‘We Are Being Massacred…’
CrossFireArabia- October 18, 2024
Nine Palestinians were killed and more than 50 others injured on Friday in Israeli airstrikes targeting houses and a group of civilians in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, which has been under assault for 14 consecutive days.
In a statement, Al-Awda Hospital said that three Palestinians were killed and 50 others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a home in Jabalia Camp.
A medical source at Kamal Adwan Hospital confirmed that three Palestinians were killed in another Israeli strike on a gathering of civilians in the Al-Fakhura area of Jabalia.
The civil defense said its rescue teams removed the bodies of three more people killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home in Jabalia, adding that two more were also injured in the strike.
A fire erupted in the house as a result of the airstrike, the civil defense added.
For the 14th consecutive day, the Israeli army has continued its offensive in northern Gaza, focusing on Jabalia and its camp.
The area is under a suffocating siege and constant bombardment, with homes being demolished over their inhabitants.
This is the third ground operation the Israeli army has carried out in Jabalia camp since the start of the ongoing war on Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023 according to Anadolu.
Israel has continued a brutal offensive on Gaza following a cross-border attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7 last year, despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire.
At least 42,500 people have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 99,500 injured, according to local health authorities.
The Israeli onslaught has displaced almost the entire population of Gaza amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food, clean water and medicine.
Israel faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its actions in Gaza.
Israel Starves North Gaza
- CrossFireArabia
- October 18, 2024
For over two weeks, Israeli occupation forces have been implementing the “Generals’ Plan,” which involves imposing a severe siege on northern Gaza and isolating it from the rest of the Strip amidst a relentless assault on the area.
The Israeli occupation seeks to carry out ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians by blocking humanitarian supplies and food from entering, leaving over 200,000 Palestinians facing harsh conditions.
Israel Killed Sinwar Through Accident
- CrossFireArabia
- October 18, 2024
Hamas announced today that its leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by Israeli forces. Sinwar, who has been described as the man whom Israel fears, was killed in what appears to have been an accidental encounter. Rather than being the result of a meticulously planned assassination, Sinwar’s martyrdom came after he directly engaged with Israeli troops after he found them, according to Israeli Walla.
On the day of the incident, Sinwar appeared in plain view, attacking Israeli soldiers with gunfire and grenades. He managed to wound several troops before retreating into a nearby building. From there, the Hamas leader continued to launch makeshift weapons, including rocks and sticks, as well as grenades, at the soldiers stationed at a distance. The Israeli soldiers, who were not aware that they were fighting their most wanted man, shelled the building.
This unexpected and fierce engagement is a sharp contrast to Israel’s earlier intelligence efforts, which had previously claimed that it pinpointed Sinwar’s whereabouts but refrained from action due to ‘concerns over the safety of Israeli prisoners’.
Reports from The Jewish Chronicle in August 2023 alleged that Israeli intelligence had multiple chances to kill Sinwar after locating his hiding tunnels in Gaza. However, Israel did not kill Sinwar claiming that he was using Israeli prisoners as human shields.
Israel Bombs House, Kills 13 in Maghazi
- CrossFireArabia
- October 17, 2024
More than 13 Palestinians, including three children and their mother, were killed in an Israeli attack on a house in Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza on Thursday.
Local sources reported an Israeli airstrike targeted the Telbani family house, killing at least 13 people, including a mother and her three children.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said that over 42,300 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the Israeli genocide war in Gaza on 7 October, 2023. Additionally, 99,013 people have been wounded.
The casualty figures are believed to be far higher with thousands of bodies buried in the debris of collapsed buildings and unrecoverable during the Israeli onslaught according to the Quds News Network.
