Israeli strikes kill 22 people in northern Gaza, health ministry says

From lobbing a barrage of missiles in northern Gaza, the death toll has risen to 22 most of whom are women and children as per Palestinian officials on Sunday as Israeli jihadists continued to wreak havoc in the north for the third consecutive week while descriptions of an unfolding human calamity in north Gaza grew louder by the day with aid agencies terming it a catastrophe. Israel stated that it attacked extremists.

In a separate incident, a truck ran into a bus stop in near the city of Tel Aviv, which left 35 individuals injured, said the Magen David Adom rescue organ of Israel. It was not clear what had happened at first. It happened close to the location of Israel’s Mossad spy agency.

The rescue service shared a video of a huge pickup with a partially loaded tray which looked like it crashed into a bus. First of all, the stop is close to the headquarters of the Mossad and second, it is located close to a large intersection of the highway and third, the attack took place on a Monday when Israelis returned to work after the Sabbath.

Asi Aharoni, police spokesperson of Israel said to the Israeli public broadcaster Kan that the “attacker was neutralised.” It was still unknown whether the suspect was just apprehended or was shot dead.

Aharoni said that a truck had crashed into a bus, and persons waiting at the bus stop and that there were persons injured entangled under the truck. In his statements, the MDA Director Eli Bin revealed that six of the wounded are in considered serious condition.

The Palestinians have performed hundreds of stabbing, shooting, and car ramming atrocities in the past years.

The situation got worse since the start of the war in Gaza as Israel has been launching a military operation into the west bank of the Jordan River that resulted to hundreds of deaths. Many seem to have perished in encounters with Israeli forces, but they including participants in violent protests and innocent Palestinian civilians have also met their death.

'Horrific circumstances'

The emergency service said that 22 people, including 11 women and two children, were killed in the strikes late Saturday on several homes and buildings in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya. Of them it said a further 15 people were injured and it predicted that the death toll could still rise. It enumerated the people that have been killed most of whom were from three different families.

The Israeli military said it targeted a group of militants in a structure in Beit Lahiya and tried to avoid civilian casualties. It challenged what it described as “numbers released to the media,” though it never supported those figures or came up with its own version.

Israel has been bombing the northern Gaza Strip extensively since October 6, accusing the Hamas militants of redeploying themselves there. A latest wave of displacement in the yearlong war has killed hundreds of people and tens of thousands of Palestinians have been forced to flee to Gaza City.

While the U.S., U.K. and other Western countries have classified Hamas as a terror group.

Israel says that its attacks are only on militants and that it is the fault of Hamas that civilians are affected because the militants operate in populated areas. The military does not usually have much to say when it comes to strikes, most of which, end up claiming the lives of women and children.

International human rights organization have predicted a Pens, particularly in the northern Gaza Strip which previously bore the initial brunt of the ground invasion and had sustained the worst losses among all the territories throughout the war. Israel has been slowing the flow of basic humanitarian aid in recent weeks, while the three remaining hospitals in the north, one of which was shelled over the weekend, say they are struggling to cope with a surge of casualties.

The ICRC said on Saturday that continued Israeli evacuation operations and ban on provisions in the north of the dependant civilian population put them in a horrible state.

“Currently most civilians who normally will be able to sit up, stand or walk are immobile due to violence, debris or being restrained and are thus unable to obtain elementary care,” it said.

The war started when Palestinian militants under the Hannas organization invaded southern occupied territories of Israel in a raid on October, 7th, 2023. They systematically murdered about 1200 of the population most of whom were non-combatants, and captured about 250 more. It is reported that about a third of the 100 hostages still held inside gaza might be dead at the moment.

In return, Israel has attacked and killed more than 42,000 Palestinians, by counting the local Health Ministry. The ministry does not differentiate between the civilian population and rebels it says over 50 percent of the dead were women and children. Israel claims that more than 17,000 militants have been neutralized, however, no evidence is ever offered for this to be true.

It has destroyed most of the impoverished coastal area and displaced almost all of its 2.3 million people several times. Tens of thousands of residents have moved into shanty dwellings by the sea and two thirds of the population of the stricken region is said to be starving, according to relief agencies.