As the "Israeli" genocide against the Gaza Strip continues for 463 days, the "Israeli" bombing of Palestinian homes in various areas of the region persists, intensifying its targeting of displaced persons in shelters and tents, while firefighting and rescue vehicles in the central and southern governorates of the Gaza Strip have come to a halt due to the lack of necessary equipment to recover the martyrs and the injured.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza issued an update on the number of martyrs of the genocide war, after adding approximately 499 martyrs to the cumulative statistics, whose data were completed and approved by the judicial committee monitoring the notifications and missing persons file. The total number of victims documented by the ministry has now reached 46,237 martyrs and 109,571 injured.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the "Israeli" occupation army committed five massacres within 48 hours, resulting in 32 martyrs and 193 injuries upon their arrival at hospitals.
Medical sources confirmed that 16 Palestinians were killed since the morning of Saturday, January 11, 2025, due to "Israeli" airstrikes targeting various areas of the Strip.
With the ongoing campaign of extermination and forced displacement in northern Gaza for over three months amid tight military siege and brutal massacres, the occupation army continues to demolish residential buildings with air strikes and artillery.
This afternoon, 8 Palestinians were killed and more than 30 injured, including 19 children, due to "Israeli" aerial bombardment targeting Zainab Al-Wazir School, which houses displaced persons in Jabalia.
Additionally, the past hours witnessed intensive strikes launched by the occupation on Gaza City, one of which resulted in the martyrdom of three Palestinians and injury to others after the occupation bombed a residential apartment on the fifth floor of the “Zubda” building adjacent to Al-Kanz Mosque in the Al-Rimal neighborhood west of Gaza City.
The Civil Defense reported that it recovered one martyr and three wounded after bombing a residential building in the Zeitoun neighborhood in southeastern Gaza City.
In the central Gaza Strip, the occupation army fired from its vehicles west of Al-Nusairat camp and conducted an air raid east of Al-Bureij camp.
In another targeting in the central governorate, a number of Palestinians were injured due to gunfire and bombs from "Israeli" drones on a school housing displaced persons west of the new camp in Al-Nusairat.
In southern Gaza, the "Israeli" army bombed a tent housing displaced persons west of the Attar area in "Mawasii" Khan Younis, resulting in several injuries.
A medical source reported the martyrdom of a young Palestinian and injuries to two others in an aerial bombardment targeting a gathering of Palestinians, which struck a displacement tent in "Mawasii" in Khan Younis, while the Rafah governorate is witnessing intensive artillery bombardment.
The number of martyr journalists rises to 203.
In a related context, the government media office documented the increase in the number of journalists and media activists who have been martyred in Gaza to 203, following the martyrdom of journalist Saeed Abu Nibhan yesterday, Friday, since the start of the genocide war on the Strip on October 7, 2023.
For its part, the Palestinian Journalists' Protection Center (PJPS) condemned in the strongest terms the crime of killing the journalist "Saeed Nibhan" while covering the events of the "Israeli" war in central Gaza.
He renewed his strong condemnation during a brief statement regarding the targeting of Palestinian journalists, expressing that this rises to the level of "systematic crimes" that constitute a blatant violation of international law principles. He held the "Israeli" government and its supporting countries, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, fully responsible for the crimes of killing and targeting journalists. He confirmed that the ongoing support of these countries for "Israel" contributes to the repetition of violations considered part of the genocide policy facing the Palestinian people in Gaza. He also called for the formation of an independent international commission of inquiry to investigate the war crimes committed against journalists in Gaza.
Civil Defense announces the suspension of its vehicles
At this time, the Civil Defense Agency stated in a brief statement today, Saturday, January 11, that fire and rescue services in Gaza, the Middle Area, and Khan Younis have stopped working due to the lack of spare parts and maintenance devices necessary to repair and operate them. The Civil Defense confirmed that the occupation, during its ongoing aggression, has destroyed most of the equipment, devices, and repair parts that were available in the local market and which minimally met the maintenance requirements of their vehicles. It also destroyed the Civil Defense’s stockpile of this equipment. The Civil Defense urged all international, regional, and Arab humanitarian organizations to urgently deliver this equipment and maintenance parts to the Gaza Strip before more firefighting and rescue vehicles become non-operational, warning of the worsening crisis that has been ongoing for months, which greatly limits their crews’ ability to respond to citizens' calls.
Additionally, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza stated that it received notification from UN institutions about the entry of fuel quantities into the Strip and efforts to continue supplying it to ensure that a crisis does not occur in the near term. The ministry said in a statement: "After exceptional and diligent efforts concerning the fuel crisis that hospitals in the Gaza Strip suffered from days ago, which nearly affected the hospitals, we were informed by UN institutions that they succeeded in bringing in quantities of fuel and working on continuity in supply to ensure that a crisis does not occur in the near term."
Warnings of communication outages
This comes at a time when the Ministry of Communications warned of the potential interruption of communication services in the Gaza Strip due to fuel depletion. Palestinian Communications Minister Abdul Razak Al-Natsha stated in a statement: "Communication services (fixed and mobile) and the internet in the Gaza Strip will be affected starting from Friday evening due to the lack of fuel, which exacerbates the humanitarian disaster and deprives citizens of their right to connect with emergency and relief services." Al-Natsha explained that "extensive outages in fixed communication services will begin on Friday evening in the central and southern areas of the Gaza Strip, and will later extend to include fixed and mobile services in the other areas over the next two days, if the crisis continues." He noted that the northern Gaza Governorate has been experiencing a complete interruption of communication services for about 100 days due to the occupation's prevention of fuel reaching those areas, adding that "Israel's obstruction of fuel convoys exacerbates the crisis of scarcity in the quantities allocated for relief, health, and service institutions."
