Gaza - New York: Europe and the Arabs - Agencies
As the third consecutive month of Israeli bombing and genocide approaches, victims continue to occur on the Palestinian territories, whether women, children, young people, or among workers in humanitarian organizations.
According to the Middle East News Agency, a number of Palestinians, including children and women, were martyred and injured from last night until Tuesday morning, and many homes and facilities were destroyed, as a result of the ongoing Israeli occupation aggression against the Gaza Strip for the 88th day.
Various areas of the Gaza Strip witnessed a series of raids by warplanes and drones, and Israeli artillery shelling, which caused massive damage.
North of the "Al-Maghazi" camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip witnessed Israeli artillery shelling, and the occupation warboats fired heavy shells towards the central governorate in the Gaza Strip.
The occupation aircraft launched violent raids on the center and east of the city of Khan Yunis, while the occupation artillery bombed the northern neighborhoods of the city, south of the Gaza Strip, resulting in a number of martyrs and wounded, the majority of whom were children and women.
The areas of the incursion into northern Gaza witnessed violent clashes with the occupation forces, in conjunction with continuous air and artillery bombardment.
Last night, 15 people were martyred and others were injured, most of them women and children, in an Israeli bombing on a house in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.
A number of people were martyred and others were injured in an Israeli raid on a house in the Nuseirat camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip. A number of people were also injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted the center of the city of Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip.
UNRWA once again stressed that humanitarian workers are not a target and must be protected at all times, as the UN agency reported that the death toll among its employees in Gaza has now reached 142 employees.
For his part, the Director of UNRWA Affairs in Gaza, Tom White, stated that 203 incidents had been reported affecting UNRWA buildings and the people inside them since October 7 until now, and this includes 60 direct hits on UNRWA facilities and 68 different facilities were exposed to collateral damage.
The UN official added that Israeli forces opened fire on a UN aid convoy on December 28, as it was returning from northern Gaza. The aid convoy was taking a route designated by the Israeli army and its movement was carried out in close coordination with the Israeli authorities. UNRWA confirmed that no one was injured in the incident, However, one vehicle was seriously damaged.
The UN official pointed out that at the end of last December, Israeli army forces advanced with tanks, bulldozers and infantry towards Al-Bureij Preparatory School for Girls in the central Gaza Strip and destroyed the back wall of the school, then moved to the main gate of the school.
The Palestinian Ministry of Education announced that about 4,156 students were martyred and 7,818 were injured since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7 on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
The Ministry added that the number of students who were martyred in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the aggression reached more than 4,119 martyrs and 7,536 wounded, while in the West Bank, 37 students were martyred and 282 others were injured, in addition to the arrest of 85 others, according to Cairo News.
On the other hand, the Israeli occupation army announced the bombing of Syrian military infrastructure during the night.