Israeli occupation went ahead with its genocide against Palestinian people on day 347 of the brutal war on Gaza, as the Palestinian resistance still showing high resolve to confront the aggression in several areas across the besieged territory.
Dozens were martyred or injured on Tuesday as the Israeli occupation committed a new massacre in the Bureij camp in central Gaza Strip. At least three residential homes were targeted by heavy artillery and air attacks on the eastern part of the camp.
Palestinian Civil Defense said its staff pulled bodies of at least four martyrs with dozens others being still trapped under the rubble.
A horrific massacre took place in the Al Bureij refugee camp. Dozens of Palestinians lost their lives in Israeli airstrikes this morning. Gaza’s civil defense stated that the bodies of most of the victims are still beneath the rubble of the bombed houses. pic.twitter.com/63UGw2oEkc
— Gaza Notifications (@gazanotice) September 17, 2024
Palestinian media reported that the Israeli occupation has been preventing rescuers from reaching bombed sites. Civil defense crews and paramedics in Bureij said they have been finding it difficult to reach casualties as quadcopters, surveillance attack drones and gunfire were preventing rescuers from getting to the bombed sites.
Meanwhile on Tuesday, Health Ministry in Gaza put the death toll at 41,252 Palestinians since ethe start of the war on October 7. It added that the number of injured people reached 95,497.
For its part, Palestinian Education Ministry said that 11,001 students were martyred and 17,772 were injured in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank since the start of the war.
Overview of Israel’s war on education in the Gaza Strip over the last year pic.twitter.com/bFrVq1G8y1
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) September 17, 2024
According to the ministry’s latest estimates, 10,888 students were martyred in the Strip and 17,224 injured, while in the West Bank, 113 students were martyred and 548 injured in addition to 429 being arrested.
The ministry added that 500 schools and universities have been bombed.
On the other hand, Palestinian resistance went ahead with confronting the Israeli aggression.
Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad resistance group said its fighters destroyed an Israeli Merkava near Abu Taha crossroad east of Rafah in southern Gaza strip. The fighters employed the highly explosive Thaqeb barrel bomb, the group said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the group released a video showing the resistance fighters bombarding the occupied settlements of Ashkelon and Sderot as well as other settlements in Gaza
Source: Palestinian media
