Gaza: Agencies
A number of Palestinians were martyred and injured, at dawn on Sunday, in Israeli occupation bombing on the city of Rafah, the Zawaida area, the Maghazi and Bureij camps, Deir al-Balah, and the Zaytoun neighborhood in the Gaza Strip.
Regarding the latest events on the 212th day of the occupation’s aggression against the Gaza Strip, reporters said that the Israeli occupation forces launched two raids on the Al-Salam neighborhood, east of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, and targeted a house for the Bahloul family.
The occupation forces targeted an air strike on a house for the Al-Shaer family in the same neighborhood, resulting in 3 wounded.
Israeli occupation aircraft launched a raid on the Al-Zawaida area, and a similar raid targeted agricultural land north of Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.
The occupation raids also targeted a site in the Al-Geneina neighborhood, east of Rafah, while the occupation aircraft opened fire east of the Al-Bureij and Al-Maghazi and Deir Al-Balah camps in the central Gaza Strip.
The occupation aircraft targeted a house next to Al-Falah Mosque in the Al-Salam neighborhood, east of Rafah, resulting in the death and injury of a number of citizens.
Last night, the occupation aircraft targeted Wadi Al-Arayes, east of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City, where a mother and her two children were martyred and their father was wounded.
The occupation warplanes also bombed a residential house in the Ard al-Mufti area, north of the Nuseirat Camp in the central Gaza Strip, and a house north of the Nuseirat Camp, wounding a number of citizens.
To the south, the occupation forces bombed a mosque in the town of Al-Fokhari, east of Khan Yunis, wounding a number of citizens.
In an infinite toll, the number of martyrs in the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7, 2023 has risen to 34,654, the majority of whom are children and women, and injuries to 77,908, while thousands of victims are still under the rubble.
In the same context, the Supreme Presidential Committee for Follow-up of Church Affairs in Palestine said that the Israeli occupation forces’ prevention of worshipers celebrating Holy Saturday according to the Eastern calendar from reaching the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and attacking them is a flagrant violation of international laws related to freedom of worship.
In a press statement today, Sunday, the head of the committee, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Ramzi Khoury, condemned the occupation forces closing all roads leading to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher yesterday, Saturday, and turning it into a military barracks, noting that the number of occupation police personnel exceeded the number of participants and worshipers inside the church.
He condemned the attack on the bodyguard of the Greek Consul General and his arrest from inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, pointing out Israel’s violation of the Statutes, its transgression, and its interference in the private affairs of churches by imposing restrictions on access to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and limiting the numbers of participating worshipers.
The European Union, in a statement, called on the Israeli government not to interfere in the affairs of churches, to respect the status quo, to ensure the implementation of the foundations of religious freedom, including freedom of worship, and to allow West Bank citizens to participate in celebrations in Jerusalem. However, the occupation authorities did not care about everything. In the past, it deliberately turned Eid into an arena for direct violation of international laws.
It is noteworthy that the Israeli war of genocide on the Gaza Strip prevented the Holy Light from reaching the Strip.