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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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"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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🚨 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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December 19, 2024 - Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for Gaza’s Civil Defense, northern Gaza

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27 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza

Gaza: At least 27 Palestinians were killed and dozens of others injured in Israeli attacks at residential houses in the refugee camp of al-Nuseirat in central Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said. Palestinian Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal told Xinhua that the Israeli bombing targeted a residential block that contains the government post office building, which was sheltering displaced…

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The Gaza Civil Defence says people killed and wounded are trapped under the rubble of a collapsed home in the Jabalia refugee camp. “We condemn the ongoing obstruction by the Israeli occupation of the Civil Defence and medical teams’ work in northern Gaza and their prevention from responding to citizens’ calls in the homes being bombed there,” spokesman Mahmoud Basal said. The house, belonging to the al-Mabhouh family, is situated near the Abu Hussein schools, he added.

-- "Israeli forces hindering rescue efforts in northern Gaza, says Civil Defence" by Usaid Siddiqui for Al Jazeera, 7 Nov 2024 17:50 GMT

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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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US Blinken heads to Middle East, UNRWA calls on Israel to enable access to Gaza

Several Palestinians were killed and wounded on Tuesday night as the Israeli army continued its 382nd consecutive day of military offensive against the Gaza Strip.

Day 382 of Israeli assualt on Gaza

Eyewitnesses reported a dangerous military escalation in northern parts of the Gaza Strip, where heavy gunfire and loud explosions were heard.

Israeli forces also struck a house on Al-Jalaa Street in Gaza City and carried out airstrikes in the northern parts of the Strip. Meanwhile, heavy gunfire erupted in the western neighbourhoods of northern Gaza City. In Beit Lahiya, several Palestinians were killed by drone fire.

Three Palestinians were killed and injured when the occupation forces shelled a temporary accommodation centre in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Strip.

The ongoing military offensive against the Gaza Strip since October 2023 has killed 42,603 Palestinians and injured 99,795, most of them children and women.

UNRWA urges Israel to allow access into northern Gaza

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) on Monday urged Israeli authorities to allow its team to enter northern Gaza for lifesaving rescue operations.

In a statement, UNRWA said it reiterated the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ (OCHA) urgent demand to the Israeli authorities to “allow access to conduct rescue operations in (northern) Gaza, including the extraction of people trapped under rubble.”

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philip Lazzarini said earlier on Monday that Israel was prohibiting the delivery of humanitarian aid to northern Gaza.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Civil Defence said in a separate statement on Monday that more than 600 people have been killed since Israel launched its ongoing military offensive in the northern Gaza Strip more than a fortnight ago. Spokesman Mahmoud Basal told Anadolu:

The bodies of dozens of dead people are still under the rubble and on the streets as civil defense teams can’t reach them.

Antony Blinken in Israel to revive ceasefire talks

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel on Tuesday, the first stop on an extensive Middle East tour aimed at reviving Gaza ceasefire talks and discussing the enclave’s future after the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, but any breakthrough looks unlikely ahead of the upcoming US elections.

The latest trip by the top US diplomat – the 11th since Palestinian Hamas militants attacked southern Israel on October 7, triggering the Gaza war – comes amid an intensifying Israeli military campaign in the Palestinian enclave as well as in Lebanon against Iran-backed Hezbollah.

Blinken’s planned week-long trip, which will include stops in Jordan on Wednesday and Doha, also comes as the region prepares for Israel’s response to Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Israel on October 1. The response could disrupt oil markets and has the potential to unleash a full-scale war between the arch-enemies.

Blinken will focus on how to end the war, plans for the enclave after the fighting ends and how to improve humanitarian aid, according to a senior State Department official speaking on condition of anonymity.

Blinken and US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin sent a letter to Israeli officials last week demanding specific measures to address the deteriorating situation in Gaza, or face potential restrictions on US military aid.

In his meetings with Israel and Arab countries, the official said, Blinken will address “pressing” issues in detail, such as security, governance and reconstruction. Having detailed plans for each of these issues is seen as a prerequisite for reaching a lasting solution to the conflict.

The secretary of state will also discuss with Israel and other countries ways to diplomatically resolve the conflict with Hezbollah and continue Washington’s conversation with the Israelis about their expected response to Iran’s missile attack, the official said.

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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.

[ashwantsafreepalestine]

4 January 2025.

A grave update by the spokesperson for the Palestine Civil Defense, Mahmoud Basal.

"The reality of the Gaza Strip with the continuation of bombing operations and the policy of targeting civilian gatherings since the beginning of 2025."

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