The criminal war waged by Israel on the besieged Gaza Strip entered its 275th day, with the Zionist occupation forces continuing to commit genocide in Gaza through dozens of airstrikes, artillery shelling, and bloody massacres against civilians. Here are the highlights of the latest developments:
- More than 30 martyrs since dawn today
The occupation continues its aggression on Gaza, as reported by the Palestinian news agency that three martyrs' bodies were recovered and a number of wounded were rescued after the occupation aircraft bombed a house in the Port area west of Gaza City. The search for missing persons under the rubble is ongoing.
Additionally, six citizens were martyred due to the occupation aircraft targeting a house in the Sheikh Ridwan neighborhood north of Gaza City. Six citizens, including two children, were also martyred in an occupation airstrike that targeted a house in the Zawaida area in the central Gaza Strip.
The source also mentioned that the occupation aircraft raided the Nusseirat refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip, simultaneous with artillery shelling on the Al-Bureij camp and east of the Maghazi area in central Gaza.
Local sources reported that the occupation warplanes targeted a house in the Al-Bureij camp in central Gaza, resulting in the martyrdom of three citizens and the injury of others.
The Al-Awda hospital in the Nusseirat camp stated that they received the bodies of two martyrs who were targeted on the Wadi Gaza bridge in the center of the Strip.
Medical sources stated that two citizens were martyred as a result of occupation shelling on a gathering of citizens near the Shafout restaurant in the Zaytoun neighborhood east of Gaza City.
Furthermore, four citizens were martyred in an occupation airstrike on a school housing displaced persons west of Gaza City, according to the Palestinian news agency.
The source added that Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics recovered the bodies of three martyrs following an occupation airstrike near the Arab schools in the Shabora camp in the center of the city of Rafah in the southern Strip.
Eyewitnesses stated that occupation aircraft targeted a group of citizens on Street 8 in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, resulting in the martyrdom of two citizens.
The Palestinian agency reported the recovery of the bodies of three martyrs who were killed while waiting for trucks loaded with goods and aid east of Rafah city, following a targeted attack by the occupation forces.
- Hamas mourns the Ministry of Labor in Gaza
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) mourned engineer Ihab Al-Ghusain, the Deputy Minister of Labor in the Palestinian government.
In a statement released today, Sunday, the movement announced that Al-Ghusain was killed alongside a group of our people in Gaza after enduring 275 days of aggression and genocide. Despite facing imminent danger and losing family members, he remained steadfast in serving his people in his noble national role. By doing this, he exemplified challenge, steadfastness, and resilience in response to occupation injustices, aggression, and crimes.
"Hamas" affirmed the failure of the occupation's plans to break the resilience and determination of our people, or to disrupt the governmental system that shares the suffering of war and aggression with our great people.
Resistance Operations Highlighted
The Palestinian resistance continues to confront Zionist forces in several axes in Gaza, where the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced on Sunday targeting the "Merkava 4" tank with a "Yassin 105" shell on Baghdad Street in the Shujaiya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City.
It added that it targeted the "Merkava 4" tank with a "Shawath" explosive device near the Abdullah bin Omar Mosque in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood in Rafah city, south of the Gaza Strip.
Furthermore, "Al-Qassam" targeted a "Merkava 4" tank and two Zionist military vehicles with "Yassin 105" shells in the middle of the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood in Rafah city, south of the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, the Al-Quds Brigades announced that they bombarded with a hail of mortar shells the soldiers and vehicles of the invading Zionist enemy in the Shujaiya neighborhood east of Gaza.
The Brigades also engaged in fierce clashes with Zionist occupation soldiers using appropriate anti-tank weapons in the incursion areas west of Rafah city, south of the Strip.
They also targeted the regular enemy soldiers stationed at the Rafah crossing gate and its surroundings with mortar shells, indicating their cooperation with the Al-Nasser Salah Al-Din Brigades in bombarding the enemy’s gatherings at the military site of "Nahal Oz" with rocket fire.
Abu Ubaida: We enhanced our defensive capabilities to confront the occupation
Abu Ubaida, the spokesperson for the Al-Qassam Brigades, mentioned that it has been 9 months since the start of the "Aqsa Flood" battle on October 7 of the previous year, with our people still enduring aggression and genocide from the Nazi-Zionist-Americans for defending their land, beliefs, and right to resist the occupiers to reclaim their rights.
In a broadcast on Al-Jazeera, Abu Ubaida stated that nine months later, we reiterate that the Aqsa Flood battle did not mark the start of our resistance or the occupation's aggression. Instead, it was a reaction to decades of oppression, injustice, and tyranny from Zionist gangs towards people, stones, trees, land, and sanctities.
He revealed that the human capabilities of the Al-Qassam Brigades are in good shape, saying: During the war, we were able to recruit thousands of new fighters.
He also said: What was recently revealed in the enemy's circles about the catastrophic failure on October 7 is trivial compared to what we will reveal at the appropriate time, by the permission of Allah. We will reveal documents that will be harsher and more difficult, showing how we were able to execute a complex strategic deception of the Shin Bet and the enemy's security system for years.
He pointed out that the peak of aggression reached with a Zionist government that the world sees today openly denying the existence of a Palestinian people, practicing systematic cleansing and extermination in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Gaza, inciting against the Palestinian presence within the occupied 1948 territories.
Abu Ubaida said: Our people's understanding of the nature of this battle and the operation of Al-Aqsa Flood is reflected in the independent opinion polls that have shown after months of aggression how our people in Gaza and the West Bank overwhelmingly support the Al-Aqsa Flood operation and rally around its resistance.
He added: For 9 months, our resistance has not tired, surrendered, or been defeated. We continue to fight in Gaza without external support or supplies of weapons and equipment. Our people continue to endure without food, water, or medicine, under a cruel genocidal war.
Abu Ubaida continued: Gaza is entering history through the widest gates of glory as the greatest model of freedom known to humanity in modern times and as an inspiring school for every free person, resistor, and human in the world.
He addressed our people, our nation, and all the free people of the world, saying: Our fighters and resistors have been engaging in epic battles for 9 months, hitting the enemy's targets and defeating its armed forces supported by the US and UK, the aggressors and oppressors.
He emphasized that our fighters are using human shields, deceiving them with safe zones and then bombing them, targeting civilian homes, hospitals, international organizations, schools, civilian shelters, intentionally destroying artifacts, historical areas, mosques, churches, cemeteries, and libraries. This happens in plain sight of the world and on live broadcasts from Gaza, showing the lies of international organizations and the failures of selective international justice.
Abu Ubaida said: Our fighters are fighting with determination, inventing means and tactics, facing the enemy with great fighting spirit and unparalleled belief, as if they were from the time of the companions of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. They receive miracles and steadfastness from God that words cannot describe, and God's saying is true: "And those who strive for Us - We will surely guide them to Our ways. And indeed, Allah is with the doers of good."
He stressed that over the past 9 months, thanks to Allah, all our brigades and all combat support weapons fought from the farthest point of Beit Hanoun in the north to the farthest point of Rafah in the south. We fought with the factions of the resistance as brothers in arms and jihad.
He added: Our brigades have engaged in successive battles and operations and continue to do so. Each time, the performance of our fighters advances, evolves, and grows. Our fighters inflict more wounds on the enemy and learn from their experiences each time. We have offered up pure martyrs from soldiers and leaders of all levels, but the flag will not fall, with the help of Allah.
Massacre Harvest
The government media office published an update on Sunday, for the most important statistics of the genocidal war waged by the Israeli occupation on the Gaza Strip for the day (275).
- (3,376) massacres committed by the occupation army.
- (48,153) martyrs and missing persons.
- (10,000) missing persons.
- (38,153) martyrs who arrived at hospitals.
- (15,983) martyrs among children.
- (34) martyrs as a result of famine.
- (10,637) female martyrs.
- (500) martyrs from medical teams.
- (75) martyrs from civil defense.
- (158) martyrs from journalists.
- (7) mass graves set up by the occupation inside hospitals.
- (520) martyrs extracted from 7 mass graves inside hospitals.
- (157) shelters targeted by the Israeli occupation.
- (87,828) injured and wounded.
- (70%) of the victims are children and women.
- (17,000) children living without one or both parents.
- (3,500) children at risk of death due to malnutrition and food shortages.
- (12,000) wounded in need of treatment abroad.
- (10,000) cancer patients facing death and in need of treatment.
- (3,000) patients with various diseases in need of treatment abroad.
- (1,737,524) infected with infectious diseases due to displacement.
- (71,338) cases of viral hepatitis infections due to displacement.
- (60,000) pregnant women at risk due to lack of healthcare.
- (350,000) chronic patients at risk due to denial of medication entry.
- (5,000) detainees from the Gaza Strip during the genocidal war.
- (310) cases of healthcare professionals' detention.
- (23) cases of journalists' detention whose names are known.
- (2) million displaced persons in the Gaza Strip.
- (196) government buildings destroyed by the occupation.
- (114) schools and universities completely destroyed by the occupation.
- (326) schools and universities partially destroyed by the occupation.
- (609) mosques completely destroyed by the occupation.
- (211) mosques partially destroyed by the occupation.
- (3) churches targeted and destroyed by the occupation.
- (150,000) residential units completely destroyed by the occupation.
- (80,000) residential units rendered uninhabitable by the occupation.
- (200,000) residential units partially destroyed by the occupation.
- (80,000) tons of explosives dropped by the occupation on the Gaza Strip.
- (34) hospitals taken out of service by the occupation.
- (64) health centers taken out of service by the occupation.
- (161) healthcare facilities targeted by the occupation.
- (131) ambulances targeted by the occupation.
- (206) archaeological and heritage sites destroyed by the occupation.
- (3,030) kilometers of electricity networks completely destroyed by the occupation.
- (33) billion dollars in direct initial losses from the genocide war on the Gaza Strip.
