ceasefire began on Sunday, the reality facing people across Gaza remains desperate.According to the UN World Food Programme (WFP), the war has left more than two million Gazans homeless, without income, and completely dependent on food aid to survive.That aid began to enter Gaza immediately after the ceasefire on Sunday and the UN said at least 630 lorries went into the Strip before the end of the day - the highest number since the start of the war 15 months ago.Sam Rose, acting director of Unrwa, the UN's Palestinian refugee agency in Gaza, said the aid supplies were just the beginning in the challenge of bringing the strip back to life."We're not just talking about food, healthcare, buildings, roads, infrastructure, we've got individuals, families, communities that need to be rebuilt," he said."The trauma that they've gone through, the suffering, the loss, the grief, the humiliation, and the cruelty that they've endured over the past 16 months - this is going to be a very, very long road."In Israel, the families of the three hostages who were freed in the first exchange spoke at a news conference in Tel Aviv on Monday night. Mandy Damari, the mother of dual Israeli-British citizen Emily Damari, said Emily was in "high spirits" and "on the road to recovery" despite losing two fingers in the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023.Meirav Leshem Gonen, the mother of Romi Gonen, said: "We got our Romi back, but all families deserve the same outcome, both the living and the dead. Our hearts go out to the other families."Before the news conference, Israeli authorities released new footage showing Damari, 28, Gonen, 24, and Doron Steinbrecher, 31 tearfully greeting their mothers on Sunday just moments after being taken out of Gaza.If the first phase of the ceasefire holds, 30 more hostages will be released from Gaza over the next 40 days in return for about 1,800 Palestinians freed from Israeli jails.EPAInternally displaced Palestinians walk in Rafah on MondayPalestinian health authorities estimate that more than 46,900 people were killed in Gaza during the more than 15 months of war and more than 110,700 were wounded.The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but it says the majority of the dead are women and children – an assertion backed by the UN.A UK-led study published by the medical journal The Lancet this month suggested that the health ministry figures may underestimate the death toll by more than 40%.The Gaza Civil Defence agency said in a statement on Monday that 48% of its own personnel had been killed, injured or detained during the conflict, and 85% of its vehicles and 17 out of 21 facilities had been damaged or destroyed.Though the risk from air strikes is gone, for now, the grim work continues for the remaining Civil Defence workers. Pictures shared with the BBC by members of the agency in northern Gaza on Monday showed them performing harrowing work, including the recovery of dead babies and of human remains in poor condition."In every street there are dead. In every neighbourhood there are people under the buildings," said Abdullah Al-Majdalawi, a 24-year-old Civil Defence worker in Gaza City."Even after the ceasefire we received many calls from people saying please come, my family is buried under the rubble."Malaak Kasab, a 23-year-old recent graduate displaced from Gaza City, told the BBC on Monday that members of her own family were among those yet to be recovered."We have lost a lot of members of our family and some are still under the destroyed buildings," she said. "There are a lot of people under the rubble – everybody knows about this."Kasab's family home in an apartment building was not completely destroyed, she said, but very badly damaged. "There are no doors, no windows, no water, no electricity, nothing. Not even wood to make a fire. It is unliveable."Movement is still dangerous for displaced Gazans as the Israeli military begins the process of withdrawing from populated areas of the Strip.The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has warned people not to approach its personnel or installations, nor enter a buffer zone it created around the border of Gaza and around the Netzarim corridor, which bisects Gaza separating north from south.But many residents were eager to see what was left of their homes sooner than they had been advised. Hatem Eliwah, a 42-year-old factory supervisor from Gaza City, said he was considering setting out on foot from his shelter in Khan Younis in the south."We have been waiting for this ceasefire like people waiting to enter heaven," Eliwah said. "I lost two of my brothers and their families. I lost cousins, uncles. The only thing I still hope for is to go home."There are grave concerns on both sides that the deal could collapse even before the first phase is complete in roughly six weeks, and Israel has stressed it reserves the right to resume military action in Gaza at any time.‘I want to fulfil my dead brother’s dream’ - Gazans face a daunting task as they try to rebuild their livesSpeaking at a meeting of the UN Security Council on Monday, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the deal as a "ray of hope" and said its obligations must be met.But Guterres warned of a worsening situation in the occupied West Bank, which has seen a huge rise in Israeli settler attacks against Palestinian villages since the Hamas attack on Israel of 7 October 2023."Senior Israeli officials openly speak of formally annexing all or part of the West Bank in the coming months," Guterres said, adding: "Any such annexation would constitute a most serious violation of international law."Muath Al-Khatib contributed to this report

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"Bloodiest Day" For Gaza As Airstrikes Continued Hours Surrounding Ceasefire

The fragile ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas has been marred by violence, with at least 115 people killed in Gaza, including 28 children and 31 women, and over 265 injured, according to Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for Gaza’s Civil Defense agency. The hours surrounding the ceasefire deal were deemed “the bloodiest day in the past week” for Gaza, Basal noted, per NBC. Despite the…

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11 November 2024

Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal announced on Telegram that Gazan officials are asking parents to supervise their children as they play today. Earlier, 6 children were injured in Al-Tuffah, Gaza City after the explosion of a “suspicious object” left by the occupation upon withdrawal.

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(RNN) Civil Defense Spokesman in the Gaza Strip, Mahmoud Basal: — More than 75 people were martyred in the Beit Lahia massacres (https://t.me/PalestineResist/70449).

We do not know much about what is happening in northern Gaza because of the "israeli" siege.

Entire families were wiped out in the northern Gaza Strip and we know nothing about them.

There are survivors who remain under the rubble for a long time and there is no civil defense to rescue them.

There are about 10 thousand injured in the northern Gaza Strip in 50 days. There are about 60,000 people in the northern Gaza Strip without food or drink.

What is happening in the northern Gaza Strip is organized genocide and ethnic cleansing.

The occupation's prevention of our work in the north makes us unable to respond to distress calls.

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RNN:

The number of martyrs as a result of the massacres against the Ahmed and Baba families in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, mostly women and children. Ambulances, journalists civil defense teams could not reach the sites of the massacres for hours due to prevention by the IOF. 5 martyrs and wounded were also reported due to the IOF bombing Palestinians searching for firewood and water in Beit Lahia. Beit Lahia has been under siege for 60 days, and its residents are faced with continuous bombardment, the threat of starvation, and displacement.

[Further Update] Over 120 martyrs have ascended in the Gaza Strip since dawn today, with over 95 in the northern Gaza Strip with the Beit Lahia massacres and 24 in Nusseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip. The IOF continues to demolish buildings in Jabalia, coinciding with artillery fire on Beit Lahia and airstrikes by planes and helicopters west of Jabalia. IOF boats are firing on the coast of Zuwaida in the central Gaza Strip. In Rafah, a home was bombed by warplanes in the center of the city. In Nusseirat, drones and artillery continue to fire on homes and citizens.

Civil Defense Spokesman in the Gaza Strip, Mahmoud Basal:

We do not know much about what is happening in northern Gaza because of the "israeli" siege.

Entire families were wiped out in the northern Gaza Strip and we know nothing about them. There are survivors who remain under the rubble for a long time and there is no civil defense to rescue them.

There are about 10 thousand injured in the northern Gaza Strip in 50 days. There are about 60,000 people in the northern Gaza Strip without food or drink. What is happening in the northern Gaza Strip is organized genocide and ethnic cleansing. The occupation's prevention of our work in the north makes us unable to respond to distress calls.

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"If the war does not stop, more than 2 million Palestinians will be killed in the Gaza Strip."

Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for Gaza’s Civil Defense, condemned the world’s inaction over the ongoing atrocities in Gaza on December 10th.

December 10th marks the occasion of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Keep talking about Gaza. Keep spreading the word.

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More than 100 people have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire agreement | News from Gaza

At least 103 Palestinians have been killed and more than 264 wounded in Israeli attacks in Gaza since the recent ceasefire agreement was announced. The latest death toll includes 31 women and 27 children, according to Mahmoud Basal, a spokesman for Gaza’s civil defense service. The casualties came after Wednesday’s announcement of a ceasefire agreement, which is due to take effect on…